The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-07
MINT AssocIated Press Report.

The Star says there Is nothing Of in
terest to report about the speakership
race to-day. Members arrive slowly
and il will be the middle Of next week
before very accurate estimate of the
strength of any of the candidates can
be arrived at.
The Star also has the following on dill
of other days: Colonel Lewis Porter,
assistant postmaster at Washington
City, has been removed, or rather he
has resigned In accordance with an in
timation that such action would be ac-
ceptable to the authorities.
1t appears that certain testimony adj
duced before n committee of the Forty
Second congress reelected upon CO rtain
business operations OF Porter, In con-
neetion with Ex-Governor Bullock, of
Georgia. Judge Key invited the at
tention of Judge Edmunds to the re-
cord, and Edmunds requested Porter
to step down and ont, and he did.
Senator Patterson yesterday avoided
arrest, and shrewd lawyers to-day, had
all set to postpone u writ Of habeas
corpus hearing until two days after
congress meets, when 1t is thought
Patterson, as senator, will be beyond
reach of the requisition.
There has been some delay hence
south from the recent storm. Repairs
are completed and through sleepers to
New Orleans by Kenesaw and Virginia
midland route are restored.
Later-Chief Justice Carter, having
last night issued warrant on the
requisition' Of the governor OF South
Carolina for the arrest Of Senator }. j.
Patterson, the arrest was made soon
thereafter, but not ut the residence of
the senator, by the marshal. When
it was ascertained that the senator was
not at home, his counsel, Messrs. Shell
labarger, Wilson, Cook and Charles
Pelham, attorneys OF this city, how
ever, knew of his whereabouts and ac'
cordingly prepared petition for a
writ OF ha6eas corpus in advance of
the service of the writ for arrest by
the marshal.
When all the preliminaries for the
petition of q writ of hdbedS corpus
were completed, the marshal was
informed of the locality Of the
senator, and Immediately thereafter
made the arrest. His counsel at once
applied to Judge Humphreys for a
writ OF hdbeaS corpus, the petition be-
ing based on the following grounds:
First-That Senator Patterson was
regularly elected senator Of the Uni
ted States in 1872, and came to the dis
trict of Columbia and has remained
here in the discharge OF his duties |;
that during the interval, from that
period to the present, he has visited
South Carolina several times, but that
he has committed no crime In that
state, and that he has continued to re-
side here temporarily az a senator, aud
therefore it cannot be said in the terms
of the requsition that he Is a fugitive
from justice.
Second-The terms of the court In
which the indictment was found was
not the regular term OF the court, was
not held at the time and place author
lied ty law, and consequently the
finding is of no validity and tie In.
dictment ON which the requlsition wa
founded void.
Judge Humphreys issued the writ o.
hdbeas corpus, addressed to the coro'
ner, who servei 1t on the marshal
demanding that he produce the bod
OF Senator Patterson. The marshal II
obedience to the writ delivered TIN
prisoner, there being present, smonI
others, Mr.. Richburg, agent for tn
state Of South Carolina, who brough
hitber the requlsition for Patterson
who Is charged with the crimes Of con
spiracy to bride members Of the g.ner
al assembly, and counselling and pro
curing Miles q. Parker TO comml