The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-16
Ordway Develops Qualities that Must
Command him TO Grant The Fast
Mail Service to be Discontinued
Congressional BIoody.shlrt
Proceedings

Proceedings
WASHINGTON, July 10 The House
has granted a pension OF i've hundred
dollars per mouth To the widow OF
General Custer ard provisions will
likewise toe made for the families OF
those who t,lI IN his command.
The real estate pool committee con.
unued iIs Investigation into the ex-
penditury, utex.Sergennt-at-Arms Ord.
ways accounts to-day. Aaron Brad
shaw, deputy, testified he did not get
u full settlement for much Of the mile.
age due him, until the third of this
month, Mr. Bladshaw, another depu.
ty, testified that he was compelled to
perform services as clerk for the mark
ct house company, partly owned 10y
Ordway, daring tho absence Of one Of
the market house clerks, aud while he
was being paid on the rolls at tina CAPT
tol. Captain Blackboard, ofthe capitol
| police, who went south rs deputy Ser
! geaut ut. Arms for the Louisiana In.
vestigation committee, aud who dis
bursed money on the trip, produced his
account OF items paid out while away,
which be tHlprd oytr 10 Ordwuy on his
return. The chairman Of the com.
mittee had before him during the ex-
animation the vouchers put In 10y ord
way OF tho same expenditures, aud
! nearly every item In the voucher, had
been raised several dollars higher than
the account turned In 10y Blackboard
BHchlord testified that his account, M
rendered, was correct aud the COM
mittec await IN explanation nom Ord
way.
Smith Guthrie has been appointed
Cashier Of the Treasury; J, W. Wheel.
ply, assistant cashier; +. W. Mailit,
paying teller, and II. A. Whitney, re-
ceiving teller.
The Postmaster General has been in
formed 10y Commodore Vanderbilt and
Colonel William Scott that the fast
mail service will he discontinued on
and after Saturday next.
The House committee investigating
charges against Consul Brigaud, Of
Havre, while Supervisor of Internal
Revenue, without expressing an opin-
ioI on testimony taken, submitted the
whole matter to the House,
The Committee OF Conference on the
army appropriation bill reached III
agreement to-day, and their report
will be presented on Monday, or per-
haps this afternoon, II il can be pre-
pared in time. 1t will recommend
that all House legislation for reorgan-
izing the army and n ducing the pay
OF officers shall be omitted from the
bill, and q provision inserted for u
commission to investigate the sui Ject
and report to Congress ut its next SEES
sion.
Senate: Increased the amount OF
the House bin nearly three millions
four hundred thousand dollars, but ac-
cording to the compromise bill, now
agreed on, this increase will be reduced
about 81 100000, and, although the
force and pay of the army remains I'M
changed, the revised total OF the bill
will show reduction Of S2,206, 900, as
compared with the army appropria-
ton bill last year.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill was taken up and various of Its
provisions adopted and amendments
made.
Mr.. Edmunds said as this bill came
from the House of Representatives II
approprlat d Sj,S72,S5O, the committee
on appropriation reduced that amount
about 100000 and that then by
amendments increasing the bill about
S036,0O making an increase OF about
S36, 900 as compared with the House
bill. The Senate had diverted the
committee on appropriations by rein
stating all provisions of the House
bill, which the committee recommen-
ded to strike out and had added other
amendments, which made the sum
total of the bill now about 81, OOO, 900,
md that was done in view Of the re-
yised estimate OF engineers.
He submitted the following Us q
substitute for the bill, appropriatiDg
for fiscal year ending June
80, 1877, to be expended for repair, tx
tension, preservation and completion
OF works for the Improvement OF
rivers and harb, rs, under the direction
OF the Secretary of War, provided that
the Secretary OF War is authorized Ia
cause such expenditures 10 ne lnauc ~
AS best to subserve the interests OF
commerce, and he be required to report
TO Congress at the opening OF its De-
Gem Der session, forty-third session, al
expenditures made under the pro
visions of this act up to that time.
Mr.. Ferry said he was compelled tc
I say that all who voted for the amend
3 ments to this bill did not prove to b.
its friends. An attempt was now made
to kill the bill, and the result would b'
that there would be no river and har
J Dor bill this year. He hoped theSenat'
would accept the bill, AS it came from
the House, and asked the friends o
| al a.Nan.al L.,