Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-04
Washington News and Gossip.
Gov ERNMENT RECEIPTS TsTO-DAY..-Internal rev
enue, 800, ,525.24; customs, S739, ,41OT3.

enue S294, 525.24; customs, S739, 41073.
SECRETARY HUNT is expected to return from
his tour of inspection of the northern navy yards
and stations next Saturday.
DR.. W. H. HAWKES. has been appointed acting
assistant surgeon in the army, and is assigned
to duty in this city as assistant to DR.. Norris.
DR.. Hawkes. was tutor to the late Presidents 9
sons and is very popular gentleman.
SECRETARY WINDOW, who has gone to Massa-
chusetts to join his family. is expected to return
to the Treasury department the latter part of
this week. The information at the department
is that the Secretary will not go to his western
home before returning to Washington.
SECRETARY KIRKwOOD is at his desk early and
late trying to catch up with the business of the
Interior department. which was thrown some
what behind by the illness of the late President
DECISION OF COMMISSIONER RAuM AS TO
BANKERs.-Commission Raum, of the bureau
OF internal revenue, rendered decision in re-
latiOn to the taxation of banks and bankers to-
day, in which he details the various transactions
OF banking houses which must and must not
be treated as subject to taxation He maintains
that every person. firm or company, having a
class OF business where stocks. bonds bullion,
Dlils OF exchange, or prOmissOry notes. are re-
ceived for discount or for sale is regarded in
law as bank or as broker and that the capital
and deposits of such bank or banker are
subject to taxation.
CAsHNG THE CERTIFICATES OF CENSUS OFFICE
EMPLOYEs.-Messrs II. D. Cook. Jr., & Co. YES
terday commenced cashing the certificates of
amounts due to Census office employees for the
month of September. The firm state that their
offer to the department was to cash vouchers
for June and July but they have already cashed
them for August also and acceded to the re-
quest to cash them for September.
INVITED TO BALTIMoRE.-Register Bruce. Hon.
Frederick Douglass and Prof R. T. Greener, col
ored citizens of the District, have been specially
invited by the committee of arrangement to be
present at the Orole celebration in that city next
week.
SECRETARY LINCOLN will return to the city
from Rye Beach next Saturday. All the men,
bers of the Cabinext are expected to be in the
city on Monday next. the date Of the assembling
OF the Senate in extra session.
PATENT OFFICE PRoMOTI0Ns.-Co Commissioner
of Patents Marble to-day forwarded for the
of the Secretary of the Interior his
recommendation for the promotion on the grade
of 1st, I'd and Sd assistant examiners for which
an examination was held some weeks ago. The
Ill every lHStdHcC recommended
those highest on the list. There will be pro-
NOTED one to the grade Offirst assistant, three
to the grade OfsecOnd, and four to third The
highest average attained out of possible 100
was SSplus. lady who competed made an aver
age of s. plus. The names Of the lucky ones
will be made public tomorrow.
THE CAUCUS OF REPUBLICAN SENATORs-At
their caucus, to be held on Saturday, the repub-
lican Senators will determine whether they will
make fight over the proposal that the Senators
elect from New York and Rhode Island should
be sworn in before the election of a President
pro tenn. The drift of discussion indicates that
a contest will probably be made. statement
OF the custom of the Senate under circumstances
similar to those which will exist on MOndav next
will be found interesting. The journals of the
Senate show that, beginning with the Second
Congress and ending with the FOrty-fifth, there
have been twelve sessions of the Senate at the
of which there was no presiding Off
Ger. On ten OF those occasions a President pro
tenn. was elected before Senators elect were
sworn in. Ninety-seyen Senators elect have
been thus sworn in, and only three Senators
elect have been sworn in before the election of
a President pro tenn.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.-Work has not
yet been resumed on the Washington monu-
ment. The inability of the Phoenix iron COM
pany, on account of the great demands made
upon it, to fill the orders for the iron work. is
the cause of the delay The iron is now
promised by the 25th inst, and it is hoped by
that date that the work Of construction will
be resumed. The ultimate completion Of the
will not be delayed one day by the
present embarrassment, as the stone can
De laid so much faster than it can be cut.
Iheswork of stone-cutting iseegoing on and the
material Is accumulating. The stOne-masOns on
top. however, can soon catch up with the stone
cutters. 1t isexpected to lay twenty more feet
this season when the height will be $50 feet, or
just one halfo the total height to which il ia
proposed to carry the stone-work.
PERsONAL.-The numerous friends of the
Japanese Minister, Mr. Yoshida, will regret to
learn that he has been confined to his house by
illness for several weeks. He spent the summer
with his family at the seashOre all of whom
were greatly benefited but himself. He is now
improving and it is believed will soon be well
again. The popularity which this diplomat has
acquired during his residence of about seven
years in Washington is something quite unusual
and his friends will now rejoice on the entire re-
storation of his shealth-The daughter of Judge
terriss, the second auditor. is soon to be mar
ried at their home in Glen Falls, N. Y. and
Mrs Ferriss will not return here until after the
wedding She and her husband will continue to
reside at the Mcpherson House. Miss Ferriss
after her marriage will accompany her husband
to his sheep-ranch in Texas near the Nuaces
Owing to the deep affection of his family.
on account Of the death Of supt. Garlic
Patterson, of the Coast Survey, the marriage of
bis eldest daughter and Mr.. Winslow, of the
navy, will be very quiet one indeed. 1t is to
take place next Monday.-Associate Justice
Stanley Matthews and his wife and eldest
daughter are expected to arrive here from Glen
dale Ohio, this evening" and will remain through
the winter. Their other children are at school.
except their eldest son, who is to be married in
December to young lady of Glendale. This
marriage is in all respects pleasing to the family,
and especially it is to occur so soon after JUS
tice and Mrs. Matthews leave the house in which
they have lived 81 years, for their son and his
bride are to occupy it after the wedding. AS all
their children were born in that dwelling and
those they have lost have died there, they feel
less reluctant to leave it. knowing that it is to
be their sons home during the first of his
married life, than they would if
forced to close it or let it to strangers.
The elegant residence they are building
here will not be completed in time for them to
occupy it this year, so they will board until it is
feady.-It will give general satisfaction here
to know that it is not now probable that the
agreeable Mexican minister and his family will
return to Mexico or go to some European cap
tal. as it was last spring feared his official duties
would compel them to do. They now expect to
remain in Washington The minister and hiS