New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-30
From Washington.


, f Especial to the Chicago Times.
'' THE ADMISSION OF COLORADO.
WAsHINeToN, April 24.-The question of the ad
t mission of Colorado again occupied the Senate to
, day, Senator Sumner spoke at great length
against the BILL taking the ground that the Consti
tuition of she proposed new State deprived coloret
people of suffrage. and was not therefore republi
4 can in FORM There was no vote taken on the bill
! but it is claimed that its passage is insured.
THE ARMY BILL. = is
The House struggled all day on the army bill
1 The motion to postpone it until December wa
Withdrawn, and avery spicy debate followed for
| the section creating the provost marshals bureau
| Mr. Conkhng denounced Gen. Fry, the head of thu
present bureau, in the severest terms, as iueompe
tent and corrupt. A letter was read from Gen
| Grant, in which he regarded that bureau as un
necessary, and favored decentralization of severa
OF the war department bureaus. The result wa.
months, the provost marshal generals office
Pending vote on the remodeling of the pay de
partment, the bill went over until to morrow.
Ns COTTON CROPS IN GEORGIA.
The commissioner of agriculture has received ad
vices from Macon county, Ca, in reference to the
planting OF the cotton crop, and stating that the
planters generally are in the midst of planting
but that an area will be planted this season some.
what smaller than usual, owing to the widepre
vang fear among planters that the seed has lost
much of its vitality by laying four or five years in
the gin houses. Many planters have been COM
two weeks OF the best cotton-growing season.
...... -- PARDoNs GRANTED.
Forty six persons from South Carolina, seven
from Louisiana and one from Georgia, were par
doned by the President yesterday, few of whom
were pardoned under the LIST and 10Th, but the
larger portion under the 18th exception of the am
nesty proclamation.
I'll RADICAL POSTMASTER REMOVED.
The President to-day appointed Wade Hampton
postmaster at Pittsburg, vice Won Bonnhurst re-
moved. The nomination will be sent to the Senate
tomorrow. -.st.u.a illaas a a. F7a
INDIANA CONGRESSMAN OPPOSED TO UNIVERSAL
I'd q l,-s .4u;-- u3 SUFFRAGE H.. .a.f -
The Republican Congressmen from Indiana have
had a conference relative to the features of the
plan before the Reconstruction Committee which
proposes to require universal suffrage in the South
ern States by 1876, and four out of the nine mem
bers declared themselves opposed to it.
EXTENSION FOR PAYING TAXES.
ri The Reconstruction Committee, it is said, con.
template provision Of law extending the payment
of direct taxes from the Southern States for ten
years. in view of the limit of their time for suffrage
CONTESTED ELECTION. VIA
The House Committee on Elections to-day had
under consideration the contested election case of
Follettv VS.. Delano, of the 18th Ohio district. The
point of contest seems to be one of law and relates
to the absence of certificates of soldiers returns.
Mr.. Delano, the sitting member, had taken no no.
tice of the contest as yet. . MN @ ~
The President has signed an act for the relief of
Thomas +. Wilson, Of Pittsburg, late consul at
Bahala, Brazil, indemnifying him for property de-
stroyed by riot. s.- 10
ALL OFFICE HOLDERS OPPOSING THE PRESIDENT 5
POLICY TO BE REMOVED. b..
The President to-day informeda prominent West.
ern Pennsylvania congressman, who had called on
him relative to the changes being made in the Off
in that State that he intended to remove every
office holder who was opposing his policy. This
announcement caused quite futter among mem
bers in the House.
PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL.
The House held a protfacted night session to-
night, but accomplished literally nothing The
Pacific Railroad Company endeaVered to press to
a vote the bill to construct the Northern Pacific
Railroad; but the opposition to it was so great
That an adjournment was effected without a result.
tremendous, and the struggle in the House for and
against it was very earnest.
The Committee on Ways and Means charged to-
night that garbled and inaccurate copy of the tax
BILL published in New York, was stolen from their
committee rooms.
INTERNAL REVENUE APPOINTMENTS IN VIRGINIA
ALL FILLED.
The President has filled all the appointments in
Virginia for the internal revenue department. with
parties who have taken the test oath.
NAVAL OFFICER IN NEW YORK CONFIRMED.
Moses F. Odell was yesterday confirmed by the
Senate as naval officer at New York.
U. S. SOLDIERS CEMETERIES.
The qnartermaster general says he has reports
Of the interment of nearly 600 Union officers
and soldiers, a large portion of whom it will, per
haps, be necessary to remove to cemeteries. One
million dollars will be required to protect them
from dissertation, and it is recommended that
general system be adopted.
Gen. Thomas has issued an order warning the
people against blowing under or disturbing the
graves of the dead at Atlanta.
CONVERSATIONS BY THE SENATE.
The Senate in executive session have confirmed
the following nominations; Dennis G. Cooley of
Louisiana, commissioner of Indian affairs j ..
Rogers of Missouri, to be United States marshal
for the eastern district of Missouri Leopold R.
Reeder, of Wisconsin, to be consul at St. Itten
SECRETARY M'CubLOCE's LETTER To THE FINANCE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF RATIONAL CUR.
RENCY
The secretary of the treasury has written q let
ter to the chairman of the Senate Finance Com
mittee on the apportionment Of national currency
He says the Senate bill is seemingly general in its
provisions, but in effect it siegied out Massachu-
sets, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and reduces
their circulation to q certain arbitrary standard
1t practically asserts that the circulation of the
national banks IN Massachusetts, shall be dimin
lShed go per cent; the circulation OF the national
banks in Connecticut shall be diminished 80 per
cent. andthe circulation of national banks in Rhode
Island shah be diminished II per cent This prin
ciple on which the reduction is based is not cor
rect one. One hundred and seventy five thousand
OF the rural population of Ohio or Illinois do not
need tenth part required by the manufacturing
and commercial communities of Rhode Island
This bill is an amendment to section twenty one of
the present national currency act, and proposes
to withdraw the circulation from banks by reduc-
ing the rates which it shall bear to capital. It
will affect banks in all the States more or less by
a certain fixed rate. The reduction is to be ef-
feeted gradually, as the circulation becomes worn
and mutilated, and is returned for redemption
The amount by which the circulation is to be
,hus diminished approximates $40 600 900, and it
8 proposed in anticipation of this reduction, to
authorize the issue of circulation TO banks in the
states that have secured the least proportionate
AMOUNT of circulation as it may be needed. The
secretary thinks it is important that solvent State
banks should have an opportunity to become ma
ional banks, otherwise by the operation of a law
II the United States, they will be compelled to
Wind up after the first day of next july and that
t is matter of great Importance that provisions
'houid be made to meet the wants of those States
which have been in rebellion. Banking facilities |
sre necessary to develop the industrial interests
y the South and to stimulate the protection of
nose staples which enter so largely into the fnan-
ENGLISH AND ScoTcH ALE AND PoRTER.-Those |
VINO are DESTROYS of procuring genuine article of
English and Scotch ale and porter, are referred to
ne advertisement, in to-dsys paper, of Mr.. j. W.
fiatt dealer In all sorts of groceries, Wines teas
etc., at No. 81 Carondele. street Mr. Plat is
importing the genuine ales and norfers
direct from Europe, is selling them at reduced
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