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VOLUME LXXXIV.
FIRST EMIR
griVE.I.4 I 7V. O'CLOCH4.M.
lIARRISBURG.
Proceedings of the Legislatur—
e for the Extension of the
Allegheny Valley Railroad to
the Susquehanna Registry
Bill—Pittsburgh and Ormsby
Passenger Railway Sheep
Brokers' Bi 1 , Reconsidered—
' &c., esc. •
L'lly Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
HertrasnunG, March 22,1869.
SENATE.
Mr. ERRE72 iniroduced a bill author
izing the construction of a railroad con
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( necting the mouth 'of Mahoning Creek,
`'Armstrong county, with the - month of
& Bennett's Branch, Cameron county, to
connect with the Philadelphia and Erie
Railway, and to secure the payment tit
three and a half million dollars of bonds
ofthe Stmbuit and Erie road now irithe
hands of- the 'State. It authoidzes the
Allegheny Valley Railroad to extend its
line through to the west branch of
the Susquehanna on the route indicated,
and its mortgage bonds may be guaran
teed by the Pennsylvania Central, North
ern Central and Philadelphia and Erie,
or any other through line to Philadelphia
and New York, approved by the Com
anintioners of the sinking fried. On these
lands one +hundred thousand dollars
shall be payable to the Commonwealth
yearly, commencing January Ist, 1875,
with Uttered, from January lst, 1872.
Also, a bill authorizing the Allegheny
Coniity Courts to 'discharge delinquent
Assessors after one week's citation.
Mr. WHITE, a bill providing for mar
riage licenses and registration thereof.
On motion of Mr. ERRETT, the registry
bill was made the_ special order for to
, morrow evening. • ,
lor.ERRETT called up a supplement to
the lateral rail road law. Passid finally.'
Mr. SEARIGHT, a bill repealing the
act authorizing the sale of property of
corporations, upon bonds secured by
mortgage, P assed e effect as if upon
xnortgagei finally.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met in the evening.
Mr. MULLIN, of Philadelphia, moved
a reconsideration of the vote negativing,
sheep brokers' bill. Agreed to and laid
over. •
Mr. MORGAN. of Allegheny, called
: :Upthe bill incorporating Pittsburgh and
' 4, :Ormsby Passenger Railway... Passed
...finally. '
- . The SPF.A.RER laid before the liciuse -
a memorial of the Franklin Institute
' against the. Boiler Inspection bill.
The joint resolutum for the introduc
„tion of petrolia calcium gas light into
the public buildings and grounds was
supported by Mr. WILSON, of Alle
gheny, and Mr. HUNTER,-of Westmore
land. Passed dually.
NEWS Itir CABLE.
(By Telegrapli to the niabburgh Gazette,
GREAT BRITAIN.
'JORDON, hts i rch 22.—1 n the House of
ComnaOns toZday Mr: Fortesque, Chief
Secretary for Irelind, :said the Govern
ment did not intend to extend clemency
to any other Fenians•now•in prison.
The debate On, the Irish Church bill was
resumed.- Sir Roundell Palmer made a
speech fiirOiing i disestablishment. but
opposing- tlisendowmeht, and said- he
- would propose and urge the niodification
of the bill in COmmittee.
Sir John Duke Coleridge, Solicitor
'General, advocated the bill, approving it
in all its points. •
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SOUTH AMERICA.
PAnis, March M.—Rio .Taniero advices
.Mate that Parana, as Brazilian Secretary
of Forbign Affairs h'aS gone to Asounclon
-to establish a Provisional Government.
HUNGARY.
Pnsrn, March 22.—A;- majority of the
abandons for the Hungarian Parliament
so far.have resulted in the success of the
Dealt party.
SPAIN.
MADRID, Marcb 22.—A popular dem
onstration baa begs made in Barcelcma
la favor bf free trade.
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TURKEY.
CONEITANTINOPLB, March 22,, The
Turkish-Ainister hasTeturned to Athens,
Greece, to resume his position there.
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MARINE NEWS.
"Lowoow March 22 . —The steamship
Belton*, from New York, has arrived.
lavEnPooL, March 22.—The steamer
City of Antwerp, which put Pack to
Queenstown a low • days since, returned
herelbr repairs. The City of New York
sailed from Queenstown Sunday morning
for New York, with her mails and pas
senger&
Qtrzessrows, March 22.—The steam
ship City of Brooklyn, from New York,
arrived to-day, •
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
I Lcnsoozr, March - 22—Evening.--Con
atoleißlX;Flirs.Twentiesquiet and st . ea_dy
M Stoeks stead,y; Erie, 24X,
' ncdsi M. Linseed 011, .329 16s. 16Upiri
-119‘11d. = Tallow, 4gs. 6d. Calcutta Lin
•-r aeed, 695.(§)598. 6d.
