Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1876, Page 1

The Chicagn Daily T VOLUME 29. ; CHICAGO, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1876. WILSON BROS,’ Manufacture Shirts to ORDER, and parry o.largo stock roady-mado, of SHIRTS. thbir own manufacture. liticlan may have out: hi 4 for bie | cond give valuable {oformation rogarding post- On reputation an a ayyens Hoes moro in- | tradersnips, and would willingly do so but for WASHINGTON. tent upon Preparing tha Belkna scandal forita foar of boing prosecuted thomevives, . moral offeot upon the Now Hampshire oloction ———a- = than upon eres ing a legal easy for the high MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. The Hon. Richard A. Dann, of Court of Impeachment, ‘ORVITLE GRANT. Boston, Nomiuated for the ‘THE KENTUCKY RAILROAD CLAIM. ‘Thore Ia & good doal of gosrip here that etthor | _Wastreatox, D. O., March 6.—forlous charges English Mission. Moral or hiewife bas soleinfotmation in rerard | &To made bero implicating Orville Grant in the to ihe Esltcapiiion errs of tha 4 en snck Cours Bolknap transactions. tral Rattroad, which Belknay 01 mid aftor To the Assoctated Press.) i iC had been rojectod by throe of his prodecessors, Selina’ Reso AEE HeFOnDs Another Investigation Ordered Into hia presont, wifo boing dlegracotally raized up D, U, March '6,-Tuo follow That Everlasting Safe-Rob- init, and this fect makestho absence of Marah | | Wasmnarox, D. O., ba ba bory Business more to bo regretted. Among membore of tho | tologram was sont to Gon. Shoridan to-day: ry 5 Comeaittae hare ‘dine doubt that Mrs. Bavates oA, DEPARTMENT ADIUTANE Qrirnan Orsice, ant Mrs. fs , | Wasuinatox, D.C, a T'0 LatuteGen, Sheri | tecebvod: BOO 000 ae lout dor’ indgease ta tus | dam, Commandin7,’ Chietgo; ‘Tho President directa | Senator Bogy Glvea His Views at Length BELKNAP. Mr. Clymer Explains the Delay in Reporting the Impeach- ment Articles. And Somchow Neglects to'Say a Word About Now Nampshires der in Tretand, which on to notify Evans, post trader at Fort sill, that hia eter hanemyal and sre veeaianyeéaptad : ,, | ane Stns gach iat Hipalatment ie roroked. Jie ule permed tore: on the Finance Qnestion, * Ghieteanegimetesrupestetareent | Who Ia Rospoustble for Marahla) , oosih5 9 Mi 22 "ITs runing | arimantiraah real neatae eaesT ares 6 0 ie * * x x 1 D, 0, March 6.—The following | 7 dent desires yor lreot the Council of Ad- Bee mo renter are, nr eaiia mare relied Upon Voluntary Exile? in the resolution which Page unsuccessfully tried sneintration to meet aad. to. Fooommend to the Hcero- ol tE LONDON MISSION. , tho most complata sattefaction may be xcliod upon. fi 1 Keaton £0 Et Oot oy cueeale ete, NOMINATION OF RICHARD A. DANA. ‘Eiders can bo Milod in siz houts whon noceseary, to obtaia tho floor to offer in the Honac to-day: | tary of War throug’ $4 pers Habe & 69 Washington-st., Chicago, ‘Wunnras, This Hours has rosson to belloye that | S08 for trader, Latter by matt, Special Inepatch to The CAteaao Tribune, BT } ashit Eton-st., 0, 4 ; * the provisions of Beca, G40 and G46 of the Hovined (Signed) ER Petia Wanuxatox, D.C., March 6.——-The nonin And Pitts Opera House, Cioetnontt | Proposition to Investigate This Question } sistutes taro beon vinates, sud that evidence af the nS eatdhie Bae lion of Richard A. Dana, Jr. of Massachuaotts, GREY TAX -RRDENPTIONS In complianco with the requost of tho Fi- pance Committeo, the premium on redemp~ Hon of City: Tax Cortifiontos will continue ' NOTICE, ua follows until Maroh 10, 18763 9 ee of 1875, for city taxos of 1874, no pro- urn, Bale of 1874, for city taxes of 1873, 25 por cont. Bhioot 1873, for oity taxes of 1872, 25 por » SO tho 10th of Maroh, 1876, and on the LOth of every succecding mont onal char: the prinoips vy _ Chicago, Feb. 26, 1878. oof B per cent will be mado on Cortificates. at oF SB rs TH 18, Gomptrollor. to fill tho position of Amorican Miniater at tho Court of Bt. James, so long disgraced by Gen. Tiedt resolved, That wald Commattiee be and is hereby | aent Diatrict-Attorney Wells to tho Horie Com- | gosonok, took orerybody by pide to-day, Anetructed to report the Mouso, at its earliest convo- | mittee on War Expenditures to obtain the ovl- | mie solection has generally been spoken of Blonos, whether any OF all of the parties believed t0 | donco taken by them. Tho Attornoy-Gonoral g bat pati be gullty of violation thercof aro now in custody, or good ons, and the Benato will without doubt what sieps bi fo | hag boon severoly critleised for this allogod at- Raat wens, ams been taken by sald Committe £2 | tempt to get away from the Committes tho evi- | Promptly confirma it, all of sald Parties, citer ae ‘witness orfor purposes of | donce which they relied on to base the articles | Gen. Bchonck’s resignation bas been In the prosocntion, or whether soy otiicial notice was given | of daporghmen Tho Attornes-Gonoral says | banda of tho President for somo time, probably tu the proper law officers of tho Government, and, if t= fo, mstige sue nodes. was aiven la iets prevoot | Sats Maat Lie did "an io eo iommantieg to eee | simes, early last month, and thor ean bo no the cacape of such partica from the juriadiction of the y donbt that its accaptance waa determined upon cortain to whom Bolknap had admitted hie guilt, 1p crane ad holier thes “td bon" any negligence ithe view of having thom summoned boforo | by Gen, Grant several wooks ago, but Gon. on the part of any ona having knowledge of the facts, | tho Grand Jury. Tho ovidenco taken by tho } Schenck waa not at that timo quito ready to WILL NOT DE INTERVIEWED. Committee ho did not want, for the simple rea- | enye London, and, bad his resignation beon Speetat Liepatch to Tha Chicaao Tribune. son that tt would not be evidonce upon which to | formally accepted whilo he remained thero, bo Montreat, Quo., March 6.—3rs. Marah, wifo | find an indictment. Tho indictmont will bo | might not have been allawod to leave when hie of Caicb Marsh, who testified againat Sccrotary | found upon tho testimony of tho members of tho aid get rosdy. Had. beat soy time for noarly Bolknap, arrived boro yostorday, and is with hor | Houso Committoo to whom Belknap admitted | two months past been plain Gen: Schenck, on- basbaud, who arrived Saturday. He resolutely | his guilt, rotocted by the ex-territorinl character of a rofuses to bo intorviowed, aud kicked the Gazclle JUDGE ANXLI, foreign Atnbaseador, the writ which the now Shirked by tho House. Comatitee at tho Expenditures of the War Dopart- | hog boon sont out fromboro that Mr. Pierrepont Marsh In Montreal Beset by Unsuccess- ful Interviewers. Evans, the Fort Sill Trader, Cat Of in His Prime. Scuntor Morrill, of Maine, Tene addi+ me dered the War Portfolio, ‘THE IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES, SPORTSMEN’S GOODS. GUNS, FISHING TACKLE, ETC. WHY THEY ARE NOT NEPONTED. man ont, pee tend of the Police Court, reccived a note from Attor- | Chairman of the Emms Mining Company, Mc- noy Wells stating that ox-Sonator Carponter in- | Dougal, had caused to be issued could eve been arampuanon Dr On, Merch Oe-Great, disap: BELKNAP'S SUCCESSOR. formod hlin Belknap would not bo roady to ap- | served toa lim. THE PORTFOLIO TENDERED TO SENATOR MORRILIn Speciat Lrepateh to The Chreaoa Tribune, Wasutnotoy, D. O., March 6,—Senator Lot Af. Morrill, of Blaine, has boon roqneated by tho President to accept tho position as Becrotary of pear in court to-day with bis bail, and asking {1'o the Aesociated Press.) that his cago be allowed to stand, and that this Wasmyatos, D.C., March 6.