New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-08
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DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN kEEKETs
WASHINGTON.

Mobile Hospital IuVcsIRtIsSNf - AhS
Graftcn-Ccnnor CsntesE - status of
Indians Under Fourteeuth asd FIT
teenth Amendments-Letter Pestase
to Germany HIrect-Andy Johnson
Coins to Europe-CoIOrcd Boy komi-
mated to n Csdetship-Hfn to Establish
Water Gauges-flr provement Of GAL
ve.ton Earbcr-BiiE to seizure Unit
form syste 10 OF fLevees-Virgfnhn Cues
tion Argued Before ihe Supreme
Court.
WASHINGTON, April T.-An investigation
has been ordered Of the alleged cruelty to
patients at the Mobile hospital.
The elections committee ere considering
Mr. Grafton's application for further time
in his contest with Mr.. Conner, from Texas.
No conclusion IS yet.
A resolution has been adopted by the
Senate, ordering the Judiciary Committee
to report the status OF the Indians, under
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
treaty has been concluded, making the
letter postage to Germany seven cents
direct. and fifteen cents via England.
Ex-President Johnson is going to Europe
for six months.
Mr. W. F. Prosser, from the Fifth Tennes-
see District, has nominated a yellow boy,
Alorzo Napier, 10 cadetship at West Point.
The impression is strong that the Print
ing Committee will exculpate Public Printer
Clapp.
Commander J. N. Miller, has been ordered
to duty as Chief OF Staff of the Southern
squadron.
Internal revenue receipts to-day 1886, 600.
Sendte-Senator Mcdonald introduced u
bill for the relief of Edward Fitzgerald,
Catholic Bishop OF Arkansas.
Senator Kellogg introduced bill to secure
uniform and permanent system OF levees,
for the reclamation and protection OF the
alluvial lands of the Mississippi Valley from
overflow. Referred to the Committee on
Commerce.
4 joint resolution for extending the time
for building the first twenty-five miles of the
Cairo and Fulton railroad. was passed.
general discussion followed on the pol
icy OF granting lands to railroads.
A decaratory act, extending the income
tax on official salaries, and dividends, and
interest payable by corporations Till the
end of the year 1870, was passed.
The Virginia question was argued for an
hour and half to-day. Chief Justice
Chase made only incidental interrogatories,
and holds the case under advisement.
The arguments before Chief Justice Chase
to-day, regarding Virginia, were confined
to his (Chase's) jurisdiction. Should he
assume jurisdiction, Judge Underwoots
iDjunctions and summons will fail through,
the court being divided.
The consttutionality Of the enabling act
comes up subsequently. Chief Justice
Chase will grant further proceedings to-
morrow.
House.-The Committee on Commerce
have sgreed to report tavorably on Mr..
Roots bill for establishing water gauges on
the Mississippi river and its tributaries.
MIR. Clark introduced a bill making an
appropriation for the improvement OF Gal
weston harbor; also, whether further legis-
latlon was necessary to entitle Texas to
school lands.
A bill extending the time for trial for
forgery aud perjury in the bounty claims
to four years, passed.
bill regulating the exercise OF the
admiralty jurisdiction in the United States
Court, passed.
The tariff bill resumed. The whole of the
paragraph regarding cigars WAS stricken
out leaving the tariff as at present.
The tariff on cotton manufactured goods
remains as reported by the committee.
Mr. Allison moved to amend by striking
out the words land in addition thereto ten
per cent"
Mr.. Butler opposed any change of the
present law, and hr. schenck defended the
action of the Ways and Means Committee.
During the discussion Mr.. Butler said that
i. was due to the chairman of the Commit
tee of Ways and Means, as well as to him
self, to make a remark by WAY OF per-
sonsl explanation.
In the commencement of this Congress he
had. in the heat of debate, stated substan-
TALLY that he intended to investigate the
course of the Chairman of the Committee
OF Ways and Means; that he had many
stories broached to him, which had forced
themselves on his mind, but that he had
since investigated them, and found them in
every instance to be of that class Of ISLANDERS
which every public man suffered. In the
same place where he had made the assertion,
he felt that it was due to that gentleman
(Schenck) as well as to himself, to make, as
tar as he could, this reparation.
Mr.. Schenck said he accepted the repara-
ton in the same spirit in which he. believed
it was offered. He had felt perfectly conf
dent, when he challenged investigation
long ago, as to what the result of any in
vestigation into anything impeaching his
integrity would be, and he was glad that in
the same place, and by the same gentleman
by whom the intimation had been thrown
out, there was now such retractiOn made as
would 90 to. the world.
Mr.. Butler moved to strike out the clause,
which motion was rejected.
No further amendment was offered, and
the paragraph, as to cotton manufactures,
remains in the bill as posted. The rest of
the paragraph was as to common spool
thread.
Mr.. Schenck moved to amend by chang.
ing twelve cents to six cents, and two hun.
dred yards to one hundred yards. go as to
read "on spool thread of cotton six cents
per dozen, containing on each spool not
more than one hundred yards of thread. and
for every additional hundred yards, or trac-
tional part thereof, in excess OF one hundred
yards on each spool, six cents per dozen
spools, and thirty per cent ad valorem in ad-
dition 10 the above rates"
MIR. Allison moved to make it eight cents
per dozen spools, and he said that the
present rates were from sixty.fve to seven
ty-twe per cent on the value of the article,
and that his amendment would reduce it
from sixty to fifty per cent, which he
thought high enough.
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, moved to re-
duce the rate to four cents per dozen
spools. This was rejected without disposing
of the other anendments, when the COM
mittee rose, and the House adjourned.
The new postal treaty with the NORTH
German Union has been signed. 1t takes
effect July 1, ard reduces single rate pre-,
paid letters via England to ten cents, ana
via Bremen or Hamburg to seven cents.
Unpaid letters pay double rates. Newspaper
rates are unchanged. but must be prepaid.
Captain John E. Blaine, of Pennsylvania. q
brother of Speaker Blaine, has been 8p-
pointed special agent of the Treasury De-
partment.
The reports of National Banks in response
70 the recent call of Controller Hsbbard, !