Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-02-21
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
SHERMAN EXONBRATBD.
GUILTLESS OF IRREGULARI-
TIES in OFFICE.
Custodian Pitney Held to Blame
With Others That Have
Been Dismissed.
The Nominating GOssips at Work.
RumOrs of a Combination
by Blaine.
The Nominating Gossips at Work.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Treasury Contingent Fund-A Re-
port Exonerating ex-Secretary sherman
The Censure Falls ex-CustodiaR
Pitney-The Presidential Bee Buzzing
Other Matters
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The Senate COM
mittoe will submit report on contingent ex-
penses of the Treasury during the week.
There will de no minority report. 1t will ex-
onerate Senator Sherman, ex- Secretary. It will
also exonerate Major P power, chief clerk of the
Treasury department, of the charges which
have been made against him. The censure
of the report will fall upon ex-Custodian Pit
ney and those around him, most of whom
have been removed by Secretary Folger, who
bases his action upon the testimony taken
| before the committee.
In regard to the rumor that there was to
be Blaine Voorh ees- Morgan combination
for 1884 Mr.. Blaine said to-day: II wonder
who told of it, Senator Voorhees,, who &C.
cording to the publication is designed as the
candidate for second place on the ticket with
Blaine in 1884, said the story was too ridicu-
| lous to merit any sort of notice and he did
| not propose to even deny it. Senator Morgan
| also spoke of the matter as absurd and said
he had only seen Blaine twice in the last six
or eight weeks and on those occasions but
| for few moments 9nd then there was no
reference to politics in their conversation.
| He said he believed in straight Democratic
! tickets upon genuine Democratic platform,
| that he was opposed to all sorts of political
coalitions and compromises He would like
to see the Democratic party relieved of Tam
1 Iya&Sr
| and have it nominate in 1884 tried and true
| Democrats like Thurman, Hendricks or some
one of that class upon straight out Demo
| cratic platform.
| 1t is expected that indictments against the
| Star reuters will be made out by tomorrow
| or next day. Until this is done none of the
parties interested will talk on the subject.
| The grand jury are said to have been unani-
nous on making the presentpents All that
the District attorney has to say is "that this
action vindicates the judicial machinery OF
| the District against which so many ISLANDERS
have been uttered"
| Secretary Hunt to-day received a letter
| from Mr.. Hoffman at St., Petersburg, &C
knowIedging the receipt of his dispatches il
| reference to the measures to be taken for the
| relief of the survivors of the Jeanette
and for the continuance of the search
for the others, and giving more
in detail the particulars heretofore received
by telegraph in reference to the csnd
| ton of Lieutenant Danenhower and his par
ty at Irkutsk, from which it appears that the
reason why Engineer Melville was placed il
command of the party was because of the
physical incapacity of Lieutenant Danenhow
or to perform the duties of the Office, as, il
addition to having lost his eye sight, his terri
BILE affections had caused temporary aber
ration of mind. 1t is now believed that Dan
enhower has fully recovered his reason ant
that his general health, as we'll as that of tn
other members of his party, is being gradu
ally restored.