The Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (New Albuquerque, N.M.) 1882-1884, 1884-02-27
IoI. Having concluded the considera-
ton of the second section the committee
rose and the House adjourned.
washington Gossip.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 26.-At a
meeting of the Committee on Banking
and Currency, Buckner moved to substi-
tute his bill, providing for the issuance of
treasury notes to take the place of bank
notes, for all bills concerning bank circu-
lation that have been considered by the
committee. Substitute rejected by vote
of 8 too The committee by vote of 5
to 4 authorized Wilkins to report to the
House the MCPHERSON bill as it passed
the Senate
Stephen Lolg, colored, testified before
the Danville committee. He was in
hardware store the day before the fight
and saw two men loading about Izs
double-barreled shot guns. Went to an
other hardware store and there found
white men loading double barreled guns.
Rufus Hatchett. colored, heard a white
man say in the postof6ce: 'White folks
are going to rule this town, if we have to
kill all the niggers."
Con6rmations-Hor c. Burchard,
Ills, Director of the Mint; Eugene o.
Feschet, Consul at Paso del Norte;
Daniel B. Dyer, Kansas, agent of the
Cheyenne and Arraphoe Indians in the
Indian Territory; Henry w. lawson,
Texas, apent to the Indians in the Qua
pard agency, Indian Territory.
The House Committee on Invalid PEN
sions agreed to refort favorably Repre-
sentative Watson's bill increasing the
pensions to widows and dependent pa
rents Of deceased soldiers and sailors
from So to $I2 per month.
Phelps, N. ]. will report back to-mor-
row from the Committee on Foreign
Affairs the resolution of inquiry of Rep
rescntative Brumm as to whether a minis
ter of any foreign power had endeavored
to nullify the effect of the unanimous
resolutions of the House by reflections on
the honor and integrity of its members.
The report will state that the committee
could find no evidence and asks
to be discharged from further
consideration of the subject. The
presentation of this report is looked for
ward to with interest owing to the proba-
bility that the occasion may be used by
either Hewitt or Belmont to transfer to
the floor OF the House the personal con-
troversy waged between them last week
In the committee room. In the conten-
ton other gentlemen named may be
brought into lively debate.
Speaker Carlisle has received letter
addressed to him personally by several
of the most prominent members of the
Liberal party in the German Reichstag,
expressing their high sense of apprecia-
ton for the action taken by the House
of Representatives as token of respect
for the memory of the late Herr Las
ker. The letter expressed the hope that
the two nations may develope and con-
tinue friends. Among other signatures
are those of V. Bunsen, who visited
America during the past summer, and
Frederick Kopp, formerly lawyer in
New York, members of the Executive
Committee of the Liberal party.
Ex-Marshal Turner, Alabama, was be-
fore the House Committee investigating
expenditures in the Department of Justice
to-day and was cross-examined by the
committee. He protested against the
cross-examination by the examiners ofthe
department who were present, and said if
he had them in Alabama he would have
them all in the penitentiary. He exhib-
tied two affidavits from persons who de.
MED having made certain affidavits that
the examiners held.
Commissioner Loring laid before the
President the report ofthe commission ap-
pointed to examine the swine industry of
the United States. 1t is emphatic in the
statement that there is no condition sur
rounding the industry which tends to
propagate disease, or render pork un-
healthful.