The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-08
WASHING on.
A ColOred National Convention Called to
Consider the Cuban Question.
BAD NEWS FOR BROTHER BRIGHAM.
The United States Troops Ordered to Leave the
South and Concentrate in Utah.
REVOCATION OF THE $lOO,ooo,OoO CALL.
Rumored Intention of Mr.. James Brooks
to Resign His Seat in Congress.
Sunset Cox Mentioned as
His Successor.
Buffers Bill to Increase Executive, Judi
cial and Legislative Salaries.
THE GENEVA AWARD.
Sharp Senatorial Comments on Recent
Veto by the President.
Rumored Intention Of Mr.. James Brooks
to Resign His Seat in Congress.
Sunset Cox Mentioned as
His Successor.
Buffers Bill to Increase Executive, Judi
cial and Legislative Salaries.
THE GENEVA AWARD.
Sharp Senatorial Comments on Recent
Veto by the President.

.f,H 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. Z, 1873.
An Amusing Display Of Ignorance In the
House-Passagc Of the West Point APP
PropriatiOn0 Bill.
The West Point Appropriation bill occupied the
House after the morning hour. The sum apprOpri-
ated does not quite amount to 100000. While 1t
was under consideration a very amusing debate
sprang up upon the recommendation Of the COM
mittee reporting the bill to abolish the professor
ship OF Spanish and substitute therefor Of rhet-
ORC. Several profound and sapient members at
once proceeded to show what they knew about
Spanish. Goat Island Sargent pronounced it
a decaying language. He knew all about it, for
when he was driving mule team among the Span
ish mangOs Of Mexico who speak what he ele.
gantly termed q bastard Spanish, he learned
it ALL. and he Is now wise in the knowledge of
Spanish. Sargent did not believe the Spanish
language was going TO live very long, and hence
there was no necessity for its use in our Military
Academy. Young. of Georgia, whose insgnihcance
Is only equalled by his eagerness for notOriety,
however, thought differently He said he had been
a West Point graduate, and would not take many
thousand dollars for his knowledge OF Spanish.
Another member remarked that he would not give
i've cents for what Young knew about the Spanish
language. General Coburn also spoke in favor of
Spanish-in fact he scared on the wings Of tho
American eagle over the plains Of Mexico and to
the fair Island Of Cuba and, with the tail Of that
bird in one hand and the Stars and Stripes in the
other, he declared that the man was now born who
should carry our glorious banner to the halls OF the
MOntezumas and plant 1t forever on the ramparts
of MORO Castle. sapient gentleman named
Dunnell, from Minnesota, after the fashion OF a
schoolmaster expounding the b to little chill
dren, informed the House that it was not requisite
al aI,ould oh
that it was just well that they be
able TO read these foreign tongues without
speaking them. Fernando Wood also favored the
Spanish, which was very proper, seeing that
Fernando Is Spanish name. Butler poked
his sarcasm under Sargent's ribs by asking HIM
whether he thought French books on engineering
light literature. The House was so charmed, how
ever, with what the members knew about Spanish
and with the glorious future aepicted by General
Coburn, that it amended the bill and put in the
Spanish. Another amendment, increasing the sal
aries Of professors who were so employed for more
than ten years, was also adopted, and the bill
passed.
The Colored People Moving for Free
Cuba-A National Convention To BE
Called.
George T. Downing, who caters for the House OF
Representatives, and has at the same time an eye
had meeting Of leading colored men at his house
for consultation on Cuban affairs anu what action
they should take on them. The result will be the
Issuing OF q call for . national convention of
colored men, to meet here ON the I'd OF March, to
consider what part they should take In the struggle
for independence now going on. au1 .I 0f
The following persons with others. will take an
active part In the movement :-GeOrge T. Downing,
Fred Douglass, Governor Pinchback, John r.
Cook, Henry Johnson, Robert Purvs, F. G.. Barba-
does, John II. Johnson, J. II. Brooks, William Ii.
Smith, J. H. Cook and william J. Wilson.
All the Troops in the south to be Sent to
Utah-A Warning to Brigham.
The President has ordered all the troops on duty
in the Southern States, except small detachments
at forts on the seacoast, 20 prepare for movement
towards the stations on the Plains, within compar-
atively short distance from salt Lake City. This is
done to secure the enforcement of the laws espe.
cially what is known as the Logan bill, now pend
ing in Congress.
The Call for the $1OO,OOO,OOO Five
Twenties Revoked.
The Secretary of the Treasury has revoked the
order which he signed this morning calling in
$780, OOO 600 OF fve.twenty bonds to be paid May T.
and has directed that the public notice OF this call
shall not be given. This Is done because of inior-
nation from London that subscriptions there to
the new hves are made payable June 1. The call
will be renewed March l. so az to have the called
bonds payable June /, to conform to the London
subscriptions.
A Rumor that James Brooks Will
Shortly Resign-Sunset Cox as His Suc-
cessor.
1t was rumored about the House this afternoon
that owing to the recent exposures OF the Credit
Mobilicr Investigating Committee, and particularly
to the poor state of his health, James Brooks would
very shortly resign his seat. Sunset Cox is men.
toned as his in the event of his resigna
ton.
ButIer's Increased Salary Bill Reported
I'm the House.
The bill reported to-day by Mr.. Butler, OF Massa-
chusetts, from the Committee on the Judiciary to
adjust the salaries OF the Executive, Judicial and
Legislative departments Of the government, pro-
vides that after March a. 1873, salaries shall be fixed
as s:-President OF the United States $4,000
per annum; Vice President OF the United States
100000 Chief Justice OF the United States, s1O 500
Justices of the United States Supreme Court.
$4,000; Cabinet officers $4,000; Speaker OF the
House, $4,000; members OF Congress, $4,000 this
includes members of the Forty-second Congress).
al'cage is abolished and actual travelling ex-
ses allowed. The committee accompany the
J'D with lengthy report.
me GENEVA Award Otscusseu IN inc
Senate. "
The Senate, having its calendar overloaded with
bills waiting action. many OF which have already
passed the House. devoted an hour and a half this
afternoon to discussion on public buildings in
general ana one at Memphis in particular, without
arriving at any conclusion. Then the bill for dis
tributmg the Geneva award was called up aud the
remainder OF the day was consumed by
Edmunds and Thurman in wrestling with
law points and arguing their respective
sides Tor their own satisfaction, as nobody else
listened. The question at the bottom OF this mass