Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. .DORSRY'S PARTNER TELLS THE STORY OF HIS CONTRACTS. THE WORK ON THE TARIFF. Changes Made in the
 Two Houses.
  Mace and SIads Locked Up. Their Exhibition Prevent ed By the Police.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

| The Star R0utes-BOOne On The Witt
 ness Stand-ais Story of DOrsey's Com
 tracts-Changes Proposed By The Army | Bill.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The ninth week of 1 the Star route trial opened this morning with l A. E. Boone on the stand for cross examine I ton. He said he did not enter into partner
 ship with J. W. Dorsey, S.. W. Dorsey, Peck
 and Miner to defraud the government, and l did nothing while the contract existed to de- ing existed that members of the partnership
 should not bid against themselves. The
 witness denied that s. W. Dorsey ever made 1 out any bids. Continuing witness said neith- CT he or J. W. Dorsey had any arrangement with Brady for increase and expedition. Just before he withdrew from the partner ship General Brady was on the point of de- claring Peck and Dorsey failing contractors.
 As far as witness knew there was no con- spiracy to defraud the government. The
 witness was then subjected to a redirect ex-
 animation. After being on the stand two
 days Boone concluded this afternoon. w.
 H. Trider was called and testified as to the
 Mineral Park-Pioche route in Arizona, and
 the court then adjourned.
 General Francis A. Walker in a letter to
 the Secretary of the Interior to day says he assumes the direction of the uncompleted census work without expectation of remu- neration of any kind for his services.
 The Marquis of Lorne and party left on the o'clock train tonight for New York
 Among the decisions handed down in the Supreme court to-day were the following The miscegenation case of Tony Pace against the State of Alabama. Pace had been prose- cuted under an Alabama State law for living in sexual relations with white woman. The court in the decision rendered to-day holds that the law of Alabama prohibiting nisce- genation is not in conflict with the fourteenth amendment to the constitution or with the civil rights legislation founded on it for the reason that it applies the same punish ment to both offenders, the white and black, without discrimination. John Bust, plaintiff in error. against the Commonwealth of Ken lucky. The decision to day reverses the &C., tion of the court of appeals of Kentucky, which sustained lower State court in refus- ing to quash an indictment against the plain tiff for the murder of a white child The ground on which the indictment was asked to be quashed was because the grand jury which found it was selected by virtue of a State law from the white citizens of the coun- try exclusively in violation of the Fourteenth amendment.
 The Indian bureau is advised by telegraph that smallpox has broken out among the Winnebegoshish band of the Chippewa In dians in Minnesota, and several have died Bishop Whipple confirms Inspector Chap mans dispatch and suggests that physician be sent there immediately. Commissioner Price has telegraphed to Red Lake for phy- sicians and ordered virus also to be sent. Secretary Teller, in the matter of the law oII ,Hz kn T,a dians of Nebraska, decides that where an Indian woman marries vhiteman not adopt ed into the tribe and has children by him she is held as the head of the family and entitled to allotment.
 The Choctaw Indians of Indian Territory have filed claim in the Interior department for large sum of money which they claim is due them for land seld and which they allege they have never received
 The army appropriation bill, as reported to the Senate to day by MT. Logan, contains some important amendments. It provides for the employment of IF civilian clerks for the adiutant generals office. Another amendment makes savings bank out of the office of paymaster by providing that com missioned officers of any rank not above that 1 of captain may make deposits with any pay master not to exceed for any one year one 1 half of his annual salary, and on deposits of 1 not less than $50 shall draw three per cent
 
 the office of assistant surgeon general of the army. An amendment to the paragraph in the House bill prohibiting the appointment of paymasters provides that vacancies which | may occur hereafter in the pay corps of the 1 army by reason of death. resignation, dis | missal or retirement shall not be filled by any original appointment until the pay corps shall by such vacancies be reduced to forty paymasters.
 The demand for dimes and nickel pieces still increases. The Treasury department l that 168, ,o00 nickel pieces were coined at the Philadelphia mint last week.
 At the meeting of Treasury officials this l to arrange the subsequies of Col onel Irish tomorrow Justice Fields, the l first, second and third auditors, Second | Upton, Sixth Auditor Fla and 1 others were appointed pail bearers. An or l der has been issued closing the bureau of en- 1 graving and printing tomorrow and direct | ng that the building be draped in mourning l for thirty days The funeral will take place | at o'clock tomorrow and will be attended l by Secretary Folger.