The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-01-27
commercial Men Continue TO Come 10
The Front In Behalf OF the
Elrct0ral-Caunt BIZ.
a Patriotic Measure which Has
Passed the Senate and is Now
Pending in the House.
An elector in South Carolina Tsstifies an
Attempt Was Made 10 Bribe Him to
Vote for Tilden-S Secretary
Robson viii Not be
Impeached.


Inc interest on SlO,OOO,OOO bonds Of
the 90 series, of March and Novem.
Der, 1865, ceases on the 2Ith of April.
The suit of Hallett Kilbourue Vs..
Michael G. Kerr and others, for SIS.
OOo damages, for Imprisonment by
Congress, was called to-day.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad bill
Is at the bottom of the calendar of the
committee on the whole. Thirty.four
bills precede If, and it will require a
tWo-thlrds vote to reach ii this session.
Telegraph receivers of several Offices
In New York and Philadelphia were
before the committee OF privileges and
powers to-day. They know that Ger
tain parties had sent and received
messages, but remember nothing def.
nitely rs to the contents. The object
OF the examination seems to he a
check on the messages delivered by
the companies.
Prohibition Of Troops Within Tue
Miles Of Polling Places.
The Judiciary Committee Of the
House have ageeed To report the bill
pr -hibiting troops within two miles
OF polling places ten days before OF on
election day.
The committee also reported that ar
iieies of impeachment ought not to
ee reported against Secretary Robesop.
General Eckert, president OF the
Atlantic and a;iiic Telegraph Com
pany. before the Committee on Priyi.
leges and Powers, said he would pro-
cuce all dispatches called for. None
had been destroyed, To his knowledge.
The committee TO examine into the
New York postoflice conclude their re-
port, stating that any su. picion or
charge Of tsmpering with tie mails Is
utterly baseless.
| The Presidear~ View. rn-n.nrea
With Regard TO Louisiana Matters.
Colonel Burke, of New OrIeaDs-
called on the President to- DAY, and pre-
scented brief of the Law and facts
concerning the Supreme Court of
Louisiana There is no change In
the Presidents views with regard to
the situation.
Nash Reiteraies an Atte1pt wa. Made
Ia Huy Him 70 vsfe for TiIden.
| W. b. Nash, State Senator aud
Presidential elector of South Carolina.
testified before the committee on priy-
iieges and elections, in open session,
That Mr.. Childs, president of the First
Natiobai Bank at Columbia, sent a
servant for him NASH. AT the inter
view MIR. Childs offered him ten thou
sand dollars cash, and forty thousand
dollars contingent, II he would vote
for Iiiden; aud twenty thousand dol
lars, TO come from merchants and law
yors OF Charleston, il he would favor
the seating of the Laurens and Edge
field delegations.
The opponents to the Texas and Pa
chic Railroad bill of the committee
are Messrs- Lynde, Garfield, Kasson
and Blair. They presented a minority
report of the House, to be made a
special order, which requires two
thirds vote. Colonel Lam ar, chairman
OF the committee, made al elaborate
report in favor of the road, which il
greatly praised by the friends of the
measure.
Eads' First InstaIumen, on IN. Mis-
sissiPpf JeitIe.-
In the Senate the chair laid before !
the Senate communications from the !
Secretary Of the Treasury, calling the !
attention OF Congress to the act of the !
Sd of March, 1875, which directs that
officer to issue bunGs bearing five Der
cent. interest to the amount of five
million dollars to James b. Eads. on
account of the construction of the let |
ties at the south pass of the Mississippi
river. The Secretary Of the Treasury /
says he has received from the Score |
tary OF War requisition for the |
money, and be respectfully RECON-
mends an appropriation Of 5000 600 |
Immediately to pay said James b. !
Eads. 1t Is not wise, in the opinion Of /
the secretary, to increase the interest
bearing debt of the United States for |
the payment of current ex penses, when /
there is money in the treasury which I
can be appropriated for that purpose, /
Congressional Proceedings
House: Speeches were made on the !
resolution passed by the committee ON /
privileges by Mr.. NcDill, of Tennessee. /
in favor. The resolutions went over
without action.
A bill extending the time for the
completion of the Northern Pacific
and for amending the Texas Pacific,
acts SO far As to fixing rates of trans
portAtion, was reported andreferred to
the committee on the whole.
The resolution for the appointment
Of select committee on the use of
troops in the South to Influence eiec-
lions was adopted after discussion. In
which the proposed mode of procedure
was characterized rs indecent, and
against the proprieties and etiquette Of
Official Life.
$50 -8 snS ocooSc w 4sLer8Ou. oil
Kentucky, intimated that impeacb.
ment proceedings against the Prrsi.
dent had only been prevented early in
the session by the opposition Of what
was termed the Confederate element
The Senate will remain In session
all night. No one doubts the Senate
will pass the bill,
Evening session-Mr. Bayard made
an elaborate argument in favor of the
bill. His splendid effort vas listened
to BY packed galleries. He advocated
the bill as q matter of patriotic neces
sity.
MT. Conkling presented q petition
numerously signed by the merchants
and business men Of New York, In
favor Of the passage of the psnding bill
In regard 70 the electoral count Laid
on the table. =