Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-03-09
Mashlngton and CONGRESSIONAL News.

March 2. The Judiciary Committee
reported hat although the Georgia Legis-
lature had been improperly organized,
they would recommend no further legis-
lature on the part ofCongress. The fund
ing bill was taken up and discussed.
Mr.. Buckingham did nOtlike the appoiHo
ment of foreign agents and paying inter
est abroad. Summer said his bill was
much the best. He wanted to amend the
first section, making the 800, 000, 900 $780,
OS0,000, and 1920 in place of 10-40,, and
wanted the bonds of 1852 paid first. Nor
ton was afraid four per cent. interest was
not enough.
In the House, a bill was passed reliey-
ing honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors from the payment of fees under
the Homestead act. Cox said he had
! made no cadet appointments at all. A
bill was passed authorizing a bridge
across the Niagara river at Buffalo. An
amendment was adopted giving the Gov
eminent the right to fix the rates for pas
sengers and freight. The bill then went
over.
The House Mileage Committee will re-
port for reducingth mileage Of Congress
men from twenty cents to ten cents per
mile by the nearest route.
March 3. The Funding bill was dis
cussed. Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, ex-
pressed his belief that a loan at any less
than 5 per cent. could not be negotiated.
The bill was also Objectionable, he
thought, in that the National Banks were
badly treated. MI. Morton favored the
offering of a long bond to the amount Of
81, 200, 000, 200, not redeemable within less
than thirty years. Mr.. Cameron favor
ed a policy of mastery inactivity" be-
lieving that in a few years, as u ability
- 49, 49, I,he1 hC,,D,a 1-.,,u-n nrnr
bonds would be eagerly sought for. Mr..
Chandler thought $500, 100000 of 5 per
cent. bonds would be taken up at once.
Amendments to postpone, and to pay the
proceeds of the sale of the new bonds to
the payment of the $40 bonds of 1862
were lost, and also an amendment, intro
duced by Mr.. Sumner, providing for the
increase of the new bonds from 800, 0O0,-
900 to $500, OOO, 900.
The project of making competitive eX-
animation the basis of admission to the
schools at West Point and Annapolis was
presented before the House Military
Committee to-day by Professor C. G.
Northrup, of New Haven. He brought
out some interesting facts about the class
that entered West Point in 1868, and grad
uated in 1867. Il Numbered ninety-nine,
out of whom fifty were appointed in the
usual way, and forty-six were taken
from the ranks ofthe army after examina-
ton by or under direction ofGrant, Sher-
man, Meade, Rosecrans, Burnside and
others. At the end of the first half year
fifteen of the fifty-three failed and were
dropped out at the end Of the year. Thir-
teen more went out, while of the forty
six bought in after competitive examina-
ton, not a single one failed during the
whole year..
March 4th. A memorial of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature, asking the removal
of the disability of all citizens of that
State, was referred. A memorial from
the National Educational Association
was presented, asking Congress to estab-
lish a system of public instruction by
National Schools. The Senate took up
and discussed till adjournment the bill
for the settlement of claims for Quarter
masters and commissary stores furn-
ished to or taken by the United States
within States in rebellion during the late
war. The bill refers all claims to the
Commissary and Quartermaster Gener-
ais, to be decided upon by them a s to the
sum, no claims to be paid until Congress
appropriates the money.
In the House, q bill was passed ap-
propriating S47 900 for folding documents,
&c. ; a bill granting a pension to a color
ed teamster was passed. The Senate
joint resolution prohibiting the publica-
ton in the Globe of speeches not made
was referred. The Georgia bill was Ia
ken up, and discussed till adjournment.
1t was agreed to discuss it also all day
Saturday, and vote on Monday. Butler,
of Massachusetts,, spoke at length in
support of the bill. He referred to the
Ku-Klux in Tennessee, and announced
his intention of bringing the condition
of affairs in that State before the House.
March 9TH. The Cadet Committee is
satisfied that Covode did nothing wrong.
Witnesses were also examined in the
case of Churchill, ofNew York, and ev-
idence shows, as everybody believed it
would, that there is no cause for action
against this gentleman. Gen. Sehofeld
here to-day to testify in the case
Of Butler, of Tennessee.
Senator Reyels has receiyed a large
number of letters congratulating him on
his admissiont to the Senate. The Legis-
lature of his State has passed resolutions
Of that character, which he laid before the
Senate by request,
The President has signed the bill d.
the Secretary of War to place at
the disposal of the Bridges Battery AssO-
citation, of Chicago, ten captured twelve
pound guns ofobsolete pattern, con-
demned and in store at the Rock Island
Arsenal, to be placed around a lotin Rose
Hill Cemetery, Chicago. He has also
the bill authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to sell or exchange the
present site for a Custom House at Nash
vile, and get a new site which is not to
cost any more than the present site is
worth.
Arrangements are making here for a
grand torchlight parade as soon as the
President announces the ratification of
the 18th Amendmtnt, which he can not
do until Geogia and Texas are admitted.