The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-02-04

SYNOPSIS OF LATEST NEWS.


Pennsylvania iron men request Con-
eress TO raise the duties on pig iron one
dollar per ton; bar iron, rails and other
descriptions Of manufactured iron, three
dollars per ton.
The Ways aud Means Committee has
agreed TO reduce the duty on opium to
one dollar per pound, aud morphine in
proportion
Tho President has approved the Vir-
ginia Bill
Panama advices by the Arizona say an
easy aud practicable route for the Darien
Canal has been discovered, by which the
waters Of tho Pacific and the Atlantic
can bo united within fiyc years. The
proposed line is outside Of tho limits Of
the Panama Railroad Company. Tho
eastern entrance is at Puerto Connido,
where vessels can anchor in from seven
teen to forty fathoms Of water. The
western entrance Is at Santa Metroa.--
The real distance between the oceans is
thirty-eight and q half miles. Tho esti-
mated cost il seventy millions.
Butler has replied to Dawes, claiming
that ahe latter's statements werc not bas-
cd on facts.
Tho Eric strike ia over.
Adyices from Hayti report Salnayc
killed.
Tho Panama steamers are not to be
withdrawn.
In the House Of Representatives Paiuo
moved that the Virginia members, to
whose right TO seats there was no obiec-
tion, be sworn in. Platte. Porter and
Miles, thereupon came forward and took
the oath of Office. Wood objected to the
oath being administered to Porter, and
read, as tho grounds Of objection, the
charges and speculations upon which
Porter had been convicted and sentenced
TO six months imprisonment, which SEN
tence was approved by General Butler
Porter was convicted Of declaring pub
licly in Norfolk that this Government
wis IA God d-d humbug from begin
ming TO end; that Abraham Lincoln was
doing everything he could for his OWN
election, and that this was o rotten, bo.
gus aud corrupt Government from be-
ginning to end"
Paine, 10 answer, sent to the Clerk q
desk TO have read, telegram from But
Ter, dated May 5, 1868, stating that Por-
ter, in heated discussion, had used
words which, upon being reported to
him, he was obliged TO notice. He, how.
ever, omitted all the onerous part Of the
judgment because his previous acts show.
ed that Porter had not, in fact, boon dis.
loyal.
Sargent asked Wood whether be was
prepared TO state that any person should
be excluded from membership in the
House for having used such language.
Wood said be had no difficulty in an-
swering that question. lie did not be.
licye anybody was fit to sit in the House
who considered the Government a hum.
bug, or who denounced the President in
such scurrilous terms.
Sargent remarked that he had simply
wanted To get possession of the facts.
Whittimorc asked Wood sarcastically,
whether he did not think it better te
treat that class Of people with Cancellation
aud kindness?
Wood said yes, but not to give them
front seats.
Eldridgc would not put them alongside
of the gentleman from South Carolina
Laughter.
Sargent in reply to Eldridgc said he
would hazard the opinion, if gentlemen
were expelled from the House who could
be proved 10 have used such language,
seats on the Democratic side would be
pretty generally vacant. Laughter
Woodward declared with some excite.
ment that the assertions of tho gentleman
from California were slanderous.
An excited discussion cnsued, on both
sides, by Holman, Smith of Oregon
Peck. Voorhees,, Sargent, Cox, Mayhcw
Woodward, Butler, Wood, Morgan and
Ellridgc. The debate was quite bitter
and acrimonious, both sides indulging in
elimination and recrimination in regard
to party record during tho war. The
confusion at one time became so great
that ii required the strenuous efforts oi
the Speakers gayel to restore order
Porter was finally sworn in.
The House judiciary Committee have
agreed 10 add another circuit to the u. s
Court, making ten instead Of nine.
The examination Of Corbin went to show
that Grant was in no way mixed up il
the gold panic.
Voorhees, addressed the House. He sol
emnly asserted that vast proportion oI
the national debt had no existence in 70.
ality. It was a fiction created BY unjust
scandlous legislation, or still worse, unjus
sclndalous perversion of true contract
was fraud fastened upon the labor ol
the nation, utterly without consideration
legal or moral; was sheer and naked OK
tortion from the wants necessities ant
helplcssness of tho people when the,
were wholly at the mercy of capitalists
He then proceeded to show how men VIII,
invested in national bonds had obtained
largo bonus investments, under forme
prices Of gold compared with present pri
ces. He said this extreme injustice has
driven many honest minds to embrace tn,
fearful doctrine Of repudiation. Tho is
sue was in the hands of the party in pow
or.
From 1900 to 1000 workmen were t
be discharged from tho New York Nav,
Yard on the goth of Jan.
The Cuban Charitable Aid Societ,
have published an address to the peopl
of the United States, asking donation
for the purpose, should an inscrutabl
providence decree lapse of the Cubal
people into despotism, to project a CHART,
for this ruined aud desolate people sucl
as has not been more decidedly and VI