The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, May 3.-Attorney Gen.
eral McVeagh has received instruc-
tons to secure indictments against the
star route ringsters, and he intends to
prosecute them with the utmost vigor.
More removals will take place in the
contract division of the postofiice de-
partment.
The president has been invited to
accompany the Yorktown centennial
commission, to visit the site of the
battle of Yorktown, on the steamer
Dispatch next Thursday.
The republican senators in caucus
after the adjournment of the senate,
reached harmonious conclusion. The
discussion was directed mainly to the
point Of determinining what was the
precise scope Of the committees recon-
mendation in regard to contested cases.
Additional articles of agraement
have been concluded between the
United States and Canada for the pur-
pose of affording increased facilities
for the exchange of letter correspond
ence, and also preventing the evasion
by the publishers of postal laws and reg
ulations of the United States.
The final agreement of the republican
caucus to provide for the immediate
transaction of all the accumulated ex-
ecutive business except few contested
nominations, is practically an abandon
ment Of the long continued struggle for
the electing of senate officers, and fore
shadows an adjournment of the senate
SINE die within the next two weeks at
the farthest.
Washington, May 3.-Gen. Sherman,
Gen. Sheridan and the secretary of war
had long conference with the presi-
dent this afternoon relative to the re-
arrangement of the military depart
ments. Gen. Sheridan returns to Chi
cago tomorrow. 1t is believed that all
of the departments will be merged into
the departments Of the east and west,
and be commanded by Gems. Sheridan
and Hancock, with other generals to
be assigned to duty wherever more
available.
There is a very decided weakening
on the part of the republican senator's
since Tuesday, and it is believed by
some that they will not only yield their
position so far as to consent to holding
executive sessions, but will in a few
days give up the attempt to elect the
senate officers. This much was inti-
mated by Senator Hale in an interview
this morning. lie said there would
undoubtedly be executive sessions; the
differences in the republican ranks
would be adjusted, and the pending
nominations disposed of. AS to the
election of the Gorham- -Riddleberger
ticket, Hale says, the motion to elect it
will not, after a time, be renewed, but
the whole question will be allowed to
go by default, the senate adjourning as
soon as the executive business is fin
ished.. Hale says the only thing for the
republicans is to back squarely down.
The committee of safety, as it is
called, will recommend action first on
the Chinese treaties.
Internal Revenue Agent Tracy, op-
Grating in Franklin county, Virginia,
writes Commissioner Raum detailed
account of an attempt to capture the
notorious Dave Gillespie. One thou
sand dollars reward has been offered to
any person who will lodge Gillespie in
Jail. But few, he says, seem anxious
to undertake to capture this notorious
desperate. He says that since his raid
in Bumetbog. Gillespie and crowd have
committed shameful outrages upon in
nocent people in that neighborhood,
whom they charged with giving infor-
nation to the revenue officers. They
went in disguise and whipped man
and woman, robbed one or two Of
money, destroyed their property, drove
them from their homes, some Of them
half naked, and formed thirteen of
them into one party on the road to
West Virginia, and ordered them to
leave on penalty of death if they re-
turned. This revival Of kuklux is by
the illicit distillers and their friends in
the mountains. Their ourtrages have
terrorized the good citizens to such an
extent that they are afraid to even
speak Of the outrages, much less con-
denim them. There is no such thing in
Franklin county, on the part Of re-
sponsible citizens, as sympathy for the
enforcement Of the laws regarding the
making or selling of spirits, either
state or national.
New York: The aldermen passed,
over the mayors veto, resolution nl-
lowing the Brush electric Illuminating
and the United States illuminating
companies to lay tubes to light houses
and streets.