The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-10
Last Nights Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.

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mas, Hill, of Georgia, Salisbury, 'Vanc,
and Vest took ground that the Spofford
kellogg case could not properly be post
poned. They opposed any evasion of the
issue, and wanted the Democratic party Il
have and show the courage of its convic
ton. They insisted that it was plain tha
Senator Kellogg had not right to hi.
seat, and the majority should not hesitate
to seat Spofford. Mr.. Garland favored
going on with more important public bust
ness. The Kellogg case was not press
ing matter and should await the senate &
action upon the pending appropriation
bills and other necessary general leRIsla
ton. Mr.. Garland expressed a decided
opinion that the Kellogg matter ought to
be laid over until next session. Mr.. Thur
man thought the Geneva award bill OF a
great deal more consequence than the
Kellogg case, Considerable feeling was
manifested by senators who argued in
favor OF immediate action on the Louisiana
case. and some intimated that they would
make the question personal matter and
retaliate upon those who favored the post.
ponement. Those favorlDg prompt con-
sideratlen may yet carry the day.
The mouse appropriation committee con-
Cured 10 the senate amendments to the
immediate deficiency bill.
The Exodus Committee. heard a. S.
johnson. land commissioner of the Atchin-
son, Topeka Il Santa Fe railroad, who
agreed as to the pauperism of the immi-
grants from the South. Mai 4. j. Allen,
of Kansas, had heard many express q
desire to return home.
The Ways and Means Committee were
busy with the hoop iron question to-day
and substantially agreed OF report max
ing high rate of duty on cut hoops and
thus being favorable TO the protectionists
Absent members of the committee may
possibly reverse this action,
The SUB committee on the Pacific rail-
road tabled proposition extending ten
years the time for completing the Northern
Pacific. They will next vote on extending
the time six years.
The government sales of postal cards,
stamps and envelopes for nine months
shows an increase of l4s per cent. being
$24, 900, 900.
In the suit of Lieutenant Wetmore
against Admiral Porter. Judge Cox to-day
decided that Porter was not the superior
officer OF Wetmore, and there was no
legal duress exercised by Porter in requir-
ing WetmoCe to pay over to bis divorced
wife and her daughter the sum stated in
the declaration Plaintiff submitted to
non suit. Porter's counsel announced that
II another suit was brought he would plead
the statute OF limitations.
In the debate to-day respecting The
Whitaker matter at West Point, Mr.
' Voorhees, said he wondered that the
graduates of West Point survived its
brutality and unciviIzed conduct on
the part of the students, and favored
every kind of investigation TO harmonic
and clvIlize. il not possible TO Christianize
Vest Point. The government ought even
to abolish this institution If this inhuman
outrage was rea IL perpetrated. He
was not prepared to say wheth-
er the instructors were to blame or
whether this being educated to war was
the cause, but these young seemed iDspir~
ed with brutality He took no stock in
the assertion that Whitaker had cut bis
own ears off. He had known outrages
similar to this.
Mr.. Hoar said this was not case of
hazlog which would come in the first year
OF a student, but was an outrage
against colored pupil such as was com
mon at West Point III respect OF colored
of the institution. and unless ii
could be ended it ought to result in
the abolition of the institution.
"A OOt at w GsI Oiut
is solitary Robinson Crusoe.
He is absolutely without associates or
sympathy in sickness or sorrow. He
feared the instructors there had not i'm
pressed their classes that the basest thing
they could do was to treat a young colored
youth as an exile on account of the color
Of his skin. This American republic with
It's 40 100000 of ci'izsns. equal before the
and the law, will grind that
institution to powder unless this abuse is
cured.
james 3. Angel was confirmed Minis |
ter to China Joseph F. Swift, of Cali
fornia, and Wm. II. Prescott, of South
Carolina, to be commissioners TO China to
constitute with the Envoy Extraordinary
aud Minister Pleuipotentiary of the United |
States to that country q commission to
negotiate by treaty the settlement of such |
matters nf interest 10 the government now
pending between the same as may be con-
fded to it,
In the Circuit Court Judge Cox refused
a motion of Senator Hills counsel to strike
the case of RAYMOND W. Hill from the
docket, and held that inasmuch as Miss
Raymond had stated iu open court that
she authorized the institution of the suit,
the case must be tried.