The Portland daily press., 1876-08-08

$11 to 10.90l; the condor (Chilian) from 1925
to $9.15, etc. The whole American eagle which
was $40 is now raised to $l003.
Sale of bonds.
The Secretary of the Treasury gives notice
that in order to pay the judgments of the
Commissioner of Alabama Claims, sealed pro.
posals will be received at the Treasury Depart
ment until GOOD, the 18th inst, for the sale of
per cent. coupon or registered bonds of the
funded loan of 1881, bearing interest payable
quarterly from August l, 1876 in lots of not
less than half million dollars, to the total
amount of S216O0O0 These bonds are to be
sold for gold, and payment therefor must be
made within three days after acceptance Pro-
posals should be marked sealed proposals for
loan and addressed to the Secretary of the
Treasury, Washington.
The Venezucsa Cinims.
The Foreign Committee of the House have
adopted a report upon the Venezuela claims, IN
which they say that the investigation has prov
ed the fraudulent character OF the claims and
the truth of the allegations of Venezuela, and
further refusal to respond to the appeals OF
Veuezela cannot be justified, but in view of the
fact that final legislation cannot be reached
this session of Congress, they recommend the
adoption of the following restitution:
Resolved, That the President of the United
States be hereby requested to withhold further
demands upon the government of Venezuela
on account of the awards of the mixed conven-
til the 4th of March, 1877, and the Secretary OF
| State is authorized and directed to suspend all
| further payments to holders of certificates
| awarded by said commission until said time,
| unless Congress shall otherwise direct.
The Mississippi Investigation.
| The report presented by Mr.. Boutwell, 10 be-
| half Of the majority of the Mississippi investi-
| eating committee, reaches the conclusions that
the present Legislature of Mississippi was elect
ed by fraud and intimidation, and is, therefore,
| not legal body; that the resignation of Gov.
Ames was Illegally effected by the Legislature
that the state of Mississippi is at present under
control of political organizations composed
largely of armed men whose common purpose
is to deprive negroes of the free exercise OF
their right of suffrage; that those organizations
will, if left to themselves, retain control by
force and fraud; that the power of the national
government will be invoked and should be ex
ercised in order to make good its guarantees oil
a Republican form of government to the state
Report concludes as follows
| The measures necessary and possible in ar
exigency are three: First, laws may be passed
| by Congress for the protection of citizens il
| respective states; second states in anarchy o.
wherein affairs are controlled by bodies of arm
ed men should be denied representation in Con
| gress; third, the constitutional guarantees O.
| a Republican form of government to every
| state will require the United States, if thest
| disorders increase or even continue and al
| milder measures shall prove Intellectual, to re
mand the state to a territorial condition, are
through system of public education and kint
| means of improvement, change the ideas of tn
| inhabitants and reconstruct the government OF
| a Republican basis.