The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-28

assembled. The note contains no imperauEo
demand upon the Spanish Government IL
sets forth tho leng continuance or the insur-
rection. with it's evil effects upon our COM
merce 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. All that was done, he
decreasing the fees, percentages, or allowance
SAYS, was to inclose copies of the note to
MIR. 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
publicity for the time being is incompatible
with public interests. On the whole, Mr. Fish
entertains a hopeful expectation that the Cuban
question will be settled peacefully.
backs admission to the Senate at present il
the question whether there il 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
a vote of the Senate.
The House Committee on Appropriations has
completed the Consular and Diplomatic bill.
The estimates of last year were : 1852, 1886. and
the amount appropriated 81, 351, 285. The pres
eat bill appropriates SOIL The salaries of
the Ministers to Great Britain, France, Ger
many and Russia are reduced from $4,000 to
! S14, 900 each The Ministers to Spain, Austria,
Brazil Mexico, Japan, and China from Sl2, 600
TO $4,000 The Minister to Italy from $4,000
to $4,000. The salaries Of all other officers
are reduced in about the same proportion.
Senator Christiancy has introduced a bill
looking to the punishment Of polygamy in
! Utah. 1t provides that in any trial for bigamy
! 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
4 that he believes it morally right for man to
live 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 to
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 il said that the Ways and Means Commit
tee are preparing great surprise for the coun-
try, and that there will shortly be sprung upon
the House Tariff bill radical in its changes.
The free list is to be increased, the tax on tea
and coffee restored, the customs revenue to be
collected from articles on which specific duty
can be imposed and the complicated workings
of the tariff system abolished. With these
changes it Is said the revenue force of officials
can be largely reduced, the opportunities for
smuggling aud evading duties very much di-
minished and the cost of collecting the revenue
cut down in every direction. The Western Dem
ocrats favor the revival of the income tax to
offset the tax on tea and coffee, but it il not
believed such recommendation will be
adopted.
The note Of Secretary Fish to Minister Cush-
ing has been published. 1t embodes the views
of our Government on Spanish misrnle in Cuba
island for the past seven years, and recites the
numerous causes our people have for com.
plant az relates to the manner of carrying OF
the war there, notably the barbarity practiced
by Spain and her evident inability to bring it &c
close. The fact of slavery existing at oui
very doors forms an important feature of tie
grievance and the leading foreign powers are
called upon fer their friendly offices III sug.
costing reform. The attention of Spain 1t
called to these facts Estates of Americans
seized without form of law must be released
Americans must have their full rights in Span
ish courts and Burriel must be tried and pun.
ished according to SPANS promise.
} The House Library Committee are preparing
a bill giving to newspaper publishers and
editors the same right to send manuscript foi
publication through the mails that authors now
have.
A large number Of members of Congress ex-
press themselves as opposed to disturbance OF
the tariff to any important extent.
The bill introduced in the House by Gen
Hurlbut, of Illinois, to provide for cheap trans
portation, proposes to adopt some of the lead
ing features of the Belgium railway system
The bill contemplates the building of a double
track freight railroad from New York to Chi
csgo, Council Bluffs, and st. Louis. 1t is pro-
posed to have the Government guarantee s42 O0C
per mile, for which mortgage is to be given,
the United States to have the only mortgage
There are 20 be no stockholders. Five Com
missoners are to be appointed by the Govern
meif, who are to have control of the stock and
bonds. The plan is to pay all stock certificates
within the life Of the bonds, and to leave the
railroad at the end of thirty years absolutely
free ia the hands Of the Government.
The House Appropriation Committee have
commenced work on the Legislative Appropri-
alton bill on the following basis To reduce
all salaries over ~, 200 10 per cent; TO reduce
fba foro ina oil