The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-04-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Resignation of the Special Treasu
Agent-- Reports Of Committees, etc.

| Ih6 government Is having pkephTel
medal Commemorative of the late Prof
Agassiz and his large work and achieve
ments.
Announcement is made of the accept
ance of the resignation of special treas
ury agent b. F. Jayne, dating March s
| The letter of acceptance, it is said
compliments Jayne for his zeal in the
serviceof the government.
Secretary Richardson has made nego
tiations for exchange of half a millioI
new 5 per cent. bonds for an equa'
amount of per cent. 500 bonds, pal
for par, adjusting the interest to time
of exchange on each, and allowing on
ly one quarter of one per cent. commits
sion.
Official proclamation is ma e by the
president of the ratification of a treaty
between the United States and San Sal
vador for the surrender of criminals
1t properly provides that extraditior
shall not apply to any crime or offense
of political character. The treaty is
to continue for ten years.
The postmaster general and the con
gressional pnst-office committee tind
that the sa aries of a good many post.
masters are too high, and some too low,
and reform is proposed, by which the
salaries in the large cities shall be In
creased, and those in country towns,
ranging now from $1,000 to $4,000, shall
be cut down correspondingly.
The house committee on foreign rela-
tions resumed consideration of the bill
revising the grades and salaries of con-
suls and consuls-general. The most i'm
portant amendment is to establish the
office of consul-general at Berlin, Mel
bourne and the City of Mexico and at
the request of a Hebrew convention
held at Chicago, the committee recon-
mend the establishment of the con-
sulate of Bucharest, in Roumania.
The senate finance committee, in re-
porting the house bill for expectation
of distilled spirits, make important
changes in it by striking the provisions
for an allowance of two per cent. re-
duction for leakage of spirits while in
course of transportation, and by refus-
ingto agree to the second section, which
provides that bonds shall be cancelled
whenever proof is furnished the de-
partment that the spirits were de-
stroyed in transit. Such cases, they
think, should be made subjects of spe-
cisl relief.
The secretary of the interior has
transmitted to the senate an official let
ter from Superintendent Enoch Hoag,
protesting in behalf of the Black Bob
Shawnee Indians of Kansas, against the
passage of the bill introduced in the
house of representatives by Mr.. Cobb
providing for the sale of their lands,
comprising some 33, 900 acres in Kansas,
which have been already extensively oc-
cupied bv trespa sing settlers. Mr..
Hoag says these lands are worth $l5
per acre, whereas the bill provides for
their sale at s..
The house committee on patents has
decided to report adversely on the bill
proposing to appropriate one million
dollars to be disbursed by scientific
commissioner to the inventors of new
and useful articles, machines, etc, dur
ing the next ten years. The committee
took adverse action on Mr.. Killinger's
bill authorizing the commissioner of
patents to extend for seven years any
and all patents for which extensions
may be asked provided 800 be paid into
the United States treasury.
The following is the full text of the
bill, passed by the house on the 18th,
for the free exchange of newspapers be-
tween publishers and the free transmits
sion of nc vspapers by mail within the
county of their publication :: /. News
papers, periodicals and magazines re-
interchanged between pub
fishers and not exceeding 16 ounces
weight, to be confined to a single copy
Of each publication. 2. Newspapers,
one copy to each actual subscriber re-
siding or receiving the same within the
county where the same is published,
but carriers shall not be required TO
distribute such papers unless postage is
paid on them at the usual rates.
In the senate, on the 14th, Mr.. Win
lom called up the bill to enable the
of Russia to effect q perma-
1ent settlement on the public lands of
he United States. In advocating the !
passage of the bill and amendments, he |
spoke of the Mennonites as being an in |
lustrious and energetic class of people, |
and said, to secure their settlement in
his country it was necessary to have
liberal legislation. The Canadian gov
,rnment had offered great inducements
10 have them settle at Manitoba, but |
hey preferred to come to this country. !
{ was not their intention to come here |
n a body to take possession OF large |
racts of public land. Their occupa-
ions were different and they would dis
ribute themselves throughout the west
IN country.
The substitute for Summers civil
lights bill, as reported by the judiciary
provides that all persons
within the jurisdiction of the United
states shall be entitled to the full and
quail enjoyment of inns, public con-
eyances on land and water, theatres
nd other places of amusements, and
lso of common schools and other pub
c institutions of learning, of benevo-
ent institutions supported IN whole or
i part by general taxation, and so sup
orted. subject only to the conditions
nd limitations established by law, and
pplicable alike to citizens of every
ace, and regardless OF any previous
of servitude. Any person
erying to a citizen any privileges con-
erred by the bill shall pay $500 10 the
erson wronged, and shall also be
eemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
pom conviction thereof, shall be fined
ot less than 5000 nor more than 81 900,
r be imprisoned not less than thirty
ays nor more than one year. The dis
riot and circuit courts of the United
tates are given jurisdiction exclusive
1 the courts of the several states, cog
liz mt of all offences against the bill,
nd actions may be prosecuted in any
United States court wherever the de-
endant may be found guilty in regard
D another party. Any district attorney
tho shall wilfully fail to institute and
the proceedings required,
hall for every such offence, forfeit and
ay the sum of $500 to the person ag-
rieved, and upon conviction thkreoi
e guilty of a misdemeanor and hned
OF less than 81 900, nor more than go,
%. No citizen shall be disqualified
IF service as a grand or petit juror in
nv of the United States courts, re- {
aTdIess of race or color, or previous
,ndition of servitude, and any officer
no shall exclude or fail to summon
~ citizen for that cause shall be fined
It more than $500. All cases arising
lder the act may be reviewed by the
preme court OF the United States.
M. Robing, in a paper presented to :
g French academy, thus extols the
rtues of buttermilk "Life exists
lly in combustion, but the combustion |;
nich Occura in Our bodies like tlat