Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-08
The Spanish Election
General Summary.
Market Reports.
Reported Expressly fOrths ARsus.l


seu,ed petition Of colOred citizens for
supplementary civil rights bill.
Mr.. Pomeroy presented a bill to unite the !
postal and telegraph services.
Mr.. Sumner gave notice of bill TO
abolish the office of commissioner of inter.
nal revenue, and reduce taxation.
The Joint resolution for the arrest of re-
cent ku.Klux witnesses in North Carolina
and South Carolina was taken up. During
the debate which ensued, Mr.. Carpenter eK-
pressed belief that the sitnesses could be
punished if they were not members of the
press.
The Senate Committees were announced
and the Senate went into executive session.
The following is the list of Chsirmen Of
the committees elected by the Senate: On
Privileges and Elections, Sumner; on For
eiRu Relations, Cameron, chairman, and
Harlan, Morton, Patterson, Schurz, HamlIn
and Casserly, members on Finance, Sher
man on Appropriations, Cole: on Com
meroe, Chandler; On Manufacturing, Ham
/ lin on Agriculture, Morton on military
| Affairs, Wilson; on Naval, Cragin on
Judiciary, Trumbull on Post Offices, &c,
! Ramsey; on Private Land Claims, Davis, of
Kentucky on Indian Affairs, Harlan on
| Public Lands, Pomeroy on Pensions, Ed
mund on Revolutionary Claims, Poole on
Claims, Howe; on District of Colum bis,
Patterson on Patents, Ferry, of Connect
cut on Public Buildings, &c, Morrill,, Of
Vermont; on Territories, Nye; on Pacific
Railroads, Stewart; on Mines, Rice on Re
vision Of Laws, Conkling; on Education,
Sawyer on Printing, Anthony; on Library,
Morrill,, Of Maine on Engrossed Bills,
Buckingham on Enrolled Bills, Carpenter
on Select Committee for Revision of Rules,
Pomeroy on Removal of Political Dissbili-
ties, Robertson, Chairman. and BoremAn,
Ames, Hamilton Of Texas, Vickers, Clay
ton, and Stevenson, members on Levees OF
the Mississippi, Kellogg on Alleged Out
RACES in Southern States, Scott.
Bills we're introduced regulating the pay
of officers in the navy and executive depart
ment; for incorporation of the postal tele
graph, Gardner g. Hubbard. of Massachu
sstts, and John F. Tracy, Of Illinois, being
the iucorporators.
After the executive session the Senate ad
journed till Monday.
, SPREGFELD, Dec. In the Senate to
dsy bill relating to the liability and pun
ishmeut Of corporations for IL uries receiv
ed by accidents, &C., WAS taken up on third
reading and discussed at length. A vot'
being taken on the passage, the bill wa
lost by yeas, II nays, 36; and q motor
> to reconsider WAS defeated BY yeas, ] 5; nays
0 81.
2 In the House the forenoon was spent II
o she confederation of a revenue bill in com
mit,ee Of the whole. In the afternoon th
House went into com mittes Of the whole o.
dnro -, Oh ~,
finally made the special order for to morro'
y afternoon.
R The appointment bill then came up, an
}. after several Intellectual attempts made
\ amend it, it was referred to the committe
of the whole.
Hon. L. U. Rssvis, of st. Louis, delivere
IA his great lecture on The Nation and il
K Capitol" tonight, in the Hall OF Represer
ts tGtives before the Illinois Legislature and
If number of prominent cItizens of the cit
At It's close the following resolution ",
'i passed, amid great applause;
a. Resolved, That we tender our thanks
Hon. l.. q ReAvis, for his able lecture {
- the subject of the removal of the nation
capital, and that for his past and prese
efforts upon this subject the great We
20. owes him q debt of gratitude which, wh,
the capital is removed, as removed it mu
be, will be eviseed by a grateful people.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 7th.-F. A. Mardo
Chief of the Division of Accounts, has be-
~ arrested and held for trial for stealing ov
$l2, 900 from the government.
The discovery of Msrdon's defalcation b
Il. developed other frauds of large amounts
the Treasury Department. The books sh
that by means of distractions of vario
periods within about two years, over 81
900 has been stolen from the Governme
in cash from one room in the Treasury.
offender being Msrdon, whose thefts hs
been already alluded to, and Seth Johns'
!. interest teller The detection of Mard
- led to the discovery Of Johnson's guilt. /
g latter is said to have been dealing in q
p stocks, and has lost heavily for some tin
There seems to have been no oellusion
tween them. Neither of them knew Of
10 crime of the other Both were discharg
from the Department to-day.