The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-07
THE ORESCENTS DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
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Adjournment Of the Supreme Court.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS-
FINANCIAL MATTERS-THE TENURE OF OFFICE
BILL IN THE SENATE.
ELL for Railroad Bradley Again
The Debt Statement.
THE RESOLUTION REMOVING OFFICERS.
THE MIS- SISSIPPI CASE.
The Pacific Railroad omnibus Bill.
RoCEEDINGs OF CONGRESS-
FINANCIAL MTTERS-THE TENURE OF OFFICE
BILL IN THE SENATE.
ELL for Railroad Aid-Bradley Again
The Debt Statement.
THE RESOLUTION REMOVING OFFICERS
THE MIS- SIssIPPI CASE.
The Pacific Railroad omnibus Bill.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The Supreme Court ad
journed. -
Senote-In view of the recent cowhiding grow
ing out of the stationers contracts the judiciary
committee was instructed to report what legisla
ton is necessary to protect federal officers in the
discharge of their duty. u aT
House.-Privste bills under consideration. The
reconstruction committee heard Brown and Dimral
regarding Mississippi.
The stationery contract was further ventilated
without action.
More petitions were presented from New Yorb
against secret sales of gold by the government.
number OF private bills passed.
The ways and means committee reported bill
preventing the further increase of the public debt
A bill ordering two terms of the federal Circuit
Court in the eastern district of Arkansas passed.
The secretary of the treasury was asked
whether all the money received from the sales OF
captured and abandoned property had been paid
into the treasury. -u'tE 81. -
The reconstruction committee reported bill
removing practical disabilities from large mum.
Der of persons. Ordered printed.
bill was reported by the committee on bank.
ing and currency requiring the national banks to
report to the controller monthly. RI
Army appropriations resumed without action.
The House adjourned.
RSeldte-The tenure Of Office bill came up and
provoked warm discussion. Morton said 1t was
wrong and should never have been passed.
Edwards opposed its repeal. No action.
Constitutional amendment resumed. long
discussion ensued. No action.
Edmunds introduced concurrent resolution ex-
count, because of Georgia's doubtful position in
the Union. Several senators objected, and the
resolution goes over. ~
The committee on Pacific railroads introduced
bill in aid of the Northern Pacific, the Atlantic
and Pacific, the Southern Pacific of California.
the Little Rock, Arkansas Valley and Fort Smith,
the Eastern Division Union Pacific and the Ore
gon Branch Railroads, guaranteeing the interest
on their bonds for thirty years at per cent, at
the rate Of $4,000 per mile. with subsidies Of
land. The Southern Pacific Railroad lies between
the Saith and Goth parallel, connecting with the
Southern Pacific of California on the Colorado
river. Ordered printed.
The Tennessee representatives. Arnell, Mullins
and Num-: publish cards denying any connection
with the theft OF the Tennessee school fund.
In the District Court, Bradley having formally
declined spologizing to Judge Fisher, was again
excluded from practice.
The comparative debt statement shows an in.
crease of coin bearing interest," $l4 ,000 currency
bearing, $l,500.O00; decrease of the matured
debt, $500, 900; increase bearing no interest,
81 900 600; increase of Pacific Railroad bonds,
50 900 900; decrease of coin In the treasury &c.,
600 600 increase of currency a 500 o00.showing
an increase of the public debt of SIS 900 900.
Warrants issued during the month of January ag.
gregate $43 1858 000 including 800 900 interest.
Coin in the treasury sSs,76oooo; currency ST.
Inc JOlnt rebOuuOn removing Objects III tugl-
mia, Mississippi and Texas, is now before the
president for approval. 1t provides for removal,
after thirty days from and after its passage of all
persons now holding Office who cannot take and
subscribe to the oath prescribed by the act en-.
titled act to prescribe an oath of Office aud for
other purposes, approved July I'd, 1862. District
commanders shall fill the Offices so vacated with
persons who can take said oath-provided that the
provisions of this act shall not apply to persons
relieved of political disabilities.
Messrs. Brown and Simrall represent that the
people of Mississippi are anxious to adopt mo.
difed constitution with the privilege of electing
officers under 1t. but state that ifthe Reading Con-
sttution with officers claiming under it was forced
upon the State, the people would regard it as an
act of unjust coercion and would not rest until 1t
was altered.
Cattell, discussing the suffrage amendment,
wishes to exclude Cinnamon who worship joss.
The vote in committee Ion the Pacific Railroad
omnibus bill was yeas-Drake, CONFESS, Stewart,
Rice and Abbott; nsys-Howard, Harlan. Morgan,
Sherman and Wilson. The Southern route Is from
Little Rock, Ark, via Fort Smith and Albuquer-
que to San Francisco, CAL; another line from
near Cheyenne Wells, Kansas, to the Southern
route. near Albuquerque; another route from
Lake Superior to Puget's Sound another from
Portland, Oregon, to the north bend of Humboldt
River, Nevada.