—The President artangoment had boon agreod to. Dolknap will | to-day nominsted Richard H. Dana, Jr., of Mas- remain in tho custody of ofiicors, and will have | anchunsctts, to bo Minister to England, vico hia hoaring to-morrow. Schonck. : pointmont was oxprossod, on the part of such members of the Houso as wero not informed about tho reat facts in the caso, that the articles of impenchmont, known to havo beon proparod Dn Chicago Property, in cums to sult, at lowert ent= rent rates of intoroat, | Will make first-class bulding : 3, D, HARVEY, Morlgage Loane, 97 Deartorn-at, fosne, IN THE SENATE. —_+— ; At E. E. EATON’S, 53 State-st, | 27 thoJadletary Commitras, ead alt day in the | War. Ho ling bad the mattor undor adviaomont | Mr, Zdmunda, from tho solect Committes to - AN OLD SORE ere is * | bands of the Chairman, wore wot progonted to | ¢or several days, and to-day the Presidont folt so | Which was roferred tho resolution and message BUEARS OUT AFNESIL. ESTABLIBHED 1659. the House, Itis true that the Committee bas | confident that ho would accept that ho sont his | {fom the House of Roprosontativos in rogard to Byecial Dispatch to The Chteaao Trioune. FINANCIAL complied with tho ordors of tho Houss, and pro- | nomination to the Sounte, but, at the epooial ra- | $HOimperchment of Hi. WV. eltnap, tate, Tecro- tary of War, reported s preamble and resolution | Wasmtxazor, D. 0., March 6.—Tiro important declaring siat the Sonate will take ordor in tho | resolutions of lnvestigation wore introduced in promises, according to its slanding rule, and di- | the House to-day. Tho first waa offered by recting the Hecrotary to notify ths Houao. of | incknor, Chairman of tho Committee on the Hopreventatives. Agrecd to. E Bae SOL aTeir BeTss@:D RENIATS District of Columbia, and its object was to dis Mr, Saylor, of Obio, while sitting to-day as | cover what interferance, if any, took place in Chairman of the Committca of tho Whole, re- | tho initial proceedings in the notorious safo- celvod tho foltowing tologram fromthe Hon. Mr. | burglary trial, either by officora of the United Perod articles against Belknap, but tho aentl- mont of that Committeo is that, unloss tho Houso imperativoly domand {t, the articles ought not to be prosonted, or, ot lonat, ‘need not bo prosonted of prosont. Tho only witnoss in tho case has gouo, aud tho Com- mittes thinue it uuinpondaayy to presout tho caso to the Sonate until thoro fs suilicient proof to quest of Mr. Morrill, it was withheld by tho Prosident’s Secretary and not proaented. Tho Bonator desired to bavo the mattor postponed one day, e8 in certain contingencies, which ho could not fully forogse to-day, he might bo obtiged to decline the position, Le is consult- Jog some personal friends to-night, and expects establish it, and make tho impoachment stand. MONEY TO LEND fnsuma above $2,000, on long time, at 8 per cent or 9 is M. L, SCUDDER, JE, 108 Dearhorn-st. MISCELLANEOUS. 8. S. GREELEY, OITY AND COUNTY SURVEYOR, Removed to No. 95 Dearborn-st., Room 7, first floor. ICH. ICH. Forasle 1,000 tons to mest, per cent Interest. arrive by vescol on consign A. E, CURTIBS, 300 Canal-at, to givathoProsidonta dofinito answor to-morrow. T¢ he accepts the nomination it will be recoived hore with great eatisfeotion. Ho ia recognized ag a Soustor of marked ability, uf unquestionod integrity, and in all respoots a man of high or- der, His long service aa Chairman of tho Son- ato Committes on Appropriations has of necey- sity made him ontirely familiar, with tho wholo machinery of tho War Dopartmont, His term 28 Sonator oxpires in 1877. If bo accepte, it is uite probable Ar. Bioino will ontor the lists for the succossorship. Pendleton + Seceaiaa ‘s Stntea or those who were or had boon ofiicars of Orcmnwatt, March 67a the Hon. Mulcn Sayter | the District of Columbia, or by others. It will ‘c HT, Be fat tatters t Gino Satlels in’yostentay'e Capital, ia soation to tha | Dexomenbered that, by dirootion of the Attornay- payment of money toate a bela to aNeEre oe, pet Goneral, Mr. Riddle, one of the most pronilnent 1 © ler oats! - tueky Central Railroad, tefera to mo, pronounce the | ‘wyers of tho Districh wae omployed story uttorly falso, Ilisyo telegraphed the Gommittes {as an = agaigtnnt «to the District- asking that they sball investigate immediately this | Attornoy for the prosecution of those persons al- matter, and pormit my examination ot the carileet mo- BIE: mont. ‘Enforce ray request. Pleare sce'that my full, | leged to havo boon concerned in the safe-burg. whatio di all ite Jary conspiracy, Dofore Warrington was in- Golurough the Associated Lose didpatches. lured dicted oven, he suocecded in relcasing, on atraw- Tho Committeo's desire for dolay ia snid by tho Demooratle mombers to bo based on the almoat absolute knowledge that there will soon be ostablishod MORE PACTS AGAINST THE DETORED SRCRETANY than tho most sensational committeo-man could that will mako the caso of Belkoap ton- fold worse than it ig now, and that tho tostimony will bo fo convincing sud so diract that it will not depond upon tho prosenco It Mr, Mot (Signed) UzongE I, Prxpixrox, batl, one of the safo burglars who had been cap- - Morrill refuses, thore is strong reason a wr absenve of aay one ‘eltucot. -Bestamants of for believing that Judgo Moar will Oe eae al QYTTING UNLAST. turod by the polico, and was at the timo lodged Sr. Louis, March 6.—The Republican says | in the District Jail. It was undorstood that bad editorially, spoaking of tho report that tho | this man not beon reloased ho would have bo- Prosidont has ordered the prosecution of | trayod his accomplices and givon testimony Mareh, Tomlingon, and all others connected with | agninet them in the Court. Aftor the failure of tho post-tradorabip bribery business, that thera | the jury to sgreo in tho Harrington caso, it was aro persone in Bt. Louis who three days ogo | roported that Mr. Riddle obtained possession of wero roady to give ovidenco ngainst Bolkoap, NEW INFORMATION but now rofase to do eo for fosr thoy will bo | which wonld havo onabled him to secure tho promsentes for buying the traderahips which the | prosanco of somo of the conspirators who woro ———— accopt, although ho has boon decidedly opposed. to roturning to Washington In nny capacity. Sonator Morrill’s termin tho Sonato oxpiros at the same timo his service iu the Cabinot would expire should no accept, on tho 4th of March noxt. He bas already signifiod o determination not again to bo a candidate for ro-clection, and hia place is regarded as already under mortgago to Blaine. Silaine says that tho appointment of Morrill as by Chairman Knott, of tho Judiciary Committes, and tho Houso will probably conclado that the articles of impeachmont in tho Fort Sill caso, which hang on the testimony of ono man, Marsh, who ts absont, may as wall bo postponed. Tho articles n6 proparod aro vory long, and covor every phase of tho caso a6 dovolopoed by Marsh's teatimony, and include a soparnte charge for overy ivetallmont Bolknap roceived, Holster Clymer says that his invostigations crotary held. nos oxamined es nitnesses in that case, and he ‘FIRM CHANGES; DISSOLUTIO ‘The firm bation. Notice ta horeby given that a erie eee mci a ld Noblesingerand David Alarer are ganeral part- pers aud Tobias Schlosioger, epee partuer, Le having sontetbated $10,000 to the capital af # LEOPOL ‘& Mayor fe diseoh Mmt- of Hobleslngy SeOnD eoubaIaaile TOBIAS KOHLESINGEL, DAVID BAY: SOHLESIN DAVID MAYER, TOMIAS SOHLESINGER, Special. 