Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 April 1876 — Page 4

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WMTCT'BALL & CO., Prop's. WM. C. BALL BALL.

Office, No. 5 South Fifth Street.

Thursday. April 27? 1S70.

did run

smooth.

THE

many railroad caster the receiver is bad as the thief.

AND now they cay Frank Landers has actually retired, teeth and toe-nail,, from expected. He cou Id not very co»«ste»t thehcaJof the Independent Greenback ly have done any thug else, tnough in locket. The coarne of true'love

never

IN view of the tact that private Secre-

fi-om behind an iron latticed door, maybe Ross Sheppard was right when he tejegraphed to St. Louis, that "right is right as God i" good."'

BKISTOW

in London England in connection with the public schools. So far, it has proved a splendid mccess. It has only been established a few months and already ^Ci6 children have deposited $5,620. The same system has been tried in two or three towns in 11:i•, country and with similar success.

AT THIS

vetoing it,

Pious

dosen't stand any foolish

ness about investigation into his character and official conduct. Whoever ac-

cuscs him of misfeasance or malfeasance

put up or shut up.

PENNY 1A.\N.S

distance from the scene of

strife, it is not easy to comprehend the intense hatred Californians entertain for the Chinese. It seems impossible for them to become reconciled to the continue emigration of the almond-eyed celestials. What they will do at the last, if Congress shall insist that this blessed land of ours is an asylum for the oppressed o! ALL nations is to be seen.

NEW YORK

A'.'TI'.R

City is really to have an

Xelevated railway. It will run from the battery to Central Park, 011 Third Avenue, and will makj the distance between these two terminal points in twenty minutes. President Grant is said to be a .stockholder in it. The remarkable time he has made in running his reputation down hi'l suggested to him the pro priety of inventing in this rapid transit railway.

M.VXCHKSTKR.

New Hampshire, is af

flicted with a had case of "relic"' fever. It is proposed by the patriotic people o! that place to send to the Centennial a mythical log which General Stark is supposed to have lett half s:i« :d on his mill, when news of the battle of Lexington reached him. Accompanyi ig, they should send a centennial conundrum gucsser, who should give answer as to why the old General never went back and finished sawing that log?

all our vexation and trouble

Winslow, the reverend forger of Boston, is to escape from justice. John Bull hides himself behind an act of Parliament, changing the provisions of the extradition treaty—a proceeding which, considering the fact that cur consent was never asked to this or.c-sidcd arrangement, is to sav the least of it, a little cavalier. Secretary Fish should insist upon our cousins living up to the provisions of the treaty until a new one is made and ratified bv both nations.

MASSACHUSETTS

is awakening to the

necessitv of a public park of gigantic pi o-

portions, and fitted to do honor to so

raaybe Been all the fauna and flora of

thc State. Cambridge and Concord

lead the list of petitioners with the H°use

names of their citizens.

voked

v, who was

as propriation, to which it was.

-w

THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY.[limits frequently, it was prcbablydone Congress owes it to the country to re- uigent request of a rapacio.s lan

duce the salary of t,c^

Pr^en

to£3

cisive majority as tc, leax eno doubt

whatever

ng eise, uiougu

,rauds

wmnmmmmmmmm*—— friends, when they

attached

plea was a sham and a cneat.

tary Bubcock is likely to meet the doom ..... his r.irticin:ition that iram of safe burglar and expiate his crimes

at him. or to impugn his motives.

