The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-05
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The judiciary Committee Report Ia.
Ioably on Billings Nomination.
Ilunilngton's Scheme 10 Delay Consid.
Grafton OF Texas Pacific Bill.
A Water Line Shot NJ the Straw
Bids OF the Mall Service.
The Louisiana Senatorial Question
PlnChbaCk and Butler.

AsHINGTON, February 1.-The Jul
dietary Committee, in the executive
session of the Senate to-day, reported
fayorbly on the nomination OF Billings
~ United States District Judge Of
Louisiana, vice Durrell resigned. The
Senate remained in session only ten
minutes after the report OF the Com.
mittee and adjourned without vote.
The vote In the Committee cali not be
ascertained.
ID. w. Flanagan, of Ohio, has been
appointed Assistant journal Clerk Of
House and John A. Rudd, OF Kansas,
Reading Clerk. No Southern nomin-
ations. There was a short executive
session but no combinations are re.
ported.
The Committee on Pacific Railroads
have agreed to hear argument next
Wednesday, when au effort will be
made to have the case between Scott
and Huntington closed. The friends
of the Texas aud Pacific bill are much
dlssatisiieowith this purpose of the com
mittee to again throw open the doors
to wrangle. 1t is part of the Central
Pacific's policy TO delay consideration
of the bill so AS to get the calendar of
the House crowded with business
ahead of the Texas and Pacific bill.
The result of this would be that the bill
would not come up in its order until
next winter at best, and probably
never at all unless q two-thirds vote
could be got to suspend the rules and
take the bill.up out Of order. This
could never be done, so delay is
naturally regarded rs fatal to the bill.
There has been much comment over
the evident intention to put the cam
paign committee appointed by the eau
Gus last night under the control of the
hard.money men. Hester Clymer,
chairman, and Milton Sayler are the
only soft-money men on the commit
tee.
The Secretary of War has notified
the committee on Mexican outrages
that he will send more troops to the
Texas border
Captain Scudder, in his testimony
before the postotlice Committee, says
that his bid in 1871 for mail service be-
tween st. Louis and Memphis was
seven thousand dollars, aud that was
was the lowest bid put in. Patterson's
bid Of forty-two thousand dollars was
accepted and he afterwards paid Scud-
der ten thousand dollars for carrying
the mails. The bids put in II, that
time being shown Captain Scudder, he
was of opinion that all excepting his
own were straw bids.
The card published day or two ago
in New York, purporting to be from
General n. p. Banks, expressing his
views regarding the coming presiden-
tial canvass, is base fabrication.
General Banks authorizes the state
ment that the card is malicious
forgery that nobody has even talked
to him on the subject, and that he does
not even entertain the sentiments inn
puted to him.
Senator Stevenson of Kentucky has
been provided with and will read In
the Senate copy of the commitment
of Pinch back to the workhouse
by Ben. Butler in 1862. All the records
IN the case were sent from New Or
leans ten days ago. This, 1t Is thought,
will occasion no little surprise in the
Senate.