The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-01-15
Washington.

for snch legislation as will afford relief to
the loyal people of the State against the
violent proceedings of a Legislature elected
by rebel votes and mainly composed of dis
franchised men, will be read with great
interest. The paper was not signed by
Hon. Isaac r. Hawkins, Tie Representa-
tive from the Seventh district, nor by Mr..
Fowler the other Senator, though they do
not dispute the main facts SO temporarily
and clearly set forth. That Congress will
find it necessary to interpese for the pro-
lection of this people hardly admits of Il
question. Where the disease is SO pro-
nounced the remedy cannot he far off. One
alternative receives grave consideration
among thoughtful men. 1t is the passage
of general law enforcing the third section
of the fourteenth article of the constitution
against all persons, DISTINGUISHED under
I that section, exercising any official trusts,
either of a State or national character
until they have been duly relived by the
two houses of Congress. This would effee-
tually nullify the acts of tho dsfranchised
Legislature elected with Senter and would
arrest the sinister work of the disloyal
State Convention which met at Nashville
on Monday last, avowedly for the purpose
of destroying the main features of the
Republican State constitution and assailing
the rights of the colored population
There can be no doubt as to the alarming
condition of Tennessee.
In both houses, an effort was made for
the immediate admission of Virginia. In
the Senate, as usual, a lengthy debate fol
lowed, which, in effect, produced the same
result which was accomplished in the House
by the tilibustering tactics of the extreme
| Radicals, viz, the postponement and vir-
tual defeat of the proposition. Mr.. Bing-
ham brought it up in the House evidently
with the design of rushing it through that
body during the absence of General Butler,
who has not returned from his holiday tour,
and who it is acknowledged is tho leader
of the party which is opposed to the admis-
sion of the State before it ratites the fif-
teenth amendment. The initial votes clearly
demonstrated his power to accomplish his
object, whercupon Mr.. Whittemore. of
South Carolina, and general Paine, of Wis
cousin, had resource to fiillibustering tao
tics, which consumed the morning hour,
and the bill went over under the rules
The evident temper Of both houses, as
developed by the debate, shows that it is
impossible to pass bill without provi-
sion rs precedent to the desired admis-
sion that the Legislature shall ratify the
fifteenth amendment.
Ic heN SCild VIII SO0H COLL
mencs the duplication, in this city, of a
national organ of the colorcd people, with
Fred Douglass AS corresponding editor.
The postmaster General, in reply to the
resolution of the Senate, submits vollum-
nous correspondence on the subject of the
postal convention with France. Its failure
was owing to the Director General of Posts
claiming an unequal share of the postage
The Postmaster General, in reply to that
officer, says the proposition submitted to
him was conceived in spirit of liberality
and of reciprocal benefit. The United
States Post Office Department claimed no
advantage in the division of the postage;
it has asked no more than its usual share
of interior postage, and it cannot accelt
! anything less.
Alexander Delmar announces the suspen-
sion of the National ItteAigencer. The
paper had out lived its day and generation.
In the United States Senate the Commit
| tee on Finance was instructed to inquire
into the expedisncy of requiring National
Banks to retain semi annually the gold
interest paid them upon their Government
bonds until the sum shall reach the amount
of their reserve in legal tenders.
Senator Stewards bill to provide for a
postal telegraph system throughout the
country, which has been introduced into
the Senate, proposes that the ranking
privilege be abolished, and that the money
thus saved to the Government shall be used
in building = line Of telegraph to be under
and afford cheap Geographic facilities to
the people.
In the United States Senate on Tuesday,
Mr.. Sherman, from the Finance Commit
tee, issued bill to issue forty-five million
dollars additional currency to the National
banks in sections having less than their
proper apportionment; an equal amount
of the three per cent. loan to be retiled.-
Upon the deposit of gold bearing interest
bonds with the United States Treasurer,
he is to issue to the banks 90 per cent. of
their gold value, and banks are constantly
to keep GA hand 25 per cent. of their out
standing circulation in gold or silver coin.
/ The bill went over under the rules, and
that for the admission of Virginia was
taken up and debated. Mr.. Wilson's mo-
ton to postpone the bill was voted down
yeas %, nays 26, and up to the hour of adj
journment the Senate argued without vot-
ing upon Mr.. brakes amendment, provid-
ing that if Virginia withdraws its ratitica-
! ton Of the Fifteenth Amendment the
SldbG Sldll Dc ItuidiltlC0 DdCk W It's COtltl-
ton anterior to reconstruction.
| In the House of Representatives the bill
| for the admission of Virginia was reported
| from the Reconstruction Committee. 1T
sets forth that the people Of the State are
believed to be well disposed toward the Ma
tional Government, and having complied
with its requirements, the State shall be
admitted into the Union. The conditions
! i,,noSoI ora fhof fbn.n yrbn hold Dffirn
members of Congress, Legislature, or an
executive or judicial position under the
! United States, and afterwards engaged in
rebellion, shall not again hold office, unless
relieved of their disabilities by Congress-
| The laws of the State shall not be changed
! so as to take away from the col + d race it's
present political privileges. The bill, to-
gether with Mr.. Bingham's substitute, was
sent back to the committee.
Commissioner Delano will advise the
| Assessors Of Internal Revenue to call at
| the earliest practicable moment a conven-
ton of the Assistant Assessors of their
District for the purpose of determining
| the most efficient method to obtain the
most thorough practical canvass of their
districts in making the assessments of in
comes this year. He further recommends
this meeting of Assessors and Assistant
| Assessors, THAT, ny all interchange ol OplH-
ions, they may profit by the general expert
ence of the Revenue officers in different
parts of their respective districts.
In the United States Senate on Wednes-
day Mr.. Conkling in presenting petitions
for the abolition of the frankins privilege,
said that he regarded it as a curse to those
who were entitled to it. Mr.. Sumner pre-
sented bill for consolidating and refund
ing the debt by issuing fifteen hundred
million dollars of bonds at five, four and a
half and four per cent. coin interest, redeem
able after ten, fifteen and twenty years
after date, and payable in coin at forty,
fifty and sixty years. The bill further pro
vides for the withdrawal of legal-tenders
by issuing two hundred million dollars of
additional National Bank circulation. Mr..
Summer made an extended argument in
support of the bill, and it was referred to
to the Finance Committee. The bill to
admit Virginia was taken up and discussed
until the adjournment, Messrs. Drake and
Sumner being the only Senators who advo-
Gated the plan reported by the reconstruc-
ton Committee Senators Conkling: Scott,