9 tir. was proceediog with groat diligence to prepare show that everything in tho War Deparimont | Secretary of War would not induce bim (Biaino) POST-TRADERS. his case, when be was suddenly informed by tho that was cslablo, Belknap sold. It was ovon | 2 Fu0 for the Senato from Maino, nor Geena THEIR DRALINGS IN CHICAGO, Attorney-General that ie connection with it think that Aforrill will accept the War Secrotary- ship, although it has beon offored him. Blaine evidently docs not intend to permit any other offico to dissuade from his Prosidential candi- dacy. i$ Uo the Assoctated Press.) Wasmrnaton, D. 0., March 6.—The Prosidont said late thia afternoon that nothlog had been dofinst oly arranged rogarding the appointmont of Secrotary of War, and tho quostlon, it{is cor- tain, will not be dotermiued vntil to-morrow said that bo cold wharfing privileges sbout Washlogton. (Tothe Associated sess.) Wasntxaron, D, 0., March 6.—Iho Commit tee on the Judiciary, this afternoon, completed tho Balknap articlos of imposchmont. They aro twonty in nutmber, specifically stating tho various amounts of money received by him at difforent times from Marsh. Theso articles aro founded on tho testimony of that wit- ness, but, as bo hos fied tho coun. ‘Tho uvplossant dilomma in which ox-Soorotary | Was ot nn ond. Anothor roport of the investigation, of which Belknap now dads himself, owing to oortain | wilvaiso come. within the lime of Mfr. Back. transactions with post-traders, bes aroused & | nor's rosolution, in that, after the jury public intorost in that hishorto somowhat ob- | out, and before they reported to the O sonre class of mou. Feota nonnogted with tho rare an var aed eHaphend Pode josn at manner of tholr appointmont and their atylo of couducting business aro cagorly sought for, aod do-wllels, She Jury, war, petals rns qepare sro daily boing brought forward by'tho wowspa- | the Judiciary will probably demand an explana- GER, COPARTNERSHIP. ‘The undersigned have thia day formed o copertner- vhip under the firm nama of Biodder & Long, for tho transaction of the Dry Goods Cominisalon bus inoss, at 191 and 163 Fifth-av,, as succossors to the Inte firm’ of &, L, Jameson & Co, a. ¥, Chicago, March 1, 1676, HO. afters Cabinct consultation, ———— PUBLIC FEELING. GENEDAL DISTOUST, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago tviouns, Wasurnaton, D. 0.; March 6.—Tho stato of public feeling in Washington sluce the exposure pers of tho country, and yesterday a Tninune | tion of this strango ciroumetance. roporter visited s number of the more prominent nee wholesale grocors in this city, with a view to DISTRIER AFFAIRS: learning if any of thom bad transacted business a with pout-uutlers. Mr. Franklin MaoVeagh aid, Special Diepatch tu The Chicago Tribune. in onewer to an inquiry, thot Lo bad sold'on sov- Wasuixaton, D. 6, March 6,—Tbe House eral occasions to three difforent onos, but did | Committee on the District of Columbia continues try, tho Committoo will to-morrow, on making tholr roport, moyo its reference back to the Committee so that furthor teati- mony may bo taken to strengthen tho cage. Bomoe days may elapso before tho articles oball be finally acted upon by the Houses, and pro- sonted to tho Senate. Tho Committco will not act tn haste, as thoy wish to present s caso that BTODD! LONG, ee BLANK HOOKS STATIONERY, &o. BLANK BOOKS, Stationery and Printing, Furnished promptly and at fate prices, by J, Mf VW, JONES, 104 and 100 Madiaon-st, fee 100 South Circuit Conrt ofthe United States of America, Wit Sale of Pekin, 1 OL TANKS, OIL TAN iG PROOESB, w AU Olarie, 158 Tiinois, LEGAL, Southern District of Minois, Abrani P, Neyits, Trastes,&o,,ve. The Pekin, Linooln & | out tho fnsiouation that hia flight was sololy duo k Decombor, of moro than $600,000, aud will | ang the sald Sinking Fand Commissioners ars hore- Heats nal iroad Camping, ‘The oleae, vapssh aud | to the announcement, attor the Cabinot mesting Bianco OF wink Wey, a Peon able to learn bas | probably ask for an extensiou, by authorised. to exchenge ald. bonds. at par for ie Woglorn Hallway Comany,, decol or corisit Gun | of Friday, that tho Presideat Lad dotorminod to ror to THe Ti y 8 D. M. Olivor & Co,, provision doaters, are ro | sume of any class of Indebtedness fn tho preceding FOLD ae Feats Alfcod We iio- | prosocute all porsons connooted with thin mligora. | ‘2 dispatobea to Taz Tamune, portod a8 having fallod, owlng North & Co, | gection of thle act uamod, including the sewer tax or Fea eta oe se ister Heryatree: | blo Tel "i (20 the Aaoctited Press.) 840,000. : Feackemente paid, evidenced by certificates of the a, Dearteh 8. Saulh ga Heaetick Suit, Hrscutors | pe Dolemep businass. They havo called this Waninxarox, D.C. Slarch 0.--Hor some days wee tiancood & Co,, wool dealers, are aleo | Ausiug Uoard provided for tn this act. of ies Smith, Doceasod. “ it » | rmmors have boen very current thal 18 House nick by iad Tt has only boon bys forced construction that PUBLIC NOTIOK ts heraby alton that to naranancea {helt partisan schemes wero itlustratod to-dey | Naval Committoy bas obtained toatimony iiu- feportod ne Laying failed, thoso bonds have been pald. at thelr par valae LE eS re eR ee eae meal ie eret| oo aRHUne Line vicating Socrotary Robeson, his wifo, and Rop- for new work done under oxtonded contracts, pfaale coutained in a certain doed af truattiiod a8 40 8x | eye sng Unitod tnton, Lie bill movie tat renentative Saratel Iandall, of Ponnaylyauia, in AUROMANIA. but the Committee has discovered that, in cere binieia vald cata, the Uundorstxaod A Mastor in Guaheary newses toutitylug for tho Unite a Bta ti len eae curtain corrupt transactions growing ont of ta- “Special Diapatch to 2'he Carcaga Tribune, tain instances, tho 3.65 bonds, inatoad of being wile he be hiablo to arrest, and ehall not be ah OBIS d tor: yat contracts, ‘The attoution of Mr. Whitthorno, Yanuton, D, ‘T., Mare 6.