The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-29
's The Oneida Disaster
CAPTAIN EYRE WHlTEWAsHED.
GOV. PALMER ON HIS DIG.
Market Reports.

military committee to day considered Sena
tor Wilson's amendment to the army bill.
Members of the committee expressed a de
sire to give the matter further examination
before action was had Dsfuite action will
be taken at the next meeting.
The ways and means ommittee have I'm
ished their amendments to the tariff Land
MIR. Schenck declares his intention to close
the debate on it at once.
The funding bill will be taken up by the
committee at its next meeting, and 1t wall be
reported in few days.
An effort was made yesterday to get the
San Domingo treaty reeommitted to the
committee an foreign relations. This Was
resisted by members of the committee. The
President and several Senators have
suggested this course, with view of Ap.
pointing a commission of Senators and
members to proceed to the Island and
examine into the whole question OF anne1a
tion, and the amount of money involved In
the scheme
Information having been received to the
effect that effort would be made In the Nir-
ginis Legislature TO rescind their action
concerning the Fifteenth Amendment, sew
eral Senators called upon the President to-
day, and asked MIN If he would issue his
proclamation ratifying the Fifteenth Amend
ment. provided they would pass the bill ad-
mitting Texas. This course would head off
the action of Virginia. He informed them
that he would issue it as soon as Texas was
admitted.
The President sent a message to the
Senate to. day, informing that body that the
Dominican Government had consented to
extend the time for the ratification of the
San Domingo treaty. 1t will probably be
laid aside.
Senator Schurz has just finished his speech
against the St. Domingo treaty. Senator
Carpenter, of Wisconsin. is now making q
speech supporting it, and will be followed
bv Senator Cole, of California. An effort
will be- made to reach q vote TO day. The
friends of the treaty have given mp all hopes
of carrying it.
Buffers committee is not in session to
day. His purpose is to show that members
of Congress have received Cuban Bonds.
INDIANAPOLIS, March % A meeting is
called for tomorrow night, of all Germans
who have heretofore voted the Republican
ticket, to take proper steps to separate them
selves from that party. in view OF the
failure of the convention Of Satusday to put
o German on the ticket.
The various courts adjourned this morn
| ing out of res pect for Hon. James Thompson,
ex Secretary Of State, who died yesterday at
| the age of 81.
PITrsBURGH, March 29.-Last Saturday
! night three men and woman attempted to
| cross the Youghiogheny river at Alpholiie.
| The fiat leaked and sunk, drowning Giioer'
Stewart and his wife. The other two men
SWAN ashore.
! New YORK. March 29.-The Tribune
Yokohama correspondent gives full reports
of the evidence given before the Naval Court
of Inquiry, and the decision of the Court, IN
the case Of Captain Eyre, of the British
steamer Bonn bay, of which the telegraph
had already announced the substance. The
| facts of the case remain substantially as
6rst reported. The testimony of the ofhoers
of the Bombay shows that the time which
elapsed between the order to stop her en-
gines when the collision became Imminent
and the order to go ahead and leave tbs
Oneida to her fate, was only four minutes
that the Bombay herself was not supposed
to be in danger. indeed was making vatel
in on J one of her seven compartments, aI
the Captain we'll knew-that the Oneida
after the collision, hailed the steamer ahoy
and the hail was heard aud reported 10 Cap
tain Eyre, who nevertheless refused to stop
Nobody on the Bonn bay seems to have hear
: the Oneida's guns, but the court justly re
E marked that if Captain Eyre had kept
nraper lookout after the accident, he coui'
not have failed to see the flash. There cal
be no question that the damage to tn
Oneida was supposed to be serious. Upo1
the question whether the Oneida or bonn oa
t WAS to blame for the collision, the cour
pronounced decidedly in Capt Eyre isso'
but the case is by no means clear. n iu'
r ther inquiry has been instituted oy the con-
J. manding officer of the U. ). Squadron
= Asiatic waters
The Japan Herald applauds the decis'o
of the court in the Eyre case-thInks IN
sentence may seem heavy to Capt Eyre, ou
. it NAV be less than it might have been ha
d the evidence been given on an inquest owe
i Commander Williams body. The Japa
. Gazette wishes that ''the court could ha'
found IL compatible with their strict sens
of Justice to acquit Captain Eyre altogethe
vet under the circumstances be could hard
have hoped to get off as easy as he ha
!. His error in leaving the Oneida was one
= ;udoment rather than deliberate heartles
r, ness" ,,..;o. ,oo. -.,o;r.
ths. leaves no question as to the person
safety of ex Collector Bailey. Gener
% Pleasanton, the present Collector, has n
IF ceived letter from Bailey, without date
!, post mark, in which the writer expressed h
- qualification at Pleasanton's appointmen
"a Of which he was advised BY New York p
pers. He also requested the present Co
iector to retain as many of his old subort
i. mates as possible-that they we're all hone
: men, and had no part in, or knowledge
:, his own conduct. The letter was written
Ne Bsiley's own anawritiug. and was dropp'
n in the New York Post Office. It's believ'