Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-05
TEEEGRAPHIC.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Cotton Tax in supreme Court
Mixed Politics in Missouri
RailrOadSmash inMiSSiSSipDi
Two Sleeping Coaches Upset
Several Injured---NOne Killed
Fearful Revolution in Bolivia
POtOSi Pillaged fOrThreeDays
WASHINGTON.
TIE Increase Expenditures.

WASHINGTON.
TIE Increase Expenditures
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The Herald's
special says movement is on foot in the
United States Senate, the principal sup
port OF which is found among the mem
Ders OF the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
10 raise the Prussian Mission to q first
class position. AS far as mere rank is
concerned II is now on an equal footing
with the English and French Missions,
but the pay is over $l2,0 1t is pro-
posed to pay $l7, 900, the pay now re-
received by the Ministers of those Gov
ernments. The reasons lie in the in
creased territorial possessions of Prussia
and King Williams new Jignity of En-
peror, which places the German Empire
at least equal TO France and not inferior
10 England. The proposition appears to
gather daily.
That COIOred Cadet 10 Get His Des-
serts.
The papers in the case of the colored
cadet Smith have been returned by the
Judge Advocate General for approval to
the Secretary of War 1t is now detin-
itely understood that the findings of the |
court have not been either reversed nor
impaired aud that. cadet Smith will suffer |
the punishment originally melted him.
Senator Wilson VS.. Judge Black.
1t is the purpose of Senator Wilson to |
review, perhaps at length, Judge Blacks |
last article on his former articles upon the |
late Secretary Stanton.
Who Holds the Purse-StringsI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.--The Conference
Committee of the two houses Of Congress
on the right of the Senate to originate a
bill to repeal the income tax, held
meeting at the residence of Mr.. Hooper
last evening. 1t is understood there is no
prospect of agreement in the committee,
as the members from each house are firm
IN opposite opinions and have legal
opinions and precedeRts on which they
rely. These precedents will be carefully
compared and discussed, and other meet
ings are anticipated.
Two Hours Travail over a RrOtber-
i'm Law.
The Senate to-day confirmed NJ J.
Crsmer as Minister to Denmark. The
discussion lasted nearly two hours.
Refunding
The Secretary of the Treasury TODAY
gave notice that books will be opened on
the 9th of March next in this country and
Europe for subscriptions to the national :
loan under the act authorizing the refund !,
ing OF the national debt The places and
names of the Government agents will be
hereafter announced. The proposed loan
comprises three classes Of bonds. First,
$500, 900, 600 payable al the pleasure of
the Government after ten years, bearing
interest at periCent. Second, $500, OOO,- l
600, after fifteen years, at Al per cent. t
Third, 800, 900, 600, after thirty years, y
at per cent The principal and inter b
est is payable in coin, the interest to be t
paid quarterly. e
The Test Oath. r
Senators Morton, Chandler and others v
have been impOrtuning the President not r
to sign the repeal Of the the test oath
bill. The President hestates. but If is 1
believed he will sign it. n
COnStitutfOnaIity of the Cotton Tax. L
On Tuesday next the Supreme Court n
viii hear the argument in the case involv- Il
ing the consGtutionality of the recent di- s.
rect tax on cotton. Eminent counsel P
will appear on both sides. Hon. H. Y. p
Johnson, of Georgia, one of the counsel a
Tor the Claimants, has arrived here to be
heard on the case. The amount involved
is between twenty and thirty millions of b
dollars, and should the tax be declared by ii
the court unconstitutional, parties who b
have paid will be entitled to recover from L
the Government. al
A Rich Development. to
One of the richest political develop di
ments of the day has just come 10 light. a
Mr.. Henry 7. Blow, United States Minis IN
ter al Rio De Janerio, has come home on Ell
q leave of absence, his purpose being to
fix up and adjust quarrel in the Repub-
lican ranks in Missouri. His pay as Min ,
lister continues while engaged in this bust T.
ness. He went out to St. Louis and there
saw Gratz Brown, but does not appear to
have accomplished much. On his return ye
he set to work to bring Carl SchurH and 10
the President together. Schurz was will 81
ing, 1t is said, to make up with Grant 81
Blow went to the President and talked to pt
him long time on the Importance of re- III
Cancellation with SchurZ, and expressed 81
the opinion that SChurz would be ready &c
to support the administration. Grant 10
heard him through, and when Blow had Ia
done blowing, put on one of his most con- at
looks and replied briefly, "Who ca
cares &" That was all he had to say in al
Ieply; Blows mission thus came 10 grief. "
Grant never fOrgives. He means that
Schurz and the German element shall stay co
ont in the cold.
Indiana Radicals Protesting,
Since the announcement that Senator
Morton has been rendered the portfolio
of the Secretary of State, he has received F,
from almost every prominent Republican G,
IN Indiana protest against his accept oh
ncc Of the position. They represent Sc
that, at this juncture in the affairs of the he
Republican party, Indiana cannot afford ST
10 dispense with his Senatorial services: tif
end that his retirement from the Senate IN
would be inimical to the Republican par cp
ty. .
The Texas Senator.
Gen. Reynolds, the district commander n
of Texas. who has been elected TO the n
United States Senate, will not according II,
20 the precedent established in that body. 8
be permitted to take his seat. Mr. Ham bi
iltOn, the sitting Senator, whose short Tr
term expires on the 4th of March, was
elected also for the long term, which COM
menccs on that day. This is precisely
the Florida case, where the Legislature
deemed il proper TO elect a successor to
Mr.. Gilbert after it had elected him once IN
to fill the short and long terms. The III
Senate decided that his credentials for pc
he long term were just as good as those ~,
FOR the short term, and that the subse- uo
luent election by the Florida Legislature ma
was invalid. no
mn in
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Food for France,