, 1873-11-13
WASHINGTON.
The Democrats and the Speakership.--
Composition Of Committees.
Judge Hollis Answer TO Andrew john
son.-1mportant Land Cases.-
Minor Matters.


Minor Matters.
Special Dispateh to Tho Chicago 1rtb,sne.
WAsn1S0ToN, Nov. 12.-somo curiosity Is
manifested to know why Col. B. 8. Pardoo, who
MAS Indicted and put undor 100000 bail for
forging Gen. Daboook's nnmo to begging lot
ter, demanding moaoy Of poBtmastors to carry
the elections for tho Administration, has not yot
bcon tried. Tile olTonHo was committed last
March, but pardoo WAS put on bail and Is ro-
ported to DO in IN insane asylum.
Tho idea is abroad that thoro Is
no intention to prosecute him. as his bail Inns
boon reduced to $1,000, and among hia friends
arc Government Secretary aud two or three
Senators. Whether llo had not some counten-
anco In seeking to bleed the Postmastors ia also
IN dispute.
SENATOR MORTON E
arrived In the city to-day In little better health
than in tho past session. He favors groonbaok
roliof.
wear . gloomy inspect, and tho fow, lobbymon
| who hayo como in havo given up their su1np-
tuous quartors and taken cheap lodgings.
TIE PNEUMATIC. TUBE
| for which Congress- gave IN appropriation of
$4,000, aud which proved to be . complete
farce, and smashed in before It WAS half 1ld, and
destroyed the Capitol terracos besides, is now
being relaid by Albert Drisbaue. its concoiyor,
just aa the ground is freozing, but convenient
ly near tho assembling Of Congress-. This tube
was intended to carry printing parcels between
the capital and the printing houBe, not bali mile
in tho wood cylinder, tho prosont iron cylinder
must cost moro; and thus moro money will be
spont on q commercial ohimera than would hayo
laid down threo pneumatio tubes on we'll mp.
proved patterns, aud more than Congress gave
A1orao, aftor years Of ontroaty, to put up lele-
graph from Washington to Baltimore.
THE DEFALuAT1oN OF PECK,
tho suspended contractor OF the Second North
Carolina Revonue District, amounts to $4,000.
uo Is now undor arrest and 1t is oflcially.stated
that tho Government will lose nothing.
DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT Fon MR. DLAINE.
Some OF tho Democratic members Of Congress
are Bondiug out correspondents to propose that
caucus nominee, it be changed, juat before count
ing tho vote, 80 as to givo Mr. Blaine tho unani-
nous support Of the House. Tho roasoua given
| for such d whimaicality aro, that 1t would be
something to the Speaker in tho present insou-
bio condition Of politics, and might, reciprocally,
| THE MAKING UT OF COMMITTEES.
Tho Committee Of Appropriations will DO Of
the grcAtcHt Importance aB tho oxtravaGant OK
pendtures Of the last Congress have made 1t
difficult to keep balance III the treasury with
both imports and internal revenue falling
ago to got tho Ways and Moanp, instead OF tho
Appropriations Committee and a temporary
cooluens sprang up bctwoen him and nlr. Blaine
tlorenbont. Whether this will bo to Garnelds
ess in 'e1af 1a% e % a sa ses as on y
Garfield AZ to Credit A1obior. The wllolo action
| Of Congress hingos upon tho composition Of
| co,nmittees and oyory interest, whether Of
| ognition in those minor halls Of Legislation.
THE ABSENCE OF SO MANY MEMBERS
| from Washington is partly dine to the faot TINT
many members are canc,,eing those questions in
Esp s out e Fl s ry s5 srsp 81 tbe
country has no hope of revival, except by direct
| eubfidy or through expansion, aud honce tho
Washington hotol-koopera arc hopeful, aud
tst ossy rlps poor s1snsy 1sss psssn
moat Of whom belong to the riff-ratf class, and
arrive curly because thoy havo more Bocial posi-
ton Aoro than at home. speak audaeiouslly,
country Is not less Legislation, but more. They
| arc all determined to rolieyo the country in
| some way, oven if they lave to mike money to
| do it.
ANDREW JouNsoN's oAsE AoA1SsT JUDGE HOLT,
controversy over tho AndrowJ Johnaon-J Holt
quarrel as to which prevented the communication
| OF Mrs. BurrattB sentence. Opinion ia about
even. Holt says that it ho had kopt back suoh
ho ought to hare boou court-martia1cd; bnt Mr..
| johnson continued friendly relations with him
| to the eud of Lis term, although for three
yoars the prosa wna circulating, this story.
prieyo from Bon Pitman's report proves
nothing us that Was not an official document,
but mercantile venture and, besides, as only
four members Of tho Court-Nlartial signed 1t, 1t
coicil to the trial. Mr.. Holt aeys that his
Office being tho Custodian Of Conrt-Martinl
Nocords, he brought tue whole folio back, as |
sNw it to-day. while, meantime Gon. Townsend
it to Con. Hancock. MIR. Holt's silence for
eight years was imposed upon him ~ Secretary
Stanton, who said: "Go into no discussion on
tho subject, but leave 1t to tho Judgment Of
in accord with Johuson, and gid not wish tho
tho Catholic element, aud, therefore,
n9ish'r MN lad mt the generosity him to spsaa spsaa
holt nays that Johnson and himself talked over
| all the points Of Mrs. Surratts case, and John.
son showed no feeling. And when Anna sMrratt
waa waiting in tho lower bart Of the ~ hl Wllte: To-
might 10 induced to pard on tho mother II Romo'
body would take that girl away.
HARLAN y1NDIcATEs HISTORY.
The appearance 9f ex-senator Harlan II a,l,, % =
profaneiy said to be duo to tho fact that 11arlar
favore Justice Miller for Chief Juactico, aut
Holt ID ono ulnn in tho WY.
| 10 tho .i6soctattd Pres3.1
LAND CABEa.
WAan1saToH, D. c., Nov. 12.-The Secretary
Of tho interior hns affirmed the decision Of ths
Commissioner Of tho General Land Office, y
; tho caso Of thu. private land clnim OF John "
Perry and othcrs, rejecting tho sauvln claiu
covering several hundred acros in and near the
: vicinity OF st. Louis, Mo,
Ex-senator Wade and othara, counsel, mad
an argument botoro the Secretary Of tho ln
, terror to-duy, for rohearing OF tho oaao Of th
J Northern pnoiflo laairoad Company against th
! St. Paul l. Pacific Railroad Company, herotofor
, decided III favor of the latter. 1t Involves til
titlo to largo trnct Of land brought in contro
vorsy by tho overlapping Of laud grants.
THE ATE ECTI0MS.