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Show WASHINGTON. Tlio Impeachment Davenport KxpluinN About the :t.,000 aud How He Came to liei-eive It. Washington, 21. Tho impeachment impeach-ment managers of the house have directed subpoenas to be issued for Mr. and Mrs. .Marsh to appear on Thursday before the com t of impeach-ment. impeach-ment. This indicates that the managers man-agers inJulge in the belief that the senate will overrule Belknap's plea of want of jurisdiction. Republican senators held a caucus to-day to arrange the order of business. busi-ness. There was no action on any point. Tho question of the expediency expedi-ency of pausing the house bill for the total repeal of tho bankrupt law was considered. Tiie general sentiment seemed to be averse to repeal and iu favor of amending. The question whether the steam ship Nevada, beinK transferred by the I Pacific Mail company to the Japanese, Japa-nese, did not invalidate the China mail subsidy, has been decided by the solicitor general. The vessel does not lose her nationality if the subsidy should continue. The testimony of Whitely, Miller and Davenport is made public to-day. That ol the two former has been ! printed. Davenport said in 1870 he discovered frauds wero perpetrated ; and adopted a system of registration ! which eventually resulted in the dc-' dc-' lection of these frauds. In pursuance of this matter, the witness had spent $10,000. He found he was becom- i ing impoverished and he asked Colonel Bliss, General Arthur, tieneral Sliarpe anu otner gcnueiueu of New York whether government 'would not pay him for his efforts to detect these frauds. In the summer of 1S71 he went to Long Branch to see the president, and explained to him the frauds he had discoverer.!. He asked the president whether some funds in the control of the department of justice could not be used to pay him. The president was impressed with the plan submitted by witness to prevent frauds in elections, and said he would recommend the matter to the attor-J ney general. |