The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-11
WASHINGTON NEWS.


tion of General Rufus ingalls, as Quarter
master General was accomplished without
serious opposition. Senator Beck made a
speech directed against the policy of ap-
pointment to officers to higher rank merely
to retire them. It. is believed General
ingalls, will at snce make new assignments
of chief quartermasters of the great mill
tary divisions.
1t is stated positively tonight that SEN
ator Edmunds still has the Associate
Judgeship of the Supreme Court at his
command. The President has requested
him to reconsider his refusal, and there is
some prospects that he will finally accept.
The Post to merrow will contain several
replies to the attacks made upon the mem
ory of the late President by recent publica-
tions.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs,
charged with the investigation of the
Chill Peru correspondence, with a view Of
fixing the responsibility for the abstraction
of certain state papers from the files of the
State Department and also to determine
whether any diplomatic representatives of
the United States haveinvolved themselves
in certain schemes the success of which
depended upon the intervention of the
United States, consists of Representatives
Williams, (Wis.) Chairman, Orth, Qnd.),
Kasson, Qowa), Rice. (Mass.), Dunnel1,
(Minn.), Lord, (Mich.), Walker, (Pa.),
Blount, (Ga.), Wilson, CIV. Va.,) Deuster,
wis J, and Belmont, IN. Y. The investi
cation is public.
Francis o. st. Claire Chief of the Con
sular Bureau of the State Department, tes
titled that he would recognize the right of
the chief clerk or secretary to withdraw
any papers from his custody, but no other
persons. Some time after the witness was
made chief Of the bureau a call was made
for certain letters of the Shipherd cores
pondence. He made search for certain let
ters endorsed in his hand writing, and ask
ed Walker Blaine if the Secretary had it.
He said he did not know, but would see if
il was ct his house and after this he heard
no more about it. He was under the inn
preston that either Trescott or Secretary
Blaine called for letter. In August the
discovery was made that several letters
were missing He failed to find any OF
them. He never said anything to the Sec
retary on the subject and never heard any
thing further on the subject from Walker
Blaine. Trescott frequently called for the
papers and we used to let him have them
without an order from the Secretary. He
did not believe that they have been alb
stracted from the department to be sup
pressed or destroyed. It is not an unusual
thing for papers to be lost for months and
subsequently, found in the department In
other words, they are misplaced for the
time being The examination of Shipherd
is expected tomorrow.
1t is understood that the subcommittee of
the House Committee of Ways and Means
have virtually agreed upon the bill reduc-
ing the internal revenue tax on whisky and
tobacco, and removing the tax entirely
from u number of articles embraced in the
schedule. The total amount of reduction
in internal revenue to be effected by the
bill is estimated at about seventy million
dollars.
The President has authorized United
States troops to aid the Governor in sup
pressing disturbances at Omaha. Orders
have been sent to General Sheridan.
Secretary Folger contemplates issuing q
circular Tuesday, calling for bonds of the
denomination of continued SKIES to the
amount of So, 100000, payable in three
parts of about $5,O00,000 each, on the
third, tenth and seventeenth of May.
Argument took place to day in the SUI
preme court to enable the heirs OF General
Lee to recover from the government the
Arlington estate.