The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-10
WASHINGTON.
MAslI1SGroN, March 8, 1870

TIE CUBAN QUEsTIoN.-ThC Cuban
struggle in tho Senate Foreign Committee
Is over for the present, and the Committee,
through Mr.. Morton, today reported what
may be looked upon US its ultlmatum:
The bill simply prohibits. the fitting out OF
vessels in this country BY any foreign
power for war upon colonies claiming In
dependence, and action in fitting out such
vessels is made q nisdCmeanor punishable
by fine and imprisonment Tho bill
docs not apply in terms to Spain anu
Cuba, but It's passage last winter would
have prevented Spain from building
gunboats in this country Inst summer.
It has nothing, whatever, 10 III, with a
state Of belligerency or insurrcctlon, and
comes long ways short Of what tho Gu
bans and tlleir sympathisers have been
trying to get. Itdoes not benefit Cuba to
any considerable extent, rs Spain has
probably got all the vessels she wants
The first section Of the original bill which
prohibited the buying Of arms and mlnl'
lions Of war was cut out by tho commit
tee. The adoption Of that might have
been of some advantage to the CuDans.
The last mail from Havana brought re:
ports 10 the State Department which VIII
probably be made public at tho proper
time. It Is understood to show moro com:
plete decentralization in the insurgents
camps than has ever heretofore prevailed.
GEORGIA Bull PASSED IN HOUSE.
The Georgia question is settled so FIR rs
the House is concerned. The struggle
among the Republicans was over the idea
embodied in BinghNm's amendment
Governor Bullock und his friends had SGT
up and argued before the Judiciary and
Reconstruction Committees that the terms
Of office to which pcrsOnswerc elected in
the fall of 1868, would not begin till the
present bill or one Of similar tenor became
a law, or in other words, that no ser
vice In Office up 10 this time should be
counted. Mr.. BingllAm's amendment was
denial Of this claim, and provided tlnt
there shall be no extension Of time
Of office beyond the period fixed in
tho Constitution, and that new lGgls'
laturc shall be chosen at the proper date
next fall. Gen. Butler and the l4econstruc-
tion Committee were beaten on this issue,
and the House by n vote Of ia to 73 sus'
taincd Mr.. Bing hams position, the atIir-
natives being made up by fity.Onc Demo
Gratis and siXty.tllrce Republicans. The
bill was then passed by u party division.
Bullock and his friends, a considerable
number Of whom are here, are good deal
disguised at the adoption Of Binghams
proposition, and will probability 10 defeat
1t In the Senate, but their chances ior sue
cess there are not favorable.
TIE INFLATIoN REsoLuTIoN.-Thc
Banking and Currency Committee had a
good deal Of debate at a meeting this
morning on tho question Of what should
be done under Loughridge's initiation in.
structiOn. The majority voted to report
s0uareIy for un addition Of fiGty millions
grccnb6cks to the present circulation, but
the minority are IN favor Of meeting tho
order with Il bill adding that amount to
the National Bank circulation, with pro.
viso that it shall go into tho South and
West, Tho report will not be made till
next week, and by that timc 1t is possible
the minority view may have gained
strength enough to command n majority
vote In Committee.
BuTI.ER N TIE CADET BUSINESS
Gen. Butler today appointed Charles
Sumner Wilson, Of Salem, Mass, q cadet
to the Military Academy ut West Point
The appointee Is colorcd boy, about the
samc complexion rs Senator Revcls, II
years of age, and a graduate OF the Salem
High School. His father was apriyate In
the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers during
the late war, and was killed In battle, and
his mother has been supporting him by
her toll as n sCamstress, Young Wilson
ranks among the first Of his class at Salem
and Gen. Butler selected him on his merits
as scholar, and for tho services his faith
er had rendered the country. This Is the
first case Of the appointment Of ColOrcd
boy to the Military Academy. .aHu