Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1874, Page 1

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Use Budd Doble’ Condition Powder ‘The leettug tarfwen recogn te them O88 necessi For sate 7 ail Dragsists und Dealers. mars wly a —— —— INTERNAL REVENUE.—The receipts from this AMUSEMENTS. source to-day were $228,505. ; aa 3 Tae House Comurrres on Patents had the = Si a here EEccen end Director, | dillte make the Patent office distinct from the = Interior department under consideration to- re Ev eonneh Sy cones — =, “ day. They have not finished its consideration. MR. DION BOCCICAULT. Tue CaniNer sessiox to-day was attended . ya by all the members excepting Secretary Robe- Sica oe eee son, whois absent from the city. The session DADDY OLO was very brief, no important business being FEIPAY—BEN: FIT OF MR. BIUCICAULT, | “Dder consideration. DASDY ODuUWD. IT 18 UNDERSTOOD that a libel will ve di GRAND NOUCTOAULT MATINEE rected by order of the Secretary of the Treasary SATUBDAY, » % p.m against the steamer General Skerman, now In Preparatin, Mr_Bonctoslat’s Drama of lying at Key West, fora violation of the neu- THE COLLEEN B AWN trality act. POURTH PRESBYTERIAN © =a Lewis, ee | ait? ee Oe Perepyat.—Senator Lewis, who has been ~ the OB (LDREN ry home to Virginia to reeuperate, has returned to SCH d N_ | Washington, and although not in good health, Bodeearaca . ts again in his seat in the Senate. ‘Tux nut for the reduction of the army was oor. FOR Ds orena HOUSE. again under consideration by the House Com- MS. FRANK S. CHANFRAU, mittee on Military Affairs this morning. They Ta the great American Drama, by Spancer, of will probably be ready to report the bill some- time next week. AIT, THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER. ‘The great Drama of KIT ie a powerful portrayal Tue SexaTe Committee on Appropriations of southern and western lif*,fush with faa nod | to-day finished the consideration of the Senate Heroes ing om at On amendments to the naval appropriation bill. po Brae The committee substantially agreed with the @ Explosion—s and the Gauebrakes of Lo:isivna—Chataciers ant | Senate amendments to the b Micteiteuee | keranemecaerve Hewky 1. Presce, 0+ ‘KIT MATINEE SATURDAY. sill, Pa Begins at 8; over at 10:20, Admission,75 anc 59 | COTding to the Boston Gazette, is prominently sand gl. mentioned as a candidate for Governor of Mass- .WAMBOLD & BACKUS SAN FRA’ achusetts, as an acknowledgement of his ser- | MINSTRELS are coming. mar? vices in opposing the confirmation of Collec- ASH ON THEATER ComIQtE, | tor Simmons. Tr SAGs Sees; Sew Leee. Aree | we 51, Ovens Ania Paymaster G. E. FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING MARCH 2 | Baughman has been ordered to duty in the BAN ay SAT hoey Y ADSESD4Y | Bureau of Provision and Clothing. Assistant AY. OBANGE OF BILL AT EACH MATINEE. Paymaster James A. Ring has been ortlered to "| duty on board the The Greatest Novelty Antertainment in | Pern, to relieve P amer upon reporting of his relief will retarn home First appearance of th Test (Bnropean celebrity, and report his arrival. Sis anfermaten Dear mnie benwann | ‘Tum qowsciance SUDO the Treasury de- ee ee, ae Siiret aris partment was enriched to-day by the acquisi- ‘The popular ‘Song snd Dance Men, | tion of two hundred dollars and three cents, the or and Nelson iret amount coming from an anonymous cor- erat Epeuse Oemic Stoxer: Gar Linton. | respoudent in New York, who had not been ‘aaann ing proper regard to the government dues ‘The fascinating Lady Globe-performer, M’lle n the articles of ‘customs, and the last amount a trom a terribly conscience-stricken denizen of TGNOB) CARQELLAS BALLET TROUPE. | Philadelphia, who knew he owed the govern. E GEM BALLET TROUPE! ment that amount, but didu’t know what for. by the teantifnl ard dashing Premiore ——— Lea = BEMMELSBERG SISTRES, MISS FRANK Noutation STIE, and Corps'de Bs ommayeieS The excwisg Seusitivaal Drama, The Bobbers | lowing nominations to the Senate to-day:—3 Sf the Aber,” couclades ihe evening's enteriait- | p. ierry, to be collector of customs, district 0 Th: BEST ENTERTAINMENT in Washingiov. | Alaska, territory of Alaska; David Turner, marttf ector of customs, district of Alexandria, Va —The President sent the fol- a COLN HALL. ..”.”._ | Seth C. Moffatt, of Mich., to be register of land LFSCOLN Hace. office at Traverse City, Mich.; “ohn A. Pratl —~j . cy., to nsion agent at Lexington, Ky. pZHEOPORE vHomAS, Smiuel 0. Eamp, tobe dopaty pastonstss 5: Sixty Distinguished Performers. Wilmington, Ill; Melvin A. Cushing, to be 4 deputy postmaster at Minonk, Ili.; Edward F TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10. Denne, to be chief justice of supreme court of WEDNESDAY EVENING, MABOH 11, Arizona territory. ONLY GRAND CONCERT 7 ‘ ME. MYEON W. WHITNEY, ‘The celebrated Basso, will ap f, together with ConrIRMATIONS.—Th* Senate in executive her session yesterday contirmed tne following nomi- EMINENT SOLOISTS, nations: W. P. Thompson, register of land of- AND TH . 