New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-25
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Senate - -.
| WARRINGTON, April PA bin vas Intro
4uced by Mr.. Merrimoh aleering the tina O
holding court in the Fourth Judieial CIR
| The bin fixing. the Offices Of. oolleotor,
and snpervlsors was resumed; the queatiaG
being a the aDendmeut abolishine supeE.
tis6rs. and transferring their poWeEo q
special SCENTS, not to exceed twenty. No
The silver tender hill was resumed. Mr..
Jones spoke to adjournment.
House.
Bills introduced:
By Mr.. Gibson-Authorizi8g the Louisi-
ana and Texas Railroad Company, to relin-
quish certain lands in L0uisianA.
BY Mr.. Permitting national
banks to issue notes equal to 100 per cent
| If the market value of the bonds deposited,
| TO secure circulation.
| By Mr.. O,8rieu-To reorganize the navy.
| It provides that there shall be on tho active
list six rear admirals, eighteen commQdoFes,
| fifty captains and seventy.fve commanders,
and that promotion in these grades shall
| Mr.. Faulkner, from the Committee ON
Foreign Affairs, reported joint resolution
requesting the Presldent to take such steps
I'as may tend to obtain tho early release of
Edward O'Mesgher ConAon from his Inn
,prieopment in England. Passld. -
/ MI. Gibson, Of Louisians, offered . reso-
lhtipA for the appointment of . select CON-
mittee Of nine to make Thorough examine
ton into tho couduct and manegemens Of
tho New Orleans Custonhouse aSa Of the
Offices Of the United Stotes Ma1hal, Dis-
trict Attorney, postmaster, assessor end
collector of Internal revenue, and Of such
other federal officers - they may discover
to be implicated in wrong doing and viola.
ton Of the law with power 70 it in New
Orleans during the recess.
Mr.. Gibeon moved to SUSPEND the rules
and psss the resolution. Yeas 146. nays 81.
Not twothirds, And TIE resolution failed.
The H0use resumed the district business.
Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, rising to . personal
explanation, proceeded to make genoral
land specific denial Of the Newspaper
charges and allegations connecting him
with the payment of some So, 900 By the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. He read
let nlstters from Sidney DilloP, president;
Rollins, treasurer IF the company, and nd
from Morton, Bliss & Co., bankers of
New York, contradictory Of the ~
rious statements In relation to him,
and declared that every part of the
stbry was absolutely untrue, with
out . particle Of. foundation in fast.
and without little of evidence to substan-
tiste it. He said that several newspapes,.
urged him 70 aek committee Of iavestiea-
tidn, but he did not do % because he did
not wish. to await the delay and SLOW
progress that inevitably attended all
congressional investigations. He deem
ed the mode which he had adopted
the shortest and most expeditions
mode of vindication. He was ready to
submit the whole matter to the candid |
Judgment Of the House and the country,
and if the House thoaght that the matter
should be further inquired into he vs.
ready to give all the assistance in his |
power to make the investigation thoroAgh,
rigid and impartial. His explained his pur-
chase in open market in Boston, in the
summer Of 1869, of tho bonds of tho Little |
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company,
which bonds he still held, and ON which he
summarized his whole statement - follows:'l
Erst-rhat the story of his receiving
$64 900, or any other sum, from the Union
Pacific Railroad Company was absolutely
dispEoved by the most conclusive testimony.
Secoud-That no bond Of his was ever
sold to the Atlantic and Pacific, or to the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Com
papy, as charged.
fhird-That instead of receiving Hittle |
Rock and Fort Smith bonds as GratuitY,
he had bought them at the market price,
and had incurred severe pecuniary loss |
from the transaction. He was now in the |
year of not inactive service in |
the House, and he had never done anything |
in his public career for which he could be |
put to the faintest blush in any presence,
or for which he could not answer to his |
constituents, his conscience, and the great !
searcher of hearts.
The District bill passed, and the House
adjourned.