The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-24


present term, cycepl this, n 1.
ILouaft, viii b. decided befOf,
ndIonrniucni. one NJ these, what has
been pnlled the "Cnplinl Tax," from
Maryland, arising under n statute Ol
the state pissed IN 1872, which secures
10 the state one.nnll Of the gross
amount received by the company be-.
fore tile counsel Of the company, nd.
ylsed that this tax was demonstrations
al. The company had paid into the
state treasury more than three mill
/ lion dollars, ana had paid In dividends
/ to the state, rs II stakeholder In the
/ branch rOad, and ~ stakeholder In the
main road, more than three million
| dollars.
Secretary Dclano will certainly re-
sign.
Sir Edward Thornton has over one
/ hundred eases referred to him rs UNI
pire for the Mexican commission, and
will not reach test case-deciding the
responsibility of the sacking of Bag
dad at the mouth of the Rio Grande-
very soon.
The steamer Swatara was at Mel
bourne on the 22d of February.
Attorney General Williams has re-
signed, to take effect on the 10Th OF
May. No successor has been named.
| Williams goes home, hoping to come
back as senator from Oregon.
Nothing tangible can be obtained re-
garding the rumOred retiracy of Delano
rs secretary of the Interior.
New YORK, April 22,-A dispatch to
the Sun from Washington says the SUI
preme court will adjourn on the 3D. of
May. Although there has been no
formal conference or vote on the Lou
isiana case, which involves the consti-
tutionality of the enforcement act.
there is good reason to believe that
this tribunal, by II large majority, will
sustain the decision of Justice Brad
ley in the court below, and declare all
this legislation to be void and without
constitutional warrant. The opinion
will be reserved until the meeting of
the court next fall.
New ORLEANS, April 22.-The Re-
publican claims that the action of the
democrats in unseating four republi-
cans aud seating four democrats in
| their places was II gross breach OF the
plighted faith of that party. They say
| the legislature had come together with
| the same personal as when 1t adjourned
at the close of the regular session, and
had made all the changes recommends
ed in the award. Both bodies had then
adopted II resolution that the house
| should remain without change, except
| by designations or death of members,
until II new general election. The re-
publicans contend that the only argu-
ment of any right offered 10y the DEM
ocratic majority that carried the meas
ure was that the members unseatcd
| had not been returned by
| the returning board, whose
other acts that same majority have re-
peatedly denounced as illegal. These
republicans had been seated after COLI
test, and represented parishes which
had heretofore been strongly republic
can. The Republican in its leaders
this morning says what the result will
be is difficult to predict. The outraged
| minority in the house have no remedy
in the senate, where the relations are
reversed, but no one believes the re-
publicans will put themselves as much
in the wrong as their opponents by re-
taliating on the democratic minority
! in that Ody. But what opportunity
of pressing measures of reform can
such Il body as that which now con-
trolls the house afford: What
guarantee now have the people that
the adjustment they believed in will
produce harmony in this distracted
state? 1t is plain that the democrats,
| in taking the responsibility OF break
ing faith with the republicans, have
| broken the compact, confirmed the
truth of the argument that they in
tended no justice to their opponents,
rendered all but partisan legislation
impossible, destroyed the hope of bet
ter days and less bitter feeling, wdened
the breach between the people of each
side, turned the effort for reform into
a struggle for Office and defeated every
effort for the benefit of the people
which the compromise was intended
to promote.
The senate passed the joint resolu-
ton suspending Auditor Clinton from
| office pending the impeachment trial.
The senate resolved itself intoa court
of impeachment to impeach Charles
linton of high crimes and INSIDE
N eanors in Office, and notified the
| Ouse of their action, and also appointed
committee to prepare rules to govern
he senate when sitting as a court of
| impeachment.
The house passed a joint resolution to
extend the extra session to May 9th by
q vote of yeas siXty-two, nays fifteen.
The house passed the city rel eff bill
authorizing the city to hypothecate
and lease city property; also to lease
the city water works for forty years,
payable in city obligations of any
kind also authorizing the council to
make arrangements with bondholders.
The senate received cOmmunica-
/ ton from Clinton praying for further
examination of his books by experts.
No action was taken.
The vote on taking up the Clinton
impeachment resolution in the senate
to-day was, yeas twenty-five, nays ten.
Governor Kellogg was on the floor of
the senate again to-day endeavoring to
save Clinton.
The railroad war was inau gurated
here to-day. The fare via the Jackson
route to New York was reduced to $50.
Reductions to other points in proper
ton.
KEY WEST, April 22,.-Advlces from
Havana report one thousand well
mounted insurgents in the jurisdiction
of Loqua and on Friday last they
burned seven large plantations in the
district of Quemada De Los Gunes.
They met with no resistance. Mount
Morez, formerly an officer of the
Spanish army, was in command of an
other rebel cavalry company.
PARIS, April 22.-The Moniteur says
Theirs will be elected to the senate
and may possibly be elected president
of that body, which position he is sure
to hold for life.
TOPEKA, Kansas, April CIT is re-
ported that the Indian prisoners who
escaped from the Cayenne agency on
the 9th instant, are on the CimarrOn
river, about one hundred and fifty
miles south of Fort Dodge, IN the
neighborhood where they rendezvous
ed at the beginning of the war last
summer. 1t is supposed that they
have formed a junction with one
or more of the bands that re-
manned out during the winter, and that
the whole force is probably about five
hundred. They are evidently intent
upon fighting. All the available troops
at Fort Dodge and Fort Hays have
been ordered out after them, with in
structions to gather them in, IL 1t takes
all summer. Troops are also merging
from the south to engage them, and
the military authorities are confident
that they can't escape a collision with
one or the other of the forces march
ing against them.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-An inves-
tination into tha pnnditinu nf winter