Astrawar, March 22.--Pettolettm
SC 64Q)5435f. • ,
Facturgoirr, March 22.-Ij. S. Bolide.
'•,; orgiog.
Lrturoot,, March,_22.—Cotton rather
f More active; ?diddling Uplands, 125.;
Orl 12 s.• sal 000 Call
13111131rbetles. tern
fornia white Wheat. Bs. 8 6; wes
Bcl. 'Western Flour, 23e. Corn, Me t
l or.old, and Ma. 9d. for new. Oats, led
_ Barley, 6e. Peas; 41e. Pork, 1 Beef
110 x. Lard, 755. 6d. Cheese, 765. Bacon,
62e. 6d. • Petroleum firmer; spirits, 71,64:1,
• refined, le. BXd. Tallow, 458.6 d. Tur
pentlne,2os. 6d.
March ' 22.—Rocateg.—Bouree
'• - quiet; Routes, 70f. 30e.
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1, ILLesiz, „March M.—Cotton 'quiet and
steady.
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THE CAPITAL.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.l
- March 22, 1869.
The Senate adjourned at tWo o'clock,
when the Republicans, 'by previous Ar
rangement, resumed their caucus on the
stalled of the Tenurt-Of-Office act with a
view to accommodate-their differences.
The President sent in no nominations
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to-day.
NAVY INTELLIGENCE. -
A dispatch received from . Rear Admi
ral Rixlford, dated Lisbon, bdarch 3d, an-
nounees his arrival at that station on the
Franklin, on the 28th ult.. after a patisage
of seventeen days from New York. The
Franklin encountered heavy southward
gales, lasting from the 15th to the 22d
ult. The Ticonderoga. commander Pen-
nock, arrived at Lisbon , a few hours
before the Franklin.- The Ticonderoga
and the Frolic will return to the United
States, in obedience to an order from the
NaNiy Department, as soon as the neces
sary repairs are completed.
EMIGRAItON TQ,
The, Richmond Whg.pf .to-day says
hat several Austrians will arrive next
week to settle a few miles below there.
A. large influx of Englishmen will arrive
at Norfolk in April,- and arrangements
have been made for the importation of
Germans. Letters received from the
Netherlands, Russia and other European
States show that there will soon be a
large emigration to Virginia. Northern
men are also prospecting for settlements»
VIRGINIA.. OFFICES.
All, the clerical forces at the army head
quarters in Richmond were engaged'
Saturday in preparing new appointments
for the State, the time having arrived
when, under the law, all persona who
cannot take the test oath are to be re
moved from Wilco. Among the appoint
ments for the city of Richmond is Col.
Egbert, Chief of Police. It is noted as a
curious fact that throughout the length
and breadth of Virginia, with few excep
tions, no 'marriage can be solemnized,
because of the removal of the clerks.
TENIIR.E•OF.OFFICE-REPUBLICAN CAII-
CUB.
The Republican Senators were in can
ons about two. hours this morning and
about the same time this afternoon, on
the Tenure-of-Office act. Mr. Conkling's
proposition, to suspend the law for four
years, or during the administration of
President Grant, was discussed with
much animation. Several Senators de
clared they would not be bound by
the caucus and retired from the room.
Mr. Edmunds• subsequently offered
a resolution that the act ought not
to be repealed. This also occasioned
a lively debate. Finally a resolution
was adopted that the bill and pending
amendment in the Senate shall be recom
mitted to .the Committee on Judiciary,
with a view to a modification of the law
now 'in force. It is not known what
changes will be proposed. Many Sena
tom suppose they will , be 804,4 as to re,
.lieve the President,. from. :pane= ern
barrassments. - Tt - would seem that the
majority of the Senators are opposed to a
total repeal of the law, and desire to re
min its principles, but think some pro- '
wisp may be added which will render , it '
generally satisfactory. As the House has
: passed a bill for its repeal, the difference ,
between the two branches of Congress
may ultimately be adjusted through a
Committee of Conference.
THE CUBAN INSURRECTION.
