Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-20
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. STILL ANOTHER CHANGE. Shipherd Again Invited Be- fore the Committee. LOUD RUMORS OF A DUEL. A Kentucky Bourbon Thirsting for Gore. THE CHARTERS OF NATIONAL BANKS. l CrapO's Bill Passed by the
 House.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Another Chance for Shipherd-Ke entucky Men Thirsting for Gore--ConSressman Bla ac k b urn Breathing Vengeance Against Senator Williams - President 1 Arthur at the Races-Other Items of News from the Capital.
 WASHINGTON, May 19.-The Foreign Af- l fairs committee to- day passed resolution notifying Mir. Shipherd that he will be per ! mitted to submit to the committee any origi- nal papers which he alleges to be pertinent to the inquiry without reserve as to any part of their contents and if such papers be found pertinent the same will be received and wit ness will be further examined if there shall be occasion therefor.
 It is authoritatively stated that no member of the tariff commission has been agreed on in the Cabinet. In the make up of the con- mis ion 1t will depend on one name upon another insomuch that none can be announc- ed until all are selected.
 The President signed the fortidcation and agricultural appropriation bills to-day. President Arthur and several members of the Cabinet attended the races yesterday and to-day and will go again to morrow.
 The convention of civil engineers closed to-day by a call on President Arthur in a body, and the members afterwards inspecting various places of interest The convention meets next year at Minneapolis, Minn. The members left for home to night.
 Rumor has been rife that duel was to take place between Senator Williams and Representative Blackburn, of Kentucky, but nothing has been done about it. The cir cumstances Of the case are these MT.
 Blackburn succeeded in passing through the House bill to erect a public building at Frankfort, Ky. Senator Williams had intro duced similar bill in the Senate. Senator Williams, it appears, is in State politics op posed to Mir. Blackburn. MT. Williams wrote letter to Lysander Hoard, at Frank fort, who is candidate for Congress against Mir. Blackburn, in which he said that MT. Blackburn improperly claimed too much credit for the passage of this bill. A copy of the letter was sent to MT. Blackburn, who became indignant, and sent a letter to Mir. Williams, asking if that letter was in fact written by him. MT. Williams replied that he knew of no legal or moral reason why he should answer Mir. Blackburn as to his private corre spondence. MT. Blackburn, growing more indignant, wrote to Mir. Williams that, assum- ing that he did write the letter, he (Williams) had Intentionally misrepresented MT. Black
 burn with the intent of 1njuring him among his constituents It is said that Senator Butler, of South Carolina, was called in to consult on behalf of Mir. Williams, and Wade Hampton and MT. Carlisle on behalf of MT. Blackburn. The result of this was request from Mir. Williams for a return of the correspondence. There the
 matter rests It is expected that 1t will end with some new correspondence that will be published Senator Williams is known as ''Cerro Gordo' Williams on account of his
 participation in the Mexican war. He is
 sixty-two years of age, and it is scarcely to
 be expected that he desires to fight duel.
 Mir. Blackburn is a young man who will
 shrink from responsibilities as they are
 understood by southern men.
 The Senate Republicans held caucus this
 morning to make committee assignments
 made necessary by the retirement of MT.
 Teller from the Senate. It was decided to
 appoint Mir. Mitchell chairman of the Missis-
 sippi River Improvement committee, to give
 MT. Hoar place on the Judiciary committee
 and to send MT. Windom to the Committee
 on Railroads, and Mir. Lapham to the Con-
 mittee on Patents, in place of Mir. Windom.
 The caucus briefly considered the question of
 admitting Dakota as State but came to no
 conclusion Probably another caucus will
 be held next week. There was disposition
 to insist that the party shall decide to attempt
 to force the bill through at this session.
 Advices received by the National Board of
 Health from Havana, Cuba, say that there
 were nineteen deaths from yellow fever in
 that city during the week ending May 12. Of
 these, eleven were citizens, and eight were
 persons in the military hospital. The disease
 is increasing, and there are probably not less
 weather is hot and favorable to the increase