3 . tice, Boise City, Idaho; B. H. McEckron, reg- Dag af bag Ss ce ister republican land district, Arkansas; Uhas. ser Cents Extra - Tweed, associate justice territory of Ari- The saic cf « THORSDAY | zona; Anthony (. Keasbey, attorney United BOBNING Mare’ be mot "8 States, district of New Jersey; John W. Koss, ©. where the programme ef the Ooneert can %, collector internal revenue, 5th district In- ob ca a SSA diana; Edward L. J. Neally, collector customs, Btcmwey Son's Piauos are onciusively used, | Bath, Me.” Postmacters- Patrice 1 Dowling, mari-tr Toledo, Ohio; Benjamin B. Gale, Atchisor = — Kansas; W. N. Berkley, Alexandria, Va. OryNo Jon Exti and Sale) New No ee 456 ‘ ia TreSerartMexT cLeass are quite indig Tra St MARKRITER’S, 7H S. | nant over the attempts im Congress to reduce 439 7th street, between D and £ streets, eight | their number and pay, and are busy in our lo doors above Odd Fellows’ Hall, Cdoice Ol Pa’n'ings, Bogravings, Chromos, &c, | ©al jourpals contrasting the pay of the congres . laren ork’ Paper Haagings, Window | sioval and departmental emplovis. They Lave. on rent Petuace Biren Ueeas eaten, | the bentol the argument, for it is not to be de @ 1, Bivgs, Nails, <c., iu the District. nied that on an average the congressional clerk BO Teaws Cash ~ | receives double the pay of a departmenta ST Please rewemb + Narre and Number. jel-ly clerk, and there is Cpa waste and extrava-. LU KINDS OF CaST-OFF WEABING AP. nee at the Capitol than in the departments At 5H. ven in the contingent funds of the Senate and y mdi or calling on JUSTH, House there is more recklessness than in these are between of the departments. But Congress has a ten ota derness ior its own, and always will have. What ie wanted at both ends of the ayenue g more than anything else is equality of treatment LECTURES. and pay. A thameral favoritism "bas grown up : 7 all around, by which a few clerks have every- YY Ae SREREENS COCR SM: [ing they WON while tha tansane bane Mane FOUR LEOTUBES ON —Fan,” in Springfield Republican. ‘ —— eer pee Oe SRR ioop SvooEstion.—Mr. Editor: The House PROF. RICHARD A. PROCTOR, of Kepresentatives have passed an act which, if Bcerctary Royal Astronomical Soclety, Lonaon, etc, | ‘t becomes a law, will deprive more than on@ —— person in ® family from holding office in any Fin-t Lectur®_Thuraday Ever one of the departments of the government. | WopDERS OF THE STA would suggest, therefore, that w. the prin- Becune ‘COMETS am cfple involved might be a proper one in itself, rd Lecture—Thuraday Bvenin yet, under existing circumstances, the sudden THE SUN'S FAMILY OF PLANETS. application of it might operate with great se Wousth Lecture—Tessday Brening, Marsh 31, verity upon many worthy families, whose sole THE MOON. dependence is what they obtain in this way. PROF. J am not alone in considering the act in ques- Ra These L- peaaine highly illustrated with | tion unnecessarily oppressive in its immediate © large number of Phot bs exhidited by a pow. ii guint Oaybrere why me rgd te Print. | @ects. and would be glad to see it so amended in, in hg beng => provide that for the present —Oourse Tick: Rot more than two persons in apy one famil; Bingle Tick «t. with eeesrvescatsibconere tus aete | should hold office, aud that hereerter ee making —p oy Re ed pet shall not be lawful to appoint fas: ihe ace "ould he peal went INCOLN HALL. witout nealing. the Siavere cove yensa: Hon.A M ‘ADDELL, M.C, which must follow the ac’ nally passed in In eae’ wteg isritaslon, will deiteae |” Preeent shape- i Riese 4 OL J A peal IMPORTANT AMENDMENT TO THE PENSION WasnixeTon pebruary 27, 1874. Laws.—The Committee on Invalid Pensious of Hon AB Wo our ily Howse a Repreeentanetes the House to-day adopted an amendment to the ‘are 7 \ast proviso of section 4 of the recent codifica- Re eeeee tic at- | tion of the pension laws, making it rest shat and futeresting research | “every increaseof pension, except thoae provided eyages to, and discov- | for specific disabilities, should commence from @riva oD, this coptinent. the date of the examining surgeon's certificate + yy np zioneere = mye to that frst shows the increased disability.” The fadom, where the subicel end che field of in. | SbJeet of this amendment was to correct the A Seen indefiniteness of the law as it stands at present, whieh Se aperecmes and which says the increase shall commence ~: from the date ot the examining surgeon’s cer- titicate,” without specifying which certificate, there being frequently as many as five or more in the same number of yeas. For instance, © pensioner is examined in 157) nd pronounced worthy of an increase. His od cose may inet be rene ed, for several i -eueies wae = ater—say 187i—and for each year a reiteration CLOSING WINTER STOCK. | or tne cectinente ‘may be forwaraed to the Pex, sion office. The certificate under the last ap- plication of the pensioner is the one from which —— = present = at ee customary to “ = late the increare of pension, notwitstandin, IF YOU WANT the certificate of 1870 shows the applicant ns clearly entitled to {t from that: ate. The amendment proposed fixes the commencement BSBARGaING Of the increase from the first certiticate which shows the ap plicant deserving, instead. 08 3 , riv m ¢ amoant to whic! Er Now Is YOUB TIME. tntived between the date of and Tact certificate. Overcoats oor| T#® Govgrywent Paintin Orrice Le. = poll our | B00L10.—An afidavit, signed by H. H. Clapp, Cape Overcoats OUT | as presented in the Senate to-day by Mr. An- Drees Suits OUT | thony, which recites that he is aclerk at the Box Coats ouT | Gayernment Fenung Office; that ou the 22d of Youth's Sutte OUT | JaPuary, 1814, Mr. @. B. Corkhlil, reputed as Bugeneh Conte OUT | City. called on the’ ponent fa eae oe aus Bove’ Sais OUT | reams of printing paper, to conte eee Ay Cassimere Pants OUT | cle to put some work t immediate! Office Buite OUT | that reluctance te ‘Back Suite OUT | complying with thew request, but after Children's Overcosts OUT | pursuasive entreaty on part of said Walking Suits OUT | Corkhill and the positive promise to re- turn the same within a short time, he delivered Saas to sald Corkbill 40 reams, valued at $231.60, JB CLOSING OUTTHE WINTER'S ENOK- that said Corkhill has persistent! re! MOUS STOCK I HAVE TO vO IT Al KATES WHICH 4RE 4 GREATER ADVANTAGE TO THE PUBLIC THAN TO MYSELF. BU11 Have 50 MUCH ON Hany THATI MUST SELL IT; MATTER HOW LOW THS PRICES Go. A. STRAUS, He POPULAR CLOTHIER, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, ro Detween loth and Lith streets. THE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION. ‘The investigation into the