Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-26

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NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER APPOINTED
The President today decided to appoint Mr..
Edward c. Dean. president of the Potomac
Terra Gotta Company. member OF the Board
of Metropolitan Police Commissioners of the
District of Columbia.
FIRST AUDITOR OF THE TREAsURY.-The
Senate committee on finance today agreed to
report favOrably the nomination of d. nj. Rey-
nOlds to be First Auditor of the Treasury. in
place OF Mahan, resigned. The report of the
committee was not unanimous, however.
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS think that Mr..
Howe's speech in the Senate yesterday is one
OF the best documents that the democratic
party can use In the next campaign Senator
wallace is understood to have expressed a de-
sire to obtain ten thousand copies fer circula,
tlon In the state OF Pennsylvania, where a
democratic victory is considered certain at
the next elections. Senator Butler has also
said that he should send five hundred copies
of the speech into South Carolina for the ben
eft OF the democratic party in that state.
INDIAN LITIGATION.-Senator Oglesby by
request introduced bill in the Senate today
to legalize the suit between the eastern band
of North Carolina Cherokee Indians and the
Cherokee nation west of the Mississippi river,
and to enable said Cherokee Indians to lnSti-
tute and prosecute other suits in the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia until all
matters OF litigation between the respective
parties shall be settled
WHISKY IN BOND.-The Senate committee
on finance by a very small ma jority agreed to-
day to report favorably to the Senate the
ing whisky in bond. Senator Bayard reported
the resolution to the Senate, and it was
adopted without division.
NAVAL APPRENTICESHIP House commit
tee on naval affairs agreed to report bill to-
day to authorize the enlistment of seven hun
dIed boys. under fifteen years of age, to learn
practical SeamanShip.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON Posi- OFFICES
and post roads to-day, agreed to strike out the
obnoxious section a of the postal rate bill.
which forbid any newspaper publisher from
mali. Arguments were made showing the in
justice of the section by Mr.. Simmons a Bos
ton publisher. and Mr.. Sheldon, of New York
LOCGERs CONFEsSING.-The Commissioner
OF the General Land Office has received dis
patch from Special Agent Carter, at Lake
Charles, La, in reference to the logs, number
ing about 100000, seized in CalcaSieu parish,
stating that MeSSrS. Gill and PlatZ, and Mr.. 4.
). Perkins. who claimed over three ef0urths of
the logs intervened for in the suit of United
States States vs. Joseph Hampton and others; con
feSSed Judgment on the 18th inst, and that
now Judgment has been confessed by all the
defendants except one
Schurz had appointed Senator Howes man
pension agent. the Senator's speech against
him yesterday would not have been made.
A BAD MAN-The Secret Service Division
of the Treasury, received information this
afternoon, that one of the operatives on the
cars near Evansville, Indiana this morning.
recognized an old cOunterfeiter George Phil
lips, and arrested him expecting to find coun-
terfelt money in his possession instead, how
nt hrrtri ri,.u,
tools. PhiIilpS was confederate of the cele-
brated Miles Ogle, now undergoing a sentence
In the pennsylvania penitentiary.
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
today were Senators Matthews. Cameron of
Wis, Hoar, Paddock, Ferry and Saunders,
and Representatives Banning, Cox of Ohio
HaZeltOn, Tucker. McCO0k Thompson White
OF Pa, Aldrich, Mills, Welsh and Rainey.
Mr.. BLAINE moved in the Senate to day that
the correspondence recently sent in by the
President on the subject of the Halifax award
be referred to the committee on foreign rela-
uonS. MI; Blaine said that he considered the
correspondence bore out the statement made
Dy nm IN his speech on the subject few dayS
ago. The award is only the beginning of troll
ble. At the expiration of five years our prvi-
Iege OF shore hshlng must be negotiated afresh.
IL is the duty OF Congress to show that the rate
OF payment fixed by the Halifax commission is
unfair and has no foundation in Justice The
Total value OF the inshOre fisheries of Nova
past was S4S5,l75 from which amount the net
profit is estimated to be 100000. During the
four years specified the United States has re-
amount OF 81, 100000 gold. Mr. Blaine said that
The award, although unjust should be paid
Inc correspondence was referred as he de-
sired.
THE p. o. d. INvEsTIGATIoN.-The com.
mittee on expenditures of the p O. D.. in order
to tOfaclitate its investigating labors and render
them exhaustive, has divided itself into va
dlfierent subjects requiring consideration
Representative Williams, Ala. Caldwell KY,
and Brogden, \: G., will make the general
proper, of the special agents service, and of
the advertising system of the p. O. d. for mail
WshE Wams e5f Mch keRrsssntRyss anS Clark Kin No
anime into the post offices of the first and
second classes, their pay rolls, general work
and ana duties, etc. also the allowances made to
and contracts for mail messenger service, etc.
representatives Caldwell, KY. Williams.
Mich: and Walker, Pa. will examine the
superintendent's work and accounts and his
work as disbursing officer; contracts for mail
locks, etc, and the ocean and steamboat mail
service. These subcommittee will commence
operations Immediately.
MAN AND WIFE.-In the mail contract case
OF COsgreve VS.. Price, involving the question
OF the eligibility OF married women as sureties
OIL OOnd, the Attorney General, to whom the
case was referred for final decision by the
postmaster General reverseS the finding of
the +. NJ e., and decides that Prices bid is
inValld, married women not having general
capacity to control and thereby to change their
separate property.
GEN. BUTLER WINS HIS SUIT-The case in
which j. H. Herbert, of the New York bar.
sued General b. F. Butler for fees alleged to
have been received by the latter for plaintiffs
account III case in which Butler was the
leading counsel, has been decided by the Su
preme Court. The decision of the lower cOurt
was affrmed, declaring that the evidence fails
10 show that any money was received on the
PLAINTIFFS account.
THE ISSUE OF THE SILVER CERTIFICATE will
be delayed by the death of Register Allison.
the name of his successor having to be substi-
tuted for his on the plate.
THE SHAD MATCHING SEAsON-Professor
Miner, deputy United States fish commission
er and party of five OF six assistants. left for
Avoca, Albemarle sound, last evening. where
he and the state fish commissioners of Mary
land, virginia, Georgia and North Carolina.
VIII meet for general rendezvous at the
opening OF the shad Matching season for this
wear. "
A TELEGRAPHIC CONTEST DECIDED.-Yes.
terday in the Supreme Court of the United
States the case of the Pensacola telegram