Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13

NIulAS hahota, anu making another Terri
tory called Pembina.
The House Committee on Pacific Railroads
have agreed to report u bill directing q sur
vey to be made of the route for q railway
from Austin, qeSas, to ~Topolovampo Bay
on the Gulf of Mexico. The consent of the
Mexican Government for such a survey has
already been obtained. The Senate bill was
reported by the Senate last Monday. It an
propriates only SOC, 600, but our W pro-
jector of the route says this will be sufficient
to secure n report on the general resources
and character Of the country to be trayersed.
and insure a further appropriation to de-
monstrate the feasibility OF the route through
the means and instlrlmentality of the sur
vcy.
Secretary Robeson has sent a long letter
in reply to the inquiries made of him about
three weeks ago, by Beebe, chairman Of the
House Committee Oh Expenditures in the
Navy Department, touching the grant of &C
ceptances to the amount of 5000. 900 and
more. The drafts, he says, are not to be
paid out of the appropriation for next year.
but out of that for the current year. Con-
siderable sums of money are placed in the
hands Of the Navy paymasters on Guty with
the fleets in various parts of the world.
Many of them will, at the end Of the year
have in their possession ulrexpended bal
ances to be returned to the general fund of
the Navy. When these balances are receiv-
able in July next, they will be available for
meeting the drafts which Secretary Robson
has accepted.
A Washington special to the N. Y. T11b
une says the House Naval Committee con-
tinued the examination of Matthews. the
Brooklyn contractor, on the 9th inst. Very
little that was new was brought out in his
testimony. He admitted what had already
been proved-the payment OF 1928, 600. or
four per cent. un uccpuut of tire vos.t-ua.s- no
receivad, to +. G. Cottel. The object Of the
payment being to prevent competition. In
addition, he admitted the payment on the
same account of 81, 600 more, which had not
been entered on his books, as the checks by
which they rad been paid had not been re-
turned to him from his bank. Matthews
was subjected to a very long and searching
cross-examination, the apparent object of
which was to trace some Of his payments
through Cottel to the Secretary of the Navy,
but the witness most positively denied that
the Secretary Of the Navy had any interest
In the payments or any knowledge of them
whatever.
Washington advices of the 9th inst, state
that Clymer's committee has now entered
upon another subject entirely foreign to any
thing connected with the War Department,
on examining into the matter, which touches
the Department of Justice, the Interior De-
partment and prosecutions at st. Louis. A
witness has been called before the commit
tee ostensibly to give some testimony con-
corning a post leadership for which he had ap-
piled. This testimony was not of the slight
est Importance, and after two or three min
utes examination the committee entered on
a line of questions that brought out the SEN
atorial testimony of which so much has been
said. Clymer has no power to report this
evidence if objection is raised in the House.
Clymer's committee seem to have no pur-
pose except that Of the Irishman-"When
you see a head hit it."
The following particulars of the disaster
on the river Dee recently at Aberdeen, has
been received: The day was a Sacramento
fast day, set apart by the Scotch Church for
preparation for the Sunday Communion.
The people celebrate it as a holyday, and
crowds were crossing from Aberdeen to