Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
AT THE CAPITOL
WHAT OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE
DOING THAT WE SHOULD KNOW
VARIOUS ITEMS FROM THE DE-
PARTMENTs-GENERA NOTES,

The Danville riot investigation progresses
unfiaggingly.
Lieut.. Col Brotherton and Maj. Edward Ball
have been placed on the retiredlIst.
The demand for postal cards continues to
in letter postage.
| A new set of charges against Comptroller
Knox has been made by a committee of the
shareholders of the Pacific Bank. Boston.
The chairman of the Cunard company says
the passage of the shipping bill now pending
in parliament would place English shipping at
disadvantage as compared with that of for
| eign nations.
A. j. Evans, U. S. attorney for the Western
| district of Texas, was examined before the
| Springer committee, and advocated change
from the fee system to salaries for U. S. At
torneys and Marshals.
| BY an order of the Secretary of the Interior.
persons now occupying tracts of land within
| the Fort Smith reservation can remain, pend
| ing legislation, but further settlement thereon
will not be permitted.
President Arthur has issued an executive
order expressing the desirabiity of exhibits
from all the departments of the government
at the Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held
in New Orleans next December.
The Navy department has been informed
that rumor prevailed at st Johns, N. F., that
| that the Greey party had been rescued from
mass of floating ice by the crew of a whalin :
schooner. In communication on the subject
the United States Consul at st Johns says the
report is not believed there.
The Senate committee on judiciary reported
adversely on the bills introduced by Senators
Bayard, Mitchell and Lapham respectively, to
provide for the relief of the Supreme Court of
the United States, and submitted instead the
Davis bill, to provide for the establishment of
Court of Appeals as 1t passed the Senate last
year, with some slight amendments.
The House committee on revision of the laws
has unanimously agreed TO report Represent
atve McMillins bill to amend the internal
revenue laws. The measure reduces the time
within which persons may be prosecuted for
violations of the internal revenue laws from
five to two years. The bill was recommended
by both Secretary Folger and Commissioner
Evans.
John w. Pearce, Liberian Consul at New Ur-
leans passed through Washington en- route to
Liberia. His visit there is for the purpose of
procuring samples of products of that country
to exhibit at New Orleans. He called at the
State Department and obtained his passports
and letters intended to facilitate the object
of his journey. He sailed from New York on
the 10th.
The Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia, sitting in banc, decided, in the patent case
of Hoe VS.. Scott, that there was no appeal to
the Secretary of the Interior from the decision
of the Commissioner of Patents. The custom
Of entertaining such appeals sprung up dur
ing Secretary Kirkwood's administration, and
has continued down to the present time, the
records showing that many of the decisions of
the Commissioner have been reversed by the
Secretary.
The values of the exports of domestic cattle,
hogs and beef. pork and dairy products, for
March, 1884, were s5,6lO,9V5; same month in
1883, Sl0, ,+34, BPS; for three months ended March
81, 1884, $2l ,5S2 against S3l, EOS 100 for the
corresponding period last year. Beef and pork
products for five months ended March 81, 1884,
$3S 42 600 against s4s 54s, 800 for the same time
in 1888. Dairy products for IL months ended
March 81, 1884, sl5,2O4O43, against s12,Oas,s72
for the corresponding months in 1885,