Daily globe., 1883-08-10
Especial Telegram to the Globel

Especial Telegram to the Globel
r. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-The representa-
tlves of the chapter of Royal Arch Masons
OF the District of Columbia left this after
noon by way of the Chesapeake Ohio
railroad to attend the triennial convoca-
ton of the grand chapter of the United
States, which meets in Denver, COL. on
Monday next.
CHECK STAMPS.
From the number of inquiries which
daily flood the internal revenue bureau it
would seem that people generally do not
understand the manner in which payments
are to be made for check stamps held
when the law abolishing them went into
effect. There are several millions of
these stamps piled up in
the treasury department awaiting
cancellation, and upwards of fifty girls
are kept busy cancelling them. All claims
for rebate on account of these stamps
have to go through the regular course, and
about four months will pass before pay
ment is made for those received at the
internal revenue Office. Upon receipt of
package of checks they are first counted
and cancelled and the value fixed by the
revenue bureau. The claim is then for
warded to the fifth auditor, who. after
examination, passes it to the first comp
troller. When this officer has rendered his
decision the claim is sent to the warrant
division, where warrant for the amount
is made out. The warrant passes back to
the first comptroller for approval,
and subsequently to the treas
urer, who forwards check
to the internal revenue collector, by
whom it is transmitted to the claimant.
Scores of complaints are daily received
from check owners who are unfamiliar
with the red tape.
ARMS FOR CHINA.
The news of the movement of munitions
of war across the Pacific to China, has
caused great excitement among French
men residing in Washington and New
York. The French government has been
notified of the departure of the arms,
cartridges and tenting materials, and it is
understood in diplomatic circles that the
French men-of-war cruising in Chinese
waters, will be directed to intercept the
steamer, bringing the cargo, if. they can be
reached in time. 1t is possible that the
seizure, should any be attempted, may lead
to complications, but the diplomats of the
state department will be able to grapple
with the situation when the emergency
confronts them. The government,
said state department Off
cial tonight. is concerned in the
protection of the lives and property of its
citizens, but the seizure by France of guns
shipped by an American firm to China,
would give rise to a complex and possibly
troublesome question.
UNDOUBTEDLY SPY.
81 have not" said one of the leading
Irish revolutionists in the country, who
knows James McDermott, the alleged Irish
conspirator, Intimately in talk with cor
respondent, "the slightest doubt that Nc
Dermott is and has been long a spy and
an agent of the English government and
that his arrest is a trick. My acquaintance
with him dates back fourteen years. He
is constituencies soul, and has been sus-
pected for three or four years of being an
informer. Three years ago Mitchell Scan
Ian the old Fenian leader, notified the
Irish nationalists in New York, to be on
their guard against McDermott, as he was
treacherous man.
The fellow has been one of the Ioudest
mouthed praters in the country, and while
he was talking loudest he was trading
with the Irish to sell his country. He was
in France during the trial of four Brook
lyn Irishmen,who were given twenty years
in London four weeks ago for conspiracy.
The invincibles had reliable information
that he wished evidence to convict them.
Wheh McDermott visited Dublin about the
time of the trial, attempts were made to
kill him and he fled to America to escape
ASSASSINATION at the hands of the avengers.
About two weeks ago he was shot at while
in a drinking saloon in Chatham street,
New York, the bullet just grazing his head.
He was regarded with suspicion on every
hand, and on the 25th ult. he set sail
for England to escape the avengers. He
was followed by one of the invincibles
from Dublin, and it was one of these who
shot at him through saloon window on
Chatham street. If he had not fed from
New York he would certainly have been
killed. The British government arrested
him on his arrival at Liverpool to protect
him. 1t is possible the government may
put him on trial and convict him of con-
spiracy, but the proceeding will be farce.
If the government lacks evidence to con-
vict him he will furnish it himself. He is
compelled to resort to this measure to
protect himself, but he is too late. His
treason is already known to the invinci-
bles, and he is among the doomed. He
will be sent to join Carey sooner or later.
McDermott is a reckless, daring spirit,
who has forced himself to the front in va
rious church movements, and although
distrusted from the first Ihe would
not be run down. He gained the secrets
of the leaders that he might betray his
cause and in this has partially succeeded.
He is thoroughly redeemed from virtue
and is we'll worthy the description of a
moral imbecile. He was a member of
the pope's brigade in Italy and was