The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-21
TEXAS AND PACIFIC.
WASHINGTON.
Andrew JOIlnsOn's Credentials
Presented 10 the Senate.
The Louisiana Committee In
Favor of Seating the
Ousted Members.

WASHINGTON, February 20.-Matt
Carpenter occupied his seat in the SEN
ate to-day,
The Indian appropriation bill is
being considered.
a Washington special to the Bal
timore Sun says the house COM
mittee will make two reports, one in
favor Of seating the mem bers expelled
10y the military and the other recog.
nizing Kellogg.
Senator Andrew Johnson's creden-
tinls were presented to the senate to-
day.
A resolution appointing committee
Of five TO sit during recess and examine
the various branches of the civil SER
vice and report by bill or otherwise,
with view to its reorganization, was
introduced.
A resolution giving wounded sol
diers, and the widows and orphans of
those who died in the line duty prefer
ence in civil offices, was passed by a
vote of one hundred and thirty-siX to
eight.
Mr.. Alcorn introduced bill for the
relief of the overtlowed Mississippi
river land.
The Indian appropriation bill was
then taken up but gave way to enlo.
ges. The debate in the house to-day
was on the motion made 10y Mr.. Bur
chard, of Illinois, to'strike out of the
tariff bill the fifth. section, which pro-
vides for the restoration of the ten per
cent reduction on manufactured goods.
Nearly all of the Pennsylvania men,
bers, democrats as well as republicans,
spoke in favor of retaining this
section. The single exception was in
the case of Mr.. Storm, a Pennsylvania
democrat, who to the amazement and
chagrin of all his colleagues, supported
the motion to strike out the section
and avowed himself unqualifiedly a
free trader. The motion to strike out
was lost by vote of eighty-six to
ninety-eight, and then without finish
ing the bill, it was laid aside and eulo-
gies were pronounced on the four re-
Gently deceased memb of the house,
Messrs. Croker and Hooper, of Mas
sachutts, Hersy, of Maine, and Rice,
of Illinois.
The treasury received four millions
dollars in bonds from Europe to-day
for redemption and exchange.
The senate caucussed this morning
on the order of business. There was a
slim attendance. The civil rights bill
was considered but no conclusion was
reached upon any subject.
The Library committee heard Gem
eral Denver and Others.
The Mexican veteran association
favors the equestrian statue in honor
of General lack Taylor.
The Louisiana committee will report
through Mr.. Foster on Tuesday. A
minority report will be sumbitted by
Mr.. G. i. Hoar. The report of the
committee, which will be signed by
Foster, Phelps, Potter and Marshall,
will adhere to the original views pre-
scented in the subcommittee report,
and contain Recommendation that a
resolution urging the proper authorl-
ties on Louisiana to give the control OF
the lower house to the conservatives
members be adopted by the house.
Some of those signing the report will
express their willingness to support a
resolution formally recognizing the
Kellogg government, but this resolu-
tlOu tItlT IepOii ubcS iiot Ut Sp W. tpS
reason that the rights of Kellogg have
not been established by any evidence
taken by the committee, but are ad-
mitted upon regular rumor and as the
best possible solution Of present diff
culties.
A party of United States engineers,
under the command of Colonel b. w.
Frobel, who have for several months
past been engaged on the final surveys
of the Atlantic and Great Western
Canal route through Georgia, to con-
meet the west with the seaboard, have
completed their labors, and will very
soon make an official report. The re-
port will show that there 10 no physical
obstacle In the way of success for q full
prosecution of the work. The line OF
the canal has finally been located. It
passes along the Tennessee river to
Guntersvllle, thence across to Gadsden,
Georgia, on the Coosa river; up that
river to Cooper's min; from thence
across the hattahooche to the head
waters Of the Ocmuigee and down that
stream to the sea. 1t is propos d that
when the river aud hsrbor bill reaches
the senate 10 add ID It an amendment
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