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Show THE CAPITAL. Monday's News Dud set from Wusliiuisluu. Ail Abont I lie Jiulfie W li I Halt-r Uelalvalions. Sou do j Uonslp. CHINK8K IMMIGRATION. Washington, 6. The bouB committee com-mittee on education and labor, to day, agreed upon a bill making it a misdemeanor mis-demeanor for the master of a vessel to take more than fifteen Chinese passengers, pas-sengers, male or female, to tbe United Stales after January Ui, '79. pun. docs. The committee also agreed upon a hill authorizing the distribution to public libraries tf one copy of every document publhbed for public distribution distri-bution by congress. NOMINATION. The preeirlent has appointed Hlepheo B. Packard of Louisiana consul at Liverpool. WUITTAKEK'S Dh FAIXJATIONS. The president sent to the senate, to-day, communications from tbe attorney general and secretary of the treasury in reepnnse to Howe's resolution reso-lution of April 10th. calling tor intor malion in regard to the liabilities ol W. R. Whiltaker, arismg under h'u admiuiatratioo oi the office of United States assistant treasurer and collector .if internal revenue at Ne Orleans, und as to the mtasurea taken by gov-Hfoment gov-Hfoment to enforce thero. Secretary Sherman states that a suit for $11,182 is pending against Whiltaker on his account as collector of internal revenue rev-enue from December, '63, to April, uo. V mle VV'hitiaker was in otiiee aa assistant treasurer at 'ew Or Ihhds between October 15ih, '66, au-i ily lOih, '67, a dtficit of $1 07G 7'J7 occurred wlvch ws suh- -q-innily rUic:-d to 4680 891. The deficit, according to Wliltlaker'a '.tale meot, arose from his accepting from bia pr-uceor, A-eutant Tiesur-r Way. About $."xX,tXiO ol certificates ot the Firat National bank of Nw Orleans and conniini them as cacti on hand be- .-s whi.-n-be had afu-r-warda recoivi .) a nuuiber of certified checka of the then president of the bank and converted ti.m into suidr notes and hilla of ex ri ir; mc : were counted aa cash. At the nn.r (t e deficit was disc vered suit l.r t i reovery of the d.ficit was commenced com-menced in the United St-tes circui court. Ia '63 acd m '72 jue gmsnt piveu in favnr ot the ueh-ndm The special counsel employed by kv ernment riiK)rted that tbe jury pr-t ably based their finding of tacta upoi the act of Bettlement between the lata Asfistant Treasurer Way and tbe United States, whereby the debt due government was dischargrd by the assignment ot all of Way 'a properly Tbere was, he alleges, no error in the verdict and no bill olexceptions agfced for. He also states that all of the defendants were insolvent. Way was bondsman for Wnitlaker. Attorney General Devenn reports that the criminal indictments against Whit taker were three in number. The firm charged an embezzlement uf $1,0-58 421, and when tried rsultefi : in Wbit'-aker's acquittal. Special' United Stales Aitorney Grant wrotp to ' the atlorney general in April, 1S77. j stating that tbe remaining indict-, menUi, were fur the same ofleue, and in his (Grant's) opinion it wat-1 not proper to try them, and asked authority to dismiss them. Attorney General Devena directed him to consult with Coiled Staler District Atlorney Lacey and left i'. to theirjoint discretion to enter nolleprua Orders to diBiniss these iut!ii.'tmfcLjis were booo afierwar a entered aud Attorney General Ddvens says he has 1 no reuaon to doubt that Lacey nnd Grant exercised their discretion wisely. COILTW j The subcommittee of the bouse committee on expenditures in the ; department of state lo whom was re- j ferred the caje of Bradford, consular clerk at Shanghai, have made a report sustaining the various charge?. TO LEASE A RESERVATION. Sargent introduced a bill in the senate, sen-ate, to-day, to authorize the leasing of a portion of the military reservation to New San Diego, Cal. Referred to tue committee on military aQairs, |