The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-07-31
WASHINGTON.
Gen. Losan's Return-fen. RosecraRs-Cost OF the
Greedy Relief Expedition-Pres. Arthur's De-
partare-Gen. Swain.

Gen. Losan's Return-Gen. RosecraRs-Cost OF the
Greedy Relief Expedition-Pres. Arthur's De-
parture-Gen. Swain.
Gen. Logan returned from the National En-
campment of the Grand Army at Minneapolis
on Sunday evening He told TRIBUNE rep
resentative that he had enjoyed himself hugely
and spoke of the Soldiers Reunion as the most
enthusiastic and imposing he had ever attended.
The General will remain In Washington for
week or more and will then go to Chicago
Mrs. Logan meanwhile will pay a visit to
West Point, where her son Manning is now a
cadet in the Military Academy. Her health,
which has not been as robust lately as could be
wished, is likely to be benefited by the change
since West Point is noted for the purity of its
atmosphere and the salubrity of its climatic
surroundings as well as for its scenic beauty.
Gen. w. s. Rosecrans, chairman of the sub
committee of the House Military Committee,
will leave Washington this week for Dayton,
u, where the committee, acting under q reso-
luton of Congress, will begin their work of in
vestigating the management of our National
Military Homes for, disabled volunteer soldiers.
He viii be accompanied by his daughter and
Col. G.. C. Kniffin, of the Adjutant- Generals
Office, who will fill the Office of Sergeant-at-
Arms. 1t viii probably take all Summer to
visit the various Homes.
Commissioner Dudley emphatically denies
the rumor, circulated in Washington in the
early part of the week, that he intended TO
resign his Office in order to give his entire time
and attention to the coming campaign In
Indiana.
Gen. Green B. Raum, ex-Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, in recent interview said
that the work OF collecting contributions from
the Department clerks will commence Aug /,
and that the civil-serviee law will in no way
change the situation. The clerks viii be asked
to contribute, and those who want to and can
afford TO will, while those who cannot affordsit
or don't care to give any money will keep quiet.
AT the Navy Department the entire cost of
the Greedy relief expedition is estimated at
100000. The original cost of the Thetis was
$4,000 and of the Bear 100000. The pro-
visions cost about S250,000, supplies furnished
by the Bureau of Navigation $4,000, and the
coal about the same amount. The expenses to
this Government in fitting out the Alert in
England and in bringing that vessel and the
Thetis to the United States amounted to about
So, 600. The cost of Improvements and repairs
on the Bear was $35, $3.50; On the Thetis $751;
165, and Alert, at New York, SIS, 600, and of
navigation and scientific instruments, SIS, 600.
The expenses of charteTing the Loeb Garry are
estimated at over $4,000 Chief Constructor
Wilson, under whose supervision the vessels
were repaired says that the Government, In
his opinion. viii obtain for them when sold
about as much as they originally cost, for the
valuable improvements viii make them very
desirable
President Arthur left Washington on the
26th inst on the Despatch, accompanied by AS
sistant Secretary of State Davis, Private Secre-
tary Phillips, Miss Nellie Arthur and Miss May
McElroy, and arrived In New York on the fol-
lowing Monday.
The charges On which Brig. Gen. D. G. Swain
is to be tried by general eourt-martfal have
been formulated and delivered, and that officer
has been suspended from duty and placed
under nominal arrest.
The Secretary of State has been notified by
the American Consul at the City of Mexico that
VIM. HARDWOOD and Edmund Velach, the two
American citizens who had been arrested and
imprisoned there on the charge of defamation
of the President, have been released.
Gen. Longstreet has been superseded as q. s.
Marshal Of Georgia by John E. Bryant.