Connecticut western news., 1880-04-21

victed of arson, was hanged at Bennetts- vile, 5. O., the same day.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 =-ThazHaAs AATaEall- 9on1nittee has agreed upon . bill providing that the uniform of chaplains shall be simply a dark blue suit, without any other insig- mia than a plaln device upon the shoul- der to indicate the branch of the service. They are to be appointed between the ages of 25 and 35, instead of between 21 and 35 as heretofore. There are now in the navy 24 chaplains, with the rela- tive rank and pay of captains, 7 with that of commanders and ' with that of lieutenant conlman ders. The bill pro- Nides that the six who have no assigned rank at present shall take that of lieu tenants. *1 'e
 Before the House Post-Ofice Con- mlttee MT. Trenor W. Park, President of the Panama Railroad Company, told his story of the humiliating position of the American foreign commerce and of the causes which render it impossible to exist in rivalry with the English steamship companies. He predicted that unless the existing disadvantages were removed by Congress there would not be a single American steamship engaged in foreign | commerce in ten years. He said that be- fore MT. Vanderbilt established his line of freight steamers to Europe he had in- tended to have American vessels, but when he came to calculate the cost he had to pocket his patriotism and to char ter foreign vessels. MT. Park suggested the following points as calculated to give relief to the American shipping interest First, relieve steamers engaged in for eign commerce from local taxation, ex- cept on net earnings; second, pay steam CTS so much per mile (proportionate to tonnage) for transporting the mails ; third, abolish tonnage duties in foreign ports, an American charge; fourth, per init for three years the purchase of foreign-built steamers; fifth, admit for 1 five years, free of duty, all ship building materials; sixth, allow drawback of so much per ton (the difference in the cost of American and English built ships) on all ships of over 2,O00 tons built in the United States within the next three years.
 The receipts from the tobacco tax for the first six months of the present fiscal year as compared with the last Eshow an increase of $776, 790.88. The New York districts especially show a decided increase.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has received from the Executive Mansion the sum of $130, which was inclosed in an anonymous communication addressed to the President, and evidently intended by the writer for the "conscience fund. |" The money has been deposited in the Treasury.
 Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, reports that the exportation of petroleum and its products during February was as follows At Boston, 362, ,245 gallons at New York, 20,328, $50 gallons; at Philadelphia, g. O08, 634 gallons at Baltimore, 1878, 358 gallons at San Francisco, B, ,290 gal Ions; at Richmond, 335, ,O3O gallons :; at all other ports, 16, 455 gallons total, A, 962, ,662 gallons, worth $2,302, ,755.
 The subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, to which was re- ferred the Bankruptcy question, will at once report to the full committee the bill providing for a new bankruptcy law, which it is thought the committee will adopt and with but few changes report favorably to the House. ..5
 L-Iur. De La AIslIyf mIrOuuceQ III tno House bill to provide for Territorial form of government for Alaska, which makes the fourth of the kind presented within few weeks. This one, however, provides for the appointment of an Indian police force, of which the Governor of the Territory shall be the chief, and that every person born in the Territory, twenty-one years old, shall be entitled to vote, without regard to color, sex or condition, which would include savages and women. It further provides that any person who shall cast his vote for any other purpose than the public good shall be forever disfranchised, and every public officer who may be convicted of attempting to defeat the purpose of an election shall be punished by fine and imprisonment.