The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-04-27


it with every available parliamentary
.motionshstit was -earried by three
majority. The effect of the bill is to
decrease the Representation of Ver-
mont, New FORK, Massachusetts, and
Maine, and to increase it IN Ohios
Kentucky, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri,
Iowa, Minnesota, Alabama, Tennes
see and Wisconsin. An effort is to
be made.te defeati it in the Senate.
THEGEORGIA INVESTIGATION.
The Investigation into the alleged
attempt to bride Senators to vote
against the Bingham amendment to
the Georgia bill substantially ended
to day, and the charge has. not been
fully sustained, 1t was in this wise !:
telegram was sent to Senator elect
Hill from Atlanta, q few days ago,
that one hundred thousand dollars of
railroad bonds, Endorsed by the State
OF Georgia, had been sent here, the
telegrapher believed, to influence legis-
lation. sr%J .lH
The package was watched on its ar
rival and traced to Goveanor Bullock.
There it was lost sight of, and straight.
way the story started that it's con.
tents had been offered to ceatain Sem
ators, but the evidence to-day shows
that lie countersigned the bonds and
then forwarded the whole amount to
New York to the agents of the State
of Georgia for negotiation. Senator
Carpenter, to whom, tits alleged, some
of these bonds were rendered, denies
the whole story. There may be tes-
timony to support the bribery charges;
IT so, 1t Is yet to come. r
SPINNER ON THE FUNDING BILL.
Treasurer Spinner has written an
Fother letter to Charles B. Hail, Presi-
dent of the Boston National Bank, on
the Funding Bill, in which he says
at was no part of my inlentlon to
make charges against the banks. !
simply intended, i'll my recent letter,
TO advise them for their own good. !
confess I am not favorably impressed
with their action in appointing COM
mittees, with plenary powers, TO treat
with Congress in regard to a great
National question that concerns the
whole people.
elm this letter you must have motto.
ed that while r would insist that the
loan must be at a low rate of interest,
L would at the same time deal liberal
ly with the banks. During the war
the National banks and the Govern
ment were f~ihancial partners" He
then says further on: That it will be
the, ultimate interest of all that the
new loan should be placed at the low
est possible rate of interest, and he
lcpes' TO see the banks go to work Wig
orously and cheerfully to support
Boutwell, and his Funding bill.
To effect this he says the banks
should make some sacrifices, and the
Government should allow them an |
others who enlist in the work a libei-
al per ccntage for all the stocks of
the new loan that they make, take
from and dispose for the United States
If the Government should pay to its
agents for this service the difference
in the rate of interest between the
present and the proposed loan FOR one
year, it would be a good bargain for
us and those who will come after US.
THE LEGAL TENDER CASES.
, Owing to the dismissal Of The ap-
peals, by the Supreme Court today, OF
the legal tender cases, per request o
counsel, there is now no case before
the Court involving the constitutional
ity Of the legal tender law, and it will
take more than a year to bring up a
new test case. The Court will on
Friday plobaUly adjourn foI the pre-
sent term. -.-
THE GEORGIA BILL.
The Reconstruction Committee Of
the House will do nothing with the
Georgia question till next Tuesday,
and even then it may be postponed
still longer, owing to the absence Of
General Butler, the Chairman, who
left town this evening. This is not
objected to, as there is IA general desire
among Senators and mem bers that
this matter should be removed from
both Houses until some practical, ne
cessary, pressing legislation can be a
accomplished. The development yes
terday and today shows no uniform
feeling among the Republicans regard
ing the bill. MI. Cessna, OF Pennsyl-
.yania, has prepared a substitute. adj
uniting Georgia to representation at
once, and providing for the election of
a new Legislature in November, 1872.
This does away with the provisional
or military feature of. the Senate bill.
General Logan has prepared an
other substitute, which simply admits
Georgia to representation now in Con-
gress3 and provides for ar election in.
the present year for a new Legisla-
ture, Il at which all persons who are
electors by the Georgia Constitution
shall vote. - So -;'' go" -
Mr.. Ingersoll, of Illinois, has drawn
up still another bill, declaring that the
government of Georgia shall cease-io
be provisional, and that an election
for Senators and members of the Leg
shall come OFF next Novem--
Der, the State, in the meantime, to be
o. ~ = -a,..
The Democrats Of the H0use have