New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-28
Especial Correspondence of the Republican
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.

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Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, June 81, 1876.
The Presidents message, calling the a.
tention of the House to the backwardness
of the appropriation bills and to the detri-
ment to the service likely to follow their
failure, has had the effect to make both
houses little more active. He suggested
that Congress, by . joint resolution, con-
tinue the present allowances in full force
until an adjustment of the present disa-
greements shall have been effected, and
the appropriations for the next fiscal year.
The Democrats, as in duty bound, disap-
proved of the Presidents ''attempt to CO.
cree the House," as they characterized his
action. He is generally commended for his
COURSE however. The Democrats were re-
minded Of their utter disregard of the ruls
requiring that all appropriation bills shall
be reported by the committees having them
in charge within thirty days from the be-
ginning of the session, during the discus
sion that followed the reception of the mes
sage. More than six months have elapsed
since Congress camo together, and some of
the bills are not yet reported; and the SEN
ate is supposed to be able to pass them all
between now and the first of July, when
six months have not sufficed for their con-
sideration by the House.
1t does not appear possible to avoid the
paralyzing effects that will inevitably re-
suit from their failure in any other way
than that suggested by President Grant.
The following yet remain to be passed:
The diplomatic and consular; the legis-
tive, executive and judicial, the postofice
and Military Academy appropriation bills
| (all before conference committees); also,
the sundry civil appropri alton bill mot yet
reported to the House). The following
have passed: The pension bill, the fortifi-
cation bill and the deficiency bill. The
folio wing have passed the House, but have
not been reached BY the Senate: The river
and harbor bill, the army bill, the navy bill
and the Indian bill.
1t is not probable that much more bust
ness of importance will be transacted by
Congress until the close Of the Democratic
convention at St. Louis. Many here are
preparing to 60, and it is likely that both
House and Senate will be strongly repre-
| sented. A hot struggle between the Tilden
and the anti -Tilden men in contemplated.
Tilden has secured large number of dele
gates by means best known to himself, it is
hinted, and not at all to his credit as a re-
| former.
The bill for the equalization CT bounties
| to soldiers who served in the Union army
during the late war, yesterday passed the
House by 14l to 46. 1t provides that eight
and one-third dollars shall be paid to every
non-commissioned officer, musician and
private soldier or sailor or marine, includ-
| ing Indians, for each months service be-
tween April II, 1861, and May 9, 1865, ap-
plying alike to volunteers and regulars. In
case of death the bounty goes to the widow
United States bounties are to be deducted.
| Substitutes and all who were discharged at
their own request, except for disability, for
| purposes of re-enlistment or promotion, are
! excluded from its benefits. Provisions are
made for secondary proof of honorable dis
charge where the discharge certificate has
been lost. All applications must be made
| within five years from the passage of the
act.
The sub j judiciary Committee were yes.
Blaine and Thomas Scott with the sending
of the Caldwell dispatch. The attempt
was unsuccessful.
The Democratic leaders here freely dis
cuss the Cincinnati nominations, and gen
orally concede them to be very formidable;
and it now looks as though strong effort
would be made at St. Louis to put forward
General Hancock, with the hope of dividing
the soldiers vote. Their liberal support ot
| the equalization bounty bill is regarded as 9
part of the programme in the same direc
tion. Evidence is constantly being re
| ceived here, showing that the nomins lions
of Hayes and Wheeler have perfected the
unifcation Of the Republican party, includ
ing the Liberal element that supported the
Greeley ticket in 1872. The position of Gov
ernor Hayes upon the public school q questior
is also regarded as certain to detach large
number of Democrats from their party
who dread sectsrian interference more thar
they dislike Republican supremacy. NJ.
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The Tare on Rice.
| A large number of the rice buyers
and commission merchants in this city
recognizing the necessity and justice of tn,
"actual tare" system in trade, and desiring
to secure a uniform system of "actual
tare'' on all rice offered for sale in thi
market during the coming crop season o
1861, have agreed to purchase no rice o,
which they do not receive "actual tare" o.
in lieu thereof twenty-thre pounds tare fo
the ordinary -four barrels, and heavier one
in proportion, but nothing lees than twenty
three pounds except actual. This agree
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