charges made by the memorialists against the officers of the Dis- trict government was resumed to-day. Senator Thurman presided, and all the members of the Special Committee were present, except Messrs. Boutwell and Jewett. The memorialists were reinforced in numbers this merning Py the appearance of Marcellus right brothers. Mr, Allison offered a resolution, which adopted, authorizing any chairman pro (+ administer oaths te witnesses during the investi- West and the COMTROLLER BAKER RECALLED. Mr. Baker, District comtroller, at half-past eleven o'clock was recalled and e: i made reference to a law of June 20, 1872, au- thorizing the issue of bonds, the same being an act m relation to the liabilities of the city of Washington. I stated vesterday that the bonds bypotbecated in New York were $00 000; [ find monuted to $450,000; they of $435,000, not $450,000, as I stated yesterday; these notes were given to [The notes that have been renewed were exhibited by witness to the com- mittee, and examined by Senator Fhurman.) [t pears that the first note was issued March 3, 2,and the second September 17, 1872. The agreement between the District and the First National Bauk of New York was thenwead. It rs date November 10th, 1573. As I understand the, $14,000 ble in gold are agreed upon? A. ¥ papers were admitted as evidence. | Mr. Merrick asked the committee to make a note of the act of Co lating the disposition of the sinking fund and repudiating a portion of the act of the Legislative Aseembly of January 19th, 1872. Mr. Baker, resuming :—We lost six months taxes in the beginning of the government, from January to July, when the present District authorities came in possession, assestment was made. Question by Mr. Thurman:—Did I under- stand you yesterday that more money had been applied for school purposes than was collected ? A. Yes, sir; the overdraft is $173,000 in the years; the school fund owes this amount to other tunds. It was allowed to draw on other funds under the law authorizing the Governor to anticipate the revenues. Q. The overdraft was occasioned by the pay- ment of old debts? A. Yes, sir, and the com- pletion of school-houses. @. How much was the actual debt due for school-houses when the present government to power? A. itis izapossible to deti- upon reference they were to secure a del anticipate taxes. in how the anditing commis. and its functions. A. The legitlature created it ander an act of the first legislative assembly, approved June 16, 1871. Who constituted that commission? A. From memory, 1 would state Wm. Dickson, a Mr. Faehtz, and A. S. Pratt; they were some threé or four months completing their work; their report is in print. @. Under what law was the floating debt under the law I have referred to this morn! islative assembly. tanton.—And under the act approved Mr. Stanton then quoted the acts authorizing the appointment of the sinking fund commissioners. Baker resuming:—The commissioners under that act were the Governor ex of! W. Corcoran, H. M. They have been time, except the Governor. EXAMINATION OF COLLECTOR CLEPHANE. Lewis Clephane, Collector ot Taxes, was next ied and sworn ig, Of June 2), is ued in office up to this and was exam! Q. Tell us precisely how much revenue was collected for school purposes during the year A. I have only been collector since 1575. IT can refer to the books, however. Q. Give us the amount levied and ec: ‘There was levied in Washington 8: Jeorgetown $15,091.08, in the county paking @ total tor that year of $415,619.05; ' the District government actually went into opera- tiod June Ist, 1571; the amount collected for school purposes that year from November 1 to July ist, 1872, was: For Washingtoh 83 06, for Georgetown $12,870.30, for the county 58.47, making a total of $362,480.32; from 1 ry, 1873, there was collected ‘or Washington $123,749 58, for Georgetown for school buildings in Georgetown in the county $15,701.70; from Janu- to July, 1875, for Washington $43,- etown (for salaries) $3,313.23, 2, for the county making @ total of $57,185.14; from 1873, to January, 1574, Washington 85s,- salaries.) Georgetown (general expenses) 5, buildings $2,623.83, county #: fo March, 1s74, $1,457.90; total for sebool buil trom January 1 salaries) #6 ,518.3' Georgetown $636. The total amoun' purposes the first year (1871) was $115,619.06, for 72 8817 362 93; the aggregate amount of delin- juencies 1 cannot state without makin, culation; we don’t keep it separ tion of property in ISL was $36,217 under the presen regal levy was £1,221,075 12; the collections fer that year Ihave not with me; Ihave the amount unpaid; there is due of the levy of 1871-72 862, 388.41 for all purposes; for 187273 $229,412.89; there has been collected for the present year $761,940.73, leaving $1,126,5 janation do you give of that de- government; the property which has been assessed whi taxatle—school property, Baltimore aud Ohio railroad Ld ef which ison our books. exempted this class of property. I have notified the parties they must pay. Steps were taken to force the railroad to bay, but they got an injunction out; they e1 exemption under their charters; even on & new square of ground they have purchased with taxes due thereon, they refuse to make ou give an idea of the exempted property? A. made a statement of such amounts to about one-half buildings are included im assessor's land and buildings enter into the assessment Property is valaed, I think, at what ght be considered a forced cash sale. are eleven assessment districts, the aasessors are appointed by the Governor; one year, and are subject to removal by tue Governor, for cause; they are not coniirmed by the Council; there have jurisdiction of nothin, is pealed to them im individaai cases; the Gover- nor appoints that board. By Mr. Wilson.