Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-09
New Congress March
The syndleate-A IRitch.

Syndicate bankers have made q report in
which they state that they are not at liberty
to give the amount of the subscriptions to
the new five per cent. loan of the United
States. lG
1t is reported that Assistant Secretary
Richardson says the indications are that an
| additional cal for $l00,000,000 will be
made Immediately after the one TO be made
on the first Of March, making S200,00O,0 900
In all.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.--Intimations
were given at The Treasury Department
to-day of an additional call on bonds.
There is no official authority for any state
ment to that effect.
Southern Claims.
Among the bills reported from the Com
mittee on Claims, passed by the House to-
day was bill appropriatiDg the various
amounts awarded by the Southern Claims
Commissioners last year in payment for
quaTtermaster and commissary stores fur
nished by loyalists in the South during the
war.
LOutsiana's Electoral Vote.
The Senate Committee on Elections COM
pleted their report on so much of the evi-
denoe as relates 10 the proceedings in con-
nection with the Electoral vote of Louisiana.
The report is brief, merely stating the facts
of the case without recommendation to the
Senate. 1t will be presented Monday. 1t
is concurred in by all the members of the
committee.
The Three Credit MobiIier Commit.
tees.
The Select Committee of the Senate to
consider the Credit Mobilier matter of Sem
ators, held preliminary meeting this morn
ing to discuss informally what is the exact
scope of the duty with which they are
charged, and adjourned to meet again next
Monday. 1t was not decided to-day, but it
is considered quite certain the session of
the committee will be public.
The Wilson committee examined no wit
nesses to-day.
Poland's Committee this morning held a
secret session of two hours and discussed
the evidence preparatory to their final re-
port, to be made in week or ten days.
They only aVait the return of Ames to
close the examination. 1t was decided to
send the Sergeant-st-Arms for him if he is
not heard from to-day. Two kilograms
sent him are unanswered. After the exa.
mination of Ames, Colfax viii be allowed
to offer testimony to show where the ST.
200 deposited in the First National Bank
came from, but the committee expect to
hear all this evidence in one day and then
close. At the request of Judge Hale,
counsel for Colfax, the committee directed
that Ames be notified to bring bis memoran-
dunn book referred to in the testimony on
bis return.
Proposition for the Government to
Assume Southern States Debts.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Elm the art of
discovering highways to the National Trea-
sury the men who now hold sway in the
Southern States seem TO be beyond
all competition. The latest scheme
is to get the General Govern
ment to assume and pay about one
hundred and twenty-five millions OF State
indebtedness. 1t takes the usual form, to-
wit: tie United States shall lend its
credit, or in other words, indorse the bonds
of these States, which appear on the verge
of bankruptcy and reputation. Wild and
improbable as this proposition may appsa r,
it is said to meet the appreciation of
nearly all the Southern men in Con
gress. They use as an argument that these
debts have been contracted by the action
OF The General Government in thrusting
upon the South the reconstruction acts and
class Of men who squandered the peoples
money, and that the only way out is The
adoption of the plan proposed.