Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

From Washington. «* Oilvet-Umrron Owed a verdict for the defendant Tbe Anal rate stood three for plaintiff to nine for de let, rtows the following: Total debt (locludlug latere* of $26,001,200). 02,447,887,723. Cart In Treasury, *431.787,458. Debt leee cart In Treaaury, 03,037,100,905. Increase daring March, 0883,734. Decrease Since June 30,1878, $848*575. Torn total ootnage of the United States Mints for Match was 05,577,088. lbs total coinage of standard silver dollars to April 1, 1873, was 098,774,800. Tut United States Senate, on the Ist, con--Bnned Francis A. Walker to be Superintendent of the Censds. On the 3d, the nominations of AneMw 9. White, of New York, as Minister to Germany, and of C. A. Logan, of Illinois, as Minister Resident to the Central American States, were also confirmed. - Tn Democratic United States Senators held a caucus, on the 9d, at which It was unanimously agreed that the Senate should permanently retain Oaot. I sate Bassett as Assistant Doorkeeper, and William John as Keeper of the Main Door of the Senate —both of whom hare been In the rerylce of the Senate for forty years or more—and Amsi Smith, Superintendent of the Document Room, together with two of the Acting Assistant Doorkeepers who are crippled Union soldiers. It was also decided that the Secretary and Ser-geant-at-Arme of the Senate should exercise their own judgment and discretion concerning the personnel of their offices. lir their report, the Board of Military Officers who recently Investigated the case of FiU-John Porter state that they discovered, by new evidence placed before them, that the previous court-martial made mistakes in their conclusions, and that radlcally emraeons opinions were entertained by Oen. Porter’s accusers. The board has decided that the General exercised the ordinary discretion of a military commander in not fully obeying the orders of Gea. Pope. Prior. C. V. Riley, the Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, has tendered bis resignation. Ox the 4th, the subscriptions to the 4-per-cent bonds aggregated the sum of $59,502,700, tbs greater portion being from New York National Banks. The Secretary of the Treasury Issued a call for the balance of the 5-30 bonds of 1867, and it waa stated that he would, on the sth, Issue a call for all the outstanding 5-20* of 1808—the total of both calls amounting to $59,565,700. The aggregate calls docs Jan. 4 amount to $849 555,700. No further subscriptions for the 4-per-ceut bonds, except for the ten-dollar certificates, will be received until further notice. The 4-per-cents will, in the future, be sold for the redemption of 10-40 bonds of the set of March 8,1884, upon terms to be hereafter presented by the Secretary of the Treasury. A motion for a new trial in the Oliver-Cam-eron breach-of-promise case was denied by Chief-Justice Carter, In Washington, on the sth. Ox the sth, the Army Appropriation bill passed the National House of Representatives with the political amendments attached, substantially as reported by the committee. The vote stood: Ayes 148; noes, 122. The Bast. A dispatch of the 31st ult says that experiments made in one of the New York daily . newspaper composing-rooms had demonstrated the inadaptability of the electric light for type-setting. Dchixg the month of March there were forty failures In New York City, with an aggregate of liabilities of $480,449, and of assets of $311,754. During March, 1878, the failures numbered eighty-five, with an aggregate liability of $8,480,000. Between the 81st of March and the Sd of April, over three feet of snow fell at North Troy, Vt Thk Republican ticket for State officers in B h/uiu I Aland VtA ...1 a 4 fk. nnvuv lciauu wu CMXMNI tit IUC IBlc ClCCtlOu by about the usual majority. The Benate is politically divided as follows: Republican, 28; Democrats, 8; no choice, 2. In the Hoose, the division is: Republicans, 52; Democrats, 15; no choice, 4. A running match of twenty miles, for a pome of 4500, with six entries, including an Indian, was extensively advertised to come off In Gilmore’s Garden, In New York, on the 3d. The Indian turned out to be an Irishman, with paint on his face. He collapsed after the seventh mile. A man named Norman Taylor, of Vermont, won in two hours, twelve minutes and thirty-six seconds. It is presumed the spectators mainly