The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-08
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OUR CASE AT GENEVA
ACTION OF CABINET
PAYMENT FOR COTTON SEIZED
:B5th Parallel Railroad
ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO
More Indian Atrocities
AFRICAN METHODIST CONFERENCE
A s4,OOO,OOO Bridge
THE MIXED SCHOOL QUESTION
DECISION OF SUPREME COURT OF OHIO
THE MIXED SCHOOL QUESTION
DECISION OF SUPREME COURT OF OHIO
M EXlcAN REVOLUTION
Trumbull a Gubernat0rial Candidate
FROM WASHINGTON.


Congressional. .. r-.s..
Washington, May 7.-SENATE.--Mr.
Sumner occupied the morning hour in adj
vocating the mixed schools bill.
The postoffice appropri alton bill was re-
turned. One million dollars additional
subsidy was given to the Pacific Mail S. S.
company. An amendment giving s400, 900
to the Brazil service was passed-yeas 20;
nays "a.
HousE.-Mr. Beck, from the Committee
of Ways and Means, reported back Senate
bill a rebate of the tax on whskey de-
stroyed by fire or other casualty while in
bonded warehouses, with an amendment
excepting cases where the tax has been
actually paid. The amendment was
adopted and the bill passed.
Senate amendments to the deficiency bill
were resumed. The amendment in REFER
ence to the claims for cotton seized by the
government after the close Of the war, re-
quiring proof of the royalty of the claim
ants, came up and gave rise to long dis
cussion the Committee on Appropriations
recommending non-concur1enc and re-
porting a substitute for it, less exacting on
the claimants.
Mr.. Bingham made speech against the
substitute reported from the appropriations
committee. r.r.. .-
Mr.. Peters asserted and proved by the
records that a similar proposition was re-
ported at the last Congress from the judi
ciary committee by its chairman, Mr.. Bing-
ham, himself, and Mr.. Garfield added that
the Committee on Appropriations had adopt
ed the very language Of the bill reported
by the judiciary committee on the same
subject. ....s. ..
The argument against the Senate amend
ment was that the cotton seized after the
30th of June, 1865, and to which alone it
applied, was seized in violation of law and
in defiance of the published orders of the
War Department, torbidding the capture of
cotton after that date.
Finally, the substitute was adopted
without calling the yeas and nays, as fol-
lows:
"That the Secretary of the Treasury be
and is hereby authorized and desired to pay
to the lawful owners, or their legal repre-
sentatives, of all cotton seized after the
Both of June, 1865, by the agents of the
government the net proceeds, without in
terest, of the sales of the said cotton actual
ly paid into the treasury of the United
States provided that the receipt therefor
shall be taken and received in full satisfac-
ton of all claims against the United States
for or OH account of the seizure of said cot
ton, and sufficient sum for such payments
is hereby appropriated, and the Secretary
of ssthe Treasury is hereby authorized to
prescribe rules and regulations for the as
certainment of all necessary facts fer the
execution thereof"
This ended the Seneate amendments to
the deficiency bill.
The Senate amendments to the Indian
appropriation bill were taken up and dis
posed of.
Mr.. Kelley moved to strike out the en-
acting clause of the tariff and tax bill
which was carred-ayes, 95; noes. To-
The bill was then recommitted to the
Ways and Means Committee, with instruc-
tions to report a bill reducing the tariff to
90 per cent. Of the present rate.
The Alabama Claims.
Wasiington, May SIT is stated that at
the Cabinet meeting yesterday, the resolve
of the President to rest our case as it
stands before the Geneva tribunal, and to
allow Secretary Fish to seek further means
of accommodating it, came up under for
NAL discussion, and was sustained by all
the members present.
Trumbull and the Greeley Ticket
Washington, May SIT is stated that
Senator Trumbull has announced his will
ingness to run for Governor of Illinois on
the Greeley ticket.