The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-01-21
NEWS ITEMS

telegram recently to Tenny, Flower & CRAFTY. at.
torneys, of Chicago, Ill, instructing them to COM
mence a libel suit in the United States Court at
once against the Chicago Herald Company and
Frank Palmer for publications on Thursday The
publication referred to said to be articles in
the Chicago Herald charging Mr. Scovile with fraud
IN connection with his going into bankruptcy some
! years since.
Representative Oscar Turner, of Kentucky has
introduced in the House joint resolution provid-
ing that Congress shall have no power to pass any
act or resolution for the appropriation of any money
or the creation of any debt exceeding the sum of
SiOOOO, at any one time unless the same, on it's
hnaI passage, shall be voted for by majority of all
the members then elected to each branch, and the
yeas and nays thereon entered on the Journal
Secretary Hunt telegraphed Lieutenant Danen-
hover and Engineer Melville of the Jeanette at
4akutsk, Siberia, not to leave the ground and to
assist the search Dy every means in their power.
Walker Blaine and Mr. Trescot were greeted with
an earthquake on the day they arrived in CaIlao
The Chilians are in a bad temper over the muddle
which the United States Ministers have brought
about. They seem at present very much deter
mined to have their own way in the settlement with
Peru and Bolivia. Territorial acquisition is their
object and it does not clearly appear in what man
ner they be prevented from doing as they please
in that respect.
A Tucson dispatch says: General Carr has been
placed under arrest by order of the President. The
cause has not been definitely ascertaned but IL is
account of certain facts brought out at the recent
trial of the Indian scouts"
During the entire season. of the Forty-sixth Con-
gress there about 1900 bills introduced in the
House. Thus far during the first session of the
Forty seventh Congress nearly 600 bills have been
presented, nearly 5000 of which are already in
print. The number of private bills introduced
during the present session is unprecedented.
Mr.. Belmont of New York offered resolution
tuesday requesting the President to com punieate
to the House all correspondence and ications
between the Government of the United States and
its diplomatic and other agents occurring since the
LIST of April, 1879, relating to the efforts of this
Government to bring about peace between Chilli,
Peru, and Bolivia, and such other correspondence
on that subject may be in the possession of the
Department of State.
General j. s. Negley, the president of the
National Union League of America, has called a
meeting of the national committee of the League
at the Ebbitt House in this city, Tuesday, the
9TH OF February, at noon. The meeting will be an
important one, and will be attended by distin-
guished men from all parts of the Union.
singular accident occurred Saturday morning
IN the Senate Committee room on Nicaragua Claims.
The large mirror, which is about four feet wide
by seven long that rested on the mantle fell
breaking the frame all to pieces; it also broke the
chandelier that hung in the centre of the room to
atoms and yet the glass itself not even cracked
The Superintendent of Foreign Mails has re-
ceived communication from the Peruvian postal
authorities, informing him that the Gillian forces
have seized the general post Office at Lima and
other subordinate offices. The Peruvian mails
from this country will hereafter, in compliance
with the wishes of the authorities be delivered at
Paxta, the only port now in the possession of the
Peruvians
Major Cathcart, who was one of the principal
mem bers of General Fremont's expedition which,
in 1858, made winter journey the plains to
California, is dead.
Secretary Kirkwood will be relieved about the
first of February by ex-senator Sargent of Cali
fornia. He will be offered the post as Minister
either to Germany or Austria, and will probably
accept one of the tNo places
Ex-Judge Mckenzie leading lawyer of Hamp-
ton, the man who sent General Sherman's signal
during the war" Hold.the fort, We are coming
died at his home January Is, after lingering i'll.
ness.
Colonel silas Casey, retired, father Of Colonel
Thomas j. Casey, U. S. A, is reported as lying at
the point of death at his residence In Brooklyn N.
Y. He commanded division at the battle OF Fair
Oaks, on the Peninsula, in 1862.
The new United States Senator from Iowa Mr.
James F. Wilson, will take rank among the ablest
men in that body. He was distinguished while in
Congress some years ago as among the readiest and
strongest debaters in the House.
Upon inspection of the roll of employees in the
office of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury
it is discovered that out of the fifteen or twenty
ladies' employed there is but one soldiers widow,
and she is from New York State