We understand perfectly well that it is more expensive living in Washington than it is in Galena, but we also wish him to understand that it is our wish to have some of the simplicity of Galena carried to Washington to modify the cost of living there. Any frugal home, wherein an honest citizen dwells and manages with care h's scant income, is a better model for an American pre-ident than the palatial mansion of any foreign potentate. We do not pay oar presidents as kings are paid becausc, in the first place, the kings establish their own incomes without (Consulting their subjects, an un-re-pubiican style of proceedurc not indiginous to this soil—and second, because we wish our presidents to live as unlike kings as possible. The time has passed, or rather never has come to this country, when the chosen ruler of fifty millions of people can forget the origin of his power, and scorning the people and the comparitively humble mode of life of the mass, seek to imitate the ostentation and the pomp of foreign potentates, or he bullycd into living beyond his means by the example of such representatives as they may sencl to our shores.

cost of living at Wa.-hington, he should Goven: remember that he touches a question as

the daily commercial reports published 'n the papers. We know first of all that his house rent costs him nothing, the White House being a perquisite ofhis station. We know further that that house furnished at th govermcnt expense. from ccl lar to garret. We know still further that the hills for heating and lighting it are paid out of our pockcts and we also know that they havo been exhorbitently high hills. Moreover the grounds and the conservatories are kept by servants paid out of the public purse and not out of his. Certain other attendants,paid by the people, care tor those things which the public in part use with him. The secrttar

1 1 1

'V- .. ies that ho employs in the transaction of

he us in an 6 iv at us

-inw—• www,

mace oc h* mnv have, arc •the people.

,ness as

great a State. With a view to securing supplied and lVJt .this needed improvement a petition has Out

ofhi's

•i. his private table and clothes himselt and

ing for the estabHsbment ot"* a' p"ark'cov- purely $25,00-0 a year ,ought to

cring five or six square miles, embracing

AKL SCHURZ famous sentiment con- incumbered with them. There e-rningRobeson, that he was considered a great sailor by constitutional lawye-is and a great constitutional lawyer by sail-

by this sentiment, but art Austrian the financial aspects of the question, to

ot" the company pound oil upon limit"his indulgence in that costly habthe troubled^ waters?" by "The statement 'is Wagricr is greater than Beethoven necesity of life, since before he was Pres and Goethe. He is greater composer ident he was guiltless of having two than Goethe and J3eethovcn,

prHaic purse oaj, veepsup

cornPas^

1 1 _] ,.ii 11 President Grant be tore h£ speaks so every kind of surface, and -still partially 4 slMhtinjrlv ot the purchasing power ot covered with wood for a forest conserva-

torv. Their intention is to preserve this I^S-ooo per annum, should think a mopark in its primitive condition, wherein

ment-

room

A racing stable is not ajiecessi-

to a

President and a carna^j ware-

n^d

All presidents could

gr01"^

dispense with those luxuries and most presidents would insist upon not bein

was a .time when Ulysses managed to get along without them.artd had the one single ambition to have a

ors has crossed the Atlantic and came brick side walk hud between this humble back in anew form, and directed towards cottage and the post office at Galena. anew subject. At a recent performance ~r'"'" in Berlin of Wagders "Tristan and iurlC5 uuiuuiciu •u.uugiu.. Isolde," and ethiuuastic admirer of the they do any where else in the land. Wine composer exclaimed .* with ethusiasm js not a necessary, and if report speal "Wagner is-greater than Beethoven and true the President would do 'well from Goethe." Considerable dissent was pro- santary point of view, to say nothing of

,. I lord, eager for his rent. In those da^s it

^passmgtheb^ovcrGrantsvctodl contemplated residing shoulddo it at once, andby such

and so caused an expensive extra session could save of his too meager income, of Congress. It r.ow transpires that such lopping off this expenditure, whicn the UI'M VLFL

He admits PcoP'e

his participation in that gigantic raid on the National Treasury, known as the sal-

merited graves a large number or Lon-

gressmen. But it wa not to ca^t stones

this article was begun. N'o more do we intend to make capital out of his ridiculous blunder in tha veto message, wherein he pee resident's salary as

having been

is made to (V.ce the music and in the pic- There is ground sufficient for arguturcsque language of the prize ring either merit upon the plain proposition he lavs down that $-'5,000 is not ^sufficient to support a President.

