Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 March 1876 — Page 4

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Thursday, Match 80, 1876.

fcrtOBJES about Bristow do not stick. Jt| is gratifying lo feel sure that (be Cabinet has one honest man in it.

THE great beauty about Col. Mulberry Sellers is that he is a blood relation of every American. One touch of nature makes the whole world akin.

GIVE US good local ofllcers and we can survive an immense number of rascals in national affairs. Iti^ wonderful the number of boilw a man of sound constitution can stand.

IK any man has property which he wishes to improve now is his time. Building could nevei bo done so cheaply.

THE Payne finance bill was defeated in the House yesterday by almost a two thirds majority.

EVENJNO Sessions of the lie

Representatives will successive evenings, beginning to-night.

THE GAZETTE'S advice to every* body is to.secure a good specimen of each denomination of fractional currency, and Jay it away Tliey will soon be curiosities. Silver coin will upplant it in tho next three months.

FOR some reason or other Window the reverend forger of Boston has not yet started for his country. Nevertheless, he protests his anxiety to start on his homeward journey. It seems like a pity to balk the plans of a gentleman, and he a minister, who longs for the seclusion of a penetentiary. Extradition laws should not force freedom on this worthy gentle* man.

BY reference to the list in this issue of the GAZETTE it will be seen that to-morrow there will be quite a goodly number of conventIons. And Ibis is not very good weather for conventions either.

IF CharlesSumner were alive and should re-deliver his tamoun oration

on Grant, it is highly probable that

his denunciation of gift taking on the

part of a President would not fall on dull and inattentive earn.

The meanest and he

ministration the man at the top.

GKOUGE'WIMAAM COHTXS is not a Conlding man. His speech in the Syracuse convention will not help along

the

THIS PRESENT AETUIS WE A bud year for eminent attorneys who have charged large fees. It seems to be everybody's business

thinks

HENATUK MOKTON may be an hon «at man.

tor keeps remarkably bad company. He is the champion and defender of prodigious rascals. His partisanship makes him overleap all barriers in the defense of politicial friends. Pinchback was a fraud and be either knew it or he ought to have ^known it. Yet be defends him. (Spencer is a leprous excrcscenfce in

YESTERDAY morning it appeared politics. Morion is bis champion. IDAS if nature was about tobold a grand deed, with one or perhaps two signal greenback convention, but she has exceptions, our Senator has nlwaya retired now to a winterand hoar frost stood by the worst MI urttre-a whom i«i! I. LVntk hit«a basis. ______________

CHEAP money to the dogs What the country needs is dear money gomethiog that will give weight to the pocket and lie weighty JU the grocers.

WE Repeat,'if any man thinks he cannot pay the present rate of interest on money and prosper, ho had bet re»e him.

was very severe all over the country.

wa9

his

Presidential prospects of

My Lord Roscoe. It will be interestinir to-note what Harper's Weekly, of which he Is editor, will say now that the deleg tes from New York have been instsucted to vote as a unit for the handsome S?na»or from New York.

A CARD in this morning's Journal annouuees the retirement from the editorial control of tbat paper of B. F. Havens. During his brief career as an editor, Mr. Havens has acquitted himself with great credit, and shown himself to be a writer of foree and ability. His retirement i* a loss to the profession. Mayor

munds has stepped into the breach and is filling—temporarily, we suppose—the place left vacant by r. Havens. The GAZETTE welcomes the coming [and speeds the parting trUitur.

believe he is. bo far,

at least, investigation has notsmurch ed his fair reputation f»T

oKNATOK MOKTON proposes to com- 04, plete that unliuished speech of bin on Kentucky, the Mississippi election frauds. Let

us have a rest.

House of

held three with

BKISTOW, lias a prompt way of settling accusations against himself which in this era of fraud positively refreshing. He demands in* vestigation and challenges proofs. His manly way of punishing fraud, has caused this avalanche of calumny agsinst him by the thieves who dread him, and hope to break him down.

