The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-09
Domestic Affairs.


Gold closed yesterday at 111s.
Female suffrage has been defeated in
Wisconsin.
1t is thought the Senate will defeat the
Georgia bill.
The Internal Revenue receipts yesterday
were inside of 100000.
EARLY suspension of the habeas corpus is
looked for in Ireland.
MIR. Addington, Charge dAffaires at
Washington, has died in London.
--latest advices from Winnipeg convey the
belief that nobody has been or will be exc
cuted by Riehl.
General Logan's army reduction bill is
supported by Secretary Belknap, and opposed
by the President and General Sherman.
Sir John Young, Governor General of
Canada, purposes visit to the Red river at
the close of the present Parliamentary
session.
"A resolution having for it's object the
discontinuance of the State Treasury investi-
CATION was negatived in the Legislature yes
terday.
"A proposition for reducing the expenses
of printing the annual Patent Reports has
been reported to the House from the Printing
Committee.
"A discussion arose at the session of the
Reconstruction Committee, yesterday, as to
the power of Congress to exercise authority
in Tennessee.
In the New Jersey Legislature
yesterday, the Air Line Railroad bill was
ordered to third reading, with an amend
ment prohibiting the sale Of the franchise ex-
cept by consent of the Legislature.
In his message to theVirginia Legislature
Governor Walker shows the State debt to be
$45, $4,000. He recommends the sale of
the States interest in the railroads and the
funding of all the liabilities except the foreign
debt.
The following were the proceedings in
Congress yesterday, after the close of our re-
port;-<
In the Senate, Mr.. Chandler, from the
Commerce Committee, reported the bill to
regulate foreign and coasting trade on our
| northern frontiers. Mr.. Kellogg introduced
bill subdiyiding the public lands in the
| South into forty-acre homesteads for colored
| settlers. Mr.. Fowler offered resolution
| directing the immediate sale of the surplus
| gold in the Treasury, but objection was made,
| and it laid over. Mr.. Wilson introduced a
bill to promote the civilization of the In
| dians, and prepare them for citizenship,
which was ordered to be printed The Fund
| ing bill was discussed, pending which the
| Senate went into executive session, and
| soon after adjourned. In the House
| the Georgia bill was taken up, and Mr..
| Bingham's amendment, to prevent the vaca-
| ton of offices or extension of terms of Office
beyond the constitutional limit was adopted.
and the bill passed by party vote. One
| Republican member, Mr.. Farnsworth, of
Illinois, did not vote. Mr.. Latin, from the
Printing Committee, reported a joint resolu-
tion for the discontinuance of the publication
of abstracts of specifications and engravings
accompanying the patent report. Mr.. Benja-
min, from the Invalid Pension Committee
reported bill providing that the pension
acts of 1866 and 1866 shall not be construed
to diminish the pensions granted by special
bills. Mr. Stevenson, of Ohio, offered re-
solution, which was referred, appropriating
800, 600 for another Arctic expedition under
Captain Hall. Adjourned.
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