The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-18
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SPRINGFIELD.
The Question Of Female Suffrage
before the Convention.
Market Reports.

WASHINGTON, April ls.-Neither House
was IN session today, and affairs at the cap
itol were very dull.
The committee investigating the charges
against Gen. Howard heard further evidence
regarding the wssteful expenditure Of
money, in the use of bad material for the
construction of the Howard University. Ii
was shown that this material was purchased
of q company composed of the principal
othc GERS of the Freedmen's Bureau, and that
a good deal of the money drawn from the
treasury was paid, in the end, to these
officials.
The banking committee met and discussed
bill to amend the national currency act
but did not perfect it.
The impression gains ground that this
committee will bring forward substitute
for the funding bill.
Buffers Cuban Lobby Committee took
additional evidence, but it did not establish
anything going to show that members Of
ruptsd BY the alleged Cuban lobby.
To day the Ways and Means Com mmlttee
will ask the House to non concur in the
Senate substitute for the House resolution
deelaratory of the meaning and intention oi
not improbable that the differences between
the ,~o Houses will bring up for final action
the question of the continuance of this tax
after this year. AS the matter stands now,
the House has declared that it is the mean
ing of the present law that all persons are
liable to pay their income tax sccruing, and
to accrue during 1870, and that the assess
ment and collection of any such tax sccru
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January lst, 1870, may, by the existing
provision of the law. be made in the last
mentioned year. The Senate substitute
mentions the acts relating to the income tax,
and says that they shall be construed TO i'm
pose that during the year 1870, and that all
such taxes shall be collected in the manner
now or hereafter provided by law. 1t is
claimed by some that the adoption of either
limits the income tax to the present year
and that it will require further legislation for
1871, while others think the House resolu
ton extends to 1871. The feeling among
members is very general against continuing
the tax after this year.
NEW YORK. April l8.-Two freight trains
collided on the Erie railway, al Goshen,
yesterday. Nobody hurt.
PrrrsBURGH, April ls.-A man named
Henry Keys, steward of the steamboat Kate
Putnam, tell overheard this afternoon, in the
Monongshela river, and was drowned.
NORFOLK, April lS.-The school ship
Mercury went ashore this morning, IL
miles south of Cape Henry. No lives lost.
Assistance will be sent.
MADISON, Wis, April lS.-A fatal acci
cent occurred in this city st al early hour
Saturday morning. Two students OF the
State University, named A. Williams. OF
Prairie du Chen, and Jacob Letz, Of Chics
90, determined upon q hunting excursion.
They proceeded to the woods on the shore
of Dead Lake, near the cemetery. As they
approached the thicket, and expected game,
Lett suggested to Williams the propriety o'
cooking his gun 30 as to be prepared tor It
To this proposition Williams at first demur
red, fearing an accident. He finally consent
ed and raised the hammer of one barre
to full cock, and the hammer of the othel
barrel to half cock. When going down g
slight declevity, Williams stumbled and fell
mis- fuger accidentally striking against th'
| trigger, causing the discharge of his gun
the whole charge taking effect in the neci
of young Lett. The wounded lad walket
some Is rods, elm bing two fences, to the
house of Mrs. Gilbert, where he tainted
from the loss of blood, and died in few
| minutes.
SPRIsGrIELD, III April l8.-The ques
tion of female suffrage was before the Con
vention again on Saturday ana Its discussion
ocoup ed the whole forenoon. The fna
result is that the action OF Friday Is re
| verssed, and the people of the state are I
| be allowed to vote on the proposition at tn
same time same time with the vote upon tn
constitution. Before the question prope
came up, however, reconsideration wa
had of Mr.. Sedgwick's amendment allowing
| females to vote in elections for specis
assessments. In this case, also, the sctio
was reversed, and both the section adopte
Friday and the substitute proposed Saturds q
was rejected. This was done, however, i
view of the probable passage of the othe
proposition, which would necessarily en-
4 brace ell others. Upon Mr.. Sedgwick
measure there was quite lively debate,
which Messrs. Schofield, Hawkins, Hann'
i Wells, Fox and Vending participated
opposition, and Messrs. Church and Medi
in favor.
Mr.. Parks, who was in favor of femal
suffrage pure and simple, opposed tn
measure % wrong IN principle, recognizin
property as the basis of suffrage.
| Mr.. Wells, IF Peoria. was especially enc
getic against fact, which is explained !
the late session ofs convention OF fema
! suffragists in the city he represents. I'M
too, is offered as the provoking cause OF II
lengthy petition from the ladies Of that CIT
praying not to be enfrsnchised, which NJ
Wells presented yesterday. During the d.
bate, Mr. Hanna denounced the messure
r dsmagogical attempt to trifle with the
lections Of the female portion of the cor
| munitY, and indulged himself in some rsth
= trihing remarks upon the sex, which Mess
r Parks and Vending made the text for
8 general rebuke to the convention Tor simil
t misdeeds before. Mr.. Ssdgwicks subs
, tuse was tabled, by vote Of 81 to II. 4
i the minority, Mr.. ,Bayue was one, and b
E explanation was that his own wife was not
! property holder, while other women IN
!. town, by virtue Of owning dogs, we're pr
8 perty holders. The section would enfra
) chise the owners of dogs, and leave his vi
It out in the cold, which he was unwilling
n do; hence his negative vote.
q After thiA came the general question
female suffrage, and after some remarks