New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-06
WARRINGTON.

Eoutcs.
WASHINGTON. April Internal revenue
receipts to day, S276, 600.
Secretary Boutwell, will remain absent
until Tuesday.
| TO about S200,0 GOO.
Michel Vidal, of New Orleans, was con-
| firmod as consul to Tripoli to-day.
The Colored Philosophical Society or fir-
| rinia petition Congress to call this country
| The United States Of Columbia. instead OF
| America.
| to the House. regarding the Oneida disaster
concludes that the Oneida was steering the
proper course that the bad sealDansLlp OF
| the officers OF the Bombay caused the DIS
| aster. and that the latter exhibited Il reck-
| less disregard of human life, ana the COM
mon obligations of humanity.
| .s.oaote-Certain German citizens OF Ten
| nessee petition tor reconstructlon or that
State.
the Georgia bill resumed. Dir. Summer
denounced Bingham's amendment aS an eu-
| CINE of rebel power, and doctrine or state
rights, and as great heresy with winch
| reconstruction had to contend. lie Claimed
| that the only argument against the power OF
| Congress to interfere was based upon tech
| Mica .ities; that Congress was high court OF
| equity, with Georgi. at the bar.
| Mr. Carpenter, in reply to MIR. Sumner,
delivered 3 lengthy constitutional argument
| against the validity OF the fundamental
| conditions put upon State, urging th&t
Georgia be either admitted without quallh-
cation, or kept out until the Government
| could trust her.
H0use.-The Committee on Ta-lf fixed
| the rate on clarified sugar at two and half
cents per pound; refued sugar tour cents.
| Molasses remains as reported from the com
mittee. The duty on brandy aud other dis
| titled spirits was fixed at three dollars.
| The committee rose. and Mr.. Butter it,
troduced resolution anneSing san Do
| mingo.
Mr.. Wood objected.
House then ojourned.
The bill disseminating the Freedmens'
! Bureau and for other purposes, passed Oy
| the House to-day, repeals al laws pTescrib-
! ing duties for officers Of the freecGens
| Bureau. so far as said duties have not yet
! been executed, and transfers ali money and
| property hitherto intrusted to the Freed
| mems Bureau to the account OF the Bureau
of Education, to be expended exclusively
| for educational purposes among the freed
| men, and having a special reference to ait-
| ing the establishment OF common schools
among them, the Bureau OF Education to eE'
| ercise the same powers as those hitherto eA-
ercised by the Freedman's Bureau IL refer
| ence to education, especially cooperating
| with benevolent or educational societies
and corporations, and the same co-opera.
| ton NAV be extended to State, Territorial,
county and municipal authorities tor similar
purposes.
All buildings repaired or constructed
wholly or partially under the direction OF
the Freedmen's Bureau, and now held oy
| municipal or State authorities, corporate
| bodies, or trustees for educational pur-
! poses, or funds arising from their sale, shall
| be forever applied to and used for such pur-
poses.
| reau is allowed three months to fulfill all
legal Obligations and contracts. and TO
| settle his accounts with the United States.
All other employees are discharged, except
! such as he may retain for the care of hos
pitfalls and the collections and payment OF
| bounties, and the payment OF colorcd sol
diers, of which business he Is hereafter TO
| take charge.
The President, Vice President, the Judges
of the Supreme Court, members OF torelgn
| Legations, with the marine band and many
| celebrities, attended at the House OF Repre-
sentetives to-day, while eulogiums in honor
| of the late General Thomas were pro-
| nounCed. By some means Coiored men were
not present upon the floor or in the gal
leries. 1t is stated that tickets were re-
quired. The colored population were dis
contented; they crowded the corridors OF
the Capitol.
REPRESENTATIVES of the thirty-fifth and
thirty -secondiparallel Southern Pacific Rail
road have appeared before q Senate com
mittee. A strong lobby and an able lawyer
have argued for the Atlantic and Great
Western, and the Memphis and Little Rock
| and Ell Paso lines.
Senator Kellogg made speech in support
| of road from Hallville or Marshall, Texas,
| to Ell Paso, and thence to San Diego, with
| fA and
Little Rock, Arkansas, making contin
uous line with Shreveport, Monroe and
| Vicksburg, and go On to Charleston, South
| Carolina. 1t seems probable that only the
| Kellogg line through the centre OF the cotton
belt can pass. The Fremont interest, rep
reseuting Memphis, Little Rock and Jeffer'
son. offer to compromise.
| House then went into Committee OF the
Whole on the tariff bill question. Being
on the clause imposing duty of three cents
on clarified sugar. which Ar. Allison had
moved TO amend by reducing it to two and a
half. Mr. Allison withdrew his amend
ment.
| MIR. Schenck argued the necessity Of dis
tinction between raw and refined sugars.
Mr. Allison argued that the difference
of two cents per pound between raw
and refined sugar was too great.
It took 125 pounds of raw sugar to
make 100 pounds OF refined; two and hall
cents a pound on the latter would
therefore be equal to two cents on the
former. Mr.. Marshall did not approve of the
sugar classification contained in the bill.
Mr.. schenck defended the action OF the
| Committee Of Ways and Means.
| MIR. Kerr said that the classification OF
sugar in the bin, WAS not at all IN the inter
est of consumers but of refiners, and t. law
at present existing was better, both for the
| government and the people.
After further discussion by He ssrs. Wood,
Sheldon, Lynch, Kelly, Burchard, Judo,
Paine and others. Mr.. Allison renewed his
amendment to reduce the duty on CHARMED
sugars to two and a half cents per pound,
and the amendment was agreed to by sixty
| seven to sixty-fve.
Mr.. Schenck then moved substitute for
the next paragraph, taxing refined sugar four
cents per pound. The changes proposed
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