Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-01
Capitol Notes.

CapltOl Notes.
The Senate District committee had no quorum
to-day, and therefore transacted no business.
BILL TO MAKE TEN PER CENT CERTIFICATES RECEIv-
ABLE FOR TAXES.
Mr. Ingalls, to-day intro 1uced in the Senate bill
directing the Commissioners to receive for all gen.
eral taxes the certificates commonly known as ten
per cent certificates, and instead Of cancelling
them to deposit them with the U. S. Treasurer as
sinking fund commissioner, who shall hold and
apply them for the payment or redemption OF the
eight per cent certificates.
GEN. FITZ JOHN PoRTER's CASE.
The bill reported yesterday from the Senate COM
mittee on military affairs for the relief of Fitz
John Porter authorizes his appointment to the
position Of colonel in the army, with the same
misSal from the army. He is to receive no pay,
however, for the period during which he was out
committee which accompanies the bin is mainly
confined to recital OF the proceedings In the case
and the action taken by the President and Con-
findings and sentence OF the military court. In
the minority report Gen. Logan goes over the
ground which ne mas frequently trayersed before,
by the board OF review, Gen. Porter was guilty OF
willful disobedence of orders; that the force
day of fatal inaction and delay was a small de-
tachment OF cavalry, and that the cloud OF dust
which Gen. Porter saw was raised by mule
drawing brush up and down the road, as the con-
federate General Stuart explains In his report
The minority protest against the passage OF the
BILL for the reason .it would stand hereafter as an
incentive to military dsobedience in the crises OF
armies, and as an assurance OF forgiveness and
emolument for the most dangerous crime soldier
can commit"
1NDIcrMENTs--The grand jury, this afternoon.
adjourned to the 18th inst: John a. Price alias
William H. Parks, larceny; Henry Jackson,
Joseph Coleman alias Joseph Mcintosh, larceny;
Charles 3; Carpenter, empezzlement, 1.-TWO cases.;
James E. Shea, deposting obscene matter In the
mails.
Arab Pacha is trying to secure the support OF
the Bedouins. and is circulating denunciatory
prOclamaJ1ons against the Khedive. The powers
Khed1ye.
meets at Augusta to-day, will nominate candi-
Robert Keith, commander Of a Grand Army post
Twamby, the captain of Troy military company,
because the former did not invite the latter to par
tSfP Ra IN Paraae on &c rat day IN
Ward-WeStbrOOk case, made to the New York as
sembly yesterday, exculpateS both Judge West
brook and Attorney General Ward 1t was
Dr. G. W. Campbell the most eminent physician
OF Montreal. Canada, died Tuesday In Edinburgh,
Rev sIoats Van santvoord. D. D., the Oldest
clergyman in the Dutch Reformed church in Amer
lea, died yesterday at New Baltimore, n. Y, aged
The American Tract Society held its annual
meeting in Boston yesterday and elected William
c. Chaplin president.
George r. Bliss, state senator Of Rhode Island,
has become insane, his malady asserting itself
while he was delivering memorial day Grafton
James Mooney, Of buffalo, president OF the Irish
Land League, has received cable dispatch from
Patrick Egan, at Paris He says: ssThe rumor OF
division Is an invention OF the enemy. Parnell,
Dillon, Davitt and myself are I'm thorough accord.
American friends can rely upon it that there viii
Renhen Iucas was shot nv order M the court of
Tahlequah, Indian Territory, at one O'Clock yes
terday, for the murder OF A. Mckinley last De
cember. Both Lucas and Mckinley were OF good
Choctaw families, between whom there was q
feud, and Lucas shot and killed the Latter.
How CHARLES SIxBERr KILLED HIS wrR-
Charles Siebert killed his wife, Louisa, yesterday
afternoon. In New York, prompted TO the act by
jealousy. Sieber came home from his work yes