Year: 1870




WASHINGTON April l9.-There is a
prospect of a lively time in the House
when the Georgia bill comes up for ac-
ton. 1t reached that body early this
afternoon. and Mr.. Butler at once asked
its reference to the Reconstruction com
mi,tee, to which Mr.. Bingham objected.
Al later hour in the day. however it
WAS so referred, most of the members
seeming To think that the easiest way
of getting rid Of it for the present. Mr..
Bingham indicates a purpose to insist
on concurrence in the Senate substitute;
but il is not vet possible to say what
decision will be reached for the reason
that the Democrats who held the bal
ance of power when the Georgia ques-
ton was considered by the House are
not yet determined how they will vote
on Mr.. Binghans probable motion.
The Bullock men are doing all they
can To defeat the agreement with the
Senate, and the Governor himself was
very busy in the House a good part OF
the afternoon. The original support
ers of the So-called Bingham amend
ment among the Republicans will prob
ably all vote to concur i'll the substitute,
if Mr.. Bingham leads off in this dlrec-
ton. The object Of that amend
ment was to provide for an elec-
ton of the new Legislature next
fall and the Senate substitute does
this and more too, by declaring ii shall
be held under military authority. The
Bullock lobby have loudly and persist
entity declared that life and property
were insecure in the State, and the
Senate concluded 10 take il at its word,
and put the army again IN control
The whole fight was on the Legislature,
which the Governor and his party
wanted to keep in existence two years
longer, 81 that it might go out when
he does. The House and Senate have
both defeated him on this Issue, and 1t
ONLY remains 10 he seen if the House
will now agree with the Senate in re-
turning the State 10 General Terry :
complete authority.


. THE GEORGIA INVESTIGATION
Was continued by the Judiciary Com
mittee Of the Senate, two more wit
ncsseS being examined. The charge
under inquiry is that a man named
Porter. who i. Il clerk i'll the city Post
office, went to Judge Hughes, lawyer
here, formerly in Congress from lndl-
ana, and said to him that ten thousand
dollars in bonds of the Brunswick rail
road, Of Georgia, would be at Senator
CARPENTER command ifhe voted against
the Bingham amendment. The con
nection between Porter and the Bullock
lobby seems to be that he and some of
the chief men in the aforesaid railroad
are all from Michigan, and that this
railroad is very much in favor Of having
the present Georgia Legislature con
tinued in existence The evidence of
attempt at bribery is not yet complete
but two members of the committee
think ii VIII prove strong enough to
carry the moral conviction, even if 1t
does not establish the actual fact.


THE HOWARD INVESTIGATION


TODAY heard the evidence of Architect
Mullet, OF the Treasury, and Clark, OF
the Capital, that the patent sand-brick
of which the University was built was
not fit material to be used. The
architect Of the building testified that he
was required by General Howard to in
sert in the contract that it should be
built of that material. The object OF
all this evidence is TO show that after
Howard had illegally drawn money
from the Treasury to pay for building
this University, he insisted that 1t
should be built of this patent brick, of
which he was one of the owners, and, of
course, received in the end pay for the
same.


LEGAL TENDER CASES DISMISSED.


Counsel in the legal tender case Of
of Latham asked that the Court dismiss
the case. The motion was opposed by
the Attorney General. The Court grant
ed the request, which seemed to aston
ish all parties present They also dl-
rected the other case on the docket to be
dismissed, so that the former decision
stands.