Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-07
WASHINGTON.
CaIdwelI,s Parole OF Honor.

II Caldwelrs Parole OF Honor.
| NEW YoRK, Feb. 6.-Tbe Herald
Washington special says that a part O
CaldwelI's statemen: has been shown {,
have been untrue. It is thought the com
mittee viii be divided on the case as &
the question of expulsion.
| The Next Congress.
4 A strong effort is being made on the par
of lobbyists and others for the assembling o
the aew Congress March 4.
The Syndicate.
/ WASHINGTON, Feb. 6-The funded loar
! subscriptions in the United States and
Europe to-day have been SO heavy that the
Secretary of the Treasury, in order to stay
the interest, has issued "a cal for one hun
dred millions of the $40 bonds of 1852, in
advance of the closing of the books. Ad-
ditional calls will be issued to follow short
ly, the Secretary having declined to cdl at
one time more than one hundred millions,
because of the clerical labor involved in pre-
pairing, receiving and delivering the bonds.
The Vice President Eject.
Senator Wilson will, on the 18th or 20sh
inst, notify the proper authorities OF Mass
achusetts Of his intended resignation, which
will not take place until the expiration Of
the present Congress.
The Tobacco Planters Right to Sell.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
to-day addressed the following letter to the
chairman and members OF the Finance
Committee:
The final passage of the bill in regard to
the selling of ieaf tobacco direct TO con-
sumers, which passed the House yesterday,
will, in the respectful judgment of this Office,
prove disastrous to the revenue from to-
baeco, and is most earnestly deprecated by
the whole body of manufacturers Of tobacco
throughout the country. have addressed
the chairman of your committee to-Jay,
asking a hearing from this Office and the
manufactures Of the country before the
Senate is called to consider it. We esti-
mate that the revenue would be reduced
$3,0OO,0OO per annum by the proposed bill.
Another st. Louis Bridge.
The Senate Committee on Commerce
voted to-day to report fayorably the bill
authorizing the construction of bridee
across the Mississippi river, at Carondelet,
Missouri, providing that this bridge shall be
sixty feet above high water, or ten feet
higher than any other bridge over the Mis-
sissippi.
The Louisiana Investigation.
The Senatorial Investigation Committee
on the Louisiana case examined Gov. War
moth. The next witness was Fellows,
who expressed belief that the election of
1872 was an organized fraud and that Ex-
Gov. Warmoth had not the confidence of
any party. On cross examination by War
moth, he said he got his information from
parties hostile to .Warmoth. Adjourned.
Credit MObilier-Jas. Brooks Mega.
tive Defence.
At the sittings Of Polands Committee,
this morning, Congressman Brooks SUBJ
mitted letter from Ex-Secretary Brown
ing, dated March u, 1868, transmitting his
commission as Government Director in
the Union Pacific, and stated that it was on
the 9th Of Dec, 1867, that Nelson got his
shares from Durant.
Horace f. Clark, President of the Union
Pacific, examined By Brooks, testified
that one hundred per cent. was not regard
ed large profit on construction.
Augustus Schell was next examined.
Hon. James B. Beck, Of Kentucky, was
sworn and examined by Brooks. Witness
was member of the conference committee
in relation to the interest question of the
Union Pacific road; has been very intimate
with Brooks, ard does not remember
Brooks ever speaking to him in any shape
or form whatever in regard TO the Pacific
road. Witness, with majority Of the con-
ference committee, agreed that the law was
on the side of the Pacific railroad. Had no
sort of recollection that Brooks ever opened
his mouth to him on the subject, either di-
recly or indirectly.
bon. Daniel ". voorhees, was sworn and
examined by Brooks. Witness was mem
Der of the Pacific Railroad Committee dur
ring the Forty-fTst Congress, and had ques-
tions up in which the Union Pacific was
deeply interested. Brooks never spoke to
witness on the subject of Pacific railroads,
and never appeared before the Railroad
Committee on any measure before it.
Adjourned.
The Third Committee on Credit Mo
e-1 biIfer.
The Senate Committee on Credit Mobil
ier did not meet this morning.
Where Thirty-Seven Million Dollars
of Our Bonded Debt Went.
Boston, Feb. 6.-Judge Wilson, Chair
man of the Congressional Committee, re-
examined Rollins, Treasurer of the Union
Pacific road, to-day. He said the profit on
the Ames contract as far as it appeared on
the books as divided was S29, ,654 $50 in the
stock and bonds at par, and that on the
Davis contract 81, ,S02, ,135 in the same ma
terial.