The statements from Charleston that I
General Hsnningson is in command of
an expeditionary force in Cuba, is Weer
.rest, as that gentleman is now in: Wash
iiisrtorr. The Representative of the
Cuban Provisional Government is ex
pected here to-morrow. Private letters
received in Washington represent tfie
cause of the insurgents favorable, and
consider it out of the power Of the Span
iards to• put down the insurrection. The
insurgents maintain themselves in more
than half the island, and sire increasing
their number. The, freedmen have their
choice to join the atmy or work on plan
tations for the benefit of the revolution
ists for wages, but generally prefer the
latter.
A COLORED APPLICANT. •
Chas. M. Wilder, colored, has been rec
ommended by the South Carolina Con
greasier al delegation, and endorsed by
the Postmaster General; for Postmaster
at Columbia, in that State. 14e was
for
merly Deputy S. Marshal; a member
of the State Constitutional Convention,
an'd now of the Legislature.
APPROPRIATION DEFICIENCIES.
The Secretary of tbe Treasury, in a
communication to the House, calls atten
tion to the deficiency of appropriations
to complete the Custom Houses at Port 4
land and Ogdensburg, New York, and
the U. S. Marine Hospital at Chicago:
Mrs. Grant to-day completed her se
lection of servants for the Executive
Mansion. -
Fight Between Soldiers and Misslisippi
Ku Klux—Reported Disturbance In
Tennessee.
MY Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
Mitmenis,litirch.22.z-Saturday 'night
a skirmish took place near Batesville;
Mississippi, between a body of disgt:Lied
men and a squad of United States sol
diers. After sharp firing the maskers
fled, but were pursued, and one of the'
tiumbeZ captured, who proved to. be
Jesse Rhodes, a citizen of Panola county.
The maskers had threatened to lynch a
negro in the neighborhood, and the oom
mending officer sent a detachment to
protect - him. The parties met in 7 :-the
woods and the collisionensued. Rhodes
was seat to Vicksburg yesterday in
irons:
The Avalanche's Brownsville : (Tenn.)
special says: One hundred militia ax
e* here yeitetday., Aftermaths . all
the horses ,In town 'they started for
Woodville, where a squad of militia was
fired into a few days since. It is repor
ted that today they destroyed If store
and then had encounter with armed
men. , Tbit`..litia lost - fifteen killed.
This is not 1011 y confirmed. Considera
ble exciteniiiiit' and snits,. prevails
here. BG#Ltra is entirely 'appended.
American Flllianstera la Cuba.
My Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Quetta.]
,
car itltLEaTOle March 22,:—Tha News
"will Publish 10-MArrOlr - a lett& tui:t
nOttrloltig the Cuba -of an
American expeditionMir:force In aid of
thkrii*olutloniste. l 'The force is said to
e'oornposed malalgof of • aid Men
er he served': tit tom:W
deral and Confed
erate armies-ditriote,the late war, and Is
contmanded'br tz , neral Henningson, of
Nicaragua
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.PITTSBURG Li, TUESDAY, MARCH 23. 18E59
11111101
OIIR O'CI.OOIE A. IVL.
TY-FIRST CONGRESS•
FO
SENATE: Bill Granting. Right
of Way to Midland Railroad
Passed—Election .of Officers—
Tenure-of-Office Bill Not Con
sidered. HOUSE: Over .one
Hundred Bills Introduced and
Referred to Committees—The
,Right of Way Granted to the
Memphis. El Paso and Pacific
Railroad Company—Contest
ed Election Cases—l etrench
ment in the Army—The Ad
journment Question.
CBy Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
WASHINGTON, March 22,1869.
' . SENATE.
Mr. POMEROY reported from the Pub
lic Land Committee a bill granting the
right of way to the Midland Pacific Rail
road, which, with amendments, passed.
The following officers were then elected:
Sergeant-at-Arms. John R. French, North
Carolina; Executive Clerk, John M. ISt:U.-
I.ls, South Carolina; Congressional Prin
ter, Almon L. Clapn, Buffalo.
Mr. ABBOTT introduced a joint reso
lution relating to the taking of the ninth
census.
Mr. KELLOGG introduced s hill to aid
the Pacific Central Railroad. Referred
to Committee on Pacific Railroad.
Mr. SUMNER introduced a bill to
amend the naturalization laws. Referred
to Judiciary Committee.
Mr. OSBORN introduced a bill to pre
serve the United States Court records.
Referred to Judiciary Committee.
