The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-04-16
PROPOSED Conference Between
Liberal Republicans and
Independents.
The Friends OF the Tcxas-Pacinc Have
EDllre Command OF the Bill,
Action Next Session.
pardon 10 be Granted for all those
Rho may he Observable VII.
ncsscs BEFORE the House In.
ycstigating Committee.

. WAsHlNoloNt hprll lo'-Ine Jur
disagreed and were discharged in th
case OF 0ttaman, tried for receivln
$4,000 stolen from the Treasury by
\ clerk one year ago.
II By the report of contingent expen
4 ses Of the Treasury Department for th,
lsst fiscal year II appears that ll9 dali,
vspers were taken aud paid for by tn,
IA DEPARTMENT for the several high Off
4 tals that 20 900 street car tickets wer,
bought for the use OF the clerks, and
& that during nine months of the veal
here was paid S3,Sll57 to m iintain
he Treasury laundry, and between 81,
W w aud 81 400 each month to meet the
payroll Of the cabinet shop.
Though the Senate Judiciary Com.
4 Ilttee decli"es to favorably report the
House bill granting immunity to those
who may give importont testi mony
"a before the Investigating Committees,
the Attorney General has decided, with
the Presidents approval, to grant par
don for all those who may be desirable
Witnesses before the House Investigat.
Ing Committees.
The Attorney General, to whom the
question has been referred, has done
lOthing about the pardon of Mcguire,
wing to the pressure OF other bnsi-
less Major Eaton testified before the
alect Committee on the whisky
frauds, and exhibited an autograph let.
Ter from the late Collector Cord to the
President, in which the former speaks
d Mcdonald as a man unfit to remain
the Revenue Service.
A prominent Liberal Republican
nember of the House says he has been
Uniformed that a circular will soon be
tgned by number of Liberal Repub-
cans and other representatives ia the
Independent movement inviting lead
Jog Independents Of the country to a
conference, to be held in either New
York or Philadelphia the last of May,
'Oconsider what course Independent
so'eFs shall pursue in the approaching
PRESIDENTIAL election. Among the
DANES signed to the circular will be
{al Schurz and Ex-Governor Bullock
Massachusetts,.
The late Chief Clerk of the General
lAnd Office, l.. X. Lippincott, who
Fs summarily dismissed by Secretary
Aaadler some weeks ago for being en-
pged in defrauding the government
means of fraudulent Chippewa
hud scrip, has turned up missing, and
lhOrts to ascertain his whereabouts
hye proved ruthless. Lippincott was
ndicted by the grand jury here, but
Wore he could be arrested fled the
eantry, and is supposed to have taken
nhge in some foreign country. A full
4vestigation of Lippincotts rascality
Vows that he was paid about twenty
Pr thousand dollars for passing one
1pusand fraudulent claims for Chip
Iva land scrip through the General
And Office.
fince the action of the Senate Rail-
@d Committee on the Huntington
kleme to secure the land grant Of the
Iixss and Pacific railroad, attention
~ been drawn again to the situation
lhe Texas and Pacific bill. An ex-
Rpded inquiry justifes the statement
There is little or no prospect that
bill will be again taken up this
Sion. 1t is claimed by the friends
Tue project that they have entire
nmand of the bill, and can secure a
Orable report from either the House
fenate Committee whenever they
pose, but that there is no intention
moving the bill out of the Commit
until there is good reason to see
u can be passed. AS well as can
made out neither the House nor
pate Is willing to touch the bill now
rear of the political effect.
ne Republican Senators who pro-
TO be favorable to the measure,
IN that the Republican party has
Y 80 savagely attacked for the
lon and Central Pacific subsidies
IL Is not proper that that they
uld now take the initiative. They
mat the Democrats OF the House
\ give assurance that the measure
~ political by passing the bill there
a ihls the House is not prepared
~ the Democrats who are known
LOT the bill fearing that the Re-
''uans simply want to entrap. 1t
Us mutually agreed under this
OF affairs that nothing shall be
.~ press the bill until after the
'uentiai election, and that is, Of
Se' until the next session.
private letter from Samoa says
'%ents have been found among
aOergers paper showing that Bah
~ 'Or consideration, obtaiDed
lOefger the appointment as Spe-
Aseht; also that an arrangement
}. oetween Steinberger and ]. o.
ss'fey q Son, Hamburg, by which
'ner was to play into the hands
later, who were to have q mo.
H' ofSamoan trade, tn he bankers
Hovernment and Issue paper
fuey steihberger to nave ten per
all transactions between me
va the GovernmsaL This firm
zoe Peerless, neiEed ny the RAJ
III. q me Senets and asseub,y
ssfelabeFgar, but the King aad
against him.