New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-13
BY TELEGR APH .
WASHINGTON
No WOrk-N0 Pay.

No Work-No Pay.
WAsHMGToS. February l2.-The Sec
retary OF tie Treasury has 1urioughed
all the hands in the bureau of printing and
loughs reach nearly lCGO mostly to women.
Several hundred hands were retained to
finish up.
The President's Testimony.
TIE Presidents evidence in the Babcock
caee, taken before Judge Waite IN the
Executive Mansion. has been sen. 20 St.
Louis by special messenger.
The Texas Pacific.
In the Texas Pacific railroad committee,
Mr.. Luttreli, from the subcommittee, cp-
posed the report in written speech. He
was, he said. in favor of allowing anyone
70 build railroads who would GO it without
subsidy.
Mr.. Garfield, also of the suh-com mmi.tee,
opposed the scbsidy OF financial grounds.
A member Of the committee thinks the
vote will be close. especially On the feature
:ndoreing the bonds OF branch reads. The
committee, without action, adjourned to
Wednesday,
Mr.. Garfield, while opposed to the sub.
sidy. spoke strongly in favcr CT an cpposi-
ton road. TIE friends Of the me asare both
IL and out of The committee, tee! satisfied it
viii be reported 70 rhe House Substantially
as outlined IL dispatches published Sa:ur-
day.
House Committees in Session.
Many OF the House committees were in
active operation today. That on the Dis
trict OF COumbia opened an investigation
into the abuses OF the District government,
and although only one witness was exam
ined, i Was discovered that q doubtful
claim which this person mad agains. the
former Gistcict government to- some $4,000,
and which he had cold 20 an operator for
$1,000 in bonds. wi-h 2 10 lif cation Of its
dubious character. had bv some manipula-
ton grewn into a claim for over $1,000,
which was allowed and paid.
Department Of Justice.
The Committee on Expenditures in the
Department OF Justice also croke ground in
the way OF investigation INTO judicial over
charges IN the SWestern district Of Texas,
which revealed the practice of marshal and
other officials out there charging mileage
and per Giem fees Of supposed deputies and
guards in cases of merely nominal arrests;
! that Is, where an arres. as no. actual but
! only Imaginary.
The Freedman's Bank Committee,
The committee on the FreeGn ans Bank
/, had before it TIE secretary of the famous
Seneca Sandstone Company, who described
| the means by which the FreeGmans Bank,
| for a debt OF some $63. .00O-now amounting,
| with in .erest. to about $40 Q00-was induced
! to take as collateral security second mort
| gage bonds of the company for $95, 900,
which are of no market value whatever.
He also produced the stock book Of the
| Seneca Sandstone Company, which showed
! that on one and the same day certificates of
stock for 900 shares each were issued to U.
| S. Grant, General Dent. Surgeon General
| Barnes, William H. Seward, E. B. Wash
burne, Caleb Gushing and 3. 3. French.
{! This witness did not know ANYTHING as to
| the payment tor this stock. He only knew
Il Al III =.
F, to William s. Huntington, then cashier of
! the Fret National Bank.
Indian Affairs.
In addition to these committees the Com.
mittee on Indian Affairs was also engaged
IN taking testimony of witnesses
The Committees at Work.
Most Of the other important committees
| of the House were in session discussing
measures pending before them.
Government Business.
Internal revenue receipts to day, $4O7 1897:
for the month to date, $3.763, ,So7; tor fiscal
year to date, $7O,7s0,O47. Customs receipts
to-day, $6O7 1909; for the month to date,
$500, $40; Tor fiscal year to date, s92 1886, ZIG.
Valuable Letter.
Colonel G. w. Alexander. of the SUNDAY
Gazette, has been offered $1,000 for the orig
inal letter from Jefferson Davis to Mr..
Lyons.
| General Ord's Testimony on the Border
| Troubles.
General Ord, commander of the military
! department of Texas, was examined to-day
as witness before the select com mittee Of
the House on the Texas frontier troubles,
and gave to the committee very full and
intelligent account Of the cattle raids to
which the rancheros on the Ameri can side
! of the Rio Grapde, for 500 miles along the
| river and for $50 miles back from it, are
| subjected, as well as of the remedy which he
would recommend for them.
According to the Generals atement the
country which is the scene of these border
| foraye is separated from the river BY very
! extensive belt of undergrowth forest. or
chapparal which forms screen a nd shelter
! for the cattle thieves who live by plunder,
| and which renders it next to impcs sible for
military patrols, or military posts to inter-
fere with them. There are two cl asses of
Mexicans living on the Texas side. The
one consisting of intelligent. hon est ram
cheres, who are as much opposed to these
| raids as the American portion of th pOpu-
lation is, and the other consisting of worth
less fellows, many Of them outlaws or de-
serters from the Mexican army, who work
| occasionally on the ranches. and who act
as spies and iniormers for their cousins VI
| compadres on the Mexican side when they
! cross the river on their catle stealing ex-
peditions. 1t is the intelligence viii ch they
| receive from these fellows which enables
them to avoid the routes by which they
might be intercepted on thei: return with
their booty on their side of the river. These
bands. which sometimes number from 100
to $50 men. are in league with the local au-
thorities. their recognized chief be-
| ing Cortina; ali facilities are given to them
| for disposiug of their plunder, and
such thing as restoration OF the
stolen cattle is never thought of.
The national government of Mexico is
not to be blamed. in General Ord's opinion.
for this state of things, first. because the
system Of the government is to let each
State take care Of its own affairs, and, sec-
| ond, because the Mexican soldiers have
q strong tendency whenever they get near
| enough to the border to desert their colors
! and cross into Texas. The Mexican
government is therefore powerless in
the matter, and the State govern
ment Of Tamsulipas seems to re-
gard these frontier forays as part of the
established order of things essential for the
good of the community. The only remedy
therefore for the evil is, and it is one which
the General is urging on the War
Department, to increase the cavalry
force on the Rio Grande ard give him
authority whenever his troops come on the
trail OF one Of these thieving bands to let
the pursuit be continued to the Mexican
side of the river and let the troops deal out
summary punishment on the robbers, He
thinks that whatever opposition the local
authorities might make to such a practical
course. the general government Of Mexico
weuld not make any. He SAYS that now.
IN one OF the more northern States, Chihua-
hua, himself and the Mexican comm andant
nave mutual arrangement by which In