The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-10
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Privileges OF The Floor OF The
Senate Denied 10 Plnchback.
A tia Between Lamar and blaine.
In which the Ex-speaI1er WINS
Fairly Overthrow by the
Mississippian.

WASHINGTON, March 9.--Wolf no
Jacobs, the witness before the Nava
committee, testified that S. p. Brow
paid two Navy department clerks iiv,
thousand dollars for altering figures
The Naval committee sent for ex
Senator Cottrell to state what h,
knows about the connection between
Congressman Hays, of Alabama, ant
check for three thousand dollars fo
cadetship.
The evidence Of Wolf does not i'm
picate Secretary Robson or any mem
her Of his family.
VOLTS testimony has not removed
the presumptons created by the refus
al OF Browns clerk to answer the ques
tons of the naval affairs committee
relative to payments of money to in.
iluence persons connected with the
Navy Department, and still gives i'm.
petus to stories of important disclos.
ures In that direction. The report cur.
rent yesterday that Republican law.
yer OF this city, appeared privately be-
fore the Republican members of a
House committee and gave lnforma-
ton which will cause the disgraceful
retirement of another cabinet officer,
is still current but denied by the Re.
publicans.
Mr.. Ferry, of Michigan, President
pro tenn of the Senate, has caused the
doorkeepers to be notified that Pinch
back, the claimant of the vacant
Louisiana seat, is no longer entitled to
the privileges of the floor of the Sem
ate. Although Pinchback was refused
admittance to the seat in the Senate by
a vote thirty-two nays to twenty-nine
ayes, the action of Mr.. Ferry is thought
harsh and hasty, especially as the poor
fellows case comes up again on n mo-
ton to reconsider. The Election COM
mittee, with three dissenting voices,
had reported in favor of seating him.
Belknap has waived an examination
and given bail for twenty-five thou
sand dollars. In the debate in the
House on Mr.. Clymer's question of
privileges the other day, the discussion
took a wide range, and excitement at
times became intense, eliminating in
a tilt between Lamar and Blaine, in
which the latter placed himself at
disadvantage and was fairly over
thrown by the Mississippian. The
main objection to obedience to the
subpoena was that the only possible re-
suit of the presentation of evidence
in possession of the committee to the
grand jury would be an indictment,
not against Belknap, but against
Marsh, and hence the action of the
District Court was emphatically de-
nounced as part of plan to brighten
witnesses into silence or flight.
The Western Republicans are pleased
with the appointment of Judge Taft,
of Cincinnati, as Secretary of War, but
those from the East think that a man
of more National reputation would
have been better for the administra-
ton at this time. Judge Taft has never
held any office except that of local
Judge.
During the past month, in South
Carolina, the operations o: a revenue
agent resulted in the breaking up of
thirty-three illicit distilleries, the cap
ture of twenty-eight copper stills, caps
and worms, $4,000 gallons of mash and
beer, and the arrest and binding over
for trial of forty-four Illicit distillers.
The bill introduced by Senator In
gals to extend the jurisdiction of the
Court of Claims provides that this
tribunal shall determine and adjudge
what compensation shall be paid by
the United States for taking and using
in the public service an invention of
improve ments patented by any citi-
zen.
The Turkish Legation is authorized
to deny the reports that the Insurgents
had been successful in Herzegovina;
that the Turkish troops had nothing
to eat but dry bread; that Christians
had been murdered in Bosnia, and that
the new reforms promulgated through
out the Empire had not been enforced
in Thessalia and in Epirius.