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Forty.First Congress Second Session.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20, 1871.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20, 1871.
SENATE.
Mr.. Fowler read a speech in behalf of a more
conciatory policy toward the south.
Mr.. Blair spoke of the failure of the govern
ment to furnish arms or means of protection to
the uDionists of the south. He said it was
mainly due to the representations that the south
would and ought to go in peace, held out by
Greeley and Wendell Phillips, that Alexander
II. Stephens was defeated in his efforts to secure
a state convention in Georgia. The opposition
OF Georgia would have arrested the secession
movement. Greeley was equally cul pable and
criminal with the southern leaders, and should
not now turn upon those whom he mised with
maligniIy which belonged to the devil himself.
When the public faith and property was about
to be surrendered, every member of the cabinet
gave an opinion in favor of surrender, except
Postmaster General Blair, on whose energetic
protest the idea was abandoned.
The amendments increasing the judicial saa-
rieS and repeating that part Of the law regulat-
ing evidence in court of claims, which makes
possession of pardon proof of disloyalty, was
concurred in.
After acting on further amendments, and
agreeing to take final vote on the bill at five
O'Clock tomorrow, the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
MIR Cox modified the resolution offered by him
last Saturday, so as to make it read: "Resolved,
that, in the opinion of the house, there is no suf
icient evidence that either VIM. McGarrahan or
the New ldria mining company has a title, eth
er legal or equitable, to the land known as Pa
noche Grande, in the state of California, and
that such proceedings be at once instituted as
will at once recover possession of the same and
assert the title of the United States therein"
Mr.. Marshall spoke in favor of the minority
report on the subject, stating that of the two
Judiciary committees which had examined the
matter, those of the last and present, twelve
members favored McGarrahan'S claim and six
opposed it.
Mr.. Bingham, chairman of the judiciary
committee, argued in favor of the minority, par
ticularly on the ground that the patent had
been issued in due form to McGarrahan, and
that, by the intervention Of a minion hirelng of
the New Idria company the record of that fact
in the interior department had been mutiated.
Mr.. Garfield argued against the claim of Nc
Garrahan, and against the evidence OF the origi-
nafgrant, asserted to have been made to Co
mez, who, in open court, confessed TO have
forged another like grant, and exhibited Speci-
mems of his skill in that way to the court Mr..
Garfield said that congress was asked to take up
that rotten claim, and breathe upon it and give
it body and soul. He declared that he held
in his hand a parchment copy of the patent, and
il had never been signed, and nobody ever pre-
tended it had been signed, until few weeks
ago, when a rascal from New York, who had
been authorized to sign land patents for the
president, came forward and swore that he had
slEHeu II.
Mr.. Peters closed the debate, and having re-
fusrd-79 to 125-to lay the whole subject on the
table, the house adOpted-110 to 91-the substi-
tute resolution from the minority of the COM
mittee
The substitute directs the secretary of the in
terror to cause the record of the patent of
Panoche Grande to be Transcribed into the
records, as the same stood on the record book of
the general law Office at the tune it was exam
ned, without any mutilation or erasure what
ever, so that the legal effect of the record so
transcribed shall be the same as if the original
record had never been interfered with or mu-
tiIated, and authorizes and requi es the presi-
debt of the United States to do, IN the premises,
whatever may, in his Judgment, be just and
equitable.
The joint resolution, Mr.. Bingham's subst-
tute, was passed-95 to 50.
The house refusing to order either tellers or
yeas and nays on the vote, as demanded by Mr..
Sargent, MIR. Sargent remarked that had fought
fraud as long as he could. loud cries to order.)
Mr. Bingham retorted that the fraud was on
the side represented by the gentleman from Cali
fornia. Mr.. Sargent said, in his position in the
matter he had faithfully represented his state.
MIR. Bingham said be had represented his
country.
Adjourned.