The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-12-27

AuJOuTucu Oh TIluiy evening VI iast "cNn
toJanuary 9Th, taking two weeks holiday
SALARY BILL.
Previous to adjournment the civil service
committee in the senate reported on the house
salary grab bill. The committee report al
entirely new bill, simply repeating the salary
law OF the last session, restoring the law as il
formerly stood, and directing the Secretary OF
the Treasury to cover back into the treasury
all sums that remain undrawn or may have
been received as increased compensation TN
der the law of last session, and may have or
may be returned to him.
Mr.. Wright proposed to take up the bill
the first thing after the recess. Mr.. Chandler
said congress had been here three weeks,
during which time they had increased the
price of gold and deranged business, and now
wanted to go home.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
The house spent Friday in discussing the
new civil rights bill, which proposes to give
negroes the same rights with whites in
schools, at hotels, in whisky saloons &c.
Several speeches pro and con. were made,
but there was no action.
WILLIAMS.
The senate adjourned without acting on the
nomination of Williams The radical leaders
are trying to persuade the President to with
draw his nomination, but the man Of DIES
tiny" is stubborn as a mule.
PINCHBACK.
a new complication has arisen in the mat
ter Of Pinchbacl's claim to a seat in the sen
ate. y committee to investigate Durell has
left for New Orleans to take testimony during
the vacation, and as Judge Jere M. Williams,
who overhaulcd Dclahay's reputation, is at
the head of the committee, there is but slcnd-
er ground on which to base an expectation of
whitcwash. 1t is certain that the Durell
matter will be stted to the bottom, and Its
outcome can hardly tai to be the impeach,
mtnt of the corrupt Judge. The result will
have a serious bearing upon the legality
of the Kellogg government, and thereby upon
the question Of the Pinchback admission to
the senate
Then there is new scandal in the Pinch
back case. 1t is not only charged that he
bought the votes in the Kellogg legislature
that elected him, but that he bought them
with money that had been given him to buy
the votes for carpetbagger named Norton
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH SCHEME
Judge Cation, Of Illinois, now in Washing
ton, say a Tribune dispatch, suggests some
very important problems for solution by the
advocates Of POstmaster-General Creswell's
Postal Telegraph scheme. The scheme, if
carried out, will entail the purchase by the
Government Of all the privileges now held by
the Western Union and other telegraph com
panies: and the question naturally arises, do
Mr.. Cresswell and his friends contemplate
fulfilling all the contracts made by the con-
trollcrs of the lines with the railroad com
panies, corporations, and private individuals,
some of which contracts extend indefsitely,
and would require the genius Of a Philadel-
pha lawyer to interpret? The Judge says
that the Illinois & Mississippi Telegraph
Company of which he is President, owns ev-
cry telegraph line in the state of Illinois, and
lease the same to the Western Union Tele-
graph Company at an annual rental Of $685.
900, and the Judge is under the impression
that Mr.. Crcsswell does not comprehend the
situation of affairs at all, or he would not adj
yOCate the scheme with so much warmth
Should the Government undertake to buy
out the Western Union Company, the Judge
desires it to be distinctly understood that the
Government, and not the Western Union, will
be held responsible for the payment for the
rent Of his lines
NO MORE TAXATION.
The prompt hostility shown by tho house
10 Secretary Richardson's demand for more
taQaiion fill him with tho blues for several
weeks, but lately he has frightened up. He
says the $25 900 000 remaining of the green
back reserve will last until May, and by that
time he thinks the present signs indicate
such an increase in the internal rev
cnuc and customs receipts, that the
Government can get through without impor-
rant reductions IN expenses.
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