Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1876, Page 1

~ THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays excepted, | > AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, | Pennsylvania Avenne, cormer Lith street, | 7 | The Evening Star Newspaper Company, | 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. | pescaak sma PARE EVENING STAR ts served by carries fo midscribers at Ten Cents per week, or Forty- | four Cents per month. Copies at the counter, | | So Hil tal HY i bave intended them to use a security — limited to the fending of ex! , leDied ness to discharge and satiety + created obligation? Te Two Cents cach. Ly mail—postage prepaid eS ee eee Bixty Cents # month; one yeer, $6, ai 933 er sincerpion mercy atau | WER, 47—N9. 7,225. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1876. TWO CENTS. SPECIAL NOG Is. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. the act of June 20, 1874. ‘These contracts of | tion of the contracts of the board of publi» | EVENING STAR. Tenoat tne DISTRICT INVESTIGATION. | Se Seimarae eeieamats | Sha sesaeaaen cate ZEN and by whieh th that the contrac- 1t is Aigo stated that there are contracts of Exper Excelient Masters wil! be heid 3 pila-oute betas lying dase p imsro i sid thereto btful e Bali. outs west es th tectand Pa are, | Washington News and Gossip. | o» pistrict of Columbia, reported tavorably A Report Submitted to the Committee, | tors should be paid therefor 1a. 3.63 bonds of | dou tion. which, if completed, TUESDAY EVES May 23d, ». 7% o'clock. —_——_o— the District, seem to your committee to | are payable in 365 bonds. amounting to Wp cote cltha toe bill fo amend the act incorporating the joint bave been without authority or warrant of | $14, . The sum of $548,353 2 hadalteady welts JOHN Kv wWwIN MASON, Recordar GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.—Inter- | stock ass: ciation of the Young Men’s Caris- A Partizan Campaign Docament. law. been certified yf Bommel rn of audit,on ac. = = = nal revenue, $295,544 94; customs, = 43 63. | tian Association of Washington, D. C.. and If there were any doubt of the correctness | count of the 9 contracts of the HEAP QUASTERS BATIONAL VETE —— i asked for its preseat consideration, but ob- of this construction of the act the circum- | board oP ge wor! a oo bave acted in all this 5 i peal ae aS RH Ss | THE REPORT on the Emma mine tnvestt- | jection was made by Mr. Edmunds. Severe Arraignment of District | *#nces attending the passage of the act and | $2.547,106.65 as the actual, estimate! and | contro! and supervision ban fc a wilt be id | - tes. | gation will not be submitted tothe Houseb- Mr. Merrimon submitted a resol ition in- contemporaneous with it cannot fatl to re- | contingent expenditure on account of the | siovers, and nol the engineer, who make and Gat batt a tee ae Seat | ane plilaaraes struciing the Committee on the Library to Officials and Their Indict- move ii. The object of Congress is apparent | compiction of the incomplete contracts of | sign these coutracts. it is they who contract 20 élere snd ssilors who wish to become ie *_—____— inquire ees pep ag of collecting and ment Recommended, some see eg on —¥ act itself. ye war, $0 the * a ee ee. es, - to ay =. ~~" aod the ef thé b are cordia'ly invite? to at- MR. ALEXANDER IDELMAR, the statisti- Tinting the resolves and acts of th3 Uonti- mai @ late District government ax ie work, including | place where it is to joae. e engineer is ord-r of the Presigent, clan, has been appoloted clerk to the House | nebtal acd Confederated Congress. fle said Board of puolic works in’s course of bank. Of doubtful obligation, to be | responsible for the measurement’ of the w= Committ E in the Nav be bad found on examination that many of ANOTHER REPORY. ruptey, to make the Commissioners the as- 20 in excers of the estimate of the | work, and determines wheiber the contrac eS SONS OF J Sepasia olay xpenditures in avy these oct and Tevolves had never bees pee and Seo, a to audit and fand joint, committee. | Your, committee, have | tor compiles with the contract made by > PION&ER ry rtm rinted. The resolution was a topte |. ail the outstanding obligations of e Dis- a Teports of 74, elther of | Commissioners, bat the respoosibiti Bre re. nested in regalia) st the Chad GEN. O. O. HowaRD “ays he did not serve . Mr. Clayton was, at his own en ex- | The District Commissioners Should | trict. The arrangement was temporary aod | the Commissioners or of the engineer, the | authoriring the Work aod fixing tm we Phara EDNES0AY EVENING. 74h Se Sete * cui ed from service as @ member of the board not be Held Responsible for Provisional, and the terms of the act afford | slightest intimation that any other expendi- | mote of the pay meat belong to the Commite- f stent ck, tp, for the arpose of wt- | AS @ trustee of the Freedmen’s Bank, as | of visitors to West Point. the Wi Doi th. conclusive evidence that Congress expected | ture would be required on account of the con- | sioners. The engte may have fatled to Ee! oe eee ate cnee fb | charged in the report of the Congressional | ‘The Chair announced the appoint nent of so eare ‘oings of the to frame a ‘manent goverament | tracts of the board of pablic works than we | see thai proper aud suitable materials were Ry order SEWAKDS. BEACH, WC, | committee appointed to investigate the af- | Mr. Hileleock as a member of the boar! of joard of Audit. for the District at the ensuing ses-| bavegiven above. The Commissioners had, | used. and his measurements and estimates B.O PULBINHOBN,E 8. my223t_ | fairs of that institution. directors of the Ref rm School of tae Dis. sion. Large appropriations of mouey | at the timeof making this report, been inof- | may have been Incorrect, but this dows not = a. & - ee rictol ‘olumbia for five years. a were made by this act, and an unusual rate | file fiveorsix months, and they certainly Ss FAUDBBAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION. CoNGRESSMAN RAINEY'S SEAT.