Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-04-26

be Abolished-Fresdmen's Bureau Report
for Missouri and Arkansas-Co Plant
ing in Georgia-Pardons Granted-Bills
and Resolutions Approved.
WASHINGTON, April 24.--The House
struggled all day on the Army bill The
motion to postpone until December was
withdrawn, and very spicy debate fol-
lowed on the section creating the Provost
Marshals Bureau. Mr. Conkling de-
nounced General Fry, the head OF the
present Bureau, III the severest terms, as
incompetent and corrupt "A letter was
read from General Grant, in which he
regarded that Bureau as unnecessary,
and favored the consolidation Of several
of the War Department Bureaus. The
result was that the House decided to
abolish within six months the Provost
Marshal General Office Pendinga vote
on the remodelling of the Pay Depart
ment, the bill went over unit o-morrow.
The Commission Of Agriculture has
received advices from Macon county,
Georgia, in reference to the planting of
the cotton crop, stating that the planters
but that the area that will be planted this
season will be somewhat smaller than
usual, owing to wide. prevailing fear
among the planters that the seed has
lost much of its vitality by lying four or
FIVE years in the gin-houses. Many
planters have been compelled to plant
over from this cause, thus losing two
weeks Of the best cotton-growing season.
Much interest is felt in the meeting of
the Reconstruction Committee to-mor-
row, from the anticipation that an effort
will be made in the committee to come to
some conclusion upon the points of con-
sideration before it. Some delay has
been occasioned in the action of the COM
mittee by the illness of Senator Fessen-
den. He is now, however, convalescent,
and will probably be ableto be present
at the meeting tomorrow.
Forty-six persons from South Caro-
lima, seven from Louisiana, and one from
Georgia, were pardoned by the President
yesterday, few of whom were pardoned
under the LIST and 18th exceptions, but
the larger portion under the 18th, of the
amnesty proclamation. -tt
The President to-day signed the fol-
lowing: An. act to authorize the sale of
marine hospitals and of revenue cutters.
Joint resolution expressive of the thanks
of Congress to Maj. Gen. Winfield s.
Hancock Joint resolution for the relief
of Alex Thompson, late U. S. Consul
at Maranham. Joint resolution appoint
ing managers for the National Asylum
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
The Republican Congressman from In
diana have had conference in relation
to that feature Of the plan before the Re
construction Committee, which proposes
to require universal suffrage in the
Southern States by 1876, and five out of
the nine members declared themselves
opposed 10 it, The Reconstruction Com
mittee, it is SAID, cont, mplate provis-
ion of law extending the payment of the
direct taxes due from the Southern States
for ten years, in view of the limit Of their
term for suffrage
The President to-day appointed Gen.
Sam. Carey, of Ohio, Collector Of Inter
nal Revenue for the I'd District of Gin
cinnati, vice Taylor, removed. He also
appointed Gen Grose Collector of Inter
nal Revenue for the 9Th Indiana District,
vice present incumbent, removed.
The House Committee on Elections
to-day had under consideration the con-
tested election case Of Follett VS.. Delano,
Of the 18th Ohio District The point Of
contest seems TO be one of law, and re-
lates 10 the absence Of the certificates Of
election in soldiers returns Mr.. De-
lano, the sitting member, has taken no
notice of the contest as yet.
The President to-day informed prom
inent Western Pennsylvania Congress
man, who had called on him relative to |
the changes beng made in the Offices in |
that section, that he intended TO remove |
every otfice-holder who opposes his
policy. This announcement was received |
with quite futter among members Of
the House
The Pacific Railroad Committee en-
leavored TO press to vote the bill TO |
construct the Northern Pacific Railroad,
but the opposition to it was so great that |
an adjournment was effected without a |
vote. The outside pressure for the pas
sage Of this bill is tremendous, and the |
struggle in the House for and against il !
was very earnest
Representative Eggleston has presented |
IN the House the memorial of sixty mer-
,antile firms of Nashville, Tennessee,
praying for modification of the law
the transportation. Of gun
powder.
The great letting of mail contracts
about 3000rouiesij has, BY extraordinary
sxertions in the Postofice Department,
been brought to q close full week ahead
IF the time designated. Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
,onsin, Minnesota, Dakotah, Iowa, Kan
,as, Nebraska and Missouri, are the
States embraced in the regular letting
there are one or two hundred
more Of miscellaneous routes in New
England, New York. Pennsylvania,
Maryland and other points near home
md which are now let under special |
In some Of the States
he proposals were found considerably
n advance Of those demanded four years
.-o- IN othoru offers were made al 7