Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-03-02

The Enforcement bill was resumed.
The Senate is still in session.
HOUSE.
The Omnibus Appropriation bill was
taken up.
1t appropriates $33, 800, 900. including
1865, 900 for the Freedman's Bureau. Vim
ME Ream gets $4,000 more for the Lin
coin statue.
After disposing of 20 of the So pages of
the bill, the House adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Tke latest
dispatches regarding peace and the extern
sion of the armistice are conflicting.
The Senate passed the bill to maintain
the purity of elections by a strict party
vote. excepting Trumbull.
Gen. Bankhead, recently in command
at Fort Wallace, has committed suicide.
Gen. Reynolds, is now in command in
Texas.
The Outrage Committee holds daily ses-
sions.
The Committee of Conference on the
repeal of the income tax nave agreed to
disagree.
The Committee appointed to investigate
the Indian Commission report neglect in
competency, Irregularities, and in some
instances a departure from the express
provisions of the law, but no evidence
of fraud on the part of Commissioner Par
ker.
The Democratic members of the next
House will caucus on Monday evening
next.
Especial Dispatch to the Baltimore SUM-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Leading re-
publican Senators stated to-day that the
San Domingo commission would return by
April LIST, and that Congress would un-
doubtedly remain in session long enough
to act on the report. This is said to be
the Presidents desire. Mr. McMichael,
of Philadelphia, the special bearer of dis
patches, arrived here to-day from the San
Domingo commissioners, bringing a preli-
minary report of what they have done.
The details of these dispatches cannot
be obtained for publication, but it is learn
ed that the commissioners substantially
confirm the hint thrown out by the CORES
pondents that the greatest obstacle to the
annexation of Santo Domingo is the threat
ening attitude of Hayti. That republic
is giving its moral if not its physical sup
port to the revolutionary leader Cabral in
his incursions along the Dominican border.
Hayti seems to think that if Santo Domingo
is annexed, the United States will attempt
to secur3 the rest of the island. and thus
swallow up that little republic. 1t is in
timated that she will fight first and thus
compel the United States to make an
armed occupation of Santo Domingo from
the outstart. Otherwise the prospect is
favorable to annexation, and the commits
soners will probably report in favor of it.
The question as to whether the Fenian
claims of Canana will come before the joint
high commission which will assemble here
on Wednesday next has been quite gener-
ally debated to-day in official quarters, and
the opinion is almost universal that these
claims are not embraced within the terms
on which the two governments based the
commission. There are exceptions, how
ever, to this conclusion. According to the
present understanding, the commission
will hold its sessions in the State Depart
ment. Bancroft Davis will be made secre.
tary of the American side.
In Tie TtpuDllCdu CtuCuc VI ihChiDClo
elected to the next House the Southern
members intend to nominate Gen. Stokes
of Tennessee, a member of the present
House, or General Frank Heron of Louis
lana as a candidate for sergeant-at-arms,
but the situation now favors the reelection
of every one of the old officers, with posi-
bly, the exception of the postmaster of the
House, for which position there is a most
spirited contest. The Southern republi-
cans viii probably not get a single Office.
The committee which has been ~investi-
eating the frauds charged ON the In
dian bureau will make their report to the
House tomorrow. 1t will show the gros-
sest Encouragement of affairs by the In.
dian ring of %plunderers quite as formida-
BILE as the old ring. Contractors have
made sums, and the government
seems to have been swindled fully to the
extent which was recently alleged. ZETA.
The steamboat bill which has passed
both houses of Congress and awaits the
Presidents signature is more careful and
stringent than any of a similar character
heretofore enacted. 1t requires the most
perfect provisions for the extinguishment
of fires by steam and water, and for their
prevention by minute precautionary details