Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-03-11
CLARENCE KING is to be appointed director oil
the consolidated surveys.

able receipts and expenditures of the govern
ment during the next fiscal year, and calculates
tnat with the arrears OF pensions paid there
Treasury. Congress appropriated the money to
pay these arrears, but made no provision for
raising the funds. This matter win probably
extra session. The prospective condition of
the departments, In case the legislative bin
should not be passed before June list, was alsu
considered. The President in his message at
the opening OF the extra session, will confine
himself wholly to the subjects for which it is
called. :
OVERLOOKED THREE MILLION,-Great credit
was claimed by the House appropriations COM
mittee In passing the smallest sundry civil blu
that has become law for several years on
examination 1t Is found that the appropriation
has been wholly omitted and must therefore fU be-
provided for In the legislative bill at the extra
session.
How THEY PROPOSE TO Do IT-The statement
Is Dow being circulated that If the President
vetoes bill to repeal the federal supervisors of
election law-which the democrats intend to
PASS at the 81 ec1al SeSSfOn-that the next move
M1 t;1a 0e 70 at aea repeal clause to the legsIa
bill, then to divide it into three parts-first.
providing Tor the pay OF the legislative depart
ment; I; sScond, FOR the judicial department.; and,
third, Tor the executive Departmental which
latter bill is to be added the federal supervisors
repeal clause. They say that IL the President
vetces the latter bill he will merely cut on his
made for the other departments OF the govern.
ment, Congress will adjourn and go home, and
II tEe resident subsequently decides to sign
such Dill he can convene the Congress again
in special session, or else walt until the reguia
time for meeting for his pay.
The VIRGINIA JUDICIAL CoNFL1cr.-The cas-,
involving the powers and Jurisdiction of federal
In fho fhnr c<a
Supreme Court OF the United States yesterday
upon an application from the governor OF Vir
g1nia for writ OF mandamuS TO compel Judp !.
Rives, OF the United States Circuit Court for
to the state authorities two criminals whom he
had taken out OF their custody for trial in his
own court-viz: Burwell and Lee Reynolds col
in E1eS Ua pack va who were indicted jointly
murder of one A. C. Shelton After several
trials the case Of Burwen Reynolds resulted in
q hung jury, and that OF Lee Reynolds, his bro
second degree. Burwells case was continued
until the next term, Lee was sentenced to
eighteen years In. the penitentiary, and both
county jail. On the 18th OF November, 1s7s. q
petition was filed In the United States Circuit
Court for the western district OF Virginia pray
Judge Rives, before whom the petition came
believing, to use his own words, THAT the petit
tioners had been denied such a trial as is
secured to them by the laws OF the state by
competent jurors, without distinction OF race
or color" granted the application, and directed
the issue OF writ Of habeas corpus cum causa
10 the marshal OF the district commanding him
tody and hold them subject to the orders OF the
FEDERAL court. Upon this state OF facts the
genera! assembly OF the state passed e joint
proceedings In the United States Supreme
Court to recover possession OF the prisoners
and prevent their retrial in the United States
court, court; the petition OF the governor was pre-
t0rney general. 1t Is understood that Judge
RiVes based his action in granting the petition
for removal Of the cases to the federal court
upon the ground that none OF the jurors In the
state courts were OF the prisoners race, and
that they did not therefore have an impartial
trial.
NAVAL ORDEEs.-Lieut. j. D. X. Kelly TO the
photographic Office. 1st OF April Lieut.. G. A.
Norris from the photographic office, and ordered
10 the nautical schoolship st. Mary's, at New
YORK. Acting Assistant Surgeon j. j. Page
from the st. Mary's, and placed on sick leave.
A COMPLIMENT FROM SPAIN.-Remarks on the
forests and agriculture OF North America, ad-
dressed to the minister OF the interior by Don
Jose Jordana v MOrera, chief forest engineer
and agricultural director OF the Spanish com
mission at the Centennial, and Don Sebastian
Vidal y Soler, chief forest engineer of the Phil
llppines and member OF the Centennial commits
sion, Madrid, 1871 contain the following In re-
ference to the disease and microscopic Insects
which attack maize and potatoes, and the ne
cessity OF ascertaining the best means to pro-
these studies there (the United States), where
maize and potatoes are the bread OF the poor,
the federal government has encouraged micro:
bureau for the branch under the Immediate d.
Iection OF the Department OF Agriculture. The
results OF the numerous and exhaustive obser-
vations made In this bureau are published every
xUtc
these labors which have been reduced to rules
OF agriculture, have been applied throughout
the whole country by the American agrtcultu-
acteriZeS themn