Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-14
For Pres;dent of The United States
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The Massachusetts, House Of Repre-
~seutatives have passed, over the veto Of
the Governor, tho bill abolishing the
State Coustsbulary. - 1.y
John W. Forney has resigned the Sec
retaryship of the Senate, objections
having been made to his editorial COM
ments on the action Of certain Senators.
He viii now pour the 6re Of his un-
masked batteries into the ranks of tho
reereant Senators. ION
Senator Towards illness has dsyel-
oped into brain fever, and the postpone
meut Of the vote on Impeachment was
for tho purpose Of enabling him to be
present. Good
Senator Wade has authorised the an
nouncemen, that no will rssigu his po-
sitiou rs President Of the Senate, If his
vote should DO necessary to secure con-
viction. This, the Republican special
thinks, will secur the necessary two
thirds vote. Senator Trunbull was
booted in the streets on his way home,
Tuesday night, and the feeling against
him aud Fessenden is very strong. The
Maine and Illinois Representatives in
the lower House have demanded Of these
Senators that they should vote in ae-
cordance with the expressed wishes of
their respective States, or resign.
Surratt's case came up on Tuesday,
and was postponed until the Juno term
A motion to admit him to bail is pend
ing.
A cavalry fierce sufficient to enable
the arrest of distillers engaged in vio-
lating the tax laws, has been demanded
by the United States Marshal at st.
Louis. ~ sHrE sai
Senate. Henderson has received nu-
merous kilograms from Missouri, re-
questing him to resign, and the Missouri
Representatives are b%esceching him to
change his course.
The Iowa delegation have resolved
not to recognize Senator Grimes as a
Republican.
General Grant, in response to a reso-
luton to that effect, has sent the
Speaker Of the House n %lettor, giving
the votes on the Constitution Of the sew
eral Southern States, as follows: North
Csroliua-for, 90, 800; against, 1880;
South Carolina-for, 7o,75s ; against,
27,25s; Georgia-for, se,oO7; against,
II, 3O9; Louisiana-for, sc, l52; against,
As, 73s; Alabama-for, 6s,so7 against,
lO,005.
Price, from the Committee on the
Pacific Railroad, reported q joint rc,o-
luton 10 construe the provisions Of the
Pacific Railroad Acts, so as to require
the use Of American iron for all rails,
chairs, bars, bolts aud spikes in the lay
ing and repairing Of the road. The
resolution passed the House. He also
introduced q resolution, which passed,
providing f6r a Board Of Railroad Com
m~issioners, to consist Of the Secretary
Of War, Secretary Of the Interior and
Attorney General, whose duty it shall
be to establish annually a tariff Of
freights and fares on the Pacific roads,
limiting the rates they may allow to
double the average rates on roads be-
tween the Mississippi river and tho At
lautic ocean, in ATTITUDES north Of ST.
Louis. A proviso that the above pro-
visions should not take effect until the
roads were completed from Omaha to
Sacramento, was voted down, yeas, &c;
nays Al, and the joint resolution passed
by, yeas, &c; nays, 81.
Tho Clerkenwell-Fenian affair was
productive of awful results. Six per-
sons were killed outright; siI died
from the effects Of the explosion /; Eve
more owe their deaths indirectly to it ;
one young man is In a mad-house ;
forty mothers were prematursly con-
6ued, twenty losing their children, while
many Of the children are dwarfs ; ono
mother is a maniac; twelve persons
were wounded /; Fifty went into the hos
pital f.; fifteen are permanently injured,
besides 500, 900 damages to property.
Sixty.sight thousand persons attend
cd a meeting Of the wigsn Miners
Union. A resolution passed to resist
the proposed reduction Of le per cent.
in wages, and all further reductions.