Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-06-29

iority In the House. The prospect of a
compromise between the House and
the Senate upon the appropriation bills
is said to be encouraging. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Morrill,, on the part OF
the Senate, and Randall, Chairman OF
the House appropriations Committee,
have esch submitted plans to so far
harmonic the existing disagreements
rs to allow of their passage before the
end of the fiscal year, and thus avoid
the alternative urged by the President,
viz: to extend the provisions of the
present appropriation bills to such
time as an agreement could be reached
upon the bills under consideration.
Mr.. Blaine's illness begins to alarm
his friends. 1t will be remembered
that some weeks ago he was confined
to his house for some days by an attack
of malarial fever, the debilitating eff
fects of which, in conjunction with the
prostration induced by the sunstroke,
has left him in state of nervous eX-
haustion, which demands absolute rest
from all participation in the duties of
his position. He is to go to the sea shore
or mountains as soon as he is able to Ell
dure the fatigue of travel. The SUBJ
Judiciary Committee appointed, SEEM
ingly, to convict him of some guilty
connection with railroad speculations
regardless of facts, has been engaged in
the spiteful eudeavor to show that he
instigated the Caldwell dispatch to
Knott, and which he (Knott suppress
ed on the pretensc of suspected forgery,
but not the least scrap of evidence,
showing either him or Col. Scott con-
cerned in the matter, has rewarded
their virtuous diligence. On the con-
trary, it is conclusively shown that
neither of them had any knowledge of
the dispatch sent to Caldwell from
Philadelphia, and which he signed and
forwarded 10 the Chairman of the Judi
ciary Committee; nor does the evidence
in any manner favorably modify
Knott's duplicity in suppressing the
dispatch.
Senator Morton has made an attem pit
to remedy the defects in the enforce
ment acts, pointed out by the Supreme
Court. OF course, any proposed inter-
ference with the Ku-KluX and White
Leagues of the South, proves the de-
|termined opposition of their friends,
the Democrats, in the Senate.
So sanguine were the Democrats in
the House that they were going to con-
vict Secretary Robson of corrupt prac-
tices, that their party press all over the
country was filled with the most spe-
cific charges of maladmistration, and
their columns were loaded down for
months with the most abusive Stric-
lures against him; and now, after an
investigation lasting many weeks,
conducted from first to last with the
sole view to partiZan ad Vantage, they
are obliged to eat their own vile full
limitations, and 10 reluctantly abandon
the hopeless effort which was underta-
ken with such flourish of trumpets.
Paymaster Bradford, who was summon
ed from London to testify, swore that
Mr.. Robson never interiered in any
manner with him as purchasing
agent of the Government; that he was
never requested in any way, by word
or insinuation, to favor the Cattells, nor
to show preferences to any party in
awarding contracts.
Buckner's report as Chairman of the
Committee appointed to investigate the
affairs of this District, includes the
Commissioners among those retOm
mended for criminal prosecution for
malfeasance in office. A minority RE
publican) report has been made sus-
tanning the Commissioners and show
ing their administration to have been
upright, and in confor-
nifty to law, considering the character
of the data furnished them upon which
they were obliged to base their action,
in the absence of anything more relia-
BILE.
The equalization bounty bill which
has passed the House, ard is now be-
fore Senator Logan's Senate Commit
tee, gives eight and one third dollars
per month to all soldiers and sailors
enlisted before April II, 1861, and May
3, 1865, deducting all State and Ma
Iional bounty received. REP