The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-10
By Telegraph
A Revolutionary Bill Re-
ported to the Senate.
The Supreme Court to
be Throttled.
VIRGINIA AND THE RECONSTRUC-
TI0N COMMITTEE.
THE JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS NOT
JtDiCI0US.
MORE PROTECTION FOR PENNsYL.
VANIA IRON.
The Presidents Message In Paris
The RhombeFg Whisky Case.

LONDON, Dec. 9.--The prices of rebel
bonds are considerably improved recently,
in view Of the proposed settlement Of the
| Alabama claims.
The government will take possession of all
the telegraph lies in the country an the lst
of February.
SPRINGrIELD, III Dec 9. Members Of the
! Constitutional Convention have begun to
arrive.
The Governor this morning respited the
sentence Of Daniel Walsh, who was convict
ed for the murder Of his wife, in Chicago,
last summer, until January I, 1870.
1t is understood that Judge Edwards, will
preside at the Macoupiu County Circuit and
other Courts in the Eighteenth Judicial Cir.
cult, and thus relieve Judge Rice, to enable
| him to serve as member of the constitu,
tional Convention.
The report of the investigation into the
| management of the affair of the Soldiers
Orphans Home was submitted by the Trus.
tees to the Governor to day. 1t covers one
thousand pages of foolscap.
DUBUQuE, Iowa, Dec. 9.-The Rhonberg
whisky case, which has been on trial here
for several days, before Judge Love, in the
United States District Court, was submitted
to the jury at a quarter past o'clock yes.
terday afternoon. The Jury remained out
until halfpast II in the night, and being un.
able to agree, were discharged. The case
involves the amount of tax on twelve hun
dred and fourteen barrels Of whisky and
other spirits removed from here to New
York under bond in 1867.
hat ,F tbo
ident's Message relating to neutrality in
matters of ocean cables, printed here to day
causes great excitement
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The Reconstruc-
ton Committee had a protracted meeting
to-day, when the case Of Virginia was con.
sidered Gov. Walker made statements in
favor Of the immediate admission of the
State, and detailed the manner in which the
election was conducted, insisting that it
was in all respects fair and without intlmi.
dation or violence. A negro member elect
of the Virginia State Senate also made
statement 70 the committee, sustaining
Governor Walker, and protesting against
the test.oath spd other measures of what he
terms Radical legislation. He announced
himself as a Conservative. The Committee
heard the Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, but came to no
conclusion.
1t is ascertsined from reliable source
that at an informal interchange of views by
the members Of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, all the Republicans favored
the position taken by the Pretdept in his
message, on the Cuban question, and that
the Democratic members, Fernando Wood
and Swan, indicated that they would sus-
tain the positions assumed by the admins.
ton, and there was no ground for supposng
that the insurgents had established de
facto government.
The Ways and Means Committee sse still
engaged in discussing the duty on iron.-
They have agreed to increase the duty to a
small extent on the manufactured article.
Senator Trumbull, from the Judiciary
Committee, reported bill, to day, which
provides that the courts of the United States
shall not pass upon any political qustons
that may come before them-thst no Southern
State Government shall be recognized by
Congress; that the Supreme Court shall not
have appellate jurisdiction in cases arising
out of proceeding commenced by writ Of
HuU6uS COTUNS, anu buhb INC L ftolaOub nihJ
proceed to execute judgment against all
military prisoners now held at the South
without regard to any decisions which have
been or may be made by the United States
Court. This bill takes the Yeager case and
all similar to it out of court, and allows the
President to cary out the the sentence oftbe
military commissions without regard to the
courts.
The Senate has agreed to adjourn overtill
Monday.
The House makes slow progress with the
Census bill, and there is no prospect OF
reaching vote. NJ. Butler is urging his
amendmeu to make the Internal Revenue
Assessors do the work of taking the census.
The appointment Of Yeaman, as Judge OF
the Sixth District, does not give satisfaction
in political circles None Of the appoint
mento are generally satisfactory.
1t is charged here that Mr.. Pierre,
Baltimore, was convicted of defrauding the
revenue in the court over which he is now
called to preside.