—Thesub- Mr. Conkling, from the Committee on The report of the Committee on the Dis- | of taxation was authorized to be levied from | had had ample opportunit committee of the Honse committee on elec- | Commerce, ieported adversely Senate bill | trict of Columbia, charged with an tovesti- oe pmarded SS ae gin tot — poo HO ad pe grag 8, copsisting of Messrs. Harris, Thom sol, to improve the harbor of Washington | gation into the affairs of the District, has | 4"¢ demands of laborers, iployes on account of this and We . have decided to report & city and the navigation of the Potomac eee prepared, so far as a erases sed others, in order that the District might be | was their duty —— this informat > of Congressman Rainey retaining bis | Ver, and it was indefinitely postponed. 2 £ xtricated from the financial embarrassment | the President, and they performed this duty ‘expenditure during r e ju ug Also adversely,from the Committee on the | Co™mmittee isconceraed, by Chairman Back- | which the reckless and unlawful manage- | in giving the above figores. In the same re- sm ©, made West at 7: o'clock 5 Sa Judiciary, Senate bill 362 meet the obfe: toinform them - work specified in sin the 365 bonds of the 7 meeting of the FEDERAL JLIATION wilt be helt for the n MONDAY EVENING, Jon> Hall, No. 615 7th street north The fret mo: BUILDING ASs Finent of dues cD. a prescribing sn | Ber. 1t was read to the full committee on | ment of the affairs of the board of pubile ay they state that— 1. nd conerete Books fcr subscription t> stock (shares one dollar Tur Hox. GrorGe# H. Boxer, minister | oath of Gfiice, and it was indefinitely post- | S#turday last, and ordered to be printed. It | works and of the District had entailed npon ‘he District 3 bonds issued to pavements. The antwority toadd this sum tech) are Pow opensst the following place- = pu . = poned. Also favorably, from the Commit- | “f8t quotes the preamble and resolution | its government, and thenceforth to be ran December 5, 1571, amounted to $2,085,108 73 | Lo thecebtof Ube District is derived from Argust Geredorif, Vice Presideat, No. 1904 7th | Pleulpotentiary to Russia, satled fram Liv- | Men ine gudiciary, Sonate Billa relating | ¢Opted by the House on the 5lst of January | on a cash basi Certificates issued convertible into section 9 of the coutracts of the board of pub- Street northwest. D . erpool on Saturday in the steamer Russia for | 1) the jurisdiction” Of the ecirenit courts of | '@St, ordering the investigation, and pro- It was said by one of the members of the 3.65 bonds, but not converted... ¢ 45 | le works. This section Is In these : Jos. R Edson No. 711 G sreet northwest New York. Mr. Boker, who represents our | the United States. ceeds as follows : joint committee in the Senate “that the idea - Ninth. It ts fortper agreed that ifat any Jemes ®. Bdward< No, 456 Louisiana avenue. soverpment as acceptably in St. Petersburg ‘The Senate then proceeded, with closed By the terms of the preamble and resolu- | Of the bill was to lift this bankrupt District es Ume, during the period of —— years from ©. W. Beheli, No. 311 D street. as formerly in Constantinople, returas home | dcors, to the consideration of the articles of | ton it will be seen that the scope of the to- | out of lis present distress, and for that pur- the completion of this contrac ny part or Job Barnard, City Ball. oer op leave of absence on @ short centennial | impeachment against W. W. Belknap, late | Guiry !ntrusted to the committee inciuded | pose appoint a temporary government and — parte thereof shall become defective, from M. P. Callan, No. 613 7th street north wos! visit. Secretary of War. te action of the District Commissiouers | & board of audit to audit the accounts of this | Distric: unadjusted claims before improper ma or constraction, and in Sahn oe Reyes —_———__—— et since their appointment, in authorizing | District, which for tree years have never | the board of audit.............. 10,006.51) 66 | theaplaron of the sald Bee a eee oie tee Bonrokicedy SIR EDWARD THokNTON, British minis. | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—Im- | work ro be done on the streets and sewers of | seen the face of an auditor.” The chairman | which would constitute the {ull amount of 5 2 require repair, the said party of the sesond raueberger, Nos. 904 and 906 7th street | ter at Washington, who has acted as presi- | mediately after the reading of the jourual, | the District, alleged to be unwarranted by | of the joint committee on the part of the | the District 365 bonded dept when certified art = part will, on being potified thereof, imme. Borthwest. ; - | the House went into Commitiee of the | !