Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-11-24
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
NEWS, FACT, AND GOSSIP.
Arrival Of Gold aud silver Coin-order Of
Court Of Claims Supreme Court Decision.
lBy telegraph 70 the Dispatch.l

from the former city. About $1,000
coo Of this was taken to Chicago and
the remainder brought to Washington
The shipments Of silver coin amount TO
about s29, 100000, the bulk Of which
was shipped from New Orleans.
The Court Of Commissioners Of Ala
bama Claims issued an order to-day
that all motions for the rehearing Of
causes and for the introduction Of fur
Their evidence shall be presented on or
before Wednesday, December 2, 1888,
and that no motions for the rehearing OF
causes or for the introduction Of fur
Their evidence will be received after said
date.
DEsERTEBs FROM THE UNITED
STATES ARMY.
WASHINGTON, November 23.-ln
the United States Supreme Court to-day
in the case Of Moffatt Field against
Stephen Kurtz, appealed from the Su-
perior Court Of the city and county OF
San Francisco, the decision Of the lower
court was reversed. The effect OF this
decision is that neither police officer
nor a private citizen, in his capacity as
such officer or citizen, can lawfully ar
rest, without warrant or order OF the
military authority, a deserter from the
United States army.
REVISION OF THE HOUSE RULES.
WASHINGTON, November 23.-lt
the House OF. Representatives enters in
earnest upon . revision Of its rules, as
tbs expected to do, at the beginning OF
the coming session, the subject of the
code of joint rules for the government
Of transaction between the two houses
of Congress is likely to be en- element
of discussion. The Senate, by vote
Of fifty to four, declared several years
ago that there were no joint rules in
effect, and formally notified the House
Of its action. Notwithstanding which,
however, the House, under an
old ruling of its Speaker, has held to
the theory that the old code Of joint
rules would remain in force until abro-
gated by the actien of the two houses.
Since that time matters between the
two houses have been by the tacit con-
currence Of both arranged in accord
ance with traditional usage, or by spe-
cifc agreement to meet special neces-
sites. The necessity for a code OF
Joint rules has, in the opinion Of sena-
tors, become graver with each succeed
ing session. Two years ago, after re-
vising its own code of rules, the Senate
took up a resolution reported from It's
Committee on Rules which embodied
carefully.digested code of joint
rules, and after a full discussion
agreed to the resolution and sent it to
the House for its concurrence. Later
that body caused the resolution to be
printed in the usual way and referred
it to its Committee on Rules, but no
further action was taken upon the SUBJ
ject owing to the habit Of the House Of
Representatives Of putting irrelevant
legislation upon the regular appropria-
ton bills, the practice against which
the Senate, in its own rules, has sturdily
set its face. Several ofthe regular appro-
priation bills last session became issues
between the two houses, the discussion
and settlement ofwhich consumed much
time and gave rise to no small amount
of vexation and i'll feeling. In every
instance but one the Senate maintained
its ground to the end, and only relented
in one instance because ofthe represen-
tations Of its own members that the
legislative rider in question embodied
legislation the passage of which was
sorely needed and could be secured in no
other way. The new code ofjOint rules
proposed by the Senate contains an
emphatic prohibitory clause directed
against general" or irrelevant legis-
lation upon appropriation bills, and the
temper repeatedly manifested by the
Senate during the last session indicates
a probability that the days Of legisla-
tive riders upon appropriation bills are
past. 1t is understood that the pro-
posed code of joint rules will be re-
introduced in the Senate by member
Of lbs Committee on Rules, and again
rendered to the House. The attitude
Of the Senate upon this question is, in
fact, one of the strongest Of the inAu-
ences which inspire the present move
ment to secure a revision of the rules of
the House, the latter body having
almost no other method under its pre-
sent rules Of reaching action upon many
important matters which press upon its
attention toward the close of the ses-
sion than to affix them to the appropri-
alton bills, which necessarily have pre-
cedence. The revision of its rules be-
comes almost imperative in view Of this
prospective loss Of this privilege.
ATTACKING A RECENT APPOINTEE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., November
23.-General j. Floyd King, Of Lousi-
ana, tonight furnished for publication
the following:
A CARD Washington, D. c.,
November %, lSS5.-I have to-day
read the letter Of Cuthbert B. Jones of
the 10th instant, published in the New
York Tribune of the Goth and repub-
lisbed in the New Orleans Times Demo
crat of the 2lst and elsewhere, and
deem it proper only to say that ! regard
Mr.. Jones as an assassin, and in sup
port Of my conclusion | publish the fol-
lowing unsolicited telegram from Gen.
eral Will 7. Martin:
" NGtehez, Mss, June Is, 1885,
J. Floyd King, Washington: If the
Jones appointed to Csllao is Cuthbert
Built Jones, the second son of Charles
Jones, Of Catalonia, it can be proved
beyond question that he was one of the
assassins Of General Liddell, and fled
the country to avoid the consequences
of the murder.
60 WILL 7. MARTIN
AS q representative in Congress
from the Fifth Louisiana district, in
which the murder occurred, my opposi-
ton TO Mr.. Jones's appointment to
office has been earnest and uncompro-
missing. / can have no controversy with
man Of his character, nor can / no
tice the assault he makes upon me in
such a way as the public might expect
if it had come from any reputable
source. j. FLOYD KING"
POSTMASTER APPOINTED.