Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-29
ITELEliRAPHIC.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Gossip Of the Next Congress
The West Point ImbrOgliO
Negro SQuatterS I'M the South


AK Thayer 90 be Provided For.
WAsHrNeToN, Jan. 28. Among the
latest rumors is one to the effect that
President Grant viii provide for Senator
Thayer Thy appointing him Minister to
Portugal, to ill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Shellabarger.
swrF n Negro squaaters. f-Fr~
From various accounts which have
been received, UniLed States troops will
be required to assist the local and Fed
eral authorities ia certain parts of the
South in recovering for their legitimate
owners lands which have been squatted
upon by. negroes, who refuse to vaca tie
and allow those to whom they belong to
enter in possession. In the cases where
such q condition of affairs exists there
seems TO be a strong combination of
blacks against peace and order If their
occupancy is questioned or interrupted.
speculation MS 90 E80utwelI's Course.
There is considerable speculation here
as to what action Secretary Boutwell, viii
take In view of the passage of the bill re-
pealing the income tax by the Senate.
The Secretary and Commissioner Pleas
anton took issue as 10 the propriety OF
sbolishing this tax, and their private diff
ferences of opinion got from the depart
ments into the committee rooms, and
then into the Senate, where the Secretary
has finally met with defeat. There are
those who think thst Senator Morrill, fore
Swallowed Beutwell's resignation, in case
the Senate abolished the income tax, in
his speech on that subject Thursday,
especially as the former put the case so
strongly as to state that in q conflict of
views of two leading government fnan-
cial officers, vote of the Senate on this
measure would be equivalent to an ex-
preston of want of confidence in Bout
wells administration of his department.
The Organization of the New Com
gress-Basiness for the First Ses-
sion.
Il is now settled that the new Congress
viii convene for business on the 4th of
March. How long it will remain in ses-
sion is question about which there is
much diversity of opinion. Mr.. Dawes
stated to-day that he did not think it
would adjourn before the last of April or
the 1st of May; Others are of opinion that
it win continue to the LIST of June. The
President is understood to favor the or
ganiZstion of the new Congress on the 4ih
of March. BE will hardly throw any OBJ
stacles in the way of session sufficiently
long to dispose of the st. Domingo ques-
ton. The new members win be anxious
TO stay long enough to get familiar with
their duties, 10 learn their rights
and privileges and TO draw two
or thee instruments of their annual
stipend. 1t is not improbable that
the revenue reformers will combine with
the straight-out Democrats and try to get
q bill through reducing the tariff, as an
earnest of their purpose to carry out the
principles of the platform upon which
most of them were elected. Nearly all
the measures now before Congress, out
side of the appropriation bills, will fail
for want of time. Those interested in
them, such as railroad, steamboat and
telegraph cable men, will do all they can
to get them brought up again and passed
by the new Codgress. The prospect is
that the session will run into the warm
weather.
The West Point Ku kIuX.
Gen. Packard, of Indiana, Gen. Asper,
of Missouri, and Gen. Slocum, of New
YORK;, members of the Military Commit
tee, have gone to West Point 10 make the
investigation at the Military Academy
ordered by the House. The papers furn-
ished by the War Department, relating to
the disturbance at the Academy, show
that the outrage upon Cadets Baird,
Fficl1inger and Barnes was committed on
the Cd of January; that on the 9th, after
the arrest and return of the poor boys,
who were brutally driven from the Acad-
envy, they resigned terrified, no doubt,
into doing so; that the commander of the
Cadets and The Superintendent of the
Academy approved their resignation, with
urgent recommendations for their immedi-
ate acceptance, without the usual re-
ference to their parents but that
Il was not until the 10th that any
official notice was taken of the gross
breach of discipline and mob violence
committed by the First Glass. On that
day, Superintendent Pitcher issued an
order of remarkable leniency, from which
1t would appear that the First Glass of
cadets govern the institution rather than
the Superintendent and Other officers.
The Superintendent says in the order that
he has withheld his disspprOval OF the
conduct of the First Class in the hope
that time and sober reflection would i'm
pei them TO disavow and regret their
hasty action. He then proceeds to i'm.
pose upon them the trivial punishment of
being confined to the plain. 1t does moi
appear that any attempt has been made
70 discover and punish the ringleader il
the sffaT, and the sympathy of The
Academic officers appears to have beer
with the perpetrators of the outrage, in
stead of with the victims.
NEW YORK.