The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-05-04
WASHINGTON NEWS.
OBSERVER.
(From Exchanges.)
WASHINGTON May 2, 1870

WASHINGToN May z, 1870
THE PRESIDENT ON THE TARIFF.
Yesterday and today severa! of the
gentlemen who have been IN attend;
ance on the private conference held
here in the interests of free trade have
called on the President, and had in
formal conversations. As the inter-
views have been somewhat of a private
nature, it would not he proper TO com
NIT either side 20 the details Of the
same on he'various phases of the tariff
question. There is no doubt, how
eyer. that the result was the failure of
the President to commit himself to any
specific branch of the question, either
for protection or to a tariff for revenue,
with incidental protection or TO free
trade. On the general question Of
! taxation, he was in favor OF reducing
the tariff and the excise duties just so
far as the revenues Of the Government
would permit. If Congress found
that the income tax could be dispens-
| ed with after this year he was in favor
of cutting it off; but he thought that
the Government could not afford, i'll
that event, to reduce any Of the other
features of internal taxation.
THE GEORGIA INVESTIGATION.
The investigation into the bribery
charges in connection with the Georgia
Bill in the Senate has not thus far de-
veloped evidence showing that any of
fer had been made to Il Senator to buy
his vote against the Bingham amend
menl, though the testimony does in
diclte that the, lobby were about to
obtain money assurances. They gave
out that they could control this and
that Senator's vote. But the inquiry
is by no means ended. All the pro-
prietors and book keepers of one ofthe
principal hotels here were today sum-
moned to tell all they knew about lob
by funds. 1t is now stated that a
draft traced from Georgia into n of
the Washington newspaper offices was
to liquidate a bill for 4 job of printing
and was not intended to influence the
columns of said paper against the
House Georgia Bill.
THE FUNDING BILL.
Secretary Boutwell, visited the Capt.
toll today, and was very earnestly piled
by members to know what he thought
of the status of the Senate Funding
bill, which, according to current re-
port, is dead in the COMMITTEE Of Ways
and Means He replied that he was
o much disturbed by the reports,
even if they were true, for he ielt per,
fectly confident tina. the House would
pass q bill TO fund the debt into Il loan
bearing a lower rate of interest lie
thought thai possibly the committee
would not report the Senate bill, and
that if they did it would not pass the
House; yet he felt assured that the
House would pass som, kind of a
Funding bill that the Senate would
not concur in, and that finally the
disagreement would be a measure fully
acceptable to the Administrator and
be reported and adopted by Congress.
The bull movement in New York, and
the odium cast on the Senate bill did
not alarm him, he said, for he was
confident that a compulsory Funding
bill would yet become 4 law.
The bill was not taken up by the
Committee on Ways and means, but
tomorrow, or Friday probably, a final
vote will be taken in the Committee.
There is a great interest, in as well
as put of Congress, to learn the details
of the new measure. There is not a
day but that Il. large number of Inem-
bers receive petitions or letters, asking
that this question may be disposed OF
oce way or the other, and at the earli-
est practicable moment
THE LEGAL-TENDER DECISION.
The Republican today says that the
President is anxious to have the Su
preme Court change it's decision on
t lie legal-tender question, as he is of
the opinion that under the decision
those soldiers and sailors who we're
pIid paper money between the rise in
The value of gold and the enactment
of the legal-tender act, will have a
right to demand the difference be-
tween the value of paper and gold on
what they then received. He estimates
that the total difference in the value
of the soldiers and sailors pay during
that time at one hundred thousand
dollars.
THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.
1t is again authoritatively denied
that the British Minister has asked
permission of this Government that a
portion of the military expedition may
pass on its way from Canada to the
Winnipeg country across the territory
of the United States, but the informa-
ton here inclines so much IN the
direction that supplies are to be sent
through the St. Mary's Canal, on the
northern part of Lake Michigan, with.