| Show BY TELEGRAPH I 1 fer feb R hesmin um r 4 AME AMERICAN RICAN washington 24 on the ath of may ilay last J F niell blell meline ne john wal ker ser and NV H hills were appointed a committee to examine the disbursements bur and contingent expense account of the treasury depart ment on june the secretary called for a report odthe of the investigation up to and including that date this report was called for by a resolution altered in the senate by senator sherma sherman 1 I which was adopted the ins t tho the report was today submitted to tile the senate the committee say cay that to i ments merits made to us by the chief clerk we have not made an examination of the accounts for lor stationary but have con eon confined our inquiries to fhe the accounts and expenditures under the appropriations for other contingent expenses the attention of the secretary Is called to various sections of the revised statute statutes 3 prescribing 4 crl cri the powers and duties of pr i tain officers of the department in relation to accounts under examination all of which are quoted in detail the organization of the department part ment officers and their salaries are noted and reported then it t takes up the case cage of a custodian not war var warranted ranted by law the tion of the crooked trans tranE transactions actions of pilney pliney are then detailed he is found to have twice paid for certain bills of carpentino carp enting out of din diu erent mixed accounts I 1 paying for certain work out of the other funds the custodian refuses to explain this matter fifty three gallons of bay rum was purchased hued as deo ionized alco nico holIt holdt was used for toilet purposes for three years ending may gist the waste paper of the de apartments part ments was sold for and no deposit was made in the treasury on that account except after the committee suggested that it should be done and then only 2176 was deposited while not willing to ina keany kenny jilie the committee say they think the system in vogue very loose and liable to great abuse and in their opinion ought to be materially changed to melines Me lines report was appended exhibits showing the prices rices paid for articles in excess of thein their value in open markut market assistant secretary upton and chief clerk submit communications referring in detail to various statements maintaining their administrations were not involved in it they declare that the department made purchases economically on the whole upton holds that ane expenditures of the office were legal and authorized by secretary Win doms letter transmitting the report off offered ered as soon ashe assumed the and learned of the irregularities he continues it was my intention as us soon boon as my more pressing 0 duties 4 would permit to have pursue pursued rl this rigid policy in other branches of the treasury by the appointment of competent commissioners to collect the necessary data on which to base proper action to secure securer economy and promote 1 rr omoto the best boat interests or of the public bervice ber eer vice vlee but the assassin assassination atio atto of president garfield suspended further action in that direction the latest advises advices received at t he treasury department are th that adalor morgan has hns not accepted the treasury portfolio secretary Win doms duties at the department lepart ment have ceas ed judge french has been appointed acting secretary and Is feigning letters today to day secretary windom is now with president arthur thenamae the name of governor mo morgan rg an for secretary of the treasury was not sent to the senate with any doubt of his decision to accept it the nomination was made and the new york papers sent reporters te to him who all concurred in under standing that he would not decline today to day he positively declined the treasury rv portfolio so rio much lias has this confused matters that the tiie pre adent decides to di spen with all actions as to the at attorney torn byg general en eral ship until the treasury portfolio is settled nothing can be ngew acel tain ed as to his second choice for the i latter place A former rumor is thereby revived that ex senator howe will bo be nominated for the place and that thia this action will be deferred until the head of the tho department part ment of justice is determined p upon strong probability however lio iio wever eti fris that the secretary of the treasury will come from new york and that judge folger has been tendered the position tomorrow to morrow devel are arc looked for with much nuch t intaj mt eat president arthur has his received telegraphic information that ex gov ernon morgan declines the tary tars ship of 0 tte tto te tie treasury and a letter embodying his de chion is on the way it is reported tonight to night that the treasury Trea pury portfolio por tolio wae wag offered to judge folger of new york the president baid eaid today to day that lie he would probably send in the name of another prominent financier tomor to mor row and that lie he did nt not expect to hold the senate bonfer longer than thursday in the senate this afternoon upon the introduction by sherman of a resolution to instruct the librarian to report on the purchase of certain papers in the possession of the marquis de rochambeau in relation to i the revolutionary