gathered to Bee the Indian. All preparations for the hanging of John P. Phair. at Windsor, Vt., on the 4th, had been completed, when a dispatch was received from ,Gov. Proctor announcing a reprelve for six days. IT was reported from New York, on the 4th, tort a cutting on through rates of freight from the West to porta in the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe was going on almost uninterruptedly, and rates were lower than ever known, before. This was owing principally to toe arge numbey of freight steamers plying between New York and other portions of this country and Europe, and to severe competition between them for cargoes. Provisions by steam were quoted at 20s to 22s per ton from New York to the United Kingdom, and at 28s to 80s per ton to the Continent. Wheat for Liverpool had been taken at per bushel. Through rates on Hour from the Wert to Europe were as low 2s to 3s per barrel, and 1843 d to 22e6d per ton for flour In sacks. Much eagerness was displayed to secure cargoes at these prices. Th* New York World of a recent date tells how one of Its reporters, an unmarried man, obtained from a New York lawyer a decree of divorce from a supposititious wife, on the ground of incompatibility of temper. The divorce purported to be granted by the Circa** Court of Walworth County, Wis., and was signed by John T. Wentworth, Judge, a»d Joseph & Scott, Clerk. A dispatch from Bkborn of too 4th says that no Joseph 8. Scott has ever held the office of Clerk of the Court, and that, at toe date of the decree, no eourt wae In session. The present Clerk of the Court declares the decree, seal, signatures end fell are a bare-faced forgery. A Nrwjrong dispatch of the sth says that **> **»*tOT Wm. H. Vanderbilt paid $57,000 to the Horace Greeley, being the sum loaned by the great journalist to his brathar Cornelius, nuny yaifert ag& Yellow fever has made lt» appearance on board the United States steamer Plymouth, and she has been ordered Into quarantine, at Partamoutfa, N. H. I* Philadelphia, early on the morning of the sth, afire broke put in the five story building at the northeast corner of Crown and Bms rtiMte, and cupended to adjoining buildings, destroying about $750,000 worth of property. One perron wae killed and three other* wrie severely lnjlured by falling walla Tuufoltowtagwewthroclqsing quotations for produce In New Yhrk, on April sth: Mo. S CMcego Sfrfog Wheat, $1.05® 1.08; ern lllfod, B^®BB^ ii °Si, Westi?hS

4(X«NSK<s- Pork,Mesa, 09.40*10.63)4. Lard, $6.57)4(36.60. Flour, Good to Choice, 03.96 *4.50; White Wheat Extra, 04.55tt6.35. Cattle, 00.75*10.78 for Good to Extra Sheep, 05.75*6.75. Hogs, 04.30*4 95. At Kart Liberty. Pa, on April sth, Cattle Drought: Best, $5.00*5.50; Medium, $4.65® ABS ( Common, 03.80*4.30. Hogs eoli— Yorkers, $3.66*8.90; Philadelphia $4 80® 4.45. Sheep brought 58.96*6.00-according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April sth, Cattie brought; Best, $5.00*5.75; Medium $8.50*4.87)4. Hogs sold at $5.25(4400 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $4.00*6.25 for Good. Went and South. Thb Indiana Legislature adjourned tlht die at noon, on the 81st ult. Gnx. Cbook held s formal council with the bend of Ponca Indians at Omaha on the Slat ult, In toe presence of several officers and nine Indians. “Standing Bear’’ and “ Buffalo Chips” made very pathetic speecbea setting forth the wrongs which they bad suffered, end detailing the hardshlpa sickness and death which their tribe bad encountered In the Indian Territory, to which they had been driven by the encroachments of the whites. They knew they, must submit to the command to return to the Indian country, but protested all the same, predicting that many of their number would die by the way, and asking for money to pay the necessary expenses to b 4 Incurred in taking care of the sick and dead on the journey. Uen. Crook told them that all he could do was to give them rations on the way down. They would be permitted to take all their sto£k, and could go slowly. It was a ilisa. reehble duty to send them down there, but be must obey the orders which he bad received from Washington. They had all the facts in Washington relating to the caae, and It would do no good for him to intercede. According to Yankton dispatches of the 81st ult., the southern portion of Dakota was being devastated 4 by prairie fires. A great