Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1878, Page 2

T8 CIICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 18/8. the Benate that a vote should be taken on Fri- doy betore adjournment, and there was not & dlssenting vofce. That unanimous consent will stand an order of the Scnate. Mr. Saunders apoke In favor of tho biil to- day. He was followed hy Mr. Sangent, who op- poscd it. ‘The afternoon’s debate was closed by A BRIRMISH Dbetween four ex-membersof the House—Dawcs, Bargent,, fTereford, and Voorhees—upon the manner {n which the 8am Hooper bill demonc- tzing sllver was passed, Sargent and Dawes claimed that ft had suMctently publicity, Voor- hees and Hereford denfed that the substitate wan read, and sald that the people were lrnorant of the demonctization of the dollar. President Grant was fgnorant of it a fiur after ho had signed tho bl, and John 8herman de- clared three years afterwards that therg was 1o change fn tho Inw affecting the silver dotlar s a Jegal-tender. ‘The skirmish was prolonged until 0 0’clock, to the relief of those who had feared an executive sessfon, with a repetition of the scene of yesterday on the confirmation of an_Alabama appnintment, To-morraw Inaalls will speak, followed by Jones, of Nevada, wno has made great preparn- tions, and who will answer tho charmo that hie s a large owner of mines and personally fnter- ested n the blll._ Aliison, who i to close the dehate, will speak Friday, and the vote then be commeneed upon the amendments, Good judges predict that the bill, with the amend- ment adopted by the Finance Committce, and reported by Alljeon, will be passed by 60 yead to 23 naya. It =0, the bill must necessarily be weturncd to the House. LOUISIANA, LETTER FROM ANDERSON'S COUNSEL. Bnerial Dispateh to TAE Chicagn Tridune, Warninarox, D. C., Feb. 13,—The following letter from John Ray, counsel for the Returne {oe Board, was recclved hero to<lay. It ex- plaina itsclf: Nxw Onteaxa, La., Feb. 0.—3fcxsrs, Shella- Rarger and Wilson—GENTLENEN: 1 received your telegram yeaterday euggesting the importance of tanking every avallable Federal ynestion in our yroccedmpn tn_ihe cane of tien. Anderron, This we will du, and | note the particular pointa. You sugiest thera 18 not a doubt but that & #ult of error will lle from the Supreme Coutt of the State 1 that of tho Unlted States on the ques- tlon of removal, ~We witl throw (o all other Federal questions we_can, The difficalty with ua fs, that, under our State Conatitation and atatutory Inw, nftet convictlon the convicted ean- not be batled, and remains in jall, The durees cannot be exfiauated until the final acciston of the Lilgher Court, but tha prisoner remalns in custody, without right to find bail. Thie then, mnkes mare delnv of lesn impartance, althongh it will be some relfief, an the parly in tho meantime cannot e rent to the Penitentiary. The canviction of Anderson and of the entire Taard I# a foregone concluafon here. Nothingean eave them if they are tricd In the State Court, It mnkes no difference swhat the law and the evidence may e, the public prejudice, aided by the manip- ulntlon of the State law in_ forming a Jury, makes conviction certain. They bave no clance. ' think 1 txplained this matter o you when Iost tn Warhincton. Under the statufes and Civil-iights DiI1 this question can be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States In n writ of crror from ane Snprema Court, but in the meantime you sce the consuquences. “We are in & bad conditfon, anid with no help or no hope, Andorson |s as Innocent of tho crime charzed a4 if lio had never been on tne Hoard. Yet lie hns been convicted. God help us! Youre, Joux Rar, ANDERSON'S APPLICATION POR A NEW TRIAT. w ORLEANS, Li, Fob, 13.=This morning, when the motion fora new trial in the Anderson cuse came up, the defense flled additional gerounds that the uccusea could prove by Littie- ticld that he never bad any connection whatever with the forgery and the uttering of forged re- turns, to which fact Littleficld had already tese tified before the Congresslunal Commitico in Washinztons that — Littlefield, —after a year's absence, had clandestinely return- el and Nikdden nlmrelt untl) alter the ovldence had closed und theargument open- ed, thereny depriving the nccused of his testi- mony. Thoe accused can ulso prove by Col. Zaharie (Demoerat) that hie wos not present ot the opening ot the returns from Vernon Par- fshi3 that the Democratle Clerks made errors in the returns for which they could also have been made to answor u criminal_charge, Tho Incor- rectneds of the Returning Buard proceedinga by Colling, the stenogruplicr, were often referrel to during the proceedings. The motion wos coutinued il Friday, NOTES AND NEWS. TIE PRO-RATE BILL, Special Dispateh to The Chicagn Tribune. Wasmyatoy, D, C., Feb. 13.