The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-28
ATLANTA, Ca, January 26


To Gen. r. D. TosUnse'gd: an AA
The House was organized to-day,
by The election of Mr.. McWhOrter,
Republican candidate, as Speaker.
Three persons were excluded as in :
eligible. Eleven of those whose cases
were inquired into have been pro-
nouncod eligible. Sixteen who had
refused to take the oath were declared
| to have become ineligible by. their re-
fusals, and after q careful exan11na-
tion of the act of December I'D, |
decided that the fourth section would
not permit me to seat the candidate
having the next highest number OF
votes in place of persons found to be
ineligible.
[Signed:l ALFRED II. TERRY.
ls5Vs 1Fa Brevet Major General.
The Presidents to-day nominated
Jas. l.. Jennings. Receiver of Public
Monies, Ionia, Mich; John Eaton,
Jr., of Tennessee, Oommissioner of
Education. in place of Barnard, to be
removed Bruce johnson, Postmas-
| ter of Shelbyville,. Ind -ue "a
| Secretary Boutwell, was to-day at
| the Capitol. presenting his views be-
/ fore the Financial Committee.
| John f. Lewis was sworn In this
morning as U. $. Senator from Vir-
ginia.8 ,d d. sgas Isle .z.aet
Enooh Hoag, superintendent OF
Kansas Indian Affairs and Commis-
sioner of the Society of Friends, in
eluding Geo. w. Weston, of Phila-
| delphia, appeared before the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs this
morning, to submit their views as to
the proper treatment Of Indians IN
| that State, and to urge appropriations
tO carry out their plan for eHactlng
| and civilizing the various tribes nE-
der their charge. which was compro-
missed, after careful consideration.
The custom receipts for last week
amount to $3,371,426.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. .27.-This afier-
noon. by invitation of Gen. Ramsey.
the Prince and Mrs. Thornton, also
his suite, visited the Arsenal. In the
evening he dined with Secretary and
Mrs. Fish.
Washburne, of Wisconsin. TO day,
presented his bill in the House for
the establishment of lines of ocean
steamers, which was referred to the
special Committee on American Com
meree. The bill proposes to estab
lish four lines of steamers, as follows
The Atlantic Iron Steamship Com
pany. to ply between Boston and Port
land and Glasgow and Liverpool, sail
ing from each of said ports on alter
nate weeks; American Iron Steam
| ship Company, to ply between New
York and Liverpool, touching al
Queenstown, and making weekly
trips Trans Atlantic Steamship Com
pany, to ply between Philadelphia
and Baltimore and Southampton and
Bremen, touching at each port on
alternate weeks, and the North and
South American and European Steam
ship Company, to ply between New
Orleans and Hamburg, touching at
Antwerp. and between New Orleans
and Rio Janeiro, touching at Havana
Mayagues, Porto Rico, St. Thomas
aud Trinidad, the West Indies, and
Para, Pernambuco and Bahai, IN
Brazil, making semi monthly trips.
WAsHINGToN. Jan. 27-The thirty
third anniversary of Michigan, IS q
State IN the Union, was celebrated
last night. It was attended by large
number of ladies and gentlemen from
Michigan, sojournipg in Washington
including Senator Howard and Rep
resentatives Ferry. CoDger, Strick
land and Stoughton.