Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-11-26
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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GOVERNMENT REcEIrTs To-DAr.-Internal
revenue, s2o9, $50; customs, 1900 .ss6 SIS.
SussCRu TONS TO the four per cent. loan TO-
day amounted TO s2l2.lGo.
The House COMMITTEES on approariations
having assigned It's work to sub committees
has adjourned until Friday next.
Ex-Gov TON YouNG. of Ohio, called n,oo he
President last night and spent The greater por.
ton OF the evening with him. He is satisfied
lat even the StalWart republicans VIII be sat
fSfied Wlth the message that the President will
cf nmCntcate t. Congress if his private CONVEX
Sat1onS are true index TO the sentiments hn
VIII express n that document.
MOVEMENTS OF [. $. NAVAL vEssEIs-capt
Geo. Brown. commanding the L. S. steamer
Alaska. reports to the Navy department, under
date Ct the 10th instant the arrival OF his vessel
al Panama on the lith. Since leaving CailaO
the Alaska has visited Payta and Tulnbes in
Peru. The PoWhatan flagship OF the north
Atlantic station. arrived at Norfolk. from New
/ ork, this morning. She viii remain AT Norfolk
for SCIne tine.
REPRESENTATIVE FOSTER. Of Ohio. said today
that he thought there would be a fight made
against the national banks AZ the next session
OF Congress-. 1T VIII not amount TO anythiac
however" he continued. III VIII only be a
windy fight. The anti-natOnal bank element
materially 70 the disadvantage Of the blnks" "
When asked what he thought OF the action Of
tie New 1oTk banks as virtually den0netHlng
silver on and after January 1St next he rpp;iai:
''l question the advisabilty OF their course. baC
tine, perhaps, viii show them their mistake.
DEMAND FOR "FIGGERS. If there Is one
thing more than another that the average
Congressman wants in preparing his s2eechei
it is "tiggers," There seems to be a peculiar
Srt OF fascination about ''iirrcrS'- Every year
tie Treasury officials are called upon and called
upon again by Senators and Representatives
Tor few statistics and "0fTicial figserS' The
caitS OF members have already commenced and
Judging from the number Of them there are 90
ing Ic be gG2,' MANY 0fG;ians tie coming Ses-
sion on national banks the silver dollar"
ard the general condition OF the country =
" lien Congressman cannot crate on ANYTHING
else, he seizeS the opportunity offered by "a
.'condtion OF the country" TO do this properly
he must have ''ffggerS and to the Treasury he
goes to get them. The principal calls for sta
tntlcS seem to be made Cn Treasurer Gillian
ard controller KnOX.
Presentation. S. :. Cox, OF New York. and
Congressman Jorgens91, Of Virginia. are al The
Riggs House. &c. =. Huntington. the rai,-
road king, and his lieutenant Mr. {. II. Sheriff..
are at Wofmley'S. Senator A. S Paddock
and family arrived to-day and took their old
rooms AZ 1923 II street. Miss Page. OF CAicago,
daughter ct Dr. Page, of Culon, Pa 5e 4 HayEe,
paddock- IS with them. -. Representative
Smalls, OF the Charleston, S. C.. district is in
the city: The following members of CON
greSS We're registered at the National today:
Hon. J. ii. Stewart and Hon. s. : Naaarl. II
the Metropolitan, Hon. 4. NJ. Scales.
PRESIDENTIAL APFoINTMENT.-The Pre- 5iClent
to-day appointed Rear Admiral John j. Alrny.
I. S. n. TO be q visitor to the Government
Hospital Tor the Insane, vice Joseph Eeary
deceased. lie also appointed John Lanahan. OF
the Foundry NJ. f. church. a visitor to The same
institution, vice nr. j. P. Newman, resigned.
IT Is THE INTENTION OF THE Postmaster
GENERAL to maintain the carrying Of the N ills
up TO the present standard if possible but he
Will be Unable to order any new service Last
year twenty-five hundred miles Of railway mai
aLsrortation was aGded. All requests for
Such eNfenSt n now received have been de-
c.hned. fmrng those TO which the department.
has been unable TO respond is the route from
La JuIta to Trinidad. on the AtchiSon, Topexa
and Santa Fe road, which w0ald gre ATTY ey-
pedlte the New Mexican mails. Also the Union
Trust company Uf New YORK, over the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railroad, and a oite on the
Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska road to KeOkuk
Later III The year. should the funds not warrant
its fuli continuance, the present service viii be
reduced.
THE Action OF THE NEW YORK BANKS in ref
erence TO the silver dollar is not sustained by
tie banks Of other cities. The Boston banks
The Cincinnati banks have decided not TO follow
suit; and the Baltimore banks yesterday decided
that TO take any action similar to that OF New
York, loOkingto resumption, would be ..prema-
ture." Heretofore the banks nearly all over the
country have fallen into line and followed in the
footsteps OF their New York cOnfrereS. That
they DO not do so In this instance is an evidence
n1 TIE unpopularity of the mandatory method
that it has been decided to adopt 1n New York
TRANSFERS OF TIE INDIAN BUREAU The
ift of Z tp,n
On the transfer Of the Indian bureau to the
War department. OF which Senator Saunders is
chairman, met at the capitol to-day The COM
mittee expect to make report about the mid
die OF January, and meanwhile will take the
tcers OF the Interior department. 1t is not
thought, DO matter what the recommend ton
OF the committee may be. that Congress AT the
coming session Will take definite action on the
subject.