—About 200 men | paid at par, were paid at their market value as geband bene blddor, OF Gaah ia hand, a sétiaacton of | atactowuros mado, and maklog it a ponal offonse | (Ho Cusirman of the Naval Committos,, having | will loavo Yankton to-morrow, by stago and with | quoted In Now York, which sooms to be borkedcor Oring Uaitey Rtatos Goure Hulidiag, i@ tue | to intimidate witnowsos for tho Cuited Btntes, | Pec din se omphatically | 4 freight-train for the Black Iijlla, Equipments 3 DIREGT VIOLATION » Ever eprinatele, Hilcol, om Wridny, the tesaur-tiet | Tho oscapo of Marsh bea e vary different oxplas | {fiers Mae DOES word of trutl In its tak no ev) Oivod nore tile aftcrnoon froin Slaux City, bo- | of tat nart of the act mbova quoted. | Tn other day ol Avr inte, between the hours of ning o'eiock e.ma, nation. ‘Tho facts about tha eseapo ara a good denco een talon by the Committoo oven 4 words, tha bouds guarantoed by the United ft Ti eT. irae fi Pa PH 6 Th a, th 4 OF 26 DOB Bs practicable, to the Town at Valivy.'ielarac, Eiseuioy and, Bown Puleat atur, including all the, rallma of way, depot grou ducts, ‘oulvorte, station Lous omned, tur or sola Ti 5 | the Hougo to-day, apart from the introduction Committoe, On tho day that March wont away, to South Pass, 100 miles. Vt bout 125 | ¢ opretlany erase tusrsoh, end a tne propsriyiranceivee, | 60 It, ig atated on excellent authority, Olymse gation of the War Dopartment. Lfo was put io | miloy north from the aod athe. tage cowpany of bila, was devoted to @ furthor discussion of Fightey aud thin 4 of wha taoere T namo OF Datuto, togotl | Was informed by Beoret Sorvico oficera “that tho calabooso under a niluapprohouslon of the | {x making proparations to put ona linc to Camp | tho Hawalian treaty, Tho discussion was con- manoes the: oun gins. oe id enywins (hersagko aps Marsh had made his preparations to go to Cana- } order from Washington, but was released you- | Brown, 40 miles north of South Pass. tinued by Messru. Burchard, Mills, Morrison, taining; aud also all te estate, right, title. claim, io | ds, and that he could bo detaiued it it way | torday, and will hold himeolf roady to answor a SS ee dd Koll Thi te whic reat, ‘property, aod possession whatsoever, as wellin | desired, Olymer declined totske any action, ¥ the 0 ttt % GATLI 5 and Kolloy. 8 arguments which attracted be eld dead ot eee Halfioé Uosipaty embraced | S00 erenpired befora tho Cabloct-mostiog | Summons from the Committes, 1: appeara that ATLING GUNS. most attention were'in opposition to the treaty, Het tae ‘ecorporation. of Friday, and before any announcemont of the | Brown was a olork, a fow yoard ago, for Evans Spectal Dispatch to The Chécaga Tribune, Mr. Morrlaon read ble first speech as leader of nite he parent cf the ameaas bid, the undersigned | progeoution of Mareh had oflclally boon made, | & Smith, subsequently Evans & Uo. at the Inpraarouis, Ind, March G.—Gen, Love, } ing Touse, end opouly charged that the bill Fo nastiest dead converiag said propenty ase ‘Of course there waa = Oboyenns | Agenoy, ia the indian Torri, Trofiient of se Calle Guo Comat lscon- | vould inure only to the benotit of AN Wi ee, ‘ow TH 08) aur nowes & 0.0 oa 1 i Rae eerste ek itt oe teaue of aid and poopte will iuquite wnt it waa, Clymer | tho’ rolationa of vase. & Co, “with | from Washington tava the tolographio report | vg an Francisco pugar-housos, —ICelloy In cane cx 4 ve the right Jotrs ie etouat {cod doe toa; to or more than the amount of said decree, they wiihate che right wat fo 61 Pony nary Term, A. UD, 1876, Fekin, Linco! ding from the Oity of Pel vf 008, na bi jatcod by tt ure) can, shall H. Ole. Court South. Hay, Gaeewn 4 Littixb, Bollottors tor Complainant, SON & EVERDEN, Now tho air is full of rumore affoctiog almost xv SHIPPING GANS, | YoU! be offered, no opportunity bad beon given bi in Mgh position, and tho | Port Buford. to do 60, £0 thet the work had 4740 Woat uako Street, to presont resolutions tundor the tro-thirds rato. | SYS DUt Choe it is that stioco rumors aoom | ‘Have you had many traneactions with bim?" | tioen givon to other contractors, bad boon eub- SP" exnp yon CaTALoaUR, * DYEING AND OLEANING, LADIES’ SUITS. In_Gilk,: Woolen, and Mixed Goods, cleaned tho Day OLBANIN Mi pe removing the trimmings. GUST SOHWARZ, and 265 W, Madison-sts, incoln & Decatur Rallread, WITHOUT REDEMPTION. following desorib: sae aia uae ottigr veel or personal e fa Pokiny Linoola sud Deca Serutraced In ie auld dood 0 pas eet bai be Tos than the fe ihc ‘i attae ened um sagtraleat to eof” atest ris ‘Bates rin; “ield p aITT eS EN a GON Hus mance not havo any rogular deslinga with thom, ite investigations daily, aud is constantly ex- See They at ne IRONY ta 123K CEL |e eee ee ae etn chasea in this market?” asked tho reportor, posing gu Bi Seay Wonld if they could posure thelr own | to Bosrd of Audit of the District That torme a8 to time. Itis not customary for ns to | Board seams to Lave beon very reckloa In pass- kell on Jong time to parties at sich a distance.” | ing upon claims, acting, in some casos already “ Whore, then, do they get tholreupplics ?" | esamined, indopendently of the Commissioners, Cnt Re eee met dave arse beet | nd even of the Enginoor of tha District, who ness with post-tradera, Thoy aro such oxten- | Slone bad the ovidenco upon which their awarde sive dealers that thoy cau afford to give loug | should bo made, Ata meeting of the Commit. timo. I understand that many of tho tradors | tea to-day, Liout, Hoxie, Engincer of tho Dis- aro allowed five and six months.” trict, was greatly surprised to learn that ono Mr. F. A. Waidnor, wholesale dealer In can- y Burp. ned foods, “stated that bo novor doalt with auy | rm wlio had been ordered to repair pavo- sutlors oxcopt one, A. T. Leighton, located at | monts which they bad Idid. and bad tailed of the Belknap scandal is differont from that which bas over provallod bere hofore or since the Republican party camo into power. On former occasions, whon 8 Governmont officlat bas been dotected in frandulent practices, the provalont feeling which has found expression has boon that it was sn oxcoptions!l caso, and that tho groat body of public oflicers were honest mon, Tho arrest of Hodge for tho ombozzlo- mont of public funds, for instance, did not make people hore any the moro ready than bofore to boliove that other Paymasters wero dishonost. ean be maintained boforo the Senate. Thoy chargo Belknap with having violated Soc. 1781 of the Revised Statutes, the ponalty for which is imprisonment for not more than tivo yoars, and « fine not moro than $10,000. ——-— MARSH. ‘WO 16 RESPONSIBLE ? Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasmnaton, D. ©, March 6.