The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-19
From Washington.
CENTENNIAJ. Cp,p

'As->-Niai- tlSAE.
The anxiety of Philadelphia was relieved
en- Friday OF last week by the senate taking
up and passing, exactly as it came from the
house, the bill appropriating $l,5Oe,Ooo in
aid OF the centennial show. II ia said ,he
President signed the bill on the same dsv
with pen plucked from the wing Of an
eagle.
PENSIONS
The senate on Tuesday took I'D and nassed
the house bill making appropriations for
pensions for the year ending June 80, 1877.
The bill appropriates about $2S,OO0p0O.
against $50, 100000 last year
CATTLE ON CARS.
The senate on Monday passed an impor
tant bill regulating the shipment of cattle on
railroad cars, steamboats,, &c. 1t torbids their
confinement on board of cars or vessels over
"A hours at time without unloading for rest
water and feeding for at least seven hours
Violations of the law are punishable by fines
ranging from 800 to $500 dollars Some of
the features OF the bill, particularly those au.
thorizing arbitrary arrests, are regarded, BY
shippers at least, as unreasonably harsh.
FORTIFICATIoNs
The House on Tuesday passed the bill max
ing appropriations for Notifications for the
year. The Secretary OF war wanted $3,5OO,
000 The committee unanimously cut the
amount down to $4,000, and the bill, for 8
wonder, passed in the house without debate,
and without the customary opposition of the
republican members.
PINCHBACK.
Although it was understood that flnal
vote ON admitting Pinchback to q sea. in
the senate should be taken on Wednesday,
when Edmunds called up the resolution or
that day, Morton was afraid to let it go to
vote, and, on the ground that several senators
were absent, begged so hard for a postpone
ment that it was granted by vote Of SO to
30. AS several senators opposed TO admitting
Pinch are known to have voted for the post
poncment simply to please Morton, the
chances OF the niger burglar getting q seat
in the senate are still delightfully."- doubtful
CONSULAR BILL.
The House passed the consular apprOprl-
alton bill on the 18th, making the amount
appropriated for this service $4,000 less
than the republicans voted in the last con
gress. Another good saving.
RECALcIrRANr sENEGAMBIAN.
There was decided sensation in the eyecu-
tive session of the senate on the 1lth, caused
by the colored senator B'uce, from Mississip-
pi, "breaking loose" against Grant and the
radical party. He got mad on account OF the
opposition of certain republican senators to
the admission of Pnchback. He is said to
have swern that if justice was not done to
Pinch, he and his people would make terms
with the democrats, and make open war up
on the false republicans; declared that the
blacks in Mississippi were left to take care OF
themselves, because they had no brotherin-
law of the President among them, and made
the air sufphurous with profane assertions
that the negroes will oppose Grants third
election to the utmost. "President Grant" he
said, "was not only hypocrite, but liar,
who made promises in words TO break their
! in acts; that the negroes were not TO be de
cclved any longer by administration prom
| ses. and would be compelled, for seli.protec-
ton, to form political alliance with resident
white men of the south