Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-29
Rae Fight on Trout River.
WASHINGTON.


- HurLan of TBIackburn's Hopes.
~ MAsHrNaroN, May 2S.--In the executive
session Of the Senate to-day, the motion to
fsconsider the confirmation of ]. Harrison,
Is Marshal for the Middle District of Ten,
nessee, was withdrawn, and his confrma-
uon Is now announced
"a. Judlciai salaries Increased.
-. The Senate has amended the civil and
miscellaneous appropriation bill by IN
creasing the judicial salaries as follows
Chief Justice Supreme Court to $4,000;
Associate, S.. 600; Circuit Judges, 81, 800 !;
Chief Justice Court Claims, So, 600; Asso-
eiate, 5000, and all District Judges,
$4,000 each.
vs The Funding Bill,
Treasurer Spinner has written another
letter TO the President of New York Ma
ftienal Bank, in which he says that the
prospect is that the banks will triumph
IN the defeat Of the funding bill. He adds
that The banks are refusing a more liberal
offer than will ever be presented them
hereafter He says that their blind and
selfish course will, no doubt, force upon
the country the question whether banks
shall be permitted to issue any paper to be
-NN-1~t - AlJlcN. MLlCluCA oA4 AlOAO1
not be issued by the Government itself, and
thereby saving to the people In interest,
rom twenty to thirty million dollars In
gold annually. BE thinks it is mistake to
claim that the banks can resume when the
Government resumes, Should the Govern
ment resume, he says, the banks could at
any time compel it to suspend, unless 1t
was prepared 10 redeem bank circulation
and its own at the same time. he men
tons scheme thst would be good COM
promise between the people and the banks;
but, as the banks are now in earnest oppo-
sltion to plan much more favorable to
tllsiK interests, with seeming success for
the present at least, he declares that there
eea De hide hope for the success of any
sort Of q compromise that the banks Will
not oppose. With the rejection by the
House Of Representatives of the Senate
bill, compromises between the Congress
nd the banks will probably end, and the
Gh0ie question Of banks and the finance OF
tbs country may then be brought out al
the polls.
-g The Enforcement Bile
Tn che debate on the bill to enforce the
fifteenth n ~endmert, in the House yester.
dav. the Demoe- ats characterized 1t as the
most radical measure ever passed Dy Noa-
gress, and declared that it I'nsoiiuateu IL
the General Government more o. ne pow
ers heretofore reserved and exercised ~
the States than was ever even attempted
before through the legislation of Congress.
Il was maintained that the pains and pen
alties imposed were as stringent az to
materially weaken the enforcement OF the
act, and the New York city members said
that nothing that Congress could dc
would tend SO much to unite and consolI
date the Democratic party in that State
and increase its numbers as this bill
They declared that it would, in the end
double the official Democratic majority
ninety-one Thousand which the party haC
received in the recent judicial election Il
New York.
Impris0ncd Eenians.
The House Foreign Affairs Committe
had under consideration at their meetn
Yesterday the memorial of William. J
Eagle. now undergoing imprisonment
Great Britain for alleged acts done as
Fenian, in which he prsys for the interpos
ton of the United States Government fo
his release. The committee decided
send the memorial TO the President, Wit
request that he should enter into col
respondence with the officials of Gre
Britain, and take such other steps as WEI
deemed compatible on the part OF Il
Government Similar action was also take
ON the memorial of John Warren, anoth
imprisoned Fenian. The present time
regarded as somewhat inoppOrtune for
movement for the release of these me
owing to the attempted invasion of Canad
rFssFs $685. Oklahoma
Lewis Downing, principal Chief of Il
Cherokee Indian nation, delegation fro
that nation, and one from the Creek al
iChoctaw nations, have drawn up forml
able protest against the passage OF t
Senate bill to organize the new Terrific
Of Oklahoma, and consolidate these Indl
tribes under a territorial form of Cover
ment They open the protest as follow
s'Senators Shall We stand dumb beft
Vou like sheep for tie shearing! shall
lie down supinely and see our Natlol
lC,oyernment destroyed, and oursel'
- desnoiled of our land? shall we be
nainfrll witnesses of our own ruin? The
are great questions with us, and we m
- ,naet them as men, husbands and father
.f Resides this, a remonstrance Is nled
,t,a House, signed by several Thousand
1lS Cherokee Nation, protesting agai
che organization of Territorial COVE
,ment. They say that the whole thing !
,,ovement in the interest of speculate
,yho have resorted to this legislation to
cnra Indian lands The Senate commit
nave already decided to report the bill
the Territory of Oklahoma.