Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-02

lust refused 10 put tne Morgan hulu NIalhis III
to the Appropriation bill The adjournment
will not come before the nth Of April X.
From our Washington correspondents.
WAsuISGToN, March 20th, 1870.
Four months have now passed away since
Congress convened, and but little business has
vet been transacted Hardly one of the APP
preparation Bills are yet reached One great
cause of the delay is in tue Senate where
there is no Previous Question and consc-
,cntly no move OF checking debate or passi 8
a bill except to set up all night and weary out
the opponents Some of the Senators are in
ye,erate takers Garrett Davis rises on every
occasion and is always good tor two or three
hours. 1t is said that one Senator-and pre-
sumo il must be the fluent Garrett-has spoken
| forty six times this session on the question of
reconstruction, and is by no means exhausted
vet One day has been given in the Senate the
| pas. week to the admission OF San Domingo.
| President Grant is strongly III favoroi II; Sell
| ator Sumner, Chairman Of the Committee OF
Foreign Affairs is sli ongly opposcdtoit. The
| President has therefore taken the unusual step
Of going down To the Capitol, map in hand,
| anu tucH Sthulup pSh"'S'" w
whom he explains the merits Of the Bill. But
think the feeling is constantly growing strong
or in Washington thai we want men rather
than land, educated, honest men who will give
character aud tone to our American nalional-
| ". All the Alaskas and Cubas IN the world
will not give us the reputation or the men New
England and the free West furnishes.
| The principal topic of the Senate in open
session the past week has been the Rcconslruc-
ton of Georgia And ON this question which
has been talked and re-tnlkcd, discussed and
re.discussed, long before the Georgia question
came up, the Senate has spent two weeks and
Is still spending. The question Is on the Bing-
ham amendment which prohibits Legislature
chosen two years ago for two years, but which
has had no legal existence because Of the cx-
pusiun of its black members, from continuing
itself over four years and truly, four years
would seem TO be ample time for one Legisla-
tive existence. 1t is generally thought that il
will be necessary to send down troops ;.anG
Senator Drake, one of the most impulslve OF
radicals. has moved that the troops be quarter
cd upon the people measure that would be
economical indeed, but dreadfully cxaspera.
ting to the disloyai Georgians. Senator Sher'
man reminded Mr.. Drake that the principal
objection to his scheme was that II was uncon
stltutiCnal.
The Supreme Court Of the United States hay
Ing decided that all contracts prior to the com
mrncement Of the war must be paid In gold an'
silver and not In legal lenlers, the N Y. NatioI
propounds the following quco'lo as Gen Cur
fields conundrum.' and which, t says was
question asked of Mr.. Justic. Miller by Mr.
Garfield The Supreme Court has deaide'
that legaf nntleFs cannot be applied TO con
tracts made prior To the war both Consr res
and the Supreme Court have decided that lh
, only legal tender act was nllltary necessity 4
justified by the war and Congress has passc'
> a sclemn vote that the war be- considered end
y ell for all purposes on the Goth ot August 1880
y now under what law ure the legal tenders il
: force since that date = 1t would puzzle ~
l. Ablrr Justice than Mr.. Miller To answer tnl
question. 1t can only bc properly answers,
by Secretary Boutwell,, by putting notes an,
- and specie NJ par lFe hEs.taken one s;ap u
' wards this by ordering the further sale OF gol
u and purchase OF bonds during the month q
the passage OF the Funding Bin through III
HOuse--a passage that hope will be made b'
" fore another issue of the Telegraph, hope
see gold drop Io six per cent premium
hvery remarkable case has occurred la OF
ez Internal Revenue experience during the pa
n week. Collector Bailey OF the 3iIh District
y New York had the most important district
n the country and IA. alec had the full con
", dence OF hlMho knew him, both here at Was
Is. ington andin New Ssirks His great desire W
a. 10 carry ou, the Revenue law to iu full exter
Id aud he was the bilterest oplensni OF the Will
&c ky ring. lie prosecuted more irawAulent cas-
,e 70 conviction than any other officer. Sndde
4 ly Il has been announced that he is defaulu
&c and il Shove what the dread of the man, a'
IL yisilant Official, WAS, that ON the news thai
new ofsieer wee " ps appointed, whisky rc