The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-02-11

/ Itssst Ctsstue3S ue3S.SyAWtootOn, auu tn0 SOmmlts
tee NM iSonsidsfef this case as prs-
sehting the question as to whether
parties who accepted an award of the
Southern CLAIMS Commission could
come before Congress for the portion
disalIowed by that Commission, and
had decided. that they could not do
so. rHHy therefore, asked that the bill
be inaehnitely postpone5; 90. ordered.
Cragin, from the Committee on Mill
tafy Affairs. reported adversely on a
bill authorizing the President b6 purI
chase q site for coaling station for
the Navy Department and. other Go
vernment uses at Fore Point. Port
Royal South Carolina, and it was in
definitely postponed. Gordon, of
Georgia, introduced bills to remove
the political disabilities OF s. D. Lee
and o. r. Singleton. of Mississippi.
Ho also presented memorial OF Mayor
and City Council OF Atlanta. Georgia.
III favor vi having the bill making iaai
place port Of delivery recommitted
to the Committee. on Commerce, and, ,
on motion Of Gordon. the bill was re-
committed. Harvey, OF Kansas, pre-
sented resolution of the Legislature
OF that State, endorsing the message
of the President in regard to Louisian
aud expressing confidence in Generul
Sheridan. The Senate bill to grant a
site for the Peabody School in st. Au.
gustine, Florida. was taken up, to
which thore was nn amendment
pending. submitted last session
by Edmunds. providing that, if ut any
time any distinction shall be made on
the admission of pupils, on account OF
race or color, the site shall revert to
the United States. and it was rejected
-yeas %; nays "a; Cameron, Ferry.
OF Connecticut. Gilbert. Ingalle, Nor
rill, Of Vermont. Schurz and Sprague
being among those who voted in the
negative. Aicorn, of Mississippi, said
the vote just taken indicated tho fact
that the Republicans had become tho
roughly defnoralized on the subject
OF civil rights, aud he felt CON
strained to vote against the bill.
1t could be construed in no other way
than as an intimation that if the trus-
tees OF the school choose to do so, they
might exclude colored children from
it's benefits. Morrill,. of Vermont,
denied that such construction
would be justified. He hoped this in.
stituton, which was O private ono,
would make no distipction on account
OF color. The bill was then passed
without division. Aicorn voting in
TeieBraphic--cofntn tneroini Reports.
COLUMBIA. February 1O.-Cotton
hrm-middling I4L@l42E; sales 1876
bales. MI
NEW York. February 1O-Noon.-
Stocks dull. Money ~. Gold 142<.
Exchange-long SO; ehort 4.89. Got
ton quiet; sales l,583-uplands 1851;
Orleans 16. Futures opened inactive: {:
February Is 11-16@l5%; March 1877
@l513i6: April 161k116 3:16: Nav
16 7-l6@16H; June Is II 16(a16L.
Flour, corn and wheat dull and de.
olining. Pork heavy-mess 10 37Id.
Lard steady-steam IA.
z P. M.-Money more active, at
21e@3 Exchange unsettled and lower
-4.S51s. Gold frm-l4M@14al.
Governments active and strong. State
bonds quiet and eteady. Cotton quiet:
sales 1854, at 155s@16. Southern
nour quiet and heavy-4 7008. 10.
Wheat dull. heavy and l92c. lower
l.lS@l. % winter red Western. Corn
opened firm, but closed with holders n
little more disposed to realize; dill
Guilty in moving corn in the river, 10
consequence of the ice blockade, ma.
terially checks tran ansactions- 65@
8l1a. Coffee dull and nominal. Sugar
tirm-7R@85s. Molasses Quiet
prime New Orleans 60@62Ia. Rice
dull and unchanged. Pork dull-new
mess job lots 49, 25. Beef qniet. Lnrd
1rmer-prime steam IA l-lG. Whis-
key irregular and unsettled-l. OS(0
LILO. Freights to Liverpool quiet
cotton. steam, 5 l6. Cotton net re-.
ceipts 643; gross 1,775. Futures closed
hrm; sales l6,800: February 1867;
March Is Is 16. Is 27-32; April 10 .it.
16 1882; May 16 Is 80, l6x;, June
16 25 80. l6 1916; July II 80,
II 1.16; August 171s, II $50; Septem.
ber nominally 165S.
NEW ORLEANS, February 1O.-Cot
son quiet and frm-middling 15L:
net receipts $3.50; gross $3.50; sales
3. 500; stock 296. 739.
SAVANNAH. February IO.-Cotton
drm-middling 1876; net receipts
3.273; gross 3.288; exports France
3. 140; coastwise S87; sales 2.469; stock
so. 500.
MOBILE, February 10.-Ootton
ateady-middling Is; net receipts 682;
gross 682; exports ooastwise TIT; sales
I 6()1. atorb "a I71