New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-24

and Female EmplOyes-Newsham Seat
ed by 95 to ~, He was Sworn In
Motion Hetected TO Reduce Dulie
on ImpOrts-stOr ming In all Direction
I WASHINGTON. May 23.-The Presiden
has nominated Henry A. BarthaW, of Nortf
Smith Collector of the Eighth Virginia Dis
| trict.
| Commander Gillis has been ordered t,
| duty as Lighthouse Inspector of the Fourth
District.
! The United States steamer Benicia ha!
arrived at Rio de JaneirO: all well on board
| She reports having encountered in latitude
| 100 longitude "a, two earthquakes, which
were follow by heavy meteors.
Senate-The efforts to correct the journal
! by erasing the sixteenth section of the bill
| enforcing the fifteenth amendment failed.
The Senate resumed consideration of ap-
propriations, and is in session tonight.
An amendment allowing males and fe-
males like pay for like work was adopted.
House-Ihe bill providing for the appoint.
nent of an examiner OF claims, and three
additional clerks for the State Department
passed.
The House then resumed the consideration
of appropriations, until three o'clock, wher
the vote was taken seating Newsham OF
louisiana and he was sworn in. The vote
was 95 to n.
The bill for placing a resident minister al
Rome was defeated.
Dir. Judd moved to suspend the rules that
he might introduce and have passed bill to
reduce the duties on imports as follows: On
syrup, molasses and all sugars, and on salt,
thirty-three per cent; on coffee and tea,
twenty per cent; on pig and scrap iron,
twenty two and a half per cent. The mo-
tioH was rejected-yeas l02. nays S2 less
than tws-thirds voting in the negative.
The telegraphic lines are. working slowly
to night. Storming in all directions. Heavy
rain and hail storms prevailed this evening.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-There was much
Newsham, from Louisiana. The election
would probably have been sent back to the
people, but Judge Ryan insisted he had
been fairly elected, and rejected all side
issue or compromises.
When Mr.. Newsham approached the bar,
Mr.. Eldridge, OF Wisconsin, exclaimed:
81 protest; this man is elected by the House,
not by the people," He was declared out of
order. The Radicals claimed that Mr..
Edridge's words, being out Of order, should
not be printed in the Globe, but Mr.. Blaine
decided that the words Of members heard by
the reporters must go on record.
The case of Judge Bailey will come up to.
morrow. He approves of Judge Ryan's
course, in making a straight issue, but
warned by the result in his case, will en-.
deavor. as he says, to save his constituents
from Misrepresentation to have the election
referred back.
In the Senate to-day substitute was re-
ported for the New Orleans and Northeastern
Railroad, granting the right of way and ten
alternate sections per mile on each side of
the line from York Station, Meridian,
Mississippi to New Orleans.
The mortgages upon the property, rev.
enues and franchises of the company, for
which bonds have been issued, is estimated
by the friends of the bill to be less than one
half the cost of the work.
A bill to secure permanent levees for the
protection of and for reclaiming the alluvial
lands of the Mississippi valley was presented
in the Senate by MIR. Kellogg, of Louisiana.
Read twice and referred to the Committee
on Finance. It provides for Board OF En-.
gineers, consisting of one from the Engi.
near Corps of the United States, to be de
tached TOR the purpose, one to be
appointed by the Governor of Louisiana,
and one to be selected by the Mississippi
Valley Levee Company. This board shall
determine the dimensions of levees, and the
amount of taxation therefor. 1t further
provides that the United States shall issue,
upon the completion of each ten miles Of
levee constructed to the satisfaction of the
President of the United States, $4,000
worth of bonds. payment of which shall be
secured by mortgage on the property of the
company.