Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-31
TELE(IRAPHIC.
leTDtDOMESTIC NEWS.
Progress Of Alabama Claims
Congress GreetS the PenianS
10 The Reconstruction Business
FerritOrializing the Indians
Holders impeachment Trial
a5a Awful Tragedy near Chicago
Holders Impeachment Trial
Awful Tragedy near Chicago
WASHINGTON.

n pms ABOUT TWO years ago, will come u
In the Supreme Court for re .argument
1t involves the constitutionality of the in
ternal revenue tax on cotton.
The Income Tax. a
s Senators say that the Senate will prob
ably insist on their constitutional right tt
originate bill decreasing the revenue
but the friends of the repeal of the In
come tax prefer to drop the question
rather than jeopardize that measure by
such course, and VIII probably attach
it as an amendment to an appropriation
bin and thus obviate the constitutional
objection which the House has made.
In recent conversation with promin-
ent New Workers Gen. Plessanton said
he was receiving twenty letters from the
West to one from New York and other
seaboard cities, in support of his position
on the income tax. He was animated
only by desire to get rid of the Yexa-
tons of an inquisitorisl tax, whose re.
turns did not justify the cost of collect
Ing. His attention was called to state
ment made by Senator Sherman, that not
more than 60, 900 persons in the country
are liable to pay the tax under the present
exemption. He had not examined the
statistics, but doubted the correctness of
the statement, as under the one thousand
dollars exemption 100000 were liable,
and IT hardly seemed probable that not
more than the number mentioned by the
law had an annual income of over IS, 900.
Gold Sales and Bond Purchases.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to purchase two millions in bonds
each Wednesday and sell one million in
gold each Thursday during the month of
February.
The Mexican Claims Commission.
The magnitude and importance of the
business before the Mexican Claims Com.
mission has Exceeded al expectation. The
docket shows one hundred and five claims
against Mexico, and nine hundred and
ten against the United States. The COM
mission expires by limitation Feb. /,
1872, but it is probable the term will be
extended.
Indian Frauds
The investigation now going on into
the frauds committed on the Indians,
shows that pretended agents and attor-
neys have cheated the Indians out of as
high as sixty-three per cent of the gross
amount appropriated, on the plea that
they were instrumental in securing the
appropriations. The evidence develops
most corrupt Indian ring.
Reconstruction.
Since the appropriation of ten thousand
dollars made by Congress for witnesses
for the Special Senate Committee to in
vestigate the condition of the South, nu-
merous applications have come from all
kinds of people who seem DESTROYS of
gaining a little notoriety and have all
their expenses betrayed in trip to Wash
ington. Some of them profess to make
startling revelationsG while others pro-
pose to detail outrages already known to
the public. On the other hand the Con-
serYstives of the South who do not gel
an opportunity TO be summoned, but who
desire fair statement of the condition
of affairs, are coming here at their own
expense. A committee of citizens of
Lawrence county, South Carolina have
arrived here to show that the riot caused
there last November, in which at least a
dozen men were killed was entirely at
tributa5le to violent speeches made by
Republican leaders, and that no Ku-Klux
or Conservatives were engaged in it. The
special committee did not take any EVIL
dence to-day.
Alabama Claims.
1t is known that very favorable negoti-
atoms are going on between our authori-
ties and the British government, which i
is believed will reach definite conclusion
before Minister Schenck leaves for Lon
don. Itmay be stated, without violating
any confidence, that the matter in ones
ton was the subject of careful consider
alton at the recent cabinet meeting. and
that at the instance of the Administration
1t was brought before the Senate Com
mittee of Foreign Relations at the meet
ing held last Tuesday. The subject was
introduced by q prominent Republican
Senator, who is q member of that COM
mittee. For some unexplained reason
there is strong feeling and disposition
on the part of the Administration to set
tie the long pending controversy with
Great Britain, since the latter has made
known her readiness to do 80 by COM
promise, before any bill should pass the
Congress authorizing the Government
TO audit and purchase the claims
arising out Of the depredations
of the Alabama. While the sd
ministratiOn is anxious to settle this mat
ter with Great Britain by treaty, conced-
ing even more than it is believed would
be acceptable to the American people,
there are large number of prominent
Republicans who believe that further eff
forts should be made to pass the bill
auditing and paying the claims arising
from the depredstions committed not only
by the Alabama, but by four other Rebe
cruisers. 1t is stated that as yet Minister
Thornton has not placed on file any writ
ten communication giving the basis upon
which his government stands ready to
make the settlement, but ali COmmunica-
tons have been of a verbal character
Before the British government placed its
proposition in black and white, it deemed
II best TO first ascertain whether the pro-
posed terms would be acceptable to the
United States, and if so, then formal
documents would be transmitted to the
State Department The President and
his Administration are ready to accept
the terms; but before the treaty is finally
concluded, the feeling of the Senate must
be fully known so as to be secure against
Its rejection if submitted for action.
The Indians.
The President sent Congress a message
recommending the establishing of Ter
ritorial Government for the Indians.
Land Grab.
The Senate Committee on Interior At
fairs, this morning agreed to report ia
Vorsbly without amendment the
House bill providing for the sale ofF250
or 800 acres of Presidio reservation, San
Francisco, and payment of compensation
to settlers on Point San Jose reservation.
Woman Suffrage Reunited TO the
STATES
Mr.. Bingham this morning submitted
report TO the House Judiciary Committee
on a memorial of Victoria Woodruff and
other women, claiming the right to vote
under the l4th ameLtment. He claims
that the memorial is Tot a subject for the
action of Congress, bit for legislation by
the State governments.
Texas, appointment, Etc.