Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-08
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue, S16s,S77.75; customs, seO7 ,se5.9e.
AT A MEETING of the Navy Mutual Aid 80.
cfety last evening, Capt. James A. Grier was
elected PRESIDENT Pay Director Fulton, first vice
president, and Lieut.. r. +. Nicholson, second
vice president.
THE WINNEBAGo REsERvATIoN.-A delega-
tion of citizens of Dakota called upon the
President yesterday in reference to the Winnie
a 20 reservation matter, protesting against the
revocation of President Arthur's order opening
the reservation to settlement. The President
informed the delegation that no further pro-
ceedings would be taken by the government
until most thorough investigation of the
whole subject had been made.
No RECEPTION BY THE President LAST
EvENING.-After the receipt of the 6 o'clock p.
M bulletin about Gen. Grant from New York
yesterday, the President decided to abandon
the proposed public reception last evening, for
which elaborate preparations had been made.
Large crowds arrived at the White House, but
policemen at the outer gates made the an
nouncement of the postponement of the recep-
ton.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Senators. Voorhees,, Harris, Call, Gibson,
Mcpherson and German, ex-Senators Jonas and
Representatives Ellis, Spriggs, Barbour and
Holman, Inspector General Y. H. Davis and
Major 6. a. Burton, Senator Hampton and s.
a. Pearce, of South Carolina: Representatives
81 gieton and Money and friends, of Mississippi;
Rear Admiral Fairfax, Representative Heard,
G. Low of Kansas ] HI FL WiiIeV Of ane caior HSn
MIA: JAS P. Cleveland, of Baltimore, and Revs,
Ronald Mcdonald. Prince Edwards Island, and
j. A. Conway, of Scotland.
RESIGNATION ACCEprED.-The President has
accepted the resignation of LIST Lieut.. John
OConnell, Sth infantry.
THERE IS CONSIDERABLE ANXIETY among
the assistant adjutant generals who are on duty
at the War department, as to which one will
be selected for duty at Omaha, Neb. The recent
assignment of Major Volkmar, the newly ap-
pointed assistant adjutant general to duty at
the War department, renders reduction in
the number of assistant adjutant generals on
duty here, which is now seven, extremely prob
able.
INVENTORY OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
The Secretary of the Navy has directed the
commandants of the various navy yards to
take an inventory of all government property
in their charge. No inventory has been taken
since 1873.
TIE WASHINGTON MoNUMENT.-Thec COM
mission of the Washington monument are con-
sidering proposition to remove all orna-
mental work from the doors of the shaft so that
the whole lace of the monument will present
an unbrOken surface. They are also consider
ing the best method of inserting the memorial
stones in the monument. A new boiler house
will soon be built at some distance from the
monument.
ENGINEER GOwING ACQUITTED.-The naval
court-martial, appointed to try Passed Assistant
Engineer B. c. Gowing for alleged drunken
ness, has found the charges unsustained and
has recommended that he be acquitted. The
officer was charged with appearing in an in
tOXicated condition when presenting himself
before the board of examination for promo
ton.
SECRETARY AND Mrs. FRELINGHUYsEN.-A
private dispatch from Raritan, N. j., to-day
states that Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen's con-
dition remains about the same. Mrs. Freling-
huysen Is improving.
AS TO MINISTER CRAMER's REcALL.-No
information can be obtained at the State de-
partment in relation to the cable report that
Mr.. NJ. ]. Cramer, U. S. minister to Switzerland,
has been recalled.
THE NORFOLK BANK FAILURE A SERIOUS
ONE.-The controllerof the currency has been
informed by the examiners in charge of the sus-
pended Norfolk bank that thebank is insol-
vent and will have to be placed in the hands of
q receiver. The failure is considered q very Sc
I1Ous one, the amount due depOstors alone
being over $3,OOO,OOO A committee repre-
sentines the depositOrs waited upon the control
Ter of che Treasury to-day and requested the
appointment of resident of Norfolk as re-
cefver. Mr.. Brown, of the controllers office.
who is examining the affairs o. the bank. has
been summoned to Washington to confer with
the controller on the subject Of the appoint
ment of receiver
ANOTHER TREASURY CoMM1ss1oN.-Acting
Secretary Fairchild yesterday appointed A. T.
Huntington, Charles l.. Caron and NJ. L. Muhle-
man a commission to examine into the manner
of settling the accounts of pension agents in the
third auditors office of the Treasury and to re-
port what Improvements can be made.
$4,000 UNSETTLED CLAIMs.-Judge Ferris
second auditor of the Treasury, recently re-
ported to the Secretary of the Treasury that
there were $4,000 unsettled claims in his
office, and that claims were received faster
than they could be disposed of by the 1856
clerks.
PATENTS 1ssUED.-Patents were issued yester-
day to citizens of Washington as follows: j. w.
Whitcomb, necktie fastener; Ennis & Walt
myer, wearing apparel; ]. NJ. March, inside
trunk brace; A. c: Douglass, compressed air
Nelson, point indicator in time apparatus j. B.
Davis, breech-loading fire-arm.
POSTMASTER PALMER ExPoUNDs THE LAW
Postmaster Palmer, of Rome, N. Y, who has
addressed letter to the President, in which he
claims that his removal was based on q report
the charges in which he never had an oppor-
tunity to deny. The letter thus concludes: ~
would further respectfully represent that your
eXcellency, having nominated to the Senate an
appOintee for postmaster in my place, and that
appointment not having been Withdrawn before
the adjournment of the Senate, the appoint
ment is now pending before the Senate and is
subject to its action; and while SO pending no
power rests with the President to suspend me-
and therefore respectfully protest against the
OF the same"
ARMY ORDERs.-,Leave Of absence for six
months, with permission to go beyond sea, to
take effect May 1, 1885, is granted Captain
James Chester, Sd artillery. Leave of absence
for four months, with permission to go beyond
sea, is granted First Lieut.. Otto L. Helm, LIST
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