The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-29
Teleglaphic News.

Auer the piese NATION sRd reference
o. number of petitions and memo
risls, the vice president laid before the
5 nate a communication from the 5. c.
rotary of the navy, in answer 20 the
Sen t. resolution, statiog that in his
judgment the interests OF the cCuutry
sud the naval service DO no lire hist
the Pensacola navy yard be pGt in a
state of eficIercy, snd T .usmi,ting 81
estimate OF 1915 col as ;hs Cost OF
such rcpsirs; $50 709 Of thas sm uat
being necessary for the rebuilding of
m91ne barracks destroyed during the
war.
The following bills were Introduced
and referred as follows:
b. NJ. Cuke-Autbor z NJ the Sec
Vetary Of the Iu'enor to pay the taxes
accrued and ~ accrue on the lands be-
longing to the Eastern band of the
North CAROLYN Clerokees from the fund
belonging to such baud remaining to
iis credit un the books of the Indian
Department.
By Mr.. G0rdOn-To repay to the
state of Georgia s27 175 advanced by
the said state for the defense of her
frontier against the Indians from 1895
to 1918
By sir. Butler-To authonzs the
Secretary of War to adjust and settle
the accounts between the state of
South Carolina and the United States
government.
Mr.. Teller called up the bill
for the relief of Gibbs & Co., Cf
Charleston, S. c., and it was passed.
Il authoriZ d the payment Il them OF
$4577, being the bslsnce due them on
account of money deposited by them
with the Secretary of the Treasury.
Carpenter called W the bill t. pro-
vide for Furnishing persons who steal
horses, mules or other property frcm
the Indians. After considerable dis
cussion it WAS recommitted to JuiIcia-
~ Committee and Senate adjourned.
HcUsE-Brs were introduced and
referred as follows:
By Manning, of Mississippi-To Re-
organize the United States Supreme
Court. IL provides for IN increase 10
the number OF justices to 81, who shall
be divided into three divisions, to b.
presided over by the Chief Justice and
two assistant chief Justices, to be ap-
pointed by the President from among
| the associate justices.
By Warner of O 'in--To relieve the
Supreme Court, Ia est .blIsh a superior
court and to abolish the court Of
claims.
By Richardson, of South Carolina
For settlement of the account fol
arms between South Carolina and the
United States.
The House then proceeded To fpisl
the vote interrupted last Monday upOI
Keiley's motion to suspend the rule:
and adopt the resolutions d' ciaring The
negotiations by the President Of thu
commercial treaty, tiSipg 'he rate 81
| duties rs an iafractlnn oi the COnstitu
ton and an invasion of the bILheT pre-
negatives of the House. the motion
was carried, and the resolution adopt
ed by vote of IT'S to 90, and al rurn.
ed.
WASHINGTON, January &c - The
Senate to-day confirmed the fol'owirg
| nominations: james Russell L well.
of NJ issschusetts, as Minister to Grrul
Britain; ] Jhn W. Foster, of lndiana
Minister to Russia; Lucius F.irchild,
of Wisconsin, Minister TO SpsiG; Phil
lip H Morgan, of Louisiana, as Minis
ter to Mexico; Philip S. Waiter. OF
Pennsylvania, Chief of Bureau of Med
icine and Surgeon General of the Ma.
Wy, with relative rank OF commodore
also the nomination of VIM. Billing.
as postmaster at Victoria, Texas.
WAsHINGToN, January &c "A bill
was introduced in the House to day by
Springer to amend the United State:
election laws. 1t provides that super
vIsors of elections, when called for by
citizens, shall be appointed by the Cir
cult courts upon recommendation oil
congressional candidates Of the two
principal parties, and special deputy
msrshals shall be similarly appointed
on recommendation of candidates OF
three principal parties. II repeats the
authorizing OF United States officers to
arrest without warrant persons for vio-
lating any United States election law,
and prohibits interference by super
visors or marshals with judges or in
spectors of election.
WASHINGTON, January 26,-Baforc
the Exodus Committee to-day, Warren
Fearing, clerk in one Of the executive
departments and secretary of the Emf
grant Aid society, testified to receiv-
ing letters from relative in North
Carolina, reporting that colOred men
there are poorly paid for their labor
and are Disconnected. He had read
letters published in Indiana papers
fIom negroes, saying they were de-
lighted with their new homes there.
Charles N. Utney (4lightly colored)
editor of the Washington Argus, "a
paper devoted to the interests of the
colored race-and principal of the
Howard University. testified that he Is
native of North Carolina; a graduate
of O5erlin College and Howard Uni
versity; that he visits North Carolina
every year; has carefully studied the
condition of her people; that he was
one of the founders of the Emigrsnt
Aid society, and drew up its constitu-
ton. Its object was to aid colored
people fleeing from oppression such IS
those that are accumulated at st.
Louis and bound for Kansas. At one
of the first meetings, however, mem
Der suggested the ACCESSIBILITY of
diverting emigration from Kansas
to portions of Indiana, as that was a
doubtful State in the coming election.
No one but Utney objected st that
time. / felt, he said, that we had
been used long enough as tools. The
fl ielity of the colored people to the
Republican party had been rewarded
by the withdrawal of their protection
from outrage, therefore he opposed a
longer use of his people by any polit-
icsl party, and when he saw the exo-
dus was to be used politically be
withdrew from the society Others
though, holding the same views, re-
NAMED in it. He wanted the emf
grants to 60 to Kansas, where they
were invited, and could get homestesds.
BY answers from prominent North
Carolina colored men to whom he had
written, he learned that three men,
Perry, Williams, and Taylor. had gone
among the most ignorant negroes and
told them that the government want
ed them to go to Indiana, and would
give them dollar ana bali per day
during winter, and from two dollars
to two fifty cents per day for the rec:
of the year. Some of them were
promised q suit of clothes. These
men registered the names of those
consenting to go, charging them from
% cents to SO each. The first emf.
grants being few in number were well
received and Immediately employed
These wrote back to their friends I'D
vising them TO come, and hence, said