number of bouses and a vast quantity of hay, corn and wheat had been destroyed. A Mrs. Tirossack and son, in trying to save tbelr property, were caught in the flames and burned to a crisp. At the municipal ejection in Chicago, on the Ist, ex-Congreaaman Carter 11. Harriaon (Dem.) was elected Mayor by a plurality of about 6,000. The remainder of the Democratic ticket was also elected by about the same vote. Of the eighteen Aldermen chosen, eight are Democrats, seven Republicans and three Socialists. The vofe for Mayor stood gbout as follows: Harrison, 25,415; Wright (Rep.), 20,256; Schmidt (Socialist), 11,818. So fab as the returns of the Wisconsin election had been received up to the morning of the 2d, the Indications were that Judge Cole, the Republican candidate for Supreme Judge, was re-elected by from 5,000 to 10,000 majority. Milwaukee and Madison each elected Republican Common Councils. Thb Democratic State Central Committee of lowa decided, on the 2d, to call a State Convention, to be held at Council Bluffs, on the 21st of May. * Thb trial of CoL Buford, for the shooting of Judge Elliott, at Frankfort, Ky., has been set for Monday, April 23. G ex. Daxibl Cambrox, an old and respected citizen of Cook County, 111., died in Chicago, on the 2d, of consumption. Gen. Cameron was one of the early journalists of Chicago, commanded the Sixty-fifth Illinois Infantry Regiment during the war, aud had held numerous positions of trust and influence. Georob L. Smith, Collector of the Port of New Orleans, recently indicted by a Grand Jury for defrauding the Government by carrying on toe Custom-House pay-rolls the names of persons performing no services, was tried, on the 2d, and honorably acquitted. A number of prominent colored men of St. Louis issued au appeal, on the 2d, to all generous and charitable people throughout the country for means to assist the colored refugees from the South, who were daily arriving in that city, fleeing from the South to seek homes in the free West. The colored people of St. Louis had not encouraged them to come, nor had transportation companies offered them any inducements to emigrate, but the movement was made in the hopes of bettering their condition. Many of them were very destitute on reaching St. Louis, and in great need of charitable help. Contributions may be sent to Rev. Moses Dickson, 1211 Morgan street; Rev. John Tamer, 1512 Morgan street; Rev. 8. P. Anderson, Eighth-Street Baptist Church; Rev. William R. Lawton, 1015 Christy avenue; J. Milton Turner, exUnlted States Minister to IBeria, 2513 North Tenth street Judge James R. Steward, Member of the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, died, at his home, in Baltimore, Md., on. the 4th. He was seventy-one years old. Ox the 4th, the Speaker of the Lower of the Illinois State Legislature sentenced Frank E. Nevins, a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, to imprisonment in the County Jail of Sangamon County, for refusing to answer certain questions propounded by the Committee of the House appointed to investigate charges of bribery and corruption. He must remain there until he consents to disclose what he knows, or until the adjournment of the General Assembly, unless released by judicial process. One of the pedestrians who walked in UHr 14W'’Louisville, K’y., elx-davs’ match, named William Harris, died, a few days ago, in consequence of the exertions he made during the contest. He walked a little more than 300 miles. ‘ AT Baltimore, on the 4th, Mme. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, widow of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, died, aged ninety-four years, ner estate, valuer at 81,000.000, is left to her grandsons, Col. Bonaparte and Charles Joseph Bonaparte. John Lamb, convicted of the murder of Po-lice-Officer Race, in Chicago, has been denied a new trial, and Judge Williams, on the sth, sentenced him to be hanged on tbe 20th of June next: The Governor of New Mexico, Gen. Lew Wallace, has written to Sec’y Schurz, that murders and robberies are' so common that he is greatly discouraged. He says the situation does not please him. Ox the evening of the sth, after a lengthy examination, Judge Zane, of the Sangamon County (III.) Circuit Court, declined to release Frank E. Nevins, the recalcitrant reporter of a Chicago newspaper, confined for contempt of the Legislature