Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-28
WASHINGTON.
The Pacific Mail Subsidy COrrup-
tiOn-RecOmmendatiOns of
the Committee.

Passage Of the Civil Rights BiII-A
Chance Of stopping the Force Bill
In the Senate.
Special to the Union and American.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The House
Civil Rights bill passed. The Senate
Force bill viii pass. The House this
morning amended it so as to eonfne the
suspension Of the writ of habeas corpus to
the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Alabama. Its passage in the
Senate may be delayed. W. C. W.
To the Associated Press.
The Pacific Mail Subsidy Corruption
Recommendations OF the Commit
tee.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The report Of
the Ways and Means Committee in regard
to the Pacific Mail investigation concludes
as follows:
In order that another Congress may have
it in its power to pursue this inquiry until
the guilty parties, if any, are discovered,
and that the disgrace belonging to such
discovery may attach exclusively to the in
dividuals involved, and not rest upon the
FOrty-secOnd Congress as a body, they
recommend that the testimony relating to
the money paid to these two parties, King
and Schumacher, and 60 the action Of Allen
B. StOckWell, be delivered to the Clerk Of
the House Of Representatives, 20 be laid by
him before the next House, Of which body
j. G. Schumacher and William 5. King are
members elect. Mr.. King is not a mem
Der Of the present House, and not
within its jurisdiction, and the
committee is not prepared therefore
to make any recommendation affecting him,
except as embraced in the accompanying
resolutions. 1t is evident that the testi-
mony Of StOckwell will be of vital i'm
portance to the credibility of Mr.. Schuma-
ker's evidence. The committee therefore
think that it may better tend to just dis
position of his case, to give an opportunity
for further evidence, with the strongest
motive on the part of this witness TO fur
niSh a more satisfactory explanation Of his
connection with these disbursements. The
enormous evil attending the expense Of an
unre2ulated lobby, with license to appear
before committees and urge measures
upon members upon the fraudulent
pretense that they are privately retained by
interested parties, calls for further legisla-
ton.
The committee, in concluding their re-
pOlt, deem it necessary for the protection
Of Congress against future tranSac-
tons as diScreditable as those they
have now brought under review, that
a law should be passed requiring every
person appearing and advocating measures
for a private interest, to appear in his own
capacity as a retained attorney or agent.
They present a bill designed 70 throw some
guards around Congress and the public in
terests in this respect. The facts Of this
case also, they say, disclose the
fact that sums have been paid
to influence the action or in
reward of two employees of this house,
and of persons entitled 70 the privilege Of
the reporters gallery. Such practices, they
say, merit condemnation in the House.
They also present in the bill a measure to
prohibit the influx Of this class Of persons
from using their positions corrupuy or for
paw, to defer or procure the passage Of any
measure pending before Congress. The
committee do not recommend further &C
ton in the case Of the two employees Of
this House who, after the passage Of the
act, received rewards, as shown in their ev-
idence, as they are informed that both Of
them have resigned.