Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-28
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
McGrew Before the Springer Committee--
The Banking Biu-opposed TO . second
Observation-Disclosures Of Claims-De-
cisions.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-M. McGrew,
formerly with the Auditor of the Treasury
Department whose duty 1t was to audit the
expenses of the Postoffice Department was
examined at his own request by the Springer
Committee in relation to the Starroute in
yestigation. He characterized as UNANIMOUSLY
false the alleged statement of William Lilley
hat he had paid witness $4,000 to secure
she expedition of services upon certain
route. McGrew also read a letter from
Lilley, In which the latter denied ever hav-
ing made the statement credited to him.
McGrew said he resigned his position as Sixth
Auditor, June 2, 1881, at the request Of the
President and Secretary Window, the for
mer saying he was embarrassed by the state
ment of James and McVeigh, members Of
the Cabinet They had said they could not
proceed in the star route investigations
while McGrew was Sixth Auditor Witness
testified that when he resigned he did so
with the understanding that when 1t was
proven that he was not guilty of the charge
that he had received money, he should have
better position than he held on June 80.
Mc(irew continued: 1.-THE President sent
for me and said he had done me great in
justice, and intended making my restoration
conspicuous. The following day l left for
Ohio, and on July I'd the President was shot
| never saw him again, and have not asked
for another position. / don't want 1t. I've
had enough"
THE BANKING BILL.
Friends of the Mcpherson Banking bill in
the House are of the opinion the bill cannot
be reached before the middle of May, IL in
that time. An effort was to have been made
yesterday, had the Committee on Banking
and Currency been called, to have a day
designated for the consideration of the bill
The committee was not called and no spe-
cial order can be made until the third Mon
day In April for suspension of the day with
out unanimous consent, and that, il is
thought, cannot be obtained. If on the
third Monday in April, under suspension of
the rules, day is named for the considera-
ton of the measure, it will probably be a
late one, inasmuch as a number OF prior
special orders ahead occupy the calendar.
while the Tariff bill and the remaining an.
preparation measures may by that time be
brought into antagonsm with it.
OPPOSED TO A SECOND INVESTIGATION.
Secretary Chandler has written letter to
Representative Cox, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, strongly opposing
second investigation of the Jeanette
Arctic expedition. He says friends of
jerome Collins had every opportunity be-
fore the court of inquiry to ascertain the
facts in the case and that, in his opinion,
the proposed reopening of the case is highly
ineXpedient and second pitiless sacrilege
to again tear open the graves of the dead
for the purpose of indecently calling public
attention to what the Court of Inquiry cor
rectly termed trivial difficulties, such as oc-
cur on shipboard, even under the most
favorable circumstances, and which had no
influence in bringing about the disasters of
the expedition and no pernicious effect upon
its general conduct
SETTING LIMIT.
The House Committee on judiciary or
dered favorable report on Mr.. fuckers
bill, limiting the time for the presentation
OF claims for back pay or bounty due officers,
soldiers or any other person, for services in
the late civil war. or any previous war, to
three years from the passage of the act The
bill also provides that all other existing
claims against the United States, excepting
within six years from the passage of the act
Claims against the United States original
ing hereafter, shall be presented within six
years from the time they accrue.
INCREASED PAY.
Senator Logan reported favOrably, with q
number of amendments, from the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, the bill introduced
by him, entitled, "a bill to increase the eff
cheney of the army of the United States"
AS introduced by Logan, the bill contained
provision limiting the number of enlisted
men to $4,000. This bill was stricken out
in committee, as otherwise the amended bill
provides for the increase of the monthly pay
and non-commissiOned officers and men, the
average increase being about 81 per month
in each case.
DECISIONS OF CUSTOMS OFFICERS.
The Treasury Department is in receipt of
large number of appeals from decisions of
customs officers in cases coming within the
provisions of Section of the new Tariff
act relating to the duty on charges. A great
number of appeals, mostly from New York,
have been received. They are based on the
recent opinion of The Attorney General on
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