Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-28

WASHINGTON.

ten up, M gentlemen of the highest
reapPcsability- assert, either through |
malice or Misrepresentation of the facts:
another charge against Fitzhugh is at
tempted bribery while he lived IN
Texas last year This is equally with
out foundation. Col. Fitzhugh has |
seat for official documents aid ether |
proofs which will show his innocence |
of im Luted crimHs, AID If necessary he |
will ask for the fullest investigation by |
a corn mittee of the House
WASHINGTON, April 24-Noon-
Blaiue's promised explanation, which
requires a speech of 1000 words, has
not attracted an una sual crowd to the
galleries of the House.
The election COM mittee gave a fur =
ther bearing to the sub-commii tee ami
will vote Wednesday. Both report
the seat but the minority report claim
that the seat il vacant The minority
report gives the seat to Spencer.
The vote by which the inve5 igation
of Bristow's connection with the re
lease of the vessel Mary Merritt wa
transferred to the committee on way
and means was reconsldered and the
Investigation is progressing before the
committee on expenditures of the Treas
| ury Department. Bristow insisted
| upon having the names of the parties
who furnished the information, claim
| ing that it was an effort on the part of
the whisky ring to break him down.
| The committee held that it was unim-
portant whether the witnesses belong
ell to the whisky ring or not SO long
as they told the truth. Bristow fur
nished the list of witnesses he desired
| summoned and the investigation was
adjourned.
Alderman was before the committee
On expenditures in the Department of
Justice. He acknowledged having
given Davenport certain sums of
money from the secret sesvice funds
but when asked whether he did SO by
direction of the President asked for
time to frame his answer and the COM
mittee adjourned till to- morrow
The Senate has up the bill to abolish
the Office of supervisor of internal
revenue.
WASHINGTON, April 24-Night. t.
SENATE--A bill was introduced by
Merrimon altering the time for hold
ing courts in the fourth judicial
circuits.
The blu fixing the offices of coliec :
tors and supervisors was resumed,
the question being on an amendm ent
abolishing supervisors and transfer
ring their power to special agents not
to exceed twenty. No action.
The silver tender bill Was resumed
and Jones spoke to adjournment.
HoUsE-By Gibson, a bill author
izing the louisiana and Texas Rail
road Co. to relinquish certain lands in
Louisiana.
By Raymond, bill permitting
national banks to issue Notes equal to a
hundred per cent of the market value
of the bonds deposited to secure Cir
Gu alton.
By O'Brien, bill to reorganizo the
navy. It provides that there sh Ill be
on the active list six rear admirals, Is
com modores, 50 captains and Is CON-
manders, ani that promotion in these
grades shall cease uutil those numbers
shalt be reached
Faulkner, from the committee on
70 :eign affairs, reported joint resolu-
tion req testing the Presi lent to take
such steps as may tend to obtain the
early release of Edward 0. M. Con-
don from his imprisonment in Eng
land. Passed.
Gibson of Louisiana off red a reso-
luton for the appointment of select
committee of nine to make a thorough
examination into the conduct of man
agement of the New Orleans custom
house and of the Offices of the marshal,
district attorney, postmaster, assessor
and collector OF internal revenue aud
of such other federal officers as they
may discover to be implicated in
wrong doing and violation of the law.
with power to sit in New Orleans and
during the recess. Gibson moved to
suspend the rules and PASS the reso-
luton. The motion was lost-yeas
lac, nays II. not two-thirds- and the
resolution failed. The House then
resumed the District Business
Blaine of Maine, rising to a per
sonal explanation, proceeded to make
a general and specific denial of the
newspaper charges and allegations
connecting him with the pawn Mt of
some S64, 100 by the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. He read letters
from Sidney Dillon, president. Thos.
81. Scott, ex-president, and E. H.
Rollins, treasury of that company,
and from Morton, Bliss & Co., bank
ers of New York, contradictory of the
various statements in relation to him,
and declared that every part of tie
story was absolutely untrue, without
one particle of foundation in facts and
without title of evidence to substan-
tiate it. He said that several news
papers, some of them from friendly
motives, had urged him to ask a com
mittee of Investigation, but he did not
do so become he did not wish to wait
the delay aud slow progress that
inevitably attended all Congressional
Investigations. He deemed the mode
which he had adopted the 7hortest and
most expeditions of vindication. He
was ready to submit the whole matter
to the candid Judgment of the House
| and country, and if the House
| thought that the matter should further
be inquired into, he was ready to give
al the evidence in his power to make
the investigation thorough, rigid and
| impartial. He explained his purchase
in open market in Boston, in the snm-
mer of 1869, of the bonds of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Co
which bonds he still held, and OF
which he had suffer ell q loss of over
$40, 900, and SUMMARY I'd his Whole
statement as follows: Fir~t, that the
story of his receiving $64 900, or any
other sum, from the Union Pacific
railroad, was absolutely disproved by
the most conclusive testimony; and
second, that no bond of his Was ever
sold to the Atlantic and Pacific. or t.
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail
road Co., as charged; third, that H.
stead Of receiving Little Rock and
Fort Smith bonds as a gratuity, he
had bought them at the market price, j
and had incurred a severe pecuniary |
loss from the TRANSACTION. He was |
now in the fourtt enth year of not |
inactive service in the House, and he |
had never done anything in his public |
Career for which he could be put to |
the f':ntest blush in any presence, or
for which he could not answer to his
constituents, Lis conscience and the
Great Searcher of hearts.
The District tax bill passed, and the
House adjourned.
Cuparvisor Hadrick has haan asEa6