Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-01
DeIanO's Only Hope.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.--From an article
in the Washington Chronicle of this morn
ing it would appear that Mr.. Delano still
has hopes of foisting himself into the United
States Senate to succeed Judge Thurman.
The idea is to get around the late election
in Ohio by legal quibble. The Chronicle
says:
"The Ohio Constitutional Convention, il
is presumed, will submit the result of its
labors for the adoption of the people by the
1st day of April, 1874, and that they will
redistrict the State and provide for a new
Legislature, and State officers TO be elected
at the October election in 1874. The query
has therefore been started, whether the
present Legislature or the one to be elected
next fall will be the competent body to
choose successor to Senator Thurman,
whose term of Office expires March 4, 1875,
it being claimed that the right to elect a
Senator by this Legislature is incident to
the extension of this legislative term to JAN
uary, 1875. If the latter is cut short by
the constitutional &C. of the people, the
incidental power and its exercise are void"
The Louisiana Senator.
The game by which Spencer and other
Radicals have been fraudulently admitted
to seats having succeeded heretofore 30 well
1t is proposed to perpetuate it. The same
precedent will be followed this winter in the
cases of the Louisiana Senator, ex-Gover-
nor Pinchback, and the Kellogg Republi-
cans, in all probability.
The Public Lands.
The following statement has been pre-
pared by Commissioner Drummond, of the
general Land Office, for his forthcoming
report. During the last fiscal year, public
lands were disposed of as follows, the fig
ures representing acres In round numbers:
Cash paid 16, ,262, ,626; located with military
warrants 214, 4,940; taken for homesteads g.
793, ,796; located with agricultural college
scrip 653, ,446; certified to railroads $685.
$50, certified to wagon roads 1856; ap-
proved to States as swamps 238,548; certi-
fed for agricultural colleges 1929;
certified for common schools 5000;
certified for universities 3l,22S;
certified for sc ritaries, 800; approved to
States for internal improvements, 100, ,795;
Indi n script locstions, 14,223; total in
round numbers, 13,030,666. Disposal of
previous year, 1854, ,975; increase in dis.
Dosal, 1865. Cash receip.s under various
heads amounted to s., ,40S,5 ,515; surveys DUR
ing the same period show = total of 80, 1885,
133 acres; surveys curing the previous
year, 29, ,450, ,939; increase in number of
acres surveyed, 1,037,l9 Total area of
land in States and territories, 1,S34, SOS, 400
acres, making proper deduction l,21S,443,-
605 acres are yet to bs surveyed.
The MOdOcs.
Orders were issued to day for the removal
of the Modocs, who are now st Fort Nc.
Pher son, to q permanent location with the
Guspsws, on Neosho river, in the extreme
northeastern corner of the Indian Terri
tory.
RumOr Denied.
Secretary Richardson tonight denies
emphatically the rumor that he has resigned.
He has recently taken a house in Wash.
ington and expects to make considerable
of stay at the icapitsl. President Grant
stated to the Associated Press agent to-
night that he did not desire Richardson to
resign and had made no such request as
stated. Richardson has been deluged with
kilograms from all parts of the country to-
day inquiring as to the truth of the rumor.
What our National Legislature Costs.
Estimates for the Legislative branch of
the Government have all been prepared,
and show an increase over those Of any
previous year. This is accounted for by
the fact that pay of members and Senators
now is more than heretofore. Estimates
for salaries of Senators for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1875, S555, 900, and for
pay of officers and employees of the Senate
$144,0 900; for contingent expenses $l99, ,00G
for salaries of members of the House 81, :
100000; for salaries of officers and en-
ployees $218,000; contingent expenses
$267 900. Another cause of the increase is
that the number of members of the House
now is 292, instead of 242, as under the old
apportionment.