Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-07
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

w dSH1ESJ0n NEWS and GOSSIP.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-DAY.-Internalr rev.
enue, S1s5,452; customs, s23T,14.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent. loan t.
day amounted to 81. 733 go.
THE House did hot have a quorum when i
met to-day, but proceeded with business a
usual. great many OF the western member
are sB0N-bOund.
THE CABINET Observation-Disclosures Genera
hey, who has gone TO Albany, was absent from
the Cabinet meeting today His first assist
ant, Gen. Tyner, represented the denartmpnt
The finances of the country again came uD for
discussion. 1t is needless to say that all the
Cablnet expressed qualification az the success
SO TAR attending the resumption Of Sprcie pay
nents, and saw no reason that it should not be
maintained successfully.
A MEETING OF THE ARMY EoRGaxrzATroS
COMMISSION viii be held this evening at Senator
BurnSide'S residence. 1t is understood that the
commission Will agree upon Soma changes in
tlle Dill 1ur the Reorganization OF the army
which has already been reported TO beth the
senate and House
SENATOR THURMAN, in q letter to the Ohio
democrats, says it viii be out Of his power to
attend the democratic celebration in Columbus
tomorrow. as he is Just recovering from a Sc
we're cod. and so long a Journey in such weather
as the present would he inpfudcHt. lie offers
Democracy" upon which he was appointed TO
sIeah.
Hon. AIEX. STEPHENS had an attack of neu-
ralgia of the bowels last night, and is in worse
condition physically, than he has been for
Years. lie Is still confined 10 his rooLlS n the
National hotel
REPRESENTATIVE TOwNSHEND, Of Illinois. Will
he assigned to the District OF Columbia commit
tee 10 I'll the vacancy caused by the death of
eX-HepTeSeHtatiVe v NiliiamS. OF Michi ran Mr.
Tow H-heHd was in former years a resident OF
Tie District. and IS a brother OF Tie present
health officer.
No QUoRUN was present at the committee on
banking and currency to-day. An eadcavor
viii te MADE TO hold q meeting OF this committee
Tomorrow.
TIE House COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE this
m0fhins referred tie subject OF a river and har-
btT bill TO sub committee cOnsfstingOf SieS5rs.
Eedgan, henna and iiubbeli, with inStruc; ions
TO prepare bill as early rs practicable within
specified limit as tC amount and report to the
full committee.
rEEsoSAL.-Mr. Auguste H. Gfrard and wife.
OF this city. arrived in New York by the steamer
Labrador. and reached Washington last night.
Mr.. Girard was secretary to Commissioner Gen
eral Mccormick at the Paris Exposition, and
rom his knOWledge OF modern languages and
other qualifications was of great service to the
I. = commission and to our exhibitors. lie
deserTedly was among the recipients OF the
Legion Of Honor award from the French govern
ment. - Mr. MatterSOn. one of the editors OF
tie Chicago Times, is in the city for a few
weeks. Senator Sargent occupied his seat
IN lie senate to-day apparently fully recovered
III health. ....EX-COngreSSman TarboX is in
the city. Representative Reagan has his
eye bound up IN handkerchief, painful sty
having planted itself on his optic. C1n-
troler knoX returned TO the city last evening
GENERAL SHERMAN was not present at any
ht- D1v
and consequently could not, with other army
CflicerS. have agreed 10 push Systematically the
passage OF the army bin reported by the Burn
side committee, as has been published.
TIE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION Bill
Messrs. Atkins and Durham have, in the prepa-
ration of the legislative appropriation bill.
again gone through the form of reducing the
salaries OF the officers and employees OF the Sen
ate: They are only inviting a contest from
which they will have to Tecede eventually: be-
cause there are many members of the House
who think 1t an impertinence for one House to
NEEDLE with the compensation OF employees OF
tie other. This attempt to reduce the com
PensatiCn Of Senate employees has been made
al every session since the democrats got con-
troll OF tie House, and they have always had to
back down. Last session an unusually deter
mtEed struggle was made. 1t was a point o
difference which kept the legislative bill in
18th OF June, after Mr.. Atkins had for the third
or fourth time reported a disagreement Mr.
LeeGe In order 10 settle the difficulty, offered
the following resolution: THAT il is the opinion
OF this House that this conference on the eriS-
lative. executive and judicial appropriation blIl
should under the circumstances, yield to the
c0nfeIees On the part OF the Senate. the Claim
81 the Senate in said bill, as to the compenSa-
ton OF its own officers and employees This
was adopted by vote OF i16 to 92. The com
mittee Of conference regarded this as an in
StTuctiOn, and there was no further difficulty
III the way OF agreement. AS the same people
are to pass upon the bill this year, it seems
IN TO II irn-np tlN.t
The subcommittee has also inserted number
OF clauses which have heretofore had no pa :e
in this BILL and which viii most likely be ruled
out on POINTS OF order. For example they have
inserted items relating TO surveys, which hav;.
heietofore had a place only in the sundry civil
bill The legislative bill has always been re-
gaTded as peculiarly salary bill, and there
has always, therefore been a disposition to ey-
clgde other legislation from it, and points OF
order have always been more strictly enforced
against II, than against the other bills of the
series.
TIE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE met today,
but transacted no business other than to decide
that parties desiring TO be heard with regard to
the tax on sugar will be given an Opportunity
commencing with tomorrow. The sessions Of
the committee Will be continued on Thursday
and Friday mornings for this purpose com
nencing daily al half-paSt 10 O'Clock.
TIE BILL introduced by senator Mcdonald
TO authorize the local taxation OF L. S. notes
| sage "any state or territory of the United
States may provide for, including in valuation
OF the personal property of the owner or holder,
any legal tender notes OF the United States de
| nominated lawful money" owned or held By
any person or corporation in assessing taxes
imposed oy the authority Of such state Or terri
tory and may impose a tax thereon, "prOVided,
that said tax shall not be at greater rate than
IS assessed upon United States gold or silver
coin in the hands OF individual citizens or such
state or territory"
THE SENATE COMMITTEE on FINANCE held a
meeting to-day, which was devoted to an in
formal discussion OF the bill that provides for
the issuance OF Treasury certificates of deposit
TO any person depOSiting coin or United States
EOteS, said certificates to bear interest at 3.65
per cent. per annum and to be convertible at
any time within one year from their date into
per cent bonds issued upon the retirement OF
the per cents. NO action was taken. but the
general feeling was highly favorable to the
measure. The committee are deSirOuS to dis
pose or the tObacco-tax bill as soon as possible
ard Will at an early day conclude the hearing
OF arguments on the subject. Arrangements 5
viii probably be made 10 hear the commission
er Of internal revenue during-thiS week.
EOH. HORATIo KING AND THE PRESIDENCY OF