The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-02

six to nine, asking Congress to submit
Juuan's sixteenth Amendment 10 Jne
Legislatures OF the various states for ratI-
ncatiOn.
Oae of the most extraordinary divorce
cases ever brought before q New YORK
court Is now being tried by Judge Ballard,
Commodore John I. Glasson, 3 veteran
officer OF the United states Navy, aged
sixty-eight years The defendant, his wife,
IS an old lady of hfty-dye, and mothef OF
two grown sons, and her companion In
alleged adultery IS an elderly person =
John Is. HoWelI-who is also q parent of
grown children. The witnesses against
Mrs. Glasson, who We're examined yester-
day were the wife and daughter of Mr.
Howell. The alleged criminality was
committed in Providence, r. l. The un-
usual character of the evidence produced
for the prosecution, and the large wealth
of one and the high social standing of the
other Of the families interested. together
with other circumstance, makes this case
one Of remarkable interest.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
SENATE.-The Attorney General of the
Unifed states yesterday sent to the SEN
ate, in reply to a resolution of inquiry, a
communication which was referred to the
sired the senate 10 do something 10 Sc
cure the Government Of the United
States to the white race...............M Nor
rill, Of Maine, reported with amend
ments, q bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Navy to make transfers for the use OF
the Bureaus OF Construction and Rep airs
the credit OF other Bureaus of the Navy
Departns which are available for the
current year. The amendment OF toe Com
mittee On specific amounts of ira nsferS
from the different bureaus, are as follows /:
From the Bureau of Construction and
Equipment, 1896, 900; from Bureau OF Yards
and Docks, 81, $4,000. The bill was taken
up but laid over without definite action.
Anthony reporter blu 10 restrict the
printing of documents to the lowest limits
Conkling introduced a joint resolution re-
storing mississippi 10 represen entat1on in
Congress. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mite e........A great variety of resolutions
were introduced; one looking 10 a tender
of n1edi alton by the Uuited States, between
the Dominion of Canada and the people
OF Red River, with view to the peaceful
settlement OF the Winnepeg difficulties-....
The Senate consumed some time in the
consideration of the currency bill, and sew
eral speeches We're made, after which the
Senate proceeded to vote on the pending
.-....The amendment OF Nor
ton to increase the amount of additional
circulation from 45,000,0O0 to s52, 600 ,0C0,
was agreed to; yeas 80, nays 4........COnk-
ling proposed an amendment intended to
make the drst section more definite by in
ser.ing after the words " But new ap-
pOrtiOnment," the words " OF the S52, ,000,-
O0J of circulating notes hereby authorized,
in effect being to restrIet the apportIon-
meut TO the extra volume OF circu1a-
tion now authorized instead of the
entire amount" The amendment was
not agreed to; yeas %, nays 39.................
Conkling moved 10 strike out the cOnclud-
ing sentence Of the first section as follows:
Dub ASN SAAeaAA 70
made as soon as practicable, and
based upon the census of 1870 '.............
A motion Of ConkIng to strike out the
concluding sentence OF the first paragraph
was lost by l6 yeas to Al nays-........ ..-...A n
amendment of Sumner to issue S2U0, 900, 90
additional currency, was voted down. .........
An amendment of salisbury, repeating
the sixth section OF the act approved
March 3, 1861, 10 amend the Internal
revenue act, was disagreed To-.
Morton renewed an amendment authoriz-
Ing the withdrawal of Sl3,000,0C0 of the CIR
culation from the states having an excess,
and its distribution among States and
Territories having less than their quota,
the demand to be made first upon those
banks having more than 81 100000 capital.
.........Dawes moved to amend the amend
ment by increasing the amount to SIS, ,0O0,-
600. n OF agreed TO, and the amendment of
Morton was then adopted: yeas 80, nays
were offered by Kel-
logg, Chandler and Vickers, all of which
were rejected. The further consideration
was deferred.