The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-04-02
v WASHINGTON NOTES.
,,AeucK,s statement Rldlcnled
without Stint.
. mann, Trial VIM Not be Reached
iii Thursday Next.
Mall Contracis-Ohio 10 be Car.
4, the National Convention
,o,rhurinan-Genorai Custer
wants 10 Castigatc Rice.

i ,ad IN the NhtiOhhi NohNehtioh
,.rrurman- General Custer
wants 10 Casiigate Rice.
WARRINGTON, April l.-Mr. Knott
NOISES to call up the articles OF Inn
s',chmept against Belknap to-day,
"A should they be adopted, the House
I'm At once proceed to elect the seven
managers and present the case TO the
MATE early next week. The probable
H.. are, however, that final action
In not be reached in the House be-
H. Monday or Tuesday next, and II
NJ ante probable the trial will not be
mmepced before next Thursday.
slkuap's lawyers still indulge in the
bOet that they will be able to acquit
eIrCllent.
Ian Thursday last General Rice, of
sashIngton, published a card in
hIch he says General Custer lies If he
Is that he (Rice) was paid five thou
Ind dollars on account OF the profits
mo trading post at Fort Abraham
Incoln. What Custer did testify to
.as that Slpe, the post-trader, told
>m that he paid Rice one-third of
\ profits, which aggregated fifteen
Ousand dollars per annum. 1t is
y IA that Custer has indicated that he
Nm cane Rice on sight, If he meets
o.. The friends of Rice say that he
not the man to allow himself to be
Bsligated in any such summary man
&t
Schenck's explanation of his invest
Sent In Emma mine stock is ridiculed
Without stint. A prominent Republi~
AM member of House said that it was
Me- "thinnest thing he ever saw" and
Nal Parks object in lending Schenck
money at six per cent. to be invested
IA bis own enterprise at twenty'four
III cent, would have been apparent
n country minister in green specta-
Ms.
Captain Armes, who claims to be
M chief instrument in the overthrow
81 Belknap, is on the war path against
Mother of his enemies, Major Lewis
Nerrell, pressing against him the old
lharge of illegal operations in South
ArOina.
Ames' resignation, General Butler
BIS, was the result of careful consid-
Ihtiou and conference. The Cover
1or saw that the prime object of the
NmOcrats was to obtain the office and
NJ to punish him, and bargain APP
Mars to have been made that If he
|ould give up the place quietly he
build be allowed to 60 in peace. Some
kpublicans here are displeased at
hes course, saying that he sold out
letead of standing up pluckily and
shting II through as he ought to have
|one. Ames will remove to Minneso-
q it is said, and engage in the lnmber
l&siness.
rhe sensation to exculpate Secretary
hbeson in loaning Government
npney to the Jay Croke, McCulloch d
y. firm, OF Londan, to save them
BIN failure in 1878, has fallen through,
" the whole official history OF the
be shows that he did nothing of the
hid. The Eastern opposition papers
phcede that the charge is not st's-
&ned.
Tie House Committee on Appropri-
4 pms have formerly reconsidered
|Ieir action looking to the reduction OF
II force in the Baltimore, Chicago
"a Cincinnati Sub-Treasuries, and
Feed to recommend appropriations
htinuing them on their present sta
except that salaries will be subjec-
to general reduction Of ten per
~. The Committee will now take
the deficiency estimates, and pre-
he the regular annual deficiency
b
lessrs. Dyer, Krum, Henderson and
ISIS are here to testify before the
puse special committee on whisky
pg trials. 1t is regarded as singular
b that in the communication sent tc
House by the Attorney General, IL
Fponse to the call for a statement o
extra expenses for legal services BY
y Department of Justice, there is ne
ention of counsel in the st. Louii
hisky cases, though the fees paid II
, Chicago trials are set down.
lhe statement is made here, on re
pnsible authority, that Oh Tuesday
fore his departure for Cincinnati
eorge H. Pendleton had very long
nversation with Senator Thurman
political matters, and the conclu'
pm arrived at between them was thai
p Pendleton shall proceed actively
carry out the understanding already
Pnsummated between the two, tc
Prov his influence for an Ohio dele
zion In the interest of Senator Thur
Dan.
The House Committee on Pos
llces and Post Roads have examined