The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-05
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
WHAT THE WIRES BRING US.
Washinaton.
NR. SPRINGER ACCEPTS.

lDy telegraph 10 the Dispatch
WASHINGTON, II. c., january 4.-Reprc-
sentative Springer. at the earnest solicita-
ton Of prominent Democrats both here and
in the state he represents, has concluded
| TO accept the positions on the House COM
mittees TO which he was assigned NY the
Speaker. He says he Is not unmindful OF
the fact that grca, injustice has been done
10 him and TO his constituents, but il Is not
for him 10 decide what positions he shall
ill on the committees, and he will there
fore accept the situation In good faith, and
will proceed with zeal TO discharge the
q 'ics assigned 10 him. His committee
will -, once institute thorough invests
cation Of the Department OF Justice. He
doyS not predict the result, except that ,he
whole truth shall be made known.
lie says he has no friends in the depart
ment 10 shield or enemies to expose. The
investigation, 80 far as he Is concerned,
will be non-partiSan and impartial, bur as
thorough rs il can possibly be made. His
committee will probably ask the House
soon after Congress reaSscmbles for au-
thority TO send for persons aud papers.
Mr.. Springer has been connected with Il
number Of Investigations in the past nine
years. In the first session Of the Forty
fourth Congress. ms chairman of the COM
mittee on the Department OF state he in
yeStigated the Offices OF United States con-
Suls abroad, and especially the charges
against Consul-General George +. Seward,
afterwards Minister 10 China. The inyeS-
tigation was continued four years, and a
witness was brought from China. II re-
suited in twelve articles OF impeachment
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Action on the articles was prevented
in the Forty-f!th Congress by fill
clustering. The Department Of state,
however, recalled Seward, then Min-
lister. As chairman Of the Sub-COm-
mittee on Foreign Relations, Mr.. Springer
Investigated the fraudulent Venezuela
claims. A subsequent Congress continued
the Investigations. and ut the last Congress
a bill was passed setting aside the awards
and providing for new commission to
audit the claims anew. He was also a
member Of the Potter Investigating Com
mittee in the Forty-iifth Congress. and a
member of the Subcommittee that went 10
Florida to investigate alleged frauds in that
State. III the proposed investigation in
the Department OF Justice the eXamna-
tons will be carried on openly, and those
who have limited at frauds will. Mr..
Springer says. be given an opportunity to
tell all that they know.
THE PENSION BILL.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., January At is
understood that the b-Committee on APP
preparations having in charge the pension
bill will recommend that the pension sur
plus OF the present fiscal wear, estimated
at from fifty to sixty million dollars. he
rcappI opriated. Members OF the sub-com-
mittee are Of opinion that about seventy
million dollars will be sufficient to meet
The demands of the Pension Bureau for
the next fiscal wear. and to secure this sum
will probably recommend all appropriation
OF about fifteen million dollars in addi-
ton to the reJppropriation OF the uncX-
pended balance.
DISGRACED.
Chaplain TouSsaint Mesp'ie, United
States army, who was found guilty OF du-
plicating his pay accounts, will he dismiss
ed from the service of the United states on
the 18th instant.