The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-22
WASHINGTON.

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WAsHmcrox, Dec. q. - The Mississippi
delegation in the interest Of levees, col9st
ing Of Judge Jehiies, Col. Haycran ana Coi
Bruce, Federal Senator elect, VISITED m
President to-day. These gentlemen nad pre-
yiously visited the Commission on Levees
| The President favored general system o
levees, as partial systems, while protecting
one norton damaged another, and that T.
make the system efectul there must b.
concert
The committee spoke highly of the Presi
dents knowledge Of what is requisite to saw,
the alluyial lands bordering on the Missis
sippi. its tributaries and its outlets. Hay
craft and Bruce leave tonight and Jefries vii
remain.
The Commission of Engineers upon Leveel
are not entirely in accord. The civilian mem
bers favor that their report should contain I
Recommendation. The army engineers doub
their right to make suggestions or recommen
dstioDs to Congress and propose dreary
array of scieace.
The Republican Senators held . caucus
this afternoon at the solicitation Of the
Southern Republican Senators and Represen.
tatives, at which the condition of the South
was considered. The Senators from the South
advocated the sending of troops to several Of
the States of that section. They feared that
the Republican parry was hopeleesly dead
unless decisive steps wers taken, during the
present session, to put down the turbulent
whites they confessed their inability to poll
white votes.
The Northern Senators did not indorse the
proposition, and some of them openly ex-
pressed themselves against further interfer-
ence with the affairs Of the South, saying they
had lost m,ny votes in the North by it.
Senator Lewis, Of Virginia, declared the
Republican party had lost power in the South
because of the bad character of many of its
would-be leaders and the advocacy Of the
Civil Rights bill, which he considers most
Ubiquitous measure.
The South could only be carried for the
Republican party, a. at present organized,
by sending soldiers enough there to prevent
the people from voting.
The majority evidently agreed with him. as
before Q vote was taken, many Senators left
the room, and Senator Morton, who was re-
lied upon by the extreme Republicans, did
not come to their relief
WASHINGTON, Dec 2l-A Presidential proc
lamation, dated to-day, commands all disor-
derry persons in Warren county, Miss and
vicksburg. to return to their homes and alb
stain from forcible resistance to the law, and
submit themselves to the lawful authority Of
that county and State.
The House Elections Committee decides in
favor Of Snyder, from the Second Alabama
District.
Neutrality-suspicious. E. Parson, as District
Judge OF Alabam, vice Busted, resigned
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-In the Senate, Mr..
Chandler, from the Committee on Commerce,
reported with amendment the House bill to
provide for the further security Of navigation
on the Mississippi River. As reported the bill
authorized the Secretary Of War to inquire
into the expediency Of causing shear booms
TO be placed on the upper end Of oil or any
bridge piers ON the Mississippi River for the
Of said river for RATS of logs and lumber.
The amendment strikes out the portion
directing the Secretary Of War to require all
bridge companies to place pier beams over
piers Of bridges, the same TO be constructed
and maintained at the expense Of such COM
panies or bridge owners.
Mr.. Flanagan, of Texas, read an article
from the New York Herald Of the 10Th inst
charging him with pocketing the nominations
of certain postmasters in Texas, and said the
were brought to him by the
chairman of the Committee on Postofices and
Postroads. There was no objection to the
San Antonio Postmaster, and he 90 informed
the chairman, but the other two we're held
over for investigation. He thought it an un-
happy lick for the Republican party to remove
these two Postmaster.
Hamilton, of Maryland, introduced bill
to reimburse the State of Maryland for arms
and munitions of war furnished during the
late war. Referred to Committee on Military
Affairs