Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-14
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WASHINGTON.

ing SiO,OOO to defray the e1
: penses of the special committee ar
D., pointed to investigate the election i
r Mississippi.
- Various petitions were presente.
= against the pending bill regarding
third class mail ,nattsr; also against
u change of tariff and for increase an,
s greater effic encY IN the signal service
e Wallace introduced a bill for tn
= coinage of goloiie silver coins. Re
e terred to finance committee.
n The resolution 30 allow the Missis
sippi nvestiga ion com init ties to EN- plo,
E; a clerk and sLenographer wa passed
/; The Committee on territories re
ported favorably on the bill organic
: Ing the Territory of Pembina. Calen
dar.
Z The silver bill was resumed anC
Sherman. by unanimous consent
wlth,lrcw the :}rt! and Al sections o
the bill aud the bill then passed al
follows:
That there De aud hereby is appro-
priated out Of any money Ill tue Treas
1ry not otherwise appr opriated the
sum of St63, Q0O to provide for Ell
craving, printing and other expenses
of making aud issuing y. s. notes,
and the further sum of $I4S. 900 to
provide for eng ,ving and printing
national hIuk notes to be disbursed
un Ter the Secretary of the Treasury.
Section two provides that the Sec
rotary of the Treasury is hereby di-
rCcted to issue silver coins IF the
United States of the denominations of
TO- 25 and so cents of standard value
III resumption of an equal amount of
! fractional currency, whether the same
be now in the Treasury waiting re-
| demptlOn or whenever it e ay be pre-
sented for redemption and the Score
tary of the Treasury may, under regu-
iatIons of the Treasury Department.,
| provide for such redemp: ion and issue
! by substitution at the regular sub
TIRE slries and pablo repositories of
the United States until the whole
amount of fractional currency ont
| standing shall be redeemed; aud Jhe
tract!ona. currency redeemed under
this act shall t" held TO b. part of
til" sinking fund, p, divided for by ex
lstlDg law, the Interest to be computed
thereon as Ill the case of bonds re-
deemed under the act relating to the
sinking fund.
The b Ii authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to reopen the account Of
the Western and Atlantic road of
Georgia was discussed and postponed.
Adjourned.
HoU >E-Vance introduced bill
regulating the interest national banks
may charge.
Morey presented joint resolution
from the General Assembly of Louisi-
ana regarding the mint at New
Orleans.
BY Meade. bill providing for the
payment of judgment of the southern
Claims Commission.
The committee on commerce re-
ported the river aud harbor bill. The
bill was passed under suspsu >ion of
the rules without observation-disclosures
Iii, nays so.
Night session. were ordered for TO
night, Tuesday and Wednesday to
consider the Legislative appropriation
bill
The judiciary committee were in
structed to inquire whether additional
Legislation was necessary to define the
relations between the army and Con-
gress and secure t. the army the
right OF petition.
The committee on foreign relations
were instructed 20 Inquire into the
Imprisonment II Meagher at London.
Til Hawaiian ti.aoy WIS discussed |
to adjournment
The witnesses in the Spencer in
vesti9at on cost over ten thous ,Dd dol |
lars.
Citnf Just ce Carlton, of thu district |
cur, vi hear kilbouru's counsel to-
morrow i'll favor of writ OF hnbeas |
corpus.
In tn safe burglary Investigation
to-day, Eahco,k Pc uc L letter from
Whitley a.K'ng -5abcock's efforts in |
getting a month lDAJ lie iim from
the gov,rnnelIt. To this Babcock |
answer, d Before his reaches you,
you aud your MN will De paid.
Gen. Is bcock thinks this important |
te timouy in his behalf. Ex-Attorney |
Gen. Williams testified that he stopped |
the prosecution against Whitley and |
Harrington without any suggestion |
from the President. Ex> Solicitor |
Banfield also testified, in which he |
corrobc rates Whitley's statement ID
several particulars. Riddle, who acted |
as sp"ciat counsel against Ha, rington !
and Whitley have been summoned. |
Solicitor Bluford Wilson teetfi4d that |
he did send a telegram to Dyer watch |
Bell swOre he saw in Dyer's hand. |
Wilson WIS informed by officers of the |
secret service that Bell was working |
for B .bcock About the 10th of Eeb- |
ruary Bell called on Wilson and COM |
mUuicated the statements which he |
(BelD had repeated before this com
nittee, that he had evidence that |
Babcocjl and Avery we're guilty. Bell
propose q that rs long as be thought |
BabcOck Innocent he worked for him, |
aad when he found him. guilty lie gave
him up. It appears that Avery was
disappointed in nos being allowed to |
turn states evidence.
Loab, post trader at Fl. Concha,
paid Gen. Rice two thousand dollars,
bnt did not, as has been s'ate,i, pay
three thousand to Simon Wolf.
Conftmation-C. McMullen as
Consul General to Rome.
The river AMI harbor bill which
passed to-day, gives one million SIX
hundred thousand dollars, of which
SIG, 900 goes to North C.sroliua, i'll
Guiding SIS, 600 which goes for the
French Broad.
The Pac fic railroad committee of the
Senate laid Huntington Southern Pa
If, railroad blll on the table, and it
nIii not be called up except on call
by a majority of the whole com mittee
and one weeks notice. This leaves
b!th bills in the same position in eth
or house and virtually shelves the
whole matter until after the Presiden-
tiaI election.
It is stated that Clapp supposed
there was $50, 900 i'll the safe of the
| public printer, When count showed
| bat $1,000.
W o. Avery was put in Jail here last
night.
WASHINGTON, April 11-SENATE-
The chair presented communication
from the Secretary of War enclosing a
comm anicasion from Maj. @. 3. Com
stock showing the progress made by
Jas. B. Eads in the improvement of
the south pass of the Mississi ,pi river
| up to February 9TH, 1876. Referred
| L