@W, ard thereby adding to the debt of the | House on the day the bill passed ‘this House | and funded. The time within. which ail | diately commence Sud somplece te anes Be alos At the cae OE ot northeast usec ita soca eae Whole on the naval appropriation bill, Mr. | District several miilions of dollars, as well | said:—-"The District is, 1n a sense, utterly | claims could be presented to the boant of | ihe eaten and © party of the fret Chas. B. Fraser, Bo. 476 Louisiana avenae- ceive apy compensation for his services, | C|¥mer in the chair. as the conduct of the board of audit and its | ba:krupt. They have no meaus wherewith | audit had expi: some two months when | pert; and In case of failure or ungloct es tee The pending question was in relation to | Stbordinates in auditing and certifying to | to carry on the government any longer. | their report was made, and under the act of | said party of ‘Une second party to so do, the Milton C. Barnard, No. 456 Lonisians avenue. he U1 Si Bi 7 ants | the Ab&ndoument of certain navy yards and | tbis alleged unanthorized debt. Tae two | Their treasury is utterly exhausted. Tuey | June 2), 1874, no other claims could be pre- | same shall be done under the direction ‘and . JAMS FRASER. Prevideat, | (ome atting testimoulal be cieoe twig, | Jetention of others. Mr. Lewis, who reported | lines of investigation are, in many respects, | have no meaus to pay current expenses, | septed Unless Congress should extend ‘ne | orders of the party of the dees nacre ane No.617 street northwest. | 20°F the commission will taxeaction onary | the amendment, advocated it: distinet and separate; but both Involve the | much less to pay their debts. It is| time for their presentation. As to claims | expense of the party of the second part. ¥. G@. MIDDLETON. Secretary, cane} ike O86 tis puamention Other amendments were offered looking to | Construction, to some extent, of the act of proposed to change this government, @ contracts of the boara of ne construction vy which this large ex- - re Rank. ying ggestion. the retention of all the yards now in use for | June 20, 1874, by which the Commissioners | ar fe the purpose of carrying on | public works, there was no further time nditure Is now Jussed sony 4. ar Tris Geena bar'e Office. STORY OF SECRETARY BRISTOW’s Res- | general purposes. were invested with the executive authority | the government here ad inferim it is pro- | given by Congress for their presentation, so | have o 20 22.25.27 293 anel 385 = 1 IGNATION.—A rumor gained al elreu- — ee —— of the District, and the board of audit was | posed there shall be three Commissioners ap- | that the Commissioners had it in their Se oo signee Lain The Proposed Claims Commission. | authorized to examine and certify the then | pointed by ihe President, and that they shall | power, with reasonabie certainty. to ascer- is ¥. MO a. lation this afternoon that Secretary Bristow Editor Star: Permit me to offer one or two | floativg and unfunded debt of the District. lake charge of the affairs of the District and | tain the probable amount of the 3.65 bonded —— bad resigned the portfolio of the Treasury suggestions in reference to the editorial in itpeed hardly be stated that this act of | perform the daties now vested in the gover- | debt. Gen Wm. Heers Browne, La. av. aud 4% street, Secretary Fish suggests by the consent of engmesr accom. i panying and making & part of weir EERVICE = department. At 5:15 o'clock the Secretary | your paper of yesterday upon the subject of | Covgress was the result of the conclusions of | por and the board of public works, except as it was made up of certificates converted | of December, 1874, that they did not 7 BY oF sone was closeted with the Presidentat a Cabinet | je bili how pending in Congress providing | ‘he joint committee of the two houses, ap- | limited in the second section. Taese are I: into bonds, certificates issued but not con. | suchsum to make the repairs of DOLN meeting. | Assistant Secretary Conant says | for an adjudication of the claims of citizens | poluted in the Forty-third Congress to ia- | irations, itil be secn, placed on these Commis- | verted into bonds, and uvadjusted claims | conerete pavements, abd that LINCOLN HALL tuat the story of Mr. Bristow’s resignation | against the District of Columbia. You ap- | Vestigate the affairs of the District, and swoners, such as will, in the opinion of the commit- | presented to the board of audit, and alto- | upon the revenues of the District a: SABBATH AFTERNOON, MAY 2Isr, 1576. is the sheerest nonsense, and totally un- rear toexcept to the pro} commission | pecially of the board of public wi it —_ the people from any further incurring | gether aggregated £10,006,51466. In the re- | priations by Cee for the ‘The adjourned annual meeting of this Associa- | founded in fact. on the assumption that it Is to be a partisan | @bolished elpovane: maniaea eee: of debris.” portof tbe board of audit (p. 258 Ex. Doc. 1, | needed for the year 1875-6. Im this report fion will be held SATURDAX EVENING. 20ch Instant, at 75 o'clock. mayl7 tr : commission. Now I do not know whether | CO™) Again, be the bill provides also for | part 6) the same result is reached, and after | the engineer, made & part of the report THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE Po- | {P'te"to be partisan or not, but it occurs to | Dly, and the board of public Works, which | funding all the floating debt. ‘Then it is pro- | giving the class and amount of each claim of | the Commissions, among his estimates for THE Betsr. TOMAC, General Winfield S. Hancock, presi- | me that if so, owing to the manner in which | Ws tosome extent a corporation, independ- | vided that the sinking fund commissioners | the audited and unaudited debt authorized the year 1875 will be found the following, hae a dent, bolds its seventh annual re-union at | it is to be created, it will in that respect be | ©Dt of the Disirict goverament. The second | shall, when this debt is audited, cause tobe | to be funded into 365 bouds, which corres- | Repairs of wood pavements, which MILBUBN’S SODA W. s the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, on | @ good deal like a popular English drink, | Section of this act authorizes this commis- | issued a bond mds exactly with the amounts given are to be charged to contractors BATURAL SPRING WATEES on Draught. Tuesday, the ech ofJune. The ee 24 will | for it will be about balfand half. Your ob- | 8on— Pela tn Ofty years, and th by the Commissioners and stated above, and requiring ® cash advance by IOE-COLD TEA, COFFEE and CHOOOLATS. | be delivered by