Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-02-08

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During tho debate the fact was cs
tablished, that Alabama has seven,
Mississippi four, Louisiana seven
and Florida seventeen million acres
open TO tho homestead laws, Bill
postponed,
johnson, Of California, rs k i
leave to introduce n rcsnlution in
s,ructing the Judiciary COMMITTEE
to enquire whether Congress had
the power to prevent Immigration
OF Chinese and other Inferior races,
and whether the civil rights bill AMI
constitutional amendment conferred
the right ofsutl'ragc, etc, on Chinese
born in the United States,
Hill objected TO the resolution as
being II burlcsquc on common sense,
The Committee on Commerce
was instructed to enquire into the
eXpediency of I'M appropriations Tor
removing tho distractions in Hell
Gate and improvement orthc eastern
harbOr of New York.
II he bill removing disabilities
from Lake Blaclmcr, of Salisbury,
N. c., was referred to the Recon
struction Committee. Adjourned.
SENATE The resolutions of tho
Assembly of Colorado, asking aa-
mission, was read. The bill abolish
ing the Eastern District Court, OF
Texas, was indefinitely postponed.
The bill for the sale Of L. 5. iron.
clads passed.
Reconstruction resumed. Senate
adjourned.
The Committee on Foreign Rrla.
tions reported iavorably on t h I
Sandwich Islands Reel procity
Treaty.
In the Supreme Court, in the case
OF Armstrong Foundry rs the
United States, the argument is CON.
cluded. Gaines rs Dc Ia CroiX ct al,
and two other cases have been taken
up, and will occupy the court two
or three days. These are new is
sues, made under the will of Daniel
Clark, father of Mrs. Gaines, and Il
constitution of the noted litigation,
known rs the Gaines will case.
The sentence ofV. Cautz, convict
ed at Vicksburg by conrtmartia!, is
remitted. Cautz is ordered to re-
sumo his sword and report for duty.
A Joint resolution will be shortly
introduced resembling Immediately
Grants order discontinuing Freed
mems Bureau.
A large delegation Of tvbac c o
dealers and manufacturers are ;rc
consulting the Ways and Mcaus
Committee relative to the tobacco
tax.
Twenty two hundred blacks and
four hundred and eighty white fam
lies are relieved in this city daily
by Government Charitable Associa.
tions.
This evenings Express says, at a
private gathering of gentlemen of
both political parties, ono Of the
Justices of the Supreme Court spoke
very freely concerning the recon
struction measures of Congress, and
declared in the most pointed terms
that all the laws were unconstitu-
tional. and that the Court would be
sure to pronounce them so. Some OF
his friends near him suggested that
it was quite indiscreet to speak so
positively, when he at once repeated
his views in more emphatic man
ner.
Mr.. Morgan introduced in the
Senate, to day, a bill which was re-
ferrcd to the Committee on the
Judiciary, to enable the courts to
decree salvage to corporation formeT
for wrecking, or corporations on
equal footing with individual salvors
in the matter of their claims for
salvages, and the right to recover
the same.
The Annapolis correspondent of
the Baltimore American states that
Attorney General Jones give an
opinion to Governor Swan, which
has not yet been made public, by
letter, in which the Attorney Gen
eral pronounces the Civil Rights act
unconstitutional; the negro apprcn-
ticoship laws of Maryland constitu-
ton, and the United States Circuit
Court had no jurisdiction over the
case, in which Chief Justice Chase
pronounced a contrary judgment.
PARIS, Jan. 29.-During the de-
bate in the Senate on the army bill,
NJ. Chevalier opposed the bill on
peace grounds, but said that all Eu-
rope should unite to resist Russia
and America, whose rapid growth
of power threatened to over shadow
the world. Mars hall Neigh called
these views absurd, having been re-
futed by every act since the Amcri-
can war, The bill finally passed the
/ Senate. ,-.....
The Couped Etat in Italy is feared;
here relations with France are less
cordial.
Prussia sustains the temporal
power of the Pope to conciliaio her
Catholic subjects.
A general Catholic council is surc
TO meet in Rome in November.
From tie Houston Telegraph. Jan 2'th
Why do VIC fear Negro SHpreni'