Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-08-06
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Interna
revenue, 1881 ,936: customs. s52s, ,O74.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
| revenue. 1851 1886; customs, $52s, ,074.
SECRETARY WHITNEY is not expected to re.
turn TO Washington from New York before
tuesday of next week. During his absence
commodore Walker will act as Secretary.
SPECIAL PENSION ExAMINERS-Tke follow
Ing have been appointed special examiners In
the pension office: Henry E. Perkins, of Ver.
mont; s: G. Andrews, OF Maine; George NJ.
James w. Walton, of Ohio; H. E. Bundy, oi
New York; Henry G. Stiff. of Illinois.
EXAMINATIONS FOR PROMOTIONS IN THE
TREASURY DEPARTMENr.-The three officials
OF the Treasury department who were appointed
committee to consider the advisability Of
ior promotion in the department have not yet
heid full meeting. They will carefully ex.
anime the method in vogue now before recon-
mending change.
THE PRESIDENT SIGNED the bill to protect
me interest OF the government in the Potomac
published in yesterdays STAR.
The PRESIDENT DID NOT COME OUr.-while
the President and the force of clerks at the
White House were rushed with business yester-
day, owing to the close Of the congressional ses-
sion, party OF excursionists from Bradford Pa,
the White House. and began to serenade the
President with await till the clouds roll by. .
The band played another tune, and the people
dent ought to come out, but he did not. The ex-
cursionists departed in sadness.
THOSE who leave the city during the summer
can have THE STAR mailed to them for any
length of time and the address changed as often
as desired. The subscription must be invariably
paid in advance.
The LAST BILL SIGNED by the President
yesterday afternoon was the joint resolution
accepting the presents and trophies Of General
Grant, which were presented to the govern.
ment by Mrs. Grant and Mr.. Vanderbilt Jointly.
Ine president received the bill few minutes
before the adjournment Of Congress, and i'm.
mediately approved it.
THE ATLANTA's TRIAL TR1P.-The new steel
cruiser Atlanta started from the Brooklyn
navy yard yesterday for q trial trip up the
sound. Her course was to Execution island,
thence sixteen miles to eastward and return.
On her arrival at Whitestone she anchored for
tne night, and the members of the naval advi-
sorry board who were OH her were taken Off by
the tug Nina and brought to New York. Chief
Engineer Morley and Constructor Hoover were
seen by New York Sun reporter as they left
the tug at the ordnance dock. They were very
reticent In regard to the trip, and all they
would say was that it had been entirely sue
Atlanta arrived at the New York navy yard
this morning, but no particulars of the trip
nave been received at the Navy department.
Complexion Of the Next House.
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE HOPES OF KEEPING
THEIR MAJORITY.
Most Of the members go home now to attend
conventions and to fix up their fences for the
fall elections. Before they come back to the
capital again they will 20 through campaign,
and at present the speculation is as to the com.
plexion of the next house. The republicans
expect to make gains in the House, but they
hardly expect to overcome the democratic
majority. The democrats are in considerable
OF tangle all over the country, but their quar-
rels are chiefly over internal factional ascend
ancy. and will be mostly settled in convention.
Many men now in Congress will not return, but
1t is claimed by democrats that the grand sum-
ming up will show as many democrats
in the next Congress as in this, if not more. One
OF the best Informed democrats about the House
told STAR reporter to-day that he found after
careful study of the situation, that there were
just hve states where the republicans might
make gains. These were Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa and Ohio. They would probably
gain two in Michigan, two in Indiana, and
possibly two or three in OHIO. But in the latter
state the democrats We're in better shape than
was generally supposed. Halstead, he said, had
aroused Internal trouble among the republi-
cans, while the Payne affair had drawn the
democrats together to resist the republican at