The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-12

rlne which was engaged In maki1g sce
| lions of land In The State nnlnwfully. llf
knew nothing Of the facts, but ron lii'
knowledge u tho persons roicrred " ne he
| lleyed there was no foundation Tor the State
ments. IN Justice ~ them ho would ihyoi
IN investigation Of the mntter. The rcs0lu'
ton was adopted.
Mr.. sherman moved TO take up his per
cent, bond bill
Mr.. MCPHERSON objected, and gave, notice
ofan amendment making bonds read pay
able after January /, 1891 instead Of pay
able after January /, 1887. y to extend the
time Of payment to thirty years from date
of issue.
Mr.. Plumb gave a notice of an amend
ment directing the use of all funds now
held in the Treasury for redemption Of
United States notes in excess OF $40, 900, OOO
for their redemption at 81 per cent
Mr.. Hoar obtaining leave to make state
ment, had read extracts from newspapers
which he had received in u letter of cor.
respondent. Ii asserted that as Chairman oil
the Senate Committee on Claims, Senator
Hoar was sending letters to Representatives
of Southern claims which have been presen-
ted to Congress, stating that the Republl-
cans in Congress are not opposed 10 inc
payment of Southern Claims, but, on the
contrary, as the payment OF
sending OF proofs, and alleged that
his course was an unusual one for
even a conservative Republican, lie said
he had not thus far in his political life felt
compelled TO contradict or explain any
ridiculous statement III regard TO himself,
but he had received so many letters from
interested parties concerning these claims
ne would NOW say he was not Chairman oil
the committee ON Claims and that
he d written no letter to war
rant any such statement and so
| far as he knew had written
none on the subject. 1t was probable that
in reply to a correspondent he had stated
that claims from any quarter would receive
due attention and consideration by the
proper COMMITTEE, and that as committees
we're in the habit of acting on such
things iudicially, the claimants had better
SEND their PROOF, but that he had written
nothing of the kind described in the ar
| ticle.
The calendar was then taken up and oc-
cupied the day,th morning hour being ex-
tended for its consideration.
Several resolutions, including one tor q
Woman's Suffrage Committee, were passed
over, because of the absence of Senators in
terested in them.
The resolution of December -, of
fered by Mr.. Davis, of West Vir-
ginia, relating to the pension frauds,
calling for statements OF their nature and
character and what an amount of arrears
had been paid, number of cases added to
the pension-roll, under the Arrears Act,
etc.. etc., next came up.
A discussion ensued on an amendment
offered by Mr.. Edmunds striking out the
direction to the Secretary OF the Interior to
report his opinion upon such legislation as
he thought advisable.
Finally the resolution, as modified by
4 IL 4 nrst ,.l f.,s2
I The Senate, at 3:45 p. M. went into ex-
ecutive session, and at 4:f5 adjourned UNI
til Monday.
NoMINATIONS.
| The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate to-day: Samuel Parks,
! of Wyoming, to be Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Wyoming; Joseph Bell,
| of New York, to be Associate Justice of the
Supreme. Court of Now Mexico.
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.
The House Committee on appropriations
met this morning and the following assign
ments of b-committees for the considera-
ton of regular appropriation bills were
made: Sundry Civil Expenditures-His-
cock, Butterworth, Blackburn; Navy
Robson, Ketchum, Atkins; Consular and
| plomatic-Burrows, Robson, Cox, Arm
field, Butterworth, Burrows, Ellis; Post
toffice-Caswell, Cannon, Ellis, Indians
RYAN, Caswell, LeFevre; Military Acad-
eny-Blackburn Ryan, Butterworth; For
tifications Ketchum, Ryan Dis
| trict of olumbia-Ketchum Hiscock, For.
ney; Defcency--H Robson, Cox.