Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-21
w WASHINGTO.x.
Arrest of D. putty Marshals in
North Carolina
About Bonds Deposited by Ma
ton Banks.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18-Marshal
Douglass, of the western district of
North Carolina, reports the arrest of
Deputy Marshals Haney and Kilpa-
trick, charged with presenting fraud
ulent accounts to the Treasury.
An official of the Second National
Bank of Peoria, Ill, recently pro-
posed to the Secretary of the
Treasury that personal securities be
accepted from the banks in the place
of called bonds as security for pub
lie deposits, as it would be q hard
ship to compel the banks to so into
the market and purchase bonds at
the rulisg high rates. Secretary
Folger declined personal securities,
but, as he had the legal power to do,
authorized the deposit of bonds at
the market rates instead of at their
face value, expressly reserving to the
Department the power to SO control
the amount of deposit as to keep the
government secure. This, he says,
he had the power to do without
reservation, but made expressly to
prevent misrepresentation. No gen
eral order on the subject, however,
has been issued.
Secretary Folger to~day decided
that the department will recognize
assignments of large denominations
of three per cent. bonds, made to
different persons, and will issue
bonds of small denominations in the
names of such persons; provided
that there be added to the assign,
ments of the bonds, the words:
waving all right by reason of priors
ity of issue of this bond"
The extradltion treaty between the
United States and Belgium has been
perfected by the exchange of the
ratifcations, to day, between the Bel
gian minister and the State Depart
nent. the treaty covers about every
class of crime above the grade of
such as are ordinarily disposed of in
police courts.
WASHINGTON, November 20-The
following telegram WAS received at
the railway mail service department:
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, November 20
&c. Freeman, Assistant Attorney
General: Get the Secretary of Wars
permission to USE the government
bhlldlng as hospital, the emergen-.
cy ls great.
FL. f. GRIscoM.
A telegram from Chattanooga to
hay to the railway mail service bu-
reau, which Ind Gated an urgent need
of hospital room, was made public
and caused some uneasiness in the
absence of an explanation. It soon
became known, however, that the
Secretary of War had received
telegram from Mayor Fl. Clay Evans
AID others, at Chattanooga, Tenn,
asking permission to occupying
portion of the barracks grounds
there temporarily, for smallpox pa
tients. In answer, the Secretary
telegraphed this afternoon to the
mayor of Chattanooga, saying that
he had been advised by the departs
ment commander that such action
would be an outrage on Mrs. Nc
Intyre, widow of Lieutenant McIn-
tyre, who is residing there, and also
upen the superintendent of the Nas
tional Cemetery and his employees,
and in view of these facts, he was
compelled to deny the request.
The ways and means committee
was called to meet to-day, but no
quorum was present at the hour
named, and no business was at
tempted. The work which may be
done by this committee is delayed
by the fact that the tariff commits.
sion is not yet ready to report, and
it was said after the meeting to-day
that there would be correspondence
between the committee and the tariff
commission. It it shall appear that
the commission will not have its re-
port ready before the meeting of
Congress then it is probable that
the committee will adjourn and not
undertake its work until December.
The principal matter before it is the
preparation of the revenue bill, and
not much can be done in this direc
tion until the report of the tariff
commission is made.
r. E. Latham has been designa-
Ged by the sureties of Postmaster
Statham, of Lynchburg, to take
charge of that postsoffice, and has
been authorized to act Temporarily by
Assistant Postmaster>Genera Hat>
tOu.
Judge Advocate General Swain
has submitted to the Secretary of
War AN opinion, in which he holds
tnat army officers are not liable to
trial by court-martial upon charge
of conduct unbecoming of an officer
and gentleman for failure to pay
debts, unless such debts were con-
tracted under circumstances which
would render the debtor amenable to
the criminal laws of the United
States or of the locality where such
Hthts aro oonfro ofod