Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-02-22

THE CALDWELL REPoRT.-Th Senate Com
mitfeen Privileges and Elections have report
ed that the election Of, Senator Caldwell, o.
Kansas. was invalid. but they do not report in
favor of expulsion, believing that he was in
some sense the victina of shaPess. A vote tc
expel would require two:thirds. To declare
the election invalid, Fquircs only a majority
of the Senaie. Pho loss of his seat and the
money he paid lor ii, are the results of this
action.
/ But little more than one week rem9ins oi
the present session of congress, an amount OF
| time hardly nroportionate to the. aP,sunt of la
Dor lying upon the tables of both the House
and Senate. Besides the usual routine tha
occupies the closing l.ours of every Congress
action is to be taken on The reports of th,
Credit Mnblier Committees, and those which
haye heen investigating the cases of Senator.
! Caldwell, Pomeroy. nc, and the Louisiana
troubles. No extra session Is likely to be held
ERrE LoAN.-It Is stated that SO 600, 900
the entire amount of the new Erie Railroad
loan, was negohatel p. byndpn in "A single
day. This was certaiulg a remarkable achiev-
m mt, after the experience which British cap
alists have had with the stocks and bonds of
the Erie Road, 1t is the direct result of The
recovcry of property from Jay Gould, by
which the road Instantly obtained several mil.
lions that might not have been secured by 60.
ing to law, even alter u long and costly strug.
gle. 1t is, th rciorc complete answer to the
condemnatQry comments that have been, made
In certain quarters concerning this scttlment
and at the same time, full expression Of con-
hdcnce ip the present Erie management
SPMN.-Minster Sylles. has formally con
graduated President FigueraS on the establish
inent of the Spanish Republic. ald the dignity
with which the change was made. In his re-
ply, President Figueras said that if the United
States was indebiedlto Spnin for thr discovere
of Amt RIGA, Spain had the Enitod States. tC
thank for the Republic. III rather strang,
! contrast with the course Of our minister stands
the course Of our lay makers iu the House o
lteprescniaiiv' who have defeated three sue
cessive efforts To pass IL congralulatory resolu
ion cane rniRs the change from monorchia
Spain TO the republican form now so SUCCESS
fully substituted. 1t might be supposed tina
such change in the political views and feel
inss of the Spaniards at lone. might max,
them little lcnieni towards Cuban aspirations
alter independence. But this appears not {,
he the case President Fisueras declares tba
the Antilles are abe held MS n pledge of per
| petual union between the old world and th,
new Castclir, Minister of Foreign Affairs
| gives public intmation that the new Govern
meni viii expect he CubGns to be conten
now that they are urdtr a Republican Govern
meni, Hc y disposed tc be moro magnani
NOUS than Gorilla in granting reforms, an,
says that arrAng' mcnis fur ihrse will be mad
when Deputies iton Cuba have arrived
| Meanwhile tie Cuban pairiots haze not signi
fed their Intention to BE- satisfied with the free
dom of Spanish rulo oE whether they will in
sist on independence as well as the Republic
! That Rcpublicansm isa novelty TO many q
those who have thus suddenly adopted it, |
ampsingly seen in q demand of some of In
| peasants of Andalusia,t 10 know when The dyis
ion Of property will begin the seldcnts n, tn
University Of Barcelona clumor fur the nboli
ton OF ices and in. Catalonia the working