—Tbero was quite an oxciting acone in tho closing hour of thoacesion, It wan Monday, and, owing to the fonru of tho Domocrats that currency resolutions KS After tho Hawaiian debate waa caded, how- ever, tho Democrats insisted upon pre- senting soveral rosolutions. Cox, who was n tho chair, rofused to recognize any but Domoorate. Tho Republicans became res- tive at this, particularly whon Cox gave the floor tos Domocrat to movo an adjourument, and pormitted him to farm it out to Domocrate for resolutions. The Republicans robelted at this, and finally doprived tho Domocrats or thetr ad- yantaga by forcing a roll-call on the motion to adjourn. “Che resolution thattho Ropublicans especially ranted to presont was one dircoting AN INVESTIGATION 70 DE MADE of the ronuona why the Clymor Committos pormit- “Not to any largo amouut at ovo time. Leighton cama to us bocauso hs formerly boughe | SeTvently allowod by the Board of Audit a claim Baltimoro.. Wo have never vokl him | of nearly $32,000 on thelr original work. Thia nore than $75 os B100 at auce, ‘while wo have | allowance bad been mado atter a lottor had boon takon Cloverument contracta og Ligh o8 829,000." | writton by Lient. Hoxio to the Board of Audit Ho further stated that Leighton bad novor com: | refusing to reopen tho clsim of this firm, and muuicated to him anything rogarding tho means cntiroly without his tnowledge. He testified ae secured hia appointment to tha to-day that, bad he known that any monoy was ‘Messrs. Sprague, Warren & Co., Gray Bros., | dao to this firm, ho would havo caused it to bo Sibloy, Endicott & Co,, and Duraud Bros, wore,| held on account of repairs, and that be nover also visited, and atatod that thoy hod nover’| sjowad any claims for old work to be reopened. dealt wi eenere to any extent, and then only | t¢ such wero reopened, it was without his knotl- adgo and consent, TIS 18 ONE OF THE WORST CASES to bo generally credited avon by Republicans, who bave heretofore refueed to baltove any of tho current ecandals of thoday. For oxamplo, whilo it (a truo that » wok ago many Democrats beloved that cvidonce would be securod to con- pact SECRETANY NODESON with illegal and dishonest practices In tho Navy Dopartmout, and a few Republicans had thoir suspicious that that Vopartment was not couducted in tho most economical and honosat manner, yet tho great body of the Ronublicay party woro slow in coming tothe dofento of Socrotary Robsson whenever bis ad- miolstration wos ausallod, either in public or ithout ripping tod the witness Marah to bo diselnrged, audeon- | Private business, ‘ho dlugraco of Hol nap, the BINANCIAL, thus far discovered by the District Committes i! rumora and reports in regard to the Navy De- 1 4 woquently to oscape. ‘Thia rosolution, proposcd partniont, which havo beon tenfold moro numor- {n its investigation of tho Board of Audit. An: by Mr. Vago, was proparod after » consultation of Republicans, who are bound not to rest until they havo shown who aro rospousible for the ‘flight of the witness Marah. The Democrats havo songht tomake party capital by throwing BOSTON, other irrogularity digcovorod by the Committee Boarow, Masa., March 6,—Charles If. North & | is, in effect, the illegal sale of 3,05 bonda at (o., extovslva pork-packers, went to protest on | tholr market valog sa quoted on the Now York Baturday, ‘Tho bougo claimed a surplus, in Fschenge.. He te AS Congress “authariziog ous thao before, scein to bo goverally believed, although it is @ fact that pone of the Committees of Invoutigation have thus far boen able to secure any testimony in regard to that Dopart- mont of yory startling charactor, ‘Cho sub- Jan- tending to implicate Socretary Robeson, or any member of Lig family, in ony improper tranyac- tion. longiug toa party who bad contomplatod start | states ware auld ats discount of 30 por cont or ing from that point, but gubsequontly recousid- | more to obtain money with which to pay for ored, andcamo to Yankton. luforniatlon from | work dono under contracts outered iuto by tha deal worse than thoy wero supposed to bs, Ne was horo undor tho summons of the Committes, and 60 long 28 ho waa not dischargod waa linble tor Rail wrest Oouaty, itaak fo panlatiminy {oe lng Ae ir. Clymer, BROWN. the ilies aul continues to boof tho most en- } District authorities, * | howover, OH witness, an couraging character, * era ns, | ordered hie foes to be patd, ao that Le wont to batalla deh ecl ‘To the Avmoctated Press, NOTES AND NEWS. wusos, | Bontroal 8r. Louis, Mo,, March 6,—A young mannamed | Qnerw Rwer, Wy. ‘I, March: 6,—A man just ‘TUE HAWATIAN TAZATY. said, ‘AS FAZELY AS ANY AMEMICAN OITIZ2N wriauT ao, | J. A, Drown was arrosted horo Saturday night on | from Wind Tiver Valloy atatos that rich minus Special Dispatch to The Chtcago Tribune, ‘The discharge of the wituoss was mado agalnst ad tho protest of Basa, a Republican mamber of the vices from Washlogton to bold bim as » wit- havo boon discovered in the Big Horm and Owl 0. ‘eat GCreok snouutaina. A stago te ranniug from hero | ,, WssuiNaron, Q. O., March 6.—Tho session of a neds till called for by tho Committoo on Ioyeatl- Moreh sod Bolknap, Ho eays Evans & Smith pald $3,000 annually for the Ghoyenuo Aganoy, and Evans & Co. @10,000 for Ft. BIH. ie cor- roborates the etatements of Ur. ‘Terry, pre- viously reported, regarding Orville Grant's con- nection with Belknap, and says Evans & Smith obtained the Cheyenne Agency from Grant ; ‘THAT GRANT BEPRESRNTED DELKNAP io tho disposition of suttersbips, and when he propectys from Washington {uvolving Limuelf and Gov. | took similar ground, ‘and made some- Hendricks in tha uso of improper menus in se- thing of & wsoveation by declaring shat curing the contract for Gathug guns with tho ox-mombers of Congross and former oilicers of War Department, He has telegrsphed to | tho House wore es ‘ou the floor, lobbying Speaker Kerr avking to bo summoned before | forthe bill, ‘Tho indications are that auother Clywor’s Committso to mako statomonte. ‘Thie | day will be nocossary to conclude the debate. tumor, in substance, has beon floating about | pie prospects of the passage of the bill aro uot political circles in this city for several yoors, ag favorable as they seemed at the beginning, may bo able to mako » satisfactory explauation, bnt ho would seom to bayo as tnany diflicullica before him in making it as Belkuap after bis ad- malasion to the Committeo. The House may wend ag many trials of snpenchinent to the Benate an tho Judiciary Committeo can prepare, but they will be uselesa without the presence of M There cau be no prosecution in tho courts on the evidence thus far seen, ‘Thore is ited’ oa ented to re iar the 7 of March, 176, fbr Din iinots, Bank of Sama, and to make logal proof ta Ohariee i). Alterra, maaan rae ee" “s+ Gompizllas of TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Ornice o Couv7noLizn oF Tux Countxcy, uz0m, Bob. i peng Persons having olaiina agalust the Yourth ‘are hereby nalined te Prowont tbereof wi eotrer, et the otce et a LX MOXNE-FARWELL. polling to do, thenetors, but forthe Commalitaa co Pe 8°, is is ies for aes ce t SUICIDE. Tho argument inthe Farwoll-Le Moyne cate tojdiscovor new evidouce or new casos of bribery, | would elf ow code, a yne ways that tho Nobody but Clymer can toll whether Marsh was | and ron the business hiwmself, Ho" kept Seeetal Dibeiicn tarts Chieas, Tvihtite re Oa CN Ee ee a he Dernorr, BMich., March 6.