The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-06-01
VERY WEAK In THE BACK BONE
THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY
JAMES GORDON BENNETT DYING
FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional.

Congressional.
Washington, May 3I.--SENArE-Thc
steamboat bill was discussed. Mr.. Conk-
ling opposed concurrence in the report,
and criticised the provisions of the BILL He
said if they should be enacted in a law,
sufferers by steamboat accidents would
have no legal remedy whatsoever against
the owners Of the vessels unless actual care
lessness should be shown on their part.
House amendments to the Senate bill to
extend the act of June, 1860, concerning
private land claims in Louisiana, were con-
currred in and the bill passed.
Mr.. Sumner made motion to indefinite
ly postpone the sundry civil appropriations
bill, for the purpose of making his speech
on the French arms report, which he char
acterized as a white-washing one, the COM
mttee having been improperly appointed,
&c. He then proceeded to arraign the
President in the most bitter terms, referring
to him as passing his time in palace cars, in
seaside loiterings, and with fast horses. He
denounced him for appointing relatives to
office, &c.
His speech was unprecedented in denun-
ciation of Grant, whom, he said, ''preiers
at any time horse to the constitution
Andy johnson was never so heartily abu-
sed.
Mr.. Schurz spoke Tonight, and Mr.. Car
penter is now speaking. The debate is very
bitter.
HOUSE-The House non-concurred in all
the Senate amendments to the tariff and tax
bills, except those relating to spirits, to-
bacco, and bonded warehouses, and con-
ference committee was ordered. The SEN
ate's amendment to the spirit tax of sew
enty cents as an equivalent to all other taxes
was concurred in. The next vote was on
the tobacco tax amendment, raising il from
20 to "a cents per pound.
Mr.. Maynard moved to amend Senate's
amendment by fixing the uniform tax at 6
cents Fer pound which was carred-ayes,
1872; nays, "a. The bill now goes with the
conference committee
Senate bill granting the right of way
through the public lands to the Denver and
Rio Grande railway company was passed.
The House resolution to 90 through with
business on Speakers table, with the un-
derstanding that the ku-klux and civil
rights bill be excluded, was defeated-ayes
l02 nays SO. 1t required two-thirds
vote.
The bill granting the right of way for a
railroad and telegraph through Florida was
passed.
The House then went to the Speakers
table with the understanding that each
measure should have two-thirds vote.
The bill for a more effective system of
quarantine on the Southern and Gulf coast,
and many others of a private nature were
passed.
Senate bill to amend the act of 3lst of
May, 1870, to enforce the rights o" citizens
to vote, was left on the Speakers table,
the vote on its passage being--yeas l0l
nays 95-less than two-thirds in the affirm
atiye.
Return of Proceeds OF ConRscated Property.
Washington, June 1st.-In the United
States Court to-day, orders were made for
the payment over to DR.. Cornelius Boyle,
Fl. b. Tyler, and the administrators Of G.
5. Wallach, of this city, Of the proceeds of
the sales OF their property here, made under
the contiscation act. Under the amnesty
act they become entitled to whatever sum
the United States has derived from the con-
fiscation of their estates, less the costs,
which were comparatively enormous
amounting i'll one of the cases to 81 800.
These parties left here and served in the
confederate armies. III. B. Tyler had been
a Major of Marines in the Federal service.
Miscellaneous Items.
Washington, May 3l.-Hon. S. S. Cox is
better, and the hopes are good for his spec
dy recovery.
| The debt statement will show reduc-
ton of the public debt of above seven mil
lion dollars. There have been heavy pen
sion disbursements.
There was very long Cabinet meeting
to-day over the treaty. The probabilities
of its failure increase hourly.
| WashingtoR, June l.--Senator Carpenter
continues the political debate in the Senate
to-day.
The prolongation of the session of Con-
gress is considered inevitable.
The west and south in the House yester-
day voted almost solidly for 16 cents uni
| form tax on tobacco. A compromise on
20 cents is considered probable.
The Earth Washed Away TO the Rock and
Gravel in Southwestern Missouri-CattIe
Drowned.
| 81. Louis, No., May 30.-Mail accounts
from the freshet in southwestern Missouri
say that whole farms in the valleys of
Spring River, Centre Creek, and other
streams, were completely washed away,
leaving nothing but rock and gravel. Lave
stock of all kinds was drowned in large
numbers, and hundreds of yards of the At
lantic and Pacific railroad track was swept
| from its bed into the adjacent fields. A
wall of water rolled down Spring River
J Valley, leaving only devastation and ruin
behind,