Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-08
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. WORK OF CONGRESS. A Busy Week in Both
 Houses. THE CITY OF BRUSSELS LOST. Run Down While Waiting
 in a Fog. FOUND DYING IN A SNOW HUT. A Terrible Discovery in
 Northern Siberia.
'OUNO DYING IN A SNOW HUT.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
 Matters Before COngress-A Busy Week
 in PrOspect-ImpOrtant Measures Wait
 ing for Actfon-The Tariff BII1 Likely
 to Come Forward This Nsek-Facts
 and Happenings at the Capital.
 WAsHNGToE, Jan. 7.-Yesterday was 8 talking day in both houses of Congress and many of the members seemed to have got their second wind, though few there were who seemed to have spent their first. In the Senate the presidential succession bill occupied the time, many of the Senators giving expression to their views. while in the House the shipping bill WAS taken up and MT. Cox delivered a lengthy address. The Senate has now good weeks work mapped out. On Monday the discussion to send all claims to the court of claims will be resumed. It may not be finished by o'clock. when the presidential succession billcomss up as unfin- ished business. This measure has been de- bated two days already. The pending ques. tion is to commit to the Judiciary committee Senator Blair's educational bills are the spe- cial order for Tuesday. On Wednesday the bankruptcy bill comes up as the special or der. Senator Morrill,, however, gave notice that he would call up the tariff bill of the finance committee and ask the Senate to consider it until disposed of. On Thursday by special agreement the Fitz John Porter bill will be voted on at ? o'clock. The general opinion is that the consideration of the tariff bill will run well into next week. The House will on Monday continue the consideration of the shipping 1--S1I 1I~olI day. With this out of the way two appro- priation bills-the Notifications and the pen sion appropriation bill-will be brought up for action. By that time the naval bill will probably be completed and ready for action :; so that the week will be probably spent upon the shipping bill and the three appropriation bills named above. To morrow the House Appropriations committee expect to report the Notifications and pension bills. The com mittee have in the hands of subcommittee the naval, legislative and sundry appropria- ton bills It is barely probable that one or two of them will be reported before the end of the week. To-day it is believed that the tariff bill will not come from the Ways and Means committee before Tuesday, although it is probable that it may be reported late to- morrow. The committee intend to complete the examination of witnesses and begin work on the Mississippi river improvements and it will reach conclusion in about two weeks. The Committee on Territories, the only com mittee in the Senate having any very impor- tant measures before them now, say that work on the matters pertaining to the Dako- ta problem has been indefinitely postponed.
 Sixth Auditor Fla, in letter to Secretary Folger, states that after examining the con- federate archives and the books in his office he finds that on July l, 1861, $817, ,309.5 .59 WAS due southern mail contractors. Of this amount $564, ,544.22 was paid by the confed- crate government and $40, 900 by the State of Arkapsas, leaving about $200, 900 due. He states that the books containing the names of the contractors paid are lost, though the vouchers of the confederate Postmaster Gen. eral are still in existence, showing that the amounts mentioned have been paid. Owing to the difficulty of ascerta.ning who were paid and who were not, and to the fact that the time allowed by law for reporting their claims to Congress VII expire before all the individual claimants can be found, Auditor Ella suggests that some action be taken by Congress so that the rightful claimants may not be deprived of their dues.
 The House Committee on Appropriations yesterday completed the Notifications bill. It appropriates $175,O0O. Of this $10O,- 900 is for improvements of harbor forti- fications and $50, 900 for torpedoes and har-
 bor defences. Tho pensions appropriation bill was also reported to the full committee yesterday It appropriates $s1, 100000. The report that the Committee Ways and Means would recommend an increase of duty from the present rate of ten per cent. to twentY-fv per cent. Gd gGZorep in the tariff upon diamonds and all precious stones has caused the leading importers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia to protest against the proposed advance. The memorial presented to the committee by MT. Agernon s. Sullivan, of New York, urges that the change would increase the mo- tive to smuggle, while honest importers, who now do the bulk of the importation would be driven out by illicit traders. It is urged that the present duty of ten per cent is the maximum that the government can collect; that higher duty will multiply dis honest traders ana defeat the end for which the tariff is imposed. The committee will
 hear the memorial and argument on Monday. Thomas Heinline, one of the jury which 1 convicted Guiteau, died today of heart dis l ease. His physician says his labor on the l jury aggravated his disease.
 | It is reported that Representatives Mo l Kinley, Cox and Townshend, of Illinois, will lead the attack on the bonded whiskey bill in the House.
 Charles Perry, of the firm of Hempton < Perry, dry goods merchants, committed sui I eide at his home here this evening by shoot | ing himself through the head. Temporary | mental alteration is supposed to have been l the cause of the act.