before it now with a little Tariff talk.Tile case of ex-Senator Kellogg charged with receiving a bribe of $30,000, for service in the Star Route frauds collapsed suddenly lust week in the District Criminal Court, through some technicality. He is to be tried now by a Congressional committee. Kellogg’s defense is to be that the Republicans owed him money for subscription to campaign fands. He claims to have been persecuted, and threatens to make damaging statements concerning the Administration, also, that he intends to be revenged by diverting the Louisiana .Republican delegation to Chicago from Arthur to Blaine. Price the contractor •was to have testified on Saturday agaiust Kellogg, before the Springer committee, but be sent a doctors certificate iustead, and left the city on Friday .night. If the inquiry does not resnlt in the vindication of Kellogg, it is thought a resolution will be reported calling for his expulsion from the House.