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Show TELEGRAPHIC Speaker Kandnll to 1resllout Orion. Washington, 27. The following is a copy of a letter from Speaker Kan-dall Kan-dall to President Orion, written yesterday: yes-terday: HOUSE OF RtPEEaBXTXTlVES, Washint'ion, D. U., Dec 26, 1S76. rFm. Orion, Esq., Piuident: Sr. Referring to a copy of the subpoena accompanying your communication com-munication of the 23d instant, I find there is a clerical error in the writ which escaped my attention at the lime it was signed, of which you might perhaps have availed yourself as an excuse to the committee for not having brought with you the papers they manifestly deiired to have produced. pro-duced. Hud you appeared before thorn in obedience to the mandate about which you do not seem to entertain en-tertain any doubt, namely, that you should bo and appear before the Belect committee in New Orleans on the 2Gth day of December, 1876, what the committee might havj asked you or desired to aalt you had you appeared either wilh or without the papers, 1 of course do not know. If I did I hivve no authority to excuse you for disobeying the plain peremptory mandate that you should appear before the committee. com-mittee. The house alone can do that and I Blip pose would only take cognizance cog-nizance of the matter when regularly brought to its notice by the committee. commit-tee. As you have possibly not observed ob-served the resolutions adopttd De cember 20th, expressing the sense of the bouse in respect ef its powers and privileges when acting through the instrumentality of a committee authorized to Bend for persons and papers, I have the bonor to send you the following copy, to which I would respectfully call your attention. Here lollow the resolutions of the house before published. Very respectfully, Samuel J. Randall. The speaker of the house has caustd a tubpeeaa to be issued against Orton to appear forthwith before the Morrifon investigating committee at New Orleans with tbo required tcle-graniF. |