Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-11
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE EDUCATION BILL. A Favorable Report Agreed Upon in Committee. THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE BILL. Chairman Reagan Confident of
 It's Passage.
 EXPOSURE OF THE M0REY FORGERY. Another Item in the Chapter of
 Revelations.
EXPOSURE OF THE MOREY FORGERY.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Burnside BflI-A Favorable Report Agreed Upon in COmmittee-Reagan Hopeful of Ills Commerce Bilf-Ocean Mail Service in American Vessels-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10-The House Con- mittee on Education and Labor to-day decid- ed to report favorably on the Burnside edu- cation bill passed by the Senate before the holiday recess. No amendments will be off, fered, and an attempt will be made to pass the bill in the House under the suspension of the rules. The bill, it will be remembered, set aside the proceeds of the sales of public lands and the receipts of the Patent Office as fund upon which the government pays four per cent. interest. The interest will amount to about $6O, 900 annually, and this sum is to be expended for educational pur- poses in different States, according to the H. iteracy.
 MT. Reagan, at the meeting of the House Committee on Commerce this morning, said he was confident he could pass his inter State commerce bill this session.
 The Committee of Ways and Means will give hearing tomorrow to those interested in the Carlisle vinegar bill In 1879 an act was passed allowing the manufacture of viDe- gar by what was known as the alcoholic va porization process. Good vinegar does not need to contain above twenty per cent. of all cohol It has been ascertained that much of the so-called vinegar manufactured by this process contains eighty per cent. of alcohol and is sold as whiskey. The Carlisle bill pro- poses to put a government storekeeper in each vinegar factory where the alcoholic va- porization process is used, and if any vinegar is made containing over twenty per cent. of alcohol to tax it ninety cents per gallon, the rate of the tax on whiskey.
 On the 24th of last May Mir. Shelley re- ported bill from the Committee on Post offices and Post Roads to provide for an ocean mail service between the United States and the West Indies, South America, Central America, Mexico and the trans-Pacifc ports The bill was recommended to the Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads, and Mr. Shelley has since then altered and perfected it so that it retains but few of the original fea- lures. Heretofore in addition to feeling on the part of many members against grant ing subsidies in any form, there has been disposition to have nothing to do with bills which 1t was claimed were devised for the benefit of one individual or corporation. In the bill now proposed MT. Shelley has en- deavored to obviate every objection which could be made against it by men engaged in the carrying trade in every part of the coun- try. Realizing that there is but @ small chance in the brief remaining time of the session to pass the bill a separate meas ure, the Committee on Postofices and Post Roads has instructed MT. Shelley to offer his bill as an amendment to the post office appropriation bill. If the amendment is ruled out on point of order it will be of- fered in the Senate, where upon two different occasions amendments of a like character but narrowed in scope, had been adopted. The real import of MT. Shelley's bill was out lined in this resolution offered to-day, and which was for the time being ruled out of order. In conversation with reporter MT. Shelley said :i'If the proper interest in thebill is shown by those managing it in the Senate I am confident it will be agreed to, and am sure the House will pass it. I have endeav- ored to meet in my bill every objection which rival shipping interests could suggest The bill as originally prepared stipulated that mail should be carried in iron screw steam CTS. Men interested in sidewheel vessels came to me and said they should oppose the bill because I exclude vessels of the class owned by them. I at once struck from the bill everything relating to the mode of pro- pulsion. Next the owners of wooden steam CTS said they should fight the bill because they were not allowed to compete decided to say nothing of the material of which the ves- sel should be built, stipulating of course that they should be of first-class construction. I am anxious to see some measure passed which will tend to encourage American com merce and see no plan so feasible as the one I suggest"
 Bulletins issued to-day give the following information: Population of North Carolina, l, 400, 900, of which 867, ,467 are white and 532, 533 colored. The population of Louis jana is 94O, ,263, of which 455, ,O63 are white and 4S5, 200 colored- The population of Ala bsma is 1,262, ,344, of which 661, ,961 are white and 6OO,358 colored. The population of Arkansas is SOP, 564, of which 591, ,611 are white and 21O, ,953 are colored.
 The case of Cadet Midshipman w. B. Whit field against R. W. Thompson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, petition for mandamus to compel him to reinstate plaintiff in the rank he had on his first examination at Annapolis as distinguished to that given him after his two years sea service and subsequent exam ination, was dismissed in the Superior Court of the District to-day on application of the Attorney General. The ground was that MT. Thompson being now tI1actaLs o1Scso, suit could not be maintained against him.
 The following statement issued by the Con troller of the Currency shows the condition of the national banks in New York city at the close of business Friday, December 31, 1880: Net deposits S253, ,428 394 Reserve required. d..................... 63,357,09s
 Reserve held, viz:
 
 Legal tender notes s,s42,320
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