, 1880-04-18
The Man Found Who Claims
to Have Started the
Negro Exodus.
He Is Of Color, His Name Single
ton, and He Resides in
Kansas.
A Successful Bond-Swind1e Prac-
ticed upon the Treasury.


THE INDIAN BILL.
Special Dispatch to Ihk Chicago IrtbfsH&-
WASHINGTON, D. G., April 17-The House
to-day passed the Indian Appropriation bill
and agreed to the amendment which abol.
ishes the Board of Indian Commissioners
and repeals all the laws under which that
Board has acted; There was no debate Of
any consequence, the subject having been
exhausted. The proposed transfer of the
| Indian Bureau to the War Department was
ruled out Of order yesterday.
THE LITTLE DEFICIENCY BILL
was called up under the management Of Mr..
McMahon, and was sent to conference. The
contest over the disputed points between the
two Houses will therefore come up in con-
ference.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Mr.. Manning finally carried the day in the
Elections Committee and succeeded in secur-
ing. the appointment Of Special Committee
of seven to investigate the authorship Of the
anonymous letter sent to Springer. The in-
vestigation is nominaIly to be made at the re-
quest Of Donnelly to yindicate his character
practically. It seems that it is device Of
Manning's spite. Springer himself did not
vote for the resolution in Committee or in the
House, nor did he oppose 1t. He himself is
satisfied with the Investigation which he
practically conducted on the floor OF
the House in connection with his per-
sonal explanation, and he does not
think there is anything more to investigate,
as he believes that any one can see that the
handwriting in the two letters, the anony-
nous letter and the one written by Finley, is
the same. Finley and Donnelly claim, on
the contrary, that the anonymous letter and
Finley letter have been submitted to experts,
who declare that they were not and could
not have been written by the same person.
Manning is very firm in his purpose. and In
tends to make detihit issue with Springer
He maintains that he will be able to sustain
his charge Of dupncity: against Springer.
Nobody stopped to inquire what right the
man who is not a member Of the House, and
who, according to the vote OF the Elections
Committee, Is not entitled to be; neither did
anybody inquire by what right the House Of
for such q purpose. Probably not half
dozen members of the House believe that it
requires an expensive Congressional inyesti-
cation to determine the character Of Mr..
9onnelly Pom s11y1oe OF Ms Finley either, nor
either Is subject which concerns the House
Of Representatives In its official capacity.
Many believe that Mr.. Finley:
WROTE THE ANONYMOUS LETTER.
But, What if he did ?n The Democratic
members Of the Elections Committee one and
Donnelly inspired it, because Finley wv was a2 act.
ing as his counsel. But what Of that
Donnelly has been ruled out OF court by the
Elections Committee, only four members Of
which could be found to vote that he was en-
many Democrats and all the Republicans
voted against him; but Mr.. Manning seems
determined to ruin Mr. Springer politically
il he caa, The bitterness Of his feeling
toward that gentleman is well described by
Mr. Springer, openly, dozen times to-day.
Re describes the Charm an of his Committee
az IAN jlnpostor in the camp OF gentlemen"
MI, Malnlng, it may be observed, is III the
styles tire Washington correspondents Of
newspapers
A "nAND OF AssAs1Ns."
II Mr.. Manning's ideas were half as power
tul as his language, he would be nearly ire
sistlble; but Mr. Manning Is not alone in his |
warfare upon Chairman Springer. 4 ma
}eFX Of tne nfmocTac members n Gf the
hope so to smirch MIR. Springer that he will |
pc obliged to retire from the head Of the |
!; Clom1nittee. One.of them remarked to-day:
= Springer never ought to have been made
has got tho Senatorial fever, and cannot be
upon.n
The Republicans generally appear to SYM
path1ze with Mr. Springer, whose manly
course ours in this matter has greatly surprised
Der Ut the House to TRIBUNE correspondent
yesterday: "Itwould be strange If Springer's
lrst act OF political decency should be lis |
,uin. He would certainly make up his mind
nat virtue In Democrat don't pay"
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