The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-19

g., whom arrested and kept under ar
IesI untli after the polls closed. The,
agreed to pay their fare DO and fron,
Chicago and to pay them Slb eaeh :.
vote, took The arrested parties and
tritd to hnd the mon, but they were nni
TO be- found.r "N'o A''
"a"w a,, were the five arrested men 10
Vote?N eSked Stewart, W
me ne Democratic lickot," replied The
Connolly ID his expenses 10 ana
'roin Cincinnati, and At that city
amounting TO about SIS. had been maid
py Cavanaugh. OK. sergeant at.arma of
IN. house of representatives..
Is. c. Wright, an examiner in tho non
SION Office, and j, NJ. Wright, clerk in
ne treasury department, were exan-
ined. They said they were appointed
u"puty marshals, hut rendered no Ser.
G. w MeElrosh, a detective Of tbi.
inns clty, was examined. He said
ue Went TO Cincinnati "lo
from Dudley, to Mcpherson having
ueen received requesting that he be
s. MT. lie said he saw no repeaters to
spot. He further salt: "T6e gant,c,
men seemed TO be making their reports
to Rath pOne."
Adjourned till tomorrow.
:, CONFIRM ,TioNs.
HuPh McCullOuh, OF MARYLAND. to ba
secretary of the treasury; Il. III, Heap.
on fenhsylvania, consul ul-goneral at Con-
stantinopie; Robert X. Wright. ir.. Of
Pennsl lvania, consul at Asphiwall.
John II. Bryant, OF Georgia, Unite3
states marshal for the northern distriet
OF Georgia.
POSTMAsTHIs.
~ MARION Mullins, at Brownwood.
uexasi A. M. Haskell, Lampasas, Texas;
II. NJ. Cause, Crockett, Texas.
TRoUbLhD ABOUT THE TREATY rpIuE
IN the executive session Of the senate
today, after the confirmation of Seero.
tary M'Cullo'h resolution was intro.
uuced by u member OF the senate com.
mt ee ON foreign relations, reciting ip
ils pro nble that tho Donin-
icah treaty had been published In The
new YORK Herald and tho Niearaugan
treaty in the New York Tribune to-day,
proposing that special committee 6e
raised To investigate the methods NV
which copies of these treaties have been
secured by the press. A suggestion wns
made that, inasmuch as the foreign re.
ialions committee had the treaties
IN It's Gust dy, the investigation shouid
ne undertaken by that committee
10 this th" members Of the COMMITTEES
onJtc'ed, on he ground that the mem
bers ol the committee would then be
called upon to sit in Judgment upou
each other, aud suggested that tho SEN
ave committee on p ivilegos and elec.
tions be charged with the dnty. The
mombersofthe lattercommittee ohieoted
on general principles, and recalled
u the attention of tho older senator's tho
Tact that on former occasion such i'm
Yestigaliun hsd been undertaken, and
rehulied only i1 bringing ridieu.o aod
contempt upon tne cummittee and tho
senate An assertion was made ON the
Democratic side that special friend, of
the state department were FIRST supplied
with copies of al treaties and the opinion
was expressed by this senator that
lhe aulsinistratlon was probably at
ianlt IN the matter. THIS gave rise to
snort nut rather acrimonious partisan
DEBATE. Several senators lamented the
inability of the senate to enforce iIs
rules, In reply to which the point was
made that the rules had better be
amended to meet what seemed 10 bo n
popular want Some ono suggested
Tint the Nicaraguau government, or The
Nicaraguan minister, had given ont Tho
treaty, and the sc iators general v ar-
repted this as the pToba-
hility until IL was remem-
berod that the Presidents mesanre
hnd been published with this treaty.
wheroupon the new theory was aban,
doned aud an amendment was next Of
fered, that the text Of the two treaties be
published In the Congressional Record
tomorrow morning. This being oh.
1ected tO, a motion was make To Inv the
original resolution on the table, and this
was carried almost unanimously.
CONSIDERING PUBLIC nRALrH.
The bill recently prepared by repre
sentatlves Of the various state boards of
health, ut the conference In this eIty,
was considered informally to-day 6y
the house committee on public
health. IL was tho opinion
of members OF tho committee
that II would he impossible TO pass the
bill as u now stands nc the present ses-
sion. The measure involves the ques-
tion OF state rights and
continued uohhtt. The members of tho