Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-03

position offered by Mr.. GoOde, OF Virginia,
authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to ap-
point his chief clerk as assistant secretary,
and while acting in that capacity he shall be
entitled to salary of $500 per annum.
NoMINATIONs.-The President sent to the
Edward C. Dean, to be Police Commissioner
of the District, and Chas. II. Eddy, to be post
master at Toledo.
THE MEXICAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Schleicher in answer to an inquiry from a
STAR reporter, as to when the Mexican diff
Guilty would be settled replied, that he did not
expect to see it settled during his life time. 1t
would always remain open and a source Of
international complication. He thought Diaz'S
recognition would soon be a matter of fact,
but said this would by no reason settle what is
generally called the " Mexican quest tien."
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL-The Senate
committee on appropriations concluded its
revision of the navalappropriation bill to-day.
The items of increase are as follows: Added to
cal almanac, Increased $1,000; for equipment
of vessels. increased $1,000: for contingent
expenses OF bureau of equipment and recruit
ing, increased $4,000: repairs of naval labara-
tory, hospitals, cemeteries, &C., increased
$4,000; for maintenance of naval hospitals
and laboratory, increased $1,000; secretary of
the Naval Academy, not provided for in the
bill $l,SCO. number of small items. for pay
OF Watchmen, &c, are provided for. The total
Increase is about $lD,000.
COMMISSIONER BRYAN ON AssEssMENTs.-
Ed;torof The Star: Your paper of last evening
contained a violent attack upon the late
Board of Public Works, signed by Thomas B.
Bryan, Commissioner d. G. Without ques-
noning the propriety, truth, or courtesy of the
the infallibility of the assessments made by
the present Commissioners will appear from
the following correspondence:
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 3, 1873.
To the Commissioners OF the District OF o.
Lumbid: Gentlemen-I am owner of lots 63 to
"A, So. 1913, inclusive, fronting on COrcOran
street, between 18th and 18th streets. An as
SeSSment of $5l2S on each lot, 1919 feet front,
was made by youin April. 1877 whilst no work,
except some grading, has been done. This
tax amounts to nearly So per. front foot, on
one of the nairowest streets in the city, and
there is nothing to show for it, save grading.
Is there not some error here? Respectfully,
tSlgned) A. r. SHEPHERD.
TRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, April Sd,
lS7S.-HCn. 4. Il. Shepherd DEAR SIR: Re
1eillng to your request for information re-
sspecting assessments against certain lots on
COrcOran street, between 18th and 10th streets,
am instructed to send you the following copy
of Assistant Engineer Oertley's report in the
premises" Assessment for carriageway,
$27S 2:6, and includes concrete between 1lth
and l5th grading, curbing, sidewalk on whole
line; sewer, S0.45 9S7. The old assessment
seems to be erroneous, in so far as concrete
III.
voucher, was assessed on achOle street, which
will he corrected in revision, if this fact will
prGye 6e Gf eorree y HsFy respectfully
An OF which is respectfully submitted.
ISlgnedI- A. X. SHEPHERD.
THE LOBBY UNDER THE LASH.-The efforts
of the Pacific railroad lobby to defeat the bill
pending in the Senate compelling them to
meet their past obligations to the government
have become so open and braZen as to be al
most intOlerable and Senator Edmunds this
afternoon in open Senate administered most
severe and singing rebuke. which was heard
by MI: Jay Gould and many Of hio satellites
and which it is hoped vii, vii, nave the effect to
make them y .l,tie more discreet in the future.
Hdshn. Cor. Bait. Sun.
NOBODY IN CONGRESS TO STAND GOD
FATHER TO BLAIR's BABY.-HOn. Montgom-
cry Blair's resolution looking to the ousting OF
President Hayes from the executive office
which has been agreed upon by the legislative
assembly . OF MARYLAND, is likely to. .'die
a-bOrnin," insofar, at least, as accomplishing
its object. That its originator is in earnest
there can be no doubt, for yesterday he ap-
peared on the floor of the House, and was, in
conversation with members, quite sanguine
that steps would soon be taken under his reSo
luton to reopen the Presidential question. In
this hopeful view MIR. Blair evidently. stands
been prepared looking to proceedings by quo
rarranto TO get Tilden the Presidential Office
This bill, it is alleged, will confer jurisdiction
upon the United States Supreme Court TO hear
and decide the controversy. If any member
OF Congress has such bill, or cOntemplates
preparing one, he is keeping both his bin and
himself we'll in the background, for it will
take fine tooth comb to scrape up the honor
able legislator who seeks any such distinction
The general sentiment of the democratic
members of the Senate is that the Blair reSOlu-
tiOn is absurd: that even if its author, be he
Tilden or Blair, expected to unSeat the PreSi-
dent, that the manner OF procedure under the
Blair resolution would hardly be adopted by
those who believe that Tiden should be in the
ESeeHvf oee hWhn said soqthera
whether Hayes was elected President or not
He might confess judgment to not being
elected under the forms OF law which the Con-
title of Hayes" he continued, lis to be con
tested, the question of fraud has nothing to do
with it. The question is: Did Congress
the, electoral bill? II it did Congress,
and not Mr.. HAYES, is to blame for his
being in the Presidential bftice. If the law
is unconstitutional, then Congress is bound
inasmuch as he holds his office under the
electoral bill-under an act of Congressman
for Congress to refuse to defend it would be to
insult its own intelligence and repudiate its
The democrats of the House take no stock
in the new scheme. They affect to believe that
Mr.. Blair has received more encouragement
from fro the republicans than from the democrats.
They have no desire to reopen the Presi-
Dental question, and will promptly discounte-
nance any movement looking to that end
which comes either from their own or the
republican side OF the House.
If ONE of the South Carolina grand iuries
has arrived at an accurate judgment, it is the
revenue officials of the general government
and not the mOOnshiners who ought to be in