Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-05-04
WASHINGTON.
The Union and Texas Pacific Railroads
-Ex-Secretary Belknap Indicted
by the Grand Jury.
Schenck's Skinning OperatiOn-Dayen-
ports Dubious Details -ReduC-
tiOn OF RObesOn's ApprO-
priatiOn.
PnciRc RaiIrOadS.

WASHINGTON, Msy 3-The house
committee on the Pacific railroads to-
day authorized Representative Phillips
TO report a bill providing that it shall
not be lawful for the UuiOn Pacific rail-
road companies 10 charge any special or
| greater rate for the transportation of
freight or passengers over the Omaha
bridge than that charged for Ike dis
tance over other portions Cf its road I;
| nor shall il chsrge other companies
more than five dollars for every freight
or passenger ear and contents transport
ed over said bridge; and in the case of
| transportation OF coal, salt, grain, or
lumber, not more than two dollars and
| fifty cents per car shall be charged to
| ether mpanies.
In the opinion of the nsjOrity of the
| committee, the enRctmenG of this or
| some similar measure is required to give
| effect to the recent decision Of the su.
| pTeme court that the Omaha bridge
| should be considered and operated as
| Part of the continuous line OF the Union
| Pacific railroad. The committee agreed
that amendments may be offered to tbiisS
| bill by the several members wb2I it ia
| reported to the house for action. The
| committee also toOE up Mr.. CuI Iberson's
| cOmE!siIon OF the Texas Pacific railroad.
fIr. JhrOakmort0n offered q substitute
| providing that City miles OF road per
arnum shall be constructed Westward,
| and twenty miles yez- eastward, from
the respective tSgmiui. No action was
| reached.
BeIknnD Indicted by the Grand Jury.
The grand jury Of the District of CO.
lumbia have agreod upon the present.
| ment against w. w. Belknsp, late Sec
reiaTy OF w&r, for the alleged accept
ance Of brihes in his official station.
The summons sert out yesterday for
! Mrs. Caleb ?. Marsh was returned by
Marah indCrscl 1a0n eSt,n A. S.H.
White, L0nsda'e Twitchell, late of the
Indian office; DInosn Thompson, of the
interior department.; NJ. M'EWiDg and
), ). Rea, of the pension agency, were
examined by the grand Jury to-day. The
presentment OF General Belknap is in
| the hands Of tire district attorney, who
vii prepare formal indictment.
Naval Appropriations.
Messrs. Randall aUd Hale, the SUBJ
committee charged with the preparation
Of the naval appropriation bill, COM
pleted it to-day. Il fools up about
dollars aS apaiEst about seventeen mill
lion dollars last year. The reductions
sre principally ia the items for bureaus
Of construction, steam engineering and
repairing.
Expenditures in Department OfJuStice.
John [. Davenport testified before the
department oi justice tba5 he could not
produce any particular set OF vouchers
4 e
twenty thOySand collars received from
Whitley, but he u.d furnish vouchers
running fc0m the time no first received
any money, ia 1872 uo 20 tha time he
had expended it, in 1874 covering every
dollar he rsceiyel. lie produced the
vouchers. Tie committee desired wit
ness to produce every other "Oucher in
his possession, 50 that he might be able
- say 10 the cOtlmiLtee that he had pro-
duced every voucher tbat he was able
to produce. The committee then ad-
jOurned,
The Emma.MiBe EcheDek Business.
WAsHINrTor, May 3.-At 8 meeting
Of the committee on foreign affairs to-
day, IN the matter Of General Scheuck,
his counsel said that il the committee
should he Of the opinion that certain
correspondence Of Park, Echenck and
Fisher vas proper to be cOnsiderej, he
would waive all objection and leave the
committee perfectly free to act. It WIS
decided by the committee that papers
which have already found their way
into print, should not be received as evil
Gence, but if General Schenck desired
to maze q statement, lie was at liberty
to 20 so. General S3neGck said that
while It was true he give Fisher such
info 'matiOn as he possessed, it was ut
terry untrue that he had any stock 0per-
ations win him. AS to Duncan, he did
not know who he was. Scbenck said
he never telegraphed Chesb0rough TO
sell two thousand shares of Emma. mine
stock, and such shares were never sold.
The use of Scbeucs'5 name by Fisher
was without authority.
The question as to the interlinestion
of two words ia General SchencE's let
ter Of resignation having been again in
troduced, Mr.. Hewitt says ne had been
represented in the Associated Press re-
port as saying yesterday that the inter-
Hnealions were in PaTks's handwriting,
whereas he said they were in SCheDck's
handwriting. Lyon made a state
mant in support OF portions of his for
mer testimony. be said ne saw the
original letter OF resignation Of General
ScAenCk as director Of the Emma mine
company; at least it was go purported
to be. Thele was no references in it to
the mine or shares, but it stated that he
resigned only because he did not want
to give his political enemies the oppor-
tunity to criticize his conduct. Parks
said to witness: 81 don't like this letter,
and l am going to have better one
from Schenck." The impression of
the witness was that Parks wrote the
final letter OF resignation, and that
Schenck copied 1t from ParBs's manu-.
script. TheIe was nothing about which
he was more positive than these two
letters of resignation. II. a. johnson
gave testimony, and cOrrOborsted what
Lyon said concerning the two letters Of