Mr. FFALSENDEN reported a resolu
tion to correct an error in enrolling the
civil appropriation bill, by inserting the
omission requiring proprietors of bonded
warehouses to pay the salaries of store
keepers. Agreed tu.
Mr. WILLIAMS, from the Committee
on Public Lands,-reported favorably the
bill emendate* 01 the act to aid in the
construction of a raittoad from the Cen
tral Pacific line in California to Portland,
Oregon. it allows any company hereto
fore designated by the legislature to file
its assent to said act within one year.
Mr. COLE introduced a bill granting i
lands in aid of the SaCramento Immigra- 1
Lion and Navigation Canal Company in
ad4 n
Collier ~.-Refsrred to Committee on
Public de. -- : -,--- --6-- - f 7- -.• ~....- z.
The bit repealing the Tenure-of-Office
act was called up, as unlinisbed business,
but postponed.
The bill incorporating the National
Junction Railroad Company was passed.
The bill netendatory of the Judicial
system was called up.
Mr. DRAKE offered a substitute, de
signed to devolve all the duties of Cir
cuit Courts now in existence upon the
District Courts lit each circuit.
Without action:upon the bill, the Sen
ate, at 2 P. at., :adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Bills and resolutions were introduced
and referred.
By Mr. LYNCH: Providing for ,tho
gradual resumption of spetie payments;
also, providing against the untitte expan
sion and contraction of the currency.
By Mr. BLAND: Providing for a uni
form system of naturalization. •
By. Mr. KELSEY: Prohibiting secret
sales of gold or bonds for the Government.
By Mr. DAVIS: Amending he Uni
ted States Judicial systerti; also, estab
lishing the office of Assistant .Judge in
the Eastern District of Texas.
By Mr. BENNETT: Designating the
lights carried by 'Jake steam vessels;
also, to provide for the better protection
r of the Northern and Northwestern fron-
tiers.
By Mr.WOOD: To repeal the Natiopal
Bank Certification act; also, altering the
computation of foreign money for gov
ernment purposes.
By Ur. IdORRELL, Pa.: To authorize
the construction of a railroad from Wash
ington to Cleveland or Erie.
By Mr. O'NEILL: Relative to the use
of bollerp on steam vessels, other than
those iodide of charcoal plates and
wrought iron; also, authorizing a bridge
between Philadelphia and Camden.
By Mr. BINGHAM: Relative to claims
of contractors for machinery' for steam
war vessels.
By Mr. LAWRENCE: To incorporate
the Washington and Cincinnati National .
Railroad Company. •
By'Mr. WINANS: For the election of
a delegate in ; Congress from the District
of Oolnmbia. -
By Mr. INGERSOLL: Relative to
bridges across the Ohio river.
By Mr. LOGAN: For the appointment
of a Supenising Surgeon of Marine Hos
pitils; also, to aid in;the construction of
the International^ Pacific Railroad from
Cairo, 111., to the IttoGrande. -
By Mr. COOK: To authorize the con
. itruction of a railroad from Daybnport,
lowa, to Topeka. Kansas. .
By Mr. ASPEN: To divide the State of
Team, to Organize the portion lyjng
so nth and west of the Colorado river Vl'
thetState of Lincoln i and to:;Provide for
the - amtinuance of (Provisional Orero!
meat in Texas.
By Mr. HAWLEY: Making appropri
. ations for the Jmprovement of the Rock
Island and DesMoinesßapldS,ln the Mb;
sissippi Riven, also, to' supply condemn.
ed ordinance to 'the Soldiers ?donna:lent
Committee of Rook Island.':
By
By Mr. WELLS: To rtigtilate the in
spection andlipprahiement of imports in
certain cases. I•
By Mr: BOLES: in reference to charges
of desertion in cases of soldiers honors,
lily discharged; also, making a grant of
`lands for a railroad from the junction of
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to the
Rio Grandeiiilso, granting further time
to the Little Rock and Ft. Smith Rail
road Company for the completion of the
first section of its road.
By Mr. CONGER: To repeal the law
fbr the sale of Fort Gratiot military res
ervation, in Michigan;-abso, joint reso;
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[FIRST SESSION.]
lotion of the aliehican Legislature in
refertmce to railroad grants.
• By Mr. TERRY : Similar joint resolu
tion.
By Mr. STOUGHTON : For holding
terms of United States Court at Kalama
zoo, Mielligan.
