Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-04-28
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SPECIAL TO 1HE rrooHE DAILY RECORD
Eastern DISPATCHES.

who has Just returned from trip thro'
the overlooked portion of northern Lou
isana, writes to a member Of the relief
committee that the tabular estimates OF
damage in the undated districts hereto
fore presented tothe committee are much
too small. He submits figures which
show that IL 1000 people are in actual
want in the parishes of northern Louis
lana. Adding to this the large number
living outside Of settlements on bayous
and creeks, there are no less than p, GOO.
In this district the extent OF damage is
Just beginning to be understood. 1t in
wolves 5000, 600 acres and 1900 people.
Some of the richest and largest cotton
producing parishes are inundated, EN-
bracing $4,000, 900 acres of cotton lands,
including much corn land. The sugar
producing parishes show an equal amount
of ruin and suffering, $4,000 900 OF titled
and untitled sugar land being overhowed.
The rice and grain crops, and many cat
tie are also destroyed. 1t is believed
that in less than sixteen days the num-
Der of persons requiring aid will number
5000 in st. Landry parish not included
in the above statements. A district from
twenty-five to thirty miles wide is over.
flowed, and 10000 souls rendered home
less.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-Iu the CON-
mittee of Ways and Means this after
noon, Richard Z. Stillwell Deputy Clerk
Of the United States Circuit Court Of
New York, testified that two indictments
brought against Herman. in conjunction
with other persons, were dismissed as
concerning Herman, though remaining
against the others. motion to nolle
prosequi was made on the part of the
District Attorney. The witness said it
was commonly rumored that Mckay
obtained his position through Buffers
influence.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The House
went into Committee of the Whole on the
Legislative Appropriation bill. The
amendment pending yesterday, appro-
priatipg 100000 for the payment OF the
Court of Appeals was adopted.
Nesmith moved to strike ont from the
paragraph relative to the Department of
Justice "S1 400, for the care and subsist.
ence of horses and 5000 for repairs OF
carriages and harness." He spoke of the
Attorney Generals sixteen hundred dol.
lar landaulet, and remarked that lawyers
of his attorney Generals) calibre in
his State rode on the outside of fifty
dollar mule. Laughter. There was q
Spanish proverb to the effect that if you
put beggar on horseback, he will
ride to the devil.
Negley objected to the comparison of
an officer of the Government to beggar
on horseback.
Nesmith.-I simply referred to mule.
Laughter.
The Chairman The gentleman from
Oregon will continue being careful to
keep in order.
Nesmith.-I was only quoting Span
ish proverh which says put beggar on
horseback and he will ride to the devil"
| have no objection to the termination Of
the journey in that direction, but don't
want the people to pay for transporta-
ton. Laughter.
Durham said that as Sub Committee
OF the Committee on Contingent Ex-
penses of the Department of Justice, he
had Investigated the subject md would
be prepared shortly to make report of
the extravaganza of that department, but
he would desire the Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations to state
how many horses was provided for in
this 81, AGO item.
Garfield replied that he supposed as
many as the sum would take care of.
Durham insisted on an explicit an
swer, which, Garfield failing to give,
Durham accused him of want of candor,
and some unpleasant personal passages
occurred between the two.
Garfield explained that his reasons for
inserting the item were, that it was ne
cessary for the Attorney General to use
a carriage daily in his public business,
and that it had been always customary
for Government to supply horses and
carriages. II the House wished to
strike out the item, they could do So but
he deprecated the attack upon the Attor-
ney General. 1t was true, that officer
had been furnished S1,GO0-carriage,
which was wrong, but it was purchased
by a subordinate who had charge of the
funds, without the knowledge of the
Attorney General, who regretted it.
Wood denied that the practice of the
heads of departments to use public
horses and carriages for private convey
ances dated back Of the Republican ad-
ministration, and Wholey, in reply, pro-
duced voucher showing that in 1859
Floyd, Secretary of War, was charged
5000 as difference between an old wagon
and fine carriage.
Hoar thought a decent conveyance
should be furnished the Attorney Gen
eral, and asked Nesmith if he would like
to have the Attorney General ride down
Pennsylvania avenue on a mule. Nes-
NTH replied that he had seen the Attor-
ney General on q mule in Oregon. and
added that Phillip II. OF Spain rode
mule through the streets of Madrid when
he went to marry Mary of England, and
sacred history gave an account of
better man than either of them riding on
one of those useful animals that had no
pride of ancestry and no hope of illus.
trious posterity. Finally, Nesmith's
motion to strike out the item was agreed