Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-05-18

itttOlh ca, gave inc luCkHtCflnu
President to understand that if his
little bill was not withdrawn the
+ treaty Of Washington must fall
England has offered to save it ifthe
United States will agree to 4 suppls.
mental treaty to cover the disputed
indirect damages, and to provide
! that neither Great Britain or the
4 United States shall be liable as n
neutral for consequential claims for
acts done by either, whom the other
IS a beIlIgersnt. Grant and his cab,
met, knowing that the people are
! not with them in thor absurd posi-.
, ton, and desiring to save the treaty.
r have agreed to this proposal anc
General Schenck has already began
to make arrangements to suspend
the Washington treaty until Great
Britain and orr Senate can rstify
tho supplemental treaty, which will
probably he here before the adjourn
ment of Congress. The mountain
has brought forth a very small
mouse.
SALE OF ARMS REPORT.
The minority report on the sales
If arms says that the statute regu
Iating the matter has been clearly
violated. The arms sold were mel,
Their damaged nor unsuitable and
the sales reduced the supply OF
breech,lesders in tho Government
arscnals below what Gen. Dyer
deemed essentially necessary. Ord
nance stores were manufactured
expressly for sale. The order of
the War Department that ordnance
stores should not be sold TO known
agents Of either belligerent was VIC.
lated, Richardson's namo being nsed
as a blind for Remington's, after tho
latter WAS known to be a French
agent. 1t was well known that the
arms were to be shipped to France.
The order Of the Secretary of war
virtually declared that this Govern,
mcnt, as q neutral, could not sell
arms to either belligerent, which
does not agree with the view now
insisted on in the majority report.
The order not being obeyed, the Of.
%icerS, who failed in this particular,
deserve more than ordinary ccnsure,
and so ends the matter. What need
army officers, tho especial pots and
protegces of Grant and his admins
t%ratlon, care for the consurc Of a
minority committee when they are
sustained by the whole power otthe
Government and the dominant par
ty in Congress? When the epau.
Ietted Srlstocracy are assigned their
proper position, under the civil au-
thorlty instead OF above it, as at
present, 1t will be a happy day for
t~he..courtry and an earnest of better
things in tho future.
"ONhlbL ANEN
The committee of conference over
the Senate Amendment, barring
residents of the South whose cotton
was taken after the war had epded,
from the court Of claims, has boon
quite warm. The House Confer.
ences are in favor of tho House
proposition, authorizing the Score
'ary of the Treasury to pay the
money now in the Treasury derived
from this source to the original
owners; the amount to be drawn
out for this purpose would not ex.
coed half a million dollars. The
House will not agree to the Morrill,
Amendment and the Senate will nat
adopt the House Substitute, but
will probably withdraw the Morrill, !
Amendment and thus leave the en-.
seS exactly as they now stand. 8
TARIFF BILL IN THE HOUSE,.
The wrangle over the tariff bill
continues in the House. The Rad. ;
zeal protectlonists and a number of ,
Democrats work in unison to pre.
vent any liberal reduction in the -,
tariff and they will, despite the Of a
forts Of tho revenue reformers, sue. ,
coed In so doing. 1t 10 thought ;
that Mr.. Dawes resolution, re1u. a
cling the tariff 10 per cent, will be -
adopted and incorporated in the \
RADICAL MISREPRESENTATION. G
Col. John S. MoSby, Of Confsder. h
ate cavalry fame, called ON Pre.i. f
dent Grant tho other day and C'ol, t
Jchn W. Forney, of Pennsylvania v
militia fame, was also present, and l.
the result is the Radical journals P
are J%ubilant over a statement which t.
tho cavalry Col. is said to hive ~
:, that he would support Gen. b
oven If a Democrat were ii
nominated against him. Was this
statement given out by the militia
Colonel? Mosby denies it, how. g
'ver, and says that he expressly @
old Gen. Grant that he would SUP. G.
port the Democratic nominee, but ~ re
between him and Greeley hc wasi II
svor of the South going for the one ~
hat would offer us the most gencr. II
terms, /. e. the PHILADELPHIA b,
convention MAST outbid Cincinnati" NJ
t is pretty hard to keep track Of Al
md retute all the Radical lies which tn
n their desperation, they are resort, W
rs to. N
DESPERATE CASES REQUIRE DESPERATE Vi
REMEDIES. ~
The President has examined tbo in
cport Of tho congressional commit. III
&c, appointed to investigate affair, sI[
t y. Orleans, and, in consequence he
! the statements contained in il he
as requested the resignation of sit
Casey as collector of+to
at that city, and Mr.. Her. nr
'ig, his deputy. The reason for IN,
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