Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-15
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. | FEMALE SUFFRAGE. A Favorable Report From the Senate Committee. ITS ADOPTION NOT LIKELY A Chance For the House
 HumOrists. BLAINE IN PRIVATE LIFE, Not Anxious to Rum For
 Congress.
BLAINE IN PRIVATE LIFE
Not Anxious to Run FOF
 Congress.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

the Constitution will be adopted during the
 present session. Senators Lapham and Blair
 are pledged to bring the report up for action,
 and the measure is therefore not likely to die
 abortive. Though the Senate may not con- descend to adopt the report, it may be so
 amended as to make suffrage in some way
 conditional so that s. S. Cox, Proctor Knot and Horr of Michigan can have their long
 desired opportunity of making humorous must not be denied however, that there are many members earnestly in favor of woman
 suffrage, and that if It comes up the subject will receive fair treatment, though it's most 1 sanguine friends do not expect to carry their point.
 1 When Blaine's attention was called to-day
 to the report that he was going to return to
 the House he said: 'If had ever thought \ of doing half have been credited with con 1 templating might be expected to hope to ! live thousand years. You may say for me l that consider myself in private life, that hope to remain so, and that if I am a candi- ] date for Congress or any other office I have 1 not found it out.'
 l In the House yesterday Mir. Crapo, of Massachusetts, called up his bill to enable ! national banking associations to extend their ! corporate existence After the arguments l the bill went over. Mir. Crapo ia his speech ! did not claim that all of the provisions for l the management of national banks were per- feet. It would be an improvement, in his 1 judgment if the reserve which the banks were required to keep were restricted to coin l instead of lawful money. The possession of l $7O, 100000 greenbacks by the banks might, ! in time of general distrust and panic, lead to such demandi on the gold in the treasury as to seriously imperil specie payments. But he nevertheless asserted that the country had never possessed a system of banking which l in any manner compared with it in excellence | and safety.
 A member of the Cabinet is authority for l the statement that the President fayors the ! mitigation of Sergeant Mason's sentence to dismissal from the army alone, but that no l steps will be taken for his release until the 1 Guiteau case is finally disposed of. There is little doubt in official minds that the assassin will hang on June 30. The report that the court in banc are equally divided on the question of the motion for Q new trial is un- | authorized. It is not expected, however, l that the decision will be rendered to- morrow. | There is a questisn between the judges as to 1 certain points of the argument which neces
 sitated the looking up of an old law, hence
 the delay. The final result is thought sure | to be denial of new trial.
 The President will fill before June posi- ] tions at the head of the naval observatory, the head of the pay department, the entire \ tariff and Utah commissions and make ! changes in two important foreign missions. 1 George Haycock, William c. Burgner H. O.. Withers, A. G. Dunbar, J. H. Mcdaniel, Thomas Chestnut, F. w. Raymond, Alfred Carson, c. W. Cornell, J. s. Piper, W. B. Forrish and L. H. Decker, residents of Col l orado, Arkansas, Wyoming and Arizona, have appeared before the grand jury and given testimony as to the Star mail service in the West and the connection of ex-Senator S w. Dorsey, J. W. Dorsey, M. c. Rerdell, John R. Miner and J. M Peck herewith. dispatch received here states that Sena- tor Ben Hill of Georgia is able to sit up and is in better spirits than he has been for a l month. Still, his physicians do not give him any hope.
 Chief Justice Cartier and Judge MacArthur, Hagner and James, who heard the arguments in the case of Guiteau this week. were in con. sultation yesterday at the court house. The ! impression is that the decision will not be made on Monday. Guiteau is represented as in quite good health, but his visitors hav- ing been cut off he is feeling somewhat de-
 pressed in spirits. He says but little now, and does not refer to his case.
 It is learned from one calculated to know l that the expected developments in regard to the Mercy letter are not at all imminent. John l. Davenport, whose wanderings around Cumberland, Md, started the story, is known l to have told an intimate friend that his er- l rand thus far has proved fruitless.
 The House will probably take up the con tested election cases after the disposition of bill extending the charters of national banks. 1 There are three cases to be acted upon and 1t | is not improbable that others will be ready l by the time these are disposed of Those in question are the Mackey -Dibrell case In the Second South Carolina district; Bisbee-F Fin | ley in the Second Florida, and Lowe Wheeler | ln the Eighth Alabama. The case of Smith vs. Shelley in the Fourth Alabama was also to l have followed, but what course the matter will now take since the death of Smith is un- ! certain. It is held that if the facts show that 1 Shelley was not elected the Republicans will | declare the seat vacant and order new cleo l tion. By others it is held that as Shelley has
 of late been voting with the Republicans on party questions they will not be in a hurry
 to push the case against him, and that the committee may not make 8 report in the case 1 this session at least. This view of the case is i probably the correct one. It is expected | that the contested cases will consume most | of this and next week, even if the Democrats | do not flibuster. Whether or not they will ] do so is not yet determined. It will depend on how strong they consider the case when
 it comes to, vote on each. AS tomorrow is l suspension Monday ,the day will probably be l given up to the passage of bills for the erec-
 tion of public buildings, fixing dates for special orders etc. It is not impossible that the river and harbor bill may be taken up and passed tomorrow, though it may prob l ably go over to the next 'suspension'' Mon
 day. Mr. Harris will try to get date fixed for consideration of the bill granting $l0,- 1 GOO, GOO for a new navy, and the friends of the
 famous McGarrahan claim expect to attempt l to pass his bill.
 l The Senate has it's business well in hand. 1 the calendar being unusual for the sixth
 month of the session. Upwards of 45O bills
 have passed since the meeting in December. I The bill for the settlement of claims of cer- tain States from the proceeds of the sales of 1 public lands, known as the five per cent bill, 1 is now the special order. This will be fol 1 lowed by the Japanese indemnity bill or the l Geneva award bill. MT. Voorhees, is anxious 1 to get up the bill for new Congressional l library building, which is sadly needed. i Thousands of books are stored in hooks and
 recssses all over the capitol, wholly inaccessi- i ble to peruse.
 1 Among interesting reports by censuls dur | iug April are the following Six thousand | tons of American coal tar pitch are wanted at l Nantes for the manufacture of fuel brick l from coal dust The American timber trade l at Liverpool amounts in one year to more
 
 manufacturing timber. Three hundred and
 eighty thousand tons of wheat are received at
 Ant .erp from America yearly. United States
 four per cent. bonds are not attractive to
 Amsterdam capitalists in their present pros
 porous condition. Lively interest is taken in
 American railroad shares, however. Consul
 Mayence reports that the grain speculations of New York brokers turning European
 attention from the American markets to l Russia and Asia. Germany decides that cot
 ton coverings for hams be considered import
 ed cotton goods and therefore dutiable Two
 thou sand three hundred and fifty packages
 American tobacco manufactured were con-
 sumed at Malta last year, besides two thou
 sand hogsheads of tobacco through. great
 deal of American tobacco was also received at
 Amsterdam. The indications are that Ger
 man immigration from Wurtemberg will be a
 little less this year than last.
 | Sheriff Bidwell and Prosecuting Attorney | Watfc offar S0 0OO and tho citv dD1 O0O raward