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Show W.4S2IIXGTOX. A Variety or It.-nis risli on Chi mi. The ImprovementsA I,ie Out on tiie Ittiiine it o nil .eii-jlul. ' II lai it e sialics All Clear, That was Only a I'acUuL'c ol" ISups, ; nml ho Uiilu't ivt the Jt 1 -1 ooo. rt'ashington, 20. The -house judi-J ciary committee to-day discussed Hie' legal question as to whether Clapp is impeachable. No division was-reached, was-reached, but it is generally believed : by the committco tuat he is not sub- ject to impeachment. Commissioner lioache, accom-. panied by Congressman Piper, ha ! an interview w;th Secretary pish today to-day on tlio Chinese question. The secretary repealed tuo assuran.vs he had heietulore given, as lo his desire to aid in securing remedies for tlie evils complained of, hut added t;iat 1m anticipated much e xposition to the movement, lie said tho religious element of the country is now agitating agitat-ing tho subject and urging the continuance con-tinuance of the present treaty, ou account of its pre:umd value in aeilhaung missionary eilorts for the con version of the heathen. He said there was also opposition from the owners of American vessels plying in Chinese waters, but lie thought ni yer-thekss yer-thekss tiie treaty should be modi lied. In the secret eetsion of the impeachment im-peachment trial Saulabury and Cooper favored jurisdiction and Jones of Klnri.la onnnsed. White attempted to get a vuto on Saturday, but nOj action was taken on his proposition. : The sub-judiciary committee met this afternoon ami recalled A. S. Robinson, who testified that he bad read the testimony of Amos Curry bofore the committee. Witness never told Curry thai the packages which witness brought to Blaine from : Caldwell contained bonds, or that it was an instalment of honds; had often talked with Curry in a social way and might at some time have said that the package may have contained con-tained bonds, but iK-vcr said it rcaliy ;did, for witness never knew what it idid contain. Witness d:d not consider con-sider himself responsible tor the inference infer-ence Curry may have drawn from their couvursation. Ho considered Curry to bo a man of veracity and good moral character. Amos Curry was recalled and repeated re-peated his former testimony that Robinson had told him tho package contained bonds. Wilncss submitted two messages just received from his wife in Arkansas, setting forth that alio had read in tlie papers Robinson's Robin-son's statement about tho story, saying say-ing that Robinson did say the package pack-age contained bonds, as she was present pres-ent with Curry at the time Kobmson made tha statement. Witness said that Robinson and liimseif were on good and intimate terms wilh each other, and he considered him a man of truth and veracity, never having heard his reputation for veracity called in question before. Blaine said he had understood lb.., the commission had summoned Ca!d well from London and ASciimiug tinil to bo correet he desired to know if tin committee intended to keep the mat ter open till Caldwell should arrive. He thought tho committee shouli report upon this matter now. J3.UI11UU, uunuiuii, w.u i.iai im: matter of summoning Ciidwc!! was in I charge of the lull judiciary commit-1 tee, not of tlie sub-corn miltce, and h. could not say what their purpose was, J Blaine said if there were no inore witnesses to be heard upon this mat-j ter he would oiler hiniS'Jf as a wii-l qess. I After some discussion, Bla'me was allowed to make a statement con fin-1 ing himself to the package spoken of, and he was sworn and made ihe ful i lowing statement: Mr. Chairman, It is entirely true that in the spriug nf 1671 Kobinsun I believe gave the specific date from ' his diary he delivered lo nif- i:i t..e! speaker's parlor, a package. 1 sii'.uM j think that package was auou: r-'unt-' een or twenty inch&s liig and !o,u! four inches in diameter. I rneivud 1 his card while sitting in the speaker's chair. As euoii as it became convenient. 1 wi-nt out and met him in the sp?aser's parlor. He handed me the package and said: "This is a package which CaMrell handed me for you." Tue package was done up carelessly in brown paper, the ends tied down, and tied 1 should say, although I can not say precisely at this date, in a very ljo-te way. 1 chatted with him a moment about tho condition of the Purl Smith road, and somewhat about Lie coal lands in Arkansas valley. ilu then wanted to ee some mem hers of the house, I have forgotten for-gotten whom. I told him he could have the privilego of the floor, and he went in with me. As I pawd to the chair I threw the bundle down carelessly. It laid tiiero until tin; house adjourned, when I took it down to the lower private room which f had, where it laid lor months. It was a pickag'j of maps, some descriptive des-criptive pamphlets ami EOiur descriptive sketches; I mean some ol those made by individuals and m.l nublished, showine the coal fields in Arkansas valley. It wan considered at that time by Caldwell and olhern that thero would be quite a speculation specula-tion in buying their latrh, and these were allotted oft to show how much nould be got in one body. As the sections sec-tions wero taken alternately, il whs very hard to get a large trad together, and a very few thousand dollar.1! would buy a considerable quantity of them. I think the company oflered them at $5 or JO per acre. This was sent to rno ua u proioctns, and a general setting forth of tho merits and virtues of the ."peculation. I did not give a great deal of atlenlion to it. I had some compulations made as to the cost of hauling lo the river il would bo from tiio Arkansas river and how much it would cost by timo it got by rail to the Alisaissippi, Tho result of the whole thing was that I did not embark in it. That was all thero wan in tho world of tho package. There was nothing more mysterious about it than il I should band this hook to the chairman, il was delivered in a crowd, carried into tho house nnd j tnrown down without euro, and it Iny iu my room with a miscellaneous lot of papers, prooai'iy lor years, and referring to it now and then. Robinson Rob-inson never delivered mo n bond of the i'ort Smith and Little Rock company, com-pany, either in Washington or any othor place. I di siro lo make that Hlalement as broad as it am bo mullein mulle-in every shape and form, both inclusively in-clusively and exclusively. Mr. Chairman, while I am here I desiroto repeat under oath in relation rela-tion to this entire fOl.OKO clmrco the statement made by niu on the Ho t of tho house in all of ils parts, without mental reservation or purposo of evasion, us tho "iron clad" says. |