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Show H ASUI (i I ON. Washington. 12. As-i'ant Secretary Secre-tary Fn nch, to whom waa referred lhe question of alleged frauds in the Chicago custom house raised by Wm. H. Smith, collectnr, a::.i Assistant United States District Attorney Thomson, reported tc-dny. The report re-port says the contracts were made according to law and custom, nud tf; any hlame is to be found it ic due to the secreiaiiea ol the preceding ad ministrations, who approved tbe contracts. con-tracts. The report exoueratea diiper viing Aichiteet Hill a to complicity m the contracts, and snya the evidence evi-dence does not enow Mueller guilty of con.-piracy to defraud government. Burimg is not tbown guilty of any fraud a superintendent of construction. construc-tion. Pruning hud chargo of the stone cutting, and was re-nonsiblo for the quality of Ptone and (or the work nl too men. He knew of the unfaithfulness un-faithfulness ol the men, but wan powerless to resist it, and as to him, ihuie was no expre;-s evidence ot fraud. There seemed to ha a conspiracy, con-spiracy, or at least a combination among the cutters and lime keepers, I to protract the time, and thm dolrnud the government, but he opposes the bringing ol these men to trial as being inexpedient. The secretary endorses this and says the chief reason nf the txtc-sive cost of tbe Chicago building is tiie fifteen per cent, contracts, which have already been abolished. The senate has confirmed John U. Fremont as governor of Arizona; Crawley P. Dyke of Michigan as United States marshal of Arizona; Henry C. Marston of Illinois as United States consul at Port Louis, and John b. Wilcher of West Virginia Vir-ginia as pension agent at Washington Washing-ton ! The houee committee on public lanf'n In riav. fldnnted a rps "ilulion r questing the secretary of the interior in-terior to take no action affecting lc liile to tho New Idria quicksilver mines in California until the committee com-mittee shall have actod upon the subject sub-ject of the McGarrahan claim at the next pc?sion. Si -n a lor Saunders introduced a bill in t .e. senate to-day, which proposes to grant a right of way and forty sections ot land per mile to aid in the construe tion of a railway end tIerao!i line Irom Omaha, through D.kota and Wyoming to ttie Xati jiial Ye lowstoue parks, to connect with the Northern Paeili j railroad, east cf 1 lM:h meridian. France, Greece, Italy, the Nether lands, Hungaria, Riiesiaaud Switzerland Switzer-land have accepted the ii.vitalijn to the international money conference; undAustrii. Lie gium, Germany anl Great Brit mi have the subject und-.T consideration |