Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-08

they are taken through the town to court
 The solicitor and witnesses refused to attend
 an examination in town in the present state o1
 intense popular excitement
 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
 Cost of the Censns-An Additional Alp. l r3fopriatton Asked For . Secretary
 Thompson's Successor=No Agreement That He is to Enter Garfie1d's Cabinet
 Chairman Buckner Says Woods Bill
 viii Be Defeated-Other Matters.
 l WASHINGTON, Jan 7.-The Secretary of
 the Interior to-day sent to Congress a com munication from the superintendent of the census asking for an additional appropriation
 of $5OO,O 900 for the completion of census
 work and the publication of results. The appropriation asked for would raise the cost of the census under the act of March, 1879, | to $3, 800, 900, while the cost of the census according to the scale of 1870, after allowing l for an increase of 30 per cent. in population | and other elements of cost, would be four | millions and third. The superintendent | reviews the causes which have necessitated expenditures in excess of the original plans l of the census office, and concludes by saying that should it be the decision of Congress not | to allow the additional amount asked for he will use his utmost endeavors to bring the expenditures within the original limit of the law by stopping all special Investigations not l made absolutely obligatory on the office and by reducing the compilation to the narrowest limit.
 General Golf, the new Secretary of the Navy visited the White House this morning and held a protracted conference with the
 President and Secretary Thompson. About noon in the presence of the President and
 other members of the Cabinet General Golf
 took the oath of office and participated in the
 Cabinet session which followed. He will en- ter upon his duties at the Navy department tomorrow, when he will be introduced to the heads of bureaus and chief clerks by ex- Secretary Thompson.
 Senator Wade Hampton appeared in his seat this morning Senators Jones, of Neva- da and Sharon are now the only ones who have not appeared this session.
 The House Foreign Affairs committee met this morning to discuss the Nicaraguan canal project. Only six members were present and the meeting was devoted to arranging plan for future business. Next Tuesday the con- mittee will consider the Nicaraguan canal bill, giving hearing on the subject to Thorndyke Rice, editor of the North American ReUieac, and Jesse Seigman, the New York banker.
 S The subcommittee of the Serate Appro priations committee held meeting this morn ing and listened to arguments by Gen. Benet and Norman Wizard on the fortifcation bill. The bill will probably be reported to the Senate Monday.
 Mrs. Christiancy has been quite sick since Wednesday, the symptoms being those of in fammation of the brain.
 Judge Buckner, chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, says the Wood refunding bill will be defeated, and if the House passes any bill at all it will either be his own or Judge Kelley's substi- tute.
 Senator McMillan, of Tennessee, who has just returned from Nash vile, says the Demo- crats will certainly elect United States Sen ator from that State. Representative Whittemore considers the election doubtful.
 Congressman Hurd, of Ohio, says that at the meeting of the Committee of Ways and Means next Tuesday he will try to secure &C., tion in committee on his trade resolutions. The committee does not appear to be dis posed to report MT. Hurds resolutions this session
 The commission named by the President at the request of the Ponca committee in Bos- ton to inquire into the condition and desires | of the Ponca tribe arrived at the Ponca 1 agency January 5, and one of its members | telegraphed to the President Jan. , as fol l lows: ''The council enthusiastically l endorsed the agreement of the Ponca delega- l tion when in Washington. Leave tomorrow l for Dakota The agreement referred to is | the parer signed by the Ponca chiefs when 1 present in Washington, requesting lands in | Dakota to be sold and they be permitted to l remain in Indian Territory and make the l land at present occupied by them their per home.
 An interview with Senator elect Malone, of l Virginia, will be published here tomorrow on l the subject of the Virginia State debt and | the relations of the readjuster party of | the State thereto, in which Senator Malone | endeavors to show that his party is the debt | paying party, while his opponents are the | real repudiators. The publication of this | is part of the efforts to array the | Readjusters and Republicans of the State l Bourbon funder party.
 The governments receipts for the current l month to date very clearly demonstrate that | the Secretary of the Treasury will not buy | any outstanding bonds other than the balance | of the 6s of 1880, of which there are $6, 55O, | 300 outstanding. It is believed it will re- | quire all the surplus revenues of the current | month to meet these outstanding bonds, con- sequently it is thought the Secretary will not | make any purchase until February, if then, unless the funding bill passes at once.
 The statement is authorized that in the | appointment of General Golf to be Secretary 1 of the Navy there was no sort of understand | ing between President Hayes and General | Garfield in regard to the latter continuing 1 General Golf a member of his Cabinet. | The President had previously offered the po sition to several gentlemen, all of whom felt | compelled to decline. At no time pending | the vacancy were there any overtures made | or understanding arrived at looking | to the appointment of a man who | would be acceptable to General Garfield, | the only object being to fill the vacancy | by the appointment of a gentleman compe- | tent to perform the duties aud who would be | acceptable to the other members of the Cabi- | net. In every respect General Golf fills the l bill General Golf himself has no idea of l becoming member of Garfeld's Cabinet (though he would probably accept Cabinet position under the next administration. At | the present time he has no other expectation than to return to his district attorneyship in West Virginia after the appointment of his | successor. In the meantime MT. Caldwell, | Assistant District Attorney, will be author ized to perform the duties of the office. The l position of Secretary of the Navy never rendered to MT. Hogg, the efficient chief | clerk of the department, for the reason that it not deemed proper thing to elevate | the chief clerk over the heads of captains, | rear admirals, who are fill l ing the position of chiefs of bureaus. No | one appreciates this more than MT. Hogg.
 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.