Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-20
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. GARFIBLD'S SICKNESS. COMPENSATION FOR THE ATTENDING SURGEONS. Two Reports by ths Committee. A Generous Allowance by
 the Majority. Cannon Unseated in the House After a Vigorous Defense
 of POlygamy.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Garfield BilIs-TwO Reports From
 the Auditing Committee-A Reward Off,
 fered for FEovvgate's Arrest-Other Pass-
 ing Events of Interest.
 WASHINGTON, April 19.--The majority re- port of the committee to audit the expenses of Garfeld's illness submitted today, ap- propriates for the relief of Lucretia R. Gar field $5O,OOO, less any sum paid to the late President Garfield on account of his salary as President of the United States. It pays to Dr. Bliss 5000, to Drs. Agnew and HamiI- ton $15, 1000 each, to Dr. Reyburn SIC, ,OOO, to Dr.. Susan Edson $10,0OO, to William J. Crump $3,00O, to the Secretary of the Navy .$10,8 882, to William R. Speare (undertaker) $1, S35, to C.. N. Jones, of Elberon, $1, ,O92, and to various merchants and others sums varying from fifty cents to $1 ,OOO. It pro vides that when Surgeon General J. K. Barnes shall be retired from active service he shall be placed on the retired list with the rank and pay of Major General. It further provides that there shall be added to the medical corps of the army one surgeon, with the rank, pay and emoluments of Lieuten- ant Colonel, and authorizes the President to promote Joseph J. Woodward to that posi- tion.
 The minority report takes the ground that no evidence has been furnished to the con- mittee to establish the value of the services rendered by the surgeons, and that the commit tee therefore had no more information on the subject than the general public obtained from the newspapers that the surgeons showed no special skill in the treatment of the President, and that no payment should be made to them in excess of such sums as could be established in law against the estate of the President private citizen. The minority report proposes that the bill shall be recon- n,itted, with instructions to require the sur geons to prove the value of their services as they would In court, and that no more shall be allowed them than would be allowed in court The minority also object to the pro- posed promotion of Surgeons Barnes and Woodward, on the ground that the commit tee has no jurisdiction for promoting in the military establishment. The minority report is signed by Messrs Blackburn, Springer and Le Fevre.
 Circulars offering $500 reward for How gate have been sent far and wide. They contain good photograph and description. The officers of the signal corps depreciate the attempts to make it appear that Howgate had confederates in his peculation under the old system, which has been replaced by one which makes a repetition of bowgates guilt impossible without the connivance of at least three officers. There was no need for How gate to divide the responsibility and plumber. thorough investigation at the time of the discovery of the dedication showed that Howgate had no confederate. The state ment that ex- Chief Clerk Crosby or General Myer had anything to do with Howgate's crimes did not come from the signal office or from anyone connected officially. The act ing chief signal officer has returned to the War department, in answer to Crosby's re- quest for an investigation, that there is no evidence to connect Crosby or General My CT with Howgate.