Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-02
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. STILL IN THR DARK. The Tariff Conferees Una
 bIe to Report. EXCITING SCENE IN THE HOUSE. Efforts Made to Expel
 a Member. PRIZE FIGHTER ELLIOTT KILLED. Shot Dead by a Chicago
 Sport.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

RerdeII Winds Up-Hfs Wife on the Stand-The Tariff Conferees Still Una-
 ble to Report-The River and Harbor Bin Fassed-A Members Speech Raises Storm in the House.
 WASHINGTON, March In the Star route case to-day Rerdell was recalled and stated
 the contents of the letter written by Dorsey to Bosler. In it, it is stated, that the profits of the first year will be $54.OOo and it is hoped to increase them to $1O0,o0O. "T J. B. was charged with $2O,O00, and other parties with various sums. MT. Bliss of fered the letter for evidence. The defense objected and the court overruled the objec- tion. After asking few questions of MT. Rerden MT. Merrick announced that the gov ernment was through with the witness. The witness was then subjected to short cross- examination and after being on the stand for eleven days Rerdell was released. Mr. James W. Bosler of Carlisle, Penn, was then put on the stand and testified that he was unable to find certain letters seid by Mr. Rerdell to have been written him by Senator Dorsey. Mrs. Alice 0. Cushman and Mrs. M. c. Rerdell to going to MT. Rerdell's office while he was jailed and finding things in OOALooAOn" AAAOJ SOOA SOL40 pdPcIS hAA CesE- ried them home J. w. DonneI and P. E. Gibbs gave evidence as to Senator Dorsey's letter press book in Rerdell's possession. The court adjourned until tomorrow.
 The conference committee on the Senate tariff bill have been in session all the after noon and tonight At Il o'clock to night the committee was still in session and it is understood that no agreement was likely to be reached tonight.
 The committee remained in session until midnight and adjourned. Little information was given out as to the progress made. It is understood that no agreement was reached on the snags in the metal, woolen, sugar and cotton schedules.
 The monthly statement issued to-day from the Treasury department shows 8 re- duction of $7, ,63O, 673. 54 in the public debt during the month of February. The de- crease of the debt since June 30, 1882, is $1e2, ,636, ,346. .29. The total debt less cash in the treasury is $1, ,566, PFC, 114.43.
 The court of commissioners of Alabama claims to day announced the adoption of rule that all scrip dividends are to be de- ducted from the amounts claimed for war premiums at the market value of those divi- dends at the date of their issue. Arguments were heard in the case of the ship Milan, captured of New Orleans by the alleged Confederate cruiser Calhoun.
 The Legislature of Arizona has laid before both branches of Congress copies of me- morial recently adopted, asking that com- missioner or board of commissioners be ap- pointed to investigate an outrage perpetrated upon white settlers in that territory January 1st, 1882. The memorial states that Roswell G. Wheeler, an Indian agent for the Pincas and Maricopas, on that date accompanied by an armed force of Papagas visited the farms of settlers who had settled upon lands the Papagas claimed as part of their reserve oya1 ~u;k o,s,r former notification, drove them from their homes, burned and razed their houses to the ground and drove their herds to the hill, where they were indiscrimiRately slaughtered by his Indian allies; that the citizens thus driven from their homes were of the most peaceable and law abiding of the territory that this act of Indian Agent Wheeler in de- stroying their property was uncalled for and grossly wanton. and the settlers have been unable to obtain redress in the courts of the territory, the judges claiming that they have no jurisdiction in the premises.