The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-22
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WASHINGTON, D. c., February 81.
Arrest Of Claim Agents.
Secretary Boutwell, is after the claim
agents. Several have just been arrested
in Cincinnati on the charge of fraud in
bounty claims; one agent at Viclsburg har
been convicted of the same offence and
fined 81 900 at Nashville several agents
have been detected in negotiating forged
endorsements and fictitious powers of at
| torney. Judgments have been obtained
against these parties in the United States
District Court at that place, and the judg-
ments satisfied by payment to the national
bank at Nashville. 1t is alleged that this
has established the liabilities of the banks
thi ough which bounty checks and certif-
Gates have been negotiated.
The Monarch.
The Secretary Of the Navy has returned
from Annapolis, and was at his office to-
day. Captain Carnevrell will be here to-
morrow, the guest of the British Minister
(Mr. Thornton). The President, Cabinet,
senators, congressman, and others, will 60
to Annapolis to visit the Monarch on Friday
next.
Georgia.
Messrs. Fnrrow and Whitley, elected
United. States senators by the present
Georgia Legislature, were at the White
House to-day, and had brief interview
with the President in regard to the question
of the rights of Messrs. Hill and Miller
and the gentlemen present. The President
had no opinion to offer. He said that Mis-
sissippi, Georgia, and Texas, would have
been admitted without conditions if the
same had not been imposed upon Virginia
He hoped Georgia would be admitted before
| the fifteenth amendment shall be declared
adopted.
Governor Randolph, of New Jersey: was
at the White House to-day, and had an III
terview with the President.
II
ments Ratified by Texas.
The following dispatch Was received al
the War Department to-day:
"ArsTiN, TEXAS, February 10, 1870.
d" 10 AJutaat- General Townsend:
"The Legislature of Texas has ratified
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments t.
the Constitution.
[Signedl 81. j. REYNOLDS.
"Brevct MAJ General"
The Cherokee Ind fans.
To-day large delegation Of the princi
pal men Of the Cherokee nation who occupy
territories west of Arkansas and north o
Kansas, and that portion Of the Cherokee
nation in North Carolina by the act of 1865
made a separate nation, appeared at tn
White House. The delegation numbere'
about fifty. They said the Joint delegn
ton represented the two Cherokee nations
they came to assure the President the.
were in harmony with each other; thei
governments were the same they wer
opposed to the McCullum territorial bill
and that they united in one prayer to tn
President to urge his influence upon th
Senate to adopt the treaty between tin
| United States and their nations which hat
been lingering in the Senate for the pas
three years.
The President replied that the Senate
delay in taking action on the treaty was n
fault Of his. He had withdrawn the treat,
from the Senate with the Usage and othe
tribes because he had learned that the Ian,
SPECTATORS had obtained grants from them
He would do his best to protect them il
their rights. His right to veto would Ger
tainle be used when he was convinced the.
were unjustly dealt with by Congress.
The Twenty-Second.
The War and Navy Departments will b
closed tomorrow. The Treasury, Interior
and Post-Ofice Departments will be close'
at noon. The President and Mrs. Gran
will attend the citizens levec and receI'
ton tomorrow night.
| A Severe Senten CO Mitigated.
Private Stephen Larkin was convicted il
April, 1866, of desertion and insubordina
ton lie was branded with the letter d o.
his hip; had his head and beard half shavet
off .drummcd out of his regiment, and i'm
prisoned for five years Mt hard labor in til
Dry Tortugas. To-day the President par
doncd him from scrving the remainder O
his sentence, and ordered his release frou
prison.
Fine Whiskey.
In anticipation of an effort being mad
in the House to-day to put through reso
luton extending the time to take whiske,
out of bond to three years, the Ways an,
Means Committee this morning agreed upol
bill, which they instructed the chairman
to report, as substitute for any measure
that might be offered extending the tins
for taking whiskey out of bond, with {
provision requiring all spirits kept in bono
after one year to pay tax of one cent pei
gallon.
Deficiency BilIs-Navy-Army.
House Committee on Appropriations to-
day completed the deficiency bill, The
amount of deficiency being about six mil
lions.
The Conference Committee on the part Of
the. House on the disagreeing votes on the
naval deficiency bill to-day notified the Sc
nate Conference Committee that they