The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-23

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
After = Foreign Mission,
Ex-senator John p stockton, of New Jersey,
arrived this morning He is understood to be
looking for foreign mission.
Congress Next Week.
The Indications are that no important busl-
ness Will be done in Congress next week.
Already q large number of the members of
poth houses nave gone home, to remain dur
reinIb IpG rnebngaVpg baSogga Week, ana many Will not
understood that the House Judiciary Commit
tee will present their impeachment reports on
ask that they be printed, which will no doubt
be ordered, and the House will adjourn imme-
bers, overflowing with elouuence should pre-
vent IL by talking for buncombe.
The Cotton Tax.
The proposition to repeal the cotton tax will
meet with strong opposition from the wool.
growing interest and woollen manufacturers OF
the North and Northwest. The latter say that
cotton without doing the same for wool. The
wool in terest claim That there is no good reason
why the productions of the North should not
be released from taxation as well as those of the
South. Wool now pays a tax of twelve
and let it remain on wool, will, the woollen
manufacturers say, ruin their interests by
cheapening cotton to such an extent as to ma
terially lessen the consumption of woollen
goods. Others will oppose the repeal OF the
cotton tax because the proposition is a relic OF
eaten southern votes, and they de.
clare tnat is bd time this , business @
opposed on the ground that good faith to the
pubic creditors demands that no important
interest should be released from taxation at
present, as Il would be a dangerous precedent
to establish; for ali other interests would insist
upon the same exemption, and their demands
could not be consistently refused.
Interesting Equity Case.
Judge Wylie sitting in equity, has decided the
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preventative of the creditors of Clement Beckett,
sought to set aside deed for the use of Mary
Beckett, who was alleged to be the wife of Gle
ment Beckett, for the purpose of selling such
property under an execution against Clement
purchased in the name Of Clement Beckett, but
Mary Beckett out of her own earnings i'm
proved the same by erecting buildings thereon,
this purpose from her earnings as washerwo-
man at the hospitals. The Judge said that,
earnings of his wife are his, and are, therefore,
liable for his debts. But the Judge held that
this principle does not apply to the present
case, because Mary Beckett was not, in law, the
wife OF Clement Beckett, the evidence showing
that when they came together in 1885 both were
slaves and to the code Of slavery the relation of
husband and wife was stranger: Even after
togetherJust as they had done before. No pre-
sumption of marriage arises therefrom in this
plains the nature of their relations to each
other. Both of the parties, in their sworn an
quently to the acquisition of their freedom.
The Judge says:-"If their marriage prior to that
was impossible under the law of slavery, their
relation to each other was only that of concu-
btnage, and its character has not been changed
since by any act of theirs,
1.-THE injustice threatened to be done to this
poor woman and her children by seizure on the
fruits of labor, economy and thrift. and apply
ing them second time to the payment of the
dtbts of a thriftless and trifiing drone, whom
she has fed clothed, and sheltered because he
was the father of her children, may fortunately
be avoided without the violation of any of the
established rules of law The bill should be dis
missed with COSTS"