General John A. Dix, and | jection to this commission on the assump- o exercise all the power and authority | forms of indebtedness may be funded in that | the auditors say that “classes 4 (con: «$31,629.42 1429 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUR, the poem by Mr. Wm. Winter, of New York. | tion that it is going todrag up out of the | 20Wlawfally vested in the goveruor or board | bond, and be gave asa reason for fixing upon | tract-work) and 5 (general claims against ed apls-tr near Willard’s. | The meeting of various corps belonging to | depths an appalling array of old corporation | f public works of said District, except as | this bond that the committee have found | the District) will ly be diminished ractors, requiring @ cash x the army of the Potomac will be held June | c)#ims and Joon Pope Hodnet pay-rolls, and | bereinafier limitc4, and shall be subject to | that in some of the contracts of the board of | when audited, but by a continuance of work Advance by#Pistrict goveroment. 15,108.70 ph Sapa Sth. The Society of the Army of the Cum- | allow them, to the farther grief of the tax | il the restrictions and Iimitatioas now im | public works an allowance of 25 per cent. | under contracts, No. 4 will be ultimately | Repairs of wood pavements, on fo. 716 sth street, near Treasury Departavent, | teriand, General P. H. Sheridan, president, | payers, is not, I respectfully suggest, at all by law on said governor or board, and | had been made to the contractors in the price | increased.” This conclusion is greatiy cor- | which the term of three years has pos Claims, aims 7 ‘Sc borne out by the provisions of the bill. There | 8ball have power to apply the taxes, or other | of their work, on account “of the deprecia- | roborated by a communication of the Com- expired, or will expire, during Se auane Pension aug Bounty Oven” | General ani’ Tere, maident mes ia | ienoihing fa the bill giving chix comtaiscies | Tevenuies of enid District, to the payment of | Hou wt tine securities un whieh course ed | Tokeotonene ad tothe chairmanorthe | eal year {1505).-..-- sess ” 4 NEHVOUS BXHAUSTION.—A Med Philadelpbia Jane 6th and 7th. power to allow any claim. If I understand | the current expenses thereof, to the support | been mace. Taking this into considera- | District Committee of the House of Repre- And for the year 1866 the sum of #109, Essay, comprising a series of lectures ot —_ it, they are to examine all ciatms presented | ©! the public schools, the firedepartment, | tion, the committee _bad come to the | sentatives of the last Congress, bearing date | is estimated to be necessary, to be e: Ki ‘A York THE REPORT of the medical statistics of | and report each case, with the sworn testi- | @Nd the police, and to the payment of the | conclusion that the 3.65 bond would make | the 18th of February, 1575, in which they ask, | for the same purpose, and with the @n the cause how- | the Provost Marshal Geveral’s Bureau by | mony supporting its validity, to Congress. | ‘!ebts of said District, secured by a pledge | this as near right as ible.” The | Among other appropriations for the fiscal | statement that it was & cash advance by indispatably bow lost bealth may be regained, That body alone wiil have authority toallow | Of the securi if District or board of | report of this joint committee is in har. | year ending June 30, 1876, the sum of three | Distriet “to be charged to contractors.” shrdie sore, wecpee st,tne Supedhasate to | Dr. J. H- Baxter, Chiel Medical Parveyor U- | ("cisims eo oxsinined into. I presune | public works 9s collateral, and also to the | many with the semasie mage ta onot hee | bumived toa sixty-five thousand dollars, | tbe statement heretofore referred to, sent — aS aus ronald e890 soars’ oruanionss. [hati is now ready for distribution by | you do not seriously recommend the few | P2Yment of debts to laborers and employes | by members of the co:nmittee on the pas- | interest on 3.65 bonds—thus showing tnat | the Commissioners to the chairman of Price, . ‘ongress. Tis report consists of two vol- . ta or.Dr. LJ. Kahn, A < : honest claimants among our citizens whose | 0f ihe District and of the board of public | sage of the bill. After enumerating the in. | they estimated that the District debt in 3.65 | District committee of the House, and to ofie weuicnse St batten st.,8.¥. apl-ém | Umes quarto, of about 750 pages eaca, and is | iaims because they were honest had a hard | Works; but said commission, in the exercise | debtedness and means of payment of the | bonds would not exceed ten millions of dol- | found in the Congresmonal Record of F BD. O00KE. Ju_ & 00. ‘ilustrated by lithographic charts and maps, | time of it before the late board of adit, and | Of such power and authority, sball make no | District, it says, “of the foregoing indebted- | lars. (See vol. X, Cong. Globe, 43d Cong., | 22, 1875 (vol. x, page 1001), they ask an . 1» IR. se) showing as the result of the examination of | j:. curiously constituted secretary, to the | CODtract nor incur any obligation, other than | ness under the provisions of the bill, the fol. | Februar; 1875, page 1904.) priation Of $1,074,423, and the tl BANKEES, over & million of men the relation of disease tender mercies, the vexatious delays, and | Seb contracts and obligations as may be | lowing items may be funded at the option of 1. It will also appear from their report of | of this sum Is €109,217 53 “for Ts to wood mee 1429 F street. | t0 Social condition, complexion, age, height, the fees Attendant upon suits in our courts. | necessary to the faithful administration of | the holder or ereditor of the District 1s74 that they passed a resolution to the eiTect | and conerete prvements per estimate of en- beer grease tntmest tothe section peomanion These courts have with great upanimity on | te valid laws enacted for the govera.nent | Auditor’s certificates...... $4,900,886 59 | that all contracts thereafter given out shall | gineer.” Congress appropriated the sam of STBATFOED F n various occasions ruled that the governtmre of said District, to the ¢xecution of existing | “4 mount due or to become tue on in= be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder «60.000 Instead of the sum asked, not spe- le sss Uroughout the country. Early application | Se uconoctetar Gaicaone ie part oF Ee legal obligations and contracts, and to the | ~ complete contracts, estimated. 