The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-04-18
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ODDS AND ENDS.
WASHINGTON, April 17.-tPress l-Gen.
eral Terry will return to Fort Smelling to-
morrow. He has been in clnsultstion for
several days witch General Sheridan upon
the proposed concentration OF military
posts In the department of Dakota. Gen
eral Terry will propose estimates Tor the
extension Of Fort Smelling.
The treasury department to-day pur-
chased 100000 ounces OF silver Tor delivery
at Philadelphia and New OrleAu0 mints.
The house committee on eduction dc.
cIded to ask hat the Blair education bill
which recentlv passed the senate, be taken
from the sreaker's table and referred TO the
committee.
The postmaster.genoral was before the
committee on post-othces and post.roads to-
day by invitation to givs views respecting
the proposed revision Of the matter OF COM
penHating railroad companies for carrying
mails. The bill prepared by the commits.
sion appointed to perfect the new plan OF
compensation was discussed The post
master.ge aeral said IL was a good bill, but
he Expressed The oninion that the rates Of
compensation named in IL were too high.
AT the meeting to-day Of the house COM
mittee on law respecting the election OF a
president and yice-president, the propo-
sition to limit TO twelve months
the time during. which cabinet
OmCpTS may DcIIOIll tio VI htoiacb
was acted upon favorably. 1t provides IL
the duties of the presidency fail upon a
member of the cabinet more than twelve
months before tho next ensuing presidential
election he shall isaus o proclamation for O
special election.
Seaman Norris was cross-examined t)-day
before the Jeanette committee, ana said
during the retreat he had seen Lieutenant
Dananhouer boarding food, and heard him
gay il the worst came to worst he intended
to leave the party and escape on his W
account; upon being asked II there way any,
thing else he would like TO testify to, wit
mesa asked that the | dies leave the room,
while he should repent certain abusive and
indecent words addressed TO him on one
occasion by Melville. The request was
granted and the language repeated to the
committee, but entirely too low and filthy
for publication:
stand and testified TO the conversations he
had n Siberia with Jackson correspondent OF
the Kew York Herald; all he told him then
was true, but he had sincs changed his
views with regard to many things he then
talked with Jackson about.
Representative Beach was instructed to-
day by the house committee on pupiic health
TO report q resolution authorizing tho COM
mittee TO Inquire into the extent and char
acter of adulterated God and drugs i'm
ported into the United States or ex-
ported thereirom. The resolution
provides the committee shall cit during the
summer recess.
day furnished the copy OF his charges
against General Swain, Gays this afternoon
that the So 900 dus Dill mentioned therein
having to-day been returned TO his hrm
and suit then based upon 1t by parties 10
whom it was transferred having been with
drawn. he has written the secretary OF war
as follows: a.
"DrAR SIR: Suit against our frm on the
due bill mentioned IN my charges ysster
dsv agoinst General d. G.. Swain having
been Withdrawn and differences be.
tween General Swain aud my
self satisfactorily settled, l hereby with
letter OF April 10th against said General
Swain, hs claiming they were made under
misapprehension of facts which concede.
fsirnedl IA. Il. BArEMAg."
The attorney general to-day sent the SEN
ate a letter concerning the action. OF the
superlntenpent OF justice in relation 10. faes
of special attorneys in the Star-ronte csse,in
which he says in part had IL bean originally
supposed that u Q case would occupy the tim
thew did probably the rate fixed would not
have been asket or given. When, however,,
the trial was tediously protracted ~ tae
nolfcy of the defense the sum total paid Tor
services. Bliss did appear excessive
and / accordingly urged some abatement
be made by him, as l did also TO other
counsel, Ker's bill I reduced, and Merrick
made reductions at my request, but Bliss
insisted upon full compliance with The re-
ouiremenis of the original contract, In one
iustnnce claiming 1t allowed him to ch irae
for arguments, q sum in excass OF
800 per dsy, which / refused 10
grant and on the 4th Of November,
1852 he wrote q letter threatening to With.
draw from the case If his account was not
paid. While the cases were In progress /
thourbt It ipjudicious to insist upon con.
cesslons which would bring about the with.
draval of Bias. don't think the amounts
received by Merrick and Ker excessive or
ont Of proportion TO that paid IN
a YES of even less magnitude bet ween
private parties. In the nr,t triai OF tne
snpeared ip court Us often as my other du'
ties would permit, followed the case with
oare from day to dav and made the closing
Argument before the court and jury. Two
Of the defendants were convicted on tne
first trial, but the irregulsrity q
inconerulty ,. o. !, np canv;ct the %oprsnisers
and general conspIrators, those who mace
The Whole gain and those who set on loot
the whole scheme to rob the government,
va % manifest that the verdict was set
ssids upon motion OF the government. On
the e0cono trial tneIe Wss al cepu,.ee:
The public men who were involved
In these cases were not on their trials be-
fore these juries alone. They were on their
trials before the people Of the United
States, n they we're convicted ev
the common Judgment OF the
whole country. Tney a-e not punish
ed BY Imprisonment but they had better
be in prison than now At large. objects OF
scoru aud aversion. These prosecutions
have not been without their usefulness,
either. have been informed
bv the post ofacs they. have
.sved the government 10 that
depar. rrent alone $4,000 0 per annum'
The ef>ct has been ., reier al ndventnr-
ers 10 thropg soont the departments In
Wsthington. s,me officials have assured
NE bsore these cases we're begun the halls
ofthepo-t-r flcs department were warming
with sbs dishonest joobsrs. They are
there 10 more, but the whcl some terror of
fhess trials hiss expelled them
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