Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
WASHINGTOE LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, MAR 80. 1882.

WASHINGTON, MAR 30. 1857.
Mr.. S. p. Rounds of Chicago was
yesterday nominated for Public Prin-
ter. There is no doubt about the
confirmation.
Wednesday in the Criminal Court,
Charles Leary was indicted and con-
victed of grand larceny, and will get
a good round sentence. John Skin
ington, who was one of the party and
turned states' evidence, explained
the secrets of the game to the Court
and jury, very much to the amuse-
ment of all present. He shuffled and
played the cards on the railing of
the witness stand, and showed fully
the trick by which so many flats"
have 10 their money by playing
cards with the ''innot ent guides"
He said that at the time of the ar
rest of Leary, there were about Al
confidence men in the city, all oper-
ating with each other. Their mode
was as follows: One of the party
was sent to each of the places of
public interest in the city, and 9TH
ers went to the Capitol to act as
guides. When they found strang-
er they would take him to any place
he wanted to go, and where they
would meet another of the party,
who would show the game, and af-
ter getting the stranger interested,
would induce him to bet, and after
getting his money, would leave him.
They have been carrying that kind
of business on for five years and &C
knowledged having made many
thousands of dollars out of it.
The secretary of the Interior has
submitted to Congress, an estimate
of the amount necessary to pay the
pensions of the survivors of the Mex
lean war. He thinks it will take
about 500 $3.50 900, and SOS, 201 900 to
pay the pensions of the Indian war.
In the House of Representatives,
the Chinese emigration bill passed
by vote of 1877 to IS, the bill pro-
vides a penalty against the master
OF any ship who brings chinee labor
ers to this country, for twenty years.
The bill will doubtless be approx
ed by the President within few
days and become law.
Representative Haskell has intro
duced in the House, bill to pay the
experts in attendance at the Guiteau
trial, $25. per day for the time they
were in Washington on that trial.
There were about twenty experts
summoned by the Government, the
attendance averaging sixty days, land
if this bill passes, it will increase the
expenses of the trial from $4,000 to
$4,000 more than the enormous
amount of money it has already cost
the Government. The experts had
their travelling expenses, board while
here, and ST. rs per day, intense fees
each). One of them was at the
head of some government or state
insane asylum, receiving large sal
airy, which salary was not decreased
or stopped while he was here, and it
seems to all just and fair minded PEG
pie that if they are honest men, they
will not ask or expect anything more
for their services, and that the bill
should not pass. An effort is also
being made to amend the bill so as
to include Guiteau's counsel, giving
him larger fee.
1t is probable that President Au-
thur has now got his Cabinet com
pleted to suit him, and that there
will be no more changes, after the
present are consummated, during
the remainder of his term. There
has been a good deal of questioning
among politicians and all classes of
people as to the reasons that existed,
or appeared to exist for the displace-
ment of Mr.. Kirkwood as Secretary
of the Interior. Nobody doubts the
right of the President to have Cab
met of his own choice, and the
changes made upon his accession to
office were expected and accepted
without question as to their propri-
ETY.. But Mr.. Klrkwood has remain
ed a member of the reconstructed
Cabinet for six months and during