Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-07
WASHINGTON M44TIERS.

There was test vote in the Senate, Tues
day, on the proposed modification Of the
bankrupt law, which indicates by majority
of two to one that the Senate favors liberal
izing the present law rather than repeating
it altogether. Monday Mr.. Oglesby Of Hi
nois proposed to strike out that feature of the
amendment which gives the debtor forty
days time to protect his commercial paper
before he can be forced into bankruptcy. 1t
also exac.s that one. third of the interest of
the creditors shall be required to force bank
ruptcy after the expiration OF the time named.
The present law only gives fourteen days.
The Senate, by 81 to Is, decided to extend
the period to forty days. and then proceeded
generally to accept the remaining liberal fea-
lures of the proposed Senate amendments.
Gen. Harvey, whose name exercised such
a wholesome terror over the hostile Indians a
score of years ago, was before the House
Committee on Military Affairs, Tuesday, and
was asked to give his views in reference to
Indian matters. He gave it as his opinion
that if the Indians were treated fairly there
would never be any difficulty with them. He
had known but two instances in which they
had ever violated treaty stipulations, and in
those two instances the Indians were to be
excused, for the treaties had grown old before
they were sought to be enforced by the gov
eminent, and the chiefs and the head men
who had made them were all dead. The
trnuhlns wi i'll, tho Indians wara pripripallv
caused by fraudulent agents and whiskey
dealers. He had never known an Indian
agent who had not grown rich in office, ex
cept one. On being asked how the whiskey
sellers could be suppressed, he answered,
without hesitation, that they should be hang
ed or shot by the nearest military officer.
He would have the officer take that response
bility. He was decidedly of opinion that the
management Of the Indians would be much
more efficiently and honestly conducted hy
army officers than civilians, unless army Off
GERS had changed very much since he knew
them.
The action of the House on the military
appropriation bill, now before it, in limiting
the number of recruits to $4,000 men, is
practically a reduction of the force. The
Committee on Military Affairs, which has
had this subject under consideration for some
time, and has taken a large amount Of testi-
mony from the Secretary of War and leading
officers Of the army, it is understood, will
now report a bill fixing the number of en-
listed men at $4,000.
In case the Committee on Ways and Means
the Sanborn contracts for collecting arrears of
income tax, one branch of the Credit Mohil
Ter story will again be revived. 1t will be
understood that James Brooks, deceased, in
the early part of the Credit Mo5i!ier investi-
cations protested that he was not the owner
of single share Of Credit Mobilier stock.
1t was subsequently, proved, upon inves,iga-
ton Of the books Of the Crel lit Mobilier
Company, that certain number of the shares
upon which large dividends had been paid
were charged to one Nelson, the son.ic-law
of Brooks, and that the books where the en-.
try was made bore evident traces of a pre-
vious erasure. 1t is understood that one of
the persons from whom arrears Of income tax
have been collected is Nelson, he having
failed to return the amounts raised for the
Credit Mobilier stock charged to him on the
books. The fact that he had not returned
the dividends on this stock as a person in.
come may perhaps be construed to show that
the stock did not stand in his name.