New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-08
Defeat of Spanish in Engagements
Domestic and Foreign Markets
WASHINGTON.

DR.. Smyth the COntractOr.-Bin Declar.
ing Forfeited Land Grants to Opelousas
Railroad. 90
WASHINGTON, July Ut is apprehended
the Georgia bill will not be touched this ses-
sion. ...'- ...-
Messrs. Hoar and Alderman had long
interview to-day with President Grant.
The House, refusing to concur with the
Senate's funding bill, Nessrs. Schenck,
Hooper and Brooks, were appointed COM
mittee of conference.
Ex-Collector Bailey's accounts shows only
$l3l 900 deficiency. s...--
There is no present prospect of Mr.. Fish
retiring from the Cabinet. Mr.. Fish, how
ever. will not go to st. James.
The President will, in a few days, nOmi-
date a successor to Mr. Motley.
Internal revenue receipts to-day were
$663, 600.
The receipts of customs for the week end
ing July 2, is over $2,75O,0O0.
WAsHINGTON, July 7.-House-The House
finally passed majority resolutions regarding
Woods, which jail him for three months.
was adopted The bill provides for an in
crease Of $4,000, 900 circulation, and the
retirement of $45, 900, 900 three per cents.
The Senate provision in relation to coin
notes is retained, and the House provision
for the retirement OF twenty-five million
dollars in the States now in excess, with a
provisO that this amount shah not be with
drawn until the entire tifty-four million dol
lars shall have been taken by the States
now deficient.
The bill goes to the President for his ap-
prOval.
Mr.. Brooks introduced a bill to incorpor-
ate the Tehuantepec Railway and Ship Ca
nal Company. which was referred to the
Committee ON Foreign Affairs.
In the Reconstruction Committee q mo-
ton to report the general amnesty bill for
action at this session, was lost by tie vote,
the committee standing five to five.
As there were some absentees it is pos
sible that this action may be reconsidered
at a future meeting.
Some of the Southern members announce
their intention to test the sense OF the
House upon the subject by introducing Gen
eral Buffers bill and asking a vote on it
under motion to suspend the rules.
Senate.-The Committee on judiciary
have been discharged from a consideration
of the female suffrage memorials.
The bill requiring the iquidating Of the
national banks to retire their notes was
amended and passed.
Mr.. Sawyer, from the Committee on Ap-
prOpriations reported the House special de-
ticiency appropriation bill, which provides
that in the Fifth Military District the pay
of Registers and Sheritfs shall be six dollars
per day instead of five dollars, as fixed by
an act of 1870, and makes the necessary APP
preparation to supply the detinciency. The
bill was passed.
The PostOffice Committee reported q bill
for steamships between Cedar Kegs and
Havana with amendments.
The naval appropriations bill was re-
sumed. and passed without an amendment.
1t goes to the President for his approval.
L.
amendments, which takes it back to the
House.
The army bill was tabled, which kills it
for this session.
Mr.. Harris called up the bill reviving land
grant of 1856, to the North Louisiana and
Texas Railroad; bill passed. .At
Mr.. Fenton's bill, introduced in the
Senate. incorporates Marshal o. Roberts,
Moses Taylor, Peter Cooper, John j. Astor.
Horace Greeley, j. p. Morgan, Moses H.
Grinnel, j. G. Barnard. Emile Dozere,
Dudley Field, George w. Childs, A. j..
Drexel. P.S. Forbes, John j. Blair, p. n.
Spotford, William Walter Phillips, Thomas
c. Durant, Edward Picrpont, +. A. Conk-
ling. John j. Cisco, John f. Tracy, Daniel
Sloan, A. S. Hewitt, George Bliss,
Simon Stevens, S. l.. NJ. Barlow, Richard
Schnell, William p. Travers, Louis Van
AuOlpu UttllS, "A. VI. 1uOIps
Jr., II. G.. Stebbins, w. B. Scott, A.
w. Craven, j. w. Adams, Louis E. Haigans,
Gorge H. Baker, Horace Fairbanks, John
j. Williams, COurtlandt p Dixon, Albert
w. Markley, and j. Don Daineron, under
the name OF the Tchauntepec Railroad and
Ship Canal Company. with capital of
S35,OOO, 900, and with the power to acquire
from the Mexican Government all such
franchises and privileges it may grant in
r,.nr,
charter the bill asks for no aid from the
United States government.
A semi-weekly mail from New Orleans to
points on the OuacMta River has been
established DR.. Smyth. of New Orleans,
has obtained the contract at 900.
The following is the House bill to declare
forfeited to the United States certain lands
granted to the State of Louisiana, to aid in
constructing railroad therein, as passed by
the Senate to-day on motion of Mr.. Kellogg:
Be it enacted, etc, That all the lands
1856 to the State of Louisiana, to aid in the
construction of.the New Orleans, Opelousas
and Great Western Railroad, and which
have not been lawfully disposed of by the
said State, under the said grants which has
expired by limitation or by an act of Con-
gress since the original grant, are hereby
declared forfeited to the United States, and
these lands shall be disposed of as other
public lands of the United States.
The last clause relating to the disposition OF
the lands is a substitute for the provision OF
the House bill declaring that they should
henceforward be subject to the homestead
entry and settlement under an act passed
June 81, 1866.
This amendment must be concurreu IN
before the bill goes to the President.
NEW YORK.