Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-04-15
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WASHINGTON. April IS.
| SEsATE- resolution fer a Joint special COM
| uittee was adopted.
| The Judiciary Co 2uitte, ,u4de 81 af1i N alive
report upon the validity OF the election OF Abigot
Gilbert Sen ator from Florida.
The Georgi. tiu discussed ae to tie ex-
pedieGcg AMI :e-lity Of continuing the present
| Legislature swo Years longer as pr posed ty Mr.
Williams
| Mr. Ferry and Norton, OF Mnuesota, favored
the Bin CHAM ondule ut to require IN election
| mex NCVe nter, and Messrs. Al bot aad VII.
lis ns tho evelse. Tho foIm.r urging the sup
preston 10y u Italy force OF The extensive organ
izstioIss in the Sc uih iEte ndt d to oaist tie
laws and Keep alive rebel sentiment.
EoTsE-Ho ac:ion taken On he coinage
weights and measures bill.
The Hurt & shelion case was resumed A
vote being taken which decided that Sheldon
WAS ard Hunt WAS entitled TO a seat-l2i 10
IS.
4 Pennsylvania election was discussed TO
| soma length when the tarin bill was resumed.
Several paragraphs of which was passed over
without material amendment.
Butler made another failure en- his San Do
niDgo resolution.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Seieo Conlmittec .; the House ca he
Iosta! Telegraph this s.. M, instructed their
Chairman t. report tbs bin heretofore iutrOduc-
ed, i'll regard to purchasing: placing tLa .ola-
graph lines under the control OF the government
Gad conn Getting it wi h tho Post Office Depart-
ment
The Howard Corruption Committee will COM
Ezenco their investig alton as the Senate
passes and the PreSident approves Of the bill,
which passed the Houfe appropria,ing money
therefor.
The Confere Committee ON usary il This
District agree / upon Il bill similar in all e.ser-
tial ree poets to that passed by linois
Tho Governor ana LeRie!atWe CT Chic are
coming to Washington on a visit.
There was Senatorial caucus to-day Oh the
Secretaryship.
The Senate has adj >urned TO Friday.
The Republicans who voted with the Democrats
in favor OF ousting sheldon and referring the
election back TO the people, were Bingham, Pc
land. Cook. Willard Wilkinson.
SO frequent Of late have been the irregulari-
ties and failures OF he great u}as bowen New
York and New Orleans, and both by the Western
route via Louisville, Ky., and the South Western
rou'e via Knoxville that the Post Office Depart
mcnt has commenced inquiries As to the practi-
cability of procuring better service by diverting
the mails from the Western route at Jackson,
Tenn, or the South Western route at Corinth,
Misc, and carrying them over to the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad as far Meridian, Miss, and
therca via Jackson, Mics, or by diverting them
from the South Western route at Cleveland
Tenn, and carrying them thence via Atlanta,
Kingston and Rome, Georgia, Selma, Alabama.
and Meridian and Jackson. Mississippi, or
by dispensing with the Southwestern route
South of Washington, ID. c., and running
thence via Richmond. Virginia, Wilmington.
North Carolina, Kingsvie, s. c., Augusta, At
Ianta, Kingston and Rome, Ga, and Meridian
and Jackson, Miss
If it shall be found that the Government
through mails be conveyed with greater
regularity by either of these routes the change
will be Immediately ordered by the Depart
ment.