The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-07
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giving to them legislative powers for the
administration of financial affairs, simi.
lar to those of legislatures of American
States.
ToleErn rnphic-American aIatsors.
TwRED's PRISON LIFR-A CHAPTER IN
TRAGEDY-THE SANTANA BAY sPECULA-
TIoN-THE ARLINGTON EsTATE-THE
TURF-JUsTICE TO CORPORATION
ELECrION RETURNs-sUPREME COURT
Observation-Disclosures OF THE TAX PAY.
ERs' DELEGATION. ETC ETC.
WASHINGTON, April g. In the Senate,
the bill paying school teachers, which
had passed the House, was placsd ON
tho calendar. Tie Georgia planta ars
petition for increase of United States
notes was up, Mr.. Sherman said lie de-
sired to offer one or two amendments,
being notifications of the second and
fourth sections of the bill stricken out,
and he would be glad if the Senate
would allow the finance bill to go over
till Monday. and go on with other bnsi-
ness to-day, Pending discussion, ut the
Request OF Sherman, the Senate took up
the bill providing for payment of bonds
of tie Louisville and Portland Canal
Company, the question being on q mo-
Housn amendment and ask for O COM
mittee Of conference. Chandler moved
to refer the bill to the Committee on
'Commercs. Sherman, Thurman and
Morton advocated the reference of the
bill to the Conference Committee, on
the ground that it should be disposed
OF Immediately, that the Government
might take possession Of the canal, in
4 n Oror M rs !
reduce the tolls thereon to relieve the
oppression tho excessive tolls now
charged by the trustees has upon the
commerce of the West. OonkIing aud
Hamlin doubted the propriety of the
GoYernmene paying any money upon
The bonds until the State of Kentucky
shau cede to the United States jurisdio-
tfon over said canal, and advocated the
reference OF the bill to the Committee
on Commerce. Adjourned without
action.
In tho House, eighty private bills
we're passed. AN adverse report was
made from the Committee on War
Claims in tbs case of J. & Il. Green,
claiming about 81 100000 for property
destroyed by order of General Grant,
during the rebellion. Laid on the table.
The House passed bill to sepd spe-
cial agent and naval officer to Alaska,
to report on the fur trade; also, II bill
authorizing a pontoen bridge across the
Mississippi, at Prairie du Chien. The
House. some time ago. adopted resolu.
ton. directing the Special Committee
on the Washington National Monument
to inquire into the expediency of erect
ing monument over the grave of the
mother Of Washington, ut Fredericks-
burg, Va. A sub committee, accompa-
MED by an engineer of the United
States Arny, will go to fredericksburg
Tomorrow, with reference to this sub.
slect, With o view of reporting to the
House on the subject.
The Comptroller of the Currency de-
clared dividend of % per cent. in fa-
vor of creditors of the Merchants Ma
tionnl Bank, OF Petersburg. Virginia. A
dividend will also be- paid to tho credit.
ors OF the National Bank of New Or
leans OF 20 per cent, as soon as scho
dulles are prepared, making a dividend
OF 90 per cent. in all to the creditors of
that bank.
PHILADELPHIA, April 4.-Fennemore
and Samuel II. lay, arrested by Pinker.
tons Detective Agency for embezzling
while acting as conductors on the New
jersey Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and who pleaded guilty, were
brought up for sentence to-day. Mr..
Casslday, representing the Pennsylva-
nla Railroad Company, said: II desire,
before moving for sentence in these
cases, as counsel Of tho PENNSYLVANIA
Kailroad Company, ut whose instance
these prosecutions were commenced, to
say that our purpose, mainly, in having
the case Of Sprenes called 10 trial was
to demonstrate to the employees Of this
and oil other corporations, rs well as TO
the community, that no combination of
these servants were SO powerful or so
adroit in their management as to be
able to de!y the law; that the law, that
OF tho land, was powerful enough 10
protect the rights of corporations ns
we'll as to reward faithful servants. This
corporation has instructed mo to saw
that they have had no feeling in this
matter, except to vindicate the law, and
TO ask you IN mercy to these men to so
temper your sentence as to prevent i'm
prisonment, and yet impose such pm.
ish hment as will show that this is not in
idle ceremony, but is 10 be warning
Tor the future to all concerned" Tie
Judge said: II very much regret to find
men vho have hitherto occupied re.
spectacle positions now placed OF the
bar OF this court for sentence. I have