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Show -j-.uk) WASHINTOT'r0,",'! Probable Admission1 of Colorado Color-ado a ml Mexico as States The Kipress Companies Pacific Mail IiiveNliiEatioa. : Washington, 18. The republican senators are caucusing upon tho bilis passed by the house at .last session admitting Now Mexico and Colorado as states. No vote haa yet been reached, but the discuaaion indicates that a decided majority of the repub-licani repub-licani favor the admission. ' ' The great express companies seem likely to fail in their effort - to seoure the repeal of the provision allowing four pound packages to. bo carried in the'maila. 1JI-'J' : j' The Pacific Mail investigators say they1 are looking after Bi A. Whiting, of California, to learn what ha did with-his $10,000 iVom Irwin.ii; Nothing new in the Louisiana case. The president' failure to defend and support the military intervention on the 4th has greatly demoralized tha oppositions' op-positions' attempt to make democratic democra-tic capital out of thai event. '. 1 1 1 ,' Judge McArthur dismissed the writ 1 of habeas corpus in tho case of Irwib, and remanded him to the custody of the 8ergeant-at-arms of the houBe. f.iflT-tho Pacific Mail, investigation this morning, Whitelaw Beid was examined ex-amined in -reference to certain editorials edi-torials in the New York- Tribune hinting hint-ing that the list was in existence of the receivers of the Pacific Mail subsidy, sub-sidy, which included two members of the ways and means ' committee, and also injregard to another intimation of certain knowledge- in : possession of the Tribune which would be interesting interest-ing to the committee. In regard to tho first" matter' :Reid' gave Oakey Hall as authority for the statement. He Jurther stated that A. W. Bradbury, Brad-bury, brother of the ex-president of the Pacific Mail oommittoe, had informed in-formed witness of a letter written by ex-postmaster Wm. S. King to President Presi-dent Bradbury, applying for $-5,000; in; which letter King urged a compliance com-pliance with the demand for reasons among others that, he was., writing ,with prison bars behind him". ' Bradbury Brad-bury replied that if he, King, did not stop writing such letters ho would soon have prison bars before him. 1 Witness was informed that Judge Pierrepont advised a compliance with King's demand. Witness had also heard that payments were made to members of Congress with part of the money disbursed by Irwin in thousand dollar bills, and that the private accounts ac-counts kept by the sergeant-at-arms would show what congressmen had deposited such bills. Witness suggested sug-gested that the reports were worth investigating. |