The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-25


The fate of the house bill authorizing the
payment of the compound interest notes in
new greenbaeks is extremely doubtful
I The N. Y. Tribune's special says:
1t is conceded there will be no opposition
in the republican party to the following named
gentlemen as officers for the next house
Coifax, for speaker; Mcpherson, for clerk
Ordway, for sergeant at arms, and Given
for post master. In all probability there will
be O new man presented for Goodenoughs
place as doorkeeper. gsza saa
The President has submitted the tenure of
office bill to the attorney general, il being
claimed that the bill is Unconstitutional.
= One hundred and fifty leading democrats
Of New York have signed a request to the
President that he sign the military recon
struction bill.
The fate of the legal tender bill is uncer-
tain. Senator Wilson will move a new Sec
ton providing that it shall be unlawful for
national banks to allow or pay interest on
deposits made in said national banks by any
other national bank. This business, it is al
legged, causes nearly all the financial trouble
in Wall street.
The senate viii reject the proposition re-
ported by the committee on foreign affairs to
| raise the position of our representative at
Brussell, Henry s. Sanford, to full mission.
The N. Y. Worlds special says:
The arrival of Gov. Andrew in Washing
| ton revives the rumor that he is to have n
seat in the cabinet.
The special committee on revenue favor a
reduction on the whisky tax, but the ways
and means committee are very much opposed
| to it.
| CLEVELAND, o., Feb'y PA large and
1 h-,l IL, 10
ming, moving in a northwesterly direction.
1t lasted fully 30 minutes.
| CHICAGO, Feby PA Springfield special
| says: 49,
| Governor Oglesby has signed the state
house bill. . .--....E .asr-. -...
a Washington special says:
/ Ehe house refused to suspend the rules on
Mr.. Morrills motion to refer the tariff bill to
| a committee of conference. This is virtually
the defeat of the bill.
Later from Springfield says the senate has
passed the bill locating the industrial college
at Champaign.
Both houses have passed the supplement
airy state house ell. 1t forbids the letting
of contracts in excess of the appropriation
New York, Feb'y'25.-Our files, by thu
steamer Deuthland, show by official par
liamentary statements and police and militia
nv reports that the feniau movement agains
Chester Castle was q very serious and alarm
| ing affair, undertaken after due dehberatiol
) and carried to the verge of completion witt
!. rapiditv and skill. An Irish-American off
Ger. serving in the fenian ranks, BETRAYED I'll
secret to the authorities and saved, in al
: probability, great trouble in England
, The chief of police in Chester states that
) fenian military directory, consisting of fit
: men, mainly from New York, hold regula
4 meetings in the chief towns of the Unite
A Kingdom.
I In the house of commons, on the Itch il
: slant, immediately after the conclusion of th
5 great reform meeting in Agricultural Hal
: London. Mr.. D'Israeli submitted the Derb
c reform plan TO a very impatient assembling
: | of members. He said the cabinet dislike
5 the treatment of the subject as a party one
q and would consequently proceed by resolr
e ton. On the 25th of February he woul
Il take the opinion of the house in series {
5 resolutions which would affirm what shout
It be the character of the new bill. The e,
d tension of the franchise must be in acco
/; dance with the English constitution, an
r avoid the preponderance Of any class.
would be proposed that rating shonld DO th
. basis for voting, and q measure would be ii
troduced to remedy inequalities in rating
No borough would be DISTINGUISHED.
boundary commission would be issued wit
a view of separating the urban element fro
the constituencies in counties. Mr.. D'Israe
Y concluded by moving that on the 18th
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tee to consider the reform bill of 1892 PC.
The New York Times special says:
There are good ground for stating that Ii
President viii send in his veto of the recol
struction bill on Wednesday next.
tits possible that the President will let til
tenure of office bin become law witho,
his signature.
General Grant is reported on good autho
ity as saying that he regarded the reconstru
ton bill as very unwise legislation. All ii
members of the cabinet, with one exceptio,
are decidedly opposed to the bill
The report of the committee investigator
the frauds on the revenue will report to-da,
1t will show the distillery frauds to be fs
greater than any one had conceived, an
that the mode of their preparation are sue
as to almost defy the law.