The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-02-12
Last Nights Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. FEB. 1l.-Secretary
Sherman admitted to the Ways anG
Means Committee to- day that his views
were somewhat modified and he is dis
posed to believe that bond at a lower
rate ofinterest than four per cent. will
float at par.
Secretary Sherman has accepted most OF
the offers of United States bonds.
The Senate Naval Affairs Com mittee
alton of Lieut.. Schenck for Captain and
Assistant Quartermaster of the Marine
Corps, on the ground that it is an un-
warranted act of favoritism, as it pro-
poses to jump thirty or thirty five senior
officers.
Nomioatious-Pos James NJ.
Beardsley. Rock Island, Ills
Senator Garland reported bill from the
Judiciary Committee to-day amendatory
to the present laws relating to bigamy and
polygamy. 1t imposes fine OF not more
than $500 and not more than five years
imprisonment upon every person who has
husband or wife living and who there
after marries more than one woman ia
guilty of polygamy This provision does
not extend to any person by reason of any
former marriage who is absent five success
slve years and is not known to be living, nor
to any person whose lawful marriage has
been dissolved by decree of a com mpetent
court 1t provides that in any case of
prosecution for bigamy any person drawn
as juryman may be challenged if he
Is or has been living in the practice
OF blgamy or polygamy, or if
be believes it morally. .religiousIy or legally
right for man to have more than one
living and undivorced wife. or to live in
the practice of cohabiting with more than
one woman. 1t also authorizes the Presi
dent to grant amnesty to offenders against
this law for offences committed before
Jan. 1, 1879, on such conditions and under
such Limitations as he shall think proper,
but no such amnesty shall have effect
unless the conditions thereof shall have
been complied with. The bill provides
that the issue of plural or Mormon mar
riages born before Nov. /, 1879, shall be
considered legitimate aud entitled to all
rights of heirs and next of kin Of their
parents.
Before the Senate Exodus .Committee,
z. f. Loftin, from Kinston, N. c., corrob-
Grated the testimony of the previous Wit
nesses regarding the good treatment Of
the colored people by the whites in North
Carolina, and stated that the white Re-
publicans generally in his county. Lenoir,
are opposed to the exodus. j. ii. Rus
sell, an undertaken, from Indianapolis,
Ind, testified to the great destitution
among the emigrants in Indianapolis.
He mentioned an extreme case where a
family of nine persons lived in small
hut with but TWO rooms, where there was
DO furniture and nothing for bed but a
pile ot straw and a blanket. lie thought
II shame aDd outrage both on the emi-
rr La of IpA b~sr
these poor destitute people to that state.
lie believed the people of Indiana gcner-
ally were opposed to it. but thought some
leading Republicans were assisting the
movement for political purposes. Other
similar testimony was given
The Senate rejected the Census Super
Visors FOR the Eighth Ohio district, after
prolonged session, in which the majority
significantly toreshadOwcd their purposes
respecting the remainder of the pomina
tons Senator Pcndleton, of the Census
Committee, who reported the nominations
Tor Ohio adversely, said the adverse report
was not on account of the character Of the
appointees. but because the President
nominated Republicans and Nc, single
Democrat, thus violating the spirit of the
census law ard going against the distinct
understanding of both parties in Congress.
There was no explicit clause 10 the law
because Repu 6licans in debate had iutim-
atsd that Democrats could control nomin-
tiona and that such clause was superhu-
Gus This vas glaring case, for Though
Ohio had two Democratic Senators end
eleven Democratic Representatives 10
Congress and had about one half her
people Democrats, there vas not single
Democratic name among the appoiulee$.
The basis OF apportionment for Congress
and for the Legislature is most important
aud the results oi the census should be
above suspicion.
Mr.. Thurman took similar ground aud
the Republicans did not seriously contest
its propriety, the only sclaim being that it
would be more proper for Democrats to
rtjeot fair proportion Of the nominees.
Party lines were strictly drawn on the
vote