New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-16
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Trustees Of Peabody Education Fund
Fifteenth Amendment Ratified by New
Jersey Senate The Bowen Bignmy
Case-NOminatlons by the President
New Surveyor General and Pension
| Agent in Observation-Disclosures Of the
| Carnival-Bill to Amend Enforcement
| Act-Night Session Of the House and
Senate-Indiana Legislature and Fif-
teenth Amendment - Presidents Mes.
sage on Test Oath Repeal Bill-Com.
pensati0n to Election Omcers Under
Enforcement Act.
WASHINGTON, February l5.-ThO Pea
body education fund trustees are in session
at Philadelphia. and will continue in session
four days.
The New Jersey Senate ratified the tif-
teenth amendment to the constitution of the
United States to-day.
The jury in the Bowen bigamy ease have
been out since two o'clock.
| The following nominations were announced
to-day: William 5. Chichester, Surveyor of
| Customs Lavaca Texas John Bruce Judge
for Eastern District of Texas; +. w. Foster,
of Arkansas, Surveyor General Of louisiana:
X. II. Isabelle, Pension Agent, New Orleans;
CYRUS X. OsSOOd, Postmaster, Savannah.
| Georgia.
Along with the festivities of the carnival
will be "A grand masquerade ball at the Ma
tional Theatre.
Experts in decorations and arrangements
| for affairs of this kind are coming from
abroad.
The journalists Of the city have excellent
arrangements for the entertainment OF cdi-
| tOrial visitors.
! House-The bill to amend the enforcement
act was taken up, when a long debate en-
| al Ill
| strike out all that requires the military a,l-
thOrities to obey il call made by
United States Marshal. or his debuty. and
tine bill passed by nearly Il party vOte-lA
| to "a. 1t contains nineteen sections, covers
ing twenty-four printed pages, and is prin-
| cipally an amendment Of some of the details
of the bill Of May 81, 1870, on the same
| subject.
1t provides for the appointment by the
United States Circuit Judge of two super
visors OF election, of different politics. in the
cities and towns having over 10000 in
habitants, and prescribes their powers and
duties. 1t also authorizes the United
States Marshal to appoint special deputy
marshals to assist the supervisors of elec-
ton, and prescribes their powers and duties,
and authorizes them to call to their aid the
bystanders as posse comitatus Of the district.
1t also provides for the appointment in each
judicial district OF Il chief supervisor OF
elections, and prescribes his powers and
| duties.
1t extends the jurisdiction of the United
States Circuit Court to all eases in law or
equity arising under the act. 1t also pro-
vides that hereafter all elections for repre-
sentativcs in Congress. to which the whole
bill is confined. shall be by ballot written
or printed, anything in the laws of any
State to tho contrary notwithstanding.
The House is in session tonight.
Senate.-The House resolutions declaring
the national cemeteries the property OF the
| national government forever, and fOrbdding
| their tn xation or control by State govern
ments, were presented, but went over under
| objections
Mr.. Morton called up the joint resolution
Of the Indiana Legislature withdrawing as
sent to the fifteenth amendment.
Mr.. Morton spoke in favor and Mr.. Blair
against the principles of the amendment.
| The Senate is in session tonight.
! The following message was transmitted
to Congress to-day:
| To the Senate and House of Representatives
have this day transmitted to the Senate
the announcement that the Senate bal No.
| 2l8, an act prescribing an oath Of office to
be taken by persons who participated in the
late rebellion, but who are not disqualified
from holding office by the fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the United
|
manner prescribed by the constitution with
out the signature of the President. If this
were a bill for the repeal of the test oath
required of persons elected or appointed to
offices of honor or trust, it would meet my
approval. The effect of the law. however,
is to relieve from taking prescribed oath
| all persons whom it was intended to exclude
from such offices, and to require it from all
others. BY this law the soldier who fought
and bled for his country is to swear to his
| loyalty before assuming official functions,
while the general who commanded hosts
for the overthrow Of his government is adj
mitted without it.
can net affix my name to law which
dlscriminates against the uphOlder Of his
government. l believe, however that it is
not a wise policy to keep from office by an
oath those who are not disqualified by the
constitution, and who are the choice of the
legal voters; but while relieving them from
an oath which they can not take, recon-
mend the release also of those to whom tho
oath has no application.
u. S. GRANT, President.
The House judiciary Committee this
morning decided TO report favorably on Mr..
| COburns bill, allowing compensation to
election officers, under the enforcement act.
in cities of more than 10000 inabitants
Also. the bill dividing Kentucky into two
judicial districts, and providing for the
organization OF a Cnlteu States court IN the
Eastern district of Kentucky. Also. the
bill of Mr.. Loughridgc, regulating the fees
of attorneys, solicitors anu proctors of
United States courts.
The Senate adoptedthe conference report
giving the District OF Columbia IA territorial
government. 1t will pass the House.
General Reynolds, Senator elect from
Texas, Is here by order OF tho War Depa,t-
ment. 1t is understood that the Outrage
Committee has summoned him us Il wit
ness.
Mr.. Morton, in discussing the fifteenth
amendment argued that Congress had the
right to require guarantees from the late
rebel States as conditions precedent to a
representation i'll the governments: that
these conditions had taken the form of a
constitutional amendment, which had been
accepted in good faith by those States. In
view of this acceptance, it did not now Lie
in the mouth of other States to complain,
Enlarging upon these points, he held that
the existence Of the right to impose such
conditions as were required BY the public
safety Of the whole country imp lied the