New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-09
THE CURRENCY BILL SIGNED
Our Firemen's Ovation at New York
Domestic and Foreign Markets


Internal Revenue Receipts SS44,OOO-
Hbar Started for Home-;rant Leave
for Long Branch on the Nineteenth
Three Reports Probable on the Fund
ing Bill-BOunty to First Alabama an,
| second Florida Cavalry-Dawes ON Pub
! lie EcOnOmy-(seneral Disability Bill
Passed - Non Concurrence I'm Hous
Amendments to the Georgia Bill
| $17O.OOO to Loyal Census Takers O
g. 1S6O-Bill TO Determine Mode Of Rati
flying Constitutional Amendments-Pay
ing Lawful Owners for Cotton Seize,
After 1S65-Distributi0n Of Additiona
Currency-Five Millions to Come {,
New Orleans-Currency Bill Signed.
WASHINGTON, July S.-Internal revenue
receipts to-day. SSf400O.
Ex-Attorney General Hoar has departed
| for home.
The President departs on the nineteenth
for his summer residence at Long Branch.
1t is thought the President will conven,
| the Senate in an extra session.
Congressional Printer Clapp has been ex
| onerated by the Senate from the charge,
preferred against him.
| The conference committee on the funding
bill are wide apart. 1t probable that thret
reports will be submitted.
! There were no important Southern ap
|
| the Senate to-day
| The House Judiciary Committee, by six t.
four, voted against McGarrahan's claim.
| HOuse-The bill to pay bounty to the First
| Alabama Cavalry and the First and Second
| Florida Cavalry passed.
The bill to complete the courthouse and
postoffice at Knoxville, Tennessee, passed
The House went into committee on an ad-
ditional deficiency bill to pay the expenses
n4 f1a nd Il Of
An amendment was offered to pay twenty
per cent additional to the employees of the
House for the Thirty ninth Congress, which
provoked a discussion, in which Mr.. Dawes
declared that he would go to the country
and tell the country that that party which is
responsible for the expenditure of the public
money, had refused to hold itself up to the
point of public economy. He had as much
fidelity to party as any living man. but he
had more fidelity to the good Of the country
There was something above party, and he
intended that the cOuatry should know on
whom the responsibility for extravaganza
rested.
An amendment was adopted, appro-
priating $4,000 TO pay loyal men in the
South, who had assisted in taking the last
census. Mr.. Bingham, from the judiciary
Committee. reported bill to regulate the
mode of determining the ratification Of
amendments TO the constitution.
The 1irst section makes it the duty of the
executive Of each state whose legislature
shall have ratified the proposed amendment
to certify forthwith such ratification to the
Secretary OF State Of the United States.
Section second makes it unlawful for any
State officer to certify thereafter any appeal
OF such ratification, unless an amendment
for repeal shall have been first proposed by
Congress, and directs the Secretary of State
not to make a record thereof
Section third prescribes the penalty for
an attempted repeal of such ratification by
State authority as imprisonment from one
to ten years. and d fine of from two to ten
thousand dollars.
The rules were suspended and the bill
passed, yeas l25, nays 81.
Mr.. Bringham, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported a joint resolution direct
ingthe Secretary of the Treasury to paw
tol awful owners the net proceeds Of
all cotton seized after thirtieth June, 1866,
such seizures having been made in viola
ton OF an injunction from the Treasury De-
partment, and after the surrender Of the
rebel armies and the proclamation of am
nest.
Mr. Butler of Massachusetts,, made the point !
Of order, that the bill made an apprOpria- |
ton, and must be referred to the committee !
Of the whole.
The Speaker sustained the point, and the |
bill was referred
OF the ffty-four millions of addi-
Iional currency provided by the act |
Just passed, Virginia will receive as its pro-
portion nearly five millions; West Vir-
5inia, nearly a half a million; Tennessee,
our millions and a third; Louisiana, five
millions four hundred twenty-five thousand; |
nearly three millions; Georgia,
Our millions six hundred and eighty-one |
thousand; North Carolina, four millions;
south Carolina, four millions two hundred |
md sixteen thousand; Alabama, four mil
ions; Texas, two millions; Arkansas, one
million four hundred and tifty-fiv thousand;
tlorida, five hundred and forty-six thou
and dollars.
Senate-The bill relieving the political
disabilities Of seventy-tive kentuckians
passed.
The general disability bill was taken up.
This bill contains about five thousand
lanes. 1t was proposed to insert the name
VI A. U. p. Nicholson, of Tennessee but !
objection was made, and the name was with
lrawn. Several names were stricken out.
The bill then passed. A proposition to
trike out the name Of ex-senator Robert
Johnson, of Arkansas was negatived.
The Georgia bill was taken nm. when.
With q view of preventing debate. the Sen
tie adopted motion to nOnconcur in House
Imendments to the bill as passed by the
senate, and ask for conference committee.
leas "a; nays -.
Senate is in session tonight,
1t Is positively asserted in knowing circles
hat IT the Georgia bill passes this session,
will contain clause compelling an cleo
ion this fall.
The President having signed the copy
lgnt law, the entire business has been
transferred to the Congressional librarian,
nth law franks, all titles, books, etc, to
ne copyright at Washington.
The new currency bill has been signed.
The naval examination closed today
lnly twenty-nine admitted; three from
rginia, and one from Alabama.
delegation of Sioux Indians held
ouncil with Commissioner Parker to-day.
he usual stories of poverty we're cited,
'hile all professed friendship to this gov
rnment. No promises of using their efforts
, prevent war were made. The Indians
.arted home tonight loaded with presents
,r their families