New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-30

The PresldcnCs nanny 0ePly OosseAn
ing Babeock.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-InternaI revenue
receipts to-day $697 900.
The President made the following nomi-
nations to-day: Sherman Conant, Judge
Southern District of Florida; q. W. Scott,
Collector of Customs. Wieamette, Florida.
The New Orleans, Florida, and Gulf mail to
Havana. has been awarded to Sandford
Hite. of st. Louis, with subsidy of
S58, 900 per annum for four years. Inc
initial point is fixed at New Orleans.
Senate-Twenty thousand copies of the
fifteenth amendment enforcement bill has
been ordered printed.
Mr.. Cameron's motion to reconsider the
Texas Pacific Railroad bill, to restrict
branches to twenty thousand tons OF Tor
eign iron, failed.
The tax bill was resumed. An amend.
ment reducing the duty on coal and slate to
fftv cents per ton failed by vote Of rs to IL.
Tariff on live animals, twenty-five per cent
from Mexico and Canada. The present duty
on opium is retained.
House.-The Senate bill amendatory to
bill 81, protecting the rights OF actual set
The Senate bill confirming entries to pub
lie lands in Alabama, in certain cases,
passed, and goes to the President Tor his
approval.
ing national cemeteries passed, and goes TO
the President for his signature.
The Reconstruction Committee have post
poned the amnesty bill to December. ma.
iority of the committee try to make the post
nonement plausible by an agreement that
the present session is too short.
The report of the Conference Committee
on the currency bill was defeated, and new
conference asked. The line of argument
was that the bill reported by conference in
vote against the bill was 1872 to So.
There was no other business of import
ance.
limited STATES SENATE CHAMBER, !
Washington, D. o., June 2s, 1870
Mr.. PEEs1pENT-There is rumor that
General Babcock used your name without
authority in reference to the confidential
basis for the annexation of st. Domingo,
and that General Babcock exceeded the
verbal instructions given BIN in regard to
the telegraph and the sending OF the Tusca-
rora after that piratical craft.
The select committee would be glad to
receive from you any explanations or state
ments YOU may see fit to make on these
subjects, should you think it worth while to
notice such imputations.
lam, very respectfully,
Your OOeO1ent 6erVAut,
JAMES W. NYE,
Chairman ofCommittee.
To the President, Executive Mansion.
EXECUTIVE MANsION,
June Is 1870
s1R-In reply to your letter of o-dsy
am pleased to inform you that General Bah
cock did not exceed my wishes or my verbal
instructions to him in connection with the
| confidential basis. General Babcock wal
sent to St. Domingo to ascertain, so far 81
| he could. the wishes of the Dominican
people and government with respect to an
nexation to the United States. If he found
| them favorable he was directed to ascer-
tain the terms on which they desired an
| nexation.
He brought the confidential basis, which
was not binding nor intended to be binding
upon either government, unless each saw
| fit to continue the negotiations. 1t contains
| a clause making it null and void, unless &C
| cepted and carried into effect. / also dir
ected the Secretary of the Navy te
send by General Babcock such instruc
tions to the commanding officer of thu
United States steamer Seminole, al
would direct him to seize the Telegrafo
if found on the high seas, and to send her t.
Baltimore for adjudication, she having in
| terfered with our merchant shipping. Ii
| transferring these instructions to the com
| manding officer Of the Tuscarora, Genera
. Babcock did no more than was his duty
! General Babcock's conduct Throughout
meets my entire approval.
| Yours truly, U. s. GRANT.
To the Hon James ". Nye. United States Senate