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Show GENERAL. Wasiirjtoa. A. There a lesr-expose lesr-expose :n the K?ue jtsterday e: the dark w-ys -i ece-n-pt pri.-tic of :r.e 1. :':y j-i :-s irrluen.-e cn Co-ro-o-s. T'r.; House srrrorria:;03 oori:--:::eo U-irsed lu--: wexs liii tie tresury d-. t irtrLC-.; vas to pay a drai: on i-i etirrt ri ar; ror::a::o3 ry the r:dior. . ;' co.lars. to ;. .y a claim c: tree. Chjj-p-.-.r;. for aa saciest cai. service which haa to-.a i-pv.d:a-.ed by tie post eoe di partaieat lir the W tea years. In;, led to the pa.-sace of a resolu :ioa isktr: jor a suspinsion until aa in-vrs in-vrs ic4t:.n cojli be made by the cooj-m.sstcr.-. r. This ivesticahon proved it lacut r-ociarkatec state of thtnes. that oae of tae eo'o--se". ci'daixaat wa ex-Lrst as-ii:aat Postmaster Creaeral Cresswei'.. that the joint resolution to pay a elaiui was put thiu.:h the House by C's.-aa. of Peansylvatda, uojer a su-pensioa of ru.es. without report or debate: that it passed the Sentate tbe same day. and was s:cned s.vn after by the I'res'.dent. eouiprisii g in all but eichtfea hours : that irit-subruii'ed irit-subruii'ed wbat purporied to a report re-port of the House postal eouiutittfe to Cressweil in favor of this, but which proved to In? without the slightest foundation. foun-dation. No such report was ever made by such committee or ever discussed by them. 'Vcssweh, instead of wa-.tm: tor an app .ieation to pay the eiaiui drew a draft a.:a:tist the ceneral fund for it. and it was paid on us faee The reports made by P. M. Generals Browu. Holt, H air. Kaudall and himself him-self had no foundation in law or equity. These and many other facts broucht to the attention of the House by Pawes and Peek produced such consternation that members generally left their seats and gathered aronnd tbe speaker? When they concluded a resolution was unanimously passed repealing the joint resolution to pay the claim. Even Cessna, who pushed the job originally, -at iu his seat and never said a word. |