The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-06
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WAsHIaaToN, April 6.-Judge Bradley,
OF the Supreme Court, leaves for New
Orleans, on tile, first of May, for the pur.
pose OF trying such cases as may come
befWe!him.
sEhe.House will pass the bill transfer.
rlnElfhe property of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau the Educational Bureau. The
opponents of the bill claim that this per.
pethates the educational features of the
Ffeedmen's Bureau bill. Reconstruction
was referred.
The Senate confirmed Jumes Lorimer
Graham, Jr., Consul General at Florence
vice Thomas B. Van Burn, declined: T
Q. Cover, of Wisconsin, Consul Mt
Fayal; Thomas +. Wilson, of Pennsvl-
vania. Consul at Matamoras; John Har-
ris, OF Pennsylvania, Consul at Venice:
David Eckstein, of Ohio, at Victoria
Vancouver's Islands; O. MI. +. Petnrd.
OF Georgia, at Strasburg; VIM. L: mi.
Burger, of South Carolina, to Algiers.
E." McBaron Timorey, of Georgia, to-
Iumbey; VIM. b. Jones. of Alabama, to
Brindisi; B. Odell Duncan, of South
Carolina, 70 Naples.
Shober, member elect from North
Carolina, has been placed on the Elec.
tion Committee.
The Senate adopted resolution, pass
ed by the House, relating to the Oneida
disaster; it goes to the President. IT,
involves thorough investigation.
In the Senate, certain German citizens
Of Tennessee petition for the reconstruc-
tion of Tennessee.
Georgia was resumed. Sumner de-
nounced Binghams amendment as an
engine OF rebel power and doctrine of
State rights. and ns q loyal heresy with
which reconstruction had to contend. He
claimed that the only argument against
the power of Congress to interfere wos
based upon technicaiities, and that Con
gress was q high Court of Equity with
Georgia at the bar. Carpenter, in reply
to Sumner, delivered lengthy constit1-
tlonal argument against the validity of
the fundamental conditions upon State,
urging that Georgia be either admitted
without qualification, or kept out until
the Government could trust her.
.The bill disseminating the Freedmen's
Bureau, and for other purposes, was
passed by the House to-day. It repenls
all laws and prescribed duties for officers
OF the Freedmen's Bureau, so far as said
duties have not yet been fully executed.
and transfers all money and property
hitherto entrusted to the Freedmen's
Bureau, to the account of. the Bureau of
E;dncgtion. to, be expended exclusively
Tor educational purposes among freed
men and refugees; having special refer
ence to aiding the establishment and USE
fnlness of.common schools among them,
The Bureau Of Education is to exercise
the same powers rs those hitherto exer-
cised by the Freedmen's Bureau, in refer
ence to education, and especially in CO.
operating with benevolent or educational
societies and corporations. And the
same cooperation may be extended to
State, Territorial, County and municipal
authorities, for similar purposes, &c.
The House, in committee on the tariff,
liked the rate on clarified sugar at 2l5c.
per pound; refined sugar cents. Mo
lasses remains as reported from the COM
mittee. The duty on brandy and other
distilled spirits was fixed at $500. The
committee then rose. Butler introduced
o resolution annexing San Domingo
WOOD objected, when the House ad-
journed.
Internal revenue receipts to-day, s271,-
Bailey's defalcation is about 5000 Oo0
Michael Vidal, of New Orleans, has
been confirmed Consul to Tripoli.
The colored Philosophical Society Of
Virginia petition Congress to call this
country tho United States of Columbia.
instead Of America.
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Domestic News.
HARTFoRD, April Half of the State
gives English (Democrat) gain of 450.
Jewelrs majority last year was All.
Hartford gives Jewell 1850; English