Year: 1870

the Conference Committee on army bills
have agreed 10 a report recommending the
passage of bill of which the main fea-
lures are the number of rank and file is
reduced to thirty thousand. Breyet rank
abolished.


Goodbye TO the COppcrheads.


Red Cloud and party this morning had O
final council with Secretary Cox and Com
missioner Parker. The Secretary made q
speech, saying some requests were made
by the Indians concerning rations and al
lowing them traders would be aeceded to.
and the Government would do all in its
power TO make them comfortable and hap
py. He announced that they had already
received some presents in the shape of
blankets, ETC., and would receive more in
New York on the way home He repeated
what the President said concerning Fort
Fetterman. II must remain. They would
be started on their homeward journey
Monday, which Information was received
by the Indians with unmistakable signs of
delight.


The Threatening Ksed Cloud.


Red Cloud spoke in reply, evidencing
most certainly his dissatisfaction st the
determination of the Government not to
remove Fort Fetterman He said it was
not necessary for its continuance and its
presence was useless burden and great
expense TO the Great Father; he also, took
exceptions again to roads running through
his country, and intimaied if trouble
arose it would be the fault of the Great
Father


A Temperance speech.


Red Cloud made another speech, in
which he said that the troops in his country
are all on foot, and the Government is
throwing away its money for nothing. The
officers there are all whisky drinkers The
Great Father sends these whisky drinkers
because . does not want them around him
here. ! DO not allow my nation or any
white man to bring drop of liquor into
my country. If he does, that is the last
Of him and the liquor, too.


The Spotted Tail can drink as much as
he pleases on the Missouri River, and they
can kill one another if they chose / do
not hold myself responsible for what Spot
ted Tail and traders do there. When you
buy me anything with my money, want
you 10 buy me what is useful.
don't want your dirty flour and rotten
tobacco and old soldiers clothes, dyed
black, such as you bought for Spotted
Tail. I only tell you what is true. You
have had a great war, but after it was all
over, you permitted chiefs who had been
fighting to come back


Garfield SIN Confident


Gen. Garfield is very confident he will
be able to get his National Bauk bill through
the House before the adjournment BY
one of those parliamentary maneuvers SO
common in the House, the defeated cur
rency bill yesterday came to the surface by
III, oAo-oz 4 4
which passed the Senate in February last,
TO provide for the issue of forty-fve mil
lions of bank notes based on a coin de-
posit. It appears that during ten min
utes' recess of the House this morning,
necessitated by the noise caused by a CO.
pious shower of rain on the roof, the chair
man of the Bank Committee conversed
with the members of the same on the floor
and they agreed to the action subsequently
taken in the House. 1t created SO much
surprise that the Democrats filibustered it
through the morning hour and secured its
postponement till Tuesday next. 1t is not
believed the measure has gained any
strength by this practice; on the contrary
it has lost it. As it now stands, with the
funding sections omitted, it still virtually
contracts the currency about nine millions
of dollars.


san DORlngO.


The San Domingo investigation commit
tee of the Senate commenced work yester-
dsy. Two witnesses were examined show
ing that rather arbitrary measuresha been
resorted to in the course of the negotia.
tions for the treaty. Mr.. Sumner said yes
terday that he had received a letter from a
prominent Republican in New York, stat
ing that leading Republicans there gener-
ally deplored the course the President was
pursuing in this San Domingo business.
There is considerable feeling exhibited in
the Senate and in administration quarters
over the commencement of the investiga-
ton


Investigation in MIR. Hateh's Case.


The special committee appointed to in
vestigate the case of Mr.. Hatch's imprison-
ment in San Domingo, commenced opera
tions yesterday by examining large
amount of documents furnished 10y the
State Department From these 1t appears
that Mr.. Hatch had grants of a salt mine
and railroad franchise from Caborat when
he was in power, but when BaeZ got the
upper hand he wanted to annul MIR.
HHtch's privileges, and as the latter resist
ed he had him imprisoned, court martialed
and ordered him to be shot, but finally
pardoned him. From the documents it
appears that Gen. Babcock prevented
vessel which was under his control from
interfering in Hatch's behalf, saying the
fellow was guilty and he would not inter
fere. None of the evidence in Senator
Ferrys possession has yet been introduced.
The investigation promises to be exec ed
ingly interesting and provocative of bad
blood


Defeat of the naturalization BIII.


The feature of Congress yesterday was
the defeat by the House, by more than
forty majority, of a new naturalization bill
which has been in course of preparation by
the judiciary Committee ever since Decem-
Der last. Il made the most radical
changes in our whole naturalization sys-
tenn, placing it within the control OF
United States courts instead of the State
courts, aud requiring a three years resi-
dence of any fol eigner before he could
even make application for citizenship.
After that is was provided that he should
be kept on probation forsix months before
the court decided on it. There were other
odious features. which we're strongly de-
nounced in a long debate from both sides
of the House, after which the bill WAS ta-
bled. Judge Davis, celebrated in the Nc
Farland case drew up this bill.