—Q. Since the 1st of March, there has been colleeted #65, teachers’ fund. By an act 1871, there is_@ provision the collector to collect taxes and deposit the *ame with the treasurer, the credit of respective tunds.« ever been repealed ? Has the money that has been collected since July, 1873, been kept in accordance with the provisions of this act ? @ distribution once a week; ‘The school fund is entered separate and kept distinct. If all the assessments for school pur- poses were paid up the sum would amoun' he aggregate, includ hey hold office iga board of ap; roved Aug. 23, maklug it tha duty of A. We make fup the county and Give us astatement as to the ori A. I cannot; of the funds funds are kept I know nothin; those that come in. The Distri at the National Metropolitan Bank; formerly kept, I think, at the First National Bank. they kept there at the time of our ‘Order te set Tp tee tdyanoes whichad oon | FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, | made, and was a final settlement with the old corporation. The settlement was made, and is conclusion of the comm ssioner’s re; gives a statement between the old corpo- ration and the District. In that way the Dis. trict was reimbursed on account of the old debts of the corporation. This is where the balance of $107,000 tor the school fund came from; the excess the school fund has received came from the settlement. He submitted a statement showing the receipts and expenses of the schools since he became Governor, which showed that he expended #115, 104, and collected 62.333. Sir Thurman asked the counsel to farnish the committee the law authorizing the new government to assume the debts of the old cor- poration. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS WILSON EXAM- x Frray, March 6. SENATE.—The chair presented joint resolu- tions on sundry subjects passed by the legisis- ture of Wisconsin, which were appropriately referred. Also, laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury transmit- ting a statement of the amount received at the Various ports of entry on account of violations of customs laws, and the distribation of the same tor the ten years ending June 30, 1572. Keferred to Committee on Printing. Also, commsynication ‘From the Postmaster General enclosing statement of postal service between New York and Washington, New York and Albany, and other places. Mr. Sumner presented a memorial from citi- zens Of Massachueetts, setting forth that the patent association, whose headquarters are at Warhington, is seeking to obtain legislation inimical to the interests of the people at iarge. Mr. Anthony presented a COMMUNICATION FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL PRINTER, giving an explanation of the charges made against his office of excessive prices, which Mr. Anthony asked should be read from the desk. Mr. Morrill (Maine) thought it would be an unusual thing to have the communication read, and moved that it be referred to the Commit- tee on Printing. Mr. Conkling said Mr. Clapp was an officer of this body, and as he bad been arraigned, he thought it proper that his explanation should be read. The motion of Mr. Morrill to refer the com- munication was agreed to. Mr. Chandler, from Committee on Commerce, reported bill to authorize the employment of certain aliens as engineers and pilots. Mr. Windom introduced bill amendatory of the Yellowstone park bill. Referred to Com. mittee on Public La EXVENSES OF THE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION Mr. Thurman introduced bill appropriating £10,000 to pay the expenses of the District of Columbia investigation. Mr. Conkling intimated a doubt as to that sum being required. There were no expenses that would naturally occur to any one except the small fee to Witnesses and the expen es of the stenographers. He took it for granted that the gentlemen memorialists were willing to pay their own counsel, and that citizens here who had expressed so much interest in the matter would willingly come forward and testify with- out waiting for the Sergeant-at-Arms t) come for them and to be paid witness fees. It was somewhat of a disappointment to find thateren here on the threshold of the investigation so large an appropriation was deemed necessary. He thought that all that was necessary should be voted to make this investigation thorough but he could not conceal his disappoint- ment that so much should be thought neces- ® “alr. Thurman said that no one sup that the investigation would be conductea with- out expense. If the Senate was not willing to trust the committee to dispose of the money, the investigation may as well be abandoned. The bill then referred to the Committee on Approp! INED. James O. Wilson, Supermtendent of Public Schools, sworn and examined:—Is Superintend. ent of Public Schools; has been since 1470; his superintendence, in part, extends over the whole district, the county and colored schools have superintendents of their own. i Q. Can you explain the everdraft for the school fund? A. It occurred by paying out more money for school purposes than was re- ceived from the tax levied. It commenced in July, 1571. The annual costs of the schools, ex- clusive of buildings, I would eatimate at 300,000 per annum tor the whole District, white and colored schools. There are one-third of the pupils colored; 17,000 pupils ure enrolled inall. The enumeration is 31,000 between six and seventeen years. Of these about 32 46-100 are colored. The average daily attendance is about 13,000, including all the schools. The schools are kept ten months in the year. We have all grades excepting the high school. Our highest grade is a grammar school, with a high-school class. We have a deficiency of school buildings. The greatest deticiency is right here under the shadow of the 7" Ihe teachors number 250. The lowest salary is $250 and the highest $1,800. My salary