The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-25
The Galleries Of the Senate Packed
with an Audience who Enjoy u
Laugh at MOrtOn'S Expense.
"A Majority and Minority Report
on the Texas and Pacific
Railroad Bill.
Interest on SI0,OOO,OOO Bonds Ceases In
April-Teegraph Receivers Before
the Privilege Committee -HaIIett
KllbOurnc's Damage Suit Called
Committee Notes and city Gossip.

Committee Notes and city Gossip.
WASHINGTON, January 24.--Tht
John L. Cook public school, for coloreC
children, burned to-day. Loss $4,000
The interest on SlO,OOO,OOO bonds OF
the $40 series, of March and Novem.
Der, 1865, ceases on the oath of April.
The suit OF Hallett Kllbourne VS..
Michael G. Kerr and others, for Sl5,.
900 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 ii, and it will require a
two.thirds vote to reach it this session.
Telegraph receivers of several offices
in New York and Philadelphia were
before the committee on privileges and
powers to-day. They know that Ger.
tain parties had sent aud received
messages, but remember nothing def d.
nitely as to the contents. The object
of the examination seems to be u
check on the messages delivered by
the companies.
Nash Reiteraics an Attempt was Made
10 Bny Him 10 Vote for TiIden.
w. b. Nash, a State Senator and
Presidential elector of South Carolina
testified before the committee on priv
ileges and elections, in open session,
that Mr. Childs, president of the First
National Bank at Columbia, sent II
servant for him NASH, At the inter
view Mr.. Childs offered him ten thou
sand dollars cash, aud forty thousand
dollars contingent, il he would vote
for Iilden; and twenty thousand dol
lars, to come from merchants and law
yCrs of Charleston, il he would favor
the seating OF the Laurens and Edge
field delegations.
The opponents to the Texas and Pa
ciiic Railroad bill Of the committee
are Messrs. Lynde, Garfield, Kasson
and Blair. They presented minority
report of the House, to be made u
special order, which requires two
thirds vote. Colonel Lamar, chairman
of the committee, made an elaborate
report in favor OF the road, which is
greatly praised by the friends Of the
measure.
LADS First InstalIment on the Mis-
sissippi Jettlcs.
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, 1915, which directs that
officer TO issue bonds bearing five per
cent. interest TO the amount of five
million dollars to James b. Eads, on
account of the construction Of the Jet
ties at the south pass of the Mississippi
river. The Secretary of the Treasury
saws he has received from the Secre-
tary of War requisition for the
money, and he respectfully recon-
mends an appropriation of $5,0OO,O0O
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 expenses, when
there is money in the treasury which
can be appropriated for that purpose.
congregational Proceedings.
House: Speeches were made on the
resolution passed by the committee on
privileges by Mr.. McDill,o 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 80 far as to fixing rates Of trans
portation, was reported aud referred to
the committee on the whole.
The resolution for the appointment
of select committee on the use Of
troops in the South to influence elec-
tons was adopted after discussion, In
which the proposed mode of procedure
was characterized AZ Indecent, and
against the proprieties and etiquette of
official life.
During the debate Mr.. Watterson, of
Kentucky, intimated that impeach-
ment proceedings against the Presi-
dent had only been prevented early in
the session by the opposition OF what
WAS termed the Confederate element.
Con.lIng and BayRrd Championing
the Electoral Bill.
Senate: When the consideration
of unfinished business was reached the