The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-15
Our Washington Correspondence
b. WASHINGTON. D. G.. Feb. 10, 1872.

WAS6lN6IOVa, W., W. ~
=, k,IsEsry DErEATED-The amnesty bill
E,pdSgmners amendment was up for discus
aon;ins the Senate yesterday. The speech of
senatorr Upton, anti-Grant Radical, against I
the, occupations of the Federal Government, as
pnrposedin Suuiner'sicivit rights amendment,
vaslaan able argument, and an earnest and
shafip effIGort After 4 number of amendments
against giving the "Heathen Chinee" the ben
eff of,ttp amendment were voted down, much
TO tie disgust of the Pacific slope Radicals,
who had "gens, most numerically for the Ce-
les.ials, note, on Summers amendment was
reached at S O'Clock in the afternoon. The
excitement during the vote was intense, Sum-
ner and large number of Senators crowding
sroupd The, desk. to see the recording OF the
votes. Among them was Mr.. Kellogg, OF La,
Who had delivered philippe few days ago
against Simmer for ipperiling amnesty by his
Amendment, hut who did not vote when his
name was called. The vote was ID tie,i and the
Vice President, who under the circumstances
preferred nos 10 be on the record, looked at
Senator Kellogg as an auctioueer does at the
bidders oefose he dsops his hammes, but ne
gnae nosign, VIXEN his single ane" would save
the amnesty bill. The Vice President then
voted taaye," and theodious civil rights amend
u,eus was coupled with aznnesty. Samnepand
the administration crew were delighted, and
the negroes in the galleries applanded long
aud loud. What has trapspired in few days
70 change Senator Kellogg's views on amnesty
and Summers amendment Z Iwonder Whist it
c6As to .see" Radical carpet-bsg Senator,
aad 30 rauzzle him that he has not the power
10 vote when his name 10 esiled? The Grant
ises were 30 elated that they then took the
foor, in the persons Of Senators Edmunds and
Scott, and reyiled the South until they grew
tired. when vote was taken ON the bill, and
it was lost by vote of SO TO 10, two-thirds not
voting in its favor. A triumph for Grant and
his Radical friends. All the Democrats and
five Republicans voting against the infamoas
proposition. iee
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS MUDDLE.-As there
Is no official information before the Cabinet
with regard to. the Queens speech on the pre-
ssntation of our claims for consequential dam
ages, no action can be taken. The whole trou-
bic is, our Commissioners were 80 dazzled by
the noble Britishsrs, that they permitted them
todo about as they pleased with regard to the
treaty; but as soon as the magnetism Of their
lordIy presence was dispelled, our third rate
treaty-makers were aroused from their sleep,
and discovered that they had blundered, and
thought to remedy matters by putting in just
such claim as they had agreed not to- TIE
clique in the Senate, with Edmuuds as fugle-
man for this OCCASION intend to make great
bluster over this matter, in order to draw AZ
tention from the terrible condition in which
the administration is placed by the recent in
vest;gations and irregularities, which show the
entire rottenness of the whole concern, from
the chief Who barterea away the choicest po-
sitions in his gif, down to the clerk who only
robs the Treasury to the extent of few
thousands. The last irregularity came to light
yesterday. A clerk in the Third Auditors
Office, named John N. Ehrle. has stolen $780,
900 worth Of vouchers on which to base fraud
uIent claims against the Government. Only
this, nothing more. His arrest and examina-
tion, it is thought, will develop very loose
manner of doing business in the Third Audi
tors Bureau.
REVIVAL OF AMERICAN CoMMERcE.-The
bill of Secretary Boutwell,, in which he propo-
ses bounties to our ship-buiders, is. an ar'ifi'
cial, temporary makeshift, and not a stable