Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-23

proved the bill restoring George A. Armes, o
TINS city to the L. 5. army, with the rank OF
captain.
THE CABINET MEETING today lasted until
two o'clock. Most of the time was occupied
III discussing pardOns.
SENATORS Hamlin and KirkwoOd occupied
their seats in the Senate to-day for the first
time since the departure of the postal excur-
sion on the Sd inst.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD FUNDING BILL.
The House judiciary committee to-day, by a
ence of the Thurman Pacific Railroad funding
bill 10 that committee. When the bill which
is now on the Speakers table is reached, an
effort VIII he made to pass it without reference
to any committee.
The SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE has
taken no action on the Ben. Noyes case.
THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE devoted
much of the time of its meeting to-day to the
consideration of private bills. House bill pro-
viding for the abolition of the coinage OF the
silver twenty cent piece was reported favOra-
bly, and Immediately passed by the Senate.
The joint resolution recently passed by the
House directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to refund 81, ti02? to the Society of the Sons of
st. George, of Philadelphia, being the amount
paid by said society upon statue of ST.
George and the Dragon, was reported favOra-
ply, favorable report was agreed upon the
bill for the relief of George Law, the owner of
the bark Grape Shot. This bill gives Mr.. Law
Sl5.St $50 gold. \ bill for the relief of James
j. Warren, Of Savannah, was reported FAVOR
ally.
CHAIRMAN ATKINS, of the House committee
on appropriations, who hls been sick for the
last three weeks, has sufficiently recovered to
resume his duties with his committee.
THE INVESTIGATION OF PAYMASTER CUT
TER.-The Senate committee on naval affairs
were in session last night from seven to eleven
o'clock, investigating the charges against
Paymaster Cutter. Ex-Paymaster Bradford
and Messrs. WetmOre, Blood Greed, Raymond
SedWlck and Others testified in relation to the
charges. Not small fact for the basis of the
allegations against MIR: Cutter was shown by
any OF he testimony. The investigation will
be continued tomorrow.
VERY STRONG OPPOSITION to the appoint
ment of assistant appointment clerk OF the
Treasury Lamphere as appointment clerk is
being developed. The fight against him is
taking religious aspect. He is bitterly OPP
posed by the PrOteStantS, who consider that
his appointment would be a concession to
cath0hclty. The Order of the American Union
tantl.CathOlic) is working against him, and
IetltlOn signed by, it is stated, at least four
hundred thousand persons has been brought
to the attention of the President requesting
that he be not promoted. Ii should be stated
that Mr.. Lamphere is not a Catholic. His wife
is, however, OF that faith, and he is supposed
nave SdlnOllc ltnuenclcS.
ADDING FORGERY TO CONTRIBUTING
One Dr.. James Robinson, Il well-known coun-
terfeiter, was arrested by an officer of the
secret service in Philadelphia, and large
quantity of counterfeit money fOund i'm his
possession He was tried in Philadelphia at
the May term OF the district court, 1876, found
guilty and sentenced to five years in the
eastern pei penltentiary: Since that time, fire:
have been made. Among the petitions filed
III the Department OF Justice was one purport-
ing to be signed by the jury which tried shim.
The petition sets forth that certain facts have
come to the knowledge of the jury which, If
they had known at the time of the trial they
would not have found him guilty. 1t has just
been discovered that the signatures of tho
jury on this petition are fOrgerieS. They were
committed, it is alleged, by one Tom Mereto
who was recently sentenced in Philadelphia to
Robinson is in. 1t is believed that other forged
papers are about to be presented in behalf of
other cOunterfeIterS.
The SUBSTITUTE offered by Mr. Voorhees,
for the bill in relation to resumption reported
from the Senate finance committee as a sub.
stitute for the House bill repeating the re-
sumption act, provides that from and after its
passage United States notes shall be receiva-
bic in payment for the four per centum bonds
now authorized by law to be issued; and on
and after October !, 1873, said notes shall be
receivable for duties on Imports and said
notes in the volume in existence on the pas
sage of this act shall not be Cancelled nor
bearded, but shall be reissued, and they NAV
be used for funding and all other lawful pur
poses whatsoever, to an amount not exceed
ing in the whole the aggregate amount thereof
then in circulation and in the Treasury: and
the said notes whether then in the Treasury
or thereafter received, under any act OF Con
greSS, and from whatever source, shall be
again paid out: and when again returned to
the Treasury they shall not be Cancelled nor
destroyed but shall be reiSSued from time to
time with like qualities; and all that part of
the act of January H. 1875, entitled An act
to provide for the resumption of specie pay
mentS, authorizing the retirement of eighty
per centum OF United States notes, is hereby
repealed.
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CHINA.-A recent
dispatch from Mr. Seward to the Department
OF State gives gratifying account of the
rapid introduction of the study of interna-
uOnal law in China under the auspices of
American scholarship. DR.. Martin, president
OF the ung-Wen-kwan. or Chinese Imperial
College, at Peking, has during the last thr-
teen years translated and published in the
Chinese tongue WheatOns Elements of Inter-
national Law, De Martens Guide Diploma
tique, a considerable portion of the French
code, BluntSchli'S NOlkerrecht, and last, but
not least, WOo!sey's Introduction to Interna-
tiOnal Law. These textbooks have the sane.
tiOn OF the Chinese Foreign Office, and are
widely studied.
IN THE U. S. SUPREME COURT yesterday the
following assignment of judges was made:
For the first circuit, Nathan Clifford, associate
Justice; for the second circuit, Ward Hunt
associate justice; for the third circuit, Will
liam Strong, associate justice for the fourth
circuit, Morrison X. Waite, chief justice; for
the fifth circuit, Joseph p. Bradley, associate
justice; for the sixth circuit, Noah Swayne, as
sOciate justice for the seventh circuit, John
NJ. Harlan, associate justice for the eighth
circuit, Samuel +. Miller, associate Justice
for the ninth circuit, Stephen }. Field, associ.
ate Justice.
The CONFERENCE COMMITTEE of the two
houses on the bill to provide for temporary
clerks and for other purposes had a meeting
yesterday afternoon, and recOnciled the re-
naming 'lntS at issue between the two
houses 7 iese were the items for deficiency
in compensation for internal revenue cOllec-
tors and TO: mail route messengers and postal
clerks. TIE Senate fixed the first of these
items at 81 .C00 and the second at $4,000. At
the conference the first item was reduced to
$4,000 and The second to 5000,
SENATE BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF ALBERT
ORDwAY, was placed on the Senate calendar
yesterday. 1t authorizes Ordway to assign
and transfer the contract entered into by him
with the United States on November 16, 1871
10 furnish and cut certain granite for the new
STATE, wa and Navy departments building
In washington, ID. c., 10 the WeStham Granite
company OF Virginia, subject to the approval
OF the Secretary of War; provided that moth
ing in the act shall release said OrdWay from
his obi cations to cause said contract to be