Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-21


says the House Judiciary Comm ttee had agreed to
present an amendment to the Constitution fixing
the Presidential term at four years and making
the incumbent forever Ineligible for reelection.
According to New York dispatch of
the 18th the attempt to call Congregational
council for the purpose of deciding the Question
to the right of Plymouth Church TO drop Mrs.
Mouton from It's list of members had finally failed.
lii arranging the list, the names of DR..
Storrs and pr. Buddington were included, and
to these the committee of Plymouth Church OBJ
jecte6 on the ground that they were partial.and
hostile to the church. When some of the other
churches learned thatDrs. Storrs'Y and Budding
toms churches were to be left out they declined
to serve, and the calling of council was aban-
doncd q Mrs. MOulton, on being appriscd Of this
condition of affairs, through her cotnscl sent a
long letter to- the Plymouth. Church Com
mittec, declining TO treat with them fur
thcr in : relation to a mutual council. She
thought the action of the church would be con-
sidered byaall jast men as deliberate attempt to
avoid Investigation as to the guiltsof the Ply.
mouth pastor. At business meeting OF Ply
mouth Church in the evening Mr.. Beecher spoke
in relation to the affair and said he was glad to be
able to state that the other side had given
up the mutual council altogether. They
had backed down because Plymouth Church
had objected to some of the churches. He had
never believed that Mrs. MoGlton had asked for
the council with sincerity, and it was never de-
clined by the church. This declaration on her part
rendered it Imperative to Invoke the advisory
council to investigate and determine whether
the church had acted properly. They should is
sue at the earliest possible moment the letters
mssiye calling it.
On the 14th the Louisiana State Senate
1opted resolution instructlng Gov. Kellogg to
send militia to the parishes of East and West
Feliciana and East Baton Rouge to assist the
courts in executing the laws against the so-called
regulators. In case the militia proved
insufficient the Governor was instructed to
report the fact to the Legislature, when
the propriety of calling on the Presi-
dent to restore order in the disturbed
districts would be considered. A committee
from the House called upon the Governor and
notified him of the election of Mr.. Eustis as
United States Senator and asked for the neces-
sary credentials, which Mr.. kellogg declined to
furnish, but expressed his willingness to certify
to the House proceedings relative to Mr.. Eustis'
election. - j''.
The news received in New York on the
18th lcft4littlc doubt that the American ship Har-
vest Queen had been sunk in the Irish Channel
and her entire crew of thirty men drowned. The
disaster is supposed to have been caused by a
collision with the steamer Adriatc early on the
morning of the Dist ult
A London dispatch of the 10th says the
English National Rifle Association had accepted
the challenge of the American Rife Association
to compete in match for the championship of
the world at Philadelphia during the Centen-
NAL.
Admiral Krabbe, Russian Minister of
Marine, is dead, and Vice-Admiral LessoWski has
been appointed his successor.
A Rome dispatch of the 10th says the
Vatican had instructed the Archbishops of Co
logne and Trcvcs to endeavor to find means to
avoid deposition from their sees
A Sioux City Qowa) special of the 18th
says the Sioux in the Upper Missouri country
represented by Sitting Bull were preparing for
war and were threatening the destruction of the
frontier settlements.
Mrs. Johnson, widow of the late eX-
President Johnson, died at the residence of her
daughter near Grccnville, Tenn, on the night of
the 18th. ..., s..
d. w. Mum, eX-SupcrvisOr Of Internal
Revenue has been held to bail IN the sum of
S15, VOst0 appear at MILWAUKEE, TO answer 10 the
charge of conspiracy to dcfraud the United
States, and also for accepting brides. These
charges Mr. Mum emphatically denies. Several
of the Chicago distilers and reCtfers have &C
knowledged themselves guilty in open court OF
the charges preferred against. them, and ex-
pressed their will ngness to tell all they know
concerning the ring frauds and the revenue Of
fcias and others engaged in them.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th says
that representation had been made to the Prcsi-
dent that the laws of the United States were OBJ
struetcd in several of the Louisiana parishes.
United States Dist.-Atty. Bockwith would
be instructed to bring all illegal combinations, as
well as individual offenders, to trial under the
Enforcement act. The President was deter
mined to preserve OrdertO the extent of his con-
stitutional power.
It.was stated in Washington on the 10Th
that Secretary Chandler had appointed, com
mission to examine intotthe. suspended pension
cases and had directed payment wherever no
actual fraud barred the grant of pension.
Elk, Gauger McGrif has been, tried at
indianapolis and found guilty on nine of twelve
counts of an Indictment against him for being
concerned in revenue frauds. One of the counts
on which he was convicted was for receiving a
bride of $500 from the Bingham brothers.