Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-09
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue, S459,47s: customs. S437, ,544.
THE POSTMASTER GENERALS FIRST MONTH.
Postmaster General Villas completed his first
month in office yesterday. During that period
he commissioned $50 postmasters and prepared
more than one hundred presidential commits
SIons for approval.
PLANS FOR Posi- OFFICE BUILD1NGs.-Post-
master General Villas has appointed Chief In
spector Sharpe, Inspector Henderson and Mr..
van Haake, of the tOpographer's office, a COM
mlttee to confer with the supervising architect
o1 the Treasury, relative to plans for new post
office buildings throughout the country. The
law requires these plans to be approved by the
been done without question, and as matter of
course. Postmaster General Villas proposes to
inquire into the suitability of plans for post
ONCE purposes before approving them.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Senators Jackson and Mcpherson, AS
sistant Secretary Fairchild, Commissioner of
Pensions Black, Representatives Spriggs and
friends, Warner, Tucker, Mitchell, Cole and
MISSOURI; W. +. Bookstaver aver and W. T. Colm,an n
Kentucky: Rear ar Admiral % Roe J. hs Wilson. New. W
ark: y. J.: Col. Fauntleroy Va; G. V. Herman,
Philip Muhle and NJ. g. Gross, Of New York;
Coonertown, and Frank % Decker, Of IL Cairo, ? New W
York.
NEW RULE.-The chief of the appointment
division of the Treasury department has issued
the following circular: "No receipts on account
of salary will be approved except on the 18th
OF each month. and all receipts and pay rolls
for semi-monthly payments must be in this
office on or before that date"
A POSTMASTER APPoINTED.-The President
has appointed Delos Barge to be postmaster at
Cooperstown, N. Y. The appointment was to
fill vacancy, the republican postmaster hav-
ing resigned.
NEW CLERKS IN THE SIXTH AUD1ToR's
OFFICE.-At the beginning of the fiscal year the
force Of the money order division in the sixth
auditors Office will be increased by the addi-
tion of forty-tfve clerks provided for in the ap-
priation bill. The work in this Office is very
much behind, and the new auditor, Mr.. McCOn-
vllle yesterday made an inspection of the bu-
reau in order to acQuaint himself with the
methods of its operations. 1t is his intention,
with the increased clerical force, to endeavor to
have the work brought up to date.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE DISTRICT OF
F1CEs.-It is reported that when the delegation
Of Grand Army men presented to the President
yesterday candidate for recorder of deeds,
that he said he had found that he was having
more trouble to fill the District offices than
those in other parts of the country. He thought
that when he came here that he could dispose
of the District matters with very little delay,
but he has since dicOvered his mistake.
Gen. SWANS INTENrIoNs-It is learned
that the reports of the intended retirement at
an early day of ex-Judge Advocate General
Swain are incorrect, but he is willing to wait in
patience until the President and Secretary of
case, feeling assured that they will undo the
action OF the court martial. He has made re-
quest the President that he give his attention
to the matter when convenient.
COMMISSIONER BLACK AND Miss SwEEr.-In
reply to question Of STAR reporter as to
whether any further action had been taken in
the case of Miss Sweet, the pension agent at
Chicago, whose resignation has been asked for,
the commissioner of pensions said that moth
ing further had been done: He said that he did
from his office. When asked if the resignation
would be forthcoming, Gen. Black smiled and
said: "The Lord made women"
DISTINGUISHED CLAIMANrs.-In 1S4s Con-
gress passed an act allowing all officers who had
served in the Mexican war three months extra
pay, which was then decided by the accounting
officers of the Treasury to apply only to officers
of the volunteer service, and not to officers Of
the regular army, who were supposed to go
wherever ordered without additional compen-
sation. The question has been agitated ever
since, and in 1879 Congress passed an act de-
filming the act of 1S4S to include both regular
puted by the Treasury officials. The parties
Interested have since, through legal decision
established their claim and, with a view of and
before commencing payment, the Treasury de-
partment has furnished the Secretary of War
with a list of the claimants, to ascertain if they
are in any way indebted to the government
This list comprises many names prominent in
military history, such as Gems. Winfield Scott,
Robert f. Lee, Persifer F. Smith, David E.
Twigas, Albert Sydney Johnson, Gideon j. Pill
low, James LOngstreet and others. Payment is
to be made to the survivors or established
heirs.
MR.. WALTER DUKE, one ofthe clerks who
suffered by the recent reduction of the clerical
force at the White House, has been appointed
to a first-cass clerlShip in the Treasury depart
ment under the amended civil service rules
CLERICAL LEAVES OF FABsENcE.-Sixth Audi
tol McConville has issued an order to the chiefs
of divisions instructing them to cause the strict
enforcement Of the rules and regulations Of the
Treasury department for the government of
employees. thereafter all personal statements
covering absence caused by Sickness when not
accompanied by certificates of physicians, must
bear the initials of the chief of the division or
the person In charge of the division in which
the employe is engaged before they will be ap-
proved"
PERsoNAL.-The resignation of Hon. VIM. G.
Endicott, Secretary of War, was presented to the
board Of overseers of Harvard college yester-
day.-Mrs. NJ L. Elliot, Mr. C. s. Elliot and
Mr.. II. Il. Elliot, Of this city, We're passengers
ou Tic 1uIIltu SlcdIIlSIlp lily OI Cn1CHSO, Wl1cl
sailed for liverpool to-day from New York
Representative Hiscock, of New York, is going
to California for a six weeks visit, to attend the
marriage of his eldest son to a young lady of
San FranciscO.-EX-SenatOr Stockton, of New
Jersey, is at Willards.-Col. VIM. Wall, who
has been at his residence in this city for some
time past, sailed to-day from New York for Ber-
muda, on short visit for recreation and recu-
Peration.-Richard Grant White, the we'll
known writer, died in New York yesterday,
aged 63.-It is reported that Vice President
and Mrs. Hendricks will go to Europe this sum-
mer, for a stay of several months.-Mr. j. c.
Reid, managing editor of the New York Times,
sailed for Europe yesterday for a vocation Of two
or three monthS.-Mr. Justice Blatchford of
the U. s. Supreme Court, has been elected
Vestryman OF All Saints Memorial Chapel at
NewpOrt.-Baron Won Alvenslaben, the Ger
man Minister; Baron Won Schaeffer, the Aus
trian Minister, and Col. l.. Sitgreaves, of Wash.
ingtOn, were registered in New York last eve
Ming. n. Du Barry, of Philadelphia, and
Antoine BarrioS, son of President Barrios of
Guatemala, at present student at West Point,
are at the AringtOn.-Henry NJ. Stanley hopes
to visit the United States this month.-Repre-
sentatives Forney and Jones, of Alabama and
O'Ferrall, of Virginia, are at the Metropolitan.
MIR. and Mrs. j. II. Saville and w. 7. Collins,
of Washington, were registered in Jacksonville
on Tuesday.-Gen. HaZen has returned from
Fortress MonrOe.-Mr. Jesse E. Dow, of the
Navy department, has recovered from serious
illness, and is again at his desk.
Mutterings of Discomfort.
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