Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-24
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The President and the Investigat
ing Committee.
SUICIDE OF AN ARMY OFFICER
ACALI. FOR THE ORGANIZATION
OF A SILVER PARTY.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
SUICIDE OF AN ARMY OFFICER.
WASHINGTON. Jan. o,

eAAs ~
Glover, who introduced the investi
CATION resolutions in the House, had an
Interview with the President concern
ing the attitude of the Administration
toward the coming investigation. Mr..
Glover expressed himself as much
pleased with the n in which the
President met his views. He assured
the President that his object vas not
to make party capital, but to purify
the Government.
The Committee on Expenditures IN
the Treasury Department, of which,
Glover Is Chairman. later in the day
passed the following resolution: Re
solved, that the President be. and is
hereby requested to cooperate with
this committee. in the investigation %
the alleged abuses in the Treasury De.
partinept, and to issue an order neces
sary fort that purpose.
The Senate confirmed the nomination
Of Samuel C. Parks, of Illinois, as As
sociate Justice OF the Supreme Court oI
New Mexico, and the nomination 81
A. w. Roole as United States Marshal
for California. The Senate rejected the
nomination of Mike X. Wsldron, Ms
United States Marshal for Western
Tennessee. vics Eaton, resigned. Thi,
nomination has long i'een a matter %
earnest controversy. 1t was originally
made last October. but expiring with.
out action at the end OF last session
was renewed by the President on the
9th of December. The Judiciary Com
mTittee. on the 18th of December, re.
ported it adversely. and its considers
lion was postponed until the 10th in.
slant. 1t was then recommitted. and
yesterday was returned to the Senate
with q recommendation that it be re-
jected. 1t gave ri>e to . debate, and
IA finally rejected.
Capt. A. X. Long. Of the Commissa-
ry Department OF this post, commilted
suicide yesterday. He vent home nj
the usual hour in the afternoon. and
entered his wife's oon He had q
brief conversation with her. and imine.
diately afterwards passed into an ad
joining room and shot himself near
the heart, causing death almost imme.
diately.
A resolution adopted Monday night.
at q nesting OF ths members OF the
House, proposing an organization Ia
procure the RECOMMENDATION Of silver
and the repeal OF the Resumption act,
was circulated yesterday afternoon in
tho House for signatures, and many
were obtained.
Fraudulent Voting I'm Minaesoss.
ST. FAUL, Jan. 70.
The report Of the Grand Jury oil
Ramsey county q made yesterday.
II finds that systematic and enormous
frauds were committed In the registra-
ton Of voters for the November elec-
ton in 1877. by classifying the poll
books in the Office of the City Clerk. in
which q large number Of fictitious
N were skillfully and carefully
checked. as they would have been
checked had they actually voted at the
election in 1876. Of which these books
purported Ia be q true record. Nearly
500 of such fictitious anne were fourd
by the City Clerk, NJ. J.. O'Connor. and
the Assistant Clerk, w. j. O'Connor.
The Aldermen and the Judges Of the
election are severely censured. Several
indictments were found.
Acquitted or Drunkenness-The ar
yer Question In Maryland.
ANNAPcLIs, Md. Jan. %.
The trial of Judge George YeIIott,
Associate Judge Of the Fourth Judicial