The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-04
Constitutional Convention,
THE RAILROAD PASS SECTION.
THE STATE TAX--SEC-
TION 40.
WASHINGTON.
GEN. SALOMAN'S APPOINTMENT
TENNESEE--BUTLER AND CA
DETSHIPS--NIGGER SENA-
TORS APPOINTMENTS
DENEESE'S SHADY
SUCCESSOR.
ono Quarter" hhe Watch0erd OF
Cuba--ImPOrts and LXpOrts--
The Mcfarland Triai--
Prince Pierre NapO-
leon--DarieH Canal.

GunA SA c- AN 49,
met at ten clock.
The chair announced the resignation o
Beverly W. Henry, of Fayette county, dele
gate from the Thirteenth Representative
District.
Mr. Coolbsugh presented a petition signe'
by thirty members of the bar Of Cook coun
ty, pray ing for one instead of two courts IL
said county; also praying for the appoint
ment Of judges, and for protection agsins
the evils contained in the judiciary roper,
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Hayes offered the following resolu
ton, as part of the proposed Constitution
Article, section. No public officer il
this State shall have or receive any free pas
or grstuity OF any railroad company. Upol
acceptance By him of such free pass or grs,
uity, his Office shall Immediately become va
! cant.
The motion cf Mr. Cummings to conside
SEQ. So OF the Legislative report was tAker
up. Mr.. Cummings desired to amend thi.
section so that the State tax should neve
exceed six and half mills. The motor
was afterwards Withdrawn.
/ Mr. Hanna said the people of this State
will brand the action of the Convention thi
morning in adopting this section as of ,
deeper dye than any act of any previous
Legislature. He was entirely and forever
opposed TO referring the section to revisiOI
and adjustment.
| The section As amended was referred tc
the Committee on Revision, after which the
! Convention adjourned.
| Section 40 was taken up for reconsiiela
ticn.
MIR. Cody desired to amend by providing
that unless by vote of three fourths of the
members OF each House.
Mr. Cary said this section was designed
| to and would remedy great abuses against
the State
Mr.. Church thought if any individual de
sired relief, let him obtain is through the
Bankrupt Court, and not the General As.
sembly.
A motion to reconsider was lost
The 44ih section was taken up.
Mr.. Ben amin did not favor such q re-
riction upon voting taxes in aid Of cor
pOrations.
Mr.. Church was in favor of two thirds
vote.
Mr.. ". J. Allen objected to the motion to
reconsider. The friends of reconsideration
had already had dozen trials on this cues
tion and had been beaten. He objected to
railroad enterprises being termed private
enterprises.
The motion to reconsider section ~ was
carried by 80 ayes 10 Is noes.
Mr.. Benjamin moved to strike out the
the word ma jority" ond insert ''two thirds, ,
and moved the previous question.
Mr.. ". J. Allen moved to lay the section
on the table.
Mr.. Skinner called for the special order,
being the Judiciary Committee report.
MIR. Sedgwick moved to postpone the
special order.
Mr.. Wright moved call of the Convention
and demanded the ayes and noes.
The chair announced that there being a
quorum present, he declined to order q call
Of the Convention.
Mr.. Cummings called for the ayes and noes
on a N otion to postpone, which was done
bv Sc ayes to 20 noes
The ayes aud noes being called on the
question to lay the section on the table, ii
WAS lost by % ayes to fl noes.
motion to lay the amendment on the
table was lost by 81 noes to p ayes, and the
question recurring on the motion OF Mr. Ben
lamin, it was adopted by 81 to 2S
Mr.. Anthony moved to reconsider the
vote Just taken, and to lay his motion on the
table, which WAS adopted, aud the question
being on the adoption of the section as
amended, it was adopted, ayes, sc, noes. p.
WAsHINGToS, March 3.-The Senate
Committee on Territories has agreed to re
port IN favor of Salomon for Governor Of
Washington Territory, vice Flanders, re-
moved.
The non arrival of General Scho6eld to
| r Il e d. IL e
before the Military Committee, will postpone
action for another day. The committe to
day appointed two of its mem bers to proceed
to Philadelphia and take Testimony of q wit
| ness who ia sick, in the case of the member
| from Pennsylvania accused IF having sold q
cadet-ship. The committee has not stirred
up any new cases.
The committee on elections decided seven
to Eve against the claim of Col. Segar, a.
representative at large from Virginia.
| Mr. Reveis, the colored Senator, called
upon Secretary Boutwell, to-day and desired
to know about some appointments of colored
men The Secretary informed him that he
would be allowed his proportion and to put
! his ommendarions on file
The North Carolina Senators have dis
patch from Gov. Holden Of that State, rela
/ tive to an election to fill the vacancy occa
sioued by the resignation of Deweese. In
dications are that o negro named Harms vii
be nominated, and there is little doubt D
his election.
| New York, March 3.-The Worlds la
vana correspondent writes that the Cuhan'
have begun to retsliate in kind on the
| Spaniards. General Quesada, before he was
superseded by General Jordan, ordered o.
the prisoners within his i'm mediate commanc
to be shot, and one hundred and thirty i've
Spaniards we're quickly sent to their las
homes. When Jordan took command hs
shot three hundred prisoners. The blacs
flag is flying on both sides now. and wal
/ of extermi nation has set in.
Tne total amount Of merchandise sno
specie mported into the United States TO
the six months past ending January l, 1870
was s2I3, ,963, 1872; total exports of merchan
disc, specie, and bullion, during the same
time. $l99,l24,1I1- OF the exports ant
imports. American ships carried $l56,035,
2l0. Exports of specie show an improve
ment in favor of the United States, for tn
above period, of $6,375,654.
At meeting Of the Commissioners o