is $3,000. The monthly pay-roll amounte at the present time for teachers between $16,000 and $17,000; the pay-rolls are certified by the trustees of the public schools. The teachers are paid their salaries by a treasurer to whom the money is paid. The treasurer of Washington receives as a salary $500; Georgetown, £500; the county the same as Georgetown, I think. ‘These officers are appointed Y, the Governor of the District, who appeinss all school officers. Q. Do you know of any teachers who have been paid in tax lien certilicates? A. No, sir; think none have been thus paid. 2. How have the teachers got along since last September? Have they received any advances or supplies, to your knowledge? A. Not that t know of, only in a trifling way—none from the District government. Q. Lwouid like to know how these people live. Have they abandoned their positions, any of them? A. No, they couldn't afford to do that. QQ. Coulan’t they, as weil as work for nothing’ A. Weil, their position gives them some credit. Q. You say none have abandoned their places. A. No, onthe contrary; I am receiving daily appiications for appoiatments. |Laugh- ter. By Mr. Hubbell:—What proportion of scholars are children of employes of the general govern ment? A. About 31 per cent., nearly ong-third. be schools are maintained wholly by taxation; there is no other fund; they are free to ali child- ren between Gand 17 years of age; the 27 per cent. of the children of non-taxpayers are those in the chools, not in the enumeration; I visit the schools-usually once or twice a month; the teachers, under the rules or the Board of Tras- tees, are under my direction; they prescribe the books to be used and the course of study to ve pursued; I have no voice in the appointment of school teachers. By Judge Merrick:—The aggregate cost of ssalaties in Washington is abvut $90,000, of which nearly one halt is for colored. Q. If this be so, how could the fund of $61,000 “oliected from July last have become exhaust- ‘A. In daly last there was due four months’ salary; it was paid in August and September; the salaries for white teachers in that time would amount to $36,000, and for the colored schools about half of that amount, and then the salaries due during vacation were declared pay- «ble in advance—that is, July and August sal- aries were paid in June. By Mr. Mattingly:—When the District gov- ernment was organized there was four monchs salary due. The late corporation was very ir- regular in theirfpayment of teachers’ s#aries Salaries have been — in part by the old cor- poration in bonds. During Mayor Emory’s ad- ininistration the salaries were six mouths be- ‘he pew government pays with greater gularity than did the old. ‘The proportion of children whose parents are tax-payess is about one-third of those in attendance. y Mr. Wileon.—Do you know of any legisla- tive act authorizing the revenues of this year to pay the salaries of last year. A. No, sir, but — ig no other fund from which it could be paid. By Mattingly—1 think the District govern- ment has done all in its power to pay the ‘eachers and advance the cause of education generally. iled up his resolution to pro- ~ he a double track freight railroad from the Mississippi to the seaboard, and for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi, &c., and read some remarks in support of the same. r. Howe submitted a rasolution directing the Secretary of State to transmit the report of Prof. Gallaudet on art at the Vienna exposition. Adopted. TRE CENTENNIAL BILL was then taken up, and Mr. Sargent spoke in opposition to the same He said there had been to a very smail extent any favorable response to this idea of an inter- national exposition; but very few of the state legislatures had taken any action on it; the press of the country had not taken it up, and in tact almost the entire influence in its favor had been local. He heid then that there had been no such popular demand as would iastity Con- reas in making any large appropriation from the national treasury. With the exception of the local press immediately concerned, there bas been no expression from the press in favor of this project. On the other hand, leading pa- pers of the country had strongly discounte- ; need making any appropriation for this op- ject. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. —On motion ot Mr. Dunnell, (Minn.) the House con- curred in the Senate amendments to the bill to encourage the growth of timber on the western prairies, and it ae 7 + On motion of Mr. McCrary, the House ordered that there be a session to-night for the consider- ation of the bill relating to inter-state transpor- tation by railroad. Mr. Lowndes (Md.) stated that he was com- pelled to be absent from the House yesterday; that he was opposed to the franking bill the under discussion, and that if he had mm pres- ent be would have voted against it. Mr. 'vownsend, (Pa.) from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a biil for the reorgan- ization of the clerical force of the General Land Office. Referred to Committee of the Whole. Un motion of Mr. — (Pa.,) the Secretary of the Interior was directed to report to the House the names and post office address of all pension agents now in the employ of the gov- ernment. Mr. Platt, (Va.,) from Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported a bill appoint- ing the generalof the army, the Secretary of the Navy and the widow of the late Admiral Farragut a commission to select a statue of the latter to be placed in the Capitei. The Committee on Claims reported a number of bills, which were referred to the Committee ot the Whole on the private calendar. A number of private bills were reported from the Committee on War Claims and referred in like manner. Mr. Wheeler (N. Y.) reported a biil authoriz- ing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an