The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-02
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The President Has Decided TO Retain
BabcOck-llls Message 10 Congress.
General Crook Moving on Sitting BnlL
Who DelleS the Treaty.
Senator MOrtOn's $4,000 Connection
With Emma Mine IrrcgularIU.
Kellogg Abandoned by the Admins.
trallOn-NO Troops.

has decided to retain Babcock, who
delivered an eccentric message to Con.
gress to-day
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee elected Hester Clymer, President,
James H. Harvey, Secretary, and
William ii. Barnum, Treasurer.
Nominations-Marston, for agent of
consolidated agencies Of the Choctaws,
Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks and
Seminoles.
Bahcock desires that his proposed
serenade be omitted.
The Judiciary Committee have sum
moned Ex-senator Stewart, and will
examine Schenck's evidence taken In
London. Full hearing will be given
Schenck and friends.
The Wal. Department has informa-
ton that Itneral Crook is moving on
Sitting Bull near thgdisouth of Powder
river, where, witt. -Iteen hundred
warriors, Sitting Bull defes the treaty.
The number Of United States troops
on the expedition is two thousand.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the retirement of $500, AS in
United States notes, being eighty per
cent. of the new national bank cur
rency issued during this month. This
will leave outstanding legal tender cir
culation until further orders 1870, 04S,-
800.
The bill reported favorably from the
Senate Committee Oh Civil Service
and Retrenchment in regard to the
Presidents salary, provides that from
and after the 4th of March, 1877, it
shall be fixed at $4,000 per annum.
The Committee on Banking and
Currency have agreed to report bill
regulating the control, through receiv-
erships, of insolvent national banks.
rhe main object of the bill is to facili-
tate the settlement of banks in liqui-
dalton, but it is provided further that
national banks shall not be liable for
apecial deporits except in cases where
special contracts are made converting
the same. They are also to be requir-
ed to stamp ther own notes when they
are found to he cOuntPrfeit.
So far as learned, the President has
not made up his mind about District
Attorney Dyer, but the impressi on
outside of the White House is that he
will not be removed, on the ground
that he used no such language about
the President as was attributed to him
in the Geographic synopsis of his
speech. Colonel Brodhead is expected,
when the Democrats of the House
hope to get some hints from him as to
the proposed investigations of the
Whisky King.
The testimony before the investiga-
ton into the Emma Mine scandal
gwen by the owner of the mine, re
Elected severely on General Schenck,
the witness insisting that at first the
latter was given five hundred shares in
the mine for the mere use of his name.
to give credit abroad to the company.
He also swore that he agreed to pay
Senator Morton twenty thousand dol
lars in shares of stock if the latter
would use his influence to secure the
removal of the Federal Judge and other
officials in Utah who were inimical to
their enterprise. Mr.. Morton denies
the story, and cites as proof that he
never endeavored to effect such re-
moyals.
The impeachment of Governor
Kellogg by the House of the Louisiana
Legislature, for high crimes and mis-
demeanors committed since the adop'
ton of the Wheeler Compromise, is
both commended and disapproved by
mem bers of Congress. When 1t be-
came foregone conclusion that he
would be impeached, Kellogg'S friends
telegraphed here at once to Senator
West and others, TO know if the adj
ministration would furnish troops TO
resist what the dispatches characterize
"as o revolutionary proceeding" The
reply, has been, it is understood, that
no troops would be furnished except
to protect United States property ana
aid the United States officials in en-
forcing civil DEGREES, and that as the
Legislature was in session the applica-
ton OF the Governor for troops to sup
press any alleged domestic inslrrec'
ton would be negatived. Republican
Senators are so indignant over the I'M
parchment of Kellogg that they de-
clare that Pinchback will be admitted
to his seat in the United States Senate
within a week.