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Show u asiiix; rov. Hiiifi: Hnlnknua'H novements Iti pnbii'uii 4'omiiiitlees I'a t:i lie .Hitil lnTC.Mii;ation lNtollice 1 'fi fences Pacific Paci-fic Knilrouil lnvealiiUtion Indian Uotttilitieu. . Washington, 17. King Kalftkaua haa accepted the invitrttioa of the municipal authorities of New Bedford to Visit that city Boraetimo during January. He declined an invitation to dinner tendered by a number of colored citizens of Washington.assigu-ing Washington.assigu-ing a previous engagement as the reaon. Following are the committees appointed ap-pointed by the Benate republican caurtus, and now engaged in perfecting perfect-ing bills on subject intrusted to them by the caucus: Finance Sherman, Morton, Logan, Edmunds, Sargent, Ferry (Mich.), Allison, West, Robertson (Vt.), Conk-ling. Conk-ling. Of these seven are hard money meu. Southern affairs Morton, Bout-well, Bout-well, Scott. Pratt, Morrill (Me.), Wadleigh, Boarman, Clayton, Spencer, Spen-cer, VY right. Transportation Windora, Oglesby, Chandler, Ferry (Conn.), Harney, Hifolioo!,- Oarpcntor, I'l'olinghUy- tjen. The ways and means committee held no meeting this morning, but a Bub-committee are at Irwin's lodg-ingH, lodg-ingH, continuing his examination. James D. Smith, the only member of the Stockwell board of directors now connected with tlie Pacific Mail management, man-agement, has been summoned. It is given out that he will testify that a resolution authorizing the payment of the necessary expenses of Irwin in Washington was adopted bv the board of directors, on motion of president Stockwell, without any intentian or expectation that any improper means would be employed to influence legislation, legis-lation, ana that the board supposed this resolution was intended to cover only perhaps a lew thousand dollars legitimate expense. Smith, itissaid, will also swear that he believed that the large sums alleged to have been experded in Washington were really used in New York in stock operations. opera-tions. The senate committee on podi offices and post roads appointed a sub-committee to visit the department depart-ment on Saturday and enquire into the cause of the large increase in the deficiencies of the department. The bouBe committee on the Pacific Pa-cific railroads meet te-morrow, when representative Luttrell will go before them to urge an immediate report on his resolution directing an investigation investiga-tion into the aflairs of the Central Pacific Pa-cific railroad. Failing in this, he says he will at the earliest practicable moment offer a resolution in the house to compel! a report. Luttrell to-day received letter which will be laid before the inteiior department, reporting a danger of Indian hostilities hostil-ities in Warner and Pitt river valleys, California, unless the Indians there aru provided fur by the government. Tiny are now said to be depredating on the whites. The house bill- reported without amendment lrom the senate mining committee today provides that money expended in running tunnels for developing lodes shall be considered consid-ered expended on the lodes, whether located before or alter May 10th, 1872, nnd work shall not bo required on the surface to hold said lodes, as provided by the mining law of that date. |