Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-10


ate to day was by Senator Ferry, from citizens
of Michigan. asking that citizens Of the United
States be not disfranchised on account Of sex
LIEUT.. TURNER, OF Lieut.. Col. Skaters regi-
ment, has been ordered here from the Mexican
border to testify before the House military
committee.
THE PRINTED REPORTS of the Commission
eTs of the District of Columbia, the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, and the Comp
trOller of the Currency were laid on the desks
OF the Senators this morning.
RESOLUTIONS TO INVESTIGATE the reStOra-
tion of DIR. Draper to the navy. and Benz. F.
Runkle to the army, were offered in the Senate
by Mr.. Conkling to-day and adopted. Both
resolutions were referred to the committee OH
judiciary for settlement
PROPOSALS for furnishing the Post Office
department with stationery were opened to-
day, but OH account of infOrmalities in some
of the lowest bids, it is probable that no award
will be made at present, but that new pro-
pOsalS will be advertised for.
SENATOR SARGENT introduced Il bill in the
Senate today. which was referred to the com
mittee on judiciary. To relieve the diSabilitie5
of women He also offered a joint resolution
to amend the Constitution of the United States
in reference To the 18th amendment. which
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and elections.
CAPT. EADs yesterday received warrant
for SJO0.0l0 on account of his improvement of
the South Pass of the Mississippi and securing
twenty-five feet of water. He had previously
received a like amount on the same service
for twenty feet. He gets half million for
each additional two feet up to thirty feet, and
then SlC0,COO year for twenty years to keep iU
up TO that standard.
sented q petition in the Senate today from
citizens OF New Haven. Conn. asking that
silver collar of 42O grains be coined by the
government, to be legal tender to the
amount OF so and less. Mr.. Eaton gave no.
tice that when the silver bill came up for dis
cuSSiOn he should offer an amendment EN-
bodying the views presented in the petition.
THE FAST MAIL To HAvANA.-The entire
route of the intended fast mail between New
York and Havana has been definitely agreed
upon. The mails will be conveyed by the At
lantic coast railroad line from New York to
Savannah thence by Atlantic and Gulf rail-
road to Baldwin: THENCE by the West India
and thence by Steamships to Havana. The
total schedule time is to be eighty-eight and a
hall hours Mr.. Vail, general superintendent
OF the railway mail service, will leave Wash
ingtOn Saturday for the south to perfect the
details.
dent has issued pardOns for the following:
Andrew J. Buchanan, sentenced to six months
imprisonment and 500 fine. December. 1877 in
Indiana. for embtZZlemenI while postmaster
at Spencer. Ind. Samuel Depew sentenced
in PENNSYLVANIA. February. 1877. to one wears
imprisonment and costs of prosecution for
Olgrry. Thomas Quigiey. in 1864. by the Su
preme Court of the District of COum3ir /, for
murder OF soldier Z. d. Armand the in:lict
ment never having heen tried. John III. Ham
mOud. sentenced in Kentucky i'll October. 1877,
TO five months imprisonment and 500 fine for
Illicit diStllllng
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. Commander Yates
Sterling ordered to the Washington navy yard
for instruction in ordnance: Lieut.. Richard
son Glover to the photographic office: Master
sieker detached from the Constitution and or
dered to the receiving ship ST. Louis: Master
John Hubbard from the photographic office
and ordered to the Supply, 18th inst; Ensigns
olson from the Constitution and ordered to the
training ship Minnesota Mdshipman Tenn
plin NJ: Potts from the Powhatan and ordered
to the Constitution; Cadet MidShipmen j. n.
Jordan, D. q. Dodge. j. NJ. Orchard and Wv
BrOnaugh fromthe Osspee and ordered to the
Constitution.
The NATIONAL OBSERVATORY. - Senator
Thurman presented memorial in the Senate
to-day asking that the Naval Observatory at
Washington be removed to healthier and
better location than now occupied by it, and to
secure TO il buildings that at least shall be fire
proof. The memorial is signed by Professor
IOnng of Princeton College, Professor Pierce
of Harvard. President Porter of Yale. j. E.
Hilgard of the United States Coast Survey Of
fee. President Garland of Vanderbilt Unfver-
sity at Nashville, Tenn, President Barnard of
Columbia College. New York; Prof. Henry of
the Smithsonian: Cleveland Able. former di-
rector of the Cincinnati Observatory: Prof
Wichie. of the West Point Military Academy:
Director Pritchett, Of the Morrison Observa-
Albany Observatory; S. w. Bernham, esq. of
Chicago, and Onuard Stone, director of the
Observatory at Cincinnati.
PERSONAL!-Hon. S. :. Cox has improved his
personal appearance by shaving off his whis-
kers. and appeared in the House today with
only military muStache. like, in form but
not in color, color that Of his colleague, Mr.. Fer,
the Ohio senate, is in the city. ''' Postmaster
Wahle, of Cincinnati. is here to get a new
lease of official life. His commission as post
master expired yesterday. 49, Collector Lew
Meitzel,. Of the lst Ohio district, is at the
Ebbitt House. 49, Gen. Ben. Butler was not
in the House today. '.'' Judge Durham, of
brought with him his wife and daughter, who
Will remain with him during the winter.
No member OF the House has yet shown
p,m up WHO intends M & to Offer resolution inyesti-
" COlOred Congressman SmallS, of South
Carolina, was not in his seat in the House to-
day speaker RahdallS desk was Orna-
mented to-day with a magnificent bouquet
nearly two feet high.
THE TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES OF THE TREA-
sURY.-The Secretary of the Treasury has sent
4 letter TO the Speaker of the House, saying:
There are now upon the temporary roll of
Tins department nmety-fye persons. most of
whom are i'll destitute circumstances, whose
eases are more than usually meritOriOuS, and
from states not i'll excess in the department.
IheSe persons can be uSefully employed i'm the
departmenl If money for their payment can
ne provided. The appropriation for that pur-
pose VIII De exhausted on or about the 10Th
INST. ana those who are upon that roll will
then De discharged unless Congress shall
make provision Tor its continuance
Ii would be great hardship to turn these
people out of employment at this time of wear.
and earnestly recommend that Congress will
for the purpose aforesaid. authorize the See
Tetary OF the Treasury to transfer from the
uneNpended appropriations heretofore made
for the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing the
sum of 3n,0Cn. or SO much thereof as NAV be
necessary, for the remainder of the present
fiscal year. This can be done without en-
barraSsing in any degree the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing in its operations The
passage of bill similar to the copy enclosed
would answer the purpose
The following is the bill:
BE d enacted, etc, That the Secretary of ths
Treasury be and is hereby authorized and di-
rected to transfer from the unexpended bal
ance oil the appropriation for labor and ex-
penSeS oil The bureau OF engraving and Drint-