The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-15

Witness did not know that Mr. Garland had
any interest In the Pan Electric or any other
telephone company Until he saw the newspaper
publications.
The majority of tho House Commit
tee on Elections has decided to reject the claims
of Frank ii. Hurd to the seat from Ohio now
held by Romes.
The House Territory Committee has
decided to report adversely all bills to create
the Territory of Oklahoma on the ground that
the Government has no right to the land under
existing treaties.
Solicitor General Goode testified
before the Pan-Electric Investigating Commit
tee at Washington, on cross examination, that
he was not aware of using any undue or I'M
usual haste in ordering the suit against the
Bell Company. If he had known of the Attor-
ney Generals connection with the Pan-Electric
Company. and an application for suit had
been made, his action would have been the same
as il was. When asked if it had not occurred
to him that !. was late in the day to charge
fraud against the Bell patents, witness replied
@No; and want TO say further that 1 did not
know that the Bell Company was hedged about
with such divinity that it could not be brought
into court like other companies There is one
point L desire tc make clear, and that
is that the Attorney General had no more
TO do with the institution of this suit
than any member of the committee" Witness
admitted that he could not recall single case
where patent suit had been ordered without
reference of the papers TO the Interior Depart
ment, but the practice, he said, was merely
one of courtesy. The witness said he had di-
rected the discontinuance of the Memphis suit
because he knew it would be agreeable to the
President
has voted to report favorably bill for the es-
Enlistment Of a sub treasury at Louisville.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
voked the order of Commissioners Sparks of the
General Land Office of April 3, 1885, suspend
ing final action upon entries upon the public
lands
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston, Commits
sioner of Railroads, testified before the Tele-
phone Investigating Committee that the idea
of using official influence to further the in
forests of the company had never been
thought OF by his associates. He had never
heard until now that Senators Garland and
Harris had written professional opinions
touching the validity of the patents. He saw
now that the opinions of the associates as to
the value of the Rogers patent were highly ex-
travagant Witness remembered that suit
before Judge Baxter was not regarded as par
ticularly advisable, because he was said TO be
hostile and antagonistic to Senator Harris
The Office of Public Printer, now
filled by S p. Rounds of Illinois, has been
more eagerly sought by Democrats than any
other one place in Washington. Mr. Rounds
four years term expires this month To q
Congressman who was pressing friend the
other day, says Washington dispatch, the
President impatienty announced that he had
about made up his mind to make no change in
| the Government Printing Office until after the
| adjournment of Congress. Il know that Mr.
Rounds time has about expired" said the
President "but he seems to know how to run a
printing Office, and / will make no experiments
during the middle of session"
Before the House Telephone Investi-
eating Committee Stilson Hutchins, of the
Washington Post, said he had, in q spasm of
generosity, offered TO buy Senator Vests Pan
| Electric stock at what he paid for it The lat
ter finally declined to sell, he considered the
newspaper claim unjust, and would not yield
to it, Witness had been offered some of the
stock to publish DR.. Rogers poetry, but
thought both the poetry and stock bad.