war there was much dise diec it wag brought out that they consisted of 1400 unpublished original letters and papers from the tire hand of washington to count chambeau rochambeau Rc and others and 59 original maps the price was the marquis marqula being poor had brought the papers at the request of the library committee there was objection to binding the government to pay for them at present voorhees claimed they were inestimably valuable ingalls an adverted im on the who a transaction in a sarcastic way but the resolution being si modified that the lingary committee should consider the matter it passed the president nominated J M winter of illinois consul to rotterdam lV illard B wells orAlle of michigan higan consul to dundee hans Mattison of Min Minne soto solo consul to calcutta edward F white of california coiner of the mint san francisco following are the senate confirmations mat ions howard M ketchin JA atchin collector of internal revenue third wisconsin district dia Dla tret hans mattison of minnesota consul general at calcutta willard B wells of michigan consul general at dundee john T winter winte r of illinois consul at rotterdam receivers of public iio nio Ifo moneys neyr jerome knox knor of lake view bregin oregon wm H bailhache bail BaL hache at santa fe new mexico registe register r of the land office charles IV pierce at lincoln cohnn nebraska eb postmasters HA spickard EP E rickard pickard buena vista col e wm V ostern irwin col AB emery emery park 1 ark city utah and james B thomasson breckenridge enridge colorado the probability of conkling being secretary of the treasury is freely talked about here tonight to night and it is very evident that his appointment would be received with more favor by prominent republicans than two weeks ago or even a week luce ince since NEW 25 james okeene ene owner of Foxhall was warmly con fatu tabulated tatu on his victory ife he was as asked ked if it was unexpected keene heene replied rp plied well I 1 should say not n 0 t as r C backed him very heavily to vrin win the tho therace thorace race hois hols he Is t ats ti greatest horse in the world to win carrying arraying arr ying n an immense penalty as ho be did on the occasion of his former victories great ben dor unplaced at even Ax weight eight and lucy glitters who had llad the reputation herself of a great greh racer and carrying only 91 pounds were wert beaten by my horse he was ridden by a third rate jockey so our english friends can hardly credit the victory to the great experience or abille ability y of the rider what is ia your opinion of the colt no now noa that ho is the tho greatest horse horm in the world and I 1 not fear to start him against anything on fo r legs his winning thil the cambridge shire race today to day and thus making the most remarkable double record having previously landed the is esthe the most marvelous marcelous marc marf elous flous per firmance for mance ever accomplished how about the rumors of a match between iroquois and your colt I 1 would rather not express ss myself on that point my opinion of I 1 lox ox all you know NEW nm 25 A troublesome rimes times correspondent has discovered that one of byners personal frier friel ds with wh rn postmaster Gen gendral geral ceral makes his headquarters while hunting in the farbes is postmaster Laramie at wItha salary of 2 21 off per annum and an allowance of 1200 for clerk hire at least this was the handsome allowance made while tyner ruled although the Laramie office paid less than loo oon a year in box rents rent and commissions but the assistant postmaster generals Gene raps raPa liberality went further he laid out post routes over ills his hunting gro nd established a postoffice poat post po office known n 11 Tyner aija allowed compensation of tf routes to the amount of or thousands of ot dollars the annual returns rett irna being sk S k if any dose fisted listed tax payer grumbles at this way of doing business lie should be silenced bytho bythe by tho information that the men who made all the money that came out of the bus bust ness were hunting companions the herald paints ar dother iother full page pago arctic correspondence on which it editorializes as follows professor muir thinks the jeannette jem Jew pushed directly through the ojen oren open water exten din ln at least miles southward Bout rout hward from cerald island looking like all an open liver river between the banks of jeo which was rozen to the shallow bottom The stream which flows through this tills opening r onn off tie ile lle lie ile tle il e east coast or of wrangle land is said to het northerly at the rate ot of about two knots knoth an hour and clearly indi cates an opening i further north whence millions m ll 11 lions of young geese come swedish reports confirm con nirm firm this view of the opening an and it t is highly probable that the jeannette jem Jew mette caw law it and pushed as far northward as possible which would fully account for the corwin cot Cor 8 fal fa ure to discover any trace of thea the cannette on tiie the south kouth east coast of wrangle igind L md where alone she madelny made any search the city of rome home sailed from liverpool at the end of a hurricane and encountered storms all the way across of exceptionally severe character her passengers however