New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-29

A resolution OF inquiry will be presented
in the House Monday as to whether the
gentlemen requested by the President to
visit the Southern returning boards were
paid from the United States treasury.
WASHINGTON.
The Oregon Case.
WASHINGTON. December 2S.-The Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections COM
men0e investigating Oregon tomorrow.
The Republican electors and the Secretary
of State of Oregon are here.
The Telegraph Messages.
Speaker Randall, Judge Knott and Cen
eral HuntOn are in consultation over the
difficulties thrown in the way of the prOduc-
ton of telegraph dispatches called for by
the committees. The whole power of the
House will be invoked to secure these dis
patches.
The signal service reports from Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina, that the Englieh
bark Tinto. from Glasgow, Scotland, to
Baltimore, 600 tons burden, with . crew of
seventeen men and cargo Of coal, went
on the twenty fifth. The crew were al
saved by the crew of the life saving station
the next morning. The vessel will 90 to
pieces. ,.......
The schooner Trott, King. master, from
San Domingo for B ,ston, was aband oned
st SEQ, and the captain died OF exhaustion.
A Methodiss Mass Meeting.
A series Of meetings held in this city in
| the interest Of tho Missionsry Society Of tho
Methodist Episcopal Church, closed this
| evening with mass meeting of the Metn-
odists Of Washington, ct Wesley Chapel.
Addresses we're delivered by Rev. DR.: Z. L.
1Dastnel, D. D., SECRETARY of the Missionary
Seciety; Rev. c. q. Fowler, D. D.: editor Of
the Christian Adcoeate. New York, and
prevailed. Resolutions pledging hearty CO
operation in increasing the funds of tho
treasury were adopted.
| RESIGNATION Of the Comnissiener Of Pat.
Commissioner Duell, of the patent office,
resigned and embsrks in the patent law
business in New York. Mr.. Chandler &C.
cepts the resignation in fattering terms.
The Committee ON tho Electoral Vote.
Toe Senate committee ON devising .
measure for examining and verifying the
electoral vote had q prOtracted session, all
the M embers being present but Mr.. Logan.
The committee entered upon the prelimin-
ary work by examining and discussing the
course pursued by each house for meeting
in joint convention and their decisions
while in such convention, on declaring the
vote for President and Vice President
since the foundation of the government.
These were taken up and debated in some
instances quite elab0rately.
The members of the committee desiring
! to get all the information possible out of the
journals and records of Congress and from
contemporaneous political history, no more
propositions we're debated, though there
was hardly . member of the committee who
had not received some contribution on the
| question from one source or another and
: which at the proper time may prove to be
> of some value. The meeting indicated very
clearly that the committee will be able te
, secure an authentic account of each join
convention, both as to journals and tho de
bate ON the same, with the exception of ont
! | or two of the earlier Congresses, where tha
. journals of the proceedings only can be se
cured.
The record of the debate alone will max
I . large volume. The committee will NEE
again to morrow to resume the discussion
They hope by the middle of next week Il
have conference with the House commit
l. tee, which resumes its sessions in January
J; The sub committee of the House committee
q consisting Of 4eserA Hunton, Springer an
a willard, have had meeting for the pun
q pose of gathering facts for the full commit
t tee, which will meet when Mr.. Payne, chail
. | man, returns. When the two committee
n meet in joint session all preliminary wor
]; will have been done. and conclusive scti0
J, may be expected only in January. Near
q time the special committee of the H0us,
of which Mr.. Knott is chairman,
:; determine the privileges and powers
d the House in counting and determinin
os the electoral vote, is pushing its inve
10 tigation and will probably report bef0l
er the Joint committee is ready for actioI
q, Several members of the Senate cOmmitte
'n are understood to be opposed to the su
~ mission of any question growing out OF tn
IS controversy to the Supreme Court of Il
ls be depriving Congress of power as Il
u representative OF the people which Il
g. trainers of the constitution evidently
p | signed that Congress should alone posse
VI and use at its discretion. The exception
IS, character of the present controversy ia GO
ls sidered no reason why Congress should gu
10 render this power.
% Burned Money.
ss Experts have identified $500 from Il
~. American Express safe burned at Erie.
m large amount which was burned beyond I
IN demption will be lost by the express COL
,r- pany.
ha Freedman's Bank Matters.
re Mr.. Leopold, one of the Freedman's Bal
nd commissioners, writes: 1--WE have yours
in the nineteenth instant, but regret our in
,is | bility to name time when the next di
IOr dend will be ready for payment. We q
on using every effort to get an appropriate
re from Congress at its present session for t
IN. purchase of our bank building proper
,b. here, and if successful can pay anoth
ill dividend Immediately. The existing sts
lts of political affairs may defeat our effor
,er in which case it will be some time befc
ho we can be ready, as collections are M
IN; very slow, and sales of our real estate
by sets are impossible at present"
re No Use for Harper's Ferry.
en The Secretary of War reports to G.
W " gress a. to the expediency of re-sstabli
no ing the national an Dry at Hsrpers Fer
ng 81 have the honor to remark that it IL {
10y policy of the War Department to conc
'nu trate ordinance manufactures at three
M 'tlc senals, and the Springfield armory is rect
'm mended in the recent annual report, &
sry that neither the necessities of the pul
as service nor iudicious economy would I
WI WI der such re establishment expedient."
an, NEW YORK.