Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-04
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Interna
revenue. S423,27S; customs. $413 ,531.

washington News and GOSSIP.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue. $423,27S; customs, $413, 3,531.
Ex-SPEAKER RANDALL has been laid up
since last saturday with his old complaint, the
gout. He was better, however, this morning,
and about noon said he thought he would feel
able to take drive late in the afternoon.
THE TREASURY commission has finished
with the internal revenue bureau, and began
to-day an examination of the architects office
Architect Bell was examined.
A CALL FOR CLERICAL RE1NFoRcEMENrs.-
The First Assistant Postmaster Generals office
is to be reinforced with twelve new clerks. The
work of the bureau has got behindhand, and in
order 10 bring 1t up and keep the business up to
dat date this reinforcement has been decided upon;
The civil service commission will be called
upon to supply names from which the twelve
clerks will be selected.
ARMY ORDERs.-Leave for three months, to
take effect about July i, 1885, is granted Capt.
Richard Comba, 7th infantry; leave until Sep
tember l. 1855. is granted Major John s. Po-
Of c GaSo Sue eSer ths sctna
advocate. general, Lieut.. Col. Thomas F. Barr,
deputy Judge advocate general, will, by di-
rectlOn OF the President, take charge of the
office of the judge advocate general and per-
form his duties
LIEUT.. WIN. II. ScHuETzE, who has been
selected to take the presents to the natives OF
the Lena Delta, Is before the naval examining
board for examination for promotion to be lieu
tenant senior grade.
REPRESENTATIVE CANNON FOR LOGAN IN
1SSS.-Representative Cannon, of Illinois,
arrived in the city to-day. He is here to take
his daughter home from school. He looks
ruddy and sunburnt, and says he has been de-
voting his time exclusively to farming and not
bothering about politics. The wheat crop, he
says, Is not very promising, but everything
are very cheerful. He is delighted over the
election OF Logan to the Senate, and says he
thinks the republicans might look a long ways
ana not nnd better candidate for 1888.
BIDS FOR furnishing stationery to the In
terror department were opened to-day. There
were fiity-seven bidders, most OF whom are
dealers In this city.
SECRETARY WHITNEY TO DEc1pE-The pur-
chasing naval paymaster at New York recently
opened bids for furnishing rubber rings for use
In the department of steam engineering in the
New York navy yard. Mr.. Austin p. Brown, or
this city, was the lowest bidder, but the con-
tract was not awarded to him, on the ground
that he was not regular dealer in the goods
required, and the matter was referred to the
Secretary Of the Navy for his decision.
CALLED ON THE PREsIDENT.-Among the
Presidents callers to-day were Senator Nc
Pherson and Col. Price, Of New Jersey; Solici-
VOI dcucTdl IDOQc, Representatives HOPKINS,
Snowden, LafIoon: Ward, Dougherty, Hill,
Morrison, Outhwaite. Anderson, Foran, Nc
Adoo; Millard and Barbour, ex-Reprepresenta-
Beach, e " Of ohi5 F paais g. consul To-
Havre; D. McSweeney, Jas. J. Ayres, Of Cali
fornia; So A. &C c. Hesing, OF Chicago S. VIM. John
Boyden, of Chicago; w. G. Ewing, of Illinois;
Emil Kiesewetter and Jas. Lawrence, Column
bus 0. and w. II. Bishop, of New York.
POSTAL DEPREDAr1oNs. Chief Inspector
Sharp has been informed that j. w. Hough, q
postal clerk at Denver, Co.. has been arrested
for stealing registered letters, and that the Office
at LeWlSVllle, Neb., was broken open last night
and the contents of the safe taken.
TRIP TO MOUNT vkRNox.-The delegates
to the conference of charities and correction
went to Mount Vernon to-day. The opening
session of the conference will be held at 7:3O
this evening, the opening prayer to be delivered
by Rev. J. II. Elliott, $. T. D.
NAVAL MEMBER OF THE PRIZE COURT
Secretary Whitney has designated Admiral ].
w. A. Nicholson, retired, as the naval member
Of the prize court to examine the officers Of the
ance, for alleged violation of the neutrality
laws during the Panama troubles.
CONSUL MACKAY, who shot editor Amorim,
at Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil, short time ago,
in self-defense, has been granted three months
leave OF absence from his post.
LIEUT.. c. A. STONE, who was the officer Of the
deck on the Powhatan when that vessel collided
with schooner about q year and a half since,
and who was afterwards suspended, has been re-
stored to the service.
THE NAVAL BOARD Of inspection went to
New York to-day to inspect the Omaha.
THE EXPOSITION DEBr-The Secretary Of the
Treasury has received a statement Of the ac-
counts of the New Orleans exposition showing
the following: Undisputed Indebtedness, $685.
345; disputed Indebtedness, claimed, $3.50, ,337;
i1ms, 500, ,3sS; total amount Of claims, sse7,-
BIS; appropriation, 1885 200; difference, S62,-
THE FoRTIFICATIoNS BoARD.-At the meet
ing of the Notifications board at the War de-
partm ent yesterday the following committees
were appointed to collect and arrange the in
formation called for by Congress: ION the va
rious kinds OF armor; the penetration and
effect Of shot upon armOr and earth, and guns
and their ranges" Cons. Benet Newton and
Abbot, Commander Goodrich and Capt; Smith:
"On torpedoes, stationary and movable, and
torpedo boats" Gen. Abbot and Commander
Sampson. '.On ships Of war, their armor, ar
draft OF entrances of the ports of the country"
Commanders Sampson and Goodrich. ION the
capacity Of the country to furnish armor and
capacity" Joseph Morgan, tr; Erastus Corning,
journed to meet in New York July 1s.
SECRETARY BAYARD, accompanied by Mr..
Harry Bryan, his private secretary. arrived in
st. Louis yesterday on his way to Columbia,
Mo-, where he is to deliver the annual address
before the students of the State university. He
was received at East st. Louis by Senator Vest
and a committee Of citizens. Afterwards Mr..
Bayard visited the Merchants Exchange, which
address, in which he said President Cleveland's
administration was for the whole country, not
for one part Of it. Later the Secretary lunched
at the st: Louis Club house, leaving for Colum-
bia at S:35 p m.
NAVAL ORDERS.-Lieut. Charles A. Stone, Or
dared IN the Mnhican. Mnaica Direcfor Gamma