The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-05-22

United States under the Sanborn contracts, and
directing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause
suits to be instituted to recover money collected
in such cases. Mr.. Roberts introduced the
resolution.
The District Investigation.
Only one witLess was examined to-day in OPP
en- session by the District of Columbia investl-
cation committee, a former employe OF the
District government John f. Seitz. He testl-
fed that the contract was secured by Arthur
Shepard, Mr.. Frank Kelley, at present an en-
ploye of the District Treasurer, and himself {,
for Taylor & Filbert, for which that firm PAID
$500 which was equally divided among the
three. They were to receive and were prom
ised S6000 He further testified that the mon
ey was divided in the National Republican Of
flee.
Adolph Cluss, the Board Engineer. will be
cross-examned tomorrow.
The White House Wedding.
The marriage of Mr.. Sartors to Miss Nellie
Grant took place at II o'clock this morning by
Rev. Mr.. Tiffany in the east room of the Exec
utive Mansion. The room was decorated with
plants, flowers and evergreen and an arched
floral platform was raised on the east side OF
the room, on which the ceremony took place
There were eight bridesmaids and Fred Grant
was the only groomsman. The bride wore a
white satin dress, deliberately trimmed with
point lace, and her hair was adorned with or
ange blossoms. The bridesmaids were Misses
L.
Sherman and Frelinghuysen.
The ceremony was according to the Methodist
Episcopal church ana was performed under u
beautiful floral bell. The President, Fred Graht
and Miss Barnes were the only relatives on the
platform during the ceremony. An immense
crowd was present in all the varieties of fash
ionable costumes
Vice President Colfax, Speaker Blaine, Gen.
Sherman, Sir Edward Thornton and other
prominent psrsOns with their ladies were among
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presents, the Marine Band performing choice
music The presents were extremely elegant
and costly, several being from members OF the
Cabinent, while President Grants present was
$4,000. After the wedding breakfast the
guests were presented with boxes of wedding
cake. Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris left at one forty
for New York in special train which was dec
GRATED with flowers. The President and Mrs.
Grant will leave for New York on Friday to
ton on Saturday noon for Europe.
Various Matters.
The Internal revenue receipts to-day were
S300,6
The Congressional delegations of the States
of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi had a
conference to day at The Capitol with view of
obtaining further government aid for the suf-
ferers by the overflow of the Mississippi river.
asked of Congress.
The bill for the improvement of the Missis-
sippi river, reported to the Senate by the Com
mittee on Transportation Routes to the sea-
board is the bill providing for the acceptance
of proposals of James B. Eads for deepening
the channel of one outlet by what is known as
the 'Eads Jitty Pean."
The Banking Committee to-day voted that
the currency bill amended as heretofore
stated should be reported to the House this
forenoon for printing and re committal.
A subcommittee consisting of Messrs, Nj
black, Kasson and Dawes of the Ways and
Means Committee, having under consideration
the question of contumacy of f. A. Prescott,
Sanborn's lawyer, WILL it is understood, report
tomorrow that in the opinion of said sub-com-
mittee it is not advisable to present him to the
House as guilty of contempt. The committee
have already sufficient information relative to
Sanborn contracts.