Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-19
TELEGRAPHIC.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Legislation and Land Sharks
Reconstruction and Ku-KluX
Election Trials in New York
Earthquake i'm New England
Volcanic Eruption i'm Mexico
Whole Villages Destroyed
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON.
Colorado.

Colorado
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-Gov. McCook,
of Colorado, has been in Washington
some days. He recently appeared before
the Senate Committee on Territories urg-
ing and giving reasons why the territory
should be admitted as State.
-- Arkansas.
Some surprise is expressed because the
Governor of Arkansas, although the Con-
gressioAal election took place in Novem-
Der, has not yet issued certificates TO the
Representatives elect.
The Income Tax.
Judge Kelley yesterday read copies of an
opinion adverse to the constitu1onallty
of the income tar, Given by the Hon. VIM.
Evsrts and Spencer Miller. Kelly will
lsy the opinion before the Committee OF
WAYS and Means and ask the designation
of an early day, when the parties in favor
CT repeating the tax, may be heard. The
committee must report shortly in response
to resolution of the House directing an
inquiry into the expediency of repeal.
Legislation Blocked by the Land
sharks.
The House has not gone 10 the bust
ness upon the Speakers table during the
present session. Never bsfOre have six
weeks of a short session passed without
the House going to the table for reference
to and action upon bills passed by the
Senate. FOrty-seven Senate bills are
upsn the table, many of which are i'm
portant, and would be passed if separat, d
from twenty-three land grant bills with
which they are overlaid and interspersed.
A majority of the House refuses to touch
the pile on the table for fear the land job
bers may succeed in getting through their
schemes by making a combination of all
members whose districts are interested in
any of the proposed grants with the solid
carpet bag vote, large proportion being
of the hundred and odd members whose
Congressional career ends the 4th of
March. Meanwhile the friends of the land
grants will not consent to have any bill
taken from the table for action out of its
order, and hope to force their opponents
to begin at the top of the pile upon the
Speakers table, and work off all the bills |
in a general rush the last night of the ses-
sion.
Mexico.
A letter received at the Navy Depart |
ment from the United States steamer
at Minslislsu, Mexico, contradicts the |
report that cholera is raging at atpoint. |
The disease is unknown there.
Latest sdVices from the Tehauntepec |
surveying party in the interior depart.
ment report all in good health and spirits. |
Proposed Admission of Utah.
A bill introduced in the House to-day,
by Mr.. Sargent, for the admission of |
Utah, provides that the Constitution shall |
provide by an article forever irreVersible, |
without the consent of Congress, that af-
ter the admission of the State all persons |
shall be forever prohibited from con- |
tracing any bigamous, polygamous or
plural marriages or relations of concu- |
binage. The bill also fOrbids that any |
mark be permitted to be put on any bal
lot, by which the person casting can be
identified
Grant on the San Domingo Commits
siOns
The President, in conversation with
certain Senator said that he did not expect
q report from the San Domingo Commits
sion could be made in time to be of any !
use at the present session, as he could not
reasonably expect the Commissioners to
make the trip in time and do the subject
the Justice its Importance demanded. He |
thought the case might have been other
wise IF the resolutions could have passed !
without opposition before the holidays,
but not now. He confessed to having |
abandoned the idea of getting the measure
through by joint resolution in any event, |
thinking that the most difficult method of |
insuring the passage Of the scheme. He |
expects the Commissioners can not help |
but report fsvorably, and is of the opinion |
that a new treaty will be made on the |
strength of it, which will have the effect |
of killing off what little opposition now |
exists to annexation among Republican |
Senators.
Expiring Congressman Anxious TO /
PrOIong Their Official Existence.
A large majority of the Republican |
members of the House whose cOnstitu- !
ents did not think proper to re-elect them !
10 the next Congress, are already thumb |
ing the Blue Book, consulting their |
friends, and boring the President and |
Cabinet officers, TO secure appointments
as soon as their Congressional terms end.
The ambition of some of these gentlemen
is TO serve their country abroad, as Min
listers and Consuls others aspire to judi
cial honors, which accounts for the
numerous bills now pending to create ad-
ditional judicial districts. Asse5sorships,
Collectorsbips aud District Attorneyships |
take the fancy of others. A few have
an ambition to increase the population of |
the Territories, and would like to be
Governors and Secretaries; and half a
dozen banker after the offices of Gle k, |
Sergeant alarms and Doorkeeper of the |
House, ard sre willing 10 serve where |
they now rule rather than go back to pri-
vate life.
AQueer Transaction
1t has traspired that several thousand |
dollars in specie have been transferred |
from the secret service fund to the San |
Domingo commission to cover expenses. |
It will be remembered that Congress ap- |
propristed no money for it.
Important Papers.
1t is stated on good authority here that |
there are several documents in the State |
Department relating to San Domingo, |
whose publication at the present time |
would prove of great public interest.
One of these documents is said to be g
report made by Gen. George B. McClel-
Ian, who was sent out under PieTce's adj
ministratiOn 10 investigate the condition