Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05

or the N Orth IS more uDeral, that unless they would open their hands and give out money more lavishly from the Treasury, the solid South would soon go over to the ether side. I say, as one of the representatives of the democracy of the North, that if there are any men in the South who propose to belong to the democractic party simply for the reason that the doors of the Treasury are to be opened to them, the sooner they go over the better for them, the better for our party; and when the people of this country see and feel, as they are beginning to do, that they can trust the interests of the country with the democratic party of the North and South, then we can make recruits in the Northern States that will fill up our ranks to the maximum.
 The House Committee on Foreign Affairs instructed MT. Crapo to report favorably to the House the Senate con- current resolution that, in the judgment of the houses, the provisions of articles IS and 21 of the Treaty of Washington (relating to the fisheries) ought to be terminated at the earliest period con- sistent with the provisions of article 33 of the same treaty, with an amendment suggested by Representative Loring striking out the words " consistent with the provisions of article 33 of the same treaty." and substituting for the same the word possible" The action of the committee was unanimous.
 Before the Potter Committee Whit law Reid of the Tribune testified as to the manner in which the cipher dis patches were received by him. He re- ceived package numbered l to "A from MT. William B. Chandler and Nos. to Il from MT. Hiscock, Of the Potter Com mittee. He displayed two scrap books, with the remark, "Here are two vol umes of dispatches received by me. /" The first volume contains copies of Florida dispatches, with an appendix of miscellaneous volume No. 2 embodies telegrams referring to South Carolina and Oregon. MT. Reid met Governor Tilden about the time when the publi- cation of the dispatches was commenced, and told him they were bothered by these ciphers, and he ought to give them the key. Mir. Tilden replied in some jocular way, and subsequently,, in an interview at Saratoga, said he did not know anything about the ciphers, and did not believe any had been delivered at his house. MT. Reid understood him to mean that he did not even read the telegrams that were then being pub ished in the Tribune.
 By direction of the Treasury De- partment all Assistant Treasurers of the United States will hereafter pay the in- terest on government bonds in gold, if demanded, as was the case prior to Jan- uary 1. The payments of the January interest was in legal tenders, or coin checks.
 The stock of gold coin is increasing in the Treasury, in spite of the late heavy payments.
 There will be a minority report from the Senate Finance Committee on the tobacco tax question. This report will recommend fixing the tax at 16 cents and will omit the tariff provision as to icorice. The minority report will have the advantage of being first voted upon. -The statement of the Bureau oi Statistics for the last calendar year, in regard to the imports and exports of the United States, submitted to the Score. tary of the Treasury by Joseph Nimms, Jr., says The excess of exports over imports of merchandise appears to have been as follows The month ended December 31, 1878, $85, 128, ,537; month ended December 31, 1877, $39, 751, ,122 six months ended December 31, 1878, $148, ,888, ,036; six months ended De. cember 31, 1877, $102, 159, ,699; twelve months ended December 31, 1878, $304, 542, ,571 !; twelve months ended Decem. ber3 1877, $40, ,056, 112." A compari son of the exports and imports of gold and silver coin and bullion shows that for twelve months ended December 31, 1878, sthe excess of imports was $1, ,974, 173. For the twelve months ended De cember 31, 1877, the excess of exports was $24, ,54s, ,352.
 The cipher dispatch mystery was te an extent cleared up by the confession of Brady, Second Assistant Postmaster General, that he received the parcel O dispatches which Bullock, messenger O
 Senator Morton's Committee, took iron the committee room, and that he gay, most of them to MT. William B. Chand Ter, who left some on General Butler table, and forwarded copies of others fo publication. Brady added that befor, Bullock took these, he, Brady, had 4gon, to the committee room and picked ou and taken away dispatches which passet between himself and Postmaster Genera Tyner in relation to Florida matters It appears from Brady's and MT. Chand ler's testimony that the whole body o dispatches surrendered by the telegraph company lay in the committee room fo
 weeks, accessible to any one.
 A Washington dispatch says
 Senator Windom proposed that a com
 mittee of Senators shall devise mean
 for the removal of the negroes from sucI parts of the South where they are refused
 their rights to other parts of the countr, or to reservation. He appears to b. ignorant of the well known fact tha there is, and has been for years, con
 stant and unimpeded migration of th,
 blacks, 8 movement which has beer
 aided and stimulated by organized
 emigration societies of planters in sucl
 States as Louisiana and Arkansas, ant
 by colored emigration agents elsewher , acting as private persons, giving in
 telligence concerning lands, prices
 wages, crops, &c. Hundreds o
 thousands of negroes have emigratet
 from Southeastern to Southwestern States in the last half dozen years, an' it would probably amaze Senate
 Windom to know that Arkans a Louisiana and Mississippi have bee
 favorite States with industrious colore, men seeking new homes.
 | SENATE.
 Mir. Davis laid before the Senate memorial asking that provision be mad , for the establishing of bureau to col
 lect information relative to labor em , ployed in the United States, and tn effect labor-saving machinery has ha upon industry. MT. Sargent propose &bof %hrao -,oiIliop 1o1Jor Go--,,n-oo--