New-York tribune., 1872-04-10
VASHINGTON.
TIE TARIFF BILL-PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS
THE NEW-ORLEANS INVESTIGATION,
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRlBUSE.i

THE TARIFF BILL-PRocEEDINGs IN CONGRESS
THE NEw-ORLEANS INVESTIGATION,
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRlBUSE.i
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 0. 1872.
The Wavs and Means Committee will not be able to re-
port Their Tariff bill this week. but expect to have IL
ready next Monday 1t is not generally believed that
any portion Of the bill Will ever become a law.
The vote Of 3s 49, by which the Senate sent the Bat
more and Potomac Depot bill to che Committee on the
District Of Columbia, instead Of to the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, is believed to have In
sured the passage of the BILL This measure 1t will
be remembered. is the same over which the House was
for week o a9d sy9 1T ne
II Is proposed to make into public PARK ana rght OF
given 70 the Military Committee which called up and
passed great number OF bills.
The PostOnice Committee vas called in the morning
hour in the House. to-day, and Mr Hill reported Dill
authorizing tho issue of onecent postal cards. He made
q speech in support OF cheap postage referred to the
marked financial success which has attended the use OF
postal cards in Great Britain and exhibited TO
the MS.'s o Europe M Garfield thought
the open cards such the bill contemplated with the
w SaS srcasS to SS SSoss BY s
before reaching the persons to who, Whom ~ *
ectc because and they syyurpG. pGn.
abuse He exhibited card provided with paper flap
the side desd to b be i %Ten S6 IN saSn
discussion arose as TO whether something similar rI
s Ss left de' as Sc In Ensa With W the aG
dress on one side and Ine letter on tie
other The motion was amended as to make the use
table the BILL saying that believed every should
select his own station and he was opposed to the 10Y
erDment giving to some favored contractor the moop3H
~ sr, ,e ne """ds. s motion was lost slnd the bill
was passed The bill revising tiS mint and coli@se iaws
came up as the special order Ine Dli was Oe to So
from threatened defeat. Certain clauses creating new
the House these provisions had been left on. OF the
bill, reported back. but the portion relating 10 the
Who appeared to think they covered scheme for re.
coming all the one three, and ve cent pieces f1t the
particular 9e@e The ose Ui Wen With oy seven out
OF the 69 sections of the bill before adjourning.
II has now BEEN about two months since the Special
Investigation Committee returned from New-Oreans,
and yet there seems to be little prospect OF their
making a report thero was the day after they got
back The reason stated for the long delay 10
that the Congress printer so overwhelmed with work
that he is not able to print the testimony. Up to this
time it is said, only 40 pages have been put In type
Since the testimony sent to the printer however
hundreds OF pages Of less important matter have
been printed for other Committees, and sirgulary
enough the NewOrleans Committee appears to be tie
only that complains OF any trouble in getting its
work promptly done at the Government office the
Arms Committee, the Election Committee aud seY eral
Others have pages OF matter printed every day
than has been printed Tor the Orleans Committee
in eight weeks The opinion begins to DO pretty
freely expressed among members OF tine House. that
the testimony taken at New Orleans is pnrposey kept
from the public. IL lis well understood that
much of this testimony reflects credit upon the Gus
tOmhouso faction in louisiana politics, and Is damagng
inent supporters Of the Administration, who nave
been the Leaders % Of a their nS S
the House and the country the facts t9ey were
cion smotherng the truth to subserve political ends
Gen. D. 8. Roberts desires correction OF the state
ment that he Informed the Military Committee
of the House that Allen, the inventor of the
Allen or Springfield breech-oader, Is trciher-in-
law OF Gen. Dyer the Chief OF Ordnance. Another
nerson who was present at tho time Gen. Roberts APP
peared before the Committee made the statement, IN
answer to a question to the motive cf The oIdnanco
Department in persisenty retaining an ihiefor arm of
the SERVICE
The witnesses in the Tenth National Bank OF New |
York investigation did not arrive today hr Hooper |
received letter from jay Could saying that nc fnc"
nothing about the attempt to lock up currency In That
bank which would DO OF service u tho COMMITTEE ana
no hos beep excused from attendance for the present.
MesTs Smith aud Palmer tle other two Witnesses SUD
penaed will be here on Thursday
Delegate Clagetts bill to authorize the Distribution OF
AZ Ooo 900 additional National Bank curSncy ID the Ter
ritorIes was considered by ,hc Banking and Currency
this morning No voto was taken, bat 1t 10
understood that the Committee arc adverse to its pas
sage The House Commerce Committee ahieou,
oSs,rnstIon tGs mGInns Of prldsas over the srpi
warsaw and Quincy and bridge over inc Missouri at
Yne investigation or the OIL tfanspoti
monopoy will DO esuIned by the Committee mex Mon,
when the contracts mi m,de he ~ Soed se and nut IN ev
dence The projec' building imienae dry aocks "a
,he Marc Island NAVY Yard, California was consdercu
, ,v the Honse Naval Committee today No conclusion
was reached.
GENERAL PRESS DIsPfTcAi
Tho President to day sent tho Senate the following
G. W. Lescndre to be inhiStet NS''en' "
,he Argentine Republic; James H. Insraham to 10 sur
vevor Of Customs at Nevorleans. Ia; C1moGoIg H. SS
so5U Wy, r. Green 10 bo Rear Admiral; Capt Iohn MoN
III to be Commodore; John T. Broao lr.u' !" W A"
isntenant M in tho Rsyenue Marine .eI Vcc. An ~.
There was u brief cabinet sesion oo-cy: cycrtinr nr
I'D ~ the Denartuents were ptosen cAcepsins "a
% neaas VI who d, absent from tho city. Gen. Covan 20
s,siant sccrety represented tho Interior p"
M , .as M Gusiness OF more than OldnalJ
nca The English question was tue snlyss " oStan
@ vcrsation but not with view " any o'noi' a'VH
I'm relation thereto a. 49,. liam ON opiul0n that the !
IN now Sefore Congress the pay ncht oI uo' t 70
,roops enlisted under tho Piesidears for
Ma is6I applies only Ia yoIiDloeis w"o ~ tyecn
may o. 'reo,- between tho dates named VIZ ptt"eo"
May andUuly ~, lSGl. 5,,. Inv Senator Clayton |
,l,'to Roct Arsansas signed bv SIX nhcihpcioW ~
l,af. fenfrl Committee, annUumus uls tpo a., W.
f"r Republican state convent. 10 ,ors n, of mat |
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