The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-09

us. The route Of the NorYoik and Cree
Western Raiiros extends YrSm N6rfSlk
via Danville, Va, sto Bristol, on Che viz
ginia and lTennessee Railroad. -. - :.
r. WAaHINaToE, July S.-Indian affairs
nre assuming q serious aspect at the
North. "A party of miners, in Colorado,
have been massacred. The Utes and
Cheyennes are fighting among them.
selves. Sherman has advices that the
Sioux are preparing for raids. AGvices
to the Quaker Commission are more pa
cific.
Alderman was in the Cabinet this
morning.
The Senate was occupied all morning
on bill relieving seventy-five Kentuo-
kians from political disabilities; an
amendment covering some 5000 persons
was offered.
In the Senate, bill relieving the po-
litical disabilities of seventy-tive Ken
tuckians passed-44 to 6. The general
disability bill was taken up. This bill
contains about 5, 900 names. It was pro-
posed to insert the name of A. o. P.
Nicholson, of Tennessee. Objection was
made, and the name was withdrawn.
Several names were stricken out and the
bill then passed. proposition to strike
out the name of ex-senator Robert J ohm
ston, of Arkansas, was negatived. The
Georgia bill was taken up-yeas 20; nays
25, when, with q view of preventing de-
bate, motion was adopted to non. con
cur in the House amendments to the bill
as it passed the Senate, and ask for a
Conference Committee-yeas 81; nays
%. Senate in session tonight.
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bill. as amended by the Senate; it goes
committee on the deficiency appropria-
tion bill.
In the House, bill to pay bounty to
the First Alabama Cavalry, and the First
and Second Florida Cavalry, passed. A
bill to complete the Court House and
Post Office ut Knoxville, Tenn, passed.
The House then went into committee on
additional deficiency bill to pay ex-
penses of census and department of JUS
tice. An amendment was offered to pay
twenty per cent. additional to employees
of the House for the Thirty Con-
gress, which provoked discussion, in
which Mr.. Dawes declared that he would
go to the country and tell the country
that that party which is responsible for
expenditures of public money had re-
fused to hold itself up to the point Of
public economy. He had as much 6deli-
ty to the party as any living man, but
he had more fidelity to the good of the
country. There was something above
the party, and he intended that the
country should know Oh whom the re-
sponsibility for extravaganza rested. An
amendment was adopted, appropriating
Sl7O, QUO to pay loyal men in the South
who had assisted in taking the last CEN
sus Bingham, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported bill to regulate the
mode of determining the ratification OF
the amendments to the Constitution.
The rules were suspended and the bill
passed-ayes 1875; nays 81. Bingham
also reported joint resolution, direct
ing the Secretary Of the Treasury to pay
all lawful owners the proceeds o, all cot
ton seized after the 30th of June, 1865
such seizures having been made in v;o-
lation of an injunction issued by the
Treasury Department, and after the sur
render of the Confederate armies, and
the proclamation of amnesty.
Butler, of Massachusetts, made point
of order that the bill made an appropri-
alton and must be referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole. The Speaker sus-
Cadueu tne Polnt. anu Inc Dill was re-
ferred.
OF the s54. 900, 900 of additional cur
rency provided by the Act just passed,
Virginia will receive Us its proportion.
nearly S5,0OO,0OO; West Virginia. nearly
S500,O00; Tennessee, 81, 900, 900; Louis
lana, s5,425, 900; Mississippi, nearly
So, ,O0O,0 900; Geogia, S4,6S1, 900; North
Carolina, 100000; South Carolina,
81, PIG, 900; Alabama, 81, 900, 600; Texas,
50, 900, 900; Arkansas, 81, ,455, 900; Flori-
do, $546,000
Internal revenue receipts to-day over
$S44, 600.
1t is thought that the President will
convene the Senate in extra session.
The Conference Committee on the
funding bill differ very widely, and it is
probable that three distinct reports will
be made.
Tho House judiciary Committee voted
6 to 4, against tho McGarahan claim.