Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-27
WASHINGTON.
The Louisiana COntest-ArriTal or 0p.
posing RepresentatiTes-Three
Trunks Of Documents.
POstOfiice Affairs-DOuble Postage
Treasury Aatters-The Three Per
Cent. Tax.
The Corruption InYestigatiOns-Wh
the Committees Propose 10 Do
The Indian Territory.

WASHINGTON, January 26.-Messrs.
Mcmillan and Ray, contestants for the
! Kellogg vacancy seat in the United
! States Senate, will act in their own be-
| half and for their respective parties.
They viii be assisted by outside counsel,
| but during the session of the Senate
| Committee on Privileges and Elections,
! these two only will be allowed to make
suggestions and examine witnesses.
Lynch and LOngstreet, representing
! the Kellogg Returning Board, and Fore
man, Mitchell and Southmaid, repre-
senting the McEnery Returning Board,
arrived here to-day from New Orleans.
| The latter brought with them three
| large trunks full of documents, supposed
to be the returns of the recent election,
called for by the committee.
1t is understood that during recent
interview between the Postmaster Gen.
eral and Representative Farnsworth,
Chairman of the Committee on PostOf-
fees and POstroads, the former intimat-
ed that he would revoke his order re-
quiling double postage in cases where
partial postage only had been paid, pro-
vided he should be sustained by the
Attorney-General, whom he would con-
suit on the subject. II, however, the
POstmaster-G General should not do so,
the committee will accomplish the OBJ
iect by the passage of the bill heretofore
agreed upon.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has in
formed inquirers that the terms with the
syndicate are the same as heretofore,
with the addition the financial parties
agreed to to insure the department
against loss in exchange. The arrange
ment will go into effect on the twenty
sixth of February.
The question of the return of the
three e-per-cent. tax to local express COM
panies has been decided in favor of the
claimants.
Both the Poland and Wilson Investi-
eating Committees expect to close their
testimony this week, SO far as the Union
Pacific Railroad Company and Credit
Mobilier are concerned.
General Dodge, formerly q member of
Congress, and afterward an engineer of
the Pacific railroad, has been telegraphed
to come before the Wilson Committee
as witness, as his testimony Is con-
sidered important.
The committee may, in consideration
of the great amount of labor involved,
the great distance of the headquarters
of the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany from Washington, and the short
remaining time of the present Congress,
ask to be relieved of the examination
into its affairs.
The Burns Club celebrated the ami.
versary of the birth of Robert Burns
last night at the residence of the Presi- /
dent of the Club, Thomas Wilson. This
differed from those of past
years, it being a social and literary en-
tertainment, attended by both ladies
and gentlemen, and conducted on the
principle. In addition to
the music, poems were read and speeches
made by Speaker Blaine, Representa-
tive Bingham, General Sherman, Judge |
Macarthur and others of prominence
present.
Among the documents yesterday sent |
to the House of Representatives by Gen |
eral COwan, Acting-Seeretary of the In |
terror, was protest from the Chickasaw |
Nation against certain measures pend |
ing in Congress providing for the open |
ing of the Indian Territory TO the white |
settlement