By Mr. HOPKINS: To grant certain
lands to Wisconsin as swamp lands.
By Mr, SAWYER:" Legalizing certain
locations of agricultural scrip; also, for
the improvement of rivers and harbors.
By Mr. WASEIBUBNE, Wisconsin :
Memorial of Wisconsin Legislature, for
the establishment of a port of entry at
Superior City. Wisconsin.
By air. JOHNSON: To provide better
security for the lives of passengers on
steamships.,By Mr. CLARK, Kansas: La relation
to treaties with Indian tribes.
By. Mr. TAFFEE In relation to Agri
cultural College scrip:
also, to provide
for the subsistence o Indians on Upper
Platte Agency; also, for a railroad grant/
from Liucoln, Nebraska, to Denver, Cali
fornia.
By Mr. COBB: For the relief of certain
honorably dischqrged soldiers.
By Mr. - KERR: To provide a uniform
mode of naturaliiation.
By Mr. MAYNARD: To incorporate
the Southern Express Company.
By Mr. WILLARD: In reference to
the examination -of impure and dilutes'
wines and lianors.
By Mr. WINANS : Granting the right
of way to the Memphis, El Paso dt Pacific
Railroad Company, from El Paso to the
Pacific Ocean. He moved the previous
question on its passage.
The previous question was seconded
and the bill passed.
By Mr. WASEIBURNE. of Wisconsin:
Extending the time to construct a rail
road from St. Croixriver to the west end
of bake Superior and to Bayfield.
Mr. PAINE moved to suspend the
rules for the" introduction and adoption
of a resolution providing that in all con
tested election cases referred to Com
mittee on Elections, in - which it snail be
'alleged by any party to the case, or
member of the House, that either claim
ant is unable to take the test oath, it
shall be the duty of the Committee to as
certain whether such disability exists,
and it Wand 'to exist the Committee
shall so report to the House and shall
not further consider the claims of the
person so disqualified, without - further
order of the Rouse,and no compensa
tion shall be allowe to any claimant
who shall be ineligible to the office of
Representative at the time of the election
and whose disability • shall not have
been removed' by in act of Congress. '
Mr. WOOD inquired whether the de
sign was that in such case the qpntestant.
should have a seat?
Mr. PAYNE:said this resolution would
not beim that effect, but that' he should
in duo time introduce a bill to accomplish
that purpose.
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The rules were suspended and the reso.
intim' offered and adopted, by 10D to t3iS—
a strict 'party-vote.
Bills were introduced and referred, as
follotvis:
By Mr; WILSON. of Ohio: To sell to
the State of Ohio the unsold lands in the
yirginia Military District, in Ohl _
hir:'PROSSERf-Aroanoorpar 0
Howard Industrial I.nstitutionra,4o; to
procure a suitable site for the Nashville
Custom douse. '
By Mr' JULIAN; To confirm the claim
to Yosemite Valley, . California; also, to
amend the naturalization laws.
The total number of bills introduced
and referred under the call of States ex-
needed a hundred.
By Mr. PAINE: To suspend the rules
for the introduction and passage of a bill
providing that at any election for mem.
hers or delegatesto Congress all the votes '
cast for any _person ineligible to office
under the 14th article of amendment of
the Constitution, shall be null and void,
and that the person having the highest
number of votes cast shall be the repre
sentative or delegate. He Stated the bill
had the approval of the Committee on
Elections.
Mr. ELDRIDGE asked Mr: Paine
whether he intended to force that • bill
through the House without discUssion?
Mr. PAINE said under the motion he
was net at liberty to discuss it. I
Mr. BURR, a member of the Commit
tee on Elections, asked whether he could
not have an opportunity of atating the
views of the minority? •
Mr. PAINE said he would be glad to
have the bill, discussee, but under a
motion to suspend the rules he had no
control of the subject.
Mr. BURR suggested he could with
held the motion. r
Mr. ELDRIDGE moved the Hodge ad
journ. Negalkgd—yeas, 38; nays, 112.
'At the siikgMedi of Mr. - BURR, the
bill was introduced and made the special
order for Wednesday next. .
- Mr. WELKER, from Conference Com
mittee on concurrent resolution to create
a Committee on Retrenchment, reported
in favor of making the Committee coti
sist'of four Senators and five Represen
tatives. Report agreed to.
Mr. HILL moved to suspend the
rules for the introduction and. passage of
a joint resolution extending one year
the act of the 27th of July, 1868, provid
ing for an American line of mail and
immigrant steamships to Europe. The
rules were not suspended.
