Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-27
The District i'm Congress.
THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE POTOMA

APPROPRIATIONS
FLATS.
The committee on rivers and harbors made
no effort to get q vote in the House against the
Senate amendment to the river and harbor bill
making appropriation for the improvement of
the Potomac fats. After MIR. Willis had asked
amendment, Mr.. w. G. Millin introduced a
resolution to instruct the conferees to non-con-
cur in the amendment This was agreed to by
d vote OF 10 10 "a. Mr.. Strait made point Of
no quorum. The vote by tellers was LOT to 70
against the Senate amendment
PATENTS 1SSUED.-Patents have been issued
to citizens of the District as follows: A. Had
ley, paper holder; Rob't H. Hazard, stopper
fastener; Geo. A. Ilhenny, gas retort furnace;
Geo. w. Morse. cartridge resting Implement;
e. F. Murdoch, file box; Edwin A. Newman,
anti-freezing apparatus for water pipes; Paris
II. Wheeler, PHOTOGRAPHIC plate holders.
REsIGNED.-Smith ID. Fry of Iowa, has re-
signed his position in the Post Office depart
ment
DEATH OF CHAs. F. CoNANr.-Information
has been received a: the Treasury department
that Chas. F. Conant formerly Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury. died at Cambridge, Mass,
at 1880 O'Clock last night. He was Assistant
Secretary under Bristow from "A to ~, and
subsequently represented the United States at
the syndicate at London.
THE PUBLIC PRINrER.-It is understood that
Public Printer Rounds has asked the President
to accept his resignation not later than Sep
TENDER 18th. Gen. Rogers, of Syracuse, is said
to be the man selected for his successor.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Speaker Carlisle, Senators Sawyer, Cor
man, Miller Hampton. Call, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Mann, of Fla, and Sabin, with E. w. Durant,
of Mimi; Judge Thurman, with Judge NJ. ID.
DALI, Turner, Warner, TOole, Lawler. Blount,
Herbert, Dcugherty. Guenther, Heard, Winans,
with Edward Duffy, of Mich, Cox, outhwaite
and Wilson, ex-COmmissiOner Geo. A. jerks,
Commander f. +. Stone, and VIM. Vanamee,
Of MiddletOwn, NY.
PAYMENT OF THE ALABAMA CLAIMS COURT
AwARDs.-The Treasury department, having
completed the necessary examination and
made the pro rata calculations will tomorrow
the awards Of the court of commissioners of
Alabama claims, beginning with book one and
continuing in the order in which the judgments
were made by the court. The amount to be
paid out is about SO, 100000.
PERsoNAL-Secretary Whitney will attend
Thompson.-W. c. Mcdowell, OF Richmond,
Reilly, Of Chicago, J: T. Quinn, OF Toledo, Hon.
George West, Of Ba!lston, James H. Hssiln and
E. .0" x. stacfpols. Of Washington. was
in San francisco last tuesday. - Mr..
Thomas Ellison, one of the editors of the Liv.
erpool Post, and known In commercial circles
in Europe and America as the great cotton sta
tistician, is at the Arlington. He called on
the President this morning, in company with
Col switzler, chief Of the bureau Of statistics.
Gen. VIM: Harts1H, OF Port Huron, Mich, and
Judge Hagner and Representative Whiting
we're registered in New York last night
+. j. Pratt of Greenfield, +. B. Lawrence, F. w.
HoughtOn and Walter Burnham of New York,
C. III. Cramp and Charles w. Otto Of Philadel-
phia, and A. B. Mckinley and l. N. Stevens Of
Oenver are at the Rtggs.-Among late arri.
walls at old Point from Washington are w. A.
Marks, l. Harrison, wife aud daughter, Harry
wife. r. w. Frasier, VIM. Petit, r. W&llach, A.
c. Taber, wife and daughter, and Geo. E. Little.
Assistant AdjutanL General Volkmar has
returned to Washington from an inspection of
the National Guard OF Pennsylvauia at the en-.
campments In all parts Of the state.