The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-18
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Witno8S06 have
turned up who admit receiving five, seven and
ten thousand dollars for their personal in.
6uence with the Secretary Of the Navy to go
cure payment of old claims No part oil
these fees reached the Secretary or members
Of his family.
The committee may convict the Secretary
of bad conduct in transactions with Wizard in
gun bursting experiments, involving unlawful
use Of at least e72 600 of government money.
District Attorney Dyer, ex-senator Hender-
son, Col. Broadhead and others will be sum-
moned by the committee to testify regarding
Babcocks abstraction of official papers. Kill
bourn will succumb.
The investigation will cover Grants pur-
chases Of property from members of the pool.
Secretary Belknap, Judge McArther. Of the
Supreme District Court and ex-Congressman
Eldridge are involved
Secretary Boutwell, during his administra.
ton ordered subordinate to balance O dis.
crepAncy Of two hundred thousand, found in
the book.
Half million was expended for the benefit
q mail contractors on one long and compare.
lively useless mall line in Montana, during
Creswell's administration.
The sentiment of the Republican caucus
yesterday was for fight over the reduction
OF ten per cent of the force and twenty in
pay; also, against any of the reductions in the
Consular and Diplomatic bill, which already
passed the House.
Gen. Peck will testify that four traderships
wsre taken from him and given to persons
more or less connected with the ring.
WASHINGTON. March 17.-There wasa grand
parade in honor of the day. The various
societies were reviewed by the President and
Cabinet Dispatches from other points re-
port that the day was duly observed.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE number and
extent Of the investigations that are being
carried on before the various committees are
unprecedented in any previous Congress, a.
the following partial list will show:
The Judiciary Committee. through several
sub committees, is taking testimony in the
matter Of the Belknap impeachment of the
Beardslee cadetship purchase. and of the
Texas fund Pacific Railroad legislation.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs besides
the question of Cuban complications in CON-
nsction with the State Department has to
grapple with the Emma Mine scandal, which
Is to be reopensd early next week.
The Ways and Means in the intervals Of its
discussions on the tariff bill and Of its giving
audience to bankers in connection with the
funding law and to Populations Of the wine
and spirits and other trades, pursues an in
vestigation into the operations of the Alaska
Fur Company.
The members Of the Committee on Naval
Affairs give their whole time to the investiga-
ton of the supposed frauds in the Navy d.
partment proper, and in several navy yarde.
Not more than two-thirds of the testimony
has been taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard, vet
il has been transcribed by the stenographer,
and now subcommittee is at work at Kit.
terry Navy Yard, and after finishing up that in.
yestigatiOn the Charlestown Navy Yard is to
be overhauled by the same gentlemen.
Mr.. Willis, of New York, in the meantime
has been pursuing as committee of one min
ute researches into everything connected with
the discipline Of the navy, and expects next
week to open up an investigation at The
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
This Naval Committee, with it's severa
branches, is accommodating material that will
make as many volumes as the Ku-Klux ont
RACES
The report of the Committee on the Con-
duct OF the War and the Committee on Mill.
tary Affairs gives work enough in endeavoripg
TO throw light on some of the dark spots oon-
nacted with the soldiers tombstone contracts.
The Committee on Printing labors quietly
but assiduously in piling up facts and figures
bearing on the cost Of the Government Print.
inc Office. which, according to the estimate Of
experts outside, is fully so per cent more than
e ought to be, il it was not run Is govern
ment political machine.
The committees on expenditures IN the In.
terior Department and in the Departments q