Mr. LOGAN, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported a bill to abol
ish the office of•Chief-otStatt of General
of the Army.. He said it was the unani
mous report of the Committee and had
the consent orthe General. Passed.
Mn LOGAN . also reported a bill pro
viding that no retired officer of , the ar
my shall hereafter be assigned to duty of
any.kind, or be entitled to, receive more
than the pay and allowanoes provided
,for bylaw for retired officers of his grade,
and that all such assignments heretofore
made shall terminate within thirty' days
after the passage of this act.
`Alter - explanation by Mr. .Logan, the'
bill passed;',
Mr; LCiGAltalso reported a joint rola
Dillon providing that the vacancies ex
isting lullwAdjutant General's depart
ment. at the time of the,. of of the
last army appropriation bill shall be 'ex
empted from: She provialons of that act
in relation togrades of_ officers.
Alter discussion -- between Messrs: Lo
gan and Garfield, the resolution passed:
Mr. LYNCH moved to suspend - the
rules for the offering and adoption of a
resolution creating a select committee of
nine to inquire into and report at the
next session thembus of the great ye
ductfon of American: - tonnage engaged
in the foreign carrying s trade, and,
the great depression in the nevi.'
gation interests -of the country;
also to report what measures are ne
emery to increase our, ocean tonnage,
Faith/a our navigation interests, and r‘•
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gat, for our Le:mut-I'y the relative,pesition
which it once held an :a great coati ime
power. •
The rifles were suspended and the reso
lutiou offered and adopted. +
Mr. LAWRENCE introduced a bill to
limit public expenditures. •
Mr:DAWES, front Crimmittee on Ap
propriations, reported a resolution ceil
ing on the Secretary of. the Treasury to
communicate information as to, extra
pay of employes in that Department.
Adopted. .
Also, .a like resolution ae to the Navy
Departmeht. Adopted.
Also, a resolution instructing the In
diolat4 Committee to inquire whether
any legislation is necessary to. sedate to
Government employee uniformity of
compensation' under the eight hour law,
• and: an administration of the same ac
cording to its true intent.
A resolution was adopted calling on
the Secretaries of WI'S and Navy for the
report of the number and location of
hospital buildings, barracks, transports,
condemned or wised ordnance, cloth
ing,
medical •supples, dc., within the.
District of Columbia or adjacent counties
of. Maryland and Virginia.
Mr. LAWRENCE offered a resolution
to recall the concurrent resolution of ad
journment. He said the business which
is now pending before the Reconstruc
tion Committee ought to be acted on at
the present session. The reconstruetlon
of Mississippi, Texas and Virginia, and
some legislation for Georgie, were neces
sary, and it would be impossible to per
fect that legislation if Congress adjourned
next Friday.
Mr. BUTLER gave another reason..
Suppose the Senate should pass the reso
lution to suspend the Tenure-of-Office
act, and then adjourn before the House
could consider it? The whole question
then would fill to the ground oetween
the two Houses. Therefore he desired
the House should have control of the
matter in its own hands. The Indian ap
proplation bill had not been considered
by the Senate, and various business re
quired the attention of Congress.
Mr. FARNSWORTH thought it far
better for the 'country for congress to
adjourn after the passage of the Indian
Appropriation bill and the bill to repeal
the Tenure-of Office act, than to act upon
the many bills already introduced at this
session.
Mr. DA.WES opposed the resolution.
He believed if the House were to enter
upon a career of general legislation it
would be fraught with' anything but
good. There was nothing in the way of
adiourning next Friday, if they were to
address themselves to such legislation as
was absoliately necessary. He had sup
posed, if anything were understood by
the House, and by Congress, and by the
country, it was that we should do very
little more than organize this Congress
at this time. No more unfortunate thing,
in his opinion, could occur to this Ad
ministration at the beginning of it, than
to have this Congress legislating at the
outstart.
Mr. BROOKS believed it for the inter
est of the country to have an early ad
journment.
Mr. BUTLER urged that there were
three States in an unreconstructed condi
tion, where a mares life is not safe, where
tiffs elergyireui Vs.:shot down-na htkpar--_
forms the marriage ceremony, tuid wheee
men are taken out of jail and hanged
and shot. We are paid by the year and
should not go home now and leave the
country in that condition. •
Mr. DAWES inquired whether the
offices in all the unreconstructed States
were not to be filled by the commanding
Gmerals, and whether it was not just as
well to bold those States under military
rule as to bring them into representa
tion under the unforthnate circumstances
that Georgia had been brought in?
