Connecticut western news., 1879-03-12

save the country from continued and excessive issues of legal tenders in the future. Hence the necessity of bringing the question to the final test by a case on which the Supreme Court will be compelled to decide whether legal tender paper money in time of peace is constitutional.
 -The Surgeon-General of the United States has issued circular under the act of 1878 to prevent the introduction of courageous diseases, and by the direc- tlon of the Secretary of the Treasury lnstructing officers of the customs, etc., to prevent until further orders any vessel from any port of the Black Sea, or the Sea of Azof, conveying any rags, furs, skins, hair, feathers, boxed or bailed clothing or bedding, or any similar arti cles liable to convey infection, or any vessel from any port of the Mediter- ranean or Red Sea having on board such articles, coming from Southern Russia, from entering any port of the United States until those articles shall have been removed from the vessel to open lighters or to some isolated locality, and the ves- sel disinfected and thoroughly ven- tilated. The suspected articles are to be disinfected either by chemical agents and exposure to free circulation of air, or by burning, as determined by the Surgeon General.
 A Washington dispatch says |: The chances of a speedy organization of the new House of Representatives are not encouraging in view of the news that
 
 seriously i'll as to make it most probable that they will be unable to take their seats on the 18th of March. One of these gentlemen, MT. Acklen, of Loui- siana, is lying dangerously ill with pneu- monia, and MT. Singleton, of Illinois, is reported so prostrated with sickness that he will not be able to leave his bed this month. Messrs. Bland and Lay, of Missouri, are also incapacitated by ill- ness for work, and are hardly expected here in time for the opening of Congress. This fact gives additional importance to the balance of power which the Green packers claim to hold, and some persons are fain to see dead lock of indefinite duration if the Greenbackers remain in- tact ill their vote for Speaker.
 The report of Mir. Potter has been submitted to the Investigating Commit tee and adopted by the votes of the Dem- ocrats on the committee. The report reviews the election in Florida and Lou isiana, and sums up the Democratic evil dence in favor of the charges that there was fraud by Republicans ill those States, and in the Louisiana electoral certificates. It declares that Tilden and Hendricks were entitled to the electoral votes of those two States in 1876. Re- ports will be presented by the Republi- cans, by General Butler and by MT. Stenger.
 The President has called the extra session of Congress for the 18th inst. The following is the message calling it <: Whereas, the final adjournment of the Forty fifth Congress without making the usual and necessary appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the fs- cal year ending June 30, 1880, and with out making the usual and necessary ap- propriations for the support of the army for the same fiscal year, presents an Gx- traordinary occasion, requiring the Presi- dent to exercise the power vested in him by the Constitution to convene the houses of Congress, in anticipation of the day fixed by law for their next meeting. Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do, by virtue of the power to this end in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress to assemble at their respective chambers at 12 o'clock noon, on Tuesday, the eighteenth day of March instant, then and there to con- sider and determine such measures as, in their wisdom, their duty and the well fare of the people may seem to demand. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hun dred and third. R. B. HAYES.
 The specially called sessions o1 Congress have been six in num- Der, namely First -1797 Special session called by John Adams to meet May 15, 1797, to provide for the threat ened French war. Second-1837-Spe- cial session called by Martin Van Buren, May 15, 1887, to meet September 4, 1887, to provide for financial exigencies. (1he banks suspended May 10, 1887. ird-1941-Special session called by William Henry Harrison, March IT, 1841, to meet May 31, 1841, to consider the revenue and finances of the country. This was change of parties and poli- cies. Fourth-1956-Spe session called by Franklin Pierce, to meet Au' gust 21, 1856 (three days after adjourn ment 1It, of Congress-. IL. to provide appro TO- account of Indian wars. Fifth01s61- Special session called by Abraham Lin coin, April 15, 1861, to meet July 4 1861, to provide for the civil war emer gency. Sixth 1877-Special session called by R. B. Hayes, to meet October 15, 1877, to provide appropriations fo. the army, the bill having failed to pass
 President Hayes vetoes the Chinese immigration bill. He says in his veto message that he regards this sort O legislation as objectionable. He say the method by which the bill proceedI is false pretence, and says that as th'
 limitation of numbers of immigrants t.
 be brought has no relation to the sig
 of ships, and is not otherwise provision
 for the safety of passengers, it is
 subterfuge the purpose of which is t.
 suppress right guaranteed by tn treaty. It then speaks of the provision
 for the abrogation of two articles of tn
 Burlingame Treaty, and points out tha
 these articles, if we are to keep tn treaty, are the very ones that woul give us the right to demand of tn Chinese themselves the correction c
 abuses in emigration. It is the theor
 of the message, that all our treaty pro visions with China must stand or fal together; that the Burlingame Treat 1 and the treaty of 1858 are. in fact. on