The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-21
Marsh Granted immunity from
Prosecution.
Senate Pacific Railroad Commit
tee in Full Meeting.
New York Almost Unanimously for
COnkIlng for President.
BeIknap Preparing for Rn Elaborate
Deiense-Secreiar nrisi0w Dis-
poses Of u Stand, r-Com.
mitiee Room Gossip.

WASHINGTON, March 90.---The Sen
Ate Pacific railroad committee had II
full meeting this morning, and took
into consideration the proposition look
log TO the construction of Pacific rail-
road on the 32d parallel.
Marsh is expected here during the
close of the week. The officer who
was sent to Montreal TO officially as.
sure him of immunity from arrest, re-
turned here to-day, with certain terms
which Marsh, II Is reported, insists
should be made before he would return
The Belknrps are preparing an elab.
crate defense, which they will put for
wax Mt the proper time. The ex-Sec.
retary says that Marsh's evidence Is, in
some respects, true; in Others, partly
true, and Others wholly false.
A, A. Leighton and General j. NJ.
lledriGk, who are named in the testi.
mony given before the Congressional
Committee as being corrupuy concern
ed In post traderships, are both resi-.
dents of Ottumwa, Iowa. General
Hedrick IL owner of the Courier of that
place.
A telegram from the Chairman of
The New York Republican State Cen
tral Committee says that every Assem-
bly, District in the city last night elect
ed delegates to the Republican State
Convention In favor of Hon. II. Conk-
ling for President. The delegates from
the rest of the State are almost unani-
mCusly for Conkling, 1t is stated.
Among the many witnesses who
have arrived here is J. j. Fisher, part
ner Of Evans & Co., of Fort Sill, who
informed the officers at the post two
years ago that his firm paid Belk nap
$4,000 and who, it appears by officials
documents before the committee, wrote
Belknap, at the time, of the charge.
Hon. George II. Pendloton is still
here, and begins TO realize at last that
his evidence has politically ruined
him, aud damaged his personal repu-
tation not a little. Not single jour
nal of his own party in the East has
come to his defense. Pendleton says
he told the truth, and declares that he
sees nothing wrong in the fee he re-
ceived, inasmuch as the fact at the
time was known to all the parties, who
were his relatives and for whom he
acted.
The committee on Expenditures in
the War department at their last pri-
yate meeting looked over n mass of
private letters, suggestions, etc, relat-
ing to almost every branch of the pub
lie service. A good many of the let
tiers are bogus; some are anonymous,
and others make charges hardly
worthy of notice. The committee
have decided, however, to make no
charges public, except when the author
is found to be trustworthy person.
The testimony of Mr.. Barlow, Presi-
dent of the National Bank at st.
Adams, Vermont, and senior partner
In the mail contracting firm of Bar
low, Sanderson &c., who formerly had
several routes in the Territories and
Western States, created sensation.
This firm obtained contracts for trans
porting the mails at enormous prizes
by the use of straw bidders, the witness
was extremely reticent and had forgot
ten most of the transactions of the
firm within the past ten years. lie
did remember, however, that Barlow,
Sanderson 4 Co. had paid $40, 600 to
stop the investigation of the Commit
tee on Post. offices and Post.roads Of the
Rorty-second Congress in 1873.
The so-called McKibbon investiga-
ton was in progress at that time, and
Mr.. Barlow testified that shortly after
the $4,000 was paid by the firm of
which he was member, the investi-
CATION ceased. He swore that he did
not know to whom the money was
paid, except that the firm gave It to a
middle-man named Ferrar, who was
we'll known here as claic, agent,
since dead, but whose first name the
witness did not know. When asked
why his memory was so defective, Mr..
Barlow replied that the subject was O
disagreeable one to him. He had tried
to forget all about it, and had nearly
succeeded.
The members of the House commit
tee on Post Offices and Post Roads OF
the Forty.seeond Congress were: John
r. Farnsworth, OF Illinois, John Hill,
OF New Jersey, Ginery Twitchell, OF
massachusetts,; James N. Tyner, of ln-
diana; Samuel ]. Randall, Of Pennsyl-
vania; Charles p. Porter, of Virginia;
sherman 0. Houghton, Of California;
Philadelphia Van Trump, ofOhio, aud
John M. Carroll, of New York.
4 humors have been circulated here
LOT several days with singular ingenu.
NY affecting Secretary Bristow, and
'nese have eliminated In an open
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