Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-01
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
More of the.Ku-KluX Business
Gen. PleaSantOn i'm DisfayOr
Immense POStOflice Frauds
CreSWell Seems Implicated
The National Labor Party
Fatal Fire at KeROSha, Wis.
Lady and 4 Children Burned
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON.
A Ku-KIux Document from GEN.
sherman.

OF War to-day transmitted to the Senate
an application from r. s. L. Camden, of
Philadelphia, for military protection for
employees of an association engaged in
gold mining in York county South Caro-
lima, sgainst CutTages of the 50 called
hu-kluX Khan, and invited attention to
the remarks of the General of the army
thereupOn. The latter are: tEndorsed
Py Gen. Sherman, and application re-
&ectfully returned to Secretary of War.
Our army now is too small for
the United States to undertake to
protect individual men or their interests,
and | advise this and all similar papers be
referred to the Congressional committees
engaged in investigating outrages in the
South, that some INN ediate and adequate
relief may be devised" ~ A-
PIeasanIOn TOO ActiVe-He Must
Follow J. ID. Cox.
There have been signs for some days
past of q growing discontent in official
circles with the course of GIN. Pleasan-
ton, the new Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, and change in the department
is predicted by those best informed. His
advocacy of a repeal of the revenue tax,
in opposition TO the financial policy of the
head of the treasury, is regarded as of
fensive and an attempt to strengthen him
self in the public favor, at the expense of
the administration, and the extraordinary
statements made of the cost of collecting
ak, and his assumed familiarity with the
tbusiness, when his seat is hardly warm
under him, are severely criticized.
Il has b5en broadly ass srted that Pleas
l..
the influence of ingalls, and others inter
csted in the New York Central Railroad
tax case, and it is rumOred to-day that he
would resign after Feb 10, the time
fixed for determining the case. The
amount of tax involved is $1,000, 000.
Whether these rumOrs have any other
origin than a general dissatisfaction it is
impossible to tell, but the appointment of
Pleasanton is Objectionable to large
number.
Having spent twenty-five years in the
regular army, his fitness for such au i'm
pOrtsnt civil service is called in question.
He has brought TO his office the rulings
and manners of Martinez and is regard
ed by subOrdinates harsh and unreason-
able. He has an absurd order excluding
representatives of the press and posting a
bulletin of the news is a fair specimen
of his work. Il is also rumored that
Deputy Commissioner Williams, of In
diana, will soon resign at the request of
the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Coming Carnival.
Great preparations are being made for
the carnival in February next. A circu-
lar is issued inviting the Journalists of
the country TO reunion at that time.
The National Labor Party.
The National labor Party, composed of
delegates from al the States, meets at
Columbus, Ohio, on the Sd Wednesday in
October, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for President and Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States.
mutIIaIed Currency.
The United States Treasury has issued
a letter setting forth that half notes, the
other half of which have been lost in the
mails, will be redeemed on presentation
at the Treasurer's office for half their face
value. Parts of notes are not redeemed
in full except evidence is furnished of
the total destruction of the mis- ing pOr-
tons.
The West Point ku.KIuX.
The subcommittee of the House have
returned from West Point, where they
have been investigating the conduct of
certain cadets who drove others from the
academy recently. Their investigation
did not extend to the colored cadet Smith.
His case is now before the department on
a courtmartal record, which the Secre
tary of War has under advisement. 1t is
al, hn1 or
and a severe sentence inflicted, but
whether it will be approved remains to
be seen.
The Alabama claims.
L does not appear to be true that negos
tiati0ns are going on in Washington pre-
ImIpary to the reOpeuing of the Alabama
claims matter, as stated in the dispatches
sent West from New York. No official
dispatches have been submitted by the
British Government to the State Depart
mcnt on the subject and everything is
held in allowance ill Minister Schenck
reaches London. In the meantime near
" all of the New England interests IN
these claims are memoralizing Congress
fr q commission, as recommended by
the President, to audit and determine
them, with a view 10 their assumption by
the government.
Huge Fraud Exposed.
There was quite a scene in he House yes
torday in the exposure made by Chairman
Dawes of the Appropriation Committee,
and Represent atiye Beck. of the Cha ipe-
dina mail contract claim for nearly half a
million dollars, engineered through the
last session of C.ngress by the late law
partner of Creswell, and attempted to be
paid by the Postmaster General on what
was shown today TO b2 a fraudulent re-
mort Of the House Postal Committee.
The House unanimously voted to repeal
the act allowing the claim. For devel-
opmcnts exposing the workings of the
lobby the debate on it is almost without
"a PARALLEL in Congress. 1t appears that
pr,terdsd report of the House Postal
committee was used by the late First AS
s:.tant Postmaster General, though it did
not appear that he drew it up, while an
attempt was made to pay the claim out
Of the general mail contract fund with
on, waiting for the required special ap-
preparation.
some of Ihe Little Contingent Ex-
penscs of Congress
The report OF tue contingent CAPOhoNo
of the House of Representatives contains
a few items of interest. 1t appears that
the average cost to the Government OF
hurying a member of Congress is abou:
fifteen hundred dollars, which does not
include. the expense of erecting to his
memory one Of those ugly Egytian-look
inc monuments, which stand in long
Cr0tcsoue lines in the Congressional Gem
etrv in Washington. The arrest OF
Patrick Woods for kicking down Viz
ginia c yngressmsn took eight hundred and
seventy dollars from the contingent fund,
of which foar dollars a day went to keep
the prisoner in provision during his in
generation. The est of bringing the
recalcitrant witness, Fioreuce Scanned,
from New York, wa, 1891. Would be-
members who failed to establish any
riobt 10 seas in the House took Sol, 800
fr0r, the fund. The Cariing of document:
70 and from the House cost s., 500, at one
dollar d It 4. al. The charge for board al
a New Orleans hotel is set down at eight
lu.r, nor day. which is the amount