Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-20
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| Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The suLdry civil
bill contains the following items: For
| fishery exhibition, an appropriation i'm
mediately available of $500; court house
| and postoffice approaches at Topeka,
$4,000; postofice at Council Bluffs, $780,
600; court house and postoffice at Denver,
| $37, 500; court house and postoffice at Des
Moines, $4,000; court house and post
Office at Leavenworth. $45,O00; postoffice
at Minneapolis, $4,000; completion of
construction of lighthouse and fog signals
at the mouth of Detroit river, $20,000;
for construction of steamship for sur
veying the Pacific coast, 100000.
An appropriation of 100000 is
made for the construction of
additional storage and vault room for sill
YER coin, to be Immediately available. The
secretary of the treasury is also empowered
to purchase additional real estate in San
Francisco for this purpose if he deems it
advisable. The bill provides also that in
case of an actual or threatened epidemic,
the president may use 100000 in aiding
state or local boards of health to prevent
or suppress the same. DR.. Ranch has not
been able to secure any more from the
committee. His only hope is from the
house in committee of the whole, or in the
senate.
MAHONE's BIG-HEAD.
Republican senators laugh ami
cably over the stories of Ma
homes demands, and say they
have not heard of them outside of some
newspapers. 1t is true that to organize
the senate the Republicans will have to
get the votes of Malone and Riddleberger
and Mr.. Malone is a practical politician
who does business on the guild pro quo
principle, and is not bashful about naming
his terms. But the senators will not give
away everything they have for the read
juster votes. Malone is said to demand
the election of Gorham as secretary and
Grady, of Lynchburg, as sergeant-a arms,
and place on the finance committee, to
boot. So high price will not be paid.
To give him the two places
indicated would be to give
him absolutely all the
patronage the senate has. Such bargain
as that will not be closed offhand.
There is reason to believe that one or two
Democrats would vote with the Republi-
cans for a president pro tenn. rather than
have Malone take possession of every
thing. Gorham is nearly out of g job.
He is not wanted in the National Repubh-
can Office any longer, and therefore he is
anxious to have the senate reorganized
next month, and Mr.. Malone would be glad
to accommodate him if he can. But if
Senator Davis withdraws from the chair
March 1, Mr.. Malone would have small
opportunity to help Mr.. Gorham.
HowGATE's ESCAPE.
That Capt. Howgate was aided to
escape by parties in this
city afraid of the exposure
which his trial would certainly make is
generally believed. The heavy purchase
of expensive furniture and luxurious trap
pings by Howgate at extortionate prices
pointed to number of city merchants,
who were no doubt partners in his guilty
practices as the ones most likely to desire
his absense. That Howgate's stealings
were known by Gen. Myer and others
in the signal Office cannot be said, but
that they suspected him is a well known
fact, as the following from an authentic
source will show:
seen. Myer was so wrapped up in the
development of a system of charts or
drawings of storm waves that he neglected
the executive duties of his Office,
and Howgate had full swing. At the end
of each month Howgate would come into
Gen. Myers Office, with bundle of
vouchers, and pretending to be in a great
dorsement.
''But," Gen. Myer would say, II have not
examined, captain"
"They are all right, general. This is
the last day of the week, and 1 must get
them approved in order to close up my
accounts"
Howgate would argue, and Gen. Myer
would take his pen and sign under the
pressure thus exerted. After one of
these scenes, Gen. Myer turned
to an officer who was aiding
him in his work on the charts, and YEARLY
said: ''This thing happens too often. That
man will get me into trouble yet, if l am
not more careful. 1 am beginning to sus-
pect him. The storm waves occupied his
mind so much, however, that nothing was
ever done to hinder the schemes of How
gate, and their exposure finally laid Gen.
Myer in his grave. Although reward has
been offered for Howgate's capture, none
of the law officers can succeed in finding
trace of him. Letters are known to have
been received from him by parties in his
confidence, and the substance of these has
been published, to the effect that he would
return when the time for his trial arrived.
The latest report as to his whereabouts
locates him in Florida.
ITEMS.
Ascandal regarding the president, pub
lished in few papers throughout the
country, is the subject of good deal of
discussion here, and is generally discred-
tied. The general expression is that the