Arizona citizen., 1876-04-08
EASTERN STATES.

figured so prominently in eOnnecuo
 with obtaining post-traderships frol
 General Belknap, was examined to-daI before the subcommittee of the Jud 6 ciary committee and gave the histor of four poSttraderships in Texas an . New Mexico, which he procured fc r various parties. The compensatio r varied; from one person he got $20OC s from another $5,OOO, from a third part ? he got one half of the net profits, an
 from fourth he got one-fourth of tn 2 net profits. He and Belknap had bee
 residents of KeOkuk, Iowa; had serve,
 together in war, and were on friendl,
 and intimate terms; hence his success
 in getting these appointments. He de
 nies that General Belknap knew any
 thing of the money which he, Rice, re
 celved for these appointments.
 | WASHINGTON, April 2.-A Democrat
 ic caucus was held last night, for tht purpose of electing managers to con
 duct the impeachment trial of Ex-Secre tary Belknap before the Senate. Int following named members were choser by ballot: Lord, McMahon, Knot and Lynde, Democrats, and Jenks
 Wheeler and Hoar, Republicans.
 WASHINGTON, April 4-The nomina tion of Dana has been rejected by the Senate; injunction to secresy is not removed but it is safe to say that the vote stood about r to 36. Articles of impeachment against Belknap were read today in the House. There was a debate on the item in the legislative appropriation bill, fixing the Pres ident's salary at $25,0OO after the 4th of March next, which resulted in the adoption of the item. General Custer was before the Clymer committee to- day, and testified relative to his knowl- edge of abuses on the frontier. He said that the lips of army officers were Isealed by general order of the War Department; he was satisfied that the order was to cover up the derelictions of the Secretary of War.
 WASHINGTON, April 5.-The nomina- tion of Hon Richard II. Dana, as min ister to England, was rejected in the Senate by a vote of 31 to F. Among those voting to reject wes Senator Booth of California. Fifteen senators lodged the vote. To-day the members of the Senate were sworn by Chief Jus tice Waite, to try the impeachment off Ex-Secretary of War Belknap. The Senate is now ready to proceed with the trial, and has sent notification there of to the House of Representatives.
 WASHINGTON, April 6.-The House on Pacific railroads have agreed to report a bill directing that survey be made of the route for pro- posed railroad from Austin, Texas, to l TOpolovampo bay, in the State of Sina- loa, on the Gulf of California, the con- sent of the Mexican government having already been obtained. The same bill was reported by the Senate committee last Monday. An appropriation of only S50,0O0 is asked but the projector says that the amount is sufficient for purposes.
 The House bill on the silver dues- ion has been amended by the Senate finance committee, by striking out the hird section of the bill and substitut- ng therefor a provision that the new .ilver dollar shall be colned of four hundred and eight tenths grams, of tandard silver, and shall be legal ender to the amount of twenty dollars. Another amendment provides that rade dollars shall be no longer legal ender, in any amount whatever.
 NEW YORK, April 2.--Washington pecisls state that District Attorney Dyer, of Missouri, is before the com { nittee looking into the St. Louis whis- ( ey trials. The testimony taken before S he grand jury in the Babcock case, was [ Il in the hands of the defence and f eaked out through a grand juror V amed Fox, one of the two who voted lc gainst Bsbcock's indictment. Dyer t } now entirely satisfied of the good d stih of Pierrepont, the President and | Il others he was suspicious of. r NEW YORK, April 3.-At the stock ', 1change, this morning, Pacific mail I, .ock declined one per cent on 6 rumor nat bankruptcy proceedings were to e commenced against the company, I; once. The review of last weeks ' usiness shows that affairs are not i'm rowing, and the feeling in commer- al circles is. anything but cheerful. a lard times have settled down on all o asses.
 f, NEW YORK, April 4-The Panama j. K. Company has served formal no F ce on the Pacific Mail Company pro E osing that all freight and passengers U that company shall be charged ac. II nrding to current existing tariff rates a nd that the company be charged for a ghterage service at Panama the same II others; and in view of the fact tbo,