1,325,000 00 | “after due notice by advertisement, and the | cifically, but for general purposes. = SS OENSON BO | By these desicing this report should be made | federal government, aud cannot be sued. A | Protection or preservation of improvemenis | Claims for damages on account right reserved to reject any and all bids, Your committee are of toe opivion that | is JOHNSON & CO., os bmg owrereerner pe! Posen TT man with an honest claim caunot afford to | €x!8ting, or commenced and sot completed, of change of grade, and for aud during the year i8ii they faithfully | these facts afford convincing eviaence BANKERS, Gerner of 10tA Strest and Pennsyie spend ove half of it in order tosave theother | %t the time of the passage of this act.” mice d taken for streets,es- maintained this resolution by advertising | as late as February, 1575, the Commissioners A DivipE oF $12,000.—Ex-Senator Me- | half, and that was largely what was the | , By the third section of the act “the con- imated. eee 550,0%0 00 | for proposals for all new work to be done | construed their powers, as to repairs Dona’d, of Arkansas, testifiet yesterday be- | ™#tter under the late board of audit. And | troland charge of the work of repair and | Sewer certificates onistanding.. 1,030,000 09 | under their authority. The system in vogue | pavements, as the committee do, a Avene, it would seem to be but fair that such cl: - | 'mprovement of all streets, avenues, | 4 id under sewer- ta: under the board of public works had been | they could only be paid for in cash out Deelers in Government snd District Securities | fore the House committee on expenditures | a.:ts should baverellef with as little exaenos ale:r, sewers, roads, and bridges of the vas o +(O§ condemned in strong terms by the joint com- | of their own fuvds. Iostead of using the Boreten Exchange sad Gold. eepis-ly in the Indian bureau that in 1872 the owners | t_thcmeeives as possible. Dstrict of Columbia,” was given to an ates mittee, and this resolation was carrying | money thus appropriated on their own esti- SAMUEL G. YOUNG, of the Flagstaff silver mine, situated near In relation toone branch of claims, namely ufticer of the engineer corps of tne army, to | Yotal cstimated that may be out the recommendation of that committee eand at ibeir instance, they seem to BOTARY PUBLIC, the Emma mine, in Utah, sent Shaffer to | claims for damages to real estate, I think | 0€ @ppointed by the President, “sutjec'to} funded «- $8,305,836 59 | During 1574 they also declined to furnish any | havediscovered that they contract for the ecti?-tt Gusta — Europe to sell the mine before a land patent | you, perhaps, take a somewhat erroneous | ‘be seneralsupervision and direction of the ‘They state further i Unis report that the | materials, such as curd stone, brick, sewer- | payment of these repairs In 5.65 and * — was granted. The mine was sold, the land | view of the matter. Ofall the various classes | 84!d board of commissioners.” Tue power | District treasury 1s practically exbausted | pipe, &c., to the contractors, another reform | instead of expending #19,217.3, the amount atent granted, end Shaffer remitted to Mc- | 9‘ claims brought by citizens against the | 4nd authority thus given, and taus limitel, | in all its departments, and they recommend | of the vicious system of the defanct board of | estimated ard demanded, they ti made SUMMER RESORTS. Poualae then Senator, $12.000, with instrac- | I)i*triet, none are more just or meritorious | Con*titute all the power and authority vested | tne appointment of a commission to man. | public works. repkirsexceeding *500,009 in amount, and | tions to pay $5,000 to John Delano, then | than these, whatever may be the opinion of | ¥¥Y Jaw in the Commissioners, toucHing the rs of the District, “under limifed With such favorableshowing and salutary | paid for these repairs in 3.05 bonds. Your QUMMEE BOABDING — Persons wishing to | chief clerk of the Interior department, and | the District Commissiovers and theirattor- | Subjects with which your committee has | and restrained powers,” and the raising of a | reforms it is not a matter of surprise that | committee are at @ loss to wn ae suagmer atadeligh'ful 5 000 to E. C. Ingersoll, ex-member of Co: »eys. From time immemorial it has been | been charged. committee to report @ permanent form of | Congress did not make haste toc! tue | where they have found authori! this: — ts a gress from Iiliuols, who had acted as attor- | heid in ihe law courts, in the equity courts, | _ It 1s not the purpose of the committee to | government forthe District, aud submit the | form of temporary government instituled by large expet diture for this purpose in bonds. Tustitare. War tou, Va ;as this buiid vey, and $2.000 to ex-Senator Thayer, now | and in every species of practice and legisia- | “ter into any critical analysis of the extent | <ame for its action at thenext session of Con- | the act of 1s;4. But no sooner had Congress e repeat, that we do not question their open for hea” my2 te&s sw” | ZoVervor of Wyoming. Delanois to be called | tion, that when the property of tue