The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-31
Affairs I'm washington.

Affairs I'm Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald telegraphs as follows,
under date of the 9th inst:
The committee of the House of Repre-
sentatlves, appointed to inquire into and
report the legislation necessary for taking
the ninth census, is desirous of receiving
suggestions from persons in all parts Of the
country touching the question. Commu-
nlcations addressed to the Chairman, Mr..
Garfield, will receive due attention and con-
sideration.
The Senate Committee On Pensions held
meeting to-day, and after disposing of the
usual petitions for soldiers pensions took ND
the resolution of Senator Morton in refer
ence to granting pension to Mrs Abraham
Lincoln. The letter from that lady, recent
ly published, was read and variously com
mented upon. The committee concluded
that they had no power to act upon tho
suggestion of Senator Sumner of granting
Mrs. Lincoln stipend of $4,000, and that
the limit of their liberality was confined to
the sum usual in such cases of thirty dollars
O month, and no more. In instances where
higher pension has been given, the Com
mittee on Military Affairs have had the dis
position of it. A report will bc made by
the committee to the Senate, setting forth
their inability to render any greater pecu-
mary relief than the law allows to the
widow of the martyred President.
Some time of the same committee was
devoted to the discussion of Senator
Cragln's bill to regulate the social, judicial
and political affairs of Utah Territory. The
bill provides that only citizens of the United
States shall be competent to act as grand
and petit jurors; that no man shall take unto
himself more than one wife; that all COM
missions and appointments both civil and
military, granted by Brigham Young, shall
cease and have no effect after the first Of
next year; that it shall be unlawful for the
officers or members Of the Church of Latter
Day Saints to grant divorces or solemnize
marriages, and that all the acts and orl
nances of Brigham's government done in
the name of the Church rs trustee, granting
lands and streams of the Territory, and
which In any way interfere with the primary
disposal of the soil by the United States,
nre disapproyed and annulled and that no
restriction of any kind shall be placed on
the free use of the ballot nor any arts prac-
tlced to mark the votes Of citizens. The
bill IS very long, and is deemed by some
members of the committee rather too de-
spotic in some of it's provisions The clause
prohibiting the granting of United States
lands by Brigham Young, in trust for the
use of the Church to his friends and rela-
tlves, is considered eminently proper, but it
is thought better to treat these matters af
fecting the religion of the Mormons with as
much delicaoy as possible Several amend
ments on this head will be made on Satur
day in committee, and in the meantime Mr..
Cragin will prepare an elaborate speech on
the whole vexed question of Utah and its
peculiar institution, for delivery in the Sc
nate after tho presentation of his bill
A printed document is in circulation here
which attracts some attention It is com
munication from N. l.. Angler, Treasurer of
Georgia, in response to resolution of the
House of Representatives, of that State,
requesting information as to the amount Of
State bonds that have been issued since he
came into office, and whether or not the
same have been sold or hypothecated for
money borrowed. He replied that Gov
ernor bullock and himself delivered to the
agent or the Fourth National Bank, of New
, YORK, & a contract to place in their possession
Sl5O,OOO of the seven per cent. bonds of
the State. Less than a month afterwards
S6O, 600 in the same bonds were delivered,
and six weeks later 5000, 900 in new bonds
of the State of Georgia The bank od-
vanced on these bonds, at various times IN
draft Of Governor Bullock, ND to tho 36tb
OF last December, an aggregate of Sl75 :
0OO. Supposing considerable amount of
the new seven per cent. bonds had been
sold, the Treasurer states he wrote tn the
bank to learn. He received for answer
unadvlsable to do so, as in consultation be-
that none had been sold; it being considered
tween Governor Bullock and the president
OF the bank it was considered that the
Legislature authorizing them was nm illegal
Dody. Besides crediting themselves in the
account current with the yarious amounts
OF bonds enumerated, the bank also tool,