The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-02
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.


CAPTAIN HovekTE is reported seriously III.
FrTz JonN PORTER is TO be restored to the
army ~ Colonel in the first vacancy.
IT IN said DIR. Bliss will receive 90, 900 for
his services during Garfeld's illness.
The Protestant churches Of Washington
have adopted anti-poligamy resolutions.
GUITEAU is receiving from t12 to s15 day
from the sales Of his autographs and photo
graphs.
plete bis revision Of the Ftpper court martial
case In few days and submit 1t to the Secrs-
tary Of War.
TMx House COMMITTEES ON Public Health has
agreed TO the Senate bill providing for the dis
tribution Of vaccine points through State and
municipal authorities.
WALrKR ID. DAvIDok and J. K. Porter, the
special government counsel in the pro .ecution
OF Guiteau, are still retained In the case. They
have each been paid o., 500 on account.
TIE House Committee oh War Claims viii
report favorably Mr.. Houk's bill for an appro-
priation OF $780, 200 to pay claims on account
Of General Lees invasion Of Pennsylvania.
TWELVE applications for appointment on the
United States Supreme bench and forty seven
applications for appointment on the Court of
Claims are now on nle in the Department of
Justice.
5KRoKArT MASON complains that he has been
confined in dark, dingy, rat infested cell ever
since September, when he shot ut Guiteau, and
be II indignant at the determinations shown in
favor Of the assassin.
SECRETARY FoLaER denies the report that
tho appointment Of John @. New, Of Indiana,
- Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury, 10 dis
tasteful TO him. On the contrary, he heartily
favored the appointment
CAPT. EADs is confident he will receive an
appropriation Of $50, ,00O, 900 to carry out his
scheme Eads Is . very ingenious lobbyist,
and the yea and nay vote on his scheme is
looked forward TO with interest.
TEE subcommittee Of the House Committee
on Naval Affairs recommend the immediate
construction of eleven vessels at estimated
cost of $4,000, 900. The feet to consist OF I'VE
cruisers, heavily armed, two rams and four tor
pedo boats.
RErREsEsrATIvE PIERCE, OF Indiana, has in
troduced bill providing that all soldiers and
sailors now receiving . pension Of e36 per
month shall hereafter receive tl8 per month,
and that they shall be paid the difference be-
tween e36 and $4S from the time the former
amount became law, February 2s, 1877.
DE- BnArros, of the Surgeon Generals
Office, states that the building now used for
the Army Medical Museum in Washington is
wholly inadequate for its present purpose, and
recommends that the proposed new building
shall be erected within easy communication Of
the new Congressional Library. The museum
contains the finest collection Of materials re-
lsting to surgery now in'existence.
TIE Postofice Department is making large
rsduc1lons in the cost Of carrying the mai,
and Ia letting the old Star Route lines at much
lower rates. The prices at which service can
now be obtained of themselves serve to convict
the Star Route people. Some 80 600 bids have
been received Tor the Star Route service west
Of the Mississippi. March is the date Of the
Iss.i1s ,. The q. greater eater part Of the rings work
was increased under Brady from &c, 600 to
e150,000. =,
COLONEL GKoRdE BLISS says 81 think can
safely say that you will see Brady, Dorsey, and
eight or ten other members OF the Star Route
Ring indicted by the Grand Jury before the 4th
Of March. am more confident that they will
be indicted than am that the bondsmen whom
Judge Smell, of the Police Court, has held for
the action Of the Grand Jury, viii be. think,
too, that Brady and Dorsey are more confident
Of their indictment than the bondsmen are Of
theirs. or course, no one can say what q
Grand Jury or o Petit Jury will do. No one
knows this better than the man who has for
years been prosecuting officer, but IL would
seem 10 bo absolutely certain that indictments
must follow the presentation Of such evidence
- has been submitted to the Grand Jury"
In ADDITION to being presented for indict.
mont for conspiracy in the Star Route caseF,
against the following: ]. r. Miner, for perjury
in connection with the route from Bismarck 70
IT. Keogh and the route from 81. Charles 70
Greehorn J. l.. Sanderson, for perjury in con-
nection with the route from Saquatch to Lake
City; John W. Dorsey, for perjury in connec-
ton with the route from Pueblo to Rasita and
the route from Trinidad to Madison City; M.
@. Reertell, for subornation Of perjury in con.
nection with the route from Rawlings 10 White
River John W. Peck, for perjury in connec-
uon with theroute from Kearney, Feb, to Kent,
and the route from Eugene City to Bridge