The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-04


the Official report OF the proceedings.
Ia the House on Wednesday, Mr.. Acklen
deied. "''''' '''"' '''" ''e was Vi
Mr.. Conger vainiy tried TO prevent the pass
age OF Dill removing the disabilities of
General Tallaferro because the petition al
luded TO the late war As 1.-THE war between the
southern States and the United States"
II. V. Boynton has submitted 10 the secre-
tary OF war chsrges against General Sherms
81 conduct unbecoming an oftcer and "a gentle
The ways and means committee room was
the scene on Wednesday OF a quarrel between
Z Assistant Secretary French and Mr.. Nathaniel
Mckay, OF Philadelphia.
lt Is rnmOred in Washington that Pay
master General Alvord is TO be retired In day
or two and that Assistant Paymaster General
Mcclure will be as signed TO his place.
Secretary sherman had three hours con-
ference with the Senate finance committee on
4 Wednesday.
y injecting of rhe interoceanic canal COM
mittee of the House was held on Thursday.
Governor Pitkin has been testifying before
committee of Congress to the depravtiy OF
the Utes aud the blameless conduct OF the
In the Senate on Thursday the report on the
Fi'z John Porter case was presented, and Mr..
Logan made q minority report.
Mr.. Bayard made a long and interesting
speech IN support OF his lego slender resolu-
I ton which was attentively listened to bv
! large audience on the floor and in the CALLER
I les
The speaker took strong ground In favor OF
enforcing the Monroe doctrine on the Isthmus
The House passed bills providing for a York
town monument and centennial celebration,
on which stand the '-bIg trees OF California.
IL also adopted part OF the report on the re-
vision OF the Hous ules.
The inIeroceanic canal committee has been
nard st work arTal gang some course of action
for the Governments, and has had teveTal con-
IeTence> with the secretaries OF state and navy
in order TO secure the cooperation of sll de
nartnents in the preservation of the rights OF
the United States.
senator Cameron has been in consultation
with party OF Pennsylvania politicians VINO
visited Washington mainly to bring the news
State.
The hearing on the sugar question began on
Thursday, and Mr.. J. f.. Searle argued against
the use of the polsriscope, and in favor of a
single rate OF duty for all sugars mp 10 Is
Dutch standard.
Mr.. &. +. Adams, Jr., appeared before the
committee having the Reagan inter state
commerce bill In charge, and favored Its modi-
fication rather than its rejection.
The senRte was occupied exclusively ON
senator Chandler
( highways, pOst-JOads, aud proposed amend
nent TO the revised rules designed 10 prevent
4 h,ibustering, but no action was reached on
either subject, as the Chandler eulOgies took
up most OF the session.
A bdl providing for the reorganization of
condition, prepared by Mr. Harris, of Msssa-
chusetts, was~adopted by the House naval
committee, and was presented to the House on
General Gordon j. 10 pi oppose In a day or two
the appoin tment OF q Senate committee upon
the lnteroceanic canal question. Our minister
10 Colombia reports that the agents of NJ. de
Lesseps ridicule the Idea of any successful in
reference by our government with his canal
scheme, and boasts thai Franco, alone or con-
jointly with other European powers. will con-
/ struct and own the canal.
The hearings on the sugar tarin question
and the Ocean bank receIvership We're con-
tinued on Friday.
Secretary Evarts informed a Washington
"a hnt Lrea N
minister had held only Oral eommuD lcatiOn
with him on tue snbjeft Of any disavowal by
the the French S1vern ment OF participation I'M
1ne senate did not meet cn saturday anu
the Hone held only a short session. deYote' y
chiefly to the delivery OF eulogies upon the
late Representative Clark, of Iowa
The hearing before the ways ana means
committee ON the sugar tarin question was
finally closed after MessTs. Havemeyer, Ken
ner and others had argued against The adop-
ton OF a uniform speciflc rate OF duty:
Monday appropriating Sl.O0O,o00 10 the suffer
ing poor OF Ireiand.
< number of bills were introduced INTO the
Lower House yesterday, 10 which we shan
call attention, according 10 the chances they
may have for passing, as future events may
demonstrate.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
The Republicans of New York viii meet AT
Utica, February %, to select delega'es To Chi
cago.
The excess of exports over imports for the u
months which ended on December 81, 1879, was
x2ol ,S5O,47T.
\ convict confesses IN have set dre to the
kirgs county New York penitentlary on
Wednesday night, which destroyed it.
A dispatch from Mt. Washington says the
Severest storm Of The winter ragged there FRI
day night, the wind blowing l2 miles an
hour
The treasury department purchased ON
Thursday 6l5, GOO ounces of fine silver for the
mints at Philadelphia, New Orleans and San
Francisco.
The governor OF Massachusetts has issued an
order That charles +. Freeman, the Pocasset
chlld-murderer, be confined in the State Lu
natIc Hospital.
The trial of Mrs smith aud Cove Bennett,
for the murder of the husband OF Mrs. Smith,
policeman OF Jersey city, resulted IN ver-
dlet of not guilty.
Protests, from Republican sources in Louisi-
ana, are being forwarded 10 Washington,
against the appointment as naval officer of
the notorious Pinchback OF that State.
Mr. Parnell the Irish agitator. is making
the tour OF the variors.cities of the country I,
and continually receiving 1iaLtering ovations
and much money for the Irish cause.
The Republican convention of Arizona ap-
pointed eN Governor Stafford and Levi Bas-
ford delegates, and r. c. Mccormick and
Hancock alternates to the National conven-
tion.
In anticipation of the state ceremonial the
5th of February, when the queen will open
the British Parliament, srrangementSare per
fecting for royal procession TO and from
Westminster.
Rev Edward Cowley, manager Of the "Shep-
herds Fold,' New York, was sent To prison
saturday in default of bail, on the charge of
cruelty beating ana starving children plsced
in his care.
Suit was entered at Nashville Saturday,
against the Eoulsvillee and Nashville silway,
aud lines that nave recently passed under its
control, for 100000, for taxes claimed TO be due
from 1853 10 1879
The sealed verdict handed In by the jury in
the Cartwright VS.. Fsrwel $4,000 libel suit at
Chicago Friday night, was opened Saturday
morning, and damages to the amount OF one
cent was awarded the piaintiff.
Mrs. Lewis, claiming to be the widow of
Joseph J.. Lewis, of Jersey City, VINO left "A
81 6OOO TO the Gov ern ment, and all who were
associated with her in the recent contest of
the will, have been arrested.
C.M Splitter, one of the proprietors OF the
defunct German American bank, OF Cleve-
land was arrested saturday, on the charge OF
embezzeling money deposited at the bank for
the payment of a note due OH the day of the
failure.
The outstanding United States currency AT
the close OF business hours Saturday amounted
TO 1852 746.091. During January there was an
increase of National bank notes of I'll ,343-573,
leaving the total issue outstanding to date