—A German musician | 198808 Farwell doos not four, by becanya hi ttn oy unseen Kom, lod. tmont | Sunk hag, amt Move Terr this morning by cutting bis throat with a razor. ‘THE CURRENCY QUESTION Be was 04 years of age, ber sani aed to haye | is fairly t batore the Demnoera eaicae, Alt aba n temporal nthe > | members of the! malttod, piillaeats oe imaprectloable magn sre willing toawalt the diy- a tee permitted to go away in ordor to prevent the punivhment of tho Secrotary, or whether it was merely a plece of grossa uegiigence. Ho can hardly ebte!d himsoif bythe lattor admission, since had guflicient warulng of the co: io~ quence Js Ja pooaihle that Olysmer’s zeal as 9 himself thoroughly posted regaraing the busi- nega done atthe various poluis, and no trader could deceive him by misrepreseutation. Ho always know, tharefora, the exact valuc of exch pee and made asutlers come to his terme. wo saya Le knows several persons who. AY KNOX, 4 ths Gita, ih | v7 Se \) cussiqn of that body. Holt“ 4 Landers, and a (] half dozen other Democral@ publicans, are unwilling to! such consideration, aud 4, force the House tos votots he inflation reso- lutions which they have ng zed every day in the week, Bright compleins havo been misnnderatood — Voat hadid say was that as fong ae th tondora, ous. old full tondor for all dopts and the Intter for onl: cortaln classes of paymenta, no contraction ca make the paper worth aa much aa the gold. THE GENENAL Chairman-Rendall, of the ot A tions Committoo, hopes to Nr eons tho House tho legal Appropriations bill, ting down, tho appropriation, aa comparod with Isat soar, €5,000, be roundly atated, Theso pecvisions a solve tl Whet! the Houso and Seo: tion was tho night t! evidonco was mado Wasnmotox, D, inwe, assorte in a pr roads, steamboat without the authoril 8 corresponaing inc any action on the pi ing tariff rates, abould oxceod 10 cost of the rond beti tion, ‘Tho bill also of all tho Company: up to Dec. 31, 1875, describod clase of bi dety of tho Commi Babcock has not ri ofso duing. platos. fore occupied by Gor ment, tate transactions. before the Naval things it ia charged ing this Con; railroad bill throu; Wasuixorom, D. (Bln) submitted a aro tho geographical Unitod Btates, the s growth ; alao, tho g which is adapted to foct growth of ilbro Mr. Maxey, of To: bureau. Ayroedto, of extra copies of publ tribution of regular forred,. Bir, Boutwall called chase of snaterial and Bt, Louls was paseo, submitted two amend: ton na fe not needed, autporized by the tilt passed, tlou aud all PUI to the existing Timber ogy auld be ping lo end, an i$ no one bulioy: savod by logtalation, the affect of which cannot €5,000,000 more will be saved by the provisi regarding the Indian and Pousion’ Bureaun, ie long-pending conteut ne to what absll bo done with tho Indian Berean, by transferrin it to the War Department, without more ado, an: inkling tho samo action with the Poveion Baroau. or those points will moot the spproval of A BIG BUBLNZsa, 3 Lhe number of words sent by the Western Union Telegraph Company on the night of the Belknap impeachment has ouly boen once ox- ocoded in tho history of Congress. ‘Chat oxcop- words, Tho dispatobes sent from horo lsst Thursday to the press, Seecribing the Belgnap impeachment, amounted to 114, (iv the Associated Preset THE PACI¥IO RAILROADS, soy's bill, amendatory of the Pacific Railroad cific Railroad Compasy bas improperly incrossed: its capital stock, ity {ntorest-bearing securitics, and ita liabliities for or on sccountof branch and personal property, and that such action is dosigned to preyont or postpone for a long time tion of the law of Jut 1, 1862, authorized whenever its aa earnings Tho bill therefore proposes to restrain the tesue or sale of any mare obligations of the Company secured by mortgage upon the main lino, or land grantod by the United States to aid its conatruc- tary of the Interior, and provides that tho not receipts shall be applied, tirat, to the paymont of interest on the first-murtgsco bonds on tho main line, and crestion of o sinking fund, focond, to tho payment of interost on bonds alleged to have sud thus secured without authority to tho purchase and rotirement of all the Iast- tornoy-Goneral, the Hocretary of the Interiur, and three citizens to be named by tho President of the United States, to see that tho foregoing provisions aro carned into practical affect. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary, Gen, army, and to-day said that he bad no intention COL, ORANT loaves Washington to-night, in obedionce to the orders of Ltout.-Gon. Sheridan, that be roport without delay in Chicago for service on the U. 8, GRANT, Ji, occupies tho deak at the executive office hersto- within the paat few weoks by Col. Grant, and Mr, Suiffou, Assistant Private Socretary, occu- pies the desk vacated by Mr. Luckoy, who has entered upon his duties at the Ioterfor Depart- » JUDGE DLACK to-day appeared beforo the House Committos appointed to investigate the Waxblogton real es- tate pool, and stated, as counsol for Hallet Kil- bourne, that he would on Wednesday prosent a brief, quoting authorities to show that the Com- mitoo had no right to call for the prodaction of Kilbourne’s books shi CHARGES AGAINET A CONGRESSMAN. Washington (Harch 4) Dispatch to New York Herald, Tt fa said to-night that a Florida Congressman is to be impoachod next week on testimony given mail contractor, secured his appoiotma lector of the Port. at Codar Keys, Fls., by pay- qreceman 81,500. It ia also all that tho latter received money for getting a young mau a cadetship inthe Naval Academy nt Annapolis; also that he asked monoy for gotting Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish the Son- ate fromeuch data as is mow tn porsession of his dopartmont the following tuformation: What adapted to the cultivation and gromth of the stalk and fibre of Soa Island or long fataple cot- ton, and on which said cotton matures s perfoct in each of several Statos, the soil and climate of ton, and in which said cotton matures tos por- ‘THE INDIAN BUREAU. directing the Soerctary of the Interior to furnish for tho tnformation of the Sonata, if not incom- patible with tho public intoroat, a atatoment showing tho annual expenditures of the Indian Bureau. utnco tts organization to tho prosent tmo, and also tho number of Indians provided for at the expenso of tha Governmenteach year alnoo the organization of said Mr, Anthony tntroducod a bill to provide for the pale ST, LOUIN POBT-OFTICR, ‘ ‘voto by which the House bilto provide forthe pur- tho building for the Custom-Houso and )'ost-Ollice ot to uso in hix dlvorction seh portion of the apprapria- for tho proper proservation aud progtoss of ssiit building, sad providing that contracts authorized to ‘be made by the bill shall not exceed in tho agyreyaty $75,090, which were agreed to, aud tho bill as amended STRAW WIDS. Mr, Haraiin submitted rosolution requesting (ho Postineater-General to furnish tho Senate with any information which he Taay have touching the sub. iudasiun of straw bids of probable worthless or fraud- ulent bids for carrying the mails of tho United States in the aaveral States in which advertisements for mail proposals appcard Oct, J, 1875, aud that wald {nforma, Weneo in is poscosaion be furnistiod before awards alll be nade on said bids, Agreod to. BAILWOAD BILL. Mr, Windom presented resolutions of the Minuosota Lagidiatura in favur of the construction Ly the Goy- eniment ofa