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Show LATEST DESPATCHES. i EASTERN. Wuhin;:lori Advices. Washington, li'J. Nothing was done in tho House, to-day, beyond; reading a few speeches on the cur-: j reney bill. j In the District of Columbia investigation, investi-gation, the Board of PuMic Works tiled an answer to the last two charges of the memorialists. A contractor con-tractor testified that he could havcj done certain work ten cents a titot cheaper than it was done. A property prop-erty owner test i tied to being over assessed for improvements. Peter McNamara testified to paying two members of the District Legislature $1,000 to get him a contract, and aftcrwanls discovered they could not do it. Governor Shepherd heard of the transaction, rebuke d McNamara, and warned him if he heard of such a thing again he would never give him a contract. It nppoanx.1 that McNamara Mc-Namara Uo tried to bribe the Assistant Assist-ant City Kngiueer, but failM. The Houe Judiciory Committee, to day, decided against reimbursing insurance companies out of the Geneva awaid for loses on vessels! destroyed by Confederate cruisers. I Admiral Porter's condition is more favorable to-night. Tho Karragut prize money will be paid immediately, 'the prize list bus been forwarded to the Fourth Auditor. Audi-tor. The tol::l amount of prize money proper is 330, 000, and $ l'i0,i KH) additional ad-ditional for the destruction of Confederate Con-federate vessels; between ",o00 and 3,000 men share the awanls. The Farragut esUlo receives one-twentieth of tho whole amount; three division commanders each one-liitieth; other olbcers in proportion lo their pay, Jt is reported that Kcil member for Manitoba is here. |