OUK dispatches will be found to COD. tain some evidence relating to bsnatoi Tburman, against who the organ if tlio thieves

have

brought the awful

accusation that as an attorney he charged his clients higher fees than they— the organs—think proper. In one of the alleged cases it will be seen hey are entirely mistaken. Probably there are a few honest public men yet remaining, and if there are, we venture the prediction that, Senator

published Thurman will be found to be one of them.

LANDEHS call not possibly receive the Democratic nomination. His friends might as \fell put this in their pipes aud smoke it.

BAYLESS W. HANNA as the Democratic nominee for Governor would

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gink 0rth unjera

()pp0singTotes.

gift

taker in a trust position who pays his private obligations to the gilt g.vers out of his ti ust funds, is a thief. It has taken the American people a lone time to learn this, but we hope they know it now dirtiest thief connected with the ad-

majority of '25,000

PRESIDENT GRANT it is stated, is anxious to

sell his

cottage at Long

Branch. It was given him by

took a recess for dinner,

rake over the

records and consign to perdition attorneys who have charged fees larger than the,self appointed investigator

was just and proper. But are

we not, as ti people, acting in an idi otic fashion? Tho men who are raising this hue and cry hare done it to distract public attention from public thieves, whom It is our duty to puns ish to private transactions with which we have nothing whatever to

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For the credit of our state, and of the nation*—indeed lor the credit of our common humanity,-we hope he is cleanhanded.

But our senior sena*

Thom-

Murphy Esq., of New York City, consideration of

the

collectorship

the port of New York from which

finally forced by the presure

... popular

opinion, indignant alike at

incompetency aud knavery. He did not leave the place, however, without carrying with him a highly sudatory letter from his friend the President

POLITICAL.

1»VY aVPO 1 VTKUrOHTHr. DE3I-

itPMtiMicmi Convention* In Ohio, ciiDNfivxniii, Bh#d« istnnit anl Vermont.

*zsssv!8i

gallon many visitors

naneHctf Gen.'john Clee, of Toledo

was

made a short speech, warmly

t.h€ir united action to secure the no mi-

nation of Hayes for president. After

lican State Convention met. In ine

Virginia, Republican, Lynchburg, April 12. Indiana, Democratic, Indianapolis, April If.

Colorado, Republican, Denver, April 20. New York, Democratic, Utica, Apnl 20.

Massachusetts, Republican, Boston, April 26. California, Republican, Sacramento. April 26.

Oregon, Democratic, Salem. April Arkansas, Republican, Little Rock, April iff.

Oregon, Republican, Portland, May 3 Michigan, Greenback Jackson May 3 'Maryland, Republican, Frederick, May 4.

carpet bag politics in tbe South have thrown upon the surface. This la not good. Morton ought to change his habit. It would be a relief to have him denounce eeoundrelism in the Republican party. .. West Virciuia, Republican Clarks-!

South Carolina, Democratic, Columbia. May 4. KanFas, Greenback, Topeka, May 4.

Michigan, Republican, Grand Riipios M»y 10

GEN. BCHEKCK'S explanation of bore, May 11. ... ,. little rmmfl Alabama, Republican, Montgomery, his counectiou with the littie J^mma jg. mine lacks thickness. Indiana, Greenback, Indianapolis,

May 17.

As WILL be seen from tfie dis- Obio, Prohibition, Cleveland, May patches the snow storm yesterday 1'^ Jerspy

GOVENOR KKLLOOO of Louisiana May 17. has issued an order for suppressing

his r-cilal of .be case It »P "jjM*

pear as if considerable lawlfssness existed in that state.

21.

three hundred troops engaged, all 24. rrnr„ua m.,„ Kansas, Democratic, Topeka, May told.

RepabiiCan,

17°hio'

erregularities at Baton Itouge. Jrom Kentucky,

rir^u^'e

Trenton

May 17. Tonncssee, Republican, Knoxville,

Cincinnati, Ma)

1)emocra ic

Republican,

Louisville,

RcpubUca„,Spr,D(:fleld,M..j

Alabama, Republican, Montgomery, May 24.

DISI'ATCHES from Galveston] an- ^Minnesota, Republican. St. Paul nounce the continuance of a guerril- ^jfjp"Jiouri, Ropnblican, Jefferson City, la warfare in Mexico. It is dignified May ii-1. by the name of a revolution, but Kansas, Republican, Topcka, May there seems as yet to be only two or Michigan, Democratic, Lansing,

Colorado, Democratic, Pueblo, May

Democratic, Louisville,

Repubijciuii

Des Moims,

May 31. Louisiana, Republican, New Orleans, May 30.

Alabama, Democratic-, Montgomery, May 31. Yirtitjia, Democratic, Richmond, May 31. .\iinuesota, Democratic, St. raut, Line 1.

Nebraska, Republican, Fremotu, Junel. Wisconsin, ©emocratic, Milwaukie, June 7. _,

West Virginia, Democratic, Charleston, June 8. National Republican, Cincinnati, June 14.

Ark:iusas, Democratic, Little ivock, June 14. North Carolina, Democratic,Raleigh, June 14.

Florida, Democratic, Qalncy, June 21- ... National Democratic, St. Louis, June 27. ..

Louisiana, Republican, New Orleans, June 27. ,, Nebraska, Republican, Lincoln, b^ptember 2t. ReductiouTf tiie 01 Brieal 1'orci'

In the Department.

THIS UE1UBN OF THE KECUSAtfT MAHSil

Capit il OMsip.

Fiosi our regular Washington Corii'pond eut, Washington, March 25. 1873.

Not only our political, and social, but even our religious life has been so hii/hly spiced with sensation thai, existeuce seems tame aad common place without a daily increase ot this pungent condiment. Bismarck, in a recent invective against the German press, said "the newspapers are consumed with a thirst for important news," and yet, the press that he denouueed, cowering under a oen sorship, would be considered staiJ aud hackneyed iu comparison with ours, which daily runs amuck amid reputations, and seldom (alas for the reputations and institutions!) strikes amiss. But sensations are subject to the laws of physics and meta physics, when overstrung, they recoil. The Belknap sensation was preceeded by period of dullness,and now, since it is spent, we have noihiug in politics or legislation, only a dismal platitude of unpromising investigation. Congress has resolved itself into detective associations,and, with the assistance of the reporters ot the various papers, (one of whom knows more than an average Congressional committee) are prospecting in the various Government offices for bonan*as of corruption. It is now admitted that nothing will be

down

with an epidemic of iufluenza,

antl

chos^ii temporary President, and

consequently unable to do much

taikibg|

pan

we may expect some hard

legislation

Tbere

mui

occasioned

appointing committees, the committee work in the Bureau Of Engrav ing-and Printing. Nearly fourteen Ilarrisburg, March 29.-The Repub-

ssaass's^asf 5?2&.?S5Sa &BE edlPdeZHcoenio°n®rnrato"rrSl eyT the ap'ptoprjation. Congress Trenton March 28.—The Democratic has been urged mostearueslly to state convention meets here May 23d, appropriation bilf ftr temporary to olect delegates to the St. Louis con-

reiief,

iona

flict. stitution be effected, it will result in the abolition of another very importCOMINO CONVENTIONS. division of the Treasury DepartThe following is a list of political

Repubhcan' Ha"19

Vermont, Republican, Burlington, has given employment to nearly four March 29 hundred female counters. Sinoe the Ohio, Republican, ColumbuB, March suspension of the Bureau of engrav29. ing and printing, there has been a

Mississippi, Republican, Jackson, remarkable decrease in the multilaMarch 80. ted notes returned for redemption, Mississippi, Colored Men s. Jackson,

by the suspension of

h,fndred clerks aud

operatives, the

porti0n

Opera Houso to-day, W. H. Koontz of iMgex permanent home, in Somerset, WM elected temporary chaH-- ou ^relWrvM

of them, females, with

without

but has

vention. entreaties, and it is now very 8®°eJr* a iv a a POLITC finally suspended, and that silver will take the place of the paper fractPreniraliousfor tho Centennial Con-

far been deaf to all

currency. Snould this sub-

meut

conventions called to date: The quantity of mutilated Rhode Island, Republican, Provi-

namely the redemption Bur-

whi^h

dence, March-29. ... Harris- ceived in this Bureau to be counted, bureD March

has been daily re-

destroyed, and returned in new notes,

tbe countere

South Carolina. Republican, Colum- noy them, though tney are oi counw bia^Aprll H. not pleased with the prospect of fiiaal

have been placed

B=iaggg&»=

lisiK

en*!ei:sioi, which, it is anticipated,

will ink" place at ihp em! of tl.e presentfifcalyfar on July 'he fina. If is believed il»at loth political patties in Congress, will approve the cubstituti)^ of silver for paper fractional currency. The pre*» in this city opposed it, of cour-je, but rather in ihe interest of the employes of the respective buieaux, than of the people.

Washington is almoft entiiely dependent for a prosperity that has hardly been alltcted by the hard lirrief, upon the monthly disbuisenieius to Government employes, an«l, any policy that threatens to redue* he number of these or to reduce their pay. is opposed by the local paper?, both Republican and Democratic.

AN EX ILK RFCTUIIXHI).

I The notorious witne.'s, Mms-h, arrived iu thisci'y to-day, and i* stopI pine witli Mis. Alar.-di, at the Arlington Hotel.

Tbere

is now nothing to

prevent the KIIC e^tful impeachment !of the ex-Secretary, and proceedings will DiiMt likelv oe commenced earlynext wei k. ,Ex-Seuatir Matt. Car psnter is most prominent the (•lUiiit'el retained by Gen. J-lhii p.

Mr. Carpenter is prominently located in Washington, and his shin ule with Uie simples words, "'Matt. Carpenii-r. Attorney at Law,'1 is swimtr in front of a mode.u secondstorv ollice, oil the corner of and Twelfth streets. Helm.- already a very iarge practice in both the Di.--trict and 1". 8. Supreme Courts. He ia now euu tjr-d in the defense of Altman, a'-custd of stealing $40,000 from ttie U. S. Treasury but, du-.-it not seem that, the distnituisbed Senator is a fair way to e.-tahli.-di for himself a uirtjue specialty' in iegal praciice? It will be remembered that he was very prominent in tti- JOIILson impeachment trial.

The late Secretary of War and his wife lead a very secluded life, and none save their most intimaie friends are able to see them. The pending impeachment the cause of tl.e most intense anxiety to them, and thev are in daily consultation with their lawyets. Mrs. Belknap is d.eply aftlicied through the loss of her eldest sister, Mrs. Bowman, ot Harrodsburg, Kentucky, who died a ie\v days auo. Mrs Beiknap denies that sue ever received a cent of money from George H. Pendleton in payment. for services in securinir or helping t» secure the payment of the Kentucky Central Kiilroad claim but, from the instimony of Gen. B. F. Butler, given vesierday before the committee, and from the shape of investigation* now pending, it appears quite probable that Mr. Pendleton will sii:l he further involved in this had business.

A committee is investigating the charnes against Senator Spencer, of Alabama, who, it is said, secured hi.s election through bribery aud corruption, Sensi'ors Bogy, of Missouri, and Hansom, of North Carolina, are under the same dark imputation. Hayes, of Alab.isua, and Conover, of Florida, are charged with selling ca» detships. The reputation of neitliev party, as a party, can suffer muuti from these investigations, since the crimes belong: to individuals and to human nature, and are not the result of fealty to auy political theory or sentiment. C.

•iPi-CIMEX AVAL FKAIJDS.

HO IV NECOll ROBESON BEPAlBSVEShULM ON THE PA4I* I€-

4 Wait-of Wur Bnm Up from a Knot Il(iie-jjjl80,000 toc an $801,000 Job, ami

This Om sit »rl«r. A mine HN Good as Silver.

From the

f?an Francisco

Post.

The last report of the Secretary oi the Navy says that there are only on this coast two ironclads, the Comanche and tlw Monad nock. The former is ready lo receive ner eu* gines, and could be in condition for service in less thau a week. She isof the monitor pattern, has one turret, and mounts two litteen-inch guns of the smooth bore pattern. The MonaJnock is a much larger vessel, and possesses two turrets,with two fifteen-inch smooth bore guns in each turret. But with all the working force that could now be put upon her, she could not be got ready for duty iu a day less than eight mouths

suspicious bisto surrounds all that has been done concerning these vessels for the list eighteen months. Previous to June, 1874, both of them were moored otr the Mare Island Navy Yard. A survey was held,.and both were pronouueed unfit for any kind of service the irou was rusted, rivets and bolts were

loosened,

and

the wood work was rotten. This information, iu aceordiv.ee with naval rtil33, was forwarded to Washington, and as we have on this coast large naval works with the requisite machinery for building and repairing such vessels, it was naturally supposed that orders to proceed with the necessary work would be at once received. Prsbaby everybody but the Secretary of the Navy supposed that the works on Mare Islaud, built at an enormous expense to the country, were erected to do such Government work, and that, except in time of war, or the inability of the Government from some other cause to perform such work, it would not be farmed out to individuals, either under contractor otherwise.

But in tbe month of June, 1874, Mr. Pbineas Burgess came here from th eEast with Government authority to repair both the vessels. There wan not a speck of war on the horrizan, and there could have been but

one defensible motive for sending him here charged with such a duty, and that was, economy to the Government. Now. there had not been, as the law requires, advertisements for any lowest or competent bidder. There seems to have been a private understanding between tbe Secretary of the Navy and Mr. Burgess, or perhaps it was with an Eastern R'nS» that the sum of $259,000 should be pad for the repair of tbe Comanche. Experts who have seen the Co*

manebe since she was turned over to

the Government are ready to declare that the repairs made upon her could have been made for le$8 than one third the price agreed to be paid by the Government. Thus more than $160,600 clear profit must have gone into tbe pocket of Mr. Burges—or else those whom he represents.

But this is not all. After work was commeaced on the Comanche, she was about a month on Mare Island. H^r turret was removed by Government machinery Govern rnent tools of every description were at the contractor's service-scows, tackle, men everything were at his beck and call—so that several thousand dollars more were put in the pockets ofsome Ring, having been taken out of those ot the people for that purpose, and for the glory of the American navy.

The contractors were not treated as courteously in any respect. After tbe Comanche was removed to the Vallejo side, perhaps for the sake of ap^earauces, and to give the matter an outside coloring of legitimate business, the bounty of tbe Government followed the contractors. Not merely (-mall and large tools could be procured at the navy yard, but an engine also, and boilers, were sent over, with other things, to run the machinety, and they are there now.

The second chapter is equally interesting. The Ccmanche was turned over to the Government in December, 1875, but before she left her position at the Vallojo wharf, the contractors began preparations by hauling timber and otherwise, to build ways for tiie Monaduock. Mr. Burgess was again to the fore, and not only by his statements but by his acts also, proclaimed that he was going to repair, or rather rebuild, this vessel to*

In the meantime the press had be«uu to comment upon the extraordinary conduct of Mr. Robeson iu giving out work in an illegal form, and at prices that set all previus contracts in a forgotten class. Still the fat job was not shorn of its juicy proportions. Somebody must become rich at the people's expense. But a show of fair dealing was required to be made, and accordingly some dust was thrown iu the eyes of the public by an advertisement in a Han Francisco and in a country paper inviting bids, for labor only, in the repairing of the Mouandock. Neither the Commandant nor Constructor Commandant nor at Mare Island were requisite plans and nor could they give any information on the subject. The ground-work seems to have bean laid for a Ring to get the job anyhow. Forguch information as could be had a'. Washing ton, two or three parties sent in bids some of which were probably blinds. As a rule a ring can afford to bid lower than anybody else, and at the -ame time make the most money. Ou opening the bids, the offer of Mr Burgess to furnish the necessary labor for $25,000 was accepted, that being $50,000 less than the next bid above This appeared to saisfy bidder" all around, particulary Roach and Han scom, whose relations with the Govnment are to well kaown to need comment.

Constructor

provided with specitlcatioiiH,

These, cases look like frajdsperpe trated on the people. We have Gov. eminent works on this coast, but they seem to be used to enable individuals to pocket, money which should be spent for the good of the people. Why were not these vessels repaired at Mare Island? Why wea the repairing of the Comanche given out foi- $250,000 when $80,000 was a good price for the work

Iu the case of the Comanche, what little material was required was supplied by the contractor. Tbe, old irame was used, and the vessel was never taken out of the water. In the case of the Monad nock, the old vessel still lies over a mud flat. Tbe new oue has a frame up on the Vallejo side the Government—that is to say, the peculiar form of its representation here—supplies the material from the East. The sum of $250,000 for the work was merely a starter. Met competent to judge say that she will cost tbe Government at least $1,200,000, although the turrets of the old vessel will be placed on the new one. This is what is called "repairing" a vessel. By law no new vessel cau be built except by act ofCougrpss

The wooden vessel, the Mohican, being now constructed at Mare Island in another example of evading the law. Bhe ia said to have been commenced on a knot hole. This is the craft that the Secretary, in his report, stated was nearly ready for launching, although she is not third constructed yet, and could not oe got ready for work within six months.

Last summer a Mr. Secor was sen1 out here to perform the duties of chief bookkeeper and general overseer of the Monadnock. He is of the Secor contracting family of New York. The Secretary of the Navy isfamiliar with the name, and is acquainted with the firm.

LOUISIANA.

GOV ERROR KELLOGG l4431 ORDER WITH A VIKW TO STOF-

PiNtt MOBLAW.

Becilal of Grievances which, If Trne, Shows a Bad Sta.e of Aflairs.

New Orleans, March 28 —Governor Kellogg has addressed an order to the district attorney of Baton Rouge, to take prompt proceedings In tbe courtf. in relation to the recent troubles tbere. He says: I am definitely informed that Geo. P. Davis, parish judge, and B. T. Beauregard, State and parish tax collector of East Baton Bouge, bave been driven from the parisb in open violation of law. Tbe parisb judge is a conotitntional officer, elected by a large and undisputed majority, and up to this time no charges have been sob8t»ntiated against him, which would affeel bis right to exercise bis office. If be has been guilty of any such charges itia your duty to institute proceedings against him before tbe district court, now in session in East Baton Rouge. The tax collector of the parish was appointed by me some

three years ago. He is a colored* man who, before Iappointed bim, had served, I believe creditably as United States Collector of Internal Revenue. If he is a defaulter, or has been derelict in his duty, it is also jour province to proceed against bim before tbe Grard Jury now in session in east Baton Rouge. Tbe Sheriff of the parisb, a constitutional officer, elected by a large majority, WAS sometime since driven away, and was compelled to resign, no offense being alleged acafnst bim tbat I am aware of, except that be was a colored man. I appointed in his place a white man, a rative of tbe parish, and I perceive that a committee chosen at the meeting recently held at Baton Roguo, while expressing dissatisfaction with him on account of his political associations recommended that lie be tolerated for the present, thus disclosing the animus of those who have thus taken tbe law intotheir own bands, to be directed against thfse appointees bec-auso they are Republicans. This, too, is a parisb admitted to be very largely Republican. I do not intend to perinit a resort to mob violeuce in East Baton Rouge or elsewhere in this State. To tbe end therefore, I may exhaust all civil remedies, I request you to immediately instituto proceedings before the district court, auainst all persons known to have bewi wncerned In the recent unlawful disturbance in tho city of Baton Rouge, and not only against thoso persons, but against any ofllcers ol tho pariah who may have been derelict in the discharge of tbeir duties. Should the sheriff be called upon to execute any process of the court, you will cause him to be instructed to summon a posse comitatus of good citizens to ozccute this procpss. No matter by whom resisted, and if met with force, you will cauEO me to be informed immediately of tho fact. I request you lurther to call the special attention ot the District Judge to these points, and move in open court for instructiona to the Rranfi jurv touching thesH matters.

