The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-15
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, June 5, the Conference
Committee 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:
Messrs. Sargent, Howe and Bogy. The
Senate resumed the consideration of the
unfinished business, being the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill. The amendments of the Committee
on Appropriations, restoring the compen-
sation of the clerks in the office of the
Secretary of the Interior, were agreed to.
A long discussion of the various sections
of the bill ensued, and the Senate adopted
all the amendments of their Appropria-
ton Committee, restoring rents, salaries,
etc., to the figure from which they
were cut down by the House.......
In the House the Committee on Elections
offered a resolution o~usting 7. W. Bennett,
Delegate from Idaho, from his seat. Mr..
Neal, of Ohio, offered q bill to repeal the
Resumption Act of January IA, 1875,
and called for the previous Question
bill out of order. Mr.. Holman, of
Indiana, appealed from the decision
of the Chair, and the Appeal was laid on
the table, 139 to SO. Mr.. Blaine rising to a
question of privilege, proceeded to address
the House IN the subject of investigation
into the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific
transactions in which his name had become
involved. Mr.. Blaine's speech was upon
the subject of certain letters of his which he
had taken from Mulligan, a witness before
the Investigating Committee, who had
charged him with accepting railroad bonds
for services toward railroads. Mr.. Blaine
claimed that these letters have not the re-
hottest bearing upon that subject, but that
some of them would require an explanation.
He thersupen proceeded to read and to
make passing comments upon and explana-
tions of the various points in. the several
letters. The allusion to the Spencer con-
tract he explained by saying that in the
summer of 1861, two years before he first
can to Congress, he had been asked if he
could not get an opportunity for the IN
yentor of the Spencer repeating rifle to
bring that new arm to the attention OF the
Secretary of War. He came on to Washing
ton and had an interview with Secretary
Cameron. Mr.. Cameron had given orders
to have it tested by the Ordnance Bureau.
1t had been thoroughly tested, and the ex-
periments were SO satisfactory that a pre-
1iminary order for $4,000 rifles was made.
He had been paid, not an extravaganza, but
a moderate fee, for his services, which he
had just as much liberty to take as any
lawyer or agent had to take a fee. Suisse
quently he had taken and paid for $4,000
worth of stock in the company. Mr..
Blaine accused Proctor Knott Of receiving
a cable dispatch from Josiah Caldwell in
Europe, generating him Mr.. Blainel from
the charge of receiving $64,0 600, and sup.
pressing the same, and offered a resolu-
ton that the judiciary Committee be in
structed to report forthwith to the House,
whether, in acting under the resolution
of May relative to the purchase OF
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
of seventy-fve land grant bonds of the
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad Com
pany, the said committee has sent any
telegram to one Josiah Caldwell, in Europe,
and received a reply thereto, and if SO that