The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Bowen BIgamy Case.

Despatch to the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The jury failed to
agree in the Bowen bigamy case, after being
out all night, and were this morning discharged.
They stood eleven for conviction and one for
acquittal When the jury came in, not having
agreed upon verdict some one suggested that
they be sent back. Judge Wiley replied that if
it should be that in any case juror should be
got upon case, with an improper motive, such
a juror would be more than a match for the
eleven others. He did not, however, desire to
be understood as making any imputation on
this jury. The foreman said that one juror for
acquittal had stood out against all the others.
The jury were discharged and the court ad-
journed till March, when another trial of Repre-
sentative Bowen will take place.
Important Railway Suit
The question involving the payment OF
$1151,000, by the New York Central Railroad
Company, as tax on scrip dividends, came
before the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
with the solicitor of the bureau present, this
morning, for hearing, according to prior
arrangement. Mr.. Elmore opened the argu-
ment for the company, which he insisted is
not liable for the tax, because there no scrip
dividends, but interest certificates, which are
not binding on the company, and which it is
optional with the company to pay. Therefore,
1t was not such an obligation as is subject to
taxation; and, further, that these certificates
merely represent the earnings of the company
which occurred prior to the passage of the In
ternal Revenuelaw. He presented various papers
in support of these and other incidental points.
The case was postponed until next Thursday
when Horace F. Clark will make the closing
argument.
Fears for the tennessee.
The Chronicle newspaper, which receives its
information rec ha 70 of
concerning the Tennessee that advices from
Havana up to last evening gives no tidings of the
vessel, and there seems to be very little hope of
her safety. 1t is feared she is lost.
Notwithstanding this, naval officers assure
the President and others that there is nothing
to fear, and that the ship will yet turn up all
right.
TIE House Foreign Affairs Committee to-day
decided to postpone all matters relating to
Hhe Alabama Claims
until the High Commission has taken action.
The committee considered the Senate amend
ment to
The Telegraph Bill
which gives the Postmaster General authority
10 consolidate lines, and decided to amend it by
leaving the power in the hands of Congress.
| The Reconstruction Committee agreed to bill
| Suppressing the Ku-Kiux,
which gives the United states circuit Judges
power to appoint commissioners in every county
where there are any disturbances, with
Power TO Investigate
and try persons charged with any crime.
The House Appropriation Committee to day
heard large number of parties favorable to the
| erection of
New Public Buildings
in different parts of the country. No conclusion
was reached on this subject, but the COMMITTEES
decided to make
| Additional Appropriations
for completing those already commenced.
Mr. Hooper inquired of the Speaker thi
morning If there would be any opportunity fol
him to call up the bill for ~
| The Repeal Of the Income Tax.
The Speaker informed him that he did no
see any chance this week, but that possibly he
might do so next week. 1t would depend, how
ever, on the pressure of business.
Mr.. Wheeler, chairman of the Pacific Rail
road Committee, notified the House to-day tina
he would report
The Southern Pacific Railroad Bill .n
on Tuesday next, and put II on its passage.