Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21

leifus IN American GoMmefees
Eli Ths Reconstruction Committe
laareed 3 rspaFt 8 Oil re.admittn
Co., On tAe terms % Virgins
MIsaissippi and Texas, with claus
authorizing the States named I
. lOEFanize, arm and call 10 serVic
their respective militia forces.
sENATR-HOWaFd, from the com
mittee on the Pacific Railroad, re
ported . substitute for the Marshal
and San Diego Railrosd bill whici
was explained 70 authorize . balI'
road from Marshall, Texas. 10 tn
Trinity river, thence to e. Psso, o.
the RIO GnBde, and thence through
. the Territories across Colorado
. river to San Diego on the Pacific
In the Territories. The bill grant
ed twenty alternate sections Of lane
on each side Of the line and ten al'
ternaie sections in any Statt
through which the road might pass
A large portion Of the line wa
within the hiate Of Texas, and the
United States owned no public
lands IN that State. II no lands were
granted, Il would also authorize I
connection with lines Of road from
New Orleans aud Vicksburg.
Tha amendment had received The
sanction ofA unanimous vote Of the
committee. The bill was ordered
printed and placed on the calendar,
WAsHMeToN, Nay l7.-ReVeDuC
to-day 100000.
Foreign relations Of the Senate
to-day heard Cyrus ". Field and
W. Barney, regarding Cuba, but
took no definite aetion.
The Funding Bill postponed q
week.
The Banking and Currency Com
mittee this morning agreed 10 re-
port Q bill providing for ninety-fvC
millions Of dollars additional Ma.
tiUnal Bank circulation, and for
cancellation Of fOrty.fve millions
dollars Of 3 per cent bonds, and
forty millions dollars Of gFeenbacks,
and providing for . free banking
system on Q gold basis.
H0uSE-The Naval CommitteC
viii report against the continuance
Of thirtyt.hree per cent. addition Il
officers pay.
There are 3 trihe over 5000 negro
votes In Philadelphia.
Among The petitions presented
to-day, wal one by Mrs. Gen. Alb,
b0tt, from North Carolina, who
afler carefully reading the oath,can,
not qualify as Postmistress. She
wants the Postmaster General Il
modify the oath, or Congress 10 re-
lieve her from political disabilities
HoUsE--Dnring the discussion
of the Lynch bill regarding decline
of American commerce, Wash
burne, Of Wisconsin, charged thu
decline OfOur commerce to the hos,
tility Of Great Britain dnring tn,
rebellion.
Roots, Of Arkansas, introduced 1
bill for a Southern Pacific Railroad
similar in all respects to that re-
ported by Senator Howard in the
Senate Referred TO Pacific Rail-
FOad committee.
H0nse then went into COMMITTEE
Of the Whole on naval appropria-
tons.
The House lain session tonight.
WARRINGTON, May 17,-SENATE-
Kellogg presented a bill granting
lands to the Louisiana 6 Texat
Railroad, TO aid the construction o.
that road from NIcksburg 10 the
Texas State line.
At l o'clock, the bill 20 enforce
the Fifteenth amendment, was 70.
ken up. The question being on
the motion Of Mr., Ferry, 10 strike
out that part Of Mr.. Stewards
amendment providing fines and
imprisonment for persons holding
Office in violation Of the Fourteenth
amendment.
Mr.. Ferry then defended his
position from the structures on Mr..
Morton, and claimed that be spoke
for the Union men Of the Sonth in
advocating q general removal Of
political disabilities. He alluded
to the platforms ofthe Republicans
in several Of the 5tales, and
The u~tterances of the Republicans,
candidates in support Of this. He
said in reference 10 the State Of
Georgia, which Senator Morton
was constantly holding up as the
model State Of crime and disaster.
Why was this? He was sure that
If the destinies Of Georgia had been
in the hands Of men Of high pairi-
not OF men who had dragged
the honor Of the Republican party
down 70 the dust, and whose only
aim was their own pecunisry adj
vancement, the tale OF affairs would
been very different. But he
these stories. These tele-
grams were manufactured to order,
and were sent here 10 the press Of
this city. Mr.. Ferry read from c
Thomas Il. Jessup, who,
he said, was q well known and en-
inent merchant Of New York, to
the effect that he had travelled all
over Georgia and saw nothing but
An earnest desire to accept the stu
alton and TO let by.gones be By
cones, and characterizing as entirely
the Avery kilograms from
Turning TO the North Mr.. F.
claimed that In that section, also,
the majority Of the Republican
press were in favor Of the two bills,
which he had introduced, that great
press Of New York which exerted
such Q mighty influence, and circu.
lated from one end of this country
10 the other. he now asserted that
10 continue longer these disabili-