Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-26
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

HE T. ENING CiARe
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-DAY-Internal rev.
enue, s2f4. .3I3.05; customs. s539,o15.60.
Ex-senator RAMSEY, of Minnesota, is said
to-day to be the lucky candidate for the Berlin
mission.
THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE will meet
tomorrow to prepare some means of paying the
claims under the pension arrearageS bill 1t
will be reported to the House tomorrow night
bills APPROvED.-The President to-day an
proved the act creating an additional associate
justice OF the ID. c. Supreme Court, and for the
better administration OF justice In said district
and also the act directing the Secretary OF War
10 purchase lot OF ground situated near the
city OF Columbus, Ohio, now used by the United
states as cemetery.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to day
We're Senators Mcdonald, Voorhees,. Paddock.
Wadletgb, and Grover. Representatives Lut-
trell, NfggfntOn, Pound, Hanna Siapp. McKtn-
ley. Reagan, Rainey. McCook, Williams (NY.A
Mli1ams, (W1S..l Garfield, Hart. Peddie, and
tine.
WHEN THE SENATE COMMITTEES are reorra-
nized by the democrats, it is said that Senator
BayaId VIII be made chairman of the finance
committee. and Senator Thurman viii be at the
head O1 Tie judiciary committee.
THERE Is Now but little prospect OF the pas
SAGE OF the proposed new license bill for the
District CT Columbia.
THE GOLD on HAND.-Seeretary sherman. in
letter to Hon. Fernando Wood, chairman Of
tie committee On ways and means, SAYS that on
February 18th last he had in the Treasury
aNalidDle Tor resumption. in gold and silver
trile over one hundred and thirty-Six million
dollars. This. he says, he ''iOeS not consider
money In the Treasury not otherwise appr0prl-
ated.'
Mr.. L. s. METCALFE, Who was to-day n0ni-
mated by the President as appraiser Of merchan-
disc OF the port Of ST. Louis, Mo, is at present
republican member OF Congress from one of the
81. Louis districts. His seat was contested b.
Frost, and has just been decided in his favor.
FX-GOv. HAKTRANFT, of Pennsylvania who
has been the guest OF the President at the White
House for several days past left this afternoon
Tor Philadelphia. He Will accept the post
maSterShip OF Philadelphia, with the view IL is
stated, OF something bettarin i'll the future.
TEE PACIFIC SLOPE CONGRESSIONAL DELE
CATION, who called On the President yesterday
to urge his approval of the anti Chinese bill,
We're all republicans. To-day the democratic
members from the slope took their turn Sena-
tor Grover OF oregon. with Representatives
luttTell OF California, Wtgginton OF California,
and Patterson of Colorado, had an audience of
about half an hour to-day with the President
on the subject OF tie bill. They urged that he
sign 1t. and presented arguments for his SO
dolng. me PRESIDENT answered them much in
the same way that he did the delegation OF yeS-
terday. and the delegation of to-day left with
the same impression as that of yeSterday-that
tie bill Will Lot be signed.
TIE INTERNAL REVENUE BILL-The confer
ence committee on the disagreeing of votes Of
the two houses on the internal revenue bill
have agreed 10 a report. recOnciIing the hereto
lore existing differences. The Senate recedeS
Ii ON the clause relating 10 rectftiers. the IIOr,sp
and compromise was effected on the bank
clause, proving that the provisions of the see
uon sEan not apply to national banks.
PERSONAL.-Mr. Phillips, OF the Associated
Press, who was assailed in last Sundays ISSUE
of the Capital, has been il correspondence with
MI. Buell., the author of the assault and Il cloud
OF misapprehension has been cleared away.
Tie letters nave been moderate in tone and
very mitch TO the credit OF the PAL ties 10 the
correspondence. While Mr.. Buell. maintains
that MIR Phillips must have misappTenended
Mr.. Hutchins' statement concerning the man
ner in which he (f5uelD LETT the Post. lie now
perceiyeS that Mr.. Phillips share in the matter
was not dictated by any malice toward him,
In conclusion, Mr.. Buell. Wlthdraws the offen-
sive language conveyed in his communication
in the Post &C Congressman elect BOrrOWS
OF Mich, said to be the most eloquent stump
orator In the west, is in the city. .-.- CAPTAIN
Edward O'Meagher, whose release from p.fSon
In England last fall attracted so much aGten-
ton at the time, is on brief visit to Washing
ton, and is the guest OF his old friend, Col.
Richard o. s. Burke.
A SwINDLER ARREsTED.-The secret service
agents yesterday arrested John s. Mcdonald at
Wheeling, West Virginia. for violation of post
81
was arrested in 1875 for "boodling," which
is the name for the transactions OF that class of
sWindlers. who give out that they will sell
counterfeit money to those who wish to handle
IL, and upon the receipt Of orders and money
therefor send in return boxes IcOntaining
worthless paper, sawdust and scraps.
The SILVER DoLLARs.-The rule which went
into effect January 1st, In the New York and
some other banks, not to receive silver dollars
except as special deposit, has not as yet had
any eject upon the circulation and standing of
the standard silver dollar. This is due perhaps
as much 10 the comparatively limited amount
or the dollars In circulation as to the fact that
the discrimination against them was by no
means general among the banks OF the country.
THERE WILL BE THREE REPORTS from the Pot
ter investigating committee-one by the ma
jority, which has already been drawn up by
Chairman Potter; one by the republican minorl-
"; and Gen. Butler will make one on his own
account, going into the celebrated WOrmley
conference, and the means used TO break up the
Packard Qa) legislature. The StenographerS'
notes OF the testimony cover over 5000 pages Of
close print.
THE CONFERENCE OF THE GREENBACK REPRE-
sENTATIvEs, which began last Saturday at the
Metropolitan Hotel, In this city, has resulted in
address to the country, which Is signed by Gill
bert De La Matyr, chairman of the committee.
IL sets forth that the money loaning interest Is
nnfv fhn cd
ministration, the machinery and leadership of
tie republican and democratic parties, and
more than two thousand national banks, form
ing a banking system yet In the infancy OF It's
POWER, whose operation has transferred the
regulation of the volume OF paper money from
the government, where the constitution vests
il, to these corporations, whose directors are
Lot responsible to the people. Back of this Or
ganizatiOn, inspiring and controlling 1t, Is ar
ray ed the colossal money power Of Europe. lt
has controlled legislatures and executive OIL
ceIs. largely subsidized the press, and endan-
geIed the purity Of the judiciary" To avert q
dread crisis il is the duty OF the National party
Ito overthrow the powerful banking system