American register to the Canadian-built schooner Almina and to change the name to Lizzie Davis, 3a Messrs. Wood and Potter (N. Y.) objected to the bill on the ground that it was putting one man upon @ better footing than others in allow- ing bim to import a ship while others were in- terdicted. ; Mr. Wheeler demanded tic previous uestion, and the bill was passed. Mr. Conger (Mich.) reported a bill to author- ize the Secretary of the Treasury to cha: the name of the propeller Wm. M. Tweed, of Buf- falo, to Newburg. Passed. ‘The Committee on invalid Pensions reported a large number of pension bills, which were re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole. On motion of Mr. Averill, the House non- concurred in the Senate amendment to the bill authorizing the payment of annuities into the Treasury of the Seminole tribe of Indians, and a conference, committee was asked. Mr. Butler (Mass.) es the resolutions of the legislature of Massachusetts rescinding the vote of censure upon Senator Sumner tor his action in relation to the battle-flag T Thurman.—Let me remind the coan- sel that the last question asks for an opinion. We cannot ask for opinions, it would prolong this investigation { y. Mr. Mattingly.—! merely asked him because he was Superintendent of the Public Schools. Mr. Thurman said that the committee had acted thus far under thetr general powers, and might so seocred further, but thag the time was approaching when the memoria! must make specitic charges. Of course they need not make awhole body of specifications, but they should be prepared with some specifications by Tues day next, or by Wednesday at the furthest. he committee, at 2 o’clock, adjourned until Tuesday next at 11 o'clock, . +ee- Tae Morety QuEstion.—The Committee of Ways and Means held a session last night, and beard Mr. H. D. Hyde, formerly assistant Wis- trict attorney of Boston, in favor of the aboli- tion of fines and penalties. Mr. Hyde concluded uis remarks before the committee this prs and was followed by Hon. A. H. Rice, forme! mayor of Boston, and an ex-member of Co: gress, and representing the national board of trade. He was followed by Mr. John W. Cand- ler, representing the Boston board of trade, al! the speakers being opposed to the imposition of fines and penalties on importers. The commit- tee will bold a cin ase evening, when Mr. S. B. Eaton, representing the New York cha m- ber of commeree, and Mr. Cephas Brainard will be heard on the same side of the question. THE AMENDED CiviL KicGHTs BILL.—The civil rights bill, as it will soon be reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee, differs in some respects from the original draft of Sen- ator Sumner. The first and second sections, forbidding the denial of the privileges and ac- commodations furnished by inns, theaters, pnb- lic conveyances, schools, cemeteries and benev- olent institutions, supported in whole or in part at public expense, to any person Y, reason of race, color jae condition of servitude, are substantially the same in both bills. The third section of the committee's bill provides more explicitly for the execution of the law by the United States, and is as follows: Sec. 3. That the district and circuit courts of the United States shall ha: exclusively of the courts of Ppt states, zance of = crimes and offenses against, violations of, the provisions of this act. And the district at- ares wena, A deputy marshals of ~ ‘BD tater, commissioners Ce a ——— fccipe pu courts a he United tates, with powers of arresting an: n- ing or bailing offenders againet the laws of the United States, are hereby specially authorized and required to institute every person who shall violate the provisions of this act, and cause him to be arrested 3 prisoned or bailed, as the case be, for fore such court of the United 81 or terri- From the President, transmitting a state- the several departments ae to the ost paid for 6 sever: e) a 1€ Cost the ‘tra Brion of matter Before. tne A letter from Helen M. Barnard in relation to charges against J. H. Baker, Commissioner of eDsODS. On motion of Mr. Hawley (Iil.), the House then went into committee of the whole on the private calender. torial court as by iaw has cognizance of the of- Balkam, D. D., while Tense, except in —- right accruing to | ning, was the person aggrieved; and such a killed, He was for shal) cause such proceedings to be prosecuted Pine street church their termination, as in other dl Papa of logic That nothing contained in this section shall be es construed to deny or defeat any right of civil ction accruing to any person ig respect to the} AFTER all, the in this act contained. And any district | York have resolved to have failing to institute and prosecute the preening a Patrick's snd poy Gos main of Sasol | coder ay Gene ae eae sum reby, to be recovered | the reliefor the fine tor the offence hxth section beck. sxising under the act reviewable in the Barry Staaw Miruion Several. bead of cattle A FORA Tm by com. | mation. Praaferred to the state of Georgia aiferninine | Exoxapinouy transfer never made, and he claims out: the property is, therefore, still bis, pat boy yp ee * % U * OF REV. ALFRED [Special to the Star arch 6—The esterday the charges fred Jamp, ately in this state, the cir- stationed at Gaithersburg, umstances of which case were referred to in STAR tome weeks since. Kev. A 1g MAN of ability, whose wife ts { one of the ministers in the cherch. They have been married children. A year or leged to have been Jump is a youn; the daughter o! years and have two more ago Mr. Jump is all ntimate with a single woman who attended his eburch, She was married by Jump to a re. oung man, who found out soon after. she was about to become a mother He charged ber with the fact, and she admitted it, and alleged that Jump had seduced ber The matter caused great excitement in Mont Jamp handed over his elder and was gomery county. papers to the presidin; vended. He did not offer to bring rebutting Ris case was investi a very able committee, a1 he contercnce to-day an f his expulsion, ee A NEW CUBAN SENSATION! What Does This Meant New York, March 6.