of the State, from Imprisonment in the County Jail, and ordered his recommitment! It was reported from Dead wood, op toe 6th, that straggling Sioux and other Indians were raiding the Yellowstone Valley. They had rnn all the whites in tbe vieinity of Terry’s Landing into the military posts and captured all the bprses snd cattle. One man was murdered and another badly wounded. Troops had been sent out from Fort Chester. Nearly $500,000 worth of buildings snd conteSSi on North Fifth street, Si.Lonls, were destroyed by fire, on the night of the 4th. Two firemen snd soother person were killed. Ih Chicago, on April sth, Spring Wheat No- 2 closed rt 92)4®92J4c cash; 90)4c for April; 94J4@94J4c for May. Cash Corn closed at 84>4c for No. 2; 31J4c for April; 86c for Mat. Cash Oats No. 2 •old rt 24>4c, and 25%c seller May. Rye No. 2,45 c. Barley No. 3, 69J4@70c for cart; 09)4*700 for Aprils Cash Mesa Pork closed at $10.85*10.4(1. Laid, 06.37)4. Beeves —Extra brought Choice, 44 60 @4.79; Good, $4.20@C50; Medium Grades, -08.86*446; Butchers’ Stock, “0&65®8.9»; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected], Hogs-Good

to Choice, $8.00*8.90. Sheep— Poor, to Choice $3.76*5.75. Foreign Intelligence., ‘ lx the British House of Commons, on the Slat ult, after a long and acrimonio*sdebate, the motion to censure the Zulu war policy of the Government was defeated by ayes, 246; noes, 906. A Calcutta dispatch of the 31st ult says tbe Klug of Burmah had sent a summons to all Burmese residing In Rangoon to return home at once. He warned them that he would execute all members of their families if they remained absent Ox the 81st ult, the operative weavers, in tbe Blackburn (Eng.) District voted to accept the 5-per-cent reduction in the rate of wages. The leading members of the Roman Catholic Communion, in London, have organized a bank, to be known as tha Anglo-Universal Bank, with Directors In London and Paris. The revenue receipts of Great Britain, during the financial year ending April 1, were £83,115,972—an Increase of £3,852,673 over the receipts of the year preceding. A telegram from London of the Ist says Austria, England, Russia, Turkey aud Italy had resolved to take part in tbe mixed occupation of Eastern Roumella. A Vienna telegram of the Ist says 300 members of the Revolutionary Committee, at Warsaw, Poland, had beer, arrested. Paris dispatches of the let eay that a battalion of zouaves, in Algeria, Were caught In a snow-storm, on the 28th ult., while marching between Sonaki and Honkellleta, and nineteen men perished. Fourteen others had been taken to tbe hospital, badly frozen. A resolution was adopted In the British Parliament, on the Ist, calling for an official re pot t of the condition of the trade of Great Britain with tbe United States. Gen. Kaufmann, the Russian Governor of Tashkend, telegraphed the Home Government, on the Ist, that the British had arranged to. place Wall Mohammed, a cousin of the late Ameer, now with the British lorces, upon the throne of Afghanistan, and would support him with tbe entire army against Yakoob Khan. It was also stated that an Afghan tribe bad lately captured 700 British soldiers near Jelialabad, %nd that the Viceroy was forced to pay £150,000 for theiiransom. According to London telegrams of the 2d, the failure of the Chartered Mercantile Bank to pay its dividend bad seriously crippled several of the London banks, among others the following, whose failure was feared: The Bank of Ajfra; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia aud China; tbe Delhi and London Bank; the Hong Kong and China Bank; the National Bank of India and the Oriental Bank. A Viexxa dispatch of the 2d announces the outbreak of tbe cattle-plague in over a hundred Bohemian villages. ~ Austria has discontinued her quarantine against the Russian ;fiague. A dispatch was received in London, on the 2d, announcing the death by drowning, while crossing the Cahue River, In Afghanistan, a few days before, of a squadron of hussars belonging to the Tenth Regiment. It seems they attempted to cross the river in the night, missed the ford and were swept away by the rushing waters. Fifty men, as many horses and one officer perished. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Telegraph of the 2d says it had been decided by the Russian Government to subsidize Yakoob Khan and to make a diversion in his favor.

