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

EduaLnd 10 ray inspector HarKS, anu ap-
proves Parks suggestion that another
$4,000 be shipped, as exchange on Pana-
ma is 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
endeavoring to influence juror. These
are the men held by Judge Smell for hay-
ing attempted to corrupt VIM. K Brown,
one of the star route jurors, by the offer or
promise of $4,000.
The house foreign affairs committee to
day, after hearing the reading of a com
munication from the secretary of the treas
ury explanatory of the working of the
Hawaiian treaty, by a majority of votes
authorized Mr.. KassJn, of Iowa, to report
to the house in favor of retaining the
treaty, but in a 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
resolution prop osing an investigation
of the soldiers home at Hampton, Va.
Also a resolution inquiring of the secretary
or war what effort had been made to secure
the arrest and trial of Howgate.
l. 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 Parrott 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
mass of extrar e. us testimony.
Witness said after he left the stand here
in the last trial, Dorsey paid his account,
making a full settlement with him.
Ingersoll-I am glad of that.
Merrick-So 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 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 a day
or two. The Amsterdam exhibition was
| also under consideration.
THE NAVY APPROPRIATION BILL REPORTED
| The house recommends total appro-
priation of $15,2O9,1OO for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1884. The sum of
1898, 400 is appropriated for the pay of
the "active list" to be composed as fol-
lows: admiral, vice-admiral, II rear
admirals, 8 chiefs of bureaus, "a commo
dores. 48 captains, 80 commanders, 80
| lieutenant commanders, $50 lieu
| tenants, 100 masters, 100 ensigns, 81
midshipmen, IA medical directors, Is
medical inspectors, so surgeons, II assist
ant surgeons,2 assistant surgeons, not in line
of promotion, who shall after fifteen years
served, be entitled to receive as annual pay,
when at sea, $780,; when on duty $1,000;
and when on leave or waiting orders,
| $1,000; ID pay directors, II pay inspec-
tors, so paymasters, 30 passed
assistant paymasters, 10 assistant
paymasters, So chief engineers,
80 past assistant engineers,
60 assistant engineers, 60 cadet engineer
graduates, % .chaplains, IL professors of
mathematics, 10 naval constructors, 6 as
sistant naval constructors, 10 civil engi-
neers, 1876 warrant officers, 40 mates and
1856 naval cadets. On the subject of pro-
motions, the bill provides that no officer
shall, in time.o peace, be deemed or re-
ported fit to be promoted to the grade of
lieutenant unless he shall have seen
four years service at sea; no
lieutenant, unless he shall have
seen SIX years service at sea as lieu
tenant; no lieutenant commander unless
he shall have seen four years service at sea
as lieutenant commander; and no com
mander unless he shall have seen three
years service at sea in command of a
United States vessel or vessels; provided,
also, that when any commodore shall reach
the age of sixty years, any captain fifty-fve
years, any commander ffty-one years, any
lieutenant commander forty-seven years,
OR any lieutenant forty-fve years, he shall be
retired by the president from active serv-
ice, and shall go upon the retired list of
the navy as of the grade held by him at
the date of his retirement. The bill al so
provides that hereafter none of the vacan-
cies that occur in various grades of the
| line of the navy shall be filed by promo
tion until such grade be reduced below the
numbers fixed by the act of Aug. 5, 1882.
The bill appropriates $7O3,180 for the pay
of the retired list, and provides that here
after all promotions to the grade of
rear admiral on the active list shall be
made by selection from the grades of COM
modore and captain, and no more promo
tons to the grade of commodore shall be
made, that grade being hereby abolished.
/ Providing, however, that no commodore
now in the service shall be reduced in rank
or be deprived of his commission by rea-
son of this act The following is section