The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-08
CON g H E q.
FORTY-FIRsT TERM-SECOND SESSION.
Senate.


WASHINGTON, March 8.-Mr. Sumner pre-
sented the petition of Hinton Rowan Helper for
compensation as Consul at Buenos Ayres. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Commerce.
Mr.. Conkling presented the proceedings of
the New York Chamber OF Commerce. favoring
q harbor of refuge at Block Island. Referred to
the Committee on Finance.
Also, resolutions from the same body, setting
forth the opinion that 1t would be unwise for the
Government to embark in the business of tele-
graphing, in which Mr.. Conkling expressed his
hearty concurrence. Referred to the Post Office
Committee.
Relations, reported favorably the bill making it
q misdemeanor to fit out or equip ships in aid
of any foreign State or of any colony engaged
in insurrection, with whom the United States
are at peace.
Bills were introduced and referred as fol-
lows
By Mr.. Williams, joint resolution for the
redemption of the legal-tender notes of the
United States: 1t provides that from and after
the passage of this resolution all payments to
the United States on account of duties on i'm
ports may be made, to the amount of one-half
of each payment, in the legal-tender notes of
the United States. Referred to the Committee
on Finance.
Mr.. Julian, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported bill to prevent the further
sale of public lands in Dakotah, except under the
pre-emption and homestead laws and the laws
for disposing of mineral lands and town sites.
Mr. Holman moved to amend by striking out
the words limiting the bill toDakotah Territory,
so as to make it apply to all public lands
Agreed to-yeas 81, nays 81.
Mr.. Wilson (minn.) moved to amend by pro-
viding that the bill should not apply to timber
lands. Rejected
Mr.. Ingersoll moved to lay the bill on the
| table. Rejected.
The bill was finally rejected. Yeas 76 nays 90.
Mr.. Schenck, Chairman of the Committee Of
| Ways and Means, sent to the Clerk desk and
| had read resolutions of the New York Depart
| ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
adopted last July, and Autographed circular,
| signed by D. e. Lansing, of Brooklyn, n. y,
| complaining of the assessment and collection OF
tax on crippled soldiers and sailors for playing
| hand-organs.
The committee was surprised at such state
| ment for 1t was not aware that any such tax
| had been collected on any organ-grinder,
| whether manned soldier or any one else. APP
| plication to the Commissioner of Internal Reye-
| nue. showed that no such tax was authorized or
| levied, and If any MANNED soldier sitting at a
| street corner in New York wore on his breast a
certificate that he had paid ten dollars tax as an
organ-grinder, it was either fraud or a forgery,
| or, what was much more likely, persons had
been hired for political effect to sit at the street
corners wearing such pacards in order to bring
the Government, the law, and the Repuohcan
| party into discredit.
ton, referred to Washington despatch IN yes
terday New York EUening Post, stating that
the Military Committee was investigating Tue
| fact of his having appointed cadet from Penn
sylyania. That was the first he had heard of
such investigation, and within the last few
minutes he had been informed by members OF
thar there was not one word
or syllable of truth in that despatch. He had
M Cadet at West Point. He had one at Anna
polis, and that one was the son of DIR. William
Maxwell Wood, of the United States Navy, an
of,icer of many years standing, and who was
afioat in the service of the country at the time
of his sons appointment.
The boys grandmother and uncle were resi-
dents of his own town, and If his father had a
shore residence he (Voorhees) had not had his
/ attention called to 1t.