Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-12-16
Washington News.

1t is understood that every member
of the cabinet cOndemned that portion
of the Presidents Message favoring
reputation.
General Thomas Young of Cincin-
natl, has been nominated by Commits
siOner Rollins, supervisor for the
: southern district of Ohio.
The Utah case before the Supreme
Court involving the right to tax gov
eminent bonds, will gOoYer until after
the holidays.
The Virginia Election bill passed,
provides for an election thelast ofMay
and a meeting of the Legislature in
September.
The Secretary Of the Treasury issued
bonds amounting to ST. go 600 to the
Union Pacific and S639,000 to the
Central Pacific Railroad.
The only copies of the Message Civ
en- out at the white house to any pri-
vate parties were placed in the hands
of n special messenger of Brick POM
eroy's Democrat
The bill to transfer the Indian Blu
reau to the war department, passed
the House by yeas lis, nays SO. 1t
will meet with much opposition in
the Senate.
The bill to extend the Freedman's
Bureau in the States of Virginia,
Texas and Mississippi another year is
strongly urged by a delegation from
Virginia.
The warrant for the payment of the
ninth installment of military claims
of the State of Ohio against the Gov
wA-,,a 1,,.r,,M.nr - CpET -OT hna
been signed at the Wa Department.
The bill which passed the Senate
last summer, regarding bridges over
the Ohio, reached the House, and was
referred to the committee on roads and
canals.
The House agreed by 81 to IS to take
a recess from the 21st of this month to
the 5th of January. The Senate will
probably try to shorten this by three
or four days.
The Franklin j. Moses for whose
benefit Congress passed a relief bill is
chief justice elect of South Carolina,
and could not take the test oath be-
cause he held a civil office under the
Confederate government.
In the House, Scofield leaves the
committee on elections and goes to
appropriations. The vacancy thus
made in elections was filled by the
appointment of Pettis, the new menu
Der from Pennsylvania.
The Moorhead or Little Tariff
Billn of last summer, went before the
committee of Ways and Means on
the 10th inst, after which it will be
presented to the House. Its friends
are confident of IFS DaSsapp-
The Iowa war claims bill for paying
the State two hundred and thirty-sev-
en- thousand dollars to reimburse her
for the amount paid to soldiers who
served during the war on the borders
of the State will go through the House
whenever again reached.
About twenty-seven millions of dol
lars in gold will be paid out of the
treasury next month to meet semi-an-
nual installments of interest. This
will leave seventy millions in the
treasury and seventy-three millions
more in gold certificates.
Several of General Grants friends
went TO him with the statement that
anumber of prominent politicians had
expressed their decided opinion that
he would turn out the worst President
the country ever had. The General
did not see the point of this joke, and
quietly responded, Indeed! who were
they?h
In the recognizing OF the Senate
committees no important changes have
been made. Mr.. Trumbull remains
at the head of the judiciary, Mr..
Grimes of naval affairs, Mr.. Fesse1-
den of public grounds, Mr.. Van Win
kle Of pensions, Mr.. Henderson of
Indian affairs, Mr.. Fowler of engrOss-
ed bills, and Mr.. Rossof enrolled bills.
The Resolutions of the Legislative
Assembly of Oregon, instructing their
Senators in Congress 10 resign, they
having voted for measures plainly I'M
constitutional, which have over
thrown civil liberty and free
government, and consigned the citi-
Zens of eleven States to an Odious and
despOtie dictatorship, were by a vote
of 139 to p sent back to that body as
being scandalous, impertinent and
INDIGENOUS.
The bill introducedby Gen. Garfield,
to transfer the Indian Bureau to the
War Department, has passed the
House by one hundred and nine to
. thirty-eight. 1t will however be
strongly opposed in the Senate by the
bureau ring. The frauds practised by
rascally agents on the Indians have
long demanded redress, and the
transfer will place it under the more
immediate eye of the War Depart
ment. 1t is contemplated to make a
large reduction in the clerical force of
the Treasury Department during the
! present month.
During the reading Of the Presi-
; dents message in the Senate, and be-
fore the Clerk had reached the atroci-
Gus paragraph in which the President
: advocates reputation through non
payment of interest on our bonds
Mr.. CONFESS rose and Indignantly
moved to dispense with the further
: reading Of the document. Garrett
Davis caught at his breath and mana
ged to say that the motion was most
. extraordinary. Yes" responded en-
= ness, land the message is most extra
ordinary, such a one rs no other Presi-
: dent ever sent to Congress" Warm
: ing to his subject, he went on TO say
that it was a TRADE of abuse, an indie
cent attack on Congress, a tissue OF
malignant falsehoOds. Vice Presi-
uell w dut Ga4lCu AOE u NOlc VA lnS
: motion to stop the reading, and on the
: viva voce answer decided that it had
4 been carried. Thus the Senate, out
d ragged beyond restraint, refused forthe
r first time in its history to hear a mes
e sage from the White House. While
there was some division of opinion
: among Republicans a to the proprie-
ty of allowing 1t to DO read, there was
e none in condemnation of its doctrines
e or in protest against its wicked plea
e for the late rebellion. The House
took the reading of the message very
0 quietly.
. The next annual session of the Erie
Conference will be held at Franklin,
Venango County, Pennsylvania, com.
mencing on Wednesday the 29th day
= of September next, Bishop Ames
will preside. The annual session OF
It this Conference has hitherto been
held in July, but as will be seen, it is
e now changed to early autumn. Bish'
n op Kingsley, the present conference
d wear, is assigned to distant Confer
ences, with one exception. He
# presides at the Troy Conference, in
West Troy, the 18th Of April next.
# He presides at the Colorado Confer.
ence. Central City, June 24th at the
Oregon Conference, Eugene City
@,4 10Th o.. OF tho Navajo Confer.