Nr:w JcRsiiv papers are demanding presidential candidate from that bailiwick with him so decidedly, we think $25on the ground that to win in the Union, 000 is a sum quite sufficient for a President New Jersey must first lie carried, which to live on, not only comfortably, but no one but a candidate from that state can

do. It is now time for little Rhocly to some balance at the end for a rainy make her demand and name her favorite FOP.

have been established

fixed by the constitution,

Begging Grant's pardon for differing

en luxuriously, and leave him a hand-

day. President Grant had passed the' meridan of life when the war of the rebellion began.and we very seriously question it during all that prior period of his life his gross earnings had amounted to as much as $2^,000 which he now speaks of as insufficient to sustain him for a single year.

Branch his

healthier

/if

.n the public mind that it .sin Of the fifty million people earnest on the subject of retrenchment

earnest on me the land who pay taxes to riaise the A veto from the President was to be

defended as

Chica-'O Tribune hasten delib- his action by saying that he signed the hands a deal cleaner, the: doing it, TON ... PFDRMANT RAFXFN PRF sident tfllkfi crating oi the cjuc^tion, and has come to bill making tiie iitcrcas*., onty the deliberate conclusion that in very

veto

would have defeated the general ap

^ar ^rom

wild-

proba

not happier than

he has

presidcnt

not

one in the ten thousand can

he tacitly admits the afford to spend the summer at Long practiced bv his Branch and yet they live and labor, domg

much work perhaps and keeping their

ca the President. Before the President talks about 25,000 a year not being enough, he ought to estimate the amount he

ur?no ul,on

^ave

"n viewed with dislike as being extravagant and undemocratic. If he would institute

ary grab, which consigned to early ana .-n merited graves a large number ot Con-

into }he cost ofhis racc

ine stable, and prav over his wine bill he

mi erh sr

J., ,t,

a„v resisted in his veto mes»age.

being

enough, if he made an honest effort in the direction of economy. Since the president has invited criticism we would suggest that his daughter's wedding presents, given by himself, were not of that character peculiar.v indicative of a president who had found his salary altogether inadequate to pay his expenses. But one other such wedding was ever seen in this country, and that was on the occasion of the marriage of the daughter of Boss 1 weed of mal-

odcrous reputation. If recent developments concerning the use to which the funds ot the secret service were put on tin express order of the President are tine notwithstanding the salary of the presidency was then fixed at the niggardly sum of $25,000 per year, Ulysses Grant was not altogether lacking in a desire to nccure the election to that inadequately paid oilice.

It has been hinted that he will lea\e the presidency a wealthy man, and yet we know that he was as poor as a church mouse when he enlisted in the army, and the highest salary he ha: ever received since has been that attached to the presidency, and for four years that was fixed at the contemptible sum of $25,000.

The president might re-read his veto message with profit, and it is to be hoped that some friend, if any remain to him. will whisper in his car. while so engagedthat the' peaple can distinguish between gold and glitter, end that while they find much to admire in the gallant officer who was willing to bleed for his country, it is only the memory of the past that restrains them from despising a purse-proud president, whoss only ambition seems to be to blee4 hi." country

THE INDEPENDENT GitEIiNBACKEIiS. The',Independent Grcenbackers' oi Indiana will hold a state convention at Indianapolis on the day before the meeting of the National convention of that body the Capitol city. It in the purpose of

When President Grant speaks of the t.]ie gathering to select a candidate for •r vice Landers who sold th.:m finding them incapable of rakin«r the familiar to all of us as to him, by reading chestnuts out cf the fire for him,

I 1

Rumor has it that the National convention will probably select Rise-up-Will-iam Allen as its presidential candidateA motive for his nomination is to be found in a vague hope that their omination of him will force his name through the Democratic convention at St. Louis. If Mr. Allen has any hopes for the St. Louis nomination, or has any true and warm friends, they will keep Ins name out of the hands of this longhaired crowd of reformers. It will kill him as dead as a door nail to be favorably spoken of at this Indiadapolis pow-wow-This advice is gratuitous.

