New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-13
WASHINGTON NOTES

WAsHIsGTos. Wednesday, Jan 12, 1870.
TIE Senate Committee Privileges and Elections
sdered briefly to-day the OF Senator Spencer whose
resolution directed investigation into his eloe
ton learn II any frauds improper means were used
his election to the Senate The Committee
unable proceed for tho alleged that ihere
documents before them and no one to conduct the
p .Oseeutof H wou'a seem sIt'nge IL te Ho't ice
proper practices and II would seem tn be their duty to
investigate for themselves Mr. Spencer Is represented
as saying that he has nothing 10 do with the
lie mas asked an Investigation. The Senate has directed
IT, and II IA the duty OF tho Committee 10 proceed The
members Of the Committee say that the postponement
Only tenpoia and MI bpenccrs enemies ray that they
VIII see that there Is proof enough II the investigation
is intended TO be thorough and earnest
Mrs Victoria @. woodruff, and her sister Miss Tennie
c. Claim, appeared before tho Senate Committee Oh
Claims this morning. to their claims for damages on
account OF illegal arrest and imprisonment In NewYork
in 1873 on the charge utteIng obscene
Mrs Woodruff read long statement, setting forth tho
Of their arrest and the final quashng tho in,
dctment by Judge Blachfori and represented that the
cost their deiense exceeded $4,000 to pay which
they forced 10 sell even their clothing The loss
BY the suspension oi thelr paper sho Estimates at
$4,000.
The Secretary OF State has advised the Secretary of the
Treasury that the night OF the 10th of December
the schooner Hartford Of NewYork bound from Charles
ton 8. c. with cargo of cotton for Reyel, Russia
stranded on the Swedish coast about 40 miles from Co
penhagen and will probably be- total wreck The cargo
was being saved and taken to EsinOre BY wreckihg
company Ths officers and entirely destitute
but were afforded relief by the United States Consul at
Copenhagen, who had aso taken return them
to the United States.
The gentlemen representing the International E1hib
ton say emphatically that they have made eombina
ton whatever with any project interest They report
the condition of the work and OF the finances the
requires They present memorial, which states the
necessities OF the enterprise, aud they enreat speedy
action That is their whole case, and they say they
met with the greatest Kindness by ali parties and
tont, and that they have doubt OF tho of
the bill
letter OF instructions TO the Collector Of Customs
at NewYork tho Secretary of the Treasury says: In
wearing apparel and other personal baggage the
tools impesents OF mechanical trade, belonging
persons arriving In the United States Shall be imported
by any company Tor the owner proceedings will
be taken In regard "a the entry OF such property
vded for In Sections 2790, $780, and 2,60l Of the Re-
vised statutes
Bome time ego Special Indian Agent shanks preferred
written charges against O. w. Ingalls, agent for the I'VE
civilized tribes in the Cherokee country in consequence
OF which all his papers seized and he was removed
from office u said that upon nysangstion II was
found that there WA insufficient ground for BIS removal