were subjected to comparatively few inconveniences there were igo in the cabin and an 1 l nearly 1400 in the steerage the steamer malabar Mala oar aur which lias has just arrived from the Phillip pinie pirie islands has a cargo of 2325 tons of sugar she is the first steamer that ever camerom the Phillip pine islands to the united states and this is the largest cargo of sugar ever imported into the united united states from any country her duty on it will be C P hun huntington hington pronounces pronoun premature mat urethe the report the union on and central pacific companies de elded the former to stop atop its oregon jinelar baker city anti and the latter would not have to build to theldis the missouri sour river negotiations to this end are pending but no has bai been reached rea clied SAN francisco oct 25 A dispatch from nanaimo Na naima vancouver ibi n ml saya says the steamer california arrived from sitka sitha with dates of the the steamer returned from yakutat september 22 20 1 with an indian who murderer murdered campion and malony last fall captain glass ha baa taken charge of the find and will E mii mil for lor Chill leat racoe and wrangle land on the dinst the revenue cutter richard bichard rugh arrived here hero this morning from she has as pas passengers enget geis s mr cranin and the wife wire of the lato late deputy collector st pauls they report no news from the jeannette or rodger hodger the steamer landed a quartz mill and several mining men times aro aio lively here at present everybody h felling jubilant over the placer chien are turning oue one out wel tile the citizens have petitioned pe president arthur to I lave ave collector morris 11 orris removed on account of his over a which i a ment to the interest of the territory arr fr some months the agent of the atchison topeka santa fe and the atlantic pacific railroad companies pa have been quietly and cauti outly lor the e of property and acquisito acquis iton n of the rights odway of way for terminal facilities on san francisco peninsula they have llave now applied to the board of supervisors for a franchise to 0 o construct a single or double track standard gurge guage railroad entering the city from ocean beach side and extend ing iny to the city front both on the north and south the petition has been referred to the judiciary committee the petition comes cornea in he the name nume of the ocean shore railroad which is to run up the shore line flom santa cruz CHICAGO 25 the Ori Orl bassas bassa at the suggestion of co D V whiting manag ed for forte lorte t b united states will be continued until next friday fridays to en able visitors and exhibitors who cannot leave before the first of the year to participate excursions will leave chicago on december and january I 1 th taking in the exposition on the way to the city of exico mexico DA round trip tickets will be issued by the illinois central good until flay pas gars may re turn via havana florida new or leannor lean leans sor or new york pa 25 lyman hug hus kells hells cannon was sue bue uc ct cast to days jay lay in the presence 4 t a large number of interested spectators the metal was poured into tile the in six minutes it will roqueiro roqua e six bix weeks to owl along the bore will hill be four pockets 2 in each of which a coarie of powder will be placed to accelerate the speed sliced of the ball after it leaves the chamber f the gun guu it is claimed that a ball thrown from this gun will pass through two feet of solid wrought iron the charge of powder will bo be pounds and the weight of the projectile is j cutilla 0 so 25 A beringo ADu ringo special says last night ata at a ranch 17 miles west of Se B bowen nowen bo wen shot and killed john hayley hyley in pelf de rense he claims that hayley had threatened li 11 is life SAN franci FRANCl francisco 25 the ship samaria from philadelphia reports that on sept 2nd and oft cage horn she saw an iron ship with posts on fire only the bowsprit was standing bhe she found her abandoned and could not ascertain her name after argument by scoville judge cox postponed guiteaux Guite gulte aus aua trial until november seo scevilla Sc ovilla villu stated that in riis nia opinion tile the courts had jurisdiction I 1 and intimated that he would not raise raibe ze any question on that point district Attorney Corkhill received a telegram from judge porter of new york stating that he will assist the government counsel in the prosecution the french minister received and entertained th the eFrench french guests ot of the nation tonight to night in royal style all tiiu the diplomatic corps members of congress and many other prominent men were present blaine has the capitol illuminated tonight to night to take the french visitors through and show them the building the frenchmen leave tomorrow to morrow moning for philadelphia thence to bos ton where the state department will take formal leave of them it is reported that judge tyner tendered to president arthur his hia resignation as first assistant post master general A senator benator who left the Preil presidents dents residence at noon states that a messenger arrived this morning bringing a letter from ex governor morgan in which he positively and finally declined the of the treasury and 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