Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-03
TELEGRAPHIC.
Items About the White House New
Year Receptions.
Senator Thurman Writes to the Blaine
Investigating Committee.
Gold in Slow Demand at the Be
ginning of Resumption.
$4,000 Stolen from the Government
Printing Office.
The Country Glides Into Specie Re
sumption Without an Effort.
WASHINGTON.

usual official receptions to-day were
all well attended. The Executive
Mansion was thronged with visitors
and the residences of the Cabinet
officers, members of the diplomatic
corps and many prominent citizens
were places of very great attrac-
tion. The reception at the Execu-
tive Mansion began at IL a. m, the
first visitors being members of the
diplomatic corps. No one belonging
to the British legation was present,
as that legation is in mourning on
account of the death of Princess
Alice. For the same reason Sir
Edward Thornton did not receive
callers to-day.
Secretary Sherman and General
Sherman were also prevented from
receiving their friends, because Of
the death in Ohio last evening of
their brother Judge Chas. T. Sher-
man the father of Mrs. Don Cam
eron. The blue parlor at the Ex-
ecutive Mansion in which the recep-
tion was held presented a magnIfi-
cent appearance. Prominent among
the diplomatic callers were the mem
bers of the Chinese legation in full
court costume. At one o'clock, after
the regular official reception was
ended, the gates at the White
House were thrown open to the
general public. A snow storm pre-
vailed throughout the day.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The fol-
owing explains itself:
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. l, 10.
% To Hon. II. N. Teller, Chairman
Of the Select Committee Of InUes>
tigation:
DEAR SIR: l have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt of yours
of the 21st ult. enclosing a copy of
the resolution adopted by your
committee, requesting me to furnish,
il writing, such facts and such evil
dence as may be in my possession
touching the matter involved in the
amendment made, on my motion, to
the resolution under which the COM
mittee is acting. Of course the
committee does not suppose that the
matters embraced in that amend
ment are within my personal knowl-
edge, or that of any one man.
They relate to the elections in every
part of the Republic, and the alIega-
tions are, for the most part, to be
found in the public press. In open
ing his speech in support of his
resolution, December 11th, the
Senator from Maine distinctly
stated that the resolution was
based on the account given in the
press. Well the press has teemed
with statements which, if true, re-
quire the investigation proposed by
my amendment, and, as have no
doubt that the members of the com
mittee read the newspapers quite as
diligently as l do, it is probable they
know where to look for the sources
of information as fully as / do; and,
as they are charged with the re-
sponsibility of making the investi-
cation and 1 am not, l beg leave re-
spectfully to say that l take no
part of it upon my shoulders.
Nevertheless, as the amendment was
offered in perfect good faith and
with the firm belief that the mat
ters it embraces require investiga-
tion quite as much as the matters
contained in the original resolution,
it will be proper for me, especially
since the committee has requested it.,
to furnish such information touching
the subject as may from time to
time come under my observation.
l therefore send herewith "ilstall-
ment No. H. consisting of: First,
an editorial article cut from this
mornings Washington Post; second,
copy of petition of sixty odd
citizens of New York to the House
of Representatives complaining of
the illegal and oppressive conduct
of John I. Davenport and other
Federal officials at the late election
in New York city, and I am au-
thorized by the Hon. Fernando
Wood, who presented the petition,
to say that its statements are proved
by sundry afiidavits in his hands,
and that he will, if requested,
furnish the names of the atlantis
and other witnesses to the same
facts; third, copy of an opinion OF
Judge Friedman touching the rights
of certain naturalized citizens OF