individ- | OF limitations of the authority thus vested gress; and in reference to the Indebtednessof | adjourned. baving made the liberal | power and duty to make these repai "WO ATTON ~Acw Bums bent for Wanhing. | 0? testify concerning this and bis contract | ual is takenor damaged, in the prosecution | {9 the District Commissioners. It will be | the District, this re says that— sppropriation ofover & million of doliars for | the autherity ‘to protect and preserve im- AFTON —Ase Summer Besort for Washing. | for land-surveying, under which ha received | of any enterprise which is designed for the | Sufficient, In view of the facts submitted in “Believing that it is due to the ple of | the eral purposes of the District, a: provements, complete aud incomplete,” bat cam af ag aa a em +2,300 without doing any work. henefit of the whole community, it is but | the testimony accompanying this report, to | ihe District that all the debts created by the | provided for the semi-annual iaterest due oa | the work of repair most be paid for in cash abe lire of the Washington ‘aud Ohio ac aie he Sanen af th hes Just that the community so benefitted should | ®scertain clearly what they had not the | board of public works and by the District | the 3.65 bonds on the Ist of August, 1575,than | and not in bonds. But it is said by the — The Sweep of the S'orm— make the citizen so despoiled whole, by a | power to do, rather than attempt to define | government should be adjusted, they have | an entirely different policy began to be de- | Commissions that the ninth section of the ‘Telegrams show that the hat! storm of yes- | fair remuneration for his loss. This princ!- | the exact boundaries of thelr power as pre- | recommended that these debts be funded veloped. Old contracts, that had been com- | contract, as quoted above, contained the ob- terday was widespread and destructive. In | ple reaches back even to the days of semi. | S¢rited by the second section of the act. | intoa bond, payable at a remote period, and leted, as appears from the report of the ligation of the contractor to keep his various localities in the northwest much | barbarism, and has been invariably acted | Aud we think we can say, with almost abso- bearing @ low rate of interest, and as ditor of public works, for two or three years, | in repair for @ term of years, aud on i drives; everyt! pre- camage has resulted. In Gayville, Clay | on for the relief of individuals whose posses- | lute certainty, that under the limitations | jiminary to that funding they think ites. | were “extended.” New work was costract: | and notice they badthe power tomake the Forme, he addvees GW WHO T, Reo iii | county. Iowa, many houses were demoi- | sions bave been disturbed. for the public imposed upon the Commissioners, they had | sential that a careful andit of these claims | ed for to be paid for in3 65 bonds; sewer-pipe | repairs and charge the cost thereof to the Depot. W.ana0.B.R. Va my2@tath so" isbed. Hail stones two to three inches in | good. So far as relates to the amount of | 20 power or authority to make any new con- | ;hould be made by responsible officers of | and curb stone was bought aud paid for in | contractor; and inasmuch @s the second see- a aa = diameter covered the ground to the depth of } these claims, I am well assured that the ag- | tract whereby they could bind the District to | tne government.” the same security, and contracts were given | tion of the act of June 4; 1874, gave them the Tihicen Deariers cae Ne ntimae Bee, oF | (ur inches. In Lansing, Mich., Sparta, | gregate is not more than a quarter of a mil- | Pay therefor in 365 bonds, or in any other | ‘Tue intention of Coagress cannot be mis. | out without advertisement, ou the same vi- | power to execute existing legal obligations, dated, piasenahin tenes at toe prom Wis.,and Mendota and Rockford, Ill., the | lion. form of security. They are ex, ly pro- | taken. All claims then existing against the | cious, expensive, and corrupting system that | {hey could do this work for the contracsoy, Fesidence. from the FIBST MONDAY IN, storm was severe and destructive. Tae | Will you pardon me for the inquiry why | ibited from “making any con Or in- | board of public works and of the District | had prevailed under the board of public for it in 3635 bonds, ana then JUNE. The sitractions are: Cool, pure mouarsa | SOutbern portion of Pike county, Pa., also | in the constitution of the proposed commis- | curring any obligation,” except such as may | government were to be adjusted, audited, | worke. ‘Sir, with a fine park fronting the ho This isthe | Suffered. A furious hall storm swept over | ston you apprehend that it is to be “an irre- | b@ necessary to the’ “execution of legal | and funded into the 3.43 ; @nd as to the The bonds of the District, with the guar- ‘cor- most elevated stopptog point on the Western Mary- the region north of Scrantoa, Pa., sponsible partisan body”? Years ago, when | Obligations and contracts existing at tue | suture, cash was to be paid and no more | antee of the government, expressly author- the jond raliroad, by three hundred feet, and is within | afternoon, and worked great damage to the | it was first urged here that we ought to have | Passage of theact, and to the preservation | debt incurred. ized to be issued only in payment of indebt- three UOBN LER Che east no Buiceare crops. The reservoir of the Providence | no politics in the District of Columbia, it | #64 protection of improvements then fIn- To the board of audit was confided the ad- | edness of the Districtaccrued at the Rt Bost Otice, Western Marslane Relitced oat im | Water Company was washed away, and on | was said that if our people were to place | ished or commenced and not completed.” justment and auditing