The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-04-07
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Go,sip In and Around the TnyestI-
" eating Committee Rooms.
Tue Failure OF the Appropriation for
Fuel aud Lighis Ia Public Buildings
Gained by n Deficiency Hill.

House are holding no meetings, hay
ing abandoned all hope Of reconcilin
the differences among the Democrat
on the financial question.
The subcommittee on Ways an
Means, consisting OF Hancock, Chapi
and Burchard, In charge of the whlsk
tax question, has reported to the ful
committee against any reduction @
the rate and the subject was considere
Yesterday. The decision was post
poned until to-day when the report q
the subcommittee will undoubtedl
be sustained. ...
Rumor says the delay which ha
characterized the rejection Of tn
nomination of Mr.. Dana was intende,
for Mr.. Schencks benefit. 1t il sal,
he Is very poor, scarcely able to pay
hotel bills even, and as he continue
10 receive pay until his successor Is ap
pointed, his friends In the Senat
have been spinning things out so as t,
give him little money. t
Secretary Bristow has sent q reply
to the Lynde resolution adopted by
the House on Monday, stating that b,
has paid no money to any newspaper
man except the commercial reporter
ola st. Louis paper, evidently Colony
who resigned his position as reporter
three or four days after employment
by the Treasury Department. Brlstow
says he has hadsmuch valuable infor-
nation from other newspaper men
but paid nothing for 1t.
Ex-Commissioner of Pensions Van
Arnem, charged few weeks since by
certain witnesses with committing,
with Others, a fraud OF $500, 900 on the
Passions Office, arrived here yesterday,
to demand an investigation and to be
heard IN full detail OF the story. Mem
bers of the committee were forced to
admit that the testimony was not spe-
cic and, in fact, did not implicate
him.
The House Military Committee are
to examine General Custer to-day. re-
garding charges against General Mer-
rell respecting money received for put
ting down Kuklux in South Carolina.
General Merrell says the matter was
Investigated by Senate Committee In
1873, and he was honorably acquitted.
Another charge against Merrell which
Is before the same committee Is that
he took bride when Judge-Advoeate
Of d courtmartial in Texas year or
two ago. He claims this was investi-
gated by the. War Department, under
ademand made by him for Court Of
Inquiry, and that there was not found
even basis enough for an inquiry.
There was sensation report current
yesterday that the House Naval Com
mittee had traced the profits Of impor-
,apt contracts directly home to Secre-
tary Robson, but members OF the
Committee authorize an emphatic de-
nisl Of this, and declare that nothing
that looks like the Belknap business
has been traced to Hobeson. Some
purchasing agents have been discover
ed making considerable money, upon
what proves to be customary per.
centage, and some abuses have been
discovered In some of the bureaus, but
no fragrant case has been found, though
though the Committee have taken
nearly two thousand pages of testi-
mony. .
The ripple Of excitement created by
the failure Of the appropriation for
fuel and lights In public buildings is
\ calmed by the agreement OF tho APP
preparations. Committee to report de-
Hciency bill of 100000 on Friday.
The greatest inconvenience from Sec
rotary Bristow's order falls upon the
post.offices. Butler Marshall, who is
acting Postmaster General, proposes
to divert an unexpended balance OF
the appropriation for heating and
lighting postotiices not in public
buildings, and in this way serious
trouble will be avoided. BtHE4
Ex-senator Trumbull appe AIRED be.
fore the House Committee on Public
Lands yesterday, In the interest of the
Central Pacific and Southern Pacific
Railroads, and made an extended ar
gument against the Senate bill to pro-
tect settlers upon lands within the
limits of railroad land grants, provid-
Ing that the title of the settlers shall
be secured II the settlement Is made
h prior to the notice Of the withdrawal
OF said lands In favor Of said compa-
nies. Mr.. Trumbull claims that the
grants to the railroad companies were
made In prssenti, and the withdrawal
'oithe same would be a ministerial ACT
pof affecting the validity of the grants
He opposes the bill ON purely Legal
grounds, and says that II adopted II
VIII be the cause of litigation between
sne companies and the Government
The Senate was organized as q coIr
impeachment to-day, Mr.. Ferry
fiesldeut pro tem., and not the Chic
'ustlce Of the Supreme Court, as Up thl
impeachment Of the President, presld
w. and an order issued summonint
nenneral Belknap to appear at a day
week or 90 later. Past PRECEDENT
'esm to make It optional with tn