Show BY congressional washington 4 burnside from the military committee reported back with amendments the joint joints resolution for the appointment of a commission to consider and report t on the reorganization of the army oa his motion it was wag referred to the committee ee on appropriations as an amend amendment mend meni to lne the army ap 3 bill and placed on tiie the calendar as an independent measure in case it should not be acted upon aa as an amendment to the tho army bill the house bill supplementary to the act of march 1859 to carry into effect the convention between the united states and china conal concluded at shanghai november 8 INS and to give the court of claims jurisdiction in certain cases passed it authorizes claimants on the chinese indemnity fund for losses by pi plunder under and aud of the bar bark k Co in 1854 to bring suit in the court of claims the senate bill for a telegraph line in montana and Dt dakota kota and Spencer spencers 8 amendment to the army appropriation bill for a Sl fort in montana on milk river were referred the senate on its amend ments menta to the legislative appropriation bill billand 2 and requested a conference laxey maxey supported the bill and kernan and whyte opposed it whyte an amendment to have three lines of steamers respectively from newyork new york baltimore and ani new now orleans but baid laid in answer to ferry that he would D not 0 t vote for the bill with his amendment pending discussion windom allie allison ou and eaton were appointed senate conferees on the legislative appropriation bill anjou ned washington 5 matthews said mr fent jent I 1 rhe rise to a pen personal explanation and question of privilege I 1 feel that 1 owe a tn to ai as well as to senate which however bant cant I 1 cannot in justice justlee to either elther further postpone or omit news papers published here hero and else co ou tani tahi rep ru ports arta of abato alato ments menta made under oath in another place tiace iu in reference te to myself which are calculated to reflect upon my char character titter and at andina anding as a member of this honorable body rhese statements appear to be destined to establish nirm firm that I 1 was in ome bome way connected by participation or encouragement encouragements in the perpetration of alleged frauds in the presidential election in 1876 in louisiana at or about the time of the tho canvass anci anil return thereof second that I 1 was a party or privy to promises of pro lection and reward to ris charged with duties in with that election erection and abd returns i the thereof made in consideration of frauds mild and perjuries per juries commit toli teli toil or t to 0 be lit committed by them in reference thereto 6 third that having subsequent knowledge of sueh such frauds and of huch buch promises for the pur pose of concealing the former by assisting in the execution of the glatter flatter 11 atter I 1 used my pera pers personal oual onal and onnic offic ial jai iri Ili fluence influence to procure for fur james Jamea B E anderson Au derson official employment ment in the executive department of the government to each of these accusations cusat ions expressed dr 0 r implied I 1 reply by au emphatic denial I 1 deny that I 1 was waa connected in iu any way by J or encouragement by knowledge consent or connivance with any frauds real or pretend pretended edy eds in the louisiana election I 1 deny that I 1 was a party or privy to any promises ot of protection or reward to any oue oun in consideration of the commission by them of frauds real or pretended in that election I 1 deny thal thai I 1 made efforts to procure an off official leial appointment for anderson with the knowledge or belief in my pan that he or any uny one else had been guilty of any fraud in connection with that election or in fulfillment of any iny promise of reward that had bad been made by him on that or any other consideration wha whatever tuyen on the contrary I 1 asserted upon my honor aa as a senator which I 1 am prepared to maintain upon my iny oath that I 1 do not know and never have hate believed that any such frauds frauda were in fact ever committed thau thai 1 nl I do not know that any promise was waa ever made to andersun anderson or to any one else in consideration of fraudulent service cervices ser vices sj in connection with tho the election anderson An derson derBon in my little intercourse 1 w m aff with him all of which has taken place bluee since march ath 1877 never a asserted expressly or by any inu endo i emlo emio that sherman herman tS or any one else b bad ad ever promised him an i tilee illee or anything elbe ehe either for tjoeng wrong or right and never anything froin from me or through me by virtue of any kuch hueh promise on the contrary anderson expressly and passionately appealed to me on somo some ground that be he had rendered honest honorable lawful and efficient service to the republican cause caust in louisiana at a sacrifice of time aud and money and peril to his bis life and that be bad for that cause incurred odium and hostility from his political opponents the only wrong I 1 understood or believed him to be guilty of was in having previously untruly pretended that he had been guilty of things he be now ogain pretends pre tends tenda to confess that