Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-17
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
THERE are 1873 new advertisements in to-day's
STAR-the largest number ever printed in q sim
gle day.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue, $418, 45l.0 90; customs S789, 772.l3.
DURING THE WEEK ended to-day there were
received at the Treasury for redemption, 81 1885, :
GOO in national bank notes, AS against $S79, 900
for the corresponding week Of last year.
Both HOUSES OF CONGRESS adjourned yes
terday until Monday. In the House of Repre-
sentatives the call of states was not concluded.
but the thirteen states called during the day
contributed S67 new bills to congressional liter
ature.
Ex-CusTODIAN PITNEY READY TO UNLOAD
It is understood at the Treasury that when Mr..
P1tney, ex-custodian of the Treasury depart
| ment. is put on the stand in the present investi-
gation oy the Senate committee, that there will
! De some inside developments. Mr.. Pitney has
persistently refused to talk Of the matter for
publication since he was removed, but has been
understood all along to be willing to tell all he
knew, under congressional investigation
| When the Meline committee was at work taking
its testimony, Mr. Pitney refused to testify un-
der oath before it.
THE TALK is that Gen. Beale is likelier to get
into the Cabinet than Mr.. Chaffee
/ NAVAL ORDERs-Commander E. NJ Shepard
to command the Enterprise, 10th of January
next. Lieut. d. G. McRitchie to command the
iron-clad MOntauk relieving Lieut. Commander
| u. M. Book, who is ordered as ex xecutive of the
Enterprise January 10th next. Lieut.. f. H.:
| Gheen. from the League Island navy yard. and
| ordered to the Tennessee BOatswain H. P.
Grace to the Minnesota; Sailmaker John Mar
| tin, to the Minnesota.
| internal REVENUE APPONTaENTs.-G. W.
Middleton and w. B. Riggs have been ap-
| pointed internal revenue gaugers for the 5th
district of New York and the 9th district of
kentucky. respectively; j. r. Spiers has been
| appointed store keeper and gauger of the 7th
district of Kentucky, and H. P. Mum, w. E..
kilgore, gaugers for the Cd district of Ken
tucky.
WHITE House CALLERS TO-DAY. TO day
was, in some measure, day of rest for the
President He does not receive generally at
| all on Saturdays and shuts down early even on
congressional visitors There We're no crowds
up stairs. Down stairs there were only few
| waiting to be shown through the pubic part of
| the house in sections The private secretary s
room. where Mr.. Brown still presdes, there
were not more than half dozen people. Gen.
| Sharp called. Among the members of Congress
who saw the President were: Senators Frye,
Logan, Coke. Maxey, Ferry and Sayer, and
Representatives Pound, Burrows, Cullen Err
rett, Van Horn, Geddes. Richardson and Orth.
THE TREASURY now holds s., ,4S6. 600 in q. s..
bonds to secure national bank circulation. u.
S. bonds deposited on this account week ended
to-day Sl,3lo,6OO, and withdrawn S974 600.
MIR. BLAINE TO DELIVER THE GARFIELD EU-
| L0GY.-The joint Senate and House committee
| appointed to arrange for memorial ceremonies
| in honor of President Garfield have decided to
| invite Secretary Blaine to deliver the eulogy
before both branches of Congress. in the hall of
the House OF Representatives, on some day yet
| to be determined.
| SIGNAL SERVICE RECORDS IN COURT-The
| War department has Used an order announcing
a decision of the Supreme Court that the re-
cord kept by a person employed in the signal
service of the United States. whose duty it is to
record truly the facts therein stated. is COM
| petent evidence of such facts in court. The Or
! der also says that such records belong to the
War department, and cannot be produced with
out the authority OF the Secretary Of War.
| The AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION committee
adjourned yesterday afternoon to meet in New
| York, February Sd, without formulating any
definite plan for the establishment of a jursdic-
| tiOn that will relieve the Supreme Court. The
| time intervening until the next meeting will be
employed by the committee in consulting with
the jurists and lawyers of the country, and it is
believed that at the coming meeting some def
mite conclusion will be reached
PERsoNAL.-Col. H. H. Finley has been very
i'll in New Haven Connecticut but is recovering
NIr. Blaine and MIR. Christiancy.
cORpECpONDEHCE A tn ID
LATTER OF THE CALDERON GOVERNMENT.
Correspondence furnished for publication by
the State department shows that on the 14th
inst. Secretary Blaine wrote to Hon. Isaac p
Chrstancy saying: "YOu are quoted in diff
ferent newspapers as asserting that my official
dispatch to you Of May 9th did not contain the
first paragraph as recently printed" Mr. Chris
tiancy replied next day. stating that he had said
to all who interviewed him that he remembered
well all that part OF the letter containing the in
structions, though he had no recOliections of
adding: 81 was asked by two at least of my
interviewers and think by all, If meant to arl-
thOrize the statement that the first paragraph as
printed was not in the original letter. and / ex-
pressly declared that / did not, and expressly
forbade any such statement" He says in a
postscript tnat he has examined the record and
has no doubt that it contained the first para
graph as printed, though, as was natural, had
rest of the letter, 1t called for no action and no
special attention"
Secretary Blaine states that Mr.. Christiancy
never had an instruction to recognize the Cal
derOn government except on certain conditions.
the fulflment of which by Peru was left to be
determined by Mr.. Christiancy. The letter in
which Mr. Christiancy recognized the Calderon
government shows that in his own Judgment,
according to the conditions prescribed, the time
had arrived for formal recognition.
The Contingent Fund Investigation.
The subcommittee of investigation into con-
tingent fund expenditures met at noon to-day
in the room of the appropriations committee,
Senator Allison in the chair. Chief Clerk Power
and ex-Custodian Ptney were present In obedi- |
ence to subpRnas Mr.. Power was first exam |
ined. Before the committee met. STAR re- |
porter asked Senator Allison If he could remain |
In the room and report the proceedings. The |
Senator replied that the question OF admitting |
reporters had not been decided. "but." he |
added. 1--WE do everything above board here. |
We have nothing to hide under the bush |