The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-06

10 taRe my nOaition on the Enb.commlttet
! which he declined TO 10, The gcnllema
from Maine seems 10 intimate Ihi
, II is the settled purpose Of the Judiciar
. Committee TO do something or otlie
/ which might peralventure prevent hir
] from receiving the nomination Of hi
party at the coming conyention ut Cir
eiunati. I beg the gentleman to beliey
that 90 far as am concerned we are PEI
fectly willing he should receive that nou
inatiou. In the pending campaign il "
cannOtdefeat the gentleman from Main
then our cause Is entirelya hopelesl
Laughter on the Democratic side.]
be shall receive the nomination and !
elected by the American Teopl
in the face Of all the facts then a
1 can SOY is, May the Lord hav
mercy on the American people. Shout
Of laughter.1 The Judiciary Committe
has done the gentleman no wrong; it ha
notkeen decided what shall be done witt
these letters; the committee has not takcl
any action on the subject at all and III
gentleman ought to be informed that to
morrow morning the question was TO b
brought up. Yet, in deIiance,ot all par
liamentary law, an ex-Speaker Of III,
House comes here on pretense OF n per
sonal explanation and takes the matte
away from the jurisdiction OF the commit
tee. That is the condition in which thi!
thing stands. Itisa matter stillsub.judice
not decided at all, and there was no IN
timation that solitary word Of one oI
these letters would be given TO the public
but the gentleman was very positively as
sured that be would not be martyred by
the Judiciary Committee. As to a cable
dispatch from Josiah Caldwell, it is true
that last Thursday morning rdid receive
dispatch. The gentleman from Maine
Blaine, seems 10 know precisely the hour
at which received II, and its contents,
he seems thoroughly posted on the subject
but permit me 10 say with regard to the
insinuation that the telegram has been
suppressed, that any man high or low
low, whoever he may be, who will else:
where make such an insinuation, will
have to take the consequences. | hurl
the falsehood back into the teeth Of any
man who makes suggestion as to the
suppression Of that dispatch Applause
on the Democratic side.1 have it.
did not suppress 1t at all. In less than
thirty minutes after received it | read
it 10 several gentlemen. But there was
no Particular address In London from
which It purported to come, and ] did
believe, and am not altogether certain
yet that do not believe, it WIS fixed
up jobl [MurmurS Of dissent from the
Republican side.
In answer to requests from the Kepub-
lican side to. read the dispatch from Cald'
we'll Knott said l have not the dispatch
here; it Is at my house. The contents Of
it are substantially as stated by the gentle.
man from Maine. do not know that |
can repeat it in the exact terms. The
purport Of il is that Caldwell had seen
Thomas A. Scott's testimony in New
York paper, and that it was substantially
correct. That he had not let Mr.
Blaine have any bonds, and thai he
would send nm affidavit TO that effect, but
lthat he was engaged in railroad en-
tcrpriscs and could not come to give hi'
testimony without serious pccuniary loss
This is substantially what is in il and i
the gentleman had waited, that dispatch
would have tcen presented y the commit
tee for whatever use the committee might
sec proper TO make OF il. [ had
no desire to injurs The gentleman
from Maine personally, and cspcciallyho'
politically, but | desire that the truth
may be told. As for myself. | had NO
knowledge OF any transaction by the gen
tleman from Maine inconsistent witL the
highest personal integrity. did not
desire that he should be injured in the
least, hut do desire that il any person is
guilty Of wrong that we shall turn the sis
on and let the people see him. Laughter
and applause.
Mr.. Blaine moved the previous ques-
tion on his resolution, anil attempted TO
make some further remarks, butwas pre-
vented by, loud calls to order and by the
Speaker pro TEN. ruling that he was not
entitled 10 the floor for that purpose.
The House refused to SECOND the pre-
vious question, and on motion Of Mr.. Ban
ming, the motion Of Blaine was referred to
the Committed on Judiciary. Yeas l24,
nays 81.
fhe House, after day of great excite
ment, adjourned.
|, SENATE.
During the morning hour Mr.. Sherman
called up his resolution proposing a com;
mon unit OF money accounts for the
United States and Great Britain.
Mr.. Merrill, OF Vermont, opposed the
resolution and it was laid over.
Mr.. Sargent, from the Conference COM
mittce on the Consular and Diplomatic
appropriation bill, reported that the com
mittee had been unable to agree and a
new committee was appointed, as follows:
Sargent, Howe and Bogy.
The Senate resumed the consideration
OF the unfinished business, being the legis-
latiye, executive and judicial approprin-
ton bill. The amendments Of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, restoring the
compensation Of the clerks in the office OF
the Secretary OF the Interior, were agreed
to. .I"
When the clause appropriating SiO,-
900 for the rent OF buildings for the use
OF the Pension Office and Bureau OF Ed
ucation was reached, Mr.. Morrill, (oi
|VermonD moved to amend by sGiking
out that clause and inserting clause
appropriating $4,000 for the rental OF
the basement and five upper stories OF
the fire.proof building at the corner Of
Twelfth street and Pcnnsylvauia avenue,
and for heating the same, and $4,000 for
the removal OF the Pension Office from
the Seaton House building, now occupied
by it, to the new fre-proOf building.
Mr.. Hamlin submitted the amendment
providing that il the owner Of the Seaton
House shall refuse to make the building
Ere proof, the Secretary Of the Interior
may procure q suitable FIRE proofbuilh-
Ing at rent not exceeding that paid for
the Seaton House.
Mr.. Hamilton, Of Texas, said he had
never. heard word about the danger OF
the Pension Office archives until about
the time Mr.. Shepherd began the erection
OF the building on the corner Of 18th street
and Pennsylvania ayenne. There were
other bhildings in the city, and the Freed.
mems Bank building would be Infinitely
better.
Mr.. Sargent said the rent oil, new
building was a thousand dollars a year
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