The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Judiciary Committee OF the House of
Representatives have decided that articles Of
impeachment ought not to be preferred against
Secretary OF the Navy Robson. aa.
Senator Conkling's speech in support of the
electoral arbitration measure is pronounced by
his friends the greatest effort of his life.
The Texas Pacific and Northern Pacific
Railroad bills have been mutually defeated for
the session. They have been referred to the
committee Of the whole, where they will
sleep, unless two-thirds vote can be secured
to take them out of the committee, which is
not at all probable. Ha.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, in
the course of his remarks before the Ways and
Means Committee the other day, concerning
the pending bill amendatory Of the internal
revenue laws, expressed himself in favor Of
taxing deposits in private banking institutions
the same as deposits in national banks.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day issued
the thirty-eighth call for the redemption of
$1O,OO0,000 Of $40 bonds of 1866, May and
November. The principal and interest will
be paid on and after the Oath of April next,
and interest will cease on that day. The fol-
lowing are the descriptions of the bonds:
Coupon bonds, 300, Nos. 81, 351 to 25,5O8,
both inclusive; $500, Nos. 26,7O1 to $1,000,
both inclusive; $1,000, Nos. So, 401 to 70, $50,
both inclusive total, $2,000,OOO. Registered
bonds, $50, Nos. 301 to 400, both inclusive
300, Nos. 4, sol to $500. both inclusive; $500,
Nos. 1921 to 5000, both inclusive; $1,000,
Nos. 12,001 to 1880, both inclusive; $4,000,
Nos. 4, Isl to 800, both inclusive; $4,000,
Nos 8,201 to $500; total, $3,000,0O0.
J. B. Deberry. telegraph operator at ITALIA
hassee, Fla, was examined by theIHouse Com
mittee On Privileges last week, and, in reply
to the question, Do you remember any tele-
grams passing between z. Chandler and Gov.
Stearns between the 9th and 18th
of November ?" answered that the
first telegram of which he knew was from z.
Chandler to Gov. Stearns, and was in substance
as follows: We are absolutely sure of so
many electoral votes for Hayes (witness did
not remember the number) and we must
have Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida
by fair means or otherwise "--.he could
not give the exact language of Chan
der. Also telegraphed Gov. Stearns in sub
stance: "Send couriers to each county and Sc
cure returns-they must be made to show
majority for Hayes" T. Chandler
also telegraphed Gov. Stearns: ''William
E. Chandler leaves tonight for Phila-
delphia on important business" Between the
9Th and 18th of November, Frank r. Sherman,
engaged with Gov. Stearns handed him a
telegram for transmission signed by the latter,
and addressed to z. Chandler, in which men
ton was made of train containing courier
sent out for returns being Ku- kluxed, fol-
lowed by the remark We cannot carry the
State for Hayes ur.less we have troops and
money immediately These were not the ex-
act words, bat the substance. Secretary
Chandler denies that he ever wrote the dis
patches in question. 81.
Judge David Davis was ON the bench of the
Supreme Court when he received the intelli-
gence Of his election to the Senate from Hi
nois. To friends who called upon him after
the adjournment OF the court, and congratu-
lated him upon the result, he said he would
not resign his seat on the bench until the 4th
of March. at which date his Senatorial term
begins.
Thomas Settle. of North Carolina has been
appointed by the President United States Dis
trict Judge for Florida.
President Grant stated in convers alton, the
other day, that the condition of trade and
monetary relations Of the United States st
home aud abroad had reached that point which
would warrant an immediate resumption of
specie payments, and expressed the hope that
Congress would enact law looking to that
end. He thinks it would be feasible to resume
on the LIST of March. ~ etf4
The President has intimated that he will, un-
der no circumstances, recognize either of the
rival State Governments in Louisiana, pending
the settlement of the Presidential question,
which is 80 interviewer with that Of the State
election that the adjustment of one will carry
with it the other. In the event Of an outbreak