Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-02
TELEGRAPHIC.
That ''r amily Fight" Continued in
the House.
Northern vs.. Southern Democrats on
the War Claims.
Mr.. Chalmers Delivers at Broadsids
Against Mr.. Bragg.
The House Fairly Launched Into the
Southern Claims Debate.
Letter from Ex>GoV. Packard Regard
ing Charges Against Wharton.
Sentence of the Bank of Glasgow
Directors for EmbezZlement.
XIV CONGRESS.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 1879.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l, 1879.
Mr.. McCreery, of Kentucky,
from the joint committee to inquire
into the expediency of transferring
the Indian Bureau to the War De-
partment, submitted a report signed
by four members of the committee
in favor Of transfer. 1t was ordered
printed.
Mr.. Hoar presented the minority
report of the Committee on Priv
leges ard Elections, signed by him
self and Messrs. Cameron (of Wis
consin) and Mitchell, favoring the
Sixteenth Amendment to the Con-
stitution prohibiting the State from
disfranchising persons on account
of sex.
The Senate then resumed the
consideration of Mr.. Edmunds'
resolution affirming the validity of
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Amendments. Mr.. Morgan,
of Alabama, continued his argument
in favor of his own substitute.
The Vice President laid before
the Senate a communication from
the Secretary of War enclosing
letter from General Humphreys,
Chief of Engineers, with regard
to the plan for national
survey proposed by the Acad-
emy of Sciences. After a
lengthy review of the statement
made by the Superintendent
of the Coast Survey, General Hum
phreys says: Experience gives no
reason for believing that the ma
tional survey can be executed at
less cost than $4,000 for a
rough Typographical survey, based
on astronomical determination: $62,-
100000 for the same, based on tri-
angulation, and $168,000,0OO for a
thorough cadastral survey. The
area considered in these estimates
is only that of the States admitted
before 1860, excluding California,
Texas and Oregon. The Secretary
of War also transmitted a letter
from Commissary- G General McFeely,
showing that his department would
be thoroughly crippled by the adop-
ton of the system of organization
required by the Burnside bill.
The Senate at $50 p. m, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Ransom, went into Exc
cutive session, and when the doors
re-opened at 3.35, adjourned until
Monday.
The House is fairly launched on
the long impending debate on the
Southern war claims. The discus
sion has been opened by Mr.. Chal-
mers, of Mississippi. He sug-
gested that the tendency to suspect
others (as exhibited in the speech of
Mr.. Bragg, of Wisconsin, indicated
generally a tendency to corruption
in ones self. He hoped that the
South would be solid for the Demo
cratic party, but for that portion of
it which had the courage and man
illness to treat the people of the
South as equals, not as interiors in
the Union.
Mr.. Chalmers said he cared noth-
ing for the payment of the loyal
Southern claims, because loyalty to
the Union during the war meant
disloyalty to everything that he
held dear, that many men in the
South had been loyal to the Union,
was nevertheless true, and he did
not envy the cheap political capital
that Union soldier could make by
telling such men that he had no
more confidence in their honesty
than a mouse had in a stuffed
cats skin, but the claim now pre-
sented came from women
and children against whom the stat
ute of limitations seldom ran. The
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr.
Bragg, taking advantage of the
we'll known opposition everywhere,
sought to blend war claims with
claims for Southern improvements,
and endeavored to throw the odor
Of his dead cat over them. That
gentleman announced in advance
that he was unwilling to trust the
honesty of either claimants or
court. Such readiness to suspect