Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
Washington News.

in regard to public men and public
matters. are utterly without f0unda-
ton.
The joint resolution giving the Ro-
tunda and old Hall of Representatives
for an Inauguration bali. WAS killed
by yeas -, nays 81.
In the House the Protectorate
scheme was tabled by l22 10 81, Gen.
Butler being the only one who sup
ported it with any vigOr.
The Alaska Territorial bill present
ed by Mr.. Ashley, was ercely attacked
by Washburne and others, on the
ground that there was no occasion to
have a government up there at pres
ent. The bill was eiiectUally killed.
Col. G. A. Forsythe has been bre-
vetted BTigadier GeneraIin the United
States Army for gallantry in the
Indian campaign in Kansas.
\ deputation Of leading citizens OF
Prince Georges county, MARYLAND,
waited on the President to solicit the
pardon of DIR. MUdd. The President
listened TO their address and referred
them TO the Attorney General, stating
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him through that officer.
The long expected action OF the
President 10 give effect TO his amnesty
proclamation took nobody by surprise.
He reaches his end through an order
from the Attorney Generals Office,
directing the United States Attorney
10 enter ROHc proScqgi on all the in
dictments. This motion was accord
ingly made in the Court on the indict-
ments found nearly four years ago
against Davis and Breckenridge.
This order is understood 10 dispose of
the Davis ease now before the Supreme
Court, as wei rs of all suits in Rich
mOud and elsewhere in which treason
is charged.
About three hundred cOlored people
met in convention to ask Congress FOR
universal suffrage.
The House P~ost-office Committee re-
ported their bill TO prohibit the use of
,fac SjBii!ic stamps for Thanking pUr-
poses.
The Senate had 4 speech OF an hour
from Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, against
the renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty
with Canada. He said the former
treaty was reciprocal in word, but not
in effect that treaties on such subjects
infringe upon the prercgatives of the
lower branch of Congress that COM
meree of this kind between nations
should lie regulated by law, and not
by treaty.
The House bill for dividing Utah
Territory into the surrounding Terri
tories went over for two weeks.
Senator Wilson made some very in
teresting statements about claims
from the South for QuaTtermaster's
and COmmissaries' supplies. He said
the whole amount filed in the War
Department since the close of the re-
belliOn was bOuttWenty-four millions
of dollars, of which about half a mil
lion had been allowed, and four and
a-quarter millions rejected. He
thought from examination of the sub
iect. that fair and Just claims would
not amount to oyeT fifteen millions,
and held that the best thing Congress
could do would be TO designate n COM
petent board OF army officers to exam
inc all that might be presented, so
that Congress might have some Teli-
able data on which to work, and in
order that the whole matter may lie
closed a. quicklyas possible, he thinks
such a committee should do the work
in less than two Years, and that it Is
the height of folly for Congress to I'M
dertake now 10 act on additional indi-
vidual claims.
The Retrenchment Committee will
not consider the House bill repeating
the tenure of Office act till some time
next week. II is impossible to say
what course Of action they Will recon-
mend, though they well understand
that General Grant thinks II hes not
proved to be a wise law.
The new Tenure Of Onice bill pre-
scented by Mr.. Wilson, proposes to eX-
emPt Cabinet Ministers from the OPP
erati0ns of the present law, and not to
require the President 10 submit proof
30 the Senate when lie suspends on
officer during the recess.
The receipts Of customs from Jdnu-
Any ist 70 January 9Th, were S2.92l,-
2S3.
The Sue Murphy ease hefore the
senate Occupied the whole day of the
18th inst. Miss Murphy presented
claims for damages To property de-
strOYed during the war, claiming that
she was loyal. but the evidence adj
duced shows that she was not till
after our troops Occupied Decatur.
Frauds Of an important character
are reported to have occurred in n OF
the bureaus Of the Patent Office De
paTtment.
The Senate committee on finance is
maturing a general bill which il is
proposed TO present, covering al the
ground deemed necessary to go Ovel
at this time. Little can be ascertained
regarding its main features except
that the five-twenty question will be
treated upon the basis of the following
resolution, reported to the Senate last
month by Mr.. Sherman
-ReaDyrsd. bg tie Ssaafe, That neither The
public policy nor good faith of the nation
viii allow the redemption of five-twenty
bonds until the United states h perform
its primary duty Of paving its notes in coin,
or making them equivalent thereto, and
measures should be adopted by Congress Ia
secure the resumption Of specie payments al
as early q period rs practicable.
The conservatives from Virginia arc
mOdeEating their tone and say they
viii 20 for a new constitution in their
State, including negro suffrage, pro-
vided Congress will interfere to have
its most proscriptive features removed
so that it will disfranchise only such
as are kept out by the reconstruction
act and the fourteenth article of the
federal constitution.
The Observation-Disclosures mak-
ing suffrage universal, which was re-
ported in the Senate, is much the
same as that brought into the House
the other day from one of their com.
mittees, which Governor Boutwell, viii
call up sometime next week. The one
in the Senate is backed 10y petitions
bearing nearly one hundred thousand
signatures.
The internal revenue bureau re-
ceived word that one of its officers in
Tennessee had been assaulted by the
Ku Klux. The officer states that he
was taken from his bed by a party of
masked ~desperadoes who threatened
10 blow his brains out if he attempted
TO enforce the revenue laws. They
fired a number of shots at his house,
but released him after exacting a
promise that he would not attempt TO
enforce the law.
Secretary Seward has for some time
been anxious TO close his official ca
Teer.
Tile bureau on printing is now eX-
perimenting to see if Z better. quality