—The lowa pool- 1ine railroad lines, exéept the Chieago, Burling- ton & Quincy, ore vigorously oposiug the Kan- saa Pncific Pro-rate bill, The grounda of thelr opposition appear to be that tho bill will have 1hie effect to cheapen transcontiuental frelghts by making the Kunsas Pacific a competitor with the Unlon Pacrtle,and that when the cheaponing takes place the pool-ling ronds will have to bear a part of it under their trafllc arrangements with the Union Pacitle. "Fhiat ts, §f relight wolug from Cllenzo to Bau Francisco now costs $100, and there 18 a cheapening of - $10, this loss will haye 10 be divided smong all the ronds earrying it. IMPONTANT CURRENCY MILL. The Houss Banktine and Curunc{ Committes 13 rald to have practicatly agreed to a bl to substitute greenback for National Bank circula- tlon, The bill provides that greenbacks shall be recelvalle for o]l publle and private duea except where coln [ expressly stipulated, The Committes has Invited representutives of New York Nationnl Banks to appear before them on Friday, to give thelr opinion as to the best maehinery to exeente tho provisions of the bill. The bill also provides that these notes shall be lra“'(‘kl!‘--bw ot the Treasury ot par for 4 per cent onda. FAU CLAINE, WIS, The Prestdent has reversod thedeclalon of the Commlssloner of the Laud Office,and decliies to remove thy Land Ofhiee from Eau Claire 1o Chlppewa Falls, Wis, ‘Thero has htnnlkmgi content over this matter betwean Goy, Pound sl SJudre Humphrey, and while Pound was suceeasful with the Land Commissioner, Hum- phrey carrled the dav with tha President, MONTGOMERY HLAIR will to-morrow speak upon his Etectoral-count reaolutions In the Maryiand Legi; He wil renew the charge ¥ a hargala to secure the execution of the Electoral-count Taw, which wus made by Democrata whom he cubls members of the Tom Scott rliroud sqund. Blalr recominends the passage of Dudl auo-warraito bill, and the {naueurstion of Tilden. e says it woulil not require sixty days to do this, and 1t could be done easlly, DISTIUT-0OVERNMENT BILL. In the House to<lay, Mr. Blackbum, from the Committec on the District of Columbla, re- ported a bl providing a form of government tor the District. The mats provistons bave been published, THE CURRENCY DILL, The Wl prepared by the Bub-Committeo_on Banking and” Curreuev—Representatives Fwe o, Buckner, and Phillips—for tho voluntary retirement of the Natlonal Bank-nnte clreulu- tlon, ami substitution for it of Treasury notes, was consblered by the fll Committes to-duy, but nat acted on, Coustderation witl be re- rimed nest Friday. . A member of the Sub- Commi'tec suys o majority of members of the Conittee favor tho LA INDICTMENTS. ‘The followini indictments were reoorted ?‘y irand Jury to-day: W, Togre nnd A, T, Randul), coneplring “ugalnst I, V. Boynton: W. 1i.-Moore, libel agalust 11, V. Boyoton. TIIE RECORD, ARNATE. Wasnixaton, D. C,, Feb, 18.—Mr. Kernan presented the memortal of the New York Board of Trude sud Transportation, signed by tho olMeurs thereot and a large number ol busipess men, members of that orgauization, remon- strating against the presuge of the Silver bill, and sctting forth the Inconvenlence of sliver in commerciul trausactions, Laid on the table, Alr. Hamlin, from the Committes on ¥orelgn Relatlone, reported aldversely on the petition of certain cittzens of New York, asking for un ap- propriation from the Chiuese Indemolty fund to ald persons In certaln provinees of Chins, who are now suflering un secount of the famine. 1e said that the Committee wasunaaimously of the opilun thet 1t was otterly Impousible 1o got soy relict W the suffcrers, and, besides, any sitempt o desote the Chiness Indemaity fund to that pur- pose would lead 10 discusslon. Mr. Sarcent reported, withan amendment, the Scnate bill to anthorize and equip an expedition to the Atclic acas, kvown astbe Howgate bill, P'laced 20 the calendar, g Mr. luzalla introduced a bill to promote the de- poait of sasiuge tu the popular loan, and to pro- vide for fundiug the national debt luto bowme bonds, converiible futo currency, Kuferredto the Cowmittes vn Buance, Mr. Armstrong preseated a petition of ms tugiucers, wotcd, and others, of St. Louls, o tavor of the amendwent to the Ll authorizing the vauployment of alieus as vilotw, ete, Kelerred. Mr. Muxey, frow the Comiities on Mibtary Af- fulew, sepurted buck the resolution subioitted soue dayeaxu by Mr. Phuriuag, s rogard (0 cressiug the wpiiualappropriation foe e sty aud equip: phua the wilids of the seversl States, sud the vay- B Of Curtals War Garad Gue Gl At said e b TR U ER ORI Vi TR ST T PRI BT 2] "examined an the Senate, and tho war clalm of Ohio shonld be {unmeud by the Committee on Claime, Agreed o. Tl paesed: TProviding for the saleof lands In Kansgs, and for the hoiding of the United States Disteict Coutt for the Southorn District of lown At Mr, Conkling qruenled a petition_of Frank K. Teach, D. A, Lyle, W. 1, Weir, M, W, Lyons.and other oflicers belonging to the Ordnance Depart- ment, sotting forth the proccedings by which, in military pariance, they had been -'{nm ed, " and ?nh\ng tho passage of o law for thelr relfef. Re- erred. Doreoy snbmitted the following: * hat tha ecretary of the [nterlor he npd heraby fa directed to report to the Scnate at the earllest possibiaday the number ol peraons now on the United States penslon rolls in Arkan- aas, Alabama, Florida, ticorgla, Lonisiana, Ais- sissippl, Sonth Carolina, Texas, and the Indian Tertitoty. Also the nnmbern'gumnnu reported dnily tothe Commlesioncr of Yenslons made to auch personn by Pension Agents from the 4th day of September, 1877, to the J1st day of January, 1878, inclualve, Mr, Doreoy sald laat snmmer an_order was mado abolishing many nenelon agencles, snd ho be- lieyed onc of the reaults was that many pensionors i not recerve thele muuurrlumpl y. e had applