Show 1 TELEGRAPHIC NEWS WRHbioC1on AdvlcfM Washington I3Lord of Michigan introduce I in the House a bill directing tho secretary of war to assume the full care and control ftmoncoth ut the canal around the cascades of Columbia River Oregon and all oher canals locks and harb rb of refuge hereafter built by the United Mutes lor the improvement im-provement o navigation The following circular was i sued from the treasury department On the exportation expor-tation of flour wholly manu actured from imported wheat a drawback will be allowed at the rate of 89c pur barrel less the legal retention of 10 tier centum Collectors will eee that proper arrangements arrange-ments are adopted by mills within the districts where fl ur may be prepared for exportation with the benefit of tbe drawback draw-back to prevent any admixture of domestic domes-tic grain to imported wheat at any stage of the process of conversion into flour 1 Washington HThe Senate military committee is considering the allegation against Major Rochester paymaster general of army Senbtor Voorhees intends to make a speech on the tariff question in accord with his lately defined view John M Frew of Durango Colorado was examined as a witness before the grand jury today in star route cases He was inetucted to bring all letters received re-ceived by him from S W Doreey J W Dorsey J K Miner ana M A Ueerdell or any of them in relation to mail service in Colorado since July 1st 1878Chicago 14Tribunes Washington The President will riot do anything in the Fitz John Porter case but will leave the whole matter with Congress The Borne jndiciary committee took the first step today towards considering consider-ing the bankruptcy bill by referring it to a subcommittee consisting of Hum phfly McCord and Manning The House committee on postoffices and post roads agreed to report favorably Binghams bill increasing the pay of auxiliary letter carriers 1UO to 600 and providing for a subsequent advanceupoa promotion to 800 and 1000 Regular Reg-ular carriers are to come from this class new men serving as auxiliaries Secretary Folger has in a communication communica-tion to the Senate finance committee submitted his views at length on Becks bill to prevent the unlawful certification of checks bv national banks Thesecre tary does not think the passage of this bill will affect the object in view as he says the question of what constituted unlawful un-lawful certification would have to be submitted to a jury Thereis already a law on the statute books to this effect and the secretary does not think the Beck bill can add > ny specific force to it Toe FitzJohn Porter case was under consideration at the cabinet meeting today to-day and it is believed action will betaken be-taken towards having it reopened All members wero present except the at torneygeneral |