wrong I 1 had no do information of until after his bis appeal to me for my aid had been responded to by an act of my good will in his beha behalf lif alf his disclosure of it with the delivery of the false documents which constituted it 2 aisup I 1 supposed was intended by him 1 and an was regarded by me as an n tone atone ment tor for it upon that foitl footing only y I 1 received th m it ariev never r for a moment occurred to me that ios los pos hession cession tes hes sion slon of them by me could be misconstrued into an onn off lense ense edse and believing that the only use which their publication could serve would wohld be to propagate mischievous and scandalous falsehood the only error if there is one of which I 1 am conscious is in having recommended to office a person who had bad meditated and prepared a wrong wrung but bul had bad as it appear appears 3 to mp me withdrawn from performing it but as there seems seema to be an attempt to magnify it into one link jink what 19 18 is 19 alleged to have constituted a conspiracy against important public rights and which inflicts xu t acts my bt anding and char ebar character aeter acter in this honorable body I 1 consider it a matter of privilege that senate should inquire into the subject aa as affecting it bot less thau thai myself I 1 have the honor accord bugl to submit the following resolution beso besu alved that a select committee telof of seven senators bu be appointed to inquire into lulo and consider all things thinya touching the matter stated aud referred to by the thu t from ohio matthew and the events connected therewith and arly ariy what connection if any eliat the senator had bad with any real or pretended tra ila ilmi 1 01 v othen other wrongs committed in the conduct ana loin ic nel 1 turns of the ele eie eleccion elee elec clion ion lon iou in the state of lous lousiana iana lana in iii 1876 and with any uny promise of protection or reward if any made by aljy auy one to james B E anderson andt rhon or others in con cou idera tion liou of or connection with any official conduct by said anderaon or others in relation to said elect election ign or returns thereof and into all circumstances of any recommendation by baid eald seti equator ator of said ander eon for ment to office and that said committee has power to bend hend for persons persona and papers to employ a clerk and stenographer and have leave to sit during recess areld agreed to unanimously MOUSE washington 4 the bill reorganizing the lioe life saving service passed the house then went into committee ot of the whole on the bill awl an ani l by a vote of to 86 limited the general to two hours houra Bu burchard rehard favored revising the tariff and reducing the duties in fairness to all interests even the imperfect bill now before the house was infinitely better than the present tariff garfield appealed to the house not nut to let so threatening a bill become law he would arte after the first clause was read move to strike out the enacting clau e woods moved that the co committee m nise rise and the committee refused wood then moved that it be read entire and after some object objections lons tons the clerk commenced reading when conger moved to strike out all after the enacting clause but the chair tucker refused to entertain the motion and the reading continued amid great uproar butler proposed a square vote by yeas and nays at noon tomorrow morrow to morrow which was wan assented to the committee then rose and the house bouse took recess 1 the evening debate ia Is to be on the mexican award bill AMERICAN washington 4 nir mr reed conducted ander Auder sotro eross cross examina tion before the potter committee to day and endeavored to bring out discrepancies between witness 2 present preheat stories and his statements before bufore the senate committee last fall 0 contracts on tracts between anderson nash and weber were largely used for the purpose of showing contradiction aud and disregard of moral considerations on the part of the witness for instance he had batea on saturday in relation to the nash contract con cou traut that at the time lime tf if its date he bad no evidence of fraud in his bia possession and had not pretended that be had and yet the contract recites that be he is to suppress the evidence showing that easl east feliciana feil Fell ciana clana had bad been fairly carried by the democratic party the consideration for such buch supports kiltin being that nash was to secure for fur him the position of naval officer he was pressed on that point as to whether hia bia state statement ment went on saturday that he had no such evidence was correct or not and he abs lud iud led that it was except that he be bad had the sherman letter in his bis pock et at the time if that could be con t trued truell as such evidence and also except that be had the knowledge that the vote of the state was to be thrown out on a forged protest he admitted also that he be did aid not expect to get the position of naval officer quintion Quah tion then that agreement dous doea not dot express the truth A no not nut in that sense Q you simply took this paper like a sort of immoral promissory note A that is about the construction which a moral man might put upon it Q you were not very particular about stating the facts exactly