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Show TELEGRAPHIC Coitmiillc Worlt -Itml Itecori lor iflviuM WiLiliiiintuD, 7. Tlio cnnnnitti'c ml foreign ftllniiri rrminu'd tlto cxain-intition cxain-intition ol 1'itrlt. Hid tr.-tliiiujuy Ivii-tlnl Ivii-tlnl to hlmw that Uin value ui tho Kinmii miiKt exivciliil llio ri'pri-Bcn-lul urn ol tho vciiiio h. (.'lynu r's coiiiiiiilU-i! uxumiiitnl timi. i. li. CoWllll, Willi Wlt8 ItMfliHlllIlL h(!- r Ury ol lie interior milil .Mun-h 1st. Hti trrtlilitd timl ho uvo iJntoi-tivc ltt ll ti r.iml, proilucul liy the uei-reUry of tlio interior ytdtcnlny, upon r'ru-(nhilion r'ru-(nhilion liy him tlml ho I mil hri'ii i'tiiiloyeil liy thu folk.s itt thu Whilu luiiiao, unil wiii untilliil to UU per ilu iu imil ullinvaiiin'n. Knowing Lnul lnul Ix'cii appoint) d upon a crd Irom the jiri-hidunt, he ln-licved him lor liiat rfiiiun. H'ltnend did not know how much ho was entitled to, nor did ho certify to tlio accuracy of hiti voucher, .lioll said that he did not, under Iho ciretiiiiHtancifl, want tu tell L. E. Barnes, chief id Hecrot Hervieo of tho interior department, wha Bcrvicct ho wuh per form in j,'. Witness lnul never been spoken to hy the prenidenl, ll.thcock or i.uekey, eitiier atoiH thu appoiutrnent or Bull's pay. D.tv.d WtlisliTofOmconl, N. II., teriiili-'d tti:d ho eanio to ';taliintou atmtit the loih of March, ltt l, to sell to tlio war department a ninth exterminator made by him. lli went with A. K. 1'iko, niemher of conrerw from New Hampshire, to (ion. MeiH, tiartenniMler general, who refiidcil to have anything to tlo presentative I'arker of Oregon, and Vadeii;h to write a letter to Mcis, whereupon Meia agreed lo tt t the iue.-in uf the tlnn. The preparation was tisttd and ajiproved hy (,'.iptain U-iTrt ol tho tipiarterninster's dc-partment. dc-partment. Wiluesd then Went b.iek 10 Meij;rt who told him he should have a contract. Meigs asked the price and how much the government would want. Witness said ho did nut know, but would not require the department to pay for more than was used. Wit-ut'ts Wit-ut'ts afterwards Blatcd the price by letter. MeigH then tlecided to Use it. Meigs then asked him, "What benefit will it bo to me?'' Wilms-- answered, "It will kill ycur inottiH." Meigs laid, "But how much will you givo mo if I put it in general use?" Willi Wil-li t hti atiswereil, 1 'Not a cent, general." Witness said Gen. Meigs gave him to understand that CowJes v, (Jo., who were f iruishing a moth extenniuattjr, were paying him part of the preei eds. W itiu-fts taid til it 'i all rday he met a man near Judiciary iipi:rc who told him that he. would do better not to go be lore the committee. In the man's hand were two hilin. He did not know tho mat , .hut tuld him he was e.oing t, tell tlie truth to the committee, and did not wan, any money. The man turned and walk tit 011 rapidly. Witness had not paid money to any ollieer or been aiked for any except by M. iy-. Witness presented a number of letters to cor-rjhorate cor-rjhorate his testimony. He had never received any order from Gen. Meigs for tlie moth exterminator except ex-cept one lor sflUO worth. Witness reined lo furnish that amount unless he would be assured of a larger order, on the ground that to iill the order would cost more than it would come to, but ho ollercd to furnish it for nothing, provided he bo allowed to pack it in tho clothing himaelt. Gen. Meigs testiSed that Webster's testimony about oflering him (Meigs) a share of the proceeds of tlie eale of the moth extermiuator was a pure fabrication. He regarded U ebeter us light-headed and ceased communication communica-tion with him entirely. The commiltca on ways ar.d means to-day struck out all in tlie Morrison tarifl liill relating to silks. Tne liousc committee on Iniian affairs af-fairs to-day unanimously instructed their chairman to notify Ralph Meeker that ho must answer tlie questions ques-tions propounded by ltepresent itive I'age, or his testimony should be stricken from tlie record as trifling and frivolous. The question which the witness refused to answer required re-quired him to state the name of the person whom he had referred to as caving that Page's manner of cross-examining cross-examining witnesses indicated that he (Pae) belonged to an Indian ring, and also the name of tho person whom he had quoted as saying that still another member of congress wan in the Indian ring. Representative Piper made an argument to-day before the house private laud claims committee in opposition op-position to Kelly's Santillan bill. Piper denounced tlie original grant as fraudulent, and said the present bill was designed to lay tlie foundation for a claim ol" twenty or thirty million dollars ugains1. the United States government, gov-ernment, ou tho condition that the Philadelphia laud association shall deed to tlie cily ol dan Francisco what they never owned. He contended thai the entries in the newly-discovered book of records are spurious and interpolated, and that even if genuine they fail to supply substantial evidence, evi-dence, and that the passage of this bill would be contrary to public policy as tending to disquiet California Califor-nia land titles. Congressman Luttrell to-day made an argument before the committee on commerce asking a provision for a harbor of refuge on the Northern Pacific Pa-cific coast, and increased appropriations appropria-tions in the river and harbor bill for the improvement of navigation of the Sacramento and Feather rivers. |