The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-01-20
WASHINGTON,
Arrest OF the Editor OF the New
York Tribune.
Explanations by Members In Re.
gard 20 The Pacific Mail
Subsidy.

WAsHINGToN, January lO.-In the
senate Mr. Alcorn presented resolu.
/ lions Of the state grange OF patrons OF
husbandry OF that state In favor Of
making Pascagoula port Of entry and
for the improvement OF that harbor.
The legislative, judicial aud eXecu-
tive appropriation bill was considered,
aud the senate, by n vote Of twenty
nine TO twenty-one, refused TO concur
IN the amendment Of the committee
providing for the organization Of II hu-
reau Of commerce and statistics. The
present bureau Of statistics, however,
was continued, and twenty thousand
dollars appropriated to carry II on.
Mr.. sherman, from the conference
committee on the Little tariff bill,
made report substantially the same
AS that Of last session with the cScep-
ton Of the duty on hops which was
fixed ut eight per cent, The second
section relating to tobacco aud the
sale of bonds, which were the principal
subjects Of disagreement last year,
were stricken out by the conference
committee. The report was agreed to
by the senate.
Mr.. Wright, from the Judiciary
committee reported, with amendment,
house bill for the relief of owners and
purchasers of lands sold fordirect taxes
in the insurrectionary states and other
purposes.
In the house explanations and de-
mails were made by number of mem
hers of newspaper reports, connecting
their names with the Pacific Mail sub
sidy. This occupied good deal of to-
days session. First came Storm, OF
Pennsylvania, who although he had
steadily voted and spoken against the
subsidy, was alluded to as the recipi-
ent of one of those one thousand dollar
bills which were said to have been
floating around at the time. Then
followed Chittenden, of New York,
who had been COMPOUNDED by the same
newspaper, with person of the same
patronymic, to whom Albert had paid
several thousand dollars.
Then followed Sypher of Louisiana,
who defended his vote for the subsidy,
but denied Indignantly that he had
been influenced by corrupt motives.
Then n telegram was read from Daniel
w. Voorhees,, of Indiana, and Boyd
Winchester, of Kentucky, denouncinS
the newspaper stories connecting their
names with the subsidy and asking to
be summoned as witnesses. Then
special committee was appointed TO in
quire whether TIE privileges OF the
house had been violated in the arrest
and detention of Whitelaw Reid,
editor of the New York Tribune, at the
suit of Alexander r. Shepard, while in
this city, as witness before the COM
mittee on ways and means.
Then another recusant witness in
the Pacific Mail investig alton Chas.
A. Wetmore, the Washington cores
pondent of the Alta California, was
brought before the house for refusing
to state the name of person who had
mentioned something to him deroga-
tory to the character of Beck, of Ken
lucky. These various incidents of the
Pacific Mail investigations. with n cou-
pie of hours given to the Indian APP
preparation bill, filled up the whole of
to-day's session.
The cabinet to-day perfected the
Canadian postal treaty, which will he
Immediately sent 10 Canada for the
signatures of the postal authorities
there.
Whitelaw Reid appeared before the
police court to-day and gave. bail to
answer the charge of libel brought by
Ex-Governor Shepherd.
The senators and representatives
from the states Of Arkansas, Louisiana
and Mississippi met last night at the
rooms of Collector Casey to consult
concerning the leyees. The meeting
resulted in the appointment OF conf
mittee, composed of Aicorn, Mckee,
Sheldon, Morri, Hodges and Snyder, to
call ON the president and ask his sup
port in procuring an appropriation. In
accordance with the recommendation
of the commission the committee called
on the president this morning, and had
a somewhat lengthy interview. Sem