Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-02

| question OF war WIN MeXlco.
Treasury Statement.
WAsHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Cash In
Treasury, $2s2, 45O. .695; gold and
silver certificates, $20l, ,971, $50;
United States notes held for re.
demption of certificates of deposit.
ors, $40,9 100000.
stolen Coupons turned Up.
| BOSTON, Feb. l Several coupons
from bends of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, presented for
redemption here, have been identi-
fled as stolen from the Northamp-
ton Bank in 1857. They probably
came from some European banking
house, and will be turned over to
the original owners.
Potter Comsnt.see.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-After a
short and unimportant session to-
day the Potter Com mittee adjourn.
ed till Tuesday next.
C0ngreRsseDat.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-SENATE.
McCreary, from the Joint Commit
tee appointed to inquire into the
expediency of transferring the
Indian Bureau from the Interior TO
the War Department., submitted o
report, signed by four mem bers of
the Committee, in favor of the
transfer. Ordered printed.
Hoar, from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, presented
a minority report in favor OF a
sixteenth amendment to the Con.
sitution, prohibiting the States
from disfranchising persons on &C
count of sex. Ordered printed. The
report is signed by Hoar, Cameron,
of Wisconsin, and Mitchell.
Edmunds called up the Senate
bill to provide for ascertaining and
settling private land claims in New
Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah,
Nevada and Colorado. The object
is to settle titles to lands derived
from the Spanish and Mexican
Governments. The bill was dis.
cussed and finally laid aside.
Consideration was then resumed
of the resolutions of Edmunds de-
claring the validity of the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments to the Con-
stitution, and Morgan continued
his argument in favor of the sub.
stitute presented by him.
/, HOUSE.-The debate threatened
for the past few days has begun.
Chalmers, in his opening speech,
suggested that tendency to sus-
pect others, as exhibited in the
speech of Bragg, indicated q gen.
eral tendency to corruption in one.
self. He hoped the South would be
solid for the Democratic party, but
for that portion of it which had the
courage and manliness to treat the
people of the South as equals, not
as Interiors, in the Union.
After several speeches, for the
most part by Mississippi members,
tho debate terminated with the
morning hour. The House then
refused, II to 1l2, to consider the
Army Reorganization bill and
went into committee on the Army
Appropriation bill.
Bsah Directors.
EDINBuRGH, Feb. 1.-The d.
rectors Of the City of Glasgow
Bank, Sumner SirOnoch aud
Lewis Potter, convicted of fraud,
theft and embezzlement, were sen.
fenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment. Five other directors,
convicted of uttering false
abstract of balance sheets,
were sentenced to eight months
imprisonment. The light sem
tences caused some surprise. Jus.
tice MoncieR, in passing sentence,
said he considered the circum-
stances that the prisoners had not
falsitied accounts for their own
personal benefit, but with mis-.
taken idea that it was for the pub
lie good.
rresidsnt Grevy.
PARIS, Feb. lin Thursdays
ballot for President Gambetta re.
ceived five votes, aud Ladmirau,t,
Daumale and Gallifet one each.
Baron Housman was among the
first to congratulate Grevy, who
assured him that the Bopapartists
could rely upon his sense of justice
and impartiality.
= Courtesies from EuaIaod.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-The Admiral
ity has directed the dock yard
authorities to charge the United
States only the bare cost of labor
aud materials employed on the re-
pairs of the Constitution. The
Captain of the Constitution has
written letter warmly thanking
the Admiral and the Superintend-
ent at Portsmouth for the courtesy
and kindness of all the officers.
ssrike Among Iron ard Brass
LONDON, Feb. IA general
strike of iron workers, numbering
$500, and brass founders will COM
mence to-day at Liverpool.
Precautions Unrelaxtd.
BERLIN, Feb. lit is considered
in the best informed quarters that
the present decrease OF the plague
Is merely due to the extreme cold,
consequently precautions against
its spread are unrelaxed.