The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-13
Perfect Given another
week.
Conviction for issuing frau
dulent Naturalization
Papers.
Resolutions of the State
Grange.
Bazine's Sentence Com
muted.

Speaker submitted COMMUNICATION from |
the Secretary of War, calling attention to |
the detalcation of Gen. O. o. Howard, of !
the Freedmen's Bureau, which was read |
Mr. Wood moved that it be referred to |
the committee on Military Affairs with in
structions to report the resolution, provid- |
ing for trial by court martial OF any army
officers implicated therein.
! Mr. Dawes moved to strike out the clause
| in relation to the instructions 50 as to leave
| the committee free.
| Mr. Wood insisted on the Instructions
| but Mr.. Da YES amendments prevailed.
Yeas ia Navy So.
Mr.. Comingo defended the increase sal
airy bill, but said he would vote for the bill
reported by the committee.
| NJ. Phillips said the compensation of
Congressman had been fixed by public
opinion.
Mr.. Burchard favored dating the de-
crease of the salary from the commence
ment Of the present session, saying it was
the present Congress on trial.
Mr.. Orth said he had offered his propo--
sition OF last evening as a compromise, be-
cause it was apparent that without COM
promise the House would never come to
conclusion He thought four propositions
ion which had been provided tor III his
proposition
First, That the law of last Congress
) should be repealed.
Second, That mileage shall never again
be restored.
Third, That thefranking privileges 50 far
as it relates to the personal privilege otthe
members of Congress, shall never be re
a Il .h.n iNo ~,
S regard to distributing public documents,
4 and,
e Fourth That the salaries of the mem
a bers of Congress shall be substantially what
it was under the old law.
e The house then went into committee OF
j the whole upon the bill appropriating four
/ millions for the extraordinary expenses OF
Z the navy.
The bill passed and the House adjourned
:. till Monday.
n WASHINGTON, Dec l2.-The Secretary
10 of the Treasury has written to the Ways
and Means Committe, recommending an
increased taxation, and restoring the duty
on tea and coffee, which will yield about
S2l, 10000 per annun. The Secretary
also endorsed letter from Commissioner
Douglass, making the following recommen
dati0ns an increased tax of ten per cent
. gallon on distilled spirits, which woulC
yield 81 900, 900 annually four cents addi
tional per pound on tobacco. which woult
Weld $4, 10000 on illumination, $3.50,
600; on gross receipts of railroads from
passengers and freights, $4,000, 900; o.
insurance companies, S 100000; and o.
t. telegraph receipts, S250,0O0, making a
aggregate of S22, $4,000. This tax on te
coffee would make over $52,00O,000. Th
Commissioner says it more revenue
= wanted it could be obtained to the exter
of SlO,OO0.00O by restoring the taxes fOrn
erly in schedule "B, which include
stamps on all legal instruments, deed
mortgages, &c., and on express compame
receipts, $5U0,000.
I The House committee on Postal Affair
have agreed to report bill for the tre
distribution of public documents throug
mails. the free exchange Of newspape
and the free delivery OF newspapers
counties where published.
CHICAGO, Dec. 12-Governor Beve
l. idge, this morning, respited Perfect, Il
III cnlored wife murderer on the ground tn
he confessed the crime, and asked time
prepare for death The respite is for o
week
In the United States District Court I
day. a new trial was denied to Donald NJ
"a Kay, lately convicted of issuing fraudule
80 naturalization papers while Deputy Gle
of the Criminal Court, and he was st
j. fenced to three years in the penitential
= 1t is the first conviction in the country L
der the act of Congress, March 1870.
A Tribune special gives report of t
State Grange to-day. The resolutiC
adopted declared the educational infuer
of the Grange the most valuable feature
the organization as inculculating the rig
n and duties of citizenship; sympath
". with Farmers Clubs; deplore the
struction of American forests; fa'
the general distribution of the m'
Y. ev supply and the removal of
monopoly of national banks condemn
salary grab: ask the Legislature not
meddle with Temperance laws regard
opprobrium put on the farmers for |
panic as compliment as gigantic as
frauds thus exposed; indorse the right
call on Congress to regulate lnter-St
commerce declare the tax on foreign Y
sells tax on western industry that
Government ought to open all natural
fer channels; favor the building of r
roads by private capital, but as derI
resort, the Government should constru'
through freight railway assert the rig
of the people to regulate all chartered
"a porations and declare in favor OF {
.Sy Service.
DEsMoINEs, Dec. 12-The State Ora
to-day had three long sessions, transac
NC & good deal of business, mostly OF a se
pS' character. Among other things they {
,,rer. ed contract with the Warner Harve