The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-11
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WASHINGTON ITEMS

WASHINGTON, March 10.-Gossip has it
that the Committee on War Expenditures
has summoned Nordoff OF the Herald.
The Wine and Spirit Association have
committee before the Ways and Means
Committee, arguing in favor of are duction
of the tax TO fifty cents.
The Levee Committee have again post
poned its visit.
The Committee on War Expenditures are
making al Intellectual search tor Gen. Boyn-
ton, of the Cincinnati Gazette, whom they
want as a witness.
WASHINGTON, March 10 The Star says
the Democratic House seems to be more
charitable to Pinchback than the Re-
publican Senate, for to-day he moved about |
the floor of the former body as frisky as !
Mary lamb after it had been chased out of
school.
Prof. Silliman testified that he received |
five thousand dollars in advance and twen- |
ty-thousand dollars on the conclusion of his |
services for the Emma mine, which occu-
pled hlm between six and eight months.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
John L. Hayne Collector of Customs,
BraZos de Santiago, Texas; Jacob Alexan- |
der, POstm aster, Greenvile, Mississippi.
The Appropriation Committee agreed to
report favorably on the hundred thousand |
dollar appropriation for the Red Cloud |
agency.
The Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions, by small majority, agreed to report
favorably on the joint resolution electing |
the President more directly by the people |
The States shall be divided into districts |
equal to the number of Representatives. |
Each district counting one vote for Presi- |
dent, and the candidate receiving the high |
est number of votes in State shall receive |
two additional votes.
Gan RoUntap will rafurn In N oor,Io
days; he has been telegraphed to return |
when he receives the dispatch; otherwise |
the sergeant-at-arms will leave for him to-
night. The articles appeared in the Her. |
aid of the 9Th and 9Th.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March IO.-The bill for the |
admission of Mexico, was under considera-
ton.
The confirmation of Richard II. Dana |
hangs fire in the Senate on account OF the |
charge for which he was convicted in 1869 |
of appropriatng copyrighted notes Of
Lawrence's edition of WheatOn's laws OF |
nations.
After a long debate the bill authorizing
New Mexico to frame State Constitution,
passed. yeas 35, nays 10,
The House bill ENJOYING the political dis
abilities of Samuel Cooper, of Virginia,
passed.
The Senate then went into executive ses-
sion, and adjourned to Monday.
No Southern combinations.
HOUSE.
The Committee on Patents reported unfa-
vOrably on the bill cont aiming A. B. Will !
sons patent on sewing machine. Mr., Nord- |
hoff gave General Boynton as authority
tor his dispatch,
The President withdrew the name of A.
White eX-member of Congress from Ala
hn,, inf of
The bill extending the patents on sewing
machines was tabled.
Mr.. Cox, of New York offered a resolution
reciting from the reports of the Secretary
of the Treasury, that between January
3lst. and February 24th, there was an
increase of coin and bullion in the treas
ury to the amount of over SlS,000,000 and
that between the oath of February and the
10Th of February there was reduction of
over twenty million dollars; that these
great fluctuations within SO short a time
required explanation, and instructing the
Committee on Ways and Means to examined
the books of the treasury department., and
if necessary the officers thereof, to ascer-
tain the cause of such tluctuation; and also
to ascertain whether the legal tender notes
received for the redemption OF national
bank notes are kept as IA special fund or as
other money; referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means. The House then went
INTO CONF mlCGeo OF Tie w nOle Oh Tue AppTO-
priation bill. Mr.. Bass, mem ber of the
Committee on Naval Expenditures, made
personal explanation. He had opposed the
discharge of the witness, Marsh. because he
was the sole witness against Relknap. Mr..
Clymer replied that the recollection OF his
colleague, Bass, differs essentially and thor
oughly from the resolution of the Commit
tee. He read from the statements of Dan
ford Blackburn and himself, and from the
records of the Committee to refute Bass.
No objection was made TO the departure
of Marsh, and to say that he, more than any
mem Der OF the Committee was responsible
for his discharge, was unfair.
Mr.. Blackburn had no doubt the gentle
man from New York BASS intended to
tell the truth, and was sorry the gentleman
was not corroborated by the Committee or
| tie records. The collo9uy continued, very
| bitterly, without elciting any new facts
Adjourned.
Stevenson presented the resolutions OF the
/ Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, against
any change in the present law Iof draw
/ bridges over the Ohio river.
Probabilities.
/ WASHINGTON, March 10.--For the South
Atlantic States. warmer and partly cloudy
weather. east to south winds, and slight
changes in barometer in. the Gulf States.
For the Tennessee Valley, areas of rain,
and warm southerly winds, with falling
barometer. followed during Saturday. in
the Southwest, lower Mississippi and Ohio
Valleys, by colder northerly to westerly
winds, and rising barometer.
PHILADELPAIA, March 10.-The Medical
Department of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. graduated la students.