Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-05
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. HOUSE lJKGISLATI()N. Another Set Back for the Appro-
 priation Bills. THE DONNELLY- -WASHRURNE CASE. An interesting Row Among the
 Democrats. THE O'LEARY BELT CONTEST. Opening of & Remarkable
 Walking Match.
THE OLEARY BELT CONTEST
Opening of a Remarkable
 Walking Match.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

| A Democratic ROvv--Springer's Action
 tn tue DOnneIly-Washburn Contest | --A Charge of Bribery--Ezts Demand l for am Investigation Prospect for she Appropriations.
 | WASHINGTON, April 4.-The regular order
 in the House tomorrow will be the call of
 States for bills for reference, but it will proba-
 bly, be interrupted by personal explanation 1 by MT. Springer, of Illinois, and demand
 for an investigation of the charge that bribe
 of $5,000 was offered him to vote not to seat l Donnelly in tha Washburne contest. MT.
 Springer will make a complete and absolute
 denial of the charges that he was at all in l fuenced in the vote he gave by any offer l This matter has created 8 sensation among the Committee on Elections, who are taking 1 sides for against Springer. MT. Manning,
 who 1t is said inspired the publication in re- l gard to the matter, has stated that he did not
 wish to be understood as charging Springer
 with having ben influenced by the offer of a
 bribe, but he does charge him with duplicity
 and bad faith. He asserts that Springer had 1 agreed to sign the report of the majority l of the sub committee to unseat Wash
 burne, and to seat DonnelIy. On
 the other hand, Springer and his | friends say that no such promise was made | but that ever since the testimony has been examined and arguments have been in he in- | tended to vote just as he did vote. Springer's l friends are also intimating that if an investi- I gation is ordered they will be able to show l that an anonymous letter stating that Mrs. l Springer would receive present of $2, 900 if | her husband voted to seat Donnelly was written at the instigation of Donnelly or his friends hot khaTy 1rnv ha uyo4a fo Donnelly and that they thought they would l try the dodge of writing letter. The affair has caused great deal of excitement, espec- l ially in Democratic circles, and it is the sub l ject of conversation in the hotel lobbies and | in other public places.
 After the calling Of States tomorrow mo- tions will be made to suspend the rules, pref erence to be given to individual members. Hence it will be impossible to get up the ap- propriation bill until Tuesday next. The bill to be taken up is that making appropriations for the army and navy. It will not take long to pass it as 1t came from the Committee on Appropriations, but if an attempt is made to put rider on it, as is threatened, the Repub-
 licans will resist it and long discussion will be inevitable.
 EiIden,s Strength in PennsyIvaniao WASHINGTON, April 4-The Washington Post will contain the following tomorrow in relation to the status of Pennsylvania Dem ocrats
 ''The reports sent out from Washington to New York papers to the effect that of the dele gates already elected to the Pennsylvania
 State convention large majority favor Tilden, are unreliable and untrue. Of the 251 dele gates of which the convention will be con-
 posed, 180 up to Saturday night had been
 elected Of this number IFS are known to be opposed to Tilden, the remaining 52 being
 conceded to him although not all of them are
 pledged or instructed.
 Democratic EIoquence With Negroes.
 WASHINGTON, April 4.-E. J. Murrell, a
 colored ex member of the Louisiana Lsgis-
 lature, was examined by the Exodus Commit
 tee yesterday. He said towards the latter part
 of November, just prior to the Louisiana State
 election, armed bands of white men rode
 through Madison parish in squads of twenty five or fifty, intimidating and whipping the ne groes. One of the Democratic leaders, dis
 trustful of Murrelrs ability to persuade the
 negroes, remarked that there was ''more elo- quence in 8 double-barrelled shot gun than in forty Ciceros." The Democrats carried the parish by 2,300 majority, as reported, but Murrell believed that not over 360 votes were actually cast, and that not more than eighty colored men voted in the parish. He said that there were some Democrats in the State men who were whigs before the war, who are in clined to treat the negroes well and that the bulldoZers are men who have no interest in the welfare of the people, but Hive on peanuts and sweet potatoes and kill niggers."