Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-22
WASHINGTON.
Successful Strugglc-PrOtesf of
Bemocratic Members.


Democratic Members.
WASHINGTON, April 2I.-The Democrats
OF the House yesterday made severe but
successful struggle to prevent the seating
of another minority candidate from Louis
lana; and, while they failed to secure the
seat to the Democratic contestant, the
whole matter was referred back to the
people There was great deal ofexcitement
over the result, and the House was the
scene Of unusual turbulence. In the first
place the House voted that tho Radical
claimant should have the seat, but it being
whispered around the hall that Sypher had
been voted in on the ground that he was a
high tariff man, and, being recently from
Pennsylvania, would sustain that State in
its demand for increased duties on iron, a
Western Republican who had voted for him
moved a reconsideration, which was car
ried, and the result was that Sypher was
put out just as he was ready to be sworn
in.
The Democratic members had already
signed protest against it as follows;
The undersigned, members of the forty
first Congress, respectfully ask to enter
upon the Journal of the House their earn
est and solemn protest against the admis-
olOh Va o. IL Dl JucI 10 d seat luis 11OuS6
from the first district of Louisiana. In
their Judgment, his admission is an outrage
on the country, as well as on the rights of
the electors of that district, who elected
his competitor, Hon. Lewis St. Martin, and
a usurpation by this Congress, which has,
In effect, added to its own number by the
admission of person who was legally and
overwhelmingly defeated by q majority of
If Of he o1aa
ton. FERNANDO WooD,
c. A. ELDRIDGE,
S. S. Cox,
j. B. BECK,
ERAsTUs WELLS
A g. BURR,
and others.
I'm n Hurry.
No order is yet issued for the payment
of the interest, but it will be commenced
before the end of april
The Custom receipts for last week were
$4,903, $40.
Not i'm n Hurry.
Gen. Butler, Chairman of the Recon-
struction Committee, goes to Massachu-
sets to morrow night, and proposes that
the amendment to the Georgia bill be
laid over ten days.
FOrty-Acre Bureau.
L. II Putnam, colored, of Brooklyn,
addressed the Committee on Freedman
Affairs to-day on the subject of his petit
ton. Mr.. Putnam submitted draft of a
bill to establish Bureau of Homesteads and
Relief, with a view toimprovement of pub
lie lands in Florida, in connection with the
development of the resources Of the South
ern States.
Starving Indians.
The report of affairs at Grand River
Agency, Dakota, for March, states that
there had arrived at the agency l,127 In
dams, all in a starving condition. Many
had killed and eaten their horses. The
Agent sent them provisions to assist
in getting them there, and on their arrival
clothing was issued They conduct them
selves very well.
The Man Who Runs the Machine.
At the instance of Gen. Butler, nearly all
the members of The Reconstruction Com
mittee have promised not to act on the
Georgia bill until his return from Massa-
chusetts, on the fifth of May.
Mr. Kellogg, of Louisiana, has been
20 the Committee on Claims.
The Meeting of the Waters.
Cows. Austin, of Minnesota, and Fair
child, of Wisconsin, had hearing before
the Committee on Commerce of the House
and Senate, in behalf of the improvement
of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, so as to
give four feet water in the channel between
the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan.
Gov. Harvey, ofKansas, was to make the
argument for the same, was unexpectedly
called away.
Gov. MorreI, of Iowa, will be here to-
day for the same purpose. Favorable &C
ton by Congress is anticipated.