New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-14


ment Bill Discussed and Passed In the
senste-Faller Report Of the Cuban
Message.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-Internal revenue
receipts to day over 81 ,00O, 900.
The President has returned.
1t is reported here that a colored man
succeeds Devices from North Carolina.
Two colored men, who were appointed to
West Point, have been rejected for physical
The majority of the subcommittee of the
Senate on the Memphis and Ell Paso Rail-
road, made report concluding as follows:
s.From the last examinations that we have
been able to make of the facts and the
! laws Of Texas, our conclusions are that the
Memphis and Ell Paso Railroad Company
| is an existing corporation, with the right
of way across the State of Texas, and that
| it has valid land grant of sixteen sections
to the mile, to be selected out of the pub
| lie lands of Texas, without any special
| reservation.
House.-The following Republicans voted
| to suspend the rules to pass general bill
removing disabilities Buckley, Dockery,
| Fitch, Pierce, Platt, Sargent, Stokes, Till
| Dawes moved consideration of river and
| harbor bill. Butler moved Georgia bill
| defeated Dy l20 to 3S.
| River and harbor bill considered and
| passed. Goes to Senate. Toe features Of
| the bill has been telegraphed.
The mouth of the Mississippi gets three
hundred thousand; the falls of the Ohio q
! quarter of million; for Tennessee river
| increased to eighty thousand; fifty thousand
given Mobile harbor and bay.
The Speaker laid before the House mes
sage from the President of the United
States, condemnatory of the atrocious man.
ner in which the conflict in Cuba is being
carried on by both sides, representing that
the object of the Cubans. who urge their
recognition as belligerents, is to embroil
the United States in war with Spain, de-
claring his inability to see, in the present
condition of the contest in Cuba, those
elements required to constitute war in the
sense of International law, and inviting
the attention of Congress to the relations
and bearings of the question in connection
| with declaration of neutrality and the
granting of belligerent rights.
The message having been read, Mr.. Banks,
chairman of the Committee on Foreign At
fairs, moved it be laid on the table and
printed. Mr.. Judd, a member of that COM
mittee, suggested its reference to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs. Banks said that
question had been fully considered by that
committee, and the committee hade made
a report which was to come up tomorrow.
| Cox remarked that the limitation of the
Presidents right to make communication
| to Congress was that he might, from time
| to time, give it information as to the state
| OF the Union, but he regarded the message
as an attack on the report made by the gen
tleman from Massachusetts, Mr.. Banks, and
it should be, as in the case of Andrew John
sons message, laid on the table, without re-
| ference to committee.
Mr.. Banks SAID he had not made the mo-
ton in the spirit to which the gentleman
from New York referred. It was the usual
course to lay the message on the table anC
have it printed.
MIR. Dawes suggested that after the re
marks of the gentleman from Ohio it would
not be respectful to lay the message on ths
table.
Mr.. Banks modified his motion and moved
the reference of the message to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs.
MIR. Cox moved to lay the message on the
table. Negatived.
The message was then referred to tht
Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Adjourned.
The Judiciary Committee postponed con
sidering Woods case until tomorrow
Bradley T. johnson has arrived to lOol
after Woods interest.
The Senate has been occupied all day or
the Apportionment bill. The discussion
has been continued tonight and vote will
be reached in a few hours.
It is supposed the Senate will pass tn
| House bill without an amendment.
The Senate passed the apportionment bill
with amendments, making the tOlal mum
Der of Congressman three hundred. Th
States entitled to an increased number TO
the next Congress shall elect them at large
The bill goes to the House for concurrence
The Senate is considering the bill payinl
Southern loyalists for property taken b
quartermasters and cOmmissaries.
| The President sent to Congress to-day
very important message relative to the con
flict in Cuba.
He sets outSby reminding Congress tina
| he had promised in his annual message
make further communication on the sub
f ject of Cuba.
As there was nothing at that time in th
condition Of affairs there to justify the re
cognition of billigerent rights to the insul
. gents the past six months, he says whil
they have not given to the Spanish troop
. any great success, they have not advance
1.-The position of insurgents who possess
port, city or town, have no political FORM o
| government, and only make war from am
: bush on Spanish conveys. q.
l He condemns the atrociouS manner i
| which the conflict is conducted on both slde!
? in the wholesale butchery OF prisoners; II
8 alluded to the reported issue OF CuDa
f bonds for CORFU OF purposes, ann THINKS IL
s matter for serious consideration, and int
| mates very plainly that the object of th
f Cubaus is not to fight their own battles, br
to get the Americans to fight their battle
I for them, He says he can see nothing
r the present condition of affairs in Cuba
! Justify the United States government
d recognizing belligerent rights to the il
r surgents. He leaves the question, in all i
: bearings, to the decision of the war-makir
J. power.
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