Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-15
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. HOWCATE'sFL-ICHT. Gone with No Traces Left
 Behind.
 A Possible Trip to Europe. Little Stock in the Collision
 Theory. LAND LEAGUERSAS AVENGERS. 1 Their Visit to the Assassin
 Guiteau.
LAND LEAGUERs AVENGERS
Theias Visit to the Assassin
 Guiteau.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Flight of Captain Howgate-No Clue
 to the Fugitive's Whereabouts-No Fur
 ther Steps in Porter's Case-Other Items
 of Interest.
 WASHINGTON, April 1.-The detectives fail to find any clue to Howgate's where abouts. It is now thought he escaped down the Potomac during the night and has gone to Europe. The idea of collusion with gov- ernment officials is not fostered much It is thought the utter hopelessness of his case prompted his flight.
 There is considerable comment on Speaker Keifer's removing Stenograpker Devine of the House reporters. Tyson, his successor, is said to be incompetent and only given the place to please Robeson whose secretary he formerly was. In this case, as in that of Hayes two weeks ago, the Speaker assigned no cause for the removal.
 It is understood to have been decided by the Cabinet to-day that the President will take no further steps in the Fitz John Por- ter case.
 His brother has received letter from Danenhower dated Irkutsk, February 19, which says he hopes to save his left eye and would not have 1t removed until he reached Paris and had it examined He will reach St. Petersburg May 1st His health is excel lent and he is in good spirits
 The formal meeting of the National Re publican committee called for tomorrow will be held at Il 8. m. in the room of the Senate Committee on Rules.
 The House Committee on Elections has adopted the report of the sub. committee seating Bisbee in place of Finley Tn the Sec ond Florida district.
 Messrs Taylor and Dwight made minor ity report on the Hennepin canal It doubts the right of the government to construct works lying wholly in one State, and holds that it is the policy of the government to inn prove natural water ways and not make new ones, questions the policy of the government to enter into competition with private enter prise and saws the canal if built would not fulfill the purposes of it's construction and would ultimately cost twenty million dollars.
 A serenade was rendered MT. Chandler the new Secretary of the Navy, at Wlllard's to- night.
 William J. Florence. the actor, who has ridiculed politics on the stage for so many years, is really coming here on an office seek ing errand, and it is generally thought that he will be given some pleasant consulate Mir. Florence has been inclined to give up the stage for diplomacy fer some time, partly at least in view of his wife's impaired health.
 MT. Willis, of Kentucky, presented the minority report on the anti Chinese bill in the House today, and it was referred to the House calendar. The report states that the minority members had desired to report 8 bill fixing the term of suspension at fifteen years, and restoring the penalty clause, but that in view of the statement that Mir. Page Republican, of California, would on Monday endeavor to pass his bill under suspension of the rules, they had determined not to re- port fifteen year bill, but to vote for Mir. Page's motion. They filed the report, how ever, for the purpose of formally stating their preference for a fifteen year suspension. They base their argument in support of that proposition upon the popular demand of the people of the Pacific Coast, as asserted at public meetings, and on the fact that to that people suspension of even twenty years was not acceptable Mir. J. F. Swift, the only member of the commission who repre- sented the anti Chinese sentiment, had de- clared that the ten years suspension was worse than nothing, and that it would not re- store to it's normal condition the industrial and business interests of California or come up to the expectation of the people of that section. The report then proceeds to argue, that the government of the United States was given by the treaty absolute discretion as to determining the time and manner of such suspension.