Mr. BUTLER agreed in the matter
of Georgia. Congress had made haste
slowly; but this was a question of life
and death to the Republicans, to the
Union men of the South. Who would
not' say an adjournment of Congregs
now would be a desertion of them and a
turning of them dyer to their enemies?
Besides, if Congress adjourned now, the
Senate would i emain in session, as last
Spring, and the effect then was, no
sooner had the House turned its back
than Alaska was thrust upon the coun
try. He thought, therefore, under the
circumstances it was' the duty of the
House to remain in session.
Mr. DA.WES—And take care of the
Senate?
Mr. BUTLER—Take care of every
body that the, people's interests require
to be taken care of. No man frightens
me by saying ~T ake care of the Senate."
I desire to keep within parliamentary
language; therefore I say ' , take care of
everybody, that nts taking care .of."
(Laughter.) The p Ewer put in our
laauds. We, the representatives of the
people, are entrusted with it. We are
paid for doing it, and we are false to our
duty if we go away -a day in advance
of the time we shouldleave.
Mr. LAWRENCE—The objection made
by the gentleman from Massachusetts
(Mr. Dawes) is, that if this resolution be,
adopted, we will embark iii general
schemes of legislation. I undertake to
say it'does not by any means follow, that
if the concurrent resolution for adjourn
ment tie reconsidered, we will embark
in general legislation. It will be compe
tent for the two Houses to determine
how soon they shall adjourn, and they
will be as competent to determine next
week, or the week after, as they, were
competent to determine it last week,
But I do not have that dread that
the gentleman (Mr. Dawes) seems to
have. His whole argument, as well as
that of the gentleman from. New York,
(Mr. Brooks) assumes Congress cannot
be trusted in the exercise of discretion
to legislate on such measures as may be
brought before it. I think the time is to
be here if not alread3r here, when. the
public' Interests will demand Congress
shall remain insession moat all the time.
Thbi 'a vast' and complicated, govern
ment, with vast interests, and ocfrrupticm
creeps- into the' departments of the gov
eminent more readily when Oonerress is
not in session than it does when Congress
is in seasiep. , The presence of4ongress
is
essential at all times as a guard on ail
• the
departments of the goyernment.
Mr: LAWRENCE went on to say there
was an Indian before the Senate,
Which woubk take out of the Treasury
fifteen millibn dollars in one single year,
as he learned the New York . Her
atcl of Februaxy 22d. They were indebt
ed to that paper and others for giving to
the country information in re(erence to
these treaties, made in secret, negettetel
in secret and ratified secret.
The SPEAKER reminded Mr._ lai w
rents that his argument was hot' pares
meutary Or in order, as it involved a
Election on the Senate.
Mr. LAWRENCE said he presOmou
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the Chair was right. He therefore left
that part of the argnnaent and proceeded
to show, from the condition of affairs in
the unreconstructed States that Congress
should remain in session. He thought
the safe rule was to do the business
which the interesfs of the country de
manded to be done, and then adjourn.
He moved the previous question on the
adoption of the resolution. ,
Mr. GARFIELD desired him to -with
dra w it, but
Mr. LAWRENCEderlined.
Mr. GARFIELD hoped the Previous
queeilon would be voted down.
The previous question was not second
ed-22 to 88, and then, OR motion of Mr.
GARFIELD. the resolution was laid on
the table without a division, there,being
only fourteen members to demand the
yeas and nays.
Mr. JOHNSON moved to suspend the
rules that he might offer a resolution de
claring that in passing the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitutiou the
House never intended that Chinese or
Mongolians should become voters:
The rules were-not easpended—yeas
42, nayeltn—a strict party vote.. ./
Mr. SCHENCK, from the Committee
on Wars and Means, reported a joint.
resolution authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to admit free of dutyany
picture, or statue, or work of -line art,
from foreign countries for free exhibi
•tion in the United States, on satisfactory .
bond that the same shall be reexported.
Within a year, and on the further condi
tion that its owner may enter it for pay
ment of duty when the bond shall be
cancelled.
After discussion by Messrs. Schenck
and. Van Auken in support, and Mr.
Wood against it, it was passed.
