The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-17
LATEST NEWS.
TELEGRAMS.
[ From our O'on Correspondent
From Washington.

The House Committee on Ways and Means have
again failed to agree upon the Tariff bills and are
in despair. 1t is now expected that effort will
be made to get up Tariff bill directly in the
House, without the agency of the Committee. The
PRESIDENT is in very bad humor at the conduct of
| Congress. He has been shut up all day writing a
| special message, scolding the House for ideness
and actiousness, which he proposes to send in
The Senate to-day by vote of sixteen to seventeen
rejected the nomination of Potter as Collector at
Sandusky, Ohio. This is the particular out of
which the discussion arose between DOUGLAS and
FITCH, and which nearly led to duel between the
parties. The SHERMAN Investigating Committee
are holding their last meeting tonight, but in all
probability they will not be able t. report before
Friday. The Printing Investigation Committee
cannot report this week. The evidence before it
shows little system by which officers of the Gov
ernment constantly collected from ten to twenty
| per cent. on the contracts for work, paper, and
other materials The witnesses testify that they
found they could get these contracts except by
submitting to such exactions. In some cases they
added twenty per cent. to their bills to cover the
cost of these corrupt fees. | understand that the
books of a Philadelphia irm which one of the par
ties had been burned, in possession of the
Committee. The entries upon their pages clearly
show the motive for the perjury of the witness.
From the Reporter Of the AssociatedPress.
WASHINGTON Feb, IG.-Tho Preoidont, in reoog
milton of the satisfactory manner in which John
Nugent, ESQ.,, has discharged his special mission to
British Columbia and Vancouver's Island, recently
rendered him the appointment of Minister to Bogo-
ta which he has declined, intending to take ac-
tive part in the politics of California during the
summer, his friends having induced him to become
a candidate for Governor of that State.
Mr. Morrllls bill, appropriating about 100000
acres of land and dividing them among the several
States according to federal representation for the
establishment Of agricultural colleges and the pro-
motion of mechanic arts, having been finally dis
posed of by both Houses its enemies are congratu-
lating themselves on an anticipated Presidential
veto.
The Senate, in Executive session to-day, ratified
the Ducatal Indian treaty, by which an extensive
tract of country is secured to the United States
The motion which made last session to recon-
slider the vote by which the treaty with the Seneca
Indians at Tonowanda, was ratified, having been
Withdrawn, the treaty is now in force.
The Senate have rejected the nomination of Eme-
ry D. Patten, as Collector at the port of Toledo.
The Commissioner of Patents has just written out
at length his reasons for overrung the application
of Mr.. Mccormick for an extension of his patent
oflS45, for Improvement in reaping machines"
He says that the patentee realized from his patents
of lS45 and lS47 the of 81 247 4l5 and adds, in
conclusion, ''yet were it permitted to embrace in
its estimate the value of the reaping machine as an
entirety, | might hesitate to pronounce his (Nlr.
MCormicks) reward sufficient, great as it has
been; but remembering that in 1885, it was already
in practical successful operation, and its essential
elements public property, or the property of other
patentees; and that its superior excellence,
structed by the applicant-the rakers seat of 1S47
still belongs to him, and can be enjoyed by the
country only upon such terms he may dictates
and confning, therefore, as am compelled to do,
my estimate to the isolated features patented in
1915, am constrained to say that for this improve
ment, the public has made to the applicant, not
only reasonable, but most abounding remu-
neraton."