ROB* SON

Tho Fxlrnordinary Things which ar MOW Maid of Him. Special Dispatch

WHOt.LV

the Chicago Trlbnne.

Washington, I), c., March 27.—One of the recent mysteries of Washington has been the l.tvish manner in which Secretary Rnbeson spent money in the Navy Department last fall, just before the meeting of Congress. The appropriations for tbe current fiscal year wero not such as to warrant putting tbe navy on a war footing at the time, and tho officers through whose hands the accounts ol tho Departments at hat time passed, as well as unofficial observers, shook tbeir heads doubtfully and predicted large deficiencies. But all have been disappointed. No large deficiency estimates have been submitted by tbe Secretary, and he has, «n more than one occasion, said that he was confliiciini the business of his department within the appropriations, and th«t he should spend no more money than was voted by Congress. But now the House Com mittee on Expenditures of the Navv Department (BeoOe of New York Chairman) has made a discovery which lots llood of litfht on the financial management of Secretary Robeson. It se»ms tbat instead ot conllninu his expenditures to ie appropriations, he has been trenching on next year's income. Dralts originating in London, ai-d amounting in a single case to $200000, have been aeceptod by yocratHry tt ieson »t four months, thus making their payment tall within the next fiscal year. About a Week ago IV-ebo sent a letter to the Secretary of tho navy asking him in relation to these acceptances,— their amount, and the object for which they were givfii.—but no reply has yet been received.

MANY OONJECTURES

havo been indulned In by those who have learned theso facts in order to explain them. lias tho Secretary been borrowing money io London with which to piece out the year's appropriations, and intending to pay it in July next, or has he used up the appropriations for some bureau, and, fearing the investigation that would certainly tollow a request for a deficiency appropriation, resorted to this questionable method of postponing payment of lomeof his bills until the appropriations for the next fiscal year become available? Ot course, either of these proceedings would 1m

N.r.EOAI. AND UNAUTHORIZED,

nee, by section .'1,679, of the RHvised Statutes, it is prOvieed that "No department of the Government shall expend in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess ot the appropriations made by Congress for the same fiscal vear, or involve the Government in any contract for the future payment of money in excess of any such appropria*. tions." If Secretary Robinson is not involving tbe Government in liabilities to pay money in excess of the appropriations for the present fiscal year he would have no occasion to grant tour months' acceptances, because all the appropriations for the current year are always available, so tbat all tbe bills against the Deparement may bo paid iu cash. Under tho circumstances, an in view of the plain provisions •f the law quoted, as well as tbe decisions of tiie Supreme Court, it is doubtful if Secretary Robeson's acceptances are WORTH THE PAPER NS WHICH IHEY

ARK

WRITTEN,

since tbe giving of them was, without doubt, illegal and unauthorized. It is also reported that other paper of the Navy Department besides the 1200,000 of acceptances are in certain banks. It is also said that this practice of postponing payments and making the appropriations ofonejear pay the expenditures of a previous one, bas been common in the Navy Department, aud tbat, by it, wih be explained the immense expenditures of last fall during the excitement over the Cuban question.

THE STORH AT ST. LOCI3.

St. Louis, March 28.—After a continuous rain all day yesterday, tbe heaviest snow storm of the season, set in about 10 o'clock last nlgbt, and up to the present writing at 11 A. M. ten inches of snow has fallen, the streets are in a horribly slnsby state, and street railway and other travel ia much impeded. Temperature mild.

Tbe Rolling Mills.

At the Nothern rolling mill a fu» force of boilers began work this moral ing and the mill-now presents its old time appearance of cheerfulness and industry. The boilers say that their differences are settled for tbe present, and that no further difficulty can arise until the first of June. The heaters and tbe second set of rollers began work at the southern mill yesterday, Tbe nail feeders will begin on Thursday of this week. These industries furnish employment to over three hundred men who were idle ..one week ago.