—A Key West dispatch says: The Wabash, Despa‘ch and Pinta arrived from Havans. Admiral Case made a general signal that all reporters be required to leave the fleet. All correspondents thereupon lett immediately pa es The isky Crusade. CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS IN New York, March 6.—In the perance Society’? rooms yesterday, a number of gentlemen met to discuss the temperance movement. Kev. Dr. Cuvier ladies were feeling their way as God led them. ng all the pastors of the city, and getting the ladies in every church to organize on their platform of prayer, rsonal efforts. Sev. gymen followed with short speeches. A reso- (ation was passed invitin, denominations to meet in M. C. A. on Monday. A committee was ap- pointed to direct a series of public meetings in every part ef New York and the suburban gated yesterday by they brought Into janimous report in said the Brooklyn They were visiti persuasion and clergymen of ali THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETIRS IN WESTCHESTER NT are actively en, war on whisky. Pray- ing bands have ganized, but will private for the present. RTS THE PRY In St. Paul's M. E. church, Jersey City, Rey. Dr. Lowrie supplements a ust closed by organizing S00 members into a temperance league. Three uundred and fifty of the congregation are recent converts. : A PRAYING BAND AT LOCKPORT, ®. Y. Y., March 6.—A public meet-* ing Of Gitizens, to’ consider local temperance was hell here last night, and was tended. There was some talk of form- ing a praying band THE SUNDAY LIQUOR LAW IN PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, March 6. citizens to-day presented Mayor Stokel: 4 petition with 4,000 signatures asking t! forcement of the Sunday liquor law. he stated that whatever rule wi es of the quarter sessions he woutd fol- e had been waiting fortwo years for he expression of the court of a rule ‘to guide in the line of evidence required to secure the conviction of offenders. is congregation of Locxrort, X A committee of jas laid down by DISASTERS AT SEA. Keports continue to come to hand of wrecks, accompanied with loss of life and disasters to vessels, caused by the very swept over the Atlan- ira, from New Castie for Port Said, encountered the sterm and was lost. Thirty ot the people on board perished. COUNT DE CHAMBORD’S PICTU@ES TABOOED. i.—An order has been issued by the minister of the interior prohibitin, sale of the photographs of Count de Chambord. THE ROYAL WEDDING. Lowpon, March 6 —The Duke and Duchess ot Edinburgh are expected to reach Eugland © morrow. Extensive preparations are being made for their reception. The day will be ob- served as a holiday. A $7,590,000 FAMINE FUND. Loxpon. March 6.—Lord Ni And governor-general of Indi Indian office that it is expect wili be obliged to maintain three milion per sons for three months. account of the famine to the end of February last are estimated at $7 .500,000. —"e The Social Evil Law St. Lots, March 6.—The bill to repeal the social evil feature in the city charter of St. Louis bas been informally laid over in the state m motion of one of its most prominent friends, Another bill was introduced yesterday. ——_-e—___ New York Notes. _THE GRAF BISMARCK SAFE. New YorK, March 6.—The steamsh Bismarck, from Bremen February 10, safety of which fears were entertained, arrived ‘his mornin, Lonpow, March ales which latel; ‘orth brook, viceroy ja telegraphs to the ted the government The expenditures on i a Sa A Sheriff Absconds with 87,000. LovisviLiz,- March 6.—Joha B, Brassti:!d of Whitely county, Ky., Nas abscon ied with $7,000 belonging to the county. A DESPERATE WoorR—A Wife Won at the Mouth of the Pistol—& very curious story was told at the Tombs police court to-day befor Judge Morgan. Mrs. Caroline Brader, of No. 206 west 20th street, accompanied by band and mother,entered a double charg againsta young man named Wm. J. Livings- ton. The first charge was to the eifect that Livingston, becoming enamored of the com- her to be married to him, and two refusals, on the 20th of (c- tober last entered her room and discharged revolver at her bead, the ball pasei ear, lodging ina closet door behind her. The iady’s mother, Mre. Catherine Stohl, who lives in the same house, testified that she was present and witnessed the shooting. other plaint Mre. Bruder charges that subseq: on the night of the 26th of October, Li again came to ber room, she inting a pistol at her ened to shoot unless she consented to marry him. Fearing that he would carry his threat into execution, and there being no one near to whom she could appeal for protection, she obey- ea bis command to get in readiness for the mar- riage, and went wi 219 east 26th street, where LABOR STR1kEs.