The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-08-07
WASHINGTON.
No Evidence Warranting +, I'm.
'fl,8l peaehment. IN

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WASHINGTON, August 5.-The House
committee investigating Judge Wylie, of
the District Supreme Court, unanimously
declare. that there is'no evidence to war.
rant his impeachment. rf 4"
CONFIRMED. W d
The Senate in executive pession con-
firmed John G. Ellis postmaster at VIII
ton Junction, Iowa; Samuel i. Cooper, Of
Iowa, Consul at Glasgow; Hargen Van
Arnim, ot New, York, United States Con-
sui at Lagnayrs. irr.os. ti.,
.U. RIVER AND HARBoR BILL. '.,...
The committee OF confereece on the,
river and harbot appropriation bill this
afternoon agreed 1pon'a report, which
will be presented Monday. The bill Is not
increased above a1totaf OF Eve million
dollars. The changes arefew, and con-
sist generally in transfer ofmall amounts
from one purpose to another, and rein
statement OF some OF the small House
items omitted by the Senate. '''i1'i u q.
THE WHISKY TRIALS 1svEsTrdATIoN.
Owing 10 The sickness Of Representa-.
tive Plaisted further cross-examination
Of Bluford Wilson was postponed till
Representative wiks voted, in com,
nittee, in favor Of repealing the resump.
tion clause, and Gibson in the negative,
not in the affirmative as previously stated.
,g COMMITTEE REPoRTs.>h ~ {. :,
The Committee on Expenditures in the
Department OF Justice made majority
and minority reports to-day. The ma
iority report recommends reduction Of
the Judiciary fund TO $2 500, 600; find that
Davenport, Supervisor Of Elections in
New York, has not accounted for $34, 900
given him from the Ku.Klu1 fund, and
that the President and the Attorney Cen
erals, Alderman and Williams, who sup
piled Davenport with the SS4, 700, divert!
ed it from its proper purpose to one EN-.
tirely foreign to the objects Of the law.
II is recommended therefore that the Su-
pervisors of Elections be abolished, and
that the election laws Of Congress be re-
pealed, or if, not repealed, that strict &C.
counting shall be made Of the Ku-Klux
fund, and no part Of ii to be used in the
machinery Of elections. That the Attor.
ney General take the necessary steps to
recover the S34,0 900 unaccounted for, and
that no person be allowed to hold more
than one office under the United States
Government. ..... I.
The minority report says that the ma
jority is merely campaign document,
defends John /. Davenport, and claims
that instead Of censure Alderman, Viii.
liams and Davenport are entitled to com-
mendation.
Mr.. Danford presented the views Of
himself and other Republican members
Of the Committee on expenditures in the
War Department, and characterizes the
report OF the majority as campaign liter
ature, and non-concurs in the sweeping
condemnation OF Messrs. Ingalls, and
Brega in the moth contract.
STATUS OF THE CONFERENCE BILLS.
It is the general opinion that even il
Congress should adjourn this week it will
not be until the latter part. The confer.
ence committee on the Legislative, Exec.
utive and Judicial Appropriation Bill
will soon come TO an agreement. The
House will, it is said by several promi-
nent Democrats, recede ultimately from
It's proposition to transfer the Indian
Bureau from the Interior TO the War
Department, SO that the only bill about
which there is a continued trouble Is the
Consular and Diplomatic, no effective
steps having yet been taken to reconcile
the difference between the two Houses,
but ii Congress were, apart from this,
ready to adjourn, no one seems to doubt
that an accommodation would soon be
reached. ....a.,. ....s...-.