Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-21
WASHINGTON, c., friday 21, TW,
The Stanley Matthews Committee.

The Stanley Matthews Committee.
ANDERSON REFUSES TO TESTIFY AND THE
COMMITTEE ADJOURNS.
The Stanley Matthews committee met
TO day, and was in secret session until l: 80
o'clock, when James E. Anderson was called
as witness. He asked to be represented by
counsel when the room was again Immediately
cleared to consider the request. In about five
hinuteS hni they decided not to grant It, and upon
emptoriy refused to testify, when the doors
were again closed to consider what to do.
Mheh the d91r was agaln opened the Chair.
tie questions which they might see proper to
put;
occupation. Anderson replied he had no
desire to throw obstacles in the way, but Sen
iuo1f alof MatthewS was lawyer and was here
Looking t after his interests, and Anderson did
look after his own interests.
The Chairman again asked Anderson his age
and occupation. Anderson declined to answer.
The Chairman then asked whether he had
paced any papers in Matthews possession,
and IL so what.
Anderson declined to answer.
Senator Whyte id:-YOu mean simply to
say that you set at defiance the will OF this
committee?
wish to say decline answering | have to pro
pose that if Senator Matthews will 90 before
the Potter committee will testify.
The room was cleared for consultation con-
cerning AnderSOn'S refusal to answer.
When the door was opened Mr.. Anderson
was Informed by. the chairman that the com
mittee. had decided that they would require
his testimony before the committee. He then
asked Anderson, Are you now willing to an
sWer such questions as may be propounded to
yon?, Anderson answered., am not"
The Chalrman.-Then in refusing to au-
SWer any question pertaining to the matters of
investigation, you set this committee at def
ance: Senator Whyte said, in the absence of
the Senate, we have, no power to punish for
contempt, and therefore move that this COM
mittee now adjourn, subject to the call of the
chairman.
This motion was agreed to. and the commit
tee accordingly adjourned.
ONLY ONE PROVIDED FoR-The Post Office
appropriation bill provides for only one gem
eral superintendent of railway mail service
At present there are two, Mr.. Vail and Mr.. j.
w. Marshall. On July 1St one of these will
have to go out. Col. Vail will be the one re-
tained.
THE FOUR PER CENTs.--The Secretary of
the Treasury has issued another circular call
ing attention to the fOur-per-c cent funded loan
OF the United States as a desirable investment
GOVERNMENT ADvERTIsING-Th provision
finally fixed in the sundry civil appropriation
bill concerning government advertising, is as
follows: Thereafter all advertisements, no
tiees, proposals for contracts and all forms of
advertising required by law for the sew eral de-
partmentS OF the government may be paid for
at price not to exceed the commercial rates
charged to private individuals, with the usual
discounts such rates to be aScertained from
sworn statements, to be furnished by the pro-
prietorS or publishers of the newspapers pro-
posing so to advertise; PrOCided, that all ad-
yertising in newspapers since the tenth day of
April, eighteen hundred and SeVenty-SeVeD
shall be audited and paid at like rates but the
heads OF the several departments may secure
lower terms at special rates whenever the pub
lie interest requires it,
No FIGHT AGAINST COMMISSIONER PHELPS
IN TIE COMMITTEE.-The impression sought
to be created that there was fight or CON
test - i'll the Senate committee upon the con.
frmation of Capt. Phelps for District Commits
Sl0ner is most emphaticaliy denied by those
best informed. No opposition was made; the
only contest being in the lobbies, and that by
lhOse VINO have personal grievances All that
was SAID III the committee was entirely OF a
complimentary nature about the pubic ser
wees OF Commissioner Phelps.
THE CONSTELLATION, which went to Paris
with goods for the exposition, is expected to
arrive at New York towards the latter part of
this month. 1t is thought that she will be at
Ainnapols to start with the first and third
nual cruise about the lst of July. She
usually starts on this cruise about the 10Th of
Snne cre IN aee9ant of her trip to Paris the
| days. Duing the interim the cadets who were
TO 20 ABOARD her have been granted leave of
| the CITY, The cruise of the cadet engineers
| Will not be interfered with.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieutenant Commander
| A. S. CrOwingshield, as inspector of ordnance
at the navy yard, Washington, on the 3lst
| July next, and ordered to command the
ioltS Smouth at Havre, France per steamer
Of 1h of August from New York. Ensign
I''assaic, at Washington, b. C., in place of a. En-.
| sign David Daniels, ordered to temporary
| duty on board the receiving ship Wabash, at
BoSt0n. Ensign Lyman Arms to the receiy-
| ship Passaic, at Washington, ID. c..
District Government Affairs.
Josiah Dent, esq, appointed to be Commits.
sioner of the District of Columbia under the
| new bill, was at the office of the District Com
| mlSSloherS today, in conference with them
Gov. DennisOn returned last night from
pIlncetOn, n; j., where he has been the last
| two days at the commencement exercises of
| Princeton College, where his son. Alan n.
| Dennison graduated with high honors.
81 A great influx If S OF claims for drawbacks and
| trict Commissioners office to-day and visitors
| have been very numerous there.
THE VERMONT DEMoCRT1C CONVENTION at
Montpelier, yesterday adopted resolutions
cougratulatlng the country on the restora-
ton of home rule in the south and the over
throw OF military domination, favOring lone
currency for all and the gradual substitution
| OF greenbacks for national bank bills" and
III view OF Ine overwhelming malOrity for the
democratic candidate for President that the
thanks of the people of the United States are
due to the men who originated the present in
vestigatiOn of the electoral frauds, that the
revelations already made before the commit
tee eliminating the Secretary of the Treasury
and the republican Senator from OHIO lea We
no room to doubt the wisdom of this inveSti-
CATION, and that while they would sanction no
assault upon the official title of President
Hayes. they urge the prosecution and punish
ment OF all who aided the frauds by which the
Presidency was wrested from the democracy
THE FIyE-MILE SINGLE SCULL RACE between
Evan Morris, of Pittsburgh, and Edward Han
Ion, OF Toronto Can, took place Oh the Hutton
course, near PittSburg, Pa. yesterday. The
weather was fine and the water smooth Both
men were in fine condition, Morris pulling l6O
pounds and HanlOn $50 pounds. Bets were
made OF 81 ,OC0 on Hanlon against $500 on Nor
ris. In the pools HanlOn sold at $50, and Nor
rlS $39 and $40. HanlOn Won by nearly four
lengths in 81 minutes. The race was for s. 600
and the championship OF America.
THE DEAD BODIEs.-It is stated that among
the bodies found i'll the medical college at
Ann ArbOr, Mich, is that of Mrs Patrick
kenneo, who was buried in the graveyard of
Reading. suburb of Cincinnati, last january.
Dr. Herdman, OF the Ann Arbor college, de
nies that the body. supposed to be that of
young DeVen is that body, as alleged.