double-track frvlght railway from wane Enetern city to the Miswourl Kiver, with ® branch ex- tonding luto the Minneauta rallroae, , Ha n,) proseuted Foaolutlons of tho Peg Arf Ka) eine to lands of tie’ Kansas Pacitia Raliway Compapy, sod tho right to tax the same, inomoraitzing Congress in bebalf of certain settlera of public lauds, and also asking smendinents Pee rere eee wha Mr, Dogy called up the rodu 1m cart Ja tho ronjon, authorizing the payment of” duties, on Imaporta i teqaltendor aud Netlonal Bank notes, afr, Hieved the law providing for resump- tion’ Jau, 2, 1910 to be founded on error from begin A will, if not repesied, involve tho country tn great Dnancial distress, Ho contended that the way to roaume tu to give value to the paper money, which «would by effected - by _recol it for dutica ou importations, Me reviewed tha provisions of the Resumption act, snd ergued thet it js upossibie to carey them out, ‘To gradually accu- inulste cola and lock tt up fn the vaully of Sub-1reas- urles would lead to the tost serious wad disastrous of this country can be pority with leas than $800,000,000, wholbor this amount Mite, NUMBER. 194, be coin or paper, Wa hava, it {4 nafl, $150,000,000 or coin in this cauntry. My own bollof fs that wo hive 1 not, by many Palltonsy thie amount, But jet thatbe ; wm i may, ft 1) concede that wo have, : The qnewtion fs again aquarely tod, Hany gould the Natfonal Uanka sustain thomeelves } ‘Their notos would not be received in paymont of du 1439) TT 1 ad many Re- joverned by any id if thoy could tea nor be legal-tendera, and yet remimpuon day have | Ing come and passed, tho banks would neccsesril Foquired to roadrem’ thoir notes tn colh or be dersect ated tom ruinous degree, Under there clrcuratanoes would we be nesrer specto payment than wo are now? According to my view of this mode of briuging about spccla rvaumption, to attempt it would not only be # fatlure, but srould involve this country in distresn and ruin. and spocie payment would be portponed tadel- Mr. Bogy next referred to our foreigu commsret and our indebtednos abroad, and maid that lant. yest our exporia of domcatia qodda decreared $70,000,000, while the exports of specie increased $25,0),000. ‘The condition of our forciga trade, ho sald,’ fa deplor- able, and here fea the ‘lon in” the path of ‘rosumption,. This tus to change before you cau, under the prosent law, rostimo, for if thero it ho cliange the coin will not remain heré in suilictent antities unless you appreciate your paper money in the way Tava already ntatod. Buc it. you do acter ciate (t resamaption fa posnlble, as it will take butvery Mitle coin with good credit to mustain it, We must bo Rin to realize tho fact we are tho only nation on earl, which offeru s market for all othor nations, ‘Wo must export more and import ad until we doit ro sumption is impossiblo. Mr, Bogy opposed the inorease of tha bonded debt, eapecially abroad, and sald that the interest on all new Vonda should be tade payable at home, Walle the tendency anong the principal nations 1s uumistakabl te ‘the “adoption “of gold. aa a measuro end standard of value, yet 1 am impresud with the conviction that as out mines produce anomaly A very large amount of ativer, wo might very wisely ~ Toturn to the doublo ntandard of gotd and sliver tos Uenited amount, oud thin will oonstitute the means hy wlich we. will Ie enabled (o reeume epecle psyinentey ‘The Senstor then gavo his viewa a3 to how reaump- tlon may be brought about, ‘He wald : I would lot {L ‘be understood thit the present laws in relation ta’ Jegal-tender notes and National Bank notes would re- inain permanen’, and nndet no. ciroumstancea any contraction of the former, and an increasa of the latter aa the business wants of the country might call for. ‘Then I would receiva in payment of dutlcs on impor tations legal-tender nates. Althongh my bill provides for the taking of-both, my object being at the . timo I introduord i to elfelt the viuwa of others on t proposition, It may bo thought that, i¢ tako one" kind of paper and. not the other, the ons taken will depreciate, Tule I answer ‘would not bo tho caso, as tho one not taken is by Law convertible into the other; and there being about the sate quantity outstanding of both, this conversion ‘would not be difienlt to make, if ‘dcelred, I would then take 2a soctrity for thecircilation of the Nations Banka a bond of 4 of 434 par ecnt, and in that way ro- Jeaza the bonds now deposited, warth from $60,000,000 to $80,000,000 pramium, or thst amoont more than thelr faco, I would then incresso the legal-tender character of sflvor to the aum of $1,000in one payment, thereby giving to thia metal, which we ara now pro- dneingin onr mines in much large quantities, the largest capacity of usefulness without at the samo time driving ont of the country the gold coin, Twonld then require Natlonat tanks to aet ualde, ass part of thelr reserro, the goid interoat received on’those bonds, which would'emaucipate ati equal amount of paper now held as & reserve, Ono year after tho that WS tons on contraction 6 Government has lio logal- and ono papor, the formers 1} APPROPIMATION BILL. * lative, cxecutive, and judicial It roduces, by direct cut- , and 25,000,000 more aro 4nd it je claimed that at toast ro very important, since the: ate ia a matter of coujecture. iat the secrot Crodit Mobiller public. It comprised 125,000 words, C., March 6,—Senator Dor- eamblo that the Contral Pa- Unes, and other pores, ity of Congress, and without reaaa in the value of ita roal art of the Government in fix- os the eighteenth sec- per contum upon the actual ween Ogden and Sacramento, requires a detailed statement 3 recelpta’ and expoodituros ‘bo filed with tho Locre- act, I would roquire Lanks 0 of tho to redeem in eiiver the notes presanted in sms mot exe oceding $100, and sftertwo yoars to redeem in gold in eume of like amount, By doing away with the largo aomand for gold to pay duties, rpanting asnielly to ‘between $150,000,000 sini? $176,000,000, and creating = demand for precisely a like amount of Iegul-tenders, the difference between the two would soon disappear. ‘That being #o,—that is, gold not being worth a premi- um,—It would be au essy thing for the Government to Procure the 350,000,00u needed to pay the home due interest coupons. “As tho coupons due abroad are provided for by the purchase of exchango, ns 1s always dono, and not by tho shipmont of coin, thls exchange can be bought with legal-tonders. ‘Thoro is now, oF ‘was on the Ist of Decomber, sa per report of tho Se:- retary, in the Treasury, over aud aboyo all Mabilitios for coin certificates or ‘certificates of deposit, almost $40,000,000, within $10,000,000 of enough to py the noinodue interest for one yeartocom » But In the worst poeaible viow, oven {f the Government had to buy the coin necesnaryto pay the interest, it would be better to do tt than to keep all the paper now ee circulation depreciated {rvni 12 to 15 per cout all tha® * imo. ‘The Benatar concluded an follows: ‘This country at thie timo ts terribly depressed, Evory branch of Dusl- nees {4 in 