Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-18
WARRINGTON.

The Indian Investigating Committees re-
port is very severe upon lndian-C Commissioner
Smith. Irregularities have been discovered
in nearly every branch of the service.
Fred. r. Goodrich, convicted of forging the
names of employees of the Interior Department
to the payroll, has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment.
The Women's Suffrage Convention, in ses-
sion at Washington on the 9th, adopted reso-
lutions-setting forth the duty Of the Govern
ment to maintain the equal rights of ALL re-
gardless of sex; the injustice of remanding
women from hearing before the highest tri-
bunal of the nation; the right of the educated,
tax-paying women of the nation to have pre-
cedence over the Chinese and Indians in refer
ence to Congressional action on their civil and
political status; condemning the proposed
Sixteenth Amendment, which introduces the
sectarian idea of God into the Constitution;
the injustice OF taxing the property of widows
and spinsters to its full value while the clergy
are largely exempt; proposing that education
shall be made compulsory, and that after
1885 there shall be educational qualification
to the right of suffrage.
The Morant Guano Company claim the pro-
lection of the Government, and ask that the
British Government be required TO restore its
StdtW quo on the Keys.
The President has promised the woman
sutfragists that he will sign any bill that Con-
gress passes to confer additional privileges on
women.
During the debate in the House, on the
10th, on Woods resolution, Foster (Ohio)
stated that all the correspondence, agree
ments or writings of any character In regard
TO the Inauguration OF Hayes, that he knew
anything about, had already been printed.
Secretary Sherman, it is stated, will at once
place the 4 per cent bonds in the hands of
banks and bankers, who will be allowed the
same commission as the syndicate.
On the 1lth the Senate committee heard
arguments of a number Of delegates from the
National Woman-Suffrage Convention.
President Hayes has committed to imprison-
ment for life the death sentences of Meadows,
Robinson and Wade, of the Western District
of Arkansas, upon the recommendation Of the
U. s. Attorney and Judges.
In letter to Speaker Randall Postmaster
Gen. Key calls attention to the need OF a
change in the law regulating prices to ne paid
for Government advertising. He suggests an
amendment allowing the payment Of such
prices as the department and the papers agree
upon, not exceeding regular rates. or, the
law to be so changed that, Instead of adyertis,
ing full lists of routes, brief notices that pro-
posals would be received might be published
weekly in not more than ten papers in eacf
State.
The tobacco manufacturers favor reduc
tion of taxes to twelve cents per pound.
Legal-tenders outstanding on the 18th
S3i0, ,943, T76. National Bank note circulation
currency notes, $500, ,4l0, $50; gold notes
81, 432, 100
The President sent to the Senate again OF
the l4th the nomination of L. G. Northrup a.
District Attorney of South Carolina. Tn,
Judiciary Committee would have reported un
fayorably upon the nomination at the specia
session, but the President withdrew it. II 4
likely TO give rise to controversy.
Minister Noyes conveys to the United States
the thanks of France for the proposed partici-
patton in the Paris Exposition.