Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-17

reports the loss of $4,000 shipped to
Panama to PayssInspector Parks, and ap
proves Parks suggestion that another
$4,000 be shipped, as exchange on Pana-
ma is 3 per cent. The navy department ;
reports that this government lose nothing, {
as it is fully insured by the express COM
pany. /
The grand jury this morning reported
indictments against Thos. R. Foote and
Arthur Payne, both colored, for corruptly
s.deayoriEg to influence juror. These
ara the fpen held - Jud"e Smell for hav !
ing attempted to corrupt Wn, K, Brown,
one of the star route jurors, by The offer OF
promise of $4,000.
The house foreign affair committee to-
day, after hearing tie reading of com
munication FRONT. .4e secretary of the treas
ury explanator of the working of the
Hawaiian III saty, by majority of votes
autnorlz' ID Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa, to report
to 10 house in favor of retaining the
f.reaty, but in modified form. Messrs.
Blount and Belmont dissented from the
report of the majority. Mr.. Belmont
stated that the treasury department rather
than the treaty itself is now on trial owing |
to the admission free of duty of sugars not |
contemplated by the treaty.
The house military affairs committee
this morning agreed to report favorably
a resolution prop osing an investigation
of the soldiers home at Hampton, Va.
Also a resolution inquiring of the secretary
OF war what effort had been made to secure
the arrest and trial of Howgate.
Anthony Joseph Gross was examined in
the star route trial. The defense offered
| to prove by witness that the orders made
| by Grady in connection with the route from
Garland to Parrot city had been justified
by the rapid growth of the population of
that country and the building of the Den
yer & Rio Grande. After argument the
court rejected the offer, saying to every
one that railroads were often constructed
entirely through an unproductiAe country.
If the offer was accepted it would let in
a mass of extrar eous testimony.
| Witness said after he left the stand here
in the last trial, Dorsey paid his account,
making full settlement with him.
Ingersoll-I am glad of that.
| Merrick- am /.
Chandler then made an attack upon the
indictment.
The second comptroller of the treasury
made an adverse report on the claim OF
Paymaster Griffin, who was transferred
from the volunteer navy to the regular
navy in the next higher grade, and asked
to have his volunteer service counted in
computing his service and pay in the
next higher grade.
The cabinet session occupied three hours.
Most of the time was devoted to the civil
service bill. Some exception was taken to
the clause authorizing the civil service
commission to employ a chief examiner,
on the ground that such employment was
an invasion of the constitutional rights of
the president as regards executive appoint
ments, but the bill will be signed in day
or two The Amsterdam exhibition was
also under consideration.
THE NAVY APPROPRIATION BILL REPORTED
The house recommends a total appro-
priation of $15,2O9,1OO for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1884. The sum of
,, $3,939, 400 is appropriated for the pay OF
the ''active list" to be composed as fol
3 lows: admiral, vice admiral, IL rear
< admirals, chiefs of bureaus, "a commo'
. dores. 48 captains, 80. commanders, &c
{ lieutenant commanders. $50 lieu
tenants, 100 masters, 100 ensigns, 81
midshipmen, Ia medical directors, IL
medical inspectors, so surgeons, y assist
ant surgeons, 2 assistant surgeons mot in line
$ of promotion, who shall after fifteen year:
7 served, be entitled to receive as annual pay
e when at sea, $2,I00; when on duty $1,8O0
e and when on leave or waiting orders
D $1,000; IL pay directors, II pay inspec
, tors, so paymasters, 30 passed
assistant paymasters, 10 assistant
= paymasters, SO chief engineers
90
- 80 past assistant engineers
r 60 assistant engineers, 60 cadet enginee
|, graduates, % .chaplains, II professors o
It mathematics, 10 naval constructors, as
4 sistant naval constructors, 10 civil engi
neers, 195 warrant officers, 40 mates ant
:, 335 naval cadets. On the subject of pro
: motions, the bill provides that no office
= shall, in times peace, be deemed or re-
t ported fit to be promoted to the grade Of
7 lieutenant unless he shall have seel
:, four years service at sea; NJ
n lieutenant, unless he shall have
7 seen six years service at sea as lieu
tenant; no lieutenant commander unless
> he shall have seen four years service at Sc;
:. as lieutenant commander; and no com
L mander unless he shall have seen thre
D years service at sea in command of ;
= | United States vessel or vessels; provided
|. also, that when any commodore shall reaci
/ the age of sixty years, any captain ffty-tlv'
G years, any commander hfty-one years, an!
q lieutenant commander forty seyen years
: OR any lieutenant forty five years, he shall b'
retired by the president from active serv
ice, and shall GO upon the retired list Of
|. the navy as of the grade hell by him a
t the date of his retirement. The bill al sc
: provides that hereafter none of the vacan
1 cies that occur in various grades of th'
, Line of the navy shall be filled by promo
ton until such grade be reduced below the
numbers fixed by the act of Aug. 5, 1882
The bill appropriates $7O3,18 for the pay
of the retired list, and provides that here
I after all promotions to the grade of
t rear admiral on the active list shall b;
2 made 10y selection from the grades of com
znodore and captain, and no more promo
tions to the grade of commodore shall be
made, that grade being hereby abolished