Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-26
WASHINGTON.
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NEW NoRK, March PA Washing
ton dispatch says Minister Schenck
! telegaphs that Earl GranVille's note
TO Secretary FISH argues the Alabama
question elaboratelY, but he gives no idea
Of what it contains.
In the absence of this information the
administration advance no theories as to the
result OF negotiations. The impression is
Granville and Fish look upon time as the
great paci6cator. The State department
will send to an American agent and counsel
at Paris in day or two printed state
ment of private claims against England on
account of Rebel privateer's claims for di-
rect and actual losses to amount of about
nineteen millions. Over six mil
lions more are charged for detention of1es-
sels and loss Of prospective freights and
mercantile profits with either consequential
damages
Wants TO Reconstruct Mexico,
The idea Of a protectorate for
Mexico meets with favor of President
Grant. He would urgently support If initi-
ated under Congressional auspices.
KentuckY's Claims.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The Supreme
Court has denied writ of mandamus to
compel the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
Kentucky's Rwar claims.
The Supreme Court will adjourn from
Thursday next to the following Monday,
and from the 9th Of May until the 28th of
October.
The General Democratic Convention.
The National Executive Democratic |
Committee will hold meeting ia this city |
early in May, after the meeting of the Gin
cinnati Convention, to- fix the time and |
place for holding the National Democratic |
Convention. 1t is supposed by leading |
Democrats here that the time will be the !
4th Of July, and the place st. Louis.
The FraneO-Prussian Row.
The Senate Arms Committee to-day ex-
amihed ]. w. SimontOn, General Agent of |
the New York Associated Press, respecting !
the origin of the dispatch from Paris Feb. |
9 about the alleged action of the assemblies |
Of the Committee on War Contracts, etc.
MeSsrs. Little, John Prentiss, Riley and
Starbuck were examined as to the delivery
Of arms for France on board the steamers
Ontario and Erie in November, 20.
Col. Squire, in explanation of former tes-
timony, said the arms sold by the parties he
were deliveredin New York to
|
ment-Consul General. After the arms
were delivered to the vessel the responsible
ty ceased and they called on the Consul
for commissions. Witness was ordered by
Remington to buy arms for the French gov
srnment and add to the price five per cent
or commissions. He purchased 10000
navy carbines from a Baltimore firm and
shipped them to France. This was among
ho CT Re fo Of
Adjourned.
SankO Domingo.
The Secretary of the Navy informs the
senate that the expenses of vessels employ
d on the coast of San Domingo since the
Of negotiations for the anneXa-
ions of Dominica amounted to $490,620 |
nd are no greater than if they had been in
be service elsewhere in West India, and
hat nine or twelve vessels is the usual num-
'er employed in the waters adjacent to the
Vest Indies.
The Freedmen's Bureau.
An official communication from Gen.
Nhittlesey, temporarily in charge Of the
'reedmen's Bureau, says the law abolishing
he Bureeu requires the contin-
lance of the freedmen's hospital in Wash
ngton and the payment of bounty prize
n every part of the country and that the !
Otal amount appropriated for this purpose
or the fiscal year ending June 20, 1872, is
,165,5OO. This is 100000 less than the !
committee asked for. Every effort has
,een made 10 bring the expenditure within I
be amount appropriated by reducing the ]
lumber of agents and clerks to the lowest I
ossible point consistent execution of the !
aw, but now the funds are nearly all ex- |
austed. Should all the bills be paid at the q
nd of this month only about $1,000 would
emain,
The TreRsury---LOOse housekeeping.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day (
TO the House of Representa-
YES the report of the committee appoint ed !
D examine the office of the Treasurer of ;,
ne United States. They report that its :
1nditiOn is in most essential particulars
atisfactOry. The Secretary then proceeds
} explain several deficiencies in the Treas
rer's accounts, arising from the defalca-
ons, etc. 1t also appears there is a defic-
ncy of coin as called for by the books, Of
j53.373. This is represented by an excess
Irrency of S629, ,467 and an erroneous a a
assifcatiOn of entries in the SboOks of the =
lice. The Secretary recommends that 4
ongress give relief to the Treasury by al "
wing these discrepancies in accounts be u
osed. The SecTetary'S letter concludes as
lloWs: y
Upon the whole, the result reached by u
e committee is such as to Justify the eX- 7
ession of the opinion that the business of g
e Treasury has been well conducted, and
at the losses in the aggregate are very in
ynifcant as compared with the transac- y
tions of the Office. .
British Claims. :,
The British and American Claims Com E,
isson met to-day and without deciding T
~ cases adjourned until Thursday. 1t is e
there will be very little busi- a
,ss Of Importance before the Commission h
it'll next fall. They will meet occasion a,
Iy, but few cases only viii be heard before II
cir adjournment. q,
Bright. -
John Albert Bright, son of the disting- a
shed English statesman, John Bright, was
/ the floor of the House to-day, and was h
to the Speaker and many men, a
RS of the House. n
The Robson Investigation, =
The House special committee to investi- ii
tie charges of irregularities in the Navy =
apartment, met this evening. Mr.. VOor-
es declines serving on the committee on
count of business engagements. Mr.. Bart .
It, counsel for Mr.. Dana, asked that Ad- Il
iral Porter be summoned. 1t was so or y
red. Adjourned. !! II
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