The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-18
our washington Dispatches.

hundred and seventy railroad laborers have
died.
Our Washington Dispatches.
THE SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO DISMISS THE
MARBLE cAsE-A NEW UNITED STATES MAR
sHAL FOB SOUTH cARoLNA-nPoRTANT PRO-
cEEDNas IN coNaREss-BoLD MOVEMENT 10
OVERRIDE THE SUPREME coURT-oPENINa THE
DOOR FOR ALABAMA, ETC., ETC.
WASHINGTON, February 1.-THE Supreme
Court to-day overruled the motion heretofore
made to dismiss the appeal in the McArdle
case for want of jurisdiction. The case will
therefore come up for argument on its merits,
as previously arranged, on the first Monday in
March.
The President has nominated Thomas Sim
as Marshal for South Carolina, and James W..
McDounough as Postmaster at Galveston.
Senator Sherman says that General Sherman
will not accept either the brevet appointment
or the command of the new department, and if
the President declines to relieve him from the
latter he will promptly tender his resignation.
The Revenue receipts to-day are $780, 900.
General Steedman has resigned the New Or
,eans Collectorship to take effect from the 18th
of May.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Tr ruE SENATE, Senator Thomas case was
postponed in consequence of MIR. Johnsons
sickness.
One hundred New Jersey negroes have asked
for 500 each to carry thea, to Liberia. A
;nilar petition was presented from Massachu-
sets negroes.
Tho Judiciary Committee reported bill that
majority of voters shall decide all elections
under the Reconstruction acts, including the
,dontion OF the constitutions. Duly registered
versions may vote in any part OF the State upon
nresentation of certificate.
The bill conveying into the treasury the pro-
oeeds Of captured and abandoned property
was discussed.
Mr. Sumner presented petition from the
citizens of Massachusetts, praying the aDoli-
tion of tho Presidential Office as dangerous to
the republic.
Mr. T,nmbull's bill was introduced to-day,
defining the jurisdiction of the Courts OF the
uniteo States. 1t is ir effect as follows: 1t
,,roy;des that all the Courts of tho United
states shall be bound by the acts OF Congress
ON nolitical questions, and that it rests with
CONGRESS- to determine what government is the
established one in any State; and it is declared
+hot NO civil State governments exist in the e.
o,,,aed States of the South, and no so-called
civil governments in such States shal! bel recog-
,,;zad by either the executive or the judicial
.,o1ver ~ the United States until Congress shall
so ,,royide, or until such States are represented
in the Congress of the United States. The he
construction acts are declared Polltical
~ their character, the propriety or validity OF
which no judicial tribunal is competent to
.,uestion; and the Supreme Court OF the United
states is hereby prohibited from taking Jurls-
diction Of any case growing out OF the execu-
+;on OF said acts in either OF said States, until
srch States shall be represented, etc. And
cases from such States now pending before
that court shall be dismissed, and all acts au-
+bor;zine an appeal writ of error, hd6eas cor
ms or other proceeding, to bring before said
court for review any case, civil or CRIMINAL
arising out of the execution OF said Recon
.truction acts, are hereby repealed.
Tn THE House Mr.. Bingham introduced the
following, which was referred to the Committee
nm Reconstruction: "Whereas large majority
or the votes given at an election, held on the
9Th day of February, 1868, were for tho consti-
.tntion presented by the convention OF the peo-
nile OF the State OF Alabama; and, whereas, GER
rain combinations of citizens in said State -o'
snsed to vote, with the intent thereby to defeat
tha efforts Of the friends of the Union to &c
otore the said State to its proper relation to the
1In;on. therefore, be it enacted, &C., that the
aa,;s,ature elect under the new constitution q
80 Alabama be convened at the capital OF salc
State as soon as practicable, by order o.
49, limited States military commander within
Tho so,d State of Alabama, and that upon the
r.,itication by the said Legislature OF the four
.oentb article of the Constitution OF the Gmtef
states. proposed by the thirty-ninth Congress
ond tho establishment by law OF Imparha
suffrage within said State as authorized by th'
o.;1 constitution Of Alabama. The said STATE
st.,l be admitted to representation in lhe Con
cross OF the United States in accordance Will
~. laws Of tho United States"
M Nothing else of importance was presented,
1rud,r the regular call of the House, th'
oonsiderstion of the Appropriation bill was ro
r,na and an effort was made to strike ou
the @ anpr @propristions for several South America
missions, which failed and the Dill was nnaii'
.hor the House adjourned.