The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

| WASHINGTON, March 2O-Secretary Bristoy
will appear before the Committee on Expendi
| lures of the War Department and ask for al
investigation Of all details Of the Kentucky
mule claim.
Boutwell, calls for copy of his letter tt
Henry Clews asking for sixty thousand for tn,
Pennsylvania campaign on corrupt condi.
ton.
WASHINGTON, March 2O-The Star says,
Orchard q. Dana, Jr, after asking to be
heard by the Senate Committee ON Foreign
Relations, has mounted his .steppine
Harvard horse and published letter in Bos
ton, which, had plebeian written it, would
have been styled impertinent. He evidently
wishes to be made martyr Of, and'he will be
gratiied. Dana is an accomplished, high
toned gentleman, but he lacks common sense,
and Ben Butler is too much for him."
Mrs. L. G. WATSON writes, and she says al
great peril to herself, ''that the Georgia peni.
Tertiary convicts are dashed and strained SO
that several have died"
Attorney General Pierrepont has sent q let.
ter to Senator Clayton saying it affected
United States prisoners. The Senate Judi.
oiary Committee will investigate the matter.
The north gallery of the House, known as
the SMALLPOX Gallery, will not be opened
hereafter until after prayer. Admission to
bu0 OtnO1 k0llOAy W uOAOe 40 OshoAAy OOe0A40OA0
by decently clad people.
No Southern nominations.
Ex-senator Stewart, of Emma Mine, is here.
Marsh and wife are at the Arlington.
Contracts for fine government printing
paper show about a cent per pound decline.
The Treasury will receive fourteen tons Of
silver this week. Silver coin in treasury
vaults not $50, 1000; fractional currency in
vaults So, 100000.
The Star says there is reason to say that
thus far the developments do not fulfill the
expectations excited by the first announce
ment
The resolution. adopted unanimously by
the Committee of Elections, to the effect that
all Congressional districts of the United
States must be composed of continuous terri
populations, and that the Legislature of South
Carolina, now in session, ought at once to
correct the illegal construction of the Third
Congressional District Of that State, now rep
resented by ]. l.. Hoge, it is very we'll under
stood was intended to allow the State the op-
portunity to correct the error herself but if
the State persists in this unfair distributing
there is no doubt that the committee will feel
bound to take the whole matter into their
own hands, and will act with promptness and
decision.
Mr.. Bristow, before the War Expenses
Committee, testified that Mr.. Groom, of
Kentucky, asked him to argue the case before
the Court of Claims. Groom, by the col
lapse Of the rebellion and failure Of the gov
ernment to take the mules, had lost 5000, 900.
Bristow, for q small retainer and expenses
and contingent fee of ten per cent, made the
argument. He had nothing beyond this to
do with the matter, excep: in introducing
Groom to the Attorney General.
The argument was on questions OF law, not
of facts. Bristow was not in Office at the
time of the argument. Judgment was rem
dered January 5, 1874, approved by BeIknap
February 4, passed upon by Controller Broad
head and sl0S, $50 paid February 6.
The $50, 600 draft paid to person for Mrs.
Bowers by New York bank did not belong
to Pendleton, but to a Cincinnati bank, who
had discounted it for Pendleton.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The announce
ment of Msrsh's presence here is premature.
WASHINGTON, March 20. The committee
as the ruling in the Spencer case
that the evidence offered to show what means
were used to prevent members Of the Court
House Legislature from going over to the
Capitol body, and thus breaking the formers
quorum, is not within the range Of testimony
hat can be properly taken by this committee.