The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-13
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The president pardoned Thomas II
Bergen, convicted OF making false Ell.
tries In the hooks OF national banks.
The house committee on fore ign
affairs are preparing bill for the dis
trlbution OF tho lnstallment paid by
Mexican awards,
Voorhees, desk was covered with
flowers.
General Lagrange, superintendent of
the San Francisco mint, has Ieslgned.
Major Ray Peylon succeeds Judge
Spence, deceased, In the postoilice do-
partmeEt MS epcoial examiner ofateam.
boat mail routes.
Conirmatlons--Marhlc, assistant at
torney general; Defrees, public print.
or; Stevens, OF Maine, minister 10
Sweden aud Norway; Payton, collec-
Cor of revenue, South Carolina; Ken.
meth Rsyner, solicitor OF the treasury;
Morphis, marshal OF the northern dis
trict of Mississippi Hunt, marshal OF
tho southern district OF Mississippi;
Crittebden, marshal for Kentucky;
Patterson, district attorney of southern
Florida Badger, district attorney OF
the eastern district of North Carolina
Warder, district attorney OF the middle
district OF Tennessee; Hooper, post
master ut Opelika.
In the senate, Booth was appointed
chairman of the committee ON pat
ents.
Jones, Of Florida, introduced bill
to receive and extend the provisions
of an act proven JuAe is, 1872, grant
ing the right of way through the pub.
lie land to the Pensacola and Louis
vile Railroad Company, of Alabama.
Referred TO the committee on public
lands.
BY Mr.. Conover: to provide for the
survey Of an inland water route and
canal from the Mississippi river to the
Atlantic ocean. Referred to the COM
mittee on transportation routes to the
seaboard.
The house passed the army bill to-
day without division. The amend
ment allowing four cavalry regiments
to he recruited to one hundred men for
each company, and to be stationed IN
Texas, was agreed to. An amendment
limiting the staff officers to the rank
and pay of the regular army grades
wasrejected.
In the course OF the discussion Mr..
Hewitt, OF New York, charged the
secretary of war, General Sherman
aud the adjutant general with want of
frankness and concealment of facts
regarding enlistment. The members
on the republican side replied to the
charges and defended the high reputa.
tlOu OF THESE OlucialS.
Afterwards large number OF bills
were introduced and read.
The committee on public buildings
and grounds elected Edward Mercer,
of Atlanta, and S. McKeagh, OF Mem
phis, restaurateurs of the house OF rep.
resentatives. Colonel Mercer had
charge OF the southern restaurant at |
the centennial. There were seven bal
lots.
Senator Gordon introduced In the
senate to. day resolution that chime
of bells intended for ST. Michael
church, in Charleston, South Carolina,
be admitted to the country duty fee.
This chime of bells was presented to
the old colony of South Carolina by
the English crown during the revolu-
tionary war. They were captured and
sent to England, where they have re-
NAMED ever since. An English mer-
chant, whose name is not given, now
proposes to send the bells back to
South Carolina.
The neglect of the senate committee
on privileges and elections to take &C
tion on the South Carolina case is the
subject of much unfavorable comment |
here. The contestants, Butler and Cor
bin, have agreed on the scope of in
quiry and upon all the facts, 20 there
IL nothing further for the committee
to determine. The contestants are
both anxious for the matter to be acted |
upon, or recommitted to the senate for
action.
Ehe Quarantine Against Port Royal