The evening Argus., 1871-03-22
WASHINGTON.
FORTY SECOND CONGRESS.
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Special to Daily AaGUs.%
SPRINGFIELD, March 22.-Chicsgo offers
halls and rooms free to the Legislature for
its next session. The House has accepted
this and the Senate referred it to the special
committee, and will accept.
The House bill to repeal all laws
whereof cities were exempted from county
taxation. Passed.
No bills were introduced into the Senate
to-day.
Knapp's snti-lsase penitentiary bill passed;
also the appropriation bill for she soldiers
orphans home. s.
PoIsDAM, March 2I.-Bencroft will re-
sign his Office of U. s. Minister, to 60 to
Italy in October.
VERsELLEs, March 2l.-The French
National Assembly met to-day. Deputies
of the mountain districts were all absent. A
committee is ordered to report measures for
dealing with Paris, and an energetic resolu
tion is expected to be returned at once and
adopted. Picard proposed as urgent deo
ments of the Seine and Seine ct Disc.
LONDON, March PA meeting of the
editors of the Paris press was held to-day,
ct which resolution was adopted declaring
that the convention elected for tomorrow
should be regarded as void, the public opin-
ion Is decidedly against the committee which
ordered it, that 1t is TO be hoped the com
mlttee is not implicated in the illegal and
| criminal acts Of the insurgents, and that it
| is now time for the National Guard Of Paris
to come forward and put an end to this de-
plorable state of affairs.
| The Paris correspondent of the London
Times teIegraphs that many persons were
shot without trial on Sunday. The Nation
ale will shoot Theirs, Vinoy, and D'Aurellet
if they be captured. There is q strong re
action among the respectable portion of the
inhabitants. The Central Committee j:
| alarmed.
Fresh bsrricades have been erected, but
there is general quiet. Omnibusses have
stopped running and traffic has ceased
The Nationals have occupied forts Issy
Vanvres and Bieesre. The police com
missioners have been arrested. Gen. Chanzy
was so msltrested by the mob that he has
Central Committee, it appears, signed al
order for the release of Chanzy and Turques
Cremieux is spoken of as the probable CON
mander of the National Guards. The in
surgents have seized all tke funds in tn
Hotel de Vile and Mayoralties. All OF
proaohss to Paris are guarded by the Na
tionals for the purpose of preventing in
vRsiou.
The Central committee published Monda
its official journal headed: Official Jour
nal of the Republican Federation" 1t con
tains the following "A manifesto origin
ating in the suferings of 2l5 bsttallions o
National Guards repudistes the disturbances
| The government calumnistes Paris and th
aims which she provisions of it impose upoI
US. A commander attempts night disarm
ings, removes the capitol and Infamous !
seeks to besmear our honor with bloody
9Th. The Nationals have participated in ID
crime"
The proclamation fixes the elections o.
| Wednesday. The Journal also announce
that the Committee will abdicate the powe
upon the election of their new one. Tn
Committee, from indecision in respect t
observance of peace for the sake of th
Republic, appeals to the Departments, an
invites quick adhesion to their cause. Tn
Journal also contains an exhortation to th
press to respect public justice and truth
Complete political amnesty ia promised
Courts proved .tc be partial are to be abo
Iahed. The Committee repudiate all psrtic
patton in the execution of LeComte an
Thomas
The Nationals have entered and scale
up the Offices of the Figaro and Gaulois.
Crede Peupie says Paris must proclsir
herself q free, autonomized republican cit,
The Nationals have discovered fresh store
OF arms and ammunition and now completed
possess the whole city.
LONDON, March 2l,-M. Rouher has bee
arrested and imprisoned ct Boulogne, an
narrowly escaped lynch Law. His wife ar
daughter were also arrested. Other il
perialists have made their appearance
boulogne, and their arrest is expected.
Later-9:30 P. M.-The Council at Rout
have voted an address to the governmer
j. deploring the insurrecsiou in Paris, askil
that prompt measures be taken for its az
II preston, and promising their support.
similar address, signed by private oitizel
has been forwarded to Marseilles. 1t is q
blClphI6u tuht tucso duuEeSSeb wall HhNS
- good effect on the working classes.
be Copies of an insurrectionary proclamati
r. has been seized in Rouen, and the dis;rit
tion of infam uatory appeals forbidden.
WASHINGTON, March 2l.-SExATE.-T
Da amendment of the House to the Senate &C
=. current resolution for joint committee
investigation in the South was consider
1t Mr.. Anthony moved to restore the clau
ee stricken out by the House, authorizing
committee to print and publish from ii
to time during the recess the results ofth
ior investigation.
for Mr.. Thurman protested against this as
:, attemptto print partisan electicneering d
uments at public expense; if it was for
m- benefit of Congress, the report need not
) made till next session, as approved by
resolution.
Mr.. Wilson thought that, after the ape
Just delivered, the resolution might as '
be laid upon the table, and the Judici
me Committee be instructed in the bill TO ca
no out the provisions of the Fourteenth Anne
Us ment.
The discussion was continued until
respiration Of the morning hour, when
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