Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-26

The Contested EleCtiGas-SOuthern Re- publirans Anxious for Early Action Proposing to Demand Prompt Atten- 1 tion-Arguments i'm the Mason Case Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, April p. The southern Republicans in the House were good deal agitated tonight over the course of Republicans who voted with the Democrats to lay over the contested election cases and take up the tariff bill They say the contestants have been kept out of their seats too long already and they do not pro- pose to let matters rest longer, but will de- mand of their party as an act of simple jus tice that the cases be taken up at once. In the Mason case before the Supreme Court Major Asa Bird Gardiner. of counsel for respondent, followed Mir. Liddy, oppos- ing the petition on the ground that first, the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to issue the writs prayed for, because it's original jurisdiction is restricted to affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls, and to those m which the State is party, and because under the Constitution it possesses no appellate power in any case un less conferred upon it by act of Con- gress; secondly, that the general court martial which tried the petitioner had juris- diction over the crime of which he was con- victed and for which he was now serving his sentence; thirdly, that upon the facts stated there was no proper case presented to justify the issuance of the writs prayed for fourth that the general court martial having iuris- diction the sentence awarded was within it's discretion under che articles of war. The ar gument not concluded.
 Comptroller Knox has appointed Elisha T. Smith receiver of the First National bank at Buffalo, N. Y.
 The Cabinet today formally considered the Fitz John Porter case without coming to a conclusion and also discussed the question of American citizenship abroad. The Presi dent notified the Cabinet that he had con- cluded to send message to Congress on the subject of the western cowboys.
 A member of the House Foreign Affairs committee is authority for statement that the committee not much interested in the question of the extent of their authority to compel Shipherd to answer questions. They believe he has told all he knows of any importance and that his reticence on some points is only part of his plan to create the impression that he is possessed of valuable unrevealed information
 The House Committee on Patents to day directed favorable report to be made to the House on @ bill providing that no action for damages or proceeding in equity shall be sus tained, nor the party held liable under sec- tons 4,JI9 or 4,92l Of the Revised Statutes, for the use of any patented article or device when it shall appear on the trial that the de- fe1dant in such action or proceeding pur- chased sad article for a valuable considera- tion in the open market.
 The sixty third anniversary of the founding of Odd Fellowship will be celebrated to-mor- row by parade and banquet.
 Specific instructions have been given to Lieutenant Healy, commander of the revenue steamer Corwin, to lay out good seasons work after the delivery of the crew of the Rodgers at Sitka. If practicable the Corwin will go as far as Point Barren cruising until October 20 gathering geographical, nautical and census statistics and protecting American fisheries