Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-04
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, April 3.-Geo. Bliss ,es-
titled today before the Springer com
mttee. He said he had lost money bv
being IN Government employ. He I'M
derstood that within a few DAYS prepar-
ations would be made to begin civil
suits IN the star route cases and Wm.H.
Bliss. United States District Attorney of
81. LOUIS, would conduct them. He
could nos account for the failure to in
dicf Salisbury. Perhaps the grand jury
WIS lhn1enced By petitions. There
were large number of petitions. and it
would oa extraordinary if among those
tnere were not letters from members of
congress. Hiss. continuing. said. I'm
June the Attorney General asked me to
see Judge Graham. He WAS anxious to
prosecute the cases. He SAW the Post
master General. and lad long talk
Win rim. lie SAID to me that he Was
preparing detailed statement of the
case Tor tue purpose of having suits
brought. l thought At one time that |
uao an opportunity to get civil suit
against Dorsey. | made personal an
plcation and asked Brewster to let me
take the papers. | found between one
and two hundred thousand dollars that
l thought the Government could recoy
er. The proposed civil suit against
Dorsey failed on account of the sudden
death of Bosler.''
In reference to Inspector Kellogg,
Bliss said: Cook is tue Only man VIII
SAID We must not do anything with kel-
logg, as 1t would injure the Republican
majority In the Senate. Cook was then
government counsel. His statement
set me thinking. Chandler said to me
one time: Poor Kellogg is in a terri
bic state of mind. He wants me to
speak to you. Of course, can only say,
treat him fairly As the Kellogg case
now stands. If Walsh's papers do not
need Walsh's testimony to make them
inks. 1t Is fair one. though it has IN
doubleday been weakened by the course
of the Witnesses
Adjourned.
Proposed Amendment to the Patent
LAWS.
A bill introduced in the Senate TODAY
by MCPHERSON to amend the patent |
laws provides that 1t shall be q INSIDE |
rneanor for any person 10 sell any ar:i- |
ticle or process claimed and described |
IN any unexpired letters of patent with |
out lawful authority from the patentee
or his legal representatives, at or before |
or to falsely represent to purchasers
that there is no unexpired patent cover
ing or claimed to cover said article or
process.
SILK Culture
The bill Introduced in the Senate by
Call, to provide for the creation of a
silk cultural bureau. provides that such
bureau shall he established as Que of
the bureaus of the Agricultural Dep. art
ment, and shall embrace IN its Organi-
cation five silk culture stations, to be
established rs follows: One for the
North Atlantic States, located in Penn
svlvania one for the South Atlantic, in
Florida; one for the Gulf States, in
Alabama; one for the Northwestern
States. III Iowa, and one for the Pacific
States. In California. Ths object in the
establishment of bureau and the seve-
raj silk culture stations. it declares to |
be experlmentally to raise silk worms,
to study their nature and the means of
improving their productive qualities by
all means deemed proper, to encourage
the cultivation of plants adopted for
feeding silk worms, and to experiment
With reellng silk with view to ascer-
tanning the best appliances and meth
DDS for conducting the varions opera
lions of preparing silk. 1t provides for
an appropriation of $l5O.000 for carry
ing out the objects of the bill.
The sharon Divorce Case.
SAN Francisco. April 3.-In the Shar-
on divorce today Mrs. Sarah Meile;t for
the defense testified that Miss Hill told
her liz the summer of 1881 that the night
before Sh ,ron went to Washington he
asked her to go in a private carriage
and z married to him.