Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-29
General News Summary.


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Washington News.
The National Woman's Suffrage Association
commenced its session ct Washington on th'
18th, Susan B. Anthony presiding.
The Patent Rights Convention met at Wash
ington on the 18th, and elected NJ Thatcher
Of that city, President.
The Cheap Transportation Convention, In
session In Washington, adjourned sine die on
the nth, the next session TO be held at Rich
mond at . time TO be fixed by the Executive
Committee. Before adjournment Josiah
Quincy WAS elected President, with Vice
President from each State, and X. II. Fergu.
son, Secretary. The majority report OF the
Committee on Railways was adopted, declar'
ing In substance:
That relief must come from legislation, by which
our system Of railways can be regulated and I'm
proved, and By competition, which will complete
ly carry out the reform which legislation must In
Iugurate; recommending national law providing
or q Bufesu of Commerce and Transportation,
tc.; that members OF the associati0n shall en-
eayor 70 obtain the passage OF certain laws In
hen respective States, including q law prohibit.
ng all railway companies from making unjust and
excessive determinations against places which
are not competing points, and law obllging
all railway companies 70 transport the cars o.
impartial compensation, with the same dispatch a.
for belonging exclusively 10 said roads; call
ing for legislation making 1t penal ofcnse for
railway company, and prohibiting railway com
panies from granting passes 70 other than en-
ployes;. and declaiming against the grant
mendinp that railways and canals be constructed
by the National Government, the manner OF con-
strncting railways TO be by contract TO the lowest
bidder; that when constructed they should be used
for the transportation of Government property,
and when not required for Government USE all cit-
zcns are to have the right 10 place cars and ocom0
the regulations to be provided by the Govern
ment, they paying toll therefor sufficient to man-
tain the roadway.
Resolutions were also adopted:
That the convention ask Of Congress, as means
OF afording relief to the country the enlargement
OF the Erie CaDsl and lake route, the enlargement
and extension Of the Illinois & Michigan Canal to
the Mississippi River, al Rock Island, together
River; the Improvement Of the Mississippi River
and the Tennessee River route, the latter being
known a. the Atlantic d Great Western Canal
tho extension Of the Chesapeake q Ohio Canal
from Cumberland, Md, to some point on the Ohio
River, and the control Of water line through Viz
gina.
The President, on the 10Th, nominated Nor
rison X. Waite, Of Ohio, for Chief-Justice Of
the Supreme Court. Mr. Waite Is n resident
OF Toledo, Ohio, and is sixty years OF age.
In the Woman's Suffrage Conventioniwbich
was recently held In Washington, Vice-Presi-
dent Wilson said: Twenty years ago came
TO the conclusion that my wife, my mother
and my sisters were as much entitled to the
right of suffrage as myself, and have not
changed my mind since"
Senator Oglesby, Of Illinois, made his
maiden speech In the United States Senate on
the Goth. In presenting the memorial of the
National Board of Trade on the Transports
ton question he advocated the adoption Of
measures by which Congress should take into
Its own hands the matter OF transportation.
He declared that competition between rail-
roads had utterly failed TO correct the evils OF
which the people complained, and that the
common law afforded no adequate remedy.
President Grant has approved the bill re-
pealing all parts Of the Salary act Of March,
1873, except such ~ increase the salaries of
the President and Justices Of the Supreme
Court.
The United States Senate on the 2lst unani.
mously confirmed the nomination OF Mr..
Waite Tor Chief-Justice, nine Senators not
voting. Those absent or not voting were:
Alcorn, Ames. Dennis, Dorsey, Hamilton
(Md.), Johnston, sprague, Sumner, Window.
Foreign Intelligence.
At meeting in Madrid on the 18th, ofDep-
ties, constituting q majority Of the late
Cortes, vote Of confidence In Senior CASTELAR,
was adopted, and he was requested to prepare
q manifesto to the nation.
AS Hawkins, counsel for the prosecution in
re- Ttnbt ra.y - -.
10th, he was mobbed by friends Of the ITCH
borne claimant. The police intcrfered to
save him from their violence, and four per-
sons were arrested.
A threatening article In a recent number of
the North German Gazette on the policy of
France with regard to the Papal questions ex-
cites uneasiness and Indignation In Rome and
Paris. LOptsion rationale says: "Notwith-
standing their recent success the Prussians
are still ignorant Of that noblcncss which re-
Trains from insulting the conquered"
At Paris, on the Goth, United States Minis
Ger Washburnc, on behalf Of the French res.
idents of Philadelphia, presented ex- President
Theirs with gold medal. In his speech Mr.
Washburns alluded to the friendship OF
France for the United States during her armed
revolution, and eulogized the French people
who have taken up their residence In thu
United States. Theirs expressed his thanks
TO his countrymen In the United States for thu
manifestations Of their confidence la him, ant
declared that q Republic was the only govern
ment possible In France; consequently thu
bond Of friendship between the two nations
would be made stronger.
II was reported In London on the Goth tina
the King of the Ashantees had sent an embassy
70 General Woolsley, asking for peace and Of
fering indemnity.
In the French Assembly on the Goth, tn,
Duke de Cazcs stated that the Government
was solicitous for the Welfare and spiritua
independence Of the Pope; but, at the sam,
time, sincerely desired to maintain relations O
harmony and friendship with Italy. The Gov
eminent would labor necessarily to proven
misunderstanding with any power, for pcac,
was necessary to the prosperity Of France
The Duke said he made this statement will
the full concurrence of President MacMahon
The German Reichstag has been convoked
for the 5th OF February.