8 atate of paralysis, and my honost contic- tion is that much of this paralyals is owing tothe Teast resumption law, However important I be- love it to be for the prosperity of this country thal wo should at some day or other, no matter how . distant, resume specie payment, nevertheless, betwoen. the two evils of making no provision looking to that end and the continuance of this law, I would anhcsle caitagly ng repeal tha lew immediately, Without any law ‘providing for resumption we conld get, along, bot if this law remains unrepealed 1 believe tha conntry will be driven into universal and wideapread. bankrupty. issued. nd, third, jonds, Finally, it is madetho ission, consisting of the At- BABCOCK, . esigned his position in tho ns. Porter and Babcock, and THE OTHER SIDE. ‘Mr, Paton satd unless some Senator more entitied to publlo attention, should soon introduce a bill for the re- sumption of specie payment, ho would take that Iiberte. himself, Ho referred to the act of Iast year, ood sabi the great laws of naturo were outraged by ft. It was easy enough to talk about specie resumption, but Con- gress should logislota wisely, taking into considerstion the condition of the country, and the fact that the United States was tho great debtor national the world, RESOLUTIONS. Mr, Windom proseuted jolnt rosctetions of the Sine nesols Legislature, aking tho passage of a law secure - ing and perfecting tition to acttlera on certain publia Iands in that Stato, and which are incladed withia tho mits of certain lands granted to the Brainard snd Bt. ‘Vinoont branches of the St. Pani & Pacific Raltroad Company's public lana, Mr, Harvoy prescnted a resolution of the Kansas. Legislature in relation to the existing treaty of Aug., 17, 1866, between the United States and the Cherokea” Indisns, and in {ator of the appointment of new Com- migaloners thereunder to roapprales certain lands ! oning his general rosl os- Committes. Among other that Bloomenthbal, a FloHde ag Col- loged zh Congress for Col. Htoutor. - coded thereby, £0.58 to enable scttiors theroon to pur { THE RECORD. chase the samo at thelr appraised valuo, Indian © AGRICULTURAL, Affairs. ‘After exocutive seasion, adjourned, NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED, ‘The Senate confirmed the following nominations: . Charles J. Gorhatn, of Michigan, Assistant Bocretal of the Interior; Thomas Murdock, Postmaster at Island, HL, C., March 6—Mr. Jones resolution fustructing the Wimita and arca within tho MousEr, Und it the Stats di oil and climate of which aro | wimraes ihetar mubiie worse ete the fotee ie vars Dilla and bills for publle works ote. the followiiy ware introduced and referred : Dy Mr, Randall—To declara the immunity of wity nesses forthe United Btates, Itprovites thats wilt ean aball nok be lisbte to arreat st auy timo after be ius beon aubpoenaod, of atter teatitying; that he shi nover be convicted oh account of any matter discl by him in bis testimony, and that it ahall be spe offense to tntimidate, or attempt to tntlinidate, any witness by threatening bim with prosecution, By Afr, Hooper (Miss,j--To provide the manner of taking proof ‘and depositions before the Southern Claims Commisaton. By Mr, Morrivon—To exempt from criminal ention witnesses teatifying before elther hous of Cou. a8, OF ONY committee of the same, By Mr, Wells (Alo,)—To rednce the number and in~ ‘erotse the aflicienoy of the medical corps of the army. By Mr, Gchleicher—To reonranize the property aid mousy department of theatmy, sud for the purposes conuevted therewith. ‘Dy Me, Williams (lch.J—A resolution from the Tows Legislature, -propoding an oniendment to tha Constitniion to provide for members of Cou Lolding thelr scala for {htce yusrs, one-third of tha umber to vacato their seats cach your, By Mr, Dunocll—To allow all depoaltorios of publia muaeyy no anuual compensation of $1,000; also, the Fuolutions of tha blinnsots Legiua’ure’ for cheap 1 tronsportation. Saar eeaake was, recelved from the Bonato aunouno- tng that, on the presentation of articlea of tmpoach~ rofat against We late Secretary of War, the Seusto would, scoording to ita ataudiug rules and orders, (ale tle proper onder thereon, Of which due notice, woutil be given to the House, THE MAWALIAN TREATY, Thecall of States having been concluded, and the usual Monday's business, after that point, being mo- tinna to suspend the rules on any proposltlon, Atking (Tenn) was rocoguized by tho Speaker, du ordor to: Olver s resolution, but at the request of his colleague. (Uright), he ylelded to motion mado by the fatter to ja into Committes of the Whole on tho gill tocarry fen etfect the Hawalian treaty, ‘Mr, Kelly oxpressed a bope that tho House would . on with its usual Mondays businuss, and would ke , to kuow whether Mr, Bright's motion waa not debat- able, Ho waa tnformed by tho Bpeaker that it was not, Calle for tellors and for the and naya bavin been fefubod, the lousy, by a Large ajority, spreod * tu the motion, ‘The Houso then went into Committes of the Whols, with Mr, Saylor in the chialr, on the Mase reaty Lill, and Mr. Wood (N, ¥,) ‘concluded lity speech in. favor of the bill, Mr, Morrison, Chairman of the Commitzee en Ways and Moan, made a specch againat the ill as baving no free trade in. ipaud Bo reciprocity in It, for much wav given wud tittle received, . ’ "Mir Bills lao oppoaed the bil, , Mr, Burchard (UL) spoko,in favor of the bill and Mr, Kelley against it, : EXPLANATION, ee Mr, Banning, Chairman of he Committee on Mill r tary Atfaire, clocted to's wentenoo iu a epoch made - last Baturday by bis colleague (Woodworth) to the ef. _ foct that & bill which be bad introduced on the 2th of January Lust, giving bounties to the heire af soldiera | Who bad enlisted for less than ene yoor, and whe Were killed of died in consequence thete 4 aervice, wad. Which had | becn referred. tothe Commsittco on Afilltary Affaire, bad been pigoon~ holed, sud bad Deen weut to *aleop the sleap that Kaows no waking.” Ho pronounced li colloagus's , alateinent ag unjust, unter aud untruth(ul, and eld that if be had are at the Committoe-room bei spies einen eae a; el a ja two days after fieew given to the Hut-Couumtieo, on which were two? youllomen who bad served iu the Confederate army, and who wero in favor of tho tooasurs, although tn ine volved am axpenditure of more than $20,00,0%, *He intimated that {t was bis colleague who bad ‘bea! bul pusaed at Ube last Congress it was volod by Prealdsnt” Grant, # man who Owed Lis name and fame and repn- tallon to tha soldiers whose rights be thus dale a atime, oo, whou the War Secretary past ededacs beoee 7 siowiny ‘rich out of proiite made by pos} cographical limita and area the cultivation of sald cot- and stock. Agreed to. xa8, submitted a resolution lic documents and for tha dis- oficial editions thereof, Ro» ‘up lis motion to reconsider tho for the continuation of work on aud tt was syrecd to, lo then monies authorizing the Architect for the performance of coutracts as may be absolutely necessary LIC LANDS. Qulture act. accepted commerce done with w fulrdegroe of prow. ea that