Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-08
WASHINGTON.
Resignation Of Fish Indefinitely Post
.susE al pOned. @

.susZ aii pOned.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Secretary Fisl
states he has no intention OF resigning, al
least not until after all matters pertaining
TO the treaty of Washington are finally ar
ranged.
rFsThe Quaker Policy.
Ex.Gov. Mccormick, of Arizona, in ar
interview relative to Indian affairs, reports
that the Indians there continue to be treach-
erous, and so long as they are fed on reser-
yations, will continue to be sources of great
trouble. BE advocates the presence of a
good force of troops who can be ready foT
aggressive movements and for the prompt
punishment of infractors of the laws, as the
only means of securing peace with them.
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Business for Congress.
Congress reassembles within four weeks.
IL viii find on the calandars of both Houses
T59 bills, which were introduced at the
brief spring session. OF this number 319
belong TO the Senate and 40 to the House.
The former have all been referred to the
standing committees, while the latter are
on the Speakers table awaiting reference to
the committees when appointed. Most of
these bills failed in the Forty-first Congress,
ard are simply reintroduced, and in many
cases ere duplicates of each other. There
are seven hills for the repeal of the income
tax, which expires by limitation in 1872 /;
and dozen bills removing all the political
disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth
Amendment There are ten or twelve bills
for legislation for the revival of American
ship-building, which propose to grant subsi-
dies, TO take of the duty on all articles that
enter into ship-building, to construct vessels
that will suit the merchant service in time
of peace and the naval service in war, etc.
1t is stated that the President and the
Secretary of the Treasury, in their annual
message, will make an earnest appeal to
Congress for legislation TO revive our ship
building interests. There are three bills TO
grant aid to submarine cable companies
between America and Asia, and fifteen bills
TO grant subsidies of land to railroads in
California, Texas, Wyoming, Utah and
other Territories. There is bill pending
in each House TO enable soldiers and their
widows and orphans to acquire homesteads
in the public lands; and also bills TO provide
for the apportiOnment of representation un-
der the ninth census; to amend the Civil
Rights bill; to form a new State out OF New
Mexico; TO amend the Bankrupt law; to re-
duce the rates of correspondence by tele-
graph, and to connect the telegraph with
the postal service; a bill TO more fully en-
force the Fourteenth Amendment; bill to
incorporate the Aerial Telegraph Company;
a bill to relieve soldiers from the disability
of desertion: to repeal the tax on matches;
TO locate the Territory of Pembina; to pro
mote commerce between the States and
cheaper mail transportation; and to repeal
the duty on salt and coal. -
Kentucky War Claims.
The Supreme Court of the United States,
in answer to a motion made last week by
the Hon. Geo. r. Mckee and Allen A. Bur-
ton, Esq, of Kentucky, and Messrs Barley
and Carey, of this city, on behalf of the
State Of Kentucky, made rule this morn
ing on Secretary Boutwell, to show cause
why peremptory HsGnddaUs should not be
issued compelling him to pay the Kentucky
war claims. In delivering the opinion Of
the Court, Chief Justice Chase remarked
that the Court wished to hear the counsel
especially on the question of jurisdiction.
The counsel are very confident that the
Court is by the Constitution invested with
jurisdiction, sovereign State being party,
DeIng Something for Chicago.
An the Government officials favor the
erection of public building in Chicago foI
Government uses which viii be equally as
large as any similar ediice in the country,
The estimated cost of such a building is
fixed at about S4OOOOOO. The Secretary
of the Treasury viii make this suggestion
in his annual report TO Congress, and it is
understood that the President, as hereto
fore stated, will, in his next message, recon.
mend Congress to make a liberal appropri-
alton for this purpose.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
some More Fraudulent Pensions.
Some time AGO Commissioner Baker had
his attention called to a remarkable ordel
given by Senator Harlan, when Secretary
of the Interior, the effect of which was t
place large number of Cherokee Indian!
on the pension rolls. Upon investigation
he became satisfied that nearly all of these
were Improperly granted, and be has sus
pended payment on three hundred anC
two. The matter is now under investiga
ton. -..-
A small SwindIe.
The attempt TO swindle the hospital stew
ards out Of the increased pay allowed then
bv Congress is explained as simply one o
those bargains between attorneys anC
clients wherein the latter have no redress
and over which the government official:
have no jurisdiction. 1t seems that the
hospital stewards, after waiting severa
years to have their accounts adjudieated
sold their claims at discount to certain
agents and attorneys, notwithstanding the!
were personally advised by Secretary Belk
nap that their claims were good, and woulC
be eventually paid. Two of the principa
parties engaged in purchasing these claim
we l.. ID. Ingersoll, an ex-pensiOn agent o
Shi ago, and Pomeroy, an ex-member 0
Cn,c.,s n,N,,c from Iowa. The latter state
,I.t altogatb, ~ they only amount to $4,000
and and fiat onIy abb ut IS per cent, of this sun
%as a bnnD D,.lsy rnal1ed nv themselves as compen
sation for services render III h"' iiiS 'n
claims finally paid.