The Montana post., 1867-03-02

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The Official returns
of the Georgetown election show the election
of radical mayor by 96 majority, and Rad
ical councilmen to Conservatives.
Observation-Disclosures report from the spe-
cial committee of which he is chairman, had
ascertained that the story of corrupt bargains
between the President and members of Con-
gress is without foundation in truth. No
testimony given affecting in the least the in
tegrity of the President or members There
was not the least knowledge obtained by the
committee about the reported proposition of
reconciliation between the President and MEM
bers of the Senate. sss.r,.--s...t. ~
The amendment to the House resolution
prohibiting the payment of claims to any
person not known to be opposed to the rebel
lion was acted on. That portion requiring
claimants to prove that they were always OPP
posed to the rebellion was not concurred in.
The committee of conference asked the
Senate to have the Niagara ship bill tabled.
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FRANKFoRT, Feb. 26.-The Union State
convention assembled So counties were rep
resented. The meeting was enthusiastic. A
series of Union resolutions were adopted and
Sidney Burns was nominated for Governor.
New YORK, Feb. 26.-Stock market dull
and heavy. Atlantic mail, S41 a. S5; Pacific
mail from 1874 TO 1S5. |'fFlt tEgffEEA
LONDON, Feb. 26.-The government has
promise to lay before Parliament a regular
reform bill.
The bill for the confederation of the Brit
ish North American provinces passed the
House of Lords to-day.
PARIS, Feb. 27.-The French government
officially announces that it will not relinquish
the right to search the baggage of all foreign
ers arriving in France.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27.-General Hazen has ad-
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preventative Bidwell, who had requested him
to report his observations of affairs in Utah
while be was there, in October last He says :
1 think it important that the government
should In some way strengthen its authority
In that Territory, and, at the same time, in
crease, by every means possible, our friendly
relations with those people, and elevate their
intelligence till they come to feel that they
are a part of the United States, and think we
are their friends. Harsh measures Will only
consolidate them. The lands Of the Territory
are still held by the government. IF it is in
tended to give actual title to mormon occu-
pants on the same grounds other emigrants
and l do not see how we can do less. A land
Office should be opened there, and commission
ers appointed to settle the conflicting claims.
SENATE.-A bill relative to the navy passed
with amendments, reducing the number of
cadets at large, from twenty-five TO ten.
An act, to amend an act for the removal of
cases of importance from the State courts,
passed.
Howard reported bill for granting a por-
tion of the military reserves of Kansas, for
railroad purposes.
On motion of sherman, the compound in
terest note bill was brought up. The question
was the Senate substitute for the House
bill as passed.
The House authorized the Secretary of the
Treasury to redeem the compound interest
notes with legal tenders, not to exceed one
hundred million dollars. For this the Senate
finance committee propose as a substitute, the
bill passed by the Senate two months ago,
auth orizing the redemption of maturing com
pound interest notes, with certificates of loan
at three per cent. interest. The substitution
of the Senate bill was agreed to.
sherman, from the finance committee, Of
fered the following: That no national bank
shall receive or pay interest, any portion
of its paper, when deposited in any other bank,
and compound interest notes to be held as a
part of theirs, after the first of July next.
Agreed to. The bill as amended passed.
Trumbull reported adversely on the House
bill amendatOTy act, declaring the officer
who, as President of the United, States shall
fill the vacancy in the Offices Of both Presi-
dent and Vice President, and moved its post
ponement. Agreed to.
The House naval appropriation bill, which
allows sic, ,229 1888, passed.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the tariff bill.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-The Commercial says !:
Financial affairs are unsettled, under the un-
certainty 20 the disposal of the recon
strucUion bill, and the settlement of the cur
rency question, it is felt that the conse-
quence of contraction must affect the source
of the money market.
! PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 27.-Six houses, be-
| longing to Pierce, Butler & Hale, corner of
5th and Callowhill streets, were damaged by
fire this forenoon. Loss, $4,000. No in
surance.
VENICE, Feb. 27.-Garribaldi arrived yes1
terdny. He was greeted most enthusiastically.
New YORK, Feb. 27.-It is reported that a
Fenian envoy has arrived from Ireland, who
says the English statements that the rebellion
has ended, are false: that the uprising was
general in the counties Of Kearney, Dublin
/ and Tipperary. The organization Is stronger
than ever, and the soldiers are under the drill
of 400 men who served this country during
the rebellion. As TO diSaffection among Brit
/ ish troops, it is understood they will march
wherever ordered but when they come to
| fire they will know what to do. An Ameri-
can officer has enlisted 5000 British troops
since Christmas. At n meeting of Fenians
/ here to-day, no want of confidence in the
movement was manifested. It Is said to be
contemplated, if the vigilance of the British
government in Ireland should render the
movements extra hazardous, to transfer tho
| operations to England
! NASHVILLE, Feb. 27.-Tbe Tariff bill occu.
pied the House in committee of the whole
about six hours to-day. 81 out of 2T5
amendments, recommended by the ways and
means committee, have been acted upon.
! Most of the ways and means committees rec
| concentrations on wool and woolens, are an
advance on the Senate bill. Nearly all were
agreed to.
New YORK, Feb. 2s.-Advices from the
South state, it is supposed there will be twice
as many white voters in Virginia as blacks
The crops promise we'll, the only draw back
being y scarcity of negroes. The Supreme
Court of Alabama has decided, that the
/ emancipation proclamation of President Lin
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