—The officers at the railroad office in Philadelphia the strike*of employes as being at all us or likely to become so. They say main line is unaffec and elsewhere strike caused si: wemteneo. Thay e incon- that the strike is Testoration of the old prices, but for ee til 3 H Gd if District A@aire in Congrem, MEETING OF THR SENATE DISTRICT COMMITTEE Th Senate Committee on the listrict of Co- Senate bill 463, supplementary to “An act to authorize the Washington (ity and Point Loom cut railroad company to extend a railroad into ‘Boure bill 2102, to Incorporate the Capitot compar y, was reierred to Me hoon , wae rel a mn "dy sick to Mr. a memorial of . Arthur McArthar ang other citizens of Washitgton, D. 7 Tposes, was referred to Messrs. Nobertesn Senate bill 575, to authorize the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company to constract a al railroad within District of Cotu was referred (0 the same gentlemen as ‘ub-committee. Senate bill 104, restoring to the Marshal of he District of Columbia the exclusive sapervi- “on of the jail in said District, was laid on the able for the present. The comgnittee agreed to report favorably with amendments, the bill to incorporate the Washington City 'Inebriate Asylum the istrict of Columbia. The amendments strike ut three sections relating to government ald, and simply grant a charter. Mr. Johnson, to whom had been referred Senate bill 129, wuthorizing the Washington, Civeinpati and St. Louis railroad oo: y to extend their road into the District of Columbia, and through several states, was at bis own request discharged from its further considera- tion, and was requested to ask that it be referred: to the committee On transportation. rca HOUAR COMMITTEE O8 THE DrerRtcT eld a meeting at 2.30 p. m. yesterday to con- sider Mr. Hoar’s resolution relative tothe pay- ment of school teachers in the District of Go- lumbia, and Gen. Chipman’s bill providing that the government shall pay « "ot the money for the support pablic schools. Governor Shepherd and Controlier Baker, re- presenting the District were present, as also Mr. Hoar. It was shown that of the gate school attendance in the District but 27 ber cent. of the pupils are children of tax-pay- ers, the remaining 73 per cent. being made up of Congress the children of members of of clerks in the various departments of the gov- ernment and other non- tax-payers, and thatthe generai government pays no part of the school tax. Controller Baker atated that the District authorities had overpaid the amount due the schoo! fund, and that there a at present an amount of school tax unpaid more than suffi- cient to cover the claims of the teachers and to Provide for all the other expenses of the schools. It aiso ane that Governor Sbepherd bad recently made arrangements to obtain loan to pay the teachers, but @ few days following the memorial of Riggs, Oor- coran and others was presented in Congress, and the Governor was notified that the loan could not be negotiated. Judge loar suggested that a bill be and reported by the District Committee provid- ing that Congress appropriate $300,000 as an sdvance on future moneys ty be appropriated by that body for the District, and that the stount advanced be deducted from the amount which may hereafter be appropriated for the purpose indicated by the general governme: The committee adopted the suggestion of Judge Hoar, and will report a bill to this effect. The Women's War on Whisky. A BYMN WITH “8HOO PLY” ACCOMPANIMENT. ‘The temperance crusade continues to rage in Columbus, Obio. At one of the saloons visited by the praying band, just as the indies reached the outside door @ crowd of men ran in and calling fer beer, rattled glasses and laughed, to show their contempt. The proprietor re- Cased to allow prayers to beifered, saying he teared it would only cause the ladies to be in- sulted. The tirst open attempt to interfere with the lady temperance crusaders occurred im the atternoon. The ladies pursued the same plan as that adopted in the morning, going insquade to separate parts of the city. One squad wont to ® hotel and beer saloon in west State street, kept by Lous Corradi, au Italian. They were tollowed by an immense crowd, Soo mormet bent on making sport of the proceedings. The bar-keeper met the ladies at the door and re- Tused to sign the pledge. ane the i gan to sing some one m the hotel ng street yelled cheered un- ‘il Captain Keeler, chief of police, called for silence, and made @ short speech, counseling respectful attention and commanding order in ‘be street. This had the desired effect, and the ‘adies moved to the next saloon, the cornet in he bote! meanwhile playing “Home, sweet home.” A most disgusting attempt at ridicule securred. Lawrence Aumiller, @ street com- Seon, eeieee & crowd of male and femaie loafers held a mock yer meeting, afver which he invited the crowd {a to drink, James G. Bull, mayor of Colambas, signed {he total abetinerice Pledge yesterday. ‘Tue ta- = show uo of their work, and in aromsch sentage intone and them did much to increase their strength. The crusade continues in Jefferson, Indiana, Dayton, Ohio, and other western cities. The Supreme Council of thi peravce, in sersion in New Orleans, have adopt- ed a resolution “heartily rejoicing over the up- rising of the Curistian, women of the country against the gigantic vice of the age, ve them words of cheer from Louisians P o LookING AngAD.—A few davs since a buxom woman brought to the register of wills a will made by her husband, and which she desired to file for probate. ‘‘When did he die’”’ inquired the sympathetic clerk to whom the docament was |. “Why, bless you,” responded the woman, ‘the ain’t dead yet, but he gave me that (pointing to the will), and he drinks a quart of liquor every day, and I guess,” continued she, with s laugh, ‘he'll play out in about three months.”” officer bad po more to say, quietly fled away the will_—Balt. American. _—_——— A Sixty Year Ocv Lover Murpers a Yournrci Rivat —Chas. W. z » & BEgTO, nearly sixty years of age, shot and killed and then beat brains out of Moses Mosby, spother negro, aged about twenty-one at Columbian Bottom, about six miles from ‘St. Louis, day before yesterday. They were both paying their addresses to a young mulatto girl, and jealousy was the cause. Adams surrendered himself to officers. Fem ace Surrracs in Micnioan.—The lower bouse of the Mi jislatare voted day— 4 to 39—to ut the word “* male” in rena pe ith tntonse exctte- TOY a oo ‘Troops despatched to various: Munitions were ‘from the U1 ‘States. ne continued to rage, and the deaths from the disease av seven daily.