A Lahore (India) dispatch of the 3d says a British force, under Capt. Gough, had defeated 5,000 Afghans, killing 400. The British loss was three officers and three men killed, and thirty-two wounded. The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced In the British House of Commons, on tbe 3d, that the estimated receipts for the current fiscal year would be £35,055,000, and the expenditures £31,153,573, and that no additional' taxes would be levied.-’ This announcement was received with deafening cheers, in which the Opposition joined. The latest advices from Russia give alarming reports of the spread of revolutionary ideas and purposes among the people, and the increasing audacity of the Nihilist conspirators. Among the latter have been found persons of high rank and great influence with the Czar. The German Reichrath has adjourned Until April 28. A London telegram of the 4th says trouble bad arisen between England and France concerning the occupation of the Island of Matacony, off the coast of Africa. The latter claimed that the was ceded to France In 1878, and the former that It had had possession since 1826. On the 4th, Isaac Fletcher, Member of Parliament for Lockermouth, committed suicide by shooting. The British Privy Council has rescinded Its late order relative to the importation of American cattle. An Egyptian force, numbering 3,000 men, recently fought 11,000 Arabs convoying 10,000 women, who were being taken to Egypt as slaves, and, after a spirited engagement, defeated them, killing 1,087 men. The Egyptian loss was comparatively trifling. A South Africa, dispatch, received in Lon don on the 4tb, says that messengers had arrived Ir«m King Cetewayo asking for tha resumption of negotiations with a view to the permanent settlement of all contested questions. The British agent sent Into Upper Egypt to inquire concerning the famine reports that 10,000 persons had died from starvation alone Girgeh, Kena and Esna. The City of Mlrggoane, in Hayti, was destroyed by fire, oh the night of the 16th of March. About 6,000 persons were rendered homeless, and property worth $1,000,000 was burned. London dispatches of the sth sav it was believed by the Government that Cetewayo’s wish for peace was a pretense to gain time to gather a harvest. It was stated that only unconditional surrender would be accepted. The work on the St. Gotbard Tunnel has been partially suspended, the contractor averring that he Is receiving 460,000 per month less than he should receive by the terms of his contract. . The Pope has sent an autograph letter to Queen Victoria welcoming her to Italy. The’French Senate has adjourned to tbe Bth, and the Chamber of Deputies to the 15th, of Mhy. The Bulgarian Assembly baa decided upon Sophia as the capital of the Principality. The annual race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities was rowed on the Thames, in London, on the sth, resulting in the victory of the former crew. The distance rowed over was four miles and two furlongs, and the winning time was twenty-one minutes and eighteen seconds. According to Alexandria (Egypt) dispatches of the sth, on ' the day following the battle previously reported, 5,000 deserters came intotbe Egyptian camp. The latter followed the retiring enemy and killed ten Chiefs and 3,000 more men, and were still in pursuit of the remainder. The breaking up of all the. slave depots in Central Africa was considered inevitable. According to a Cape Town (South Africa) dispatch of the 6tb, Oham, brother of King Cetewayo, had been captured by the British forces with 300 of his men. An Insurrection had broken out in the Transvaal. K Liverpool dispatch of the 6th announces the failure of several (extensive cotton brokers. -"Over 90,000 coaKmiwrs in fforiramrstratk; on the sth.

TMe Colonel of the Seventieth Austrian Regiment wss recently murdered by Bosnian brigands. . » The Roumanian Legislative Assembly has lately passed by Urge majorities In both bouses s resolution affirming the necessity of so revising the Constitution sa to remove the disabilities under which tlio Jews labor.

