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Show CAPITAL CHAi lEK. Tin lolt,T toimlll' Won't Help Ntitiruittii l Stluck-uuard Stluck-uuard Meinbci-. Siiuor loplcM. Waahington, 11. The Potter coin mittet', to-day, considered the question ques-tion whether tho affidavit ol St. Martiu'a, a former deputy Bt-rgeiiut-at-arran of the committee, conftaaiug that he bad hwoiu faleoly belore the Bub-comruiUee, and casting imputations imputa-tions upon Representative Btecger in that counoctioii, Bbould be placed upon record or the affiant be placed upon the stand. McMabon favored the latter course. Keetl, Cox ot Ohio, and Hiscocb advocated Dlacing the affidavit on record. Stengor B-iid it waB natural that anybody accused o( crime should be confroDttd with hia. accuser; therefore, ii the so called affidavit was admitted to record, he ahould ask that -certain papers in hia poB6e8niou Bbowiug under what cir-cutiiBlauces cir-cutiiBlauces t he affidavit wob procured, pro-cured, etc., Bbould also be recorded. After further debate, a rcBolulion oilered by Blackburn waa adopted by. a party vote democrats 0, repub-; licacs o that the chairman return i to the counsel ol Secretary Sherman the affidavit, aDd further inform Sherman that St. Martin will be examined ex-amined touching the matters embraced em-braced in tbo affidavit Bbould Slier man or any member ob the committee commit-tee bo desire. The secretary ol the treasury lia called for another $10,000,000 5-20d of '65, console of '67. At a caucus of republican senators, to day, a committee was appointed to report to a Juture caucus on the success suc-cess of the resumption of Bpecie poy-menls. poy-menls. Id remarks made, resumption, resump-tion, in its beariugs upon the welfare, was generally glorified. Tho luture order of business ol the senate waa alao considered. Subscriptions to the 4-per-ccut. loan, to-day, $2,626,450. Rinht ntillfl have bfien seized in Stanley county, North Carolina and eight distillers arrested. Qoe of the raiding party was shot. Seizures were also made at Bennettsvilie and YVai-balla,. YVai-balla,. South Carolina, but the prop erty taken at the latter pl;ce was re captured by a band ol Georgians. The president has ieoued au order setting apart lands on Salt river, i Arizona, (or a reservation for the iPimaB and Marecopas. |