The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-28

Hdf-B1A I0F tn6 ADMISSION OF Ar
kansas.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-The Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs (Taylor)
I leaves Washington this evening for
[ the Catholic Mission on the Usage
! Indian lands in Sou hern Kansas, for
/ the purpose of inqUiring into the bus
/ mess of the Commission recently ap-
! pointed By the President for making
a treaty with the Great and Little
/ Usage tribes, the object of which is
/ their removal within the limits Of the
Indian Territory.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Brown, Assistant
/ Commissioner of the Freedmen's s Bu-
reau for Virginia, has issued the fol-
( lowing circular to the various sub As
sistant Commissioners in that State /:
1t is thought advisable that the
/ Bureau officers or agents should
/ not attend political conventions.
While it is clearly their duty to advise
/ freedmen in regard to their political
rights under the laws Of Congress, it
is not deemed proper that officers or
agents should become political parti-
sans. You will see that these in
structions are at once promulga ted to
your subOrdinatas.
The Committee on Ways and Means
have appointed Messrs. Moorehead,
| Maynard and Niblack. a sub-commit-
tee to prepare Tariff bill for submis-
sion to the entire Committee for their
consideration.
The uomination Of Gen. Schofeld
to be Secretary OF War, was stated by
the President, to be in place of EN-.
Stanton reDlOUed, and not to be re-
moved, as enormously telegraphed.
The bill introduced in the House
! to-day, by Mr.. Paine, admitting Ar
kansas to representation in Congress,
/ Is similar to that reported In March
/ by Farnsworth.
Z Ii declares that Arkansas has form
I ed and adopted a State Government
J which is Republican In form, and
shall be entitled to representation
/ when the Legislature of the State
/ shall have duly ratified the Four
\ teenth Article proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
/ States, and on condition that the
! State Constitution shall never be
amended or changed so as to deprive
I any citizen or class of citizens Of the
I right,to vote, who are entitled to vote
( by the Constitution herein recognized,
or so amended or changed as to al
1 low any person to vote who is excluded
\ from office by the Third Section of
/ the Fourteenth Article of the amend
meat to the Constitution, until the
disabilities proposed by said section.
I shall have been removed In the man
ner therein provided.
/ The President has recognized Al
/ Ion A. Barton as Consul of Peru in
Kentucky. and David Constant J ac-
card as Vice Consul of the Sevissa
! Confederation at st. Louis.
The President to day sent in
! message t0.Cangress enclosing a COM
munication from Secretary Seward,
covering a letter from Hon. George
Bancroft relative to a treaty recently
negotiated with North Germany,
/ which, on the authority Of speeches
made in the North German Federal
/ Council by Mr.. KONG, Count Bis
marck and others. reiterates the cor
/ Tectness of his { (Bancrott's) interpret
I alton of the treaty as given IN his let
/ ter of February y, viz: that pefsOns
/ who have lived In America five years
and been naturaiized cannot be held
/ to military duty In North Germany.
No prosecution. said Count Bis
marck, foE unauthorized emigration,
can take place even if the emigrant
/ shall have ceased to be an American
citizen, and a German-American
citizen emigrating to North Germany
cannot be held to the discharge Of
any old military duty.
The President, to-day, sent to the
House a report from Adjutant Gen
eral Dent, showing, IN reply to the
resolution of the House, that the
Military Department of Alaska, and
the Military Division of the Atlantic
are the only ones formed since the
first Of August last, and they. IN ac-
cordanee with long established usage
and authority.
Manager Williams viii conclude
his argument Tomorrow. He VIII be
followed by Evarts. who Is expected
to occupy a part of tomorrow and
I Wednesday. Stanbery will read, or
cause to be read, his argument on
Thursday and Friday, and Manager
Bingham viii close the case on Fri
day.
/ JACKSON, April 27.-The Conven-
ton was occupied TO-DAY In the dis