Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-01
WASHINGTON.

GRe taltlc Oh Nsrant'S influence.
WASHINGTON, June 30.-On going into
Executive session this afternoon, the Sen
ate resumed the consideration of the San
Domingo treaty.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, concluded his
speech against the ratification, when the
Senate proceeded to vote on the amend
ments proposed by the President of the
United States, some of which were adop-
ted. A vote was then taken on the ratif-
cation of the treaty, and resulted, yeas :,
AGAINST % nays. A two-thirds vote being
required, the treaty was rejected Mem
bers Of the Senate were paired and others
absent. The opponents of the measure
say they could have rejected it without the
aid of Democrats.
Taxes-WhiSIIY.
The custom receipts last week wero
S3,OG1, 05S; receipts for internal revenue
for January, $25, 468, 756; for fiscal year,
$lS3, 1872, 374.
The Committee have not reported on
the bill providing forthe collection of taxes
on whisky and tobacco, but will probably
do SO tomorrow. The whole bill will
not propose a change in the existing rates
of taxation on those articles. The mem-
bers of the Committee will advocate an
increase OF the tax on whisky.
SANTANA Safe.
Ii is said that the rejection of the San
Domingo treaty don't dispose of the pro-
toeol for the lease of the Bay of SANTANA,
although if the treaty had been ratified,
the SANTANA question would have been alb
sorbed by it. The project of annexation
of Dominica by joint resolution, does not
seem to be regarded of sufficient force to
secure a majority in the House.
Presidents Cadets at Large Set
Aside.
Five of the cadets at large, appointed by
the President last year, to enter West
Point the first of July, have been set aside
by the Board OF Examiners as incompetent
and will not be admitted.
Amnesty.
An effort is to be made, at the next
meeting of the Reconstruction Committee,
to frame some kind of an amnesty bill
which will be acceptable to the Republican
members. 1t will be somewhat more liberal
than the bill of Gen. Butler, which the
committee have postponed till December.
Should the temper of the House be against
q general bill, however, it is proposed to
pass the bill now pending in the Senate,
which includes over SIX thousand names,
and to add to it quite a large number In
the House. The policy which the Repub
cans intimate they will pursue in this par
ticular is to place the name of every person
in the bill for amnesty who has applied by
letter or petition for the same. Therefore,
if a general bill fails, as is now very proba-
BILE, all that will be done will be the pass
age of e special act of relief The fact that
the President is against general amnesty,
taken together with the fall elections in the
South, influences Congress very materi-
ally.
A Shameless SquaObIe Over the Dead
The bills for the funeral of Secretaries
Stanton and Rawlins having been paid by
the disbursing officers of the department,
under the orders of the Secretary, have
been rejected by the Second Comptroller,
for the want of an appropriation. Applica-
ton is, therefore, to be made to Congress,
to provide for their payment. Some of the
charges are enormous-even for Washing
ton. The carriages for mourners are
charged at three hundred dollars each,
while the number of white gloves charged
is very large. The bill for the burial of
Secretary Rawlins is about four thousand
dollars; that of Mr.. Stanton twelve hun
dred.
Treasury HObber Capturcd--Part OF
the Money Recovered.
Treasurer Spinner has received notid-
cation that one of the robbers who stole
the twenty thousand dollar package of
greenbacks from one Of the rooms of the
Treasury Department, about three weeks
ago, was yesterday arrested in New York,
and six thousand four hundred dollars OF
the money recovered.
Madame JaraCbn.
A short time since q memorial was pre-
sented to the Senate asking the Govern
ment for the release of Madame Jaracha, a
grand niece of Gen. Pulaski, and her hus-
band, who were banished TO Siberia for
participating in the Polish movement of
1868. The request was communicated to
our minister at St. Petersburg, who, in re-
ply, informs the State Department that it
has been granted on the condition that
they leave for the United States.
The Indians.
Tho Government anticipates more trou-
bic from the Comanche Indians on the
borders of Texas, who are combined with
several hostile tribes of the Indian terri
tory, in raiding upon white settlers. They
have already gone upon the war path, and
reports of Outrsges and murders by them
are not of unfrequent occurrence. There
is a wide difference between army officials
and Quaker Indian agents regarding the
permanency of peaceable relations. The
former are satisfied thRt we have, by the
recent feasting of Red Cloud and his peo-
Pile, by no means averted general Indian
war.
The Fail Campaign.
The Republican Congressional Commit
tee have fully organized for the fall cam
paign by electing Congressman Platt, of
Virginia, Secretary. Nearly ten thousand
dollars have been subscribed already. The
committee have determined to make oppo
sition to the coolie importation one of the
features of the canvass. Rooms have
been taken at the capital by the commit