The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-05-03
WASHINGTON.
IIalIctKilbourn.

Il hHlshlNGTON, May 2-1ne JUDICIARY
Committee authorizes the Sergeant.at
Arms to employ counsel to aid him il
presenting an appeal before the courts il
the kilbourn habeas corpus case.
The House resolution 10 have Hallet
Kilbourn examined before the Real Es
tate Pool Committee was laid on III,
table US proposition OF indignity.
jlI A resolution Of inquiry into the ac
count Of the Union Pacific Company
possession Of Little Rock 4 Fort Smitl
Railroad bonds, was adopted. n
| A resolution OF censuFe OF Brown, o.
Kentucky, in the last house was rcscindet
and the contested election case Of Lem
oyne VI. FarWellwas taken up. t'
PosToPFIcE APPROPRIATION BILL.
The House Appropriation Committee
decided to-day TO press the postoffice bill
in the House TO the exclusion Of all other
measures.
EMMA NINE INVESTIGATION.
General schenck was before the Com.
mittee on Foreign Affairs to-day.
Representative Newell placed in the
hands Of Schenck the original letter sent
TO the chairman OF the Emma Mining
Company, reSigning his position as di.
rector, and also copy Of il in the writing
OF Park.
Mr.. Hewitt examined General Schenck,
who said that the letter OF resignation
sent to the company was all 10 lis own
handwriting, date, body, signature and
all. 1t was his own composition, written
at his own suggestion, without anybody's
help. nwriting his resignation from the
original draft it seemed he interpolated
the words, "In consenting to become a
director" l know that but exercised n
private and individual right in no way
incompatible with public or official duty,
but ! prefer to take away from some who
have criticized me even pretext for
their comments or attacks. General
Schenck said that the paper submitted by
Mr.. Hewitt seemed to be copy OF his
resignation, in Parks handwriting. He
knew it was not his resignation. 1t was
a copy OF what he wrote. r,.........
Mr.. Hewitt called General Schenck's
attention to several words which had
been altered, and General Schenck said
that they looked as il they were in his
handwriting. It was the same ink. He
did not know why Park made the copy.
Mr.. Park here said that the words
were in his own writing, in answer to
question.
MI. Schenck said'that in his connection
with the Emma mine company, he did
not think that he had done anything
morally wrong or unbecoming.
Mr.. Park vas recalled and testified
that the copy OF the letter OF Sohenck's
resignation was in his (Park's) handwrit-
ing and the interlined words, gentleman,
and fullest" were also in his handwriting.
Park testified franlly y that he recommend
ed to Schenck to make interpalotatiUns
in his letters OF resignation as director SO
as to convince the public that Schenck
had not resigned from dissatisfaction
with the stock.
Mr., Park still declined to state how
much money he had made altogether out
OF the mine, but lie said the committee
could examine his books for themselves
il they liked.
After Parks examination Mr.. Schenck
denounced the statement that he copied
his letter OF resignation from draft in
Parks handwriting as utterly false.
An argument ensued as to putting in
IA evidence two letters from Fisher X.
Duncan, the banker, relating to Schenck.
Without decision, adjourned.
CABINET MEETING.
Alta session Of the Cabinet to-day the
question OF delivering the original pa
pers and documents OF tho Executive De.
partments to the Congressional Commit
tees or others was dicussed, though the
Attorney General was absent, but his
views upon the subject were known, and it
is understood after a fullinvestigation Of
the opinions the President decided not 10
deyiate from a rule which has long existed
under which the Executive does not part
even temporarily with the custody OF the
original papers in any Of the Depart
ments.
NOT LIABLE TO TAX.
The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
has decided that inasmuch as the salaries
OF the Professors in the University Of
Michigan are payable out Of the State
Treasury, they were not liable 10 an in
come tax upon SO much OF their incomes
as was derived from such salary, E