iu in it what yuu you wanted was to get the thing in that shape that it aou would id hurt hurl Nash if he h e did not carry A 4 that was it exactly Q Is 18 that ine sort of transaction 3 ou frequently enter into A 4 I 1 never entered into of that kind was waa brought in contact with the officials in louisiana Q it 11 in is a common sort eort of docu ment went iu in louisiana lana iada A yeb yes itt o it Is afsa a common thing in louisiana Q something like this 1 I hereby confess that I 1 stole and in consideration of that I 1 v ill give juhn john smith an office and you yeu Z doimi lasa 6 it nd kha tha that thal L hinda yuu YOU v u 1 a that the sort of an agreci agreement you are in it the habr habU babIt of making mailing A no I 1 am not aware of ila ita beilig a habit habil Q you do not know bow miny more mure of these little notes are out A that ia is the only one Q you tried it cal ff on a colored man A ye Q this little arrangement which you entered into with weber was that a sort of promissory note too ton A 4 no I 1 do not know that we promised anything to anybody Q this arrangement arrange ment with nash wa you say eo so that nash would not throw you over A exactly Q you got a thing that would blacken him if he did not A yes Q aud as for yourself blacking would improve you would ll 11 witness I 1 do not know whether it would or not mr reed I 1 think it would the cross examination was then directed to the object of showing a contradiction between the statement in the weber contract that the ibe parish had been carried by the democrats by legitimate mans mean m manh ans anh s and the statement made in saturdays testimony mouy mony that there had been some slight intimidation in the parish witness testified that bufore before the senate committee last tall fall he had for the purpose of carrying out hla hia impi implied ed bargain with sherman aberman ah erman ermaD suppressed sud sed the facts as much as he could without swearing to a lie he ho purposely misled the committee under oath rhe che cross examination concluded with a repetition of the story atory of the interview with sherman in new orleans there being no notie able abie abl abi e variation in the details the committee adjourned till 11 tomorrow to morrow the subject of indian troubles is receiving considerable attention at at the war department the secretary 6 of war and generals of the army have been breen in consultation to day in reverence reference ence thereto and in a brief cabinet council this afternoon mccrary indicated his view saud aud trobe of the military commande Fj reporting report ing lug to the Soure boure secretary tary of war Y regarding garding the of the situation the army officers are convinced that there is danger ahead it is the opinion atthe at the war Dep department adment that the army force is har far from emmi effi efficient clent elent to accomplish all that ia Is necessary to prevent outbreak but reliance is placed upon the support the troops will receive from frontiersmen the troubles on the rio Grand ejust reported do not cause much apprehension BALTIMORE 4 this afternoon a three story brick building under construction on fremont street fell in ID burying ten men in the ruins james brooks boss bricklayer was killed four tour others seriously injured and the remainder badly hurt philadelphia 4 wool is quiet with a steady demand for the lust arrivals of new unwashed california fine and medium 22 25 coarse 18 25 aa SAN N 4 portland dispatch election returns are coming in very slowly sufficient have been received to induce the democrats to believe that whitaker is elected to congress earhart republican is generally gene geue rally raily conceded to be elected of the state nothing can be definitely y said concerning the rem rum remainder allder aiLder of the state tickets the growing impression is that the legislature will b be e democratic the toe result cannot be positively stated for two or three days troops have been ordered to boise city general howard will start on friday two companies will go from fort canley cauley six from vancouver all at walla walla in consequence of the unsettled feeling amon among the indians ou on the upper columbia DO no troops will be drawn from Wheat ons command there altogether about effective men cau can be concentrated at boise but it will take two weeks for them to reach there general sherman general row how ard that in the movements made the department lines will be ignored cincinnati 5 capt mccami mon jeweler chih leothe ohio has hag failed liabilities I 1 it t wm wai discovered today to day that he had bad committed tei tel forgeries amounting to he disappeared froni front home last night he was found today to day in a stable insensible from theet the effects of lauda laudanum nuEn taken with a lutent NEW YORK 5 the tribunes Tri tre bunell berlin special says it ia is difficult to obtain authentic information con curn eurn curning earning ingull all the ramifications of the conspiracy but the following blate elate melta menta may be bo taken aa as appropriately correct the present condition ot of europe has given hope to the revolutionary leaders who for a long time have been vai waiting vat ting for a moment to aenk a decisive cisi ve blow intene disc 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