The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13
General News Summary
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Ex-MINIsrER ScHENCK made statement
before the House Committee ON Foreign A.
fairs on the 2Sth. He empkatically denies
that he was corruptly interested in selling a
worthless mine to English capitalists, and
says he will be able to prove that he bought
and paid for the shares he holds under an
honest conviction of their value; that he has
sustained serious loss from the Investment;
that the failure Of the mine was owing to
mismanagement, and that, properly worked,
it is as valuable, in. proportion, as it was
originally represented TO be.
THE Secretary of the Treasury, on the 10th,
directed the retirement of $lss,144, that
being eighty per cent of the new National
Bank circulation issued during March.
The articles Of impeachment against cx-
Secretary Belknap, presented to the House
on the 30th ult., are five in number. The
first charges the ex.Secretary of War with
receiving money corruptly while in Office.
The second charges bribery as defined by
statute. The third charges the payment Of
money to him for continuing corrupt persons
in office. The fourth charges him with re-
ceiving gifts while in Office to influence him
corruptly. The fifth charges him with TAX
ing money corruptly for the use Of himself
and others.
THE Democratic members of Congress held
caucus on the evening of the 3lst ult., for the
purpose Of selecting managers to conduct the
impeachmenttlialo of ex-Secretary Belknap be-
fore the Senate, and the following named gen.
tleman were chosen by ballot: Lord, McMa-
Ron, Knott, Lynde and jerks, Democrats, and
Wheeler and Hoar, Republicans.
Mr.. c. L. BELL, of Jackson, Miss, was be-
fore Clymers investigating committee, on the
3lst ult., and testified that he had once been
asked by Secretary Belknap to pay 2,OOO for
a post-tradership, but had refused to do So.
He also stated that he had been hired by
Col. Babcock, while on the Pension Office
pay-rolls clerk, to purloin documents
and otherwise cripple Col. Dyer in the prose-
cution of the Babcock case at st. Louis.
GEN. RICE, Washington attorney, was ex.
amined by the sub-Judiciary Committee on
the Isl, and testified that he had received
compensation for four post-traderships which
he had procured for other persons, but de-
MED that Sec'y Belknap knew of such COM
pensation, and declared that he had never
given or loaned Except to some trifiing
amount which had always been repaid)
money to Mr.. Belknap, and had never given
him any presents, except, perhaps, some wine
and cigars, and small wedding present to
his wife
SENATOR HRIsTIANCY's substitute for Mr.
Morton's resolution calling for an investiga-
ton of the late election in Mississippi, which
was adopted by the United States Senate, on
the 3lst ult., directs the appointment of a
committee of five Senators, whose duty it
will be to inquire into the intimidation and
frauds alleged to have been used to effect the
result of such election.
THE debt statement published on the LIST
shows a reduction of the public debt during
March of s4,2 ,S66. Cash in the Treasury
coin, S75, 756, 1914; currency, $685., 626; spec
ial deposits for the redemption of certificates
of deposit. s34 ,2230, 900. Debt less cash in the
Treasury, s2,1lo,7l9,439.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the I'd states
that the Secretary of the Treasury, as the re-
suit of a Cabinet decision, had sent to all
persons having the charge of Government
buildings, circular calling attention to the
fact that the appropriation made for fuel,
light and water, and miscellaneous items for
public buildings, for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1876, was nearly exhausted, and
ordering that gas and water in said build
ings be shut off, and that the laborers paid
from such appropriation be discharged, in
accordance with the provisions of the law
prohibiting the expenditure by a Department
OF the Government of any sum in excess of
the appropriation already granted by Con-
yress.
THE EAST.
RESOLUTION in favor of woman suffrage
was defeated in the Massachusetts House of
Representatives on the 2Sth-127 to n.
The Republican State Convention of Yer.
mont was held on the Doth, and Delegates-at-
Large to the National Convention were
chosen. Among the resolutions adopted was
one opposing the repeal of the Resumption
act, and demanding the speediest return to a
specie basis of values and currency. The
delegates to the National Convention are un-
instructed as to a candidate for the Presi.
dency.
The complete returns from the recent
election in New Hampshire foot up as follows:
For Governor---Cheney (Rep.), 4l,765; Marcy
Dem, 50, 12S; Kendall and scattering, 395,
Total, SO,2ss.
THE Pennsylv ania Republicans met in
State Convention at Harrisburg on the Goth,
and elected Delegates-at Large to the National
Convention and adopted resolutions reaffirm-
ing the platform adopted at Lancaster last
year; demanding the exposure of official dis
honesty and the punishment of the guilty;
dcnouncing the course of the Democracy in
the Southern States and in Congress, and pre-
senting the name of Gov. John F. Hartranft
to the consideration of the Republicans of the
Union for nomination for the Presidency, and
instructing the delegates to the National
Convention to give him a united support for
the nomination.
THE large Lyndebrook reservoir, near
Worcester, Mass, containing nearly 500 OOO..
600 gallons of water, gave way on the even.
ing OF the 3Oth, in consequence OF the tre-
mendous pressure caused by the unusually
high water in the valley. The escaping waters
rushed down the ravine with terrible roar,
in solid mass twenty feet high, sweeping
everything before them. No lives are re.
ported lost, the people having received time.
lywarning of the impending calamity; but
the damage to property is immense, reaching
many millions of dollars in amount. Build.
lngs, fences, roads, ETC. were carried away by
the flood.
Four boilers belonging to the Fletcher
mill, at Providence, R. l., exploded on the
3lst ult., killing two men and wounding more
or less seriously number of others.
ELIZABETH T. GREENFIELD, the colored
singer, famous throughout the country sew.
eral years ago under the name Of the Black
Swan" died at Philadelphia on the 1st, aged
sixty-eight years.
THE bill legalizing the marriage of Mr.
james Parton and the niece of his former
wife, now deceased, has passed both houses
OF the Massachusetts, Legislature.
The election in Connecticut on the Sd re.
suited in the success of the Democratic
ticket. In 1877 towns, IngersoI Dem.) for
Governor has A, 499 votes; Robinson (Rep.)
S6,5T; Smith (Pro) 1850; Atwater Currency
Reform) S6l. Le0islature Damncro%i< r,