of the then existing | of the act of June 20, 15 = mauy farms thé corn and potatoes were torn | tnemselves in accord with the administra- The contracts snd obligations must not | indebtedness, and the Commissioners of the | means of payment for work done and mate- QTOCKTON HOTEL. outof the ground, while theoats were beaten | tion and ignore partisanship, everything | Obly be legal and binding on the District or | pistrict were intrusted with the executive | rials supplied on contracts that had no ex- Ds OAPE BAY, N. J. down as if beneath @ heavy roller. | wonld be lovely, and Congress would give | 08 the board of public works, but they must | authority under limitations that left them | istence until the year 1875. Contract No. 5s Upwards of 400 frait trees were tora out of | us I hardly remember what extent of favor- | Lave originated and been in force on the | without power to add to the indebtedness of | which has been referred to heretofore, af- 7 the ground at Mr. Stevenson's orchard, near | abie consideration. So we managed to get 20th of June, 1814. But how were they to be | tue District a single dollar. They had power | fords a striking example of the manner in improved FY, Waverly, and in Providence, Dunmore, | rid of the Bowens and Emer: What fol- | ©xecuted? By authorizing the issue of tue | to execute existing legal obligations and | which this contract-extension was carried sioners would ep! Propristor. Dickson, Abingdon, Jermyn and Scott the | lowed? The ‘‘featber dusters!” They were | Obligations of the District. bearing inter- | contracts, and to preserve and protect im- | on during the year 1875. [t appears from the ofthe District my2-lin windows were broken promiscuousiy. A |in accord with Congress, and the conse- | est? By the iseue of its bonds, or by a vements, ed or unfinished, | testimony of James Patrick, (p. 48,) Dr. and — school bouse at Jermyn was struck and con- | quence was a debt of $23,000,000. This was | contract to issue its bonds? Unquestion- one] Blake, (p. 53,) and the statement of the coun- SPRINGS HOTEL? siderably damaged by lightning. A heavy | the result of being iu accord with the fed- | ably they had no such power under the D agree to | seloft esioners, ek hes tne te Seen 1 ee storm is repo! west of Laramie | eral administration. The administration | provisions of this section, and they had | q, but in this regard, (pp. 65 and 66,) and the nose an puerenn ef thio wall City, Wyoming. gave us agents who saddled this debt upon | 00 other. If any of these contracts or obli- the this re; this oe THE RACES AT SUFFOLK PARK, New | "*: 140 notcompiain of the debt particu- | gations of the District, or of the board Such appropriations as | was tte be by the onei- ‘SUMMER RESORT Jersey, closed yesterday. ‘Tie first race W | larly. It was what we had aright to expect | ({ public works, could be satisfied by the Congress ight make Tor such pur- | neer of the board of public works, February ‘That the Hotel has been most thoroughiy refur- | dh fe clase foe a areca asi race Ws | as a proper reward for yielding up our right | funds and revenues of the District under poses. It bas been by exercising a power | 28, 1874; that nothing was done as to this Bi; hed nd remodeled fro m top to buttuu, eae poor ved =e Lommel oe to have biennial mayoralty campaigns here. | ‘heir control, or if the improvements, either | nowhere given or necessarily ‘implied, but | contract in 1874, up to tae mi ‘A liberal patronage is solicited Paper aa wetthdeaere ‘Bs “9 fee But, Mr. Editor, do you think there ig more | Completed or uncompleted, required protec. | in direct contravention of the whole scope | re} of that year; tnat late in TERMS MODERSTE = wi on account o danger of one-sided partisan action by a | ton and preservation, they had power and | and meaning of this act—that of making ir. Blo ‘one of the Commissioners, Apply to poe es ‘ogres Snag f first heat, aud | commission appointed by a democratic | it was their duty ‘to apply the funds | new contracts on the part of the District, | io give the finishing of the grading’ o! AMMON & JACOB SOR ee he ree. Time—2 22, 2:27 4, | House and @ republican Senate, than there | of the District to these aoa mcd Bat | and agreeing to pay for new work in 3.65 | contract to Fitzpatrick at 20 cents per cubic my20 Im Litiz, Penneytvant: 2:28 , 2 i% be second and last race was | was under the rule of the late “feather dust- | it {s is clearly beyond the warrant of bonds, that bas increased the debt of thi ard in 3.65 bonds, that tae en; if ths : free to all for a purse of $3,000; $1,900 for tae dance their authority to incur a new obligati ~ | rye - 2 enginesr of the “VaLrey BOWS" modestly offers pure | first horse, $900 for the second and #500 ere jo not. iy gation | }istrict so much be; the amount esti- istrict was of opinion that the work ought ‘oustain sir, mineral water. (Sul- the third horse. "The for J am sorry not to be able to endorse your | on the part of the District, to be satisfied by not to be done, because there was no necessi- pbEH, Std Chaly beate’, good fare, home- Kansas Chief, Lady Maud oud ag eo eies: | ably-written editorial, but I don’t believe | the issue of its bonds, for contracts not 14 ty for it; that Blow’s contract was repudi- ihe freedom. and deily mails to all who Maud was the fesse tant Nettie. Lady | anybody but a knave Will present a fraudu- | existence op the 20th June, 1874, and entered atea od the contract was afterward given to Dave lingered beneath its shades.and to any stracg D by Rameas Chick tha wecnay, Beat Was | lent claim, or allow one; and I don’t believe | iuto by said Commissioners after the pas- one Wm. Hussey at 30 cents per cuble yard org eho may come. Terme, @23 per month, won by Kansas Chief, the Ekcond by Lady | commission created, as this is proposed to Sager this act. And it is ee the ‘tha’ ‘ision howithstanding they bad the written ‘oplaioa v be, of our own people, and witnout any ref- | Commissioners have done, an yy in- ‘attorney that myH7-2w* Valley Homervis Winshaien'Va, | Pa ief. Lady M erence to any subject bat the honest exami- | creased the debt of the District much beyond se 0 rk according | egal obligation to Tecogeize the assigameut THE BAuTINOgE AND BALL cope be | tes of the fret seasion of the ieee Cone | to th nee Sears. ee a] al contract to Hussey. Tt far if OKIO iLBOAD fe objectionable, political, cam, 'o- fan ee of gress. 