Year: 1870

After the ncumbents Of the positions ochies OF
as Quartermaster AdjutantG tGenera General &c. retre
their shall have the rank of Colonel o
Brigadier-Gen as at present Regimental commis
sions in cavalry regiments are abolished A board oi
Officers is provided for to retire officers reported or
retirement by the Generals commanding Departments
The pay Of officers Is fixed as fOllows


General CAPTAIN ain, not noanted... s $500
STnea 1850 Rcgmea aaternas,e. 0
Byst zee sS E i eTisnsHi %SunsS 1S I S
eCo Second Lieutenant moantd 100
SalS' can 100 CHAPLAIN 100


Ade-de Camp Major rGenera 500 additional to pay
tion to pay OF regular rank pay OF Acting Assistant
Commssary and Assistant Quarternaster slVo III adul
ton to regular rank and there snail be a1woa anu th
paid to each and every commissioned officer below ts
rank of Bgader-General including cnaplant3 ia anu ~
others having assmilated rank or pay ten per ceht o
their yearly pay for each and every Term Oh
years service provided that the total amount Oh Sueh @ In
cent on the yearly pay of his grade established ~ t
act and provided further that me pay oI
500 and these shall he in full OF all
longevity rations and ali allowances Of every and
nature provided, that fuel, quarters ana 1orage III
kind may be issued now prescribed by law oneers
retired receive rs per cenum OF the rank Oh "heh
they are retlred


By the above il will be that the pay OF Colonies
and Lieutenant Coonels is cut down $500 per ann from
the sum proposed by the original bill Asections added
which provides that the pay and allowances of enlisted





shall be unlawful for officer to use an enlisted man as


servant I'm any case whatever The section makngt u-
lawful for an officer on the active list to hold civil Office
is retained


senator Robertson Chairman OF the Senate Committee
on Political Disabilities, WILL in day or two report an
amnesty BILL which the President is understood to favor
1t areludes from amnesty only three classes. fHst
Those who withdrew themselves from Congress at the
beginning the Rebellion to engage in the Secession
movement; Second. Those who withdrew from the
United States Army and Navy for the same purpose
and Third Those who signed the original ordinance OF
Seces sion in the various States in 1861 1t is the belief
that such bill will pass both Houses without material
opposition.


The Assistant Secretary State Mr. j. Bancroft Davis
was before the House Appropriation Committee to-day,
the purpose OF urging that the Department OF state
be divided into Bureaus, the Consular and Dipo-
matte under the supervision OF the respective AS
sistant Secretaries He explained to the Committee the
reasons for the proposed change which would make the
Department more efficient. He asked the Committee to
allow them dozen clerks as they had not enough
TO do the work. and urged increase Of salary TO other
clerks No decision arrived at. The Committee In
considering the Miscellaneous Appropriation BILL agreed
to allow the same that allowed last year for
the repairs in the different navy-yards.


In the Senate, to-day, the Judiciary Committee re-
pored bill TO enforce the Fifteenth Amendment which
seems TO be sufficiently comprehensive and stringent to
accomplish the desired purpose The House was asked
TO agree to a Committee Of Conference on the Income
Tax BILL and the request Of that body for Conference
Committee the Census bill was eoncurred In. The
order under which the Senate acted on Friday ito con-
slider in regular order the business the caendar hay
ing been found to work we it continued to-day,
and will be resumed tomorrow To-day no less than 81
bills were passed. some OF them important, while quite
number of others disposed Of by being indefinitely
postponed or laid on the table.


Immediately after the call OF the House, to-day, for
bills resolutions &c. under the rule, the Speaker di-
reced the Serge bring to the Bar Of the
House the IS members who absent Friday night
when call of the House made, warrants having
been served upon them for being absent at that time
without permission The galleries were well filed in ex
pectaton of the usual fun on such occasions but Mr.
schenck who is too anxious about his Tariff bill to waste
time offered resolution imposing fine OF slO upon the
absenees except such desired to offer excuses, and
that all further proceedings be suspended under the CALL
except 10 hear excuses of members This resolution
adopted but nearly two hours were wasted in hearing
senseless excuses from several members The matter
failed to have the effect anticipated for the reason that
such men Schenck Butler, Dawes, Logan and Garfield,
who are looked upon leaders, have all been absent
heretofore on important occasions, and members
generally think they have no good reason
for complaint Butler is absent on
an IS days leave. Schenck absent on a frolic
ON Thursday last, and had the Tariff bill post
poned whole day. Dawes was absent on Wednesday,
having missed every one of the five roll calls the
sypher case and absent again Thursday evening"
and Logan and Garfield absent Friday night.
When call OF the House made, the Tariff bill
debated for hours only section being considered
and no material amendments made.


Il was mentioned In these dispatches, some days ago.
that Of patent Interference was pending before
Judge Fisher the Supreme Court Of this District in
which great deal Of interest was manifested not only
on account OF the merits of the case but account Of
the fact that Senator Cole Is the defendant The
was decided to-day by Judge Fisher against Senator
Cole From the decision Of the Court appears that the
naintif Loud came here from California and had pat
tented paddle wheel for steam-vessels; made the ac
ouintance OF Senator Cole, who became interested in
the patent and they together purchased steamboat In
Eew-York, to try experiments with the wheel Loud
afterward made improvements In the first patent exhib
tied them to Cole placed them In the secret archives
OF the Patent ONCE and went to California. During his
ment on the original wheel which Improvement was sub
seaueny proven TO be Identical with that which Loud
exhibited TO the Senator before he went to California
The plaintiff Loud had his tried In the Patent Office
In the mode pointed ont by law by the primary Exa-
miner Examiner and Examiners In Chief
these officers severay deciding that Loud was the prior
inventor Senator Cole appealed to the Commissioner OF
Patents who In February last reversed the decision OF
the Examiners and rewarded priority OF patent TO Mr.
Cole. Appeal was taken from this decision ~ the
suprem this district and Judge Fisher Of that
court this m0rning reversed the decision VI the Cos