The examiner., 1882-04-01
From Washington.

THE commissioner of pensions's present fore consists of 742 men, whose salaries amount to 1885, 900 per annum. In order to clear away the pending claims within three years the commissioner estimates that he must have for the next f-cal year 1,159 men and salary list of s1, 1,957, ,000.
 AT cabinet meeting the court martial case O. the colored cadet J. c. Whitaker was taken up and disposed of by disappearing the sen tance of dismissal from the service imposed by the court, on the ground of irregularities in the taking of evidence during the trial. At the same time it was determined to dismiss Whitaker from tho Military academy under the provisions of section 1925 of the revised statutes, relating to the discharge of cadets sound deficient in their studies. Orders to that effect were accordingly issued by the secretary of war. ---= . tzt
 REPUBLICAN Congressional campaign com nlittee has been chosen.
 JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL SWAIN made a re- port to tho secretary of war upon the case of Sergeant Mason, in which, it is understood, he recommended modification of Mason's sen- tencc The ground upon which he based this commendation is that Guiteau was not in po- si.ion where he could possibly have been killed by Mason, and that under such circumstances the charge of assault with intent to kill cannot be sustained.
 THE anti-polygamy bill has been signed b, tho President. ...... -.-- ..s-..e q.
 FURTHER nominations by the President John H. Smith, of North Carolina, to be min. ister-resident and consul general Of the United States to Liberia. Robert s. Chiffon, of the District Of Columbia to be United States con sul at Fort Erie James Low, of New York, te be consul at Clifton Emery P. Beauchamp, o Indiana, to be consul at St. Gall; James w. Wilson, ot Missouri, to be consul at Three Rivers, Quebec.
 THE secretary of the navy has received word that Rear Admiral Jas. H. Spotts United States navy, died at Stanley, Faulb1and Islands, oi apoplexy, and was buried there. He was i command of the South Atlantic station.
 REAR ADMIRAL GUsTAvUs H. ScoTr (retired) died the other night at his residence in Wash ington.
 THE secretary of war ordered that 25O 900 rations be purchased in New Orleans for the use of the destitute people of Mississippi, and that 100000 rations be issued to General Man gum, commissioner of the State of Arkansas, at Helena. Reports from the inundated districts show 8 subsidence of the floods, but confirm the stories told of the destitution which pre- vails among thousands of people. . .. AMONG the pension bills passed the other day in tl e House was one for the aged mother o Jennie Wade, killed on the field of battle al Gettysburg. She had gone to the field to take care of her betrothed, young sergeant who was fatally wounded, and also to assist in the care of other unfortunates, and was shot while baking bread for soldiers during the progress of the battle.
 THE President nominated Sterling P. Rounds, of Illinois, to be public printer, or head of the government printing office.
 REPRESENTATIVE J. A. HUBBELI has been reelected chairman of the Republican con- gressional committee.
 IN response to House resolution calling for an estimate of the amount of money that would re required to pay the pensions of the survivors of the Mexican and Indian wars prior to I846, the secretary of the interior has sent a con- munication to Congress in which he estimates t., at $65,380 4S0 will be required to pay the Mexican war pensions, and s28, POI, ,632 to pay tire pensions of the Indian wars, or an aggre- gate Of s93, ,582. .112. ~