The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-16
pendleton'S Statement 10 the
Investigating Committee.
Bill Reducing the Presidents
Salary Passes the Senate.
New Hampshire Conceded to the Re.
publICans by Democrats.
Affairs ON the Mexican side Of the Rio
Crnnde-The Mass of the People
are In Favor OF General
DInN.

WASHINGTON, March 10. - Hon.
George Ii. Pendleton was before the
War Department investigating COM
mittee to-day. He said he had been
President CT the Kentucky Central
Railroad since December, 1866. When
he took possession he found large
claim against the Government for
transporting troops, etc; he went to
see Gov. Stevenson about the claim,
who told him II had been hanging on
for a long time, and fifty per cent
would be given to any one who would
take 1t and have it paid. He went to
see others interested in it and made
arrangements by which he was to re-
ceve one-half of all he collected. The
allowance was for 100000 the claim
was reported favorably and passed
witness received the money from
Boutwell, never paid any to Belknap
or agreed to pay any to Belknap or any
Of his family; they were not impli-
Gated in the payment of the claim
which was paid in June, 1871, and no
compensation was paid any one to git
it through.
The bill reducing the Presidents sal
airy to $4,000 after the 4th of March
next, passed the Senate to-day. The
vote was twenty-six to eighty.
After the vote reducing the Presi-
dents salary, Mr.. Christiancy said he
would move reconsideration of the
vote and entered notice to that effect.
Secretary Bristow, when asked about
q dispatch from San Francisco saying
that the Government has bought the
product of the mines direct to resume
resumption, said that the report, to
say the least, was premature. There
had been some negotiations going on,
but nothing has been contaminated,
and he did not know that there ever
would be. There certainly was no au-
thority for the very positive statement
telegraphed from San Francisco. The
Secretary received several kilograms
inquiring about the matter from San
Francisco during yesterday.
The attempts of the opposing sides
of the House Monday to put each other
on record ON the question of State
rights and secession was essentially a
failure, first on the following resolu-
ton offered by Baker, of Indiana,
which was rejected by vote of 81 to
70:
Resolved, That the people of the
United States constitute the nation,
and not mere confederacy of States
or nations; and that the Constitution
was framed by the people, acting In
their primary and individual capacity,
through their delegates thereto, duly
constituted; that the Government
under the Constitution is one OF the
people, by the people, and for the peo-
pie, and that in its appropriate sphere
the Government of this nation Is
sovereign and supreme; that in its ma
ture 1t is permanent and indisoluaole
except by the action and consent OF
the whole people; that no State mas
any right or authority to judge OF the
c0nstitutionality of laws enacted by
Congress or to nullify the execution OF
the same, and that all overt acts oy
any State or people thereof OF secs.
sion therefrOm, or Of rebellion against
the same, constitute treason, and that
the late war of rebellion for the dis
inemberment of the Union was cause
less and indefensible on any theory OF
right or of constitutional law.
And then on the following introduce
ed by Mr.. Cox, of New York, which
was adopted by $50 yeas to AZ nays;
Resolved, That the people of the
United States constitute u nation III
the sense, to the extent and for the
purpose defined in the Federal Consti-
tuition.
Resolved, That The Government Of
the United States is Federal Union
and was formed by the people of the
several States in their sovereign ca
pacity; that the rights and powers of
the United States Government are de-
lined and limited by the Federal Con-
stitution, and these rights and powers
cannot he enlarged or diminished en-
cept by an amendment to the Cohstl-
tuition.
ResOlued, That the rights OF the
states have the same sanction OF Sc
curity in the Constitution as the rights
and powers of the Federal Govern
ment, and that local domestic govern
,mient by the several States within the
units of the Constitution is absolutely
necessary for the preservation OF the
lpertles of the citizen and the contln-
uahce OF our republican system OF
government.
Resolved, That the doctrine that
any State has q right to secede from
une Union Is in conflict with the idea
%a perpetual Union as contemplated
" the Constitution, and should be re-
sarued as being forever extinguished
AZ .he result Of the recent civil con-
lhe Republicans refused to vote for
UO&s set Of resolutions because, while
'ney declared in effect that secession
would be wrong when 1t was done
while is generally conceded ON the
whole that there Is little profit in try
, ,n 70 make one political party say
Nnhl the other rarfu " ants H. to eay,