Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-03-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

dent has signed the Texas Pacific Railroad
bill.
The Senate has passed the Cincinnati
and Southern Railroad bill.
The House has agreed to the Conference
report on the army appropriation bill. The
report strikes out the order for the relief of
the Southern loyalists, but accepts the
HOUSE bill for the appointment of three
Commissioners. 1t also directs the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to pay the Pacific
Railroad half rates instead of reserying the
whole amount.
At midnight all the appropriation bills
except the omnibus bill. were opposed of.
Both the old Houses were in session this
morning, having taken recess for, a few
hours at daylight.
All the appropriation bills have been
passed.
The statement in an earlier dispatch
that the Cincinnati and Southern Railroad
bill had passed is incorrect. 1t failed in
the Senate.
The following bills were passed by both
Houses but failed to receive the Presidents
approval An act for the relief of pur-
chasers of land sold for direct taxes in the
insurrectienary States: An act in relation
to the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
Company of Alabama; An act relating to
Geographic communication between the
United States and foreign countries; a
joint resolution relating to the rights of
actual settlers upon certain lands; An act
for the relief Of Anna NJ. Howard; An act
granting a pension to Adam Correll; An
act for the relief of Joseph Ormsby An
act for the relief of George Wright An
act for the relief of Mary NJ. Clark, wild
ow of Leon Clark.
Five members of the new House are ne
groes, only one full blood.
Among the House bills which failed to
receive the concurrence of the Senate, are
the following to revise, consolidate and
amend the statutes relating to the Post
office Department, to aid the execution of
laws in Utah Territory, anti-polygamy bill
to extend time for presentation eff claims
for bounty under act of July, 1866, joint
tween Cuba and the Government of Spain,
act to authorize the President to accept
the resignation of the Judges of the United
States Court, act for the better security of
the Agricultural funds, act for the protec-
ton of the settlers on the public lands Of
the United States, act to enable honorably
discharged soldiers and sailors and their
widows and orphans to acquire homesteads
on public lands, an act to prevent cruelty
to animals in travel by railroads, an act in
relation to additional bounties, joint reso-
I4.-. - .o-,1,+o &ho bo,rc f lohar nf
Government workmen, act to amend bank
ruptcy act, act to increase all pensions
twenty per cent. act to charter Cincinnati
and Southern Railroad Company. About
thirty nominations are left unconfirmed.-
Among the combinations are all for the
District of Columbia, Story Federal Judge
of the Western District of Arkansas, Bald
win, Attorney for the Western District of
Texas, Morrill,, Assessor Second District
Louisiana, and some minor Postmasters.
The bill repeating the duty on coal fail
ed in the Senate.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to the
Sisters of our Lady of Mercy of Charles
ton, failed in the Senate.
The case of Hart against White and
Davis, from the Circuit Court of Louisi-
ana. about to come off before the Supreme
Court, presents the question of liability on
a note, the consideration of which was the
transfer of slave property before emanci-
patton. 1t will be contended by the plain
tiff in error that the court below having
decided adversely to the validity of the
paper hat the subsequent emancipation
of slave property did not in any manner
affect the rights of the party to the trans
action and that the holder of the note must
recover.
The Commissioners for the examination
of Quartermaster and Commissary claims
and for the use and loss of vessels wherein
Southern l~oyalists were interested, will
hold their sessions only in Washington, the
provisions allowing the Commissioners to
move from point to point in the South hav-
ing been recinded.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The follow
ing new Senators were sworn in and seat
ed, to wit: Messrs, Cragin, West, Hitch
cock, Caldwell, Davis, Kelly, Ferry, Lo-
gan, Frelinghuysen, Anthony, Wilson,
Cooper, Salisbury, Robertson and Steven