Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-26
NIisceIIaneOus News.
SECRETARY RoREsoN.

Miscellaneous News.
SECRETARY RoBEsoN.
! WASHINGTON, July %. - Sscretar,
Robson will appear before the real es
tate pool com mittee tins afternoon.
oRDwAY's LEASE.
| Misrepresentation OFdway hsi
been here since Thursday lsst, tt
satisfactorily explain his accounts n,
ssys he was informed this morning by
Repre- tentative Glover, that il the house
should adjourn next week, the commit
tee would not be able to take mora tes.
timony.
SPECIE RESUMPTION.
The house committee on banking and
currency held .ull meeting to-day, and
then Adjourned without reaching any
agreement on the specie resumption a3S,
or any order bsing made for another
special meeting. AS usual, various pro-
positions fer total or partial repeal of the
law were discussed.
THE VENEZUELAN swINDLE.
Senior Manuel Munozy Castro, q Ven
eZuelsn citizen residing ia Brook Ign,
was before the house ommittee OF for
ejgu at4irs to-day, and testified in re-
gard to the alleged frauds of the Vene-
Zuelan mixed CON miesion. He YVES, in
1868, chdTgs 6'0fdirs from his govern
ment TO the United States, and laid be-
fore the state department at Washing
ton complaints formulated against the
mixe1 commission. These were, gen.
orally, that while some OF the claims
against Venezuela had some foundation,
but were grossly exaggerated, others
had no foundation whatever; and that
Tallmadge, the American com mission.
er, by means Of an umpire in whose Sc.
lection he was chiefly instrumental,
Senior Juan n. Me chadO, had been in
frau iuisnt collision with William p
Murray, brother-iC-!aw of the American
minister, Ssillwell, and reputed seere-
tsry Of the legation, in having these
claims allowed. He gave it as his opin-
ion, a. that of his government, that
the aggregate OF the claims for which
Venezuela was legitimately responsible,
could not have exceeded three hundred
thousand dollars, while the awards az
gre2ated over one million two buudred
thousand dollsiF. He illustrated the
general fraudulent character of these
claims by that OF Bsalc3, Noble
d Garrison, which was for damages
by the annulment of q contract for q
line between New York and
Laguyra. The contract wes made by
the revolutionary government of Gen
er2l Baez, which had never been re-
cognizad by the United States, and all
of vince acts had been annulled on the
restoration Of the constitutional govern
ment, and yet, Notwithstanding these
facts, and the additional fact that the
grantees had taken no measures t0wsrd
performing their share of the contract,
they had presented claim for six hun
dred thousand dollars, and had actually
been awarded two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Castro received, how
ever, little encouragement from the
state department., which treated the re-
Of his government IS IN.
sustained by evidence.
THE INTERAL REVENUE COMMISSIONERS
SHIP.
Congressman M'DougaIl was to-day
offered the commissionership
Of internal revenue. He has the mat
bly, decline the Offer.
MINISTER PIERREPONT DON'T KNOW
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT EXTRADI-
TI0N TREA TY.
LONDON, July 25.-Minister Pierre
p mt denies that he is negotiating for
new extrsditiOn treaty with Lord Derby.
He says that whatever steps are taken
must proceed to or from Washington.
In answer to the question what Lord
Derby meant by saying he hoped to es-
tablish some provisional arrangement to
tide over the possibly long negotiations,
Pierrepont said: II was in
the house OF lords, and heard that re-
mark. think 1 know what Lord
Derby meant, but that is for him to ex-
plain, not me; but dsny that am a
party to any negotiation. OF course,
cannot say what may be passing be-
tween London and Washington"