Mr. §UHENCK also reported a resolu
tion, adopted at last session, , in reference
to reciprocity, declaring that while the
House .does not admit any right in the
executive or treaty-making powerto con
tinue a treaty with any foreign
government, by which importdaties are
mutually regulated, it is, howeVer, of
opinion and reeohmends tothe President
that negotiations with the Governatent of
Great Britain shall be renewed, and
pressed, if possible, to a definite conclu
sion, regarding commercial intercourse
and securing to American citizgns the
rights claimed by them in the fisheries
on the coasts of British provinces in
America, and navigation of the St. Law
rence river• from its source to the sea.
Adopted.
Adjourned. •
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
TWE MISSION. TO ENGLAND.
A dispatch says: The delay in the
nomination of a Minister to England,
viceßeverdy Johnson, is attributable to
the Tact that he has been carefuriy con
sidering what policy it would be best to I
pursue in regard to the Alabama claims.
He has resolved to adopt a very decisive
course with England, and the amount of
his diplomacy will be simply the sending
of a bill to the British Government, ask
ing payment for 'the depredations of
pirate ships on American commerce.
Caleb Cushing is among those now men
tioned, gyi likely to be honored with the
apOintment tont:4oo7:UL
Tgg } igr7UßE.OF-QF.FICE ACT.
The same dispatch says if the Tenure- .
of-Office bill comes to a vote and fails, -
many of the Senators now favoring repeal
will vote for the next best thing—the four
years suspension. It is stated that Sena
tor Nye and the Southern Senators have
agreed to vote against repeal, therefore
no, doubt , exists any longer that repeal
will be defeated. President Grant is very
much incensed at the conduct of some of
the Senators, and is determined not to
maize any further appointments should
the ipivil Tenure restraint be still kept
over him..
The New York Tribune says of the re
peal of the Tenure-of-Office •act: There
is no question involved which should an.,
tagonize the President and the Senate
The Senate is hi session, ready and wil
ling to act upon any nominations that the
President shalt see fit to make, and cer
tain to confirm at least ninety-nine in
every one hundred. Until at least one
is rejected we - perceive no plausible rim,-
son for the repeal or suspension of the
Tenure-of-Office act.
The Republican Senators had a stormy
time in caucus yesterday morning over
the Tenure of Office act. The debate
turned upon the proposition to suspend
it for the whole of General Grant's term,
which was offered by Mr. Edmunds as a
Compromise, which the majority were
willing' to accept. The discussion was
exceedingly animated, and a number of
speeches were made. As the vote was
about being taken, a large majority ap
pearing to be in favor of the suspension,
Messrs. Morton, Grimes. - Sprague and
others withdrew, Mr. Morton calling it a
surrender, but saying he would not ac
cept it on such terms. Those remaining
inside finally adjourned, to meet again
at two o'clock, nothing having been de
cided.
General Sherman has entirely T
tionized the way of doing things in the
War Department, and is instituting vig
orous and economical measures. !fere
tofore, the various bureaus have been
practically independent,. and the Adju
tant, Quartermaster, and Commissary
Generals have been in the habit
of issuing orders relating to their
bureaus, on their own. responsibil
ity, without even consulting the eneral
in-Chief•or the Secretary of War. klo
order of any sort is now allowed to go
out without having first passed
under
General Sherman's eye. Gkineral Sher
man illu strates the necessity of this by
saying Ittas often happened heretofore
that supplies have acctimulannf at mat
expiinse at distant stations, from which
troops are about to be removed, which
could not have happened but for the bu
reaucratic system now in %Vie."
Markets bV TelegreP h *
ga—At open ward,
a act fa i ir move
inniCeilhtiecinAilfterl"igrabinlja: reh vo Wth d h-i- e e nuut reat d, No. pg
walt was ve, with :
" Corn and. Oats active.
a large elle enl ob@Lcsji; closing quiet t.
t se h ll e l insi nu d s: ,
figure.
In mu
the dnu eveniandnituness was dull; Wheat
vecsabut
nsiderably lower, closing
at about liisels%®@ l , o9 X. Provisions
also dun ales being confined to 100 bbla
um , pork at 130. 5 0 cash.
JIANA NA, March 22.—At Porto Rico on
the 10th Met the Sugar nutrketwas great
ly excited. The Government has impos
ed additional export duties of f 2 per
hogs_head on Sugar, 65 cents per barrel
on molasses and 50 cents per quintal on
Ooffee, and 20 cents per quintal on To-
NUMBER 72.
ARMY MATTERS.
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