The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-03-11
WASHINGTON.
THE DBrIcT NvRsrIoATrso coNMtrrr,

THE DISTIcT NVRsTIGATrNd COMMITTEE
WAsHRoToN, March 1O.-The Dis
trict Investigating Committee has beer
engaged TO day In examining VIM, O.
eypher, formerly Superintendent Of the
colored schools OF Washington, In regard
70 their Affairs when he went out OF ofice
July Let, 1871. He testified that at that
date all debts Of the colored schools had
been paid and there was a balance oI
&2,7OO TO their credit in the Treasury,
The counsel Tor the memoriallsts handed
to the chairman, Senator Thurman, q
document which he said had been pre-.
pared In compliance with an order OF the
committe, requesting the memorialists to
present specific charges. The paper will
not, however, DO accessible to reporters
until after It shall have been formally sub.
mitted to the committee, The commit.
tee then went into secret session 10 read
and conStder the memoriallsts' charges,
when the doora were opened. Mr.. Thur.
man'announced that the Committee would
order the memorialists charges to be
printed, and before pursuing the investi-
CATION they would give the Board OF Pub.
lic works an opportunity, Il they 80 de-
sired, to make written reply 70 the spec.
itic charges. He further slated that the
counsel Tor memorialists had submitted
motion that the committee issue subpoenas
70 compel the attendance OF certain wit
nesses with various private papers. The
committee had decided that prior to
granting such motion 1t would be ex-
pedient 10 hear the argument from coun.
sci as TO the power and duty ol the COM
miltee to compel the production OF private
papers, and especially TO hear the ar.
gument as TO what certainty OF
aVerment and description should be
required as a condition precedent to
granting such motion, and whether the
question OF how far the rules OF evidence
prevalent In courts should be applied TO
an investigating committee. He there.
lore announced that next Thursday
would be assigned for the hearing Of ar
gument on the above questions, and he
turlhermoresuggested that counsel shouId
consent to the admission OF certified
copies oil sundry hotel registers in Phila.
delphia and New York, for the produc.
tion OF which power be delegated to the
committee, and thus save unnecessary ex.
pense. =
Specific charges were then read. They
relate TO the alleged collusion between
the Board Of Public Works and outside
rings and contractors, by means of which
II IL charged contracts were cxtrsyaeant
ly and Iraudulcntly awarded.
The President sent the following nom.
nations to the Senate to-day: Thomas
E. Burns, Collector Of Internal Revenue
for the 4th DISTRICT of Kentucky; Cassius
d. Foster, U. s. District Judge for Kan
sas; @. q. Vance, Receiver Of Public
Moneys at Cawker City, Kansas; George
2. White; Postmaster at Mt. Vernon, 8
Joseph Naly, Postmaster at San Francis.
co, Cal.
The Howard Court of INQUIRY Assem-.
sembled at noon to. day, all the members
being present except Col. Getty. The
court was organized. The session was
mainly devoted TO hearing the CORES.
pondence with the War Department re.
Iating to the irregularities.
Outstanding legal tenders, $9s2 ,OOO, 900.