The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT

FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
There being quite ''prsssure" upon the Pres.
ident to issue his proclamation announcing the
ratification of the 18th amendment, that func.
| tionary, on Wednesday evening, announced that
as soon ~ the house agreed to the senate amend.
ments to the Texas bill, the proclamation shou,a
be issued. The House, therefore, ON Thursdsx
morning took mp the Texas bill and passed it at
once. 1t was duly signed by the speakers OF the
two houses and sent to the President who also
Immediately attached his signature, and then
sent to the house the promised proclamation. To
get the necessary 90 states it was not only neces
sary to include Texas, but also Indiana and New
York, when it is we'll known that the rst,6c..
ton In Indiana was done by minority lepi,la-
ture, and that the ratification OF New York vas
rescinded. So when the proclamation was read
In the house, Niblaok, of Indiana, said the rat.
fication by his state was fraud and was untrue:
and Fernando Wood, with equal emphasis, de.
clared that it was untrue that New York had
ratitiedthe amendment. The republicans in the
house undertook to stiAe debate on the question
by referring the document to the judiciary com.
mittee; but the democrats defeated the maneuvre
by dilatory motions, and had it laid on the table.
II is said, when the President signed the nrocla.
nation at the White house, amid gaping crowd
who had dropped in to see the "child born"
Dent, senior. vouchsafed the remark, "Well. pen.
tlemen, you'll all be ID sorry for this"
sAS DOMINGO TREATY.
The question of.ratifying the San DOMINGO
treaty has occupied the attention of the senate
almost exclusively during the week, and NAV 70,
week longer. There is no doubt but the swim.
ding scheme would have been disposed of at a
single executive session but for the singular per.
s'stence with which the President urges the rati.
fcation. He even threatens, if he can't pe. a
two'thirds vote for TIE treaty in the senate. 70
nave San Domingo annexed by joint resolution.
"a Texas was annexed. Another dodye he b.,
resorted to is, "to give OUT that he desires th.
annexation as a part Of his Cuban policy, in tina,
way enlisting in favor of the treaty the Cuban
sympathsers in the senate
TARIFF BILL.
The house is still engage In general debate
on the tariff bill, the promise now being tina,
work shall be commenced on the details to-day
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
The congressional spectators in cade,ship.
having had a pretty uneasy time Of i. for the
last few weeks, now insist tina. other IRREGULAR.
lties' on the part Of congres.meu-such "A selling
votes 70 lobbies, peddling offices, &c. shall also
have an ove.hauling; and on the p-inciple Of
''set thief 70 catch 3 thief" the business has
been turned over 10 Ben Butler who is said 70 bs
ready to 90 into it con amore. There is promise
of some rich developments
SHERMAN ENDORSES BAKER
Considerable surprise 10 evincsd at the publ.
cation of = letter from Gen. Sherman 20 Gen.
Sheridan, in which the former endorses the re-.
cent shocking massacre of Indian women and
children by soldiers under Col. Baker in Mon.
tsna, acting under orders Of Gen. Sheridan.
CONTESTED ELECTION CASE
The House Election committee in the con.
tested election case Of E2gles.on vs.. S,rsder,
from Ohio, has decided unanimously in favor of
Strader, the democratic claimant 1t will be
singular, however. il this decision, like so many
Of the same so.. heretofore, is not reversed by
vote Of the house.