TERRE IIAUTE

officials have stolen no

thing this year. There's 'comfort in the fact. Thanks to Mayor Edmunds and Clerk Tolbert.[—Journal.

Although the above paragragh contains no direct charge, the casual reader would infer that our city officers are, in general, men whom it will pay to watch and that it requires an extraordinary amount of vigilance on the part of Mayor Edmunds and Clerk Tolbert to prevent the city officers from robbing the public treasury.

Now the

not incumber the' White

GAZETTE

IS gtcaiu lUCUL lie WM v. a greater poet than houses in the village where he lived, and quest the two editors to cease wrangling l^f he chq!^ti his residence within those] about thepi£eh'es, and branch aff into

is an advocate of

the principles of the Democratic party in state and national politics, but we do not feel called \ipon to make senseless attacks on local officials, because they happen to have been elected by the Republican party. Mavor Edmunds authorizes us to say that he has never suspected any city officer, nor has he heard that any one else suspected them of even a disposition to steal.

last the grand jury of Polk county, Georgia, has done something to commend its deliberations to the thankful consideration of mankind in general, and of the newspaper fraternity in particular. At a recnt session, after returning an unusual number of indictments, it made the following report to the court: "We also feel it our duty to censure the course and conduct of our two newspapers toward each other, and urgently re-

ajrlcuitural articles, or others that will tend to develop the interest and welfare of our country." Will the Grand Jury of Vigo makes a similar report to our court or will the

GAZETTE'S

GAZETTE

"Wha-at, Jim Jim Blaine Got him r'

differ-

which ]w has SQ doglnatic.

Don't touch Jim Blaine. Caught Jim Ciot him Net much.

The

people would view with wonderful complaccnev, any reduction in these items his expense, and listen with more patience to his talk about $25,000 per year not

THE

quarrelsome

contempories sniff trouble from afar, and following our example, walk with us in those paths of pleasantness, and peace, which they have hitherto resigned entirely to the

Echo answers—hey

As ONE of the jury before whom James G. Blaine has been on trial on an indictment for having corruptly come by $u.ooo, the

GAZETTE

says, not guilty. By

the bye, intellectually considered, Jim Blaine is a royally good fellow. Me is the king bee of the congressional liivc While he is not our first, nor yet our second choice for president, we should not cry our eyes out if he should come to sit in the seat of the prcsidenl.

Chicago Post and Mail of yester

day afternoon publishes a despatch from Elihu B. Washburn in Paris, postively declining the nomination for Gove.ner ot Illinois which zealous friends are urging on him. In view of the tact that the Democratic State ticket of Illinois will be elected by a good round majority, we are constrained to ejaculate "wise Washburn."

THE PROBLEM OF THE HOUSE.

A Citizqp Proposes a plan for a Gradual Return to Specie Payments.

To thi Editors of Th.i Evening tiiwUc: The financial question is now the great problem in American politics. Nearly every public man has his pet theories on the question, and while some are in favor of specie resumption, others arc equally positive that the greenback is the groat healer of our troubles. Both parties advance sirong arguments in favor of their pet theories. 11 is proposed by many to retire the national bank currency and issue greenbacks in their stead. This would be very well, if it could be dclne without depreciating the value of the greebadk dollar, and if that course should be persucd it is evident that such a depreciation would take place. With regard to the resumption law of 1S79, aireadv been proven a total failure, as no provision has leen made which are practical for such a course. It is r.ow proposed in this article to show how the Government can finally arrive at specie resumption without disastrous results t.r. the business interests of the country.

