Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The House Committee on Foreign Affifirs has postjxmed consideratioiuof the Morrow T’fflni’Wbiil. and wilt give'preeodence-to-the President’s jncssage recommending the payment of indemnity to China for outrages perpetrated on that country's subjects in the United States. ' ■ z . . .._ TuE-Huuse Ways and Meabs Committee has instructed that a favorable report be made on a bill to authorize th<sestal>lishment of tobacco factories for preparing the weed exclusively for exportation, under 'Government regulations.. . . . .PfesT<Tt r nT Cleveland celebrated his forty-ninth birthday. on the IBth of- March;... The Treasury -Department has received a report from Special Agent Jerome in regard to the alleged fraudulent importation of cattle from Mexico. He says that calves are taken in large numbers from Texas into Mexico, where they are kept several years, and then returned as beef cattle. In this wily, he says, great frauds are perpetrated, which can only be prevented by extra vigilance on the part of the customs officers on the border. Instructions have been sent to those officers to guard against any violations of the customs hrws in this respect. Dr. J. W. Rogers testified in the telephone inquiry at Washington, March 18, that he never sold any stock to a member of Congress. He had Applied for a consular place, and had written to Attorney General Garland about it. Money had .also seen the Attorney General in furtherance of the application. Witness said that he had no hard feelings against Mr. Garland, although he thought the Attorney General acted meanly. When asked if he had not written satirical poetry directed against the Attorney General, he replied, drawing out a pamphlet: “Just got it this morning from Baltimore. Here it is; want to see it?” The—cover of the pamphlet bore the following inscription; “The Great Mugwump; Canto 1. Pan-Electric Sale of Government Property; To Be Followed , by Parthenon; Congressional Whitewash and the Last of the Dog-Catcher. By J. W. Rogers of Parthenon Heights. Published by Pucjt <t Bottom. Parthenon Heights. Bladensburg, Md.; 1880.” - Dr. Rogers besought Mr. Oates to read the pamphlet, but several members threw up their hands in eloquent protest. -T~~ Dr. Rogers testified in the 1 telephone investigation, at Washington, March P.l, that among those who took stock of "the Pan-Electric Company were Gen. Frank Armstrong (then of the Indian office), Gen. Thomas Crittenden, Gen. A. B. Upshaw (now of the Indian office), Col. Boudinot, R. C. Wintersmith, A. D. Coke, and the . Republic and Chronicle (Washington newspapers). Witness paid- the newspapers for advertising in stock. He thought it possible that he had given American Postal stock to Messrs; Money and Manning. Witness had expressly contemplated. legislation for the American Postal CSinpany, and it was so stated in the pamphlets, but the bill was never introduced. He saw no impropriety in giving stock to members of Congress. do not take vows of chastity,, .poverty, and obedience.” said the witness. “I went upon that principle.” he added, to the amusement of the spectators. Washington special: “General O. O, HowanGwas: ironrinaterlYb Major General Pope, retired. The preferencegiven by the President to General Terry over General Howard for the Hancock vacancy squared the grievance which the friends <'f/Terry felt on accout of the promotion T.. Howard to be a ' Brigadier over Terry's head. There was less than a month's difference, however, between their advancement;—Now- -singularly, with the tables turned, there is again Tess "than; a month's difference, in their- further qdvancement.'"\ Ex-Congressman Casey Young, of Tennessee.- testified before the telephone investigating committee,... at Washington, that not a word had ever been about the associates in the Pan-Electric Companyusing their official- influence or taking adi vantage of their official position to accomJ plisli anything for the company! No man |lrad ever said a word: that could be con-" strued into an intention to do anything corrupt or improper. Van ' Benthutsen had asked witness why he did not " get Garland to” bring suit"against the Bell Company-. • Witness replied that Garland was a member of his company, its counsel, and witness^would not do it. Mr. Young referred to Dr. Rogers’ statement of the conversation in which witness was reported as saying that Attorney Gen-i eral Garland had consented to bring suit against the Bell Company. He asserted that the Doctor had been in error as to the conversation. “lam positive that I never . fold Rogers that Attorney General Garland had agreed to bring taut against the Bell Company to annul their patent,” said Mr. Young, emphatically.