The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-02-01
From Washington.

lion bills, the post Office bill occupying the
chief attention. The bill as reported appro.
Ipmatcs $3i,00O,OOO an increase Of $l,OOO0OO
over last year and AT the gate at which the
house made additions the increase threatens
to reach S20OO0OO The general tone seems
TO he in favor of voting money to the depart
mcnt "libcmlly." The bill passed on Thurs
day.
In the senate Edmunds, after strenuous cf
forts on Saturday Monday and Tuesday, final
~ persuaded the senate to take up his rcsou-
tons IN favor of enforcing the constitutional
amcndmcntS'-th only purpose ofthe rrscu-
tons being to get up in the senate an exciting
sectional debate with the idea that something
may be made out of it for the benefit of the
bloody shirt. The debate being now opened
will probably occupy the senate for two or
three hours each day to the close of the session
That the opposition is firmly prepared, how
ever, not to be drawn into an angry sectional
debate for the benefit of the bloody shirt is in
tcrrablc from the remarkable speech Of Ben
! Hill, on Tuesday, on Little bll' to pay
small southern cotton claim. Mr.. Hill oppoS.
ed the claim. He said the only men of the
south who had any real claim to gratitude
were those who had sacrificed their all in be
| half of her cause and such could get nothing
here. Those who came here with the cXpec.
tatiOn of getting their claims allowed had first
| to prove that they were the enemies of the
south in her time of trial, and for such the
south could have no sympathy or respect. The
speech killed the bill.
Mr.. Wright the author Of bill requiring
the |. :. Treasury to loan $500 10 every home
stead settler on the public lands, forced vote
on it in the house ON Tuesday, and got % yeas
in It's favor 20 PIP against it. Among the yeas
were Butler, Cox of \. y, and Kelly. No Hi.
nois member seemed willing to go on the re.
cord as in favor Of such bill.
nesday passed bill prohibiting any vessel
from bringing over more than Is Cinnamon at
one time to the |. :.
The Hayes Conkling fight over the New
York custom house appointments reached a
climax on Monday. Conkling got his com
mittcc TO report unanimously against the con
trmaton of Merit and Burt, and they were
rejected, which, Of course, turns them out and
puts back Arthur and Cornell. The President
however, declares stoutly that he will hist"
Arthur and Cornell rs soon as the senate adj
journs and put back his own appointec>, TAX
ing the chances Of their confirmation by the
next senate, which will be democratic.
The Teller committee is still in Charleston,
and finds abundant proof of great deal of il
legal voting and intimidation at the last fall
elections IN South Carolina, both on the part
of democrats and republicans. The proof is
also abundant and positive that the same cleo. |
tons passed Oft as quietly as a Sunday school,
that the negroes enthusiastically voted the
democratic ticket, and that illegal voting and
tissue paper ballots were unhcard of III the
state
The Potter committee has been at work to
some purpose on the cyphcr dispatches, getting
at the true nw&rdness of their history. The
facts in regard to them, as unfOded to the
committee, are substantially that they are the
remains of a great store box full Of dispatches
delivered by the telegraph company to o. p. |
Morton's committee in 1876. Wien the com.
mlltee got done with them they directed them
to be returned to the telegraph office IN New
York and to be burned But the committee
had in its service promising young lIooslcr
rascal named Bullock, who before boxing up
the dispatches stole from the lot such as he
., n,rlt hn a., -
having soon after been rewarded with foreign
mission, he passed the bundle over to one Ev
ans, who sent them to W. f. Chandler, who,
being unable to dcCipher them, passed them
over to Ben. Butler, who allowed Whiteaw
Reid to copy most Of them and to discover the
key to their meaning and publish them in the
n Y. Trtbane
But while in the business, the committee got
on the track OF some other cypher dispatches
which made the republicans decidedly sick of
patches that passed during the summer of
1876 between Postmaster General Tvncr and II
certain Indiana politicians They prove that
in Sept 1876, while the presidential contest
was at its height, Tyncr entered into ncgoti-
ations with j. W. Foster for the sale to IA third
party of a certain Office for Il certain sum of
money, which the purchaser was to pay into
the Hayes campaign fund, and that the sale
was effected, the purchase money paid as stipu-
lated, and the appointment of the purchaser to
the Office thus bought was made upon Tyncr's
by Grant
The President has signed the arrears of pen
sions bill, though it is understood that the
law cannot De put into operation without fur
thcr legislation.
Senator Shields, from Missouri. appeared in
the senate and took the oath of office ON Mon.
day. His term only lasts till the 4th OF March,
after which, the talk is, he will be elected SER