The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-04-07
Washington News and Gossip.

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WASHINGTON, March 30.
An appeal was made to the President this
morning to issue the official notice announcing
the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, and
he promised to do so to-day. The Texas bill
was sent to him in time for his signature, and
the transmission of special message which he
had prepared on the subject. The Reconstruc-
ton Committee met this morning and decided
to accept the Senate amendment to the Texas
bill, striking out the provision that the act
should not affect the original terms on which
the State had been admitted. in. 1845, and to
rush the bill through the House. The pro-
gramme was carried out swiftly. When it.was
reported, General Butler made few remarks,
stating that he did not regard the proviso pro-
posed to be stricken out as of much Importance,
on which he was handsomely picked up by Mr.
Fernando Wood, who, in the course of an in
teresting historical sketch of the way Texas
vas brought into the Union by joint resolution,
reminded him that he (A1r. Butler) laid great
stress upon this very proviso, when it was first
considered in the Reconstruction Committee,
and regarded it as matter of great importance
that it should be passed. Now because some
sudden particular purpose was to be effected by
the Radical party, presto change, it was OF no
Importance. Mr. Wood made the further point
that the passage of the bill without this proviso
was violation of a virtual treaty agreement
made between this government and the PresI-
dent of the Republic of Texas in 1845 but the
Senate was concurred with, and the bill passed
by party vote. 1t was then enrolled, signed
by the Speaker and the Vice-President, sent up
to the White House, signed there by the Presl-
dent, and returned to the House with special
message and Secretary Fish's proclamation an
nouncing the ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment, all within two hours from the time the
bill passed the House. When the documents
reached the House at g.. 80 p. M, there was
perfect fiutter among the members. MIR. May
nard was making prosy tariff speech la Com
mittee of the Whole. He was asked to- give
way. The Committe rose; the Speaker was
sent for order was restored, and the message
and proclamation were read. That portion OF
the latter about New York excited close atten-
tention. When the reading was finished, Pc
ters, of Maine, moved to refer the message to
the Judiciary Committee Mr.. Wood rose at
once. and emphatically denied that New York
had ratified the amendment Mr. Peters said !:
"Well, we think she has over here" meaning
the Radical side, which followed the remark
with shout of laughter. Mr.. Brooks, refer
ring to the disorder, wanted to know of the
Speaker if this was town meeting 1t appear
ing that Indiana had been counted to make the
twenty-eight States required to ratify the
amendment, MIR. Niblack rose and said that in
point of fact it was untrue that the Legislature
of Indiana had ever ratified the amendment,
and any representation to the contrary was
fraud (Sensation.) The House then divided,
and the Radicals carried the previous question
on the motion to refer, but the Democrats were
determined to secure debate. Mr.. Randall
moved to adjourn. Lost Mr.. Wood moved
call of the House, pending which MIR. Dawes
said the Democrats were determined to debate
this question, and he appealed to Mr.. Peters to
Withdraw his motion to refer, which that gen.
tleman did, and the documents were then laid
on the Speakers table for future action.
The Senate in executive session to-day con-
frmed the nomination of DIR. Samuel Bard, OF
Georgia to be Governor of Idaho, the commits
sion of Governor Ballard, the present incum-
bent, expiring on the 10th of April. Governor
Bard was among the first in the South or else
where, as editor of the Atlanta, Ga, Neao Era,
to nominate General Grant for the Presidency,
and it is known was an active worker in his
behalf. The Governor is native of New York,
but has resided in the Southwest and Georgia
since 1S45.
A rumor was current on the streets last night
and this morning, that Secretary Fish had re-
signed his place in the Cabinet on account of q
difficulty with the President on account of Gu
ban matters. Inquiry into the matter shows
that the story is wholly false and that it was
originated by the Cuban interest, which had its
headquarters at the Ell, = house, solely for po-
liticaf effect. The President has up to this af-
ternoon received ndNinformation, direct or indi-
rect, that any of his Cabinet intend resigning,
or can ne see any reason for believing that they
L Al &c Jo,y
WASHINGTON, March 81.
Both senators and the four members of the
House from Texas were sworn in to-day, thus
giving every State in the Union representation
In Congress but Georgia, and making 224 MEM
bers of the House and II members of the SEN
ate There was no objection to the admission
of the delegation until the name of John Con-
nor, the Democratic member, was reached, when
General Butler, with that enlarged feeling Of
Importance which seems to grow with every
snubbing that the House gives his interference
with the business of committees with which he
has no connection, moved to refer back Mr.
Connor's credentials to the very committee
which had unanimously reported them, on the
ground that certain er parte af6dayits' which
were read charged him with cruelty to soldiers,
while he was captain in the regular army, and
with having denounced certain acts of Congress
in his campaign speeches, which latter conduct
was alleged to be disloyal. This most extraor-
binary proceeding, which the Radical Mr.. Ste
venson vehemently denounced as unpreceden-
ted and the Radical Mr.. Orth characterized as
preposterous, was rebuked by the House by
vote which ought to teach the member from
Lowell to stop insinuating his probe into every
thing that comes up. He got just twenty one
votes, and found his cause too weak to be able
to order the ayes and noes omit. Even such Re
publicans as Dawes and Schenck were obliged
to protest against being indoctrinated with the
theory that the House could &C, back two or
three years prior to members election and IN
pecially on the fragrant assumption of &C parte
afhdavits denied by the member-elect. Thede-
bate was boisterous. Butler got excited, and
threw his vindictiveness into the warmest kind
e la-o Tho steutarian voice of Steven