Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-21
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The New York Tribune, commenting
on the subcommittee report on LOU
isiana affairs, says: Gentlemen in
Congress, thatfotten carcass in Louis
lana is past saving; throw it over
board, and for the sake of common
sense and-common decency, wash your
hands.o r sBrR ~
AT the meeting on Louisiana affairs
in Boston, Wendell Phillips protested
against any resolutions .censuring. the
Presidents action on louisiana affairs.
He concluded: "Should you pass
these resolutions, the blood of one
hundred black men and one hundred
white men would be on your skirts.
Four millions Of negroes were called
into freedom to save the nation, and
now you refuse to allow the President
to protect them.p
Six or seven Democratic members of
the Louisiana Legislature have back
ed down, and want to go in with the
Republicans, SO rs to draw per diem
and mileage.
The Republicans of Minnesota, in
caucus, have re-nominated Ramsey
for the u. :. .Seuate, but there is some
dissatisfaction in the party.
! A white man named Blunt killed
three negres the other day, while they
were encamped near Clinton, Louisi-
ana.
The message of the President on
finance, sent to the Senate lately,
with his approval of the Senate bill
for the resumption of specie payment,
calls the attention of Congress to the
necessity for increased revenue to
carry out the obligation of adding to
the sinking fund annually one per
cent. of the public debt, and the
promise of-the bill to redeem $50, ,00O,-
600 of legal tenders, and suggests the
restoration of the duty on tea and
coffee, and the repeal of the ten per
cent. reduction uncertain articles by
the act of June 5, 1872.
Sargent and Page were before the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
+ lately to secure his approval of letters
for bill for the relief of California
brandy distillers. Douglass expressed
himself in favor of a provision author
izing distinctive stamp for native
product.
The Committee of Relief for the
famine-stricken people in Asian Minor
urgently request the English and
American press to let it be known that
their funds are exhausted, while the
distress is increasing. They state it
will be necessary to clothe, feed and
give medical aid to several hundred
thousand persons until next June.
Germany, although wishing to re-
spect the feelings of the Spanish Gov
ernment, considers that she is obliged
to satisfy public opinion and avenge
the insult of her flag. She is disposed
to adopt the same conciliating policy
toward the new Government which
was maintained toward President Ser.
rano, therefore she. claims from the
good will of Spain the satisfaction due
the German flag. fA
AT Urbana, Ohio, u mob took man
named Ullery out of Jail and lynched
him. He had outraged a nine-year-old
girl.
Judge VIM. A. Wallace is the DEM
ocratic nominee for the u. S. Senate
in Pennsylvania.
A reaction among leading Republi-
cans is reported from Washington.
They have decided to recognize and
sustain the Kellogg government in
Louisiana.
The case of the German Bondholders
VS.. the California Pacific Railroad
came up in the u. S. Circuit Court IN
San FranCisco the other morning. The
defendant corporation, it will be re-
mem bered, petitioned in this Court to
have the adverse decision of Judge
Hoffman reviewed and set aside An
order was made by Judge Sawyer for
petitioners in bankruptcy to show
cause why the prayer of-defendants
should not be granted, and the hearing
was set down for that morning; but on
motion of counsel for bondolders, with
the consent of the other side, the mat
ter was continued until the 28th of
February. .t.es. .i,
Rev. DIR. David J. Lee, formerly
rector and founder of st. Luke's Epis-
copal Church, San Francisco, was
drowned in the Amazon river in Au-
gust last. He was in the service of the
London South American Missionary
Society, and was at one time chaplain
of Oriental Lodge, No. IA, +. & A. NJ,
of that city. DR.. Lee was blood rel
ativeof Scotland's bard, Robert Burns.