New-York tribune., 1874-12-10

ing him that the Government has abandoned tno
safe burglary cases under the late indictment"
which has been pronounced nullity by the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia. the Attorney
General regarding it. owing to the illegal consul
tuition of the Grand Jury The Judge. after dlrec',
ing the communication to be placed on file. ordered
noe proseQu to be entered in these cases, and also
discharged the bail of the defendants, Harrington,
Whitley, and Williams. No further action win
be taken at present. The abandonment OF
the cases is with reference only to the nuty o. inc
late Indictment and does not affect the cause OF Io
tiOn, the same parties be again indicted Iqr n
alleged ofense. ltsubsequenty appeared that 1uds
Macarthur holding Criminal Court, made ms oruS'
applicable, not only to the parties above meptloneu
but to the other defendants, dsmissing the inus1
ment, canceling their recognizances. and dlscharS
ing them all. The next Grand Jury will be bsad CON-
around the courthouse and IN the community gea
eraly that the act of the Court to-day is the las'
that will be iudicialy performed in the saie w
glary conspiracy case; in other words, there Will
not be another trial.
6QUABBLE BETWEEN HOUSE COMMITTEES
OVER THEIR WORK.
The WAYS and Means Committee held its frst
session to-day, and in the consideration OF the
Presidents message for the purpose of having IL
referred to the several committees having in charge
the various questions upon which it treated o very
lively scene is said to have occurred between MEM
bers Of that Committee and some OF the Renticioh
composing the Committee of Banking and Cur
rency. The latter demanded that all matters re-
lating to financial affairs should 60 to their Com
mittee, while the members of the Ways and Means
Committee considered that the whole question
should rest with them. The contest between the
two Committees is said to have been very animated
and to have occasioned good deal of bad feeling.
A compromise however, was finally effected, ana
the result of the session that all matters relating
to the funding of greenbacks or anything else re-
lating to the debt Of the Government should go 10
the Ways and Means Committee, and that all SUD-
jects in the Presidents message relating to the cur
rency, free banking, the resumption OF specie pay,
ments &C., should be referred to the Banking ana
Currency Committee. The members OF tho ways
and Means Committee are very reticent as 10 tneir
session to-day, and if they considered the ques'on
as to whether their investigat into the passage
of the increased Pacific Mail subsidy should be
continued, it is impossible to find it out.
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS COURT
In the Alabama Claims Court to-day argument
was resumed on case No. 81 to the character OF the
damages. counsel for the Government taking the
position that the Court had no jurisdiction in mat
ters of personal injury by acts resulting from the
capture of Confederate cruisers. Gen. Roberts spoke
in opposition decision viii be rendered in few
days. Case No. 49, involving the question of citizen
Ship nat uralization, etc. with the cases involving
the same points will be argued tomorrow. IL Is
probable that the hearing of cases will commence
regularly next week after the argument on demur-
rers are closed