Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-01-15

THE Nebraska Legislature was organized,
on the 7th by the election of N. K, Griggs as
President of the Senate and E. ToWle as
| Speaker of the House.
B. G. BOONE mas been chosen Speaker of the
Missouri House of Representatives.
BoTH houses of the State Legislature of
Louisiana were in session on the 7th. The
Conservatives were in caucus.
THE pastors of some of the churches of Little
| Rock, Ark, on the 7th published a eardlpro-
testing against Sheridan's statement that
terrorism existed in that State, claiming that
no such terrorism had existe1ce there, and
that there was no repressioG of public opinion
private action except that imposed by an
ordinary code of laws. sa# j@
EN-. HAINEs was elecsa Speaker of the
Illinois House Of Rearesss es On the 7th,
by a vote of 81 to 68. .s55
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the Sth says
the Administration would await official in
formation as to the condition of affairs prior
to the time Gen. Sheridan took command of
the department before deciding definitely
upon report to Congress.
ON the Sth Hon. A. G. Glenn (Dem.) was
chosen President of the Illinois Senate on the
twenty ninth ballot, by vote Of 26 to % for.
Mr.. Early.
DIR. COLEMAN, of Toledo, Ohio, has been
elected Bishop of the newly created Episcopal
Diocese in Wisconsin. .se
e ON the 9th Mr.. Schumacher testified before
the Pacific Mail Investigating Committee in
regard to the disposition of the $275,O0O
Oh 10 bo had ha hrO1x II n
into smaller amounts, at the request of Mr..
Irwin, and distributed all but $4,000 of it to
other parties, ON the assurance of Mr.. Stock
well that it was not to be used for any inn
proper purpose. He gave the greater part of
the amount to railroad attorney, Lyman
Elmore, and to- Gen. Morgan l.. Smith, lately
deceased Mr. Schumacher had no informa-
ton to which he could swear positively that
any portion of the $275,OOO went or was di-
rected to 90 to any member or officer OF the
Forty second Congress, and had no informa-
ton that any clerk Or other employe of the
House received money. 1t was stated before
the committee that Representative Storm, of
Pennsylvania, had been offered 81 900 to vote
in favor of the subsidy, which he refused.
AN official report concerning the troubles in
New Orleans on the organization of the State
Legislature has been made by Gen. Sheridan,
in which he insists that the course taken by
the military authorities was justifable and
necessary to prevent violence and bloodshed,
and that the Conservatives first called on Gen.
de Trobriand for his interference. l.. A.
Witt, the Conservative Speaker, has
also made statement, in which he
says he did not call on the General
for his interference further than to request
him to address few words to parties seeking
to create disturbance at the time of his at
tempting to perfect an organization.
THE Common Council of New Orleans, at
the suggestion of the Mayor, has resolved
that the statements ss Gsr-. Sheridan in regard
to the condition of Soc sty in that city and
State, and the insecurity of life and property,
are unfounded.
A LARGELY-ATTENDED indignation meeting,
engineered and mainly attended by leading
Democrats, was held in Cooper Institute, New
York, on the evening of the 18th, to protest
against the recent action of the Federal au-
thorities in New Orleans. Mayor Wickham
presided, and resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing military interference in State affairs
and condemning Gen. sheridan's dispatches.
THE Tilton- -Beecher suit was fairly begun
on the 11th, Mr.. Morris, Tilton's counsel, de-
livering the opening speech
THE Republican members of the Louisiana
Legislature have made report concerning
the proceedings of the 4th in that body, which
substantiates the report heretofore made by
Gen, Sheridan. The public schools in New
Orleans were opened on the 11th On the
evening of that day largely attended Re-
publican meeting was held in New Orleans,
at which resolutions were adopted indorsing
the kilograms of Gen. Sheridan, and stating
that his representations were only defective
in that they did not tell half the story of out
RACES to which Republicans in Louisiana had
been subjected in years past.