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Show A Ashl reg t onTrlfxnt new. WasIIINUTON, Aug. 15. The-ruls a rather interesting inside to the op-Iiliou op-Iiliou manifested to the bill tn allow al-low Colonel Cor bin of the army to tervcwlth the World's Fair Association. Associ-ation. It seem? that Colonel Cor bin was second lu command of the Sixteenth Six-teenth Unites! States colored regiment reg-iment and that I ndUu Commissioner Commission-er Morgan was colonel. Forallcged conduct uuliei-oming au officer and agentlem-in Colonel Corbiu preferred prefer-red clisrgeaag-iinst Colonel Morgan, who was court-martialed and di-mlssed di-mlssed from the service. Through the Influence of Mr. Sumner and Governor Andrews ofMauchuelts the sentence was remitted and Mor-gan Mor-gan resigned. Tills was in lSef, and during all these years Morgan lias awaited his opportunity. When the Corbin bill was Introduced it Is rcinrtcd that Margin made a er-soual er-soual canvass of every member of Congress from New Kngland to defeat the meature, and it looks as if heliad succeeded. The Adjutant-General Adjutant-General of the army said today tliat he did not think any olllcer of the army would lie detailed to serve at the World's Fair In the manner provided pro-vided for in the bill. DIRICTTAX HILL. Caswell (Wis) toslay preented I utile Houses resolution providing that on Tuesday, the 19th, thellouse shall proceed to consideration of the Senate direct tax bill, and at -I o'clock of that day the previous question shall lie considered as onlered on the bill, and pending amendments, if any. Referred to committee on rules. OE-sERAL DEFICIENCY DILL. The Senate conimitlee on appropriations appro-priations to-day completed consideration consider-ation of tho General Deficiency Appropriation bill and reported it to the Senile with a number of amendments, amend-ments, which, with one exception, do not largely increase the total of tbe hill as it came from the House. This exception a provision for payment pay-ment of tbe French spoliation claims, aggregating Jl.S39.ttSs |