7 TT? "our BTS HOTEL: 2 intriguers you foreshadow in your editorial, | _Itis a matter of no importance 6y what the ni ee pp en Pcp = go TH Gee a ignited IN RB PLAY. peren Maso Ligon = poe Soe " (greing 11th street onat) wan $15,000, Gad the AlN ie Supreme Court o inéhas | Jay GovuLp aND |. STOKES—What the — “extensions,” mad H made decision by which an old stauate we Prisoner Futends £0 do on Repatning his Free- | of a contract accent te pheweegres mal a oe 4 Tse! poor don —Eawa: . Stokes 8! in the dis- . ett O05 send vagrants to the workhouses is declared | sectiog room of the hospital in Sing poe eee Oe no eae sect she, Sing Sin; governor, of the city. amounted to $106,410 95, whe Cootaltaign tts Catad Slat, | Eeeigeag saeenty, Petey ates | tala nextel agar See ret EXIOIAN.—To cae Public—My newly invented | Which provides that no state shall deprive | corpses were at his fect. aud hie nen wee orts, a6 well as in the answers of fare with eight. workmen, surpass OMG | 227 Per aacmean anne ee tien stadt: proken. He is aiflicted with asthma, and | sion of a contract par. to finish these contracts required a larger , 2 |e a xo sanall actews to esanly ae ee | cial investigation. Judge Walton, who gave | soot ondal’ were ne Ty D he would | poses, a new con ¢ tract and malice than the opinion of the court, says: “If white men ee ee eet te in B cell. | work. To illustrate, we refer to jolt comment Se 408, Bor aupleasant feciiag. TI Mr. Chas. W. Brooke will go to Albany to- ¢ | Joint committee. a pebbie and the newly discov. | #Dd women may be thus summarily disposed | morrow to argue before the Court of Appenia printed report Commissioners, 175, and it | “Your committee made no exception to the Foy beatuess and lightness | Of “t the north, of course black ones may be | for the release of Stokes. The prisoner topes | spPears that October 23. 1872, contract No. | increase of the ‘passed. Measure taken and order disposed of in the same wa: the south; | to be free this week. In ing of what hi ‘as given toJames W. W: es and thus the very evil which was particu ° pres ~ bet ISASC ALEXANDER. 1229 Penna. ar, larly the object of the fourteenth a may do when he secures liberty, he says: ap%e-Iotp.tr Inventor. Patentee and Manuiectarér. | ment to eradicate will still orice mend- | “Some persons think that it would be pru- | 7 Ution—some to ne 4 (BARKLAN & CO. ran seei onl dent for me to go away from New York, on th! tract were maade by” the idea Sor and parties that, from all that appears to your F OP ricrins, POLITICAL CONVENTIONS THIS Weex.— | ®ccountof Jay Gould's ruffians. There was ittee, seem to be strangers to the Ho. 1:97 Pasxyivania Avanex SIR | The political conventions to be hela this | * time when my lite was in danger from these contracts. Many of them are re- Genuine Grasiiian Pebble Spectacles” dec? Iy.tetp | week begin with the New Jersey democratic | fooundrels, I didn’t fear them hotarlonns | cost is e — So bave Sean ~-compiete,” and others 7 = == state convention at Trenton 3 a tater HE GREAT ANODYNE 20;TOW Will bea busy day a bona cowards. They came to me with queer i and auditor of the late boari of Y ae bs, lay! e in 1374 to = cians. The Spencer wing of the Alabama | *torles, and then Feported to Gould and Fisk ts, constra ee | mens io a works. And after refasing io net 42ND NERVINE republicans meets at Montgomery; the Call- | ®!! that I said. Tne bullies were always contrac’ Wires fornia democrats meet in San Francisen; the | T ®4y to sell out to the highest bidders. They 1 and 4 — Illinois republicans at Springfield; the Kan. | 8° Worked upon Fisk’s mind with thetr false- is tO ER one Minnesota repno- im, and he arm = m~ | and Massachusetts @ STOMACH £ND TONIO KITTERS. | Sau ee ol ener Tepablicaas | £4 snftuences of Jay Gonieand nis iemae | Ret Curbs: lay brick foot ‘muct of waien Me TON) : Sty: tho New Ham . = * | Lunicans at Contort and te Oelebeioman, | Fisk and I never would have bets ‘discoun' go! in New York ty, tend cerats at Pueblo. ©. Pouraday the Ken- miypltad ge rs ge tucky democratic cuuveution will meet at sings, and shall go out of ‘Louisville. wn wh So inclined.” Under the SS ae posed by Justice Noah Davis, THE REVIVAL MEETINGS held by Rev. E. | Stokes’ term will expire on the 25th of Octo- diummond at Vinelaud, N.J., are increas- | ber next. He has been in Sing Sing prison fron yng ae large meeting | since November 1, 1873.—[N. ¥. Sun, 23d. woes hi iD o ceaee aa te ‘create, asgnvertel | Tae ConsonIDATION COMPANY. doil’s chareh was packed with “professed” | Cumberland Ci | anes. The Rev. Mr. Hammond is being as- sisted by Prof. W. W. Bentley and the pas- tors of Vineland. | THE Waer Pornt Capers, about 300 in ET: To be Aad at all Druseists and Grocers, Send for pumber, who Sre to visit Poiladelphia, will Pampa. 3 Harton’ the ib of June ine sererowment says BITTEBS DEPOT, 13 Cacvien street endemy bend and wil remain ia Paliss a days. Saw TYLER, J: aelphia WHOLESALE AGENT, Pa., y » While texn pyit tn" £39 19to street, Washington, D.C, | omitted by Seat SaREES. Bigsac$ i i i Hf 8) Fi ? ! a S7"A woman pamed Buck, in Harrisburg, bey i autre it