Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
WASHINGTON.


ing him with traduciDg the NJ mory OF
G. w. Knowiton, Riddles son-in-law.
Miss Sexell. pension agent at Chica-
go, il called before the civil service
committee on the charge of having
divided her salary with Benz amin Il.
marshal of the northern dis.
trict of Illinois.
The committee on naval expendi-
lures examined at great length Benz.
Cheever. the noted financial agent.
Secrecy was imposed upon all parties.
The printing committee of the House
having concluded that they can not
impeach Public Printer Clapp an off
indicted for alleged Irregularities.
The impeachment case attracted
very slim crowd to day.
Secretary Chandler declines to fur
nish papers regarding VIM. McMick
inns appointment as surveyor general
of Washington Territory, first on &C
count of the executive order and sec
ond because he is investigating Nc
Mickim himself.
Private dispatches report the Ore
gon delegation for Blaine.
The judiciary committee has ap-
pointed Hutton, Ashe and Lawrence a
subcommittee on Blaine.
Cheever's testimony before the naval
committee is partially about an indi-
rect hearing that Mrs. Robson got
a $50, 900 present for inducing her hus-
band to transfer the naval funds
abroad from Barring Bros. to Jay Cooke,
McCulloch & Co.
The motion in behalf of the State of
South Carolina for a prel ;minary in
junction against the Secretary of War
to stop the obstruction at the cross
tides of the Savannah river, in course
of erection by the engineer depart
ment of the army, was heard this
morning by Mr.. Associate Justice
Brady, Mr.. Triscal and Mr.. 2. Phil
lips arguing the motion in behalf of
the State, and Mr.. Solicitor General
Phillips contra. The Judge while ex-
pressly declining to express an opinion
on the merits of the case held that the
questions raised were so grave as to
require full and thorough considera-
ton by the whole court aud that it was
to the obvious interest of all parties
that the work should not be continued
when the question of the rights and
interests of the parties concerned were
uusettled. He would therefore grant
the preliminary injunction, expecting
the court to take the necessary orders
to fix the earliest time for full hear
ing and take such testimony as might
be necessary.
WAsHINGToN, May Alright
SENATE-The chair laid before the
Senate a report of the Quartermaster
General in answer to the resolution of
the Senate relative to the Western &
Atlantic railroad in Georgia. Ordered
printed.
VIM. A. Young was appointed tele-
graph operator to the Senate.
Sherman presented remonstrance
by manufacturers and dealers in to-
bacco against any change in the pres
eat mode of packing tobacco. Re
ferred to committee on finance.
The committee on commerce re
ported favorably on the bill to exempt
all vessels engaged in the navigation
of the MississippI river and its tribu -
taries above the por5 of New Orleans
from entrances AID clearances. Placed
on calendar.
Morrill, submitted a concurrant reso-
luton that Congress adjourn from the
9th to the 18th.
Without action on the resolution the
impeachment court was resumed.
Both parties in view of possible ad-
journment for the centennial propose
to adiourrthe court to the 10Th. The
Senate by vote of % to 80 refused.
Blair then opened the argument
against the jurisdiction of the Senate
in the case. Quoting various Englis D
works he cited several instances where
the resignation of judges stopped i'm
peachment.
Lord followed, claiming that the
body had jurisdiction and that an Off
Ger could not resign to escape i'm
peachment. He quoted from a great
number of legal authorities in support
of his views and conclueed his argu-
ment at 5 o'clock when the body adj
journed.
HOUSE Vance spoke in favor of his
bill paying mail contractors IN the
South prior to 1861. He made a
patriotic appeal for the burying of all
sectional auimosities aud bitter recol-
ltctions caused by the war and pro-
claimed the loyalty, patriotism and
good feeling of the people of the
South.
Kelly of Pennsylvania testified to
that same good feeling, and related
his experience in the South last year
and how, on Decoration Day, the
graves of Union soldiers were strewn
with flowers as piously as those of Con-
federate soldiers. He would say to
those of the gray and to those of the
blue: 'Preserve every memento of
your valor and your sacrifice, for the
day will come when all the people will
treasure every memento of American
courage, skill and sacrifice made in
that great war;" Applause on the
demo cratic side.
Vance thanked Kelly for his gener-
Gus words.
The resolution appropriating SO,
for expenses of Gibson's New Orleans
committee was passed.
The concurrent resolution that Con
gress adjourn from the 9th to the 18th
was passed.
Blaine of Maine offered resolution
directing the committee of ways and
means to consider at once some meas
ure for the relief of the country from
the threatened scarcity of fractional
currency.
The message from the President
declining to furnish the House with
tho information as to his various
absences from Washington was read
and was received with cool disdain on
the democratic side and with evident
enjoyment on the republican side. At
the conclusion of the reading Randall
of Pennsylvania moved that it be re
ferred to the judiciary committee and
printed, and it was SO ordered
MacDougan of New York then of
ferred mountaineering the select
committee for the investigation of
federal offices in Louisiana to meke a
full and complete Investigation of the
attending the assassina-
ton CT M. FL. TwitcheIl and David
King on Red River, La, particularly
rs to whether the cause was or was not
Of a pc itical character.
Randall-While that is stale mat
Ter hope that none will object to the
Beebe of New York desired to have
IN Investigation also into the killing of
Two negroes and the wounding of eight
others at the late election at Indian
,polis.
of No-