In the first pl.ice the financial prqblem must he settled for at least titty years, by having a final *ettfc"J plan of pay-jug our debts as follows:

It is stated that all the gold can be secured that is desirable for four and one half to five per cent, gold bonds. Let enough of ther.e bc-nds be issued and gold secured to yny off the bonds now held by national banks, tiiat arg deposited to sccure circulation, ond retire the national bank currency, issuing an c^'-'-al amount of greenbacks to take the place ot national bank notes, and in order to make the greenbacks valuable, a iaw must be passed and provision made for their final redemption in gold coin, say every ten vears, a certain series of numbers shall be redeemed, having the last redemption of greenbacks in fifty years from the passage of the law. In retiring the national bank

currency

five years should be given

so that, the treasury of the United .States would have ample time to secure the gold for the pavir.snt of each bank's 1 onds when they are given notice to pass in their national bank notes. This plan would at once put gold into circulation. as each bank would receive the coin for their bonds, and it certainly looks reasonable that this course would make the greenback dollr.r almost equal if not quite on a par with gold,and many of the banks in receiving the pay for their bonds would take greenbacks at a light discount. Only let it be known that they can have the gold if desired. People don't want the gold they only v. aut.to know that it can be had.

The greenback currency would give the people a desirable medium of exchange and as it has in the past so it would in the future serve the people faithfully. iv adopting this final settled plan, it would give new life to every industry, as capitalists then would not look for a change in the finances ever new congre.-s or administration, But the qustion would be settled and all would be quite sure to! remain the same. H-

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY. San Francisco, April 25.—Dom Pedro and party arrived this evening. At Pleasanton, forty miles from the city, his car was detached from the train, put behind another engine and rushed over the road half an hour ahead of the overland train. The object was to avoid any demonstration on arrival, which

Ackerman is Compelled to Answer That Ticklish Question.

He Paid Money to Davenport by Order of the President.

Impeachment Preparations.

More Evidence Against Schcnck.

Washington. April 25.—On reassembling the committee decided to require "an answar. Mr. Akerman then put in hi protest on the ground that it was both illegal and prohibited by statute that Such communications with the executive should be inadmissible. He then testified to conversations, similar to those narrated by ex-Attorney General Wil liams, with the president.

Akerman stated that some time in iSjt while the president was at Long Branch, and he (Akerman) was in Washington, he received a letter, written by General Porter, in accordance with the direction of the president, stating that a Mr. Dav enport was engaged in searching out frauds against naturalization and registration in New York, and suggesting to him (Akerman) that he could usefully employ a portion pt" the money given to him by congress to suppress election frauds in these New York cases Witness was at that time engaged in the investigation cf the Kuklux affairs in the south, and he replied to the president's suggestion that he had already appropriated his money in that direction. He was told in a subsequent communication from the president that the funds could be used with as great advantage in NewYork city as in the south. After a full explanation, he authorized the payment to Davenport. These conversations with the president extended through the fall of 1S70 and the spring of 1S71. The frauds in elections were matters of fre quent consultation, and the witness recommended the employment of special counsel, and among others who were employed in New York cases was Caleb Cushing. He could not state any specific case in which frauds were committed, but he knew they were general. Mr. Cushing was paid for his services out of what was called the judiciary fund. The withess never thought the President was inlluenced in his action by any partisan motive. He wanted to prevent frauds and he did not care what party they affected: he could not recollect that any portion of this money was used to detect frauds in Philadelphia. The latter was a Republican citv., and New ork was Democratic, but that did not influence the President in his action. The frauds in New York seemed to be systematic. That was the field of the Democrats operations, and the President was of the opinion that if his system could be ot advantage there, it would be elsewhere. The President never, for a moment, thought lie was acting in a partisan manner. Ad"ourned.

IML'EAC'HMKNT.

The managers of the impeachment trial have summoned Marsh and wife, Vail, cashier of the Bank of Commerce, New York, E. T. Bartlett. New York, lawyer, and Gen. Custar. Mrs. Marsh is ill.

The committee on expenditures in the interior department to-dav examined John. Delano with reference to his

LAND SVRVEY COXTKACTS.

