Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-17

THE DISTRICT COMMITTEE WILL REPORT



The House committee on the District of CO.
lumbia held a meeting today and compared
notes as to the causes which led to the defeat of
the Dill to provide form of government in
tne DlStr1ct OF Columbia. 1t was the unani-
nous opinion OF the members that the proper
sloners and the members of the council was
the MAN cause Of its defeat, although there
WEI We're @ votes cast against it because of the so
annually by the United States for its share of
the expenses of the District.
ne committee at this mornings meeting
which prescribes property qualifications, and
also the section with reference to the impOSi-
tl9n OF poll tax.
Representative Blackburn is somewhat in
dlgnant over the defeat of the bill. He says
tnat various officials to be legislated out of
pace by the bill have been sitting up at nights
10 lay plans to defeat it; that all the boards
that we've to be swept out of existence opposed
n solely on that personal ground. He thinks
that II there had not been roll-call vote that
the Dill would have passed, but that when
VINO mad a close district voted against the bill
though fear that an Affirmative vote might
nave leopardized his re- e-electiOn in view of the
GoItt oGlnm ht under which the District unhappily
The committee directed Gov. Hendee to ask
permission of the House to again report the
winch has been set aside for the consideration
OF District business. 1t will, however, require
unanimous consent to bring the bill in at Fri
DAY nights session, because when the session
was ordered Gov. Hendee said he would not
call up the bill. He then, however, antici-
pated that the bill would pass before that time.
In view OF his disappointment in that antici-
patton, he will report it on Friday night if the
House consents to it.
That COnkIinG Interview.
Senator" said representative of THE
STAR to Mr.. COnkling this morning, 'yOu
have seen the reported interview with you.
as published in the New York World from its
correspondent at Utica; is it all Straight?''
NO, have not seen it, and cannot give an
answer till do responded the Senator from
New York; But have this moment re
me that columns OF a reported conversation
with me have appeared in the World and
that is the first information on the subject that
has reached me. Before having seen the arti-
it; but l can very frankly say that from the
tenor and spirit of the interview, as briefly
outlined by some of my friends, it is impoSSi
pie Tor me to remember when | have commit
ted myself to any such utterances. If / have
been correctly informed, the article purports
and afterward written out to some
party in Utica. Now, have not been at home
1or many months, except on a briefviSit on the
conversation then on political questions, and
| nave not expressed myself politically to any
friends in eXtenSO for a long time. You are
therefore at liberty to state that l cannot re-
call any circumstances within the past few
months to warrant any such interview as |
learn has been attributed to me, and feel per
1ectly sure that if there should turn out to be
some plauSlbility in portions of it, some one
TO me unknown Just now, has been guilty of
petraylng private conversation