(J<>uirr»HMlonAl Proceeding**. Among the biHs introduced in the Hcnate. on the Dint nit. m one to extend the time for the construction ot the Northern Pacific Railroad, and one to authorize the National Board of Health to investigate and report on the infections nnd contusion* disease* of animals. .... No busmens of importance was transacted. The House was not in session. In the Senate, on the l«t, the bill appropriating *200.000 for a yellow-fever disinfecting vessel wns passed.... A resolution was passed authorizing the Committee on Rules to take nNer consideration the question as to whether the Joint rales for the government of the business of Congress were in force, and to confer with the like committee of the House on the subject. In the House, the legislative Appropriation bill (between *16,(00.000 and *16,0 0,000) was reported. with several repealing clauses... The Army Appropriation bill was farther debated in Committee of the Whole. Several bills wore introduced in the Henate, on the 2d. among which was one providing for a treaty with Mexioo.... Mr. Hoar's resolution condemning as unconstititutional and revolutionary the Democratic programme of legislation was laid on the table— 85 to 20.... Majority and minority reports were made in the case TSr Mr. Bell, of New Hampshire, the former against, , in( j the latter in favor of, his admission as Senator on the appointment of the Governor of his State. , fn the House, all general debate on the Army Appropriation bill was ordered closed at three o'clock p. m. on the 4th, leaving the five-minute debate still open.. The discussion on said bill was continued in Committee of the Whole. In the Senate, on the 3d, Mr. Hoar argued in favor of admitting Mr. Bell as Henator from New Hampshire, saying there was an unbroken line of precedents for so doing ... A bill was introduced to authorize the President to appoint Gen. .Tames Shields a Brigadier-General on the retired list.... Adjourned to the 7th. The debate on the Army Appropriation bill was continued in’ the House, several members taking part in the discussion. , The Senate was not in session, on the 4th. The general debate on the Army Appropriation bill was closed in the House, and the bill was considered under the five-minnte rule, after which Mr. New offered an amendment providing that nothing in the section under discfiAsion should be construed as abridging the duty or power of the President, under the Constitution, to send troops on application of the Legislature or Executive of a Htate. Mr. Baker offered an amendment to the amendment, making it unlawful for anyone to have on his person fire-arms, bowie-knives, clubs or bludgeons in the vicinity of a place where an election is being held. The Chair ruled out Mr. Baker’s amendment as not germane to an Army bill. The committee rose, and the House ordered all debate on the pending measure to close at 12:30, on the sth. There was no session of the Senate on the sth. The Army Appropriation bill was fnrther considered in Committee of the Whole of the House, and a motion to strike out the repealing section of the bill was, after debate, rejected—yeas, 117; nays, 136. Other propositions were also rejected, when the committee rose and reported the bill totheHouse. The unimportant amendments to the bill were agreed to, without division, and the bill, as amended, was then passed—l4B to 122—a strict party vote. The following named Greenbackere voted with the Democrats in the affirmative: De La Matyr, Ford, Gillette, Jones. Ladd, Lowe, March; Stevenson, Weaver and Yokum. Messrs. Barlow and Forsythe (of the Greenbackers) voted with the Republicans, in the negative. ... .The House then, by a vote of 154 to 109, adj ourned to the Bth. Investigation. THE SENATE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE IN WASHINGTON. The committee continued its investigation, in Washington, on the Ist. A Mr. testified that no person in the Treasury Department receiving less than *1,200 per year was asked to subscribe to he Republican campaign fund. R. B. Sqniera testified that he was an assistant messenger in the War Department, He did not subscribe anything. Soon after receiving the circular his salary was reduced to sixty dollars per month. Ris salary was reduced at the beginning of the fiscal year by action of Congress at the same time that other employes’ wages were cat down. George C. Gorham was recalled, on the 4th, and fnraished statements previously called for, from which it appears that 782 circulars were sent to employes in Departments, 435 of which were responded to, twenty-five were returned and 272 resulted in subscriptions amounts ing to $8,247. He had found cases where circulars were sent to persons receiving salaries of less than SI,OOO, and ne wished to correct his previous statement on that point. John G. Thompson Was called by the Republican members of the committee, and detailed his connection with the Democratic Congressional Committee in 1878. No money was collected from employes of the House of Representatives. Witness devoted most of his time during the summer of 1878 to conducting the campaign, but came to Washington on the first of every month to see to the disbursements of members’ salaries. Did not neglect his official duties. ' ' Duncan 8, Walker, Secretary ofthe Democratic Congressional Committee in 1878. testified that the headquarters of the committee for a portion of the campaign were in the room of the House Committee on Agriculture. The amount collected by the committee was $4,695. The number of documents sent out was 1,031,700. The documents were nearly all folded in the room of the House Committee on Post-Roads and Printing. Large numbers of documents were sent out by the committee under frank of Members of Congress, but nothing not privileged. Postage was paid on all documents not fraukable. Witness read a statement showing that the expenses of the fold-ing-room for 1878 were only $20,598, as against larger sums, ranging up to as nigh as Jll’9,o'o the lastten years. Henry Cobant, Captain of {he watch in the Treasury Department, testified that he had charge of furnishing Pennsylvania voters in that Department with free transportation to their homes, and tax receipts, where they had failed to pay their taxes, both of which were furnished by Russel, acting for the State Central Republican Committee.— ■