Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-18
WASHINGTON.
slow work Investigating fhe District

slow Work Investigating the District
Ring.
WASHINGTON, Fek. 1.-THE Select
Committee appointed to investigate the af-
fairs Of the District of Columbia will not
again meet for business until Gov. She,-
herd shall have furnished the detailed in
formation required. The Committee have
not as vet called ON the memorialists to
present specific charges and the names OF
witnesses.
Tie Reward Couet Martial.
A change mas been made in the original
detail for the Howard Court of Inquiry.
The Special War Department order CON
cerning it contains the name Of Col. ]. ].
Reynolds, Of the Third Cavalry, in place
Of Gen. Holt, as was at first intended.
Chief Justice Waite
arrived last night, and is stopping at the
Arlington House. lie called upon the
President at noon to-day, and remaining
until the Cabinet met, was formally pre-
sented to each member, when sometime
was passed in pleasant conversation,
A Missing Monitor.
The Secretary ofthe Navy to-day received
a telegram from Commander Braine. com
AAiC ! AIettNS
dated Savannah, saying that he parted
company with the monitor Dictator which
the Juniata had in tow the night of the
18th inst. of Charleston, the weather being
thick and the sea running heavy at the
time, and that the Dictator had not arrived
a. Savannah on ;ne night of the 18th,
rhe Sanbern Contracts.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
sent TO the House of Representatives the
following communication III relation to the
Sanborn contracts:
Treasury Department, FEB. Ill have
the honor 10 inciose herewith, in compliance
with the resolution Of the House of Rep
resentatives, of the 18th inst, copies in full
of all contracts made under the authority
of the Treasury Department in pursuance
of the provisions of the lst section of the
legislative, executive and judicial appropri-
alton bill approved May s, 1872; also
copies of ell correspondence and orders
of the Department relative to said con-
tracts and schedules showing the entire
amount of money collected under their
contracts by Messrs. Malcolm Campbell.
John o. Sanborn and John Clark respect
lively, and how the said moneys have been
collected or paid by the treasury under 9th
er contracts. The papers herewith trans
mitted, comprise copies of all contracts.
schedules, receipts, certificates, checks and
other correspondence that have any bearing
on, or relating to any and all steps or
action taken by the Treasury Department
under the provisions of the law referred to.
In justice to persons whose names are
included in the lists accompanying the sew
eral contracts, Of those who are claimed to
be indebted TO the government on account
of taxes or otherwise, and who have not
been proceeded against, permit me ID add
that no evidence of such Indebtedness has
been presented to the Department All
that is known TO the Department on the
subject is what appears on said lists which
were necessary to be furnished in pur-
suance of the requirements of the
first section of the act of May s,
1872, namely, that no person shall
be employed under the provisions Of
this clause who shall not fully set forth in
written statement under oath and address
to the Secretary of the Treasury the char
acter of the claim ont of which he proposes
to recover or assist in recovering moneys
for the United States; the laws by the vio-
latlOn of which the same nave been with
held, and the name of the person. firm or
corporation having thus withheld such
moneys, before the persons furnishing them
could be employed.
WM. \. RICHARDSON. Secy.
To James Blaine.
\ voluminous mass of documents, with
names and figures, accompanies the above.
The I,iouor Traffic.
Mr.. Poland, from the House Committee
on Judiciary, will tomorrow report favora-
bly, bill providing for the appointment of
a commission of inquiry to investigate the
alcoholic liquor traffic in its relations to
paUperism, crime and public welfare. \
kindred bill is already upon the Senate
calendar, which by vote of the Senate is
placed first ON the list, and will be called
up tomorrow by Senator Wright, of Iowa.
and probably passed during the morning
hour.