From his testimony it appear that lie had an interest in "the Hamomnd contract though his name did not appear. Col. John L. Merriam was his partner and the witness did nothing but to itirnish money. The witness received notes or chccki frr.n Co!. Merriam, who made the checks payable to him he made no attempt to conceal the receipt of morny, nor did he think that he did dishonorable, did not recti ve over 3,000 eoliars froni all his surveying1 contracts. The witness was. asked whether he told Dr. Reed in April. 1875, that the president had evidence of his interest in such contracts, and replied that he did not recollect. Being closely questioned, he said that according to his recollection, the evidence was shown to him by (fen. Babcock, at the White House lie never had a talk with the president about the mater.

N'FAV -MEXICO.

The 1 louse Committee on Territories has agreed to report favorably on the Senate bill for the admission, of New Mexico. The only important amendment provides that the election for the adoption of a State constitution shall..nbt be held earlier than June, 1877, the Senate bill provides for not later than January, 1S77.

A sub-cjmir.itttee. hcuded by Representative Willis, of the Hoiise Committee on Naval Affairs, will, t.n Monday next, begin the investigation-. of the management of the Brooklyn navy yard, and of evp-'iiditures and contracts in and aboat New Yorkcity for naval *piir'po«3$.

r.MMA.

Th House Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day received from England ccr tain documents from officers of the Emma 1 mining company, including those about which Mct?ougaU telegraphed several weeks a^o as being in hi possession affecting Gen. Schenck. At the meeting next Tuesday Gen. Schcnck may again be heard from in the committee concerning points against his integrity.

The house appropriation committee adopted the posfoffice bill this morning, •as'a ^'h'eh provides that the free delivery sys

the Palace Hotel, where they en tered without half a dozen people knowing they had arrived. On the arrival of the regular train at Oakland, a great crowd was in attendance, with bands playing and colors living, while Dom Pedro was already ensconced in apartments at the Palace. Seats have been engaged by telegraph for the party at the Mechanics pavillion to-night to hear Gilmore's orchestra. On arrival of the train at. Sacremento, Dom Pedro and party hastily examined the workshops of the Centra! Pacific, expressing regret at the briefness of the inspection. The party will remain in the city four or five days, thence to ether points of interest.

FIRES.

Long Branch, N. J. April 25.—-The Metropolitan liotcl here, burned to-night. Loss about $70,000: insurance. 136,000.

tern shall not be introduced in cities of

virtually cuts off the present fast mail trains. The maximum of speed is fixed at thirty miles per hour.

A FLOATING PALACE. Jefferson ville, Ind., April 25.—Ten thousand people witnessed the successful launching of the new steamer Robert E. Lee at Howard's ship yard to-day. Her entire length is three hundred and twenty feet, and she will carry eight thousand bales of cotton. Her cabin is to be a dazzling palace, which will defy the competition of all predecessors or rivals for public favor on the great Mississippi. She will have nine monstrous steam boilers, and her engines will be models of mechanical skill, and will rank with the largest high pressure engines ever built in the west. She is built for flv? Mississippi river. When completely finished she cost over a qujuter niilHon dollars.

OUR FR(£ND& IN FRANCE

An Operatic Festival for the ofit of New York Harbor.

Paris. April J5.—A grand ope rati tival organized by tha Franco Ame union, to raise funds for tne erectioi statue of liberty in New York he was held to-night. The e\terior stage of the opera house were deco with American flags. The audicno a brilliant one, consisting cf many tinguished persons. Among those ent were Minister Washburne and 1 members of his legation, ex-Presf Thiers. M. M. Waddington. Oscas Lafayette, Rochanheau and De To ville. The Amerienn colony, very fully. represented. opera company and oit tra executed several selections. thousand singers from the various pheon societies joined in performan a cantata entitled ''Liberty Enlight the world," dedicated to tke people United States, aud composed espt for the occasion by Charles Gc The work was rendered with spirit, and received with immensi plans. Several patriotic songs wer«j and the audience was most enthiujji

M. Laboulay delivered an cloquc dress, .lie described the positi France and Americaln 1776, and ed the events leading to the revo. He said the proclamation of Ami independence was the iutroductio free republican government in then world. 1 le pointed out the part by the French nobility in achievement of American liberty concluded as follows: "The prt movement symbolizes American dom which bears peace and enii ment everywhere. It will be an 1 monument of the friendship of and America, ever recalling the names of Washington and I .afaye! the union of two peoples who fci united to found independence and unite to cement fraternity."

