Fees of United States Marshals and Assistant Attorneys.

The Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice has agreed to report favorably the bill allowing United States District Attorneys to employ assistants in. important cases in which the interest of the United States is involved. The committee took like action upon Durham's bill fixing the compensation of United States Marshals and their deputies. The bill, as amended by the committee, provides that the compensation of Marshals shall not exceed $5,000 per annum, and that of deputies $5 per day while actually employed. Any Marshal procuring from a deputy a receipt for a larger amount than he has paid to said deputy, files the receipt, and procures credit for its amount in the settlement of his accounts, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, and be imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than five years, or both.

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South Carolina

In answer to your inquiry, I inclose you printed slip
in advance of the regular

March

1881

Programme.

The doors of the Senate Chamber will be opened at 11 a. m., to admit those who are entitled to admission, as follows:

Ex-Presidents and ex-Vice-Presidents, Chief Justice, Associate Justices, and ex-Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.

The Diplomatic Corps, Heads of Departments, Members of the House of Representatives, and Members-elect.

Officers of the Army and Navy who, by name, have received the thanks of Congress.

Governors and ex-Governors of States, Judges of the Supreme Court of the District, Judges of the Court of Claims, the Commissioners of the District, Assistant Secretaries of the Departments, Assistant Postmasters-General, Assistant Attorneys-General, and the Judge-Advocate-General.

The Diplomatic gallery will be reserved for the families of the Diplomatic Corps; (tickets thereto will be delivered to the Secretary of State for distribution.)

The families of the President and Vice-President, the President-elect and Vice-President-elect, and of the ex-Presidents and ex-Vice-Presidents, will occupy seats east of the Diplomatic gallery.

The Reporters' gallery will be reserved exclusively for the use of the Reporters for the Press; (tickets thereto will be delivered to the Press Committee for distribution.)

Heads of Bureaus, Comptrollers, and Auditors, will occupy seats west of the Diplomatic gallery.

All the foregoing will enter the Capitol by the east lower door of the Senate wing.

The other galleries will be thrown open to ticket-holders, who will enter the Capitol by the north door and the bronze door of the Senate wing, which will be thrown open at 10.30 a. m.

Seats will be reserved in front of the Secretary's desk for the President and the President-elect; and on their left for the Committee of Arrangements.

Ex-Presidents and ex-Vice-Presidents, the Chief Justice, and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, will have seats on the right of the Chair.

Heads of Departments, and Officers of the Army and Navy who, by name, have received the thanks of Congress, will occupy seats on the left of the Chair.

The Diplomatic Corps will occupy seats on the right of the Chair, next to the Supreme Court.

Members and Members-elect of the House will enter the Senate Chamber by the main entrance, at 11.30 a. m., and will occupy seats on the right of the Chair, next to the Diplomatic Corps.

Governors and ex-Governors of States, Judges of the Supreme Court of the District and Judges of the Court of Claims, the Commissioners of the District, Assistant Secretaries of the Departments, Assistant Postmasters-General, Assistant Attorneys-General, and the Judge-Advocate-General, will occupy seats east of the main entrance.

The Rotunda will be closed, and the passages leading thereto kept clear.

The other doors and entrances to the Capitol, except those to be opened under this arrangement, will be kept closed.

At 11 a. m. the President and the President-elect, each accompanied by a member of the Committee of Arrangements, will arrive at the bronze door of the Senate wing of the Capitol, and proceed to the President's Room.

The Vice-President-elect will be accompanied to the Capitol by a member of the Committee of Arrangements, proceed to the Vice-President's Room, and afterwards into the Senate Chamber, where the oath of office will be administered to him by the Vice-President.

The Diplomatic Corps will assemble in the Marble Room, and proceed in a body to the Senate Chamber at 11.15 a. m.

The Justices of the Supreme Court will enter the Senate Chamber a few minutes before the President.

The Senate will assemble at 12 m.

The President and the President-elect will be introduced by the Committee of Arrangements.

After completing the organization of the Senate, those assembled in the Chamber will proceed to the platform on the central portico of the Capitol in the following order, viz.:

The Marshal of the District of Columbia, and the Marshal of the Supreme Court.