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Show IVatlilutitOD Advice. Washington, 25. No action has been taken by the authorities here regarding the request from the Mex-i 1 icau government lor the purchase of;' arms from this government. Persons ollicially connected with the warde-:' partment do not ihiuk this govern-J: mcnt has any material to spare. 1 'iho house committee ou.po.-toflices 1 and postroads to-day examined J. D. Guide-star, mail contractor of Ark- aua-. lie testified that he departed in the contract othYe last spring a bid from Dallas, Texas, to Jackjon; ; that tho contract was awarded to ' some one else, and that when he ' called for his bid and the security check attached to it, they were handed to him by the second assistant assist-ant postmaster general, with the remark re-mark that the biii had never been registered nor considered. Witness did not know whether it was the lowest bid or not. It was, however, just after the time when discoveries were made that Channel and Floyd Tweed, department clerks, had suppressed sup-pressed and abstracted a number of bids. The select committee on 'the district real estate pool, had a short meeting to-day in secret session. Leonard Whitney, superintendent of the Western West-ern Union telegraph company, produced pro-duced under protest, a number of telegrams that passed through his office during the summer of 1872 and since, in regard to thu real estate pool. The committee declined to give the telegrams or their purport for publication. publica-tion. It is understood that a subpoena has been issued for Judge McArihur, of the superior court, this district, and that he will soon return lo this city. Ex-Altorney General Williams and Ex-Comptroller Broad head were before be-fore the sub committee of the house judiciary committee to-day, and ex ainined in regard to certain expeucli-i expeucli-i lures made by the department of r justice during what was called the Ku - Klux raids. |