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Show EASTERN. Waftlilucton Advices. Washington, 22. The War Department De-partment hae iusuotl a general order announcing the death of Gen. Dyer. The funeral ol Gen. Dyor will take place at the church of the Epiphany at 2 p. m. to-morrow. As honors to; the memory of the deceased, minute guns will be fired at Springfield ar- 1 mory, and at each arsenal, beginning at 12 neon, and the national Hag will be displayed at halt stall Irom the Hame hour till sundown the next day. The usual badge of mourning will be worn for thirty days by the olheers of Ihe Ordnance department. The amendatory tariff bill now he- fore the Committee on Ways and Means, will probably be comp'eted to-morrow. It relates to about twen- ty arliclf. All goods of which silk ia a component material have been claused aa silk. Tho committee change tho duly on all still wines in cases Irom $2 to $1.50, and fix the duly on unmanufactured Hteel at two cents per jKMtud with regard to cliwfli-li cliwfli-li cation, which is a Blight reduction. Tanners and sugar beet seeds are to be Irce of duty; horw arc to pay ten instead of live cents. Jt is thought the changes proposed will not make any appreciable diflerence in the present receipts, and some of the j proposed changes are to simplily par s of the present law. 1 The House Committee on foreign Allaire, lo-day, agreed to report a bill relating lo telegraphic communication communica-tion between the United States and foreign countries. It is general in character, and authorizes the Secretary Secre-tary of State to grant per-minsion per-minsion to lay cable j to any citizen or association on the conditions stated in the bill. The bill reported by Sargent from the Senate com mi It ee on Naval affairs, for the relief of the survivors of the P. furix, provides lor giving the survivors sur-vivors of the expedition under command com-mand of Capt. Hall, or their widows, or minor children, one year's additional ad-ditional pay, together with J:j60; it also provides for Mrs. Hall two year's pay of her husband. In the District investigation to-day, Adolf Cluss, engineer and member of the board, wai sharply cross examined by Maltingly. He was forced to ad-mi-that his signature was to many documents which in his previous tes timony he had denied feigning. He signet! many tables iu the report of the board for 167-1 more for otlicial counting than anything else. When the Governor's answer was given him to sign, the same being prepared for the investigation eoinmitlee, he ie-fused ie-fused lo sign, and it was sent to the committee without his signature. He said many papers were brought to him in aa ofi-hand way and he feigned them as they were brought to him as .1 mere otticer's routine. He knew that the main rtewarago system did not coat as much altogether as the amount akc-d to be paid on thii account ac-count by the United Slat'--. The case of Senator Chandler r.f. Augustus C. Buel, came up in the Supreme Court to-day, cuimscl for the defense showing the court hasn't jurisdiction in the cae. |