The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-11-17


been run without money.
To which Blackburn, OF Kentuek,
replied that for that act an expiani
ton would sooI be demanded.
Foster challenged Inquiry and n
marked that when it came the pespt
would be treated 10 rare show.
Biac6hurn replied that the sho,
~onit be condemned by the bette
part OF the people.
An Amendment was offered by Hook
er, of Mississippi, providing that n
money should be expended in sendin
any part OF tie army into auy state 70
The purpose of suppressing insured
ton or protecting the peace, unless oil
application of the legislature OF COVER
nor of sach state.
Garfield, of Ohio. attacked thi
amendment as one intended TO shael,l,
the president, and which, il (, ha.
been on the statute book in ISgO
would have neld the hands Of the exc
eutive and destroyed the government
de did not mean 10 imply that ther,
was ally such OF ject iD view now, hn
the proposition AT this time was calcu
lated to alarm the country.
Hooker disclaimed having any othei
Intention than that OF preventing the
army being used for political purposes
and reminded Garfield that the sub.
stance of the provision was enacted In
1857, and appeared in the revised stat.
/ ates OF 1872.
/ MIR. Speaker Randall took the floor
III response to one of Garfieid'r remarks
about the army being left to stsrve,
and threw back the responsibility upon
the president, whose province il was
10 have called an extra session of con-
gress Immediately on his inausura-
( tion.
Goods, Of Virginia, made q strong
speech against Hooker's amendment.
ln which he expressed the trust and
confluence which the people of the
south, and especially Of Virginia, had
imposed in Hayes.
Similar sentiments were expressed
by Ellis, Of Louisiana.
When the question came to A dlyi,-
ion, there were tut thirty eight demo-
cratic votes in its favor. The republic
cans waited for ali the rest of the
democrats TO vote, intending, if there
was a democratic msjority Ia favor OF
II, to have yea and nay vote in the
house but the democrats cheekmated
that game snd voted it down them
selves, the republicans then joining
and voting in the same way.
General Thomas A. Spence, assist
ant superintendent Of the railway ser.
vice, Is dead.
AT the meeting of the committee ON
privileges and elections 10 be held ON
Monday next the following resolution
will be submitted by Senator Howe. OF
Massachusetts:
ReS0tUed, That after hearing such
te"aehee as the committee shall deem
competent, the com M ittee will renort
4 10 upon the
! Following questions: First, were the
| persons holding certificates froa the
| returning board alone eutitIed to vote
ln the election of senator at the time
| heIiogg claims TO have been elected .
second, can any subsequent events
| siiset the legality OF an election held
on the 18th of January, 1877; third
did The returning board act frandu.
iehtiy IN determining the question To
| whom they should issue certificates 4:
ionrth, whether the persons who voted
in the election of Kellogg were such
( persons as would have been In fact en-
titled To have seats in the respective
houses ia fair and just trial and de.
cision of each case on Its merits.
The republican senators were in
caucus from to $50 D. IN. The
result has not traDspired beyond that
1t appears TO have been family talk
with ne party in a majority on any
topic.
1t is impossible to obtain exac, in.
formation Of the proceedings of the re-
publican senate caucus beyond that No
action was taken that binds any mem
bers. Senator Conkling was there
but this king of the caucns is de.
throued.
Since the bill introduced by Mr.
Waddeii 20 abolish the western Unite,
Stetes district of North Carolina. th,
people are asking, through the sena
tors and members of congress from
that state, to have a congressional in
vestigation OF the officials OF that dis
rict, or ask the president to remov,
them rather than abolish the district
An investigation is pending agains
Collector Young OF the Fourth Nortt
Carolina collective district.
| WASHINGTON, November Eth,
comm,ttee on privileges and election
have appointed q committee of two I.
wait on Kellogg and Spofford and Sc
how the contestants would agree re
garding the range Of testimony.
Il 1t is authoritatively denied that th
Louisiana senatorial contest as con
sidered in the republican caucus SatuI
day night.
In tie house this morning the cor
sideration OF the army bill was rs
sumed.
In the senate, Mr.. ConklIng, Of Ne,
York, arose to a. personal explanatio
and referred to the publication, Frida
last, in the New York Herald, lul
porting in some general sense TO com
from him. 1t did not profess TO be
report literally of anything said b
him, but professed to be the narra.iy
of private conversation, and It di,
I claims accuracy. As generally read,
J seemed TO have been accepted as som,
D thing which had become TO he know
I as an interview. Mr.. ConkIing sal
that he desired to state that for som
, months he had not held an iutervie
: for publication with any one, save
: one instance, and then in regard ,
the usefulness and services here of III
:. dead Senator Morton from Indians
in all other instances he had decIins
Z TO be interviewed. The Heraid'- star
3 ment contained some remarks hie
I he had made in casual conversation
9 times. 1t contained other remarD
e which he had never made at any tim
d 1t ascribes to him forms of expressis