Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-10
WASHINGTON

tigation Of the affairs Of the District Of
Columbia and Board of Audit one Wit
ness testified that he put down about
5000 yards Of paving, amounting to
$1,000. and he had never received any
thing but q glass Of ale and a cigar.
Finley & Stewart we're the contractors.
The trial Of B. B. Hallock, one of the
persons indicted for the larceny Of
S47, O91 from the Treasury in June last,
has begun. The trial of W. d. 0ttmau.
accused Of the same ofense, will begin
on the 10Th inst.
The Wine and Spirit Traders Associ-
alton Of the United States were before
the Ways and Means Committee of the
House to-day advocating a plan for the
reorganization of the internal revenue
service. The proposition is to reduce
the existing tax of s%eventy.nine cents
per gallon to fifty cents; to require pay
ment of tax at distilleries; to reduce the
number Of officials and make their posi-
tions permanent, with an annual advance
of pay for meritorious services, and to
require a frequent change Of stations;
the abolition Of the special clauses of the
law in regard TO rectifers, and also pro-
posed that the producers Of grape brandy
and cider brandy shall have the right to
sell either by wholesale or retail. State.
ments as to the uselessness of changing
the system in Wholesale liquor establish.
merits we're made, and it was agreed that
the stamp tax system facilitated the
commission Of frnuds.
Charles Nordhof, chief Of the Herald
bureau, appeared before the Committee
on Expenditures in the War Department
to-day in obedience to a summons. The
chairman called his attention to two
kilograms appearing on the It'll and 9th,
in which was a stat sment concerning the
omission to investigate the so called
Kentucky Central railroad claims, in
connection with Belknap, while Mr.. and
Mrs. Marsh we're here, and statements
affecting the chairman personally. Nj.
Nordhog called attention to the word
ing of his di spatck: " 1t is asserted"
etc.; said he had no knowledge Of him.
sell, and that he made the statements on
the authority of General H. v. Boynton,
of the CinciD matt Gazette; that he went
to the gentl eman Wednesday morning
and asked iim whether the facts as
stated we're susceptible Of proof. The
General saidl undoubtedly, and that he
would 90 to he member of the commit
tee and give, him the name of the wit.
ness.
Represents live Danford, Of the COM
mittee, said t lAt late yesterday afternoon
General Boy, ,tOn told him he would give
the name Of The witness. This fact Mr..
Danford com Aunicated to Mr.. Clymer,
who said he preferred examining Nord-
hof first.
A subpoena was issued for General
Boynton, and the committee took a re.
cess.
COngre sSiOnaI.
SRSATE.-The Chair laid before the
Senate a communication from the Com
missioner Of. Agriculture in answer to q
resolution recently submitted by Jones.
OF Florld'p in regard to the growth Of
Sea Islam cotton. Ordered printed and
referred.
Mr.. Sherman presented the resolu-
tons Of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce opposing any change in the pres.
ent law requiring a draw in any bridge
10 be erected over the Ohio river. Re.
TERED.
Mr.. Fnelingbuysen presented the pet
ton Of Lsngston Brooks and others,
colored men of the District Of Columbia,
asking that the l4th of April next, the
anniversary Of emancipation in the Die
trict, be declared a holiday to enable all
persons employed in the Departments to
attend the unveiling Of Lincoln's statue
IN Lincoln Park. Referred.
Mr.. Wright called up q bill fixing
times and places for holding certain
terms of the District Court Of the United
States.