The proceedings terminated wit singing of "Hail Colombia."

A MAX OF 1[ANV~ TRI

Bristol Investigated Charge of Crooked Com tion With the Bar)

Mary Merritt.

Washington, April 24.—The cc tee on exenditures in the treasury ment met tojjday for an investigat the charges against Secretary Brh relation to the release of the bark Merritt. Bristow appeared, in hi behalf, Judge Cate appeared in hit behalf. Judge Cate, who introduc resolution in the house, was Called for the names of the parties who f»j ed him with the information. 11^ Chittenden, Johnson, Lewit\ Levi, bell, G. W. liaxclton and Mr. No He suggested that perhaps it mig' be necessary to summon more tha or two of them, as all the facts eov obtained from that number as well and the expense of summoning them might be saved. 1 Ic did not it necessary to summon Judge IIul

Bristow said it was late fo tal! economy in this matter. He ha arraigned before the country wanted the fullest and minutest gation, and desired the attendance witnesses, particularly Judge Hub' he desired to show under what stances Ilubbell went out of oflic questioned Cate as to r.ll the.soil his information and desired a lis! persons with v. hom he had comer on the subject. Member* of the c| tee having objected to his question? retary Bristow said lie had no he in saying that these charges had stigatcd by what was l.ncwn in tin try as the "whisky ring of Milw and he interrogated Cafe to br those facts and put the informa record

Cate said the committee wouli1 take care of their side of the ca himself did not v/Mi to appear as cutor.

Secretary BnV.c\v—But rati wi! you can not help it. After further discission, the 1 tee decided to si'iiimoti all the named.

Secretary Bristow said some pers had charged that he had dec! turnish the original papers in thi He wished to state that while dience to an executive order he decline to furnish the original paj the case under investigation, yet in' case against himself he would take sponsibih'ty to produce before tlv rnittce every Original, paper. lb gave the committee the following of witnesses to lie summoned: Dr. C. F. Conant, Blyford. Wilson, Robeson, of the treasury depa John Frceland, W. L. and S'. E. i' Hopkinsville, Ky.. and Walter E\ Louisville.

The committee then adjourned.

FRANK "SOULTOS"WRITE BEECHER. New York, April 27.—Mr. Fra Moulton, in on open letter to Ward Beechcr, says: will so my complaint that the, issue si if it is not so offered now that perjury you caused me to be indie libel, for saying you were an r.! you then well knowing that what was true." Moulton offers to subi issue to the jury summoned ir. an ry mode, or by ex-President Woo Yale college, or by Deacon Gee Robinson, of Plymouth church, jury, half selected by Thomas G. man and Edward K. Beeeher, other half by himself, a verdict majority to be accepted as the fin cision.

DON'T 60 NEAR THE W Iowa City, April 25.—As Pr Parker, professor of ancient hist, the state university, was out rowi the river this afternoon, in compan his son, daughter and niece, the be set, and his son and daughter, ag. spectfully

and

13,

were swept

tne water and drowned. The pr. exerted himself to the utmost to sa children, but the current being strong, he was unable to do so.

^rtaIKT-

New Orleans, April 25.—A Gal News special grom Ring-gold ba of the 25th, says General Fuer three thousand federal troops, Is from Monterey for Mier. Querej hold Monterey. Fuero will doi meet Diaz' force* at Mier or Come