Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-09
WASHINGTON.
Readjustment of Senate Committees.
The Cases Of Patterson and Others
in Extra Session.
COngressmeD Anxious for Their Ex-
ira $1,6SI, 900.
Reported Resignation Of Minister
Bancroft.
A substitute for the southern Tour

A Substitute for the Southern Tour
New YORK, March Sit is reported
from Washington that the President, 10 the
latter part of March, will visit his farm
near st. Louis.
1t is stated that Bancroft, our Minister to
Prussia, has resigned.
It is stated that the Comptroller Of the
Treasury declines paying the extra Con-
gress!oDal pay on the ground that the law
is worded ambiguously, and that the nec-
essary appropriations were not authorised.
A great many CongressmeR are disap-
pointed.
It is reported that certain Congressman
are Offering their quotaof public documents
at fifty cents per volume.
WASHINGTON, March S.-There is an
erroneous impression regarding the action
of the First Comptroller of the Treasury
relative to the pay of members of Con-
gress. The fact is that he deferred his de-
cision until he had considered the entire
appropriation. This has now been done,
and the Comptroller states that the pay
ment in question will be made, there being
no lawful objection.
Presidential LeVee.
There were hundreds of persons at the
Executive Mansion to-day seeking inter-
views with the President. Many ladies
were in the throng. Senators, members
and ex-members of the House, as usual,
had the precedency of admission. Not
few Office seekers presented their papers.
A Lucky Tennesseean.
The Postmaster General to-day appoint
ed John B. Minor, of Tennessee, special
agent of the Postofice Department at sal
ary Of $1,000 per annum and three dollars
per diem expenses.
The Senate in Caucus.
An adjourned meeting Of tie caucus of
Republican Senators was held this after
noon. at which the vacancies in the chair
manship of committees, caused by the ex-
piration of the terms of various Senators,
were agreed to be filed as follows: Morrin
of Maine, Chairman on Appropriations, in
place of Cole; Buckingham on Indians,
in place Of Harlan; Boreman on
Territories, in place of Nye; Sprague on
Public Lands; Lewis on District of CO.
lumbis; Flanagan on Common Education
and Labor; BroWnlow on Revolutionary
Claims. Howe leaves the chairmanship OF
Claims Committee and becomes Chairman
Of the Committee on Library. Scott sue
ceeds Howe on Committee on Claims.
Committees on Investigations, Retrench-
ment, Political Alleged Outrages in South
ern States are all disconti1 1Ced. No changes
are made in the chairmanships Of other
committees. After some discussion the
caucus laid on the table motion to elect
new Sergeant-at Arms, only two Senators
voting for it.
Caldwell, Clayton, Patterson, ct Ais.
Considerable debate was devoted to de-
termining the order Of business for the pres
ent extra session. It was finally agreed to
take Of and dispose of the report Of the Sc
lect committees on the charges affecting
Senators Caldwell and Clayton, and the re-
port OF the Morrill, select committee on the
evidence received from the House affecting
certain Senators referred 10 in alleged
Credit Mobilier transactions. 1t will be re-
collected that Just previous to adjournment
there was an understanding that the Senate
would at this extra session take up the case
of Senator Patterson.
Sanator Anthony informed the caucus
that he wished to resign his position as
President of the Senate pro TEN. Senator
Carp inter- will be elected pro tenn. Monday,
when the caucus arrangement of commit
tees as above indicated will be ratified in
open Senate.
Congressman Kelley Turns Over His
Credit MObiIier Dividends to Treas
urer Spinner, and Feels Better.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-Judge Poland
addressed letter to-day to United States
Treasurer Spinner, wherein be inclosed the
- - Al
Oakes Ames insists belongs to Judge Kel-
ley, but which the Judge refuses to OVID,
together with a certified check for three
hundred and twenty-line dollars on the
First National Bank Of this city, drawn to
Judge Poland's order and signed by Kelley.
The amount of the check is the dividend
on the stock paid Kelley by Ames. Ii his
letter to Treasurer Spinner Judge Poland
says he indorses the shares of stock
and also the check. In pursuance
Of an arrangement made between
Kelley and Ames, he requests Spinner
to call upon Ames for the balance of the
accrued dividends on the stock, which will
amount to some four or five thousand dol
lars. The Credit Mobier shares are to be
sold if Mr.. Spinner can find customer for
them, and then the whole amount covered
into the Treasury. Ames told Kelley that
he was fool for handing the proceeds of
his Credit Mobilier transaction over to
Spinner. "If you don't want it," said
Ames, "you Oug ght to give it to the officer of
the Union Pacific Railroad; it belongs to
them more than it does to the United
States" Upon the whole, however, Kelley
thinks the Government has been swindled
by the Credit Mobilier people, and he
wanted to make restitution SO far as he was
Kelley left to-day for home,
saying he felt better now that he had made
a clean breast of it. He proposes address
ing himself a little to bis constituents, de-
Tending himself and explaining bis connec-