Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-22
From Washington.

From Washington.
IT was stated on the 18th that the House
Committee on Coinage would make a IA
-, vorable report on Mr.. Bland's bill to stop
ntaass5r as5r.sss4 :. 4Ee Of one and three; 5eAall
Gold-pieces, the three-cent nickel and the
trade dollar.
THE vote in the United States Senate on
the 18th On the passage by that body of the
bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was
as follows:
rel. Coke, ColquItt, Fair. Farley, Garland.
Gibson. German, Groome; Hampton, Harris.
(Ncv.L Lamar, Mcpherson, Maxey. Morgan,
Pendleton, pike, Pugh, Riddleberger, Sabin.
NayS-Aldrich, Allison. Blair. Bowen, Con-
Harrison, fSs oonii hesley. H ingalls,. MeMilisa
Manderson. Miller Call, Mitchell. Morrill,.
Palmer. Platt, sherman, Van wyck and Will
% %pM.rsd-Beck. aye. with Hale, no; CAMERON
no. with Camden, aye: Plumb, no, with Vest
aye: Sawyer, no, with Kenna, aye.
ATToRNEY-GENERALB BREWSTER has sent
n circular to all United States Attorneys
and Marshals calling their attention to
the statutes regulating the shipment of
explos: yes, and urging vigilance to pre-
vent the perpetration of heinous crimes at
foreign ports.
IT is recited in the preamble of the bill
passed by Congress for the relief of Fitz
John Porter that a board of officers con-
vened by the President to examine and re-
port upon the case OF General Porter, stated
that jus ice required the President to anuul
the findings and sentence of the court
martial, and to restore him to the
position of which the sentence de
prived him, such restoration to take
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from SCI vice; that the President hoI re-
mitted SO much of the sentence As dis
qualified Porter from holding Office. The
bill authorizes the President t. appoint
Porter to the position of Colonel in the
army, and, in his discretion, to place Gen.
eral Porter on the retired list of that grade,
Porter, however, to receive no compenSa-
ton or allowance prior to his appointment
under the act.
AN opinion was expressed on the 14th
by members of the Banking and Currency
and of the Coinage Committees of the
House of Representatives that there was
no prospect of the passage of a law at this
Congress for the suspension of silver coin
age.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Can
ada the business failures during the seven
tleys ended on the 14tb numbered 20 t,
against 2Gi the previous week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, %; Middle, Al; Western, So; South
ern, 81: Pacific States and Territories, 13;
Canada and the Pro ovinccs, So.
THE American Tract Society held its an
nual meeting at Washington on the 10th.
The receipts for the year were shown to be
$S69,06G; expenditures, 1851 ,2So; donations
and le~acies S116,951; available for benev-
olent -ork, SS4 SOL.
Dur NG February last the value of ex
ports of breadstuffs was SO, 1O3, ,33S, against
$ll.517, ,30I for the same time last year.
the value was ST ',:S03,S'1, against $I49,
year.
A COUNTERFEIT silver certificate of the
denomiEa' ion of twenty dollars was dis.
covered on the 18th by the Secret-Serviee
division of the Treasury Department. The
pal er is much shorder than the genuine,
and is thick and stiff.
II was shown by official reports al
Washington on the 18th that for six years
and seven months, ended with December
last, AIS, sos persons emigrated from the
Dominion of Canada into the United
States.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S sister, Mrs. Nc
Elroy, assisted by fourteen ladies, received
over one thousand persons at the White
House Il the 18th.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses il
the United S. ates the exchanges during thu
week ended on the 10Th were 1924 ,497, Al
against S, ,129, ,62s, ,O53 the previous week.
The East.