The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-08
B 7 TELEG r APh b.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
By the Western Union Line, ofice North.
west corner OF Main and lzth streets.
WASHING TON,
WASHINGTON, April 7.
The San born Case.

JOnu ". OAuUOTu woo ocioic toe
Committee on Ways and Means 10 day,
and va. cross t-examined Tor sev'1 |
hours but without anything Of imports
auee being ELECTED. He s,ill declines
to give a detailed statement Of his ex-
penditures. All efforts failed to male
him admit any b 'ng that would connect
General Butler or any other member
Of Coogress with his contracts. de
either dented Butler had g'vso him
advice, or the favor Of bis influence, or
answered that he did not remember il.
There WAS . brief cabinet session
to-day, all the departments, except the
Var, being represented, but no business
OF i'm portance WAS before the meeting
Secretary R chardson said Immediately
aiur the adjournment that be had not
resr sued and did not intend to.
The new French Minister to-day
presented his credentials to tho Prssi-
dent.
The South Carolina Delegation.
The South Carolina Senators and
Repressu tatives, with delegates from
the Republican State Central Commits
tee OF that State called on the PresIds.t
this morning, to answer the charges
made against them by the delegates
from the tax payers convention. The
delegation made statements based matt =
" on documents they presented to the
effect that the taxation is not
70 burdensome as has been
represented. aud has been imposed
for the best interests OF the people and
the SAFE. They denied that the dele
CATION represented almost ent rely the
tax paving cltrzeos OF South Caroiius,
AID declared that the REPUBLICAN dele
cation represented the substantial inter.
ests in the Ststrp, ss they represented
great majority o; the psople. The
President replied that he regarded their
statement as a complete answer to the
other side, and he wou d also say that
his reply 10 the former delegation hal.
10 several instances been mlsrePresenI-
ed, particularly with regard to his re-
m narks upon the State goSernmeOs Of
Louisiana and South Carolina, q. he
had not intended TO make any r.hec'
tiop upon them.
The President has nominated John
w. Allen Tor postmaster at Cleveland
Senator Edmunds. OF Vermont. re-
appeared 10 the Senate chamber 10 day
and was warmly congratulated BY his
q, sociates on the complete restorat on
of hs health, effected by a rect aud q
visit to Florida.
The D,stsirt tInves'igafiou.
At q meeting OF the District OF Co.
lumbia Investigating Commitee this
morhiug, John W. Thompson, Prssi-
den, OF the Metropolitan Street. Rail-
wsy Company. was examined With rel
erence to the pay meu,s made by that
com paDy for Improvements on streets
through which the road runs. Hetes'
ufird that it would bankrupt the COM
pauy to pay Board pr css or paving,
and that in making ex eusions 10 'hr
liue OF road he b ID the verbal sonssUt
OF the Board OIL Public Works 10 lay
sleepers Is the work progressed. Thai
he had not paid any money to
the Board Tor soy coucres.
pavement laid except on l7th street.
which was improved after the COM
pauies track had been laid, and that
the bos,d had endeavored 10 force Ger
IAN payments from the COMPANY,
which claims we're resisted and were
now in litigation.
Arthur Bridget testified that he did
soddrug or contractors, who oota''ed
c,ntrsc.s from the Board, at Is, 20 and
25 ceuts The evidence OF the witness
~as mainly to the effect that the speci..
&c atoms ior sodding were not com si'ed
with
william A Cooke, corporation sttor.
nsH was r's'led ard 'uhj'c"d
to = severe cross-examina"
ton BY Mr. Tburms" win Ietvr-
enoe 10 the general sewer bill. DE
,apd he drew the bill after having bad
4 G nsulta,ion With var,oua dis'rict M
c,sl and upon the data furnished him
BY an ,ngiaeer Of the Board
8 8 Ri'.y. an assessor. testified that
the land on the eastern branch OF toe
Potomac which would not be worth
anything without reclamation, and
which did not drain 10 Fiber Creek
| sewer, was assessed for beverage one
cent per foot.
Oa cross examination it Was devel-
oped that Gen. Shepherd owned some