The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-02
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

CAPTAIN HoweArE II reported seriously III.
FITz JOHN PoRTER u TO be restored to the
army as Colonel In the first vacancy.
IT n said DR.. Bliss will receive Slo, 600 for
his services during Garfeld's illness.
THE Protestant churches OF Washington
have adopted anti-poligamy resolutions.
GUIrEAU is receiving from $12 to $15 day
graphs. gssEBsz auqfgfIr1rs ,s&u917isi Z
JuDaE ADyocKrE GENERAL SwAi,x win COM
plete his revision,of the Flipper court martial
case IN few days and submit it to the Score
tary Of War.
.THE House Committee ON Public Health has
agreed to the Senate bill providing for the dis
tribution of vaccine points through State and
municipal authorities. 5s9.l $50 G.01E 80
WALFER d. DAyIpaE and J. 4. Porter, the
Special government counsel in the pro .ecution
Of G1iteau, are still retained in the case. They
have each been paid %, 500 on account.
TEE House Committee on War Claims win
report fayQrablE Mr.. Honk's bin for an arpro-
: -priation OF $500, 200 TO pay claims On account
OF General Lees invasion Of Pennsylvania.
TWELVE applications for appointment on the
United States Supreme bench and forty-seye
applications for appointment on the Court of
Claims are now on file in the Department Of
Justice. ----L-----------
SEReEAEr MAsoz complains that be has been
confined In dark, dingy, rat infested cell ever
since September, when he shot at Guiteau, and
he is indignant at the Determinations shown in
favor Of the assassin.
SEoRErABr FoLaERs denies the report that
the appointments Of John @. New, of Indiana,
as Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury, is dis
tasteful to him. On the contrary, he heartily
favored the appointment.
CAPT. EADs is confident he viii receive an
appropriation Of &50, 900, 900 to carry out his
scheme Eads is very ingenious Lobbyist,
ana the yea and nay vote on his scheme is
looked forward to with interest.
TIE subcommittee Of the House COMMITTEES
on Naval Affairs recommend the immediate
construction of eleven vessels at an estimated
cost Of $500, 900. The fleet to consist Of five
crulsers, heavily armed, two rams and four tor
pedo boats. s5si stF
REPREsENrAT1vE PIERcE, OF Indiana, has in
troduced bill providing that all soldiers and
sailors now receiving pension Of $36 per
month shall hereafter receive $lS per month,
and that they shallbe paid the difference be-
tween $36 and $48 from the time the former
amount became 3 law, February %, 1877.
Dr. BnLNes, Of the Surgeon Generals
ONCE, 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-
lating to surgery now in existence.
LIZ fOstomce department lB making large
roducslons In the cost of carrying the mail,
and Is 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 $4,000 bids have
been received for the Star Route service west
Of the Mississippi. March is the date Of the
letting. The greater part of the rings work
was done on 200 routes. On one route the pay
was increased under Brady from 90, 600 to
e160,0o0
COLONEL GEORGE BLISS says az 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 tie 4th
of March. am more confident that they will
. be indicted than am that the bondsmen whom
Judge Smell OF the Police Court hiss held for
the action of the Grand jury, viii be. I think,
too, that Brady and Dorsey are more confident
of their ildietment than the bondsmen are Of
fheifB 0f course no one can say what .
Grand jury or q Petit Jury will do. No one
knows this better than the man who has for
years been prosecuting officer, but it would
seem TO be absolntely certain that indictments
must follow the presentation Of such evidence
as has been submitted to the Grand Jury"
In ADDITION to being presented for indict-
ment for conspiracy in the Star Route cases,
additional presentments have been brought in
against the following |: ]. r. Miner, for perjury
in connection with the route from Bismarck to
Ft. Keogh and the route from 81. Charles to
Greehorn ]. L. Sands<son, for perjury in con-
City John W. Dorsey, for perjury in connec-
ton with the route from Pueblo to Rasita and
the route from Trinidad to Madison City; NJ.
O. Reertell, for subornation Of perjury in con-
nection with the route from Rawlings to White
River; John W. Peck, for perjury in connee-
ticn with theroute from Kearney, Feb, to Kent,
and the route from Eugene City to Bridge