New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-03

| 601, ,7S3 DGDt OeCrc01o Last n 0nth-
Amendment to Chattanooga Rail.
| way Post Road Act-Thrse Thou
| sand to Mrs. LincoIn-A labama
| Ciaimes ResOlutiOn-May Thirtieth
Public Holiday for Decorating
Union SOldierA' Graves-Bul to En-
force the Fourteenth Amendment
Loyal Census Takers OF 1860 to
be Pald-American Medical Asso-
/ ciation-Bill to Organize Oklahoma
Territory and Consolidate IAdian
Tribes-Proposltlon to subsidize
syphe~ and Aorey-New Orleans
and Mexican Mail steamers-Mon.
| roe, Special Postomce Agent, I'm
| Route.
| WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Supreme Cour
| of the United States has decided the case of
the United States against Edward Padat-
| ford, appealed from the Court of Claims.
The appeal brought before the court is q
| clsim under the captured and abandoned
property act of March II, 1868, for half the
proceeds paid into the treasury, Of 1898
bales of cotton, captured at Savannah, and
| turned over to a treasury agent and sold
| under that act.
The court says, in conclusion: If, follow
| ing that at the time of the seizure of the
| petitioners property, he was purged Of
| whatever offense against the laws of the
| United States he had committed by the acts
|
from any penalty which he might have in
CURED; it follows, further, that if the prop
cry had been seized before the oath
was taken, the taitn Of the government was
pledged TO its Restoration upon the taking
OF the oath in good faith. We can not
| doubt that the petitioners right to the
property in question, at the time of the
seizure, was perfect, except as against the
| acts Of the military commanders, and that
] it is made absolutely perfect by pardon,
Notwithstanding the seizure.
| But it has been suggested that the prop
erty was not captured in fact, if not lawfully,
| and that the proceeds having been paid into
the Treasury of the United States, the
| petitioner is without remedy in the Court of
Claims, unless proof is made that he gave
no aid or comfort to the rebellion. The
| suggestion is ingenious, but We do not think
il sound. The sufficient answer is, that
| after pardon no otfense connected with the
rebellion can be imputed to him. Ii, in other
respects, the petitioner. made the proof
which, under the act, entitled him to
decree Tor the proceeds OF his property,
the law makes the proof of pardon
complete substitute for proof that he
gave no aid or comfort to the rebellion, 8
construction that would, it seems to US, de-
feat the manifest intent of the proclamation,
and OF the act of Congress which authorized
it. Under the proclamation and the act,
the proceeds of the petitioners property for
his benefit, and having been fully reimbursed
tor all expenses incurred in that character,
loses nothing by the judgment, which SIM
ply awards to the petitioner what is his own.
These views require the atfirmance of the
Court of Claims, and is accordingly af-
drmed.
General Candy has issued an order re-
linquishing the command of the Department
OF Virginia. and orders his subordinates to
report to General Mcdowell, commanding
the Department of the East.
The District Attorney Generalshjp of Vr-
gina is at the disposal of Governor Wells.
San Domingo votes Il, 900 for, and Only ITO
against annexation.
In the October term of the United States
Supreme Court, the case Of knoL VS.. Lee
will come up for reargument. 1t is ques.
ton of seouestration under the Confederate
law, and IN the decision of Judge Davis, of
Texas, he charged the jury that payment
can be made in legal tender notes OF the
United States. The difficulty was upon this
instruction, and the argument has been Or
dered because it opens up the whole ques-
ton of the constitutionality OF the legal ten
der acts of Congress. :
The public debt statement for April shows:
Total debt 81 654 1893 434 72; amount in the
treasury, S233, 329, $50 81; debt. less amount
in treasury, 81, 664 334 35; decrease
of the public debt during the month,
Sl1 697, 79S SO.
Eouse-A bill was offered to amend the
act declaring the railroad bridges of the
New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Rail.
road Company post road.
The bill allowing $4,000 a year to the
widow of President Lincoln passed-yeas,
72; nays. 81.
A resolution declaring it to be the senti.
ment of the American people that imme.
ltota hnt, do hyJE Eraer1 10y n
tos vessels destroyed by the Alabama, and
requesting the President to press the Ala
bama claims to immediate settlement, was
referred to the Committee on Foreign AT
fairs.
A joint resolution passed declaring the
thirtleth OF May perpetual public holiday,
TO be observed by the people OF the United
soldiers.
The tariff bill was taken up and progressed
as far as the eighteenth page. The bill con-
taius fifty pages.
Bills were introduced to enable claimants
not connected with the rebellion to enter the
Court OF Claims without prior proof rs TO
LOYALTY, and to enforce the fourteenth
amendment, prohibiting any cOerslon or IN
timidation by refusing to employ or dis
charging from employment or otherwise in
turing any citizen, with the intent 10 re-
strain him from the exercise Of the rights
meant to be secured to him by the fourteeath
amendment, or because of ais having exer-
cised the same.
The bill makes such offenses punishable
by fine not exceeding $40, COO and imprison-
ment not exceeding ten years. 1tempowers
the President to employ the land and navai
forces to enforce its provisions and to dis
band all opposing combinations.
The Dill to pay loyal citizens in the late
rebel States for taking the Uniied States GEN.
sus in 1850, passed, with an amendment to
require proof Of loyalty of the person who
performed the service including the oath OF
the party if living.
Also House bill extending the time within
which persons elected to Office in Texas may