The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27

sins then placed the corpse on horse, earned
it away and threw it into the Tennessee River.
Washington.
Representative Springer, of Illinois, pro-
poses an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, prohibiting special legislation
by Congress in granting pensions, bountles,
lands, or prize money to any person or persons
or for correcting the records OF any department
of the Government in reference thereto; grant
ing relief or authorizing the payment of any
claim against the United States or any officer
thereof, except appropriations in general laws
to pay the judgments of courts or commission
ers authorized by law renting fines penal
ties or forfeitures creating, increasing. or.
of public officers during the term for which
said officers are elected granting subsidies or
special privileges to railroad corporations, and.
in various other cases.
Secretary Fish has laid before the Foreign
Spain concerning Cuba. The important part
of the correspondence is the letter of Nov. 5
to Mr.. Cushing, about which rumors have been
flying through the air ever since Congress
assembled. The note contains no imperative
demand upon the Spanish Government. 1t
sets forth the long continuance or the lnsur-
rection, with its evil effects upon our COM
MERGE and upon the property of Americans In
Cuba, and incidentally alludes to the inhuman-
tiles practiced by the contestants. Mr.. Fish
does not consider that the note amounts to an
| actual attempt at intervention. neither does he
admit that application has been made to any
other government for countenance or co-opera-
ton in intervention. ALI that was done, he
| decreasing the fees, percentages, or allowance
saws, was to inclose copies of the note to
Mr.. Cushing to our several Ministers in
Europe, who were authorized to read the
dispatch to the governments to which
they are accredited, and suggest verbally the
question whether those governments could CO.
incide with the United States in the propositions
for pacifcation. Mr.. Fish declines, as yet, to
make public the number and intent of the an
swers he has received, as he considers that
i publicity for the time being is incompatible
with public interests. On the whole, Mr.. Fish
entertains hopeful expectation that the Cuban
question will be settled peacefully.
4 It is said that the real obstruction to Pinch
| backs admission to the Senate at present is
the question whether there is dejure Govern
ment in Louisiana. Until this question Is set
tied by the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons. Pinchback will not succeed in obtaining
vote of the Senate.
The House Committee on Appropriations has
completed the Consular and Diplomatic bill.
The estimates of last year were 81, 352, 385. and
the amount appropriated 81, 351, 285. The pres
ent bill appropriates $911 lat. The salaries OF
the Ministers to Great Britain, France, Ger
many, and Russia are reduced from ST. QUO to
$14O 600 each. The Ministers to Spain, Austria,
Brazil. Mexico, Japan, and China from $f2, O0O
to $4,000. The Minister to Italy from 81, 00O
to $4,000. The salaries of all other officers
are reduced in about the same proportion.
Senator Christiancy has introduced bill
looking to the punishment of polygamy ID
| Utah It provides that in any trial for hgamy
! or polygamy, it be sufficient cause for challenge
and for the rejection of any juror, first, that
he has more than one wife living in said Terri
tory, whether married by ordinary rites, or by
the so-called sealing ceremony; or, second,
that he believes it morally right for man &c
1--we with more than one wife, If the panel is
thus exhausted, talesmen may be summoned
till the requisite number OF jurors be obtained.
The committee appointed by the st. Louis
Railroad Convention to wait upon the Presi-
dent and present him with copies of the reso-
lutions and proceedings Of that body fulfilled
their mission the other day, and President
Grant is represented as saying that he would
like to see a competing line to the Pacific con-
structed, but he did not say he would like tc
see such competing line constructed by Gov
eminent guarantee of bonds.
The House Military Committee will recon-
mend the transfer of the Indian Bureau from
the Interior to the War Department..
1t is said that the Ways and Means Commit
tee are preparing great surprise for the coun
try, and that there will shortly be sprung upoI
the House Tariff bill radical in its changes
The free list is to be increased, the tax on tel
and coffee restored, the customs revenue to b.
, collected from articles on which specific dut,
can be imposed, and the complicated workings
OF the tariff system abolished. With thes'
! changes it is said the revenue force of official
can be largely reduced, the opportunities TO
! smuggling and evading duties very much di
minished and the cost of collecting the revenu'
cut down in every direction The Western Dem
: ocrats favor the revival of the income tax t.
offset the tax on tea and coffee, but it is no
believed such recommendation will b.
adopted.
The pote of Secretary Fish to Minister Cush
ing has been published. 1t embodies the view
of our Government on Spanish misrule in Cub
island for the past seven years, and recites tn
numerous causes our people have for com
plant as relates to the manner of carrying OF
, the war there, notably the barbarity practicet
by Spain and her evident inability to bring it t.
close. The fact of slavery existing at on
very doors forms an important feature of TIL
: prievanca and the leading foreign powers ar