The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE charges against Governor Murray,
OF Utah, respecting irregularities in his
office while U nited States Marshal in Ken
lucky, were considered recently by the
House committee investigating eSpendi-
lures in the Department of Justice. George
K. Chase, the predecessor of Brewster
Cameron, testified that the reports to the
Department of Justice sustained the
charges. Governor Murray was to have
an opportunity of testifying.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
agreed recently to favorably report Mr..
Ryan's bill granting the right of way
through the Indian Territory to the South
ern Kansas Railway Company.
CAPTAIN D. L. PAYNE has sent q lengthy
and numerously signed petition to Wash
ington asking congressional action on the
right of the United States troops to inter-
fere with parties going into the Oklahoma
country.
REPRESENTATIVE WHITE, of Kentucky,
recently testified before the House Com
mittee on Expenditures of the Department
of Justice, in reference to his late asser-
lions in the House concerning the present
Governor of Utah. He referred to the
charges of irregularities in the office of
Governor Murray while United States
Marshal of Kentucky, and said that
the Government had been wronged
out of thousands of dollars, in con-
sequence of the expense incurred
by fruitless and unnecessary pros
ecution against the citizens of Kentucky.
False and fictitious charges for guards were
made, he said, and numerous prosecutions
had been instituted for the most trivial
violations of law, and arrested parties
were taken from remote parts of the State
to Louisville, passing on the way Commits
sioners who could have heard their cases
on preliminary examination. This was
done, he said, not in the interests of the
Government, but apparently for no other
purpose than to make costs for Murray.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN recently
addressed to the President communica-
ton which he had transmitted to the House
of Representatives in response to resolu-
lions asking for the papers relating to the
exclusion of American hog products from
foreign countries. He submitted to the
President copies of all pertinent matter
found on record in the Department of
State, and gave in detail history of the
exclusion Of American meats from France,
Germany and other European countries.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY proposes to go be-
fore Mr.. Springer's committee and tell
what he knows about certain matters con-
nected with the late star-route trials.
THE House Committee on Territories re-
Gently ordered favorable report on the
hat
shall form Constitution or apply for ad-
mission as State until it shall contain a
population equal to that required in a Con-
gressional district in order to entitle it to
representation in the House of Representa-
tives.
The House Committee on Banking and
Currency at recent meeting discussed the
resolution offered by Representative
Hunt, which declares that the public well
fare demands that the benefits of the ma
tional banking system be substantially
preserved and continued for the time be-
ing, provided that the resolution be not
construed to be declaration in favor of
the perpetuation of the public debt, and
agreed to it by vote of niue to four
fosT-oFFIcR INSPECTOR LANIER, on duty
In the South, has been removed for frauds
upon postmasters he visited. Lanier fed
tc South America.
THE annual report of the operations of
the Patent-office for the calendar year
showed an increase of seventeen per cent.
In the number of patents, trademarks and
labels issued over the preceding year.
The cashreceipts increased S1S7, 600; excess
of receipts over expenditures, 500. 900:
cash on hand, S2,6T7,476.
PUBLIC debt statement for January:
Cash in Treasury, S, 49,, 800; debt less cash
in Treasury, $1,4S6. 0SS,7 19; decrease for