The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-05-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Call for n National Convention
or German Republicans.
fho Variance between Schcnck and
Parks.Statement Irreconcllable.
Findings Of the Committees and
humors Around their Room-
Naval Appropriation NH
Saves rive Millions.

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Republican Club of this city issued to
day an address to the German Radical
, aud Republicans OF the Union for cal
| of German Republican Convention
to be held In Cincinnati on the 10th o
June, for the purpose of presenting
and making known their wishes to tn,
National Republican nominating con,
vention.
The Randall aud Hale sub-commit.
tee of the Naval Appropriation bill
completed II to day. The bill foots up
about twelve million seven hundred
thousand dollars as against seventeen
millions last year. The reductions are
principally In items for the bureau OF
construction, steam engines aud re.
pairs.
The grand jury of the District of
Columbia have agreed upon the pre-.
sentiment against w. W. Belknap, late
Secretary of War, for alleged accept.
ance OF brides in his official station.
A summons was sent out yesterday for
Mrs. Caleb 2. Marsh, aud returned by
the Marshal Endorsed non est Ash,
White, Morton, Dale and Twitchell,
late of the Indian office; Duncan and
Thompson, OF the Interior Depart
nent; McEwing and Rea, OF the Pen
sion Agency, were examined by the
grand jury to-day. The presentment
of General Belknap is in the hands of
the District Attorney, who will pre-.
pare formal indictments.
Mr.. Davenport was before the Com
mittee on Expenditures in the De-
partment Of Justice TO. day and teeti-
fled he could not produce any particu.
lar set Of vouchers that would cover
any particular sum of 100000 received
from Whiteley, but he could furnish
vouchers running from the time he
first received any money In 1872 up to
the time he had expended 1t in 1874,
covering every dollar he received.
He produced these vouchers and the
Committee desired the witness to pro-
duce every other voucher in his pos.
session, 30 that he might be able to
say to the Committee that he had pro
duced every voucher he was able TO
produce.
The bill reported by the House Com
mittee on Pacific Railroads provides
that 1t shall not be lawful for the Union
Pacific Railroad Company to charge
any special rate for the transportation
OF freight or passengers over the Oma-
ha bridge other than charged for like
distance over other portions OF its road
nor shall 1t charge other con; panies
more than five dollars for every freight
or passenger car and its contents trans
ported over said bridge, and in case of
transportation of coal, salt. grain or
lumber, not more than two dollars
and fifty cents per car shall be
charged to other companies.
1t is the opinion of majority of the
committe that an enactment of this or
some similar measure liz required to
give effect to the recent decision Of the
Supreme Court, that the Omaha bridge
should be considered and operated as a
na.t 90 tha continuous limo nc tha |
Union Pacific road.
At meeting of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs to-day in the matter of
General Schenck, his counsel said If
the committee should be of the opin-
ion that certain correspondence Of
Park, Schenck and Fisher was proper
to be considered, he would waive all
objection and leave the committee
perfectly free to act 1t was decided
by the committee that all papers which
have already found their way into
print should not be received rs evil
dence, and If General Schenck desired
to make statement he was at liberty
to do so. General Schenck said while
II was true he gave Fisher such infor-
nation as he possessed II was entirely
untrue that he had any stock opera
tlons with him. As to Duncan, he
did not know who he was. He said
he never telegraphed Cheeseborough
To sell 1000 shares of the Emma Mine
stock and such shares were never sold.
The use OF Schenck's name by Fisher
was without authority. The Com
mittee made the statement In support
of portion of his former testimony
In which he said he saw the original
letter OF resignation of General Schenck
as director of the Emma Mine Com
pany; at least 1t so appeared to be;
there was reference In 1t Of
mining shares, but 1t stated
he resigned only because he
did not want to give his political enc
mics an opportunity to criticise his
conduct. Park srid: 81 don't like this
letter, and am going to have a better
one from Schenck.n The impression
of witness was that Park wrote the
final letter of resignation, and Schenck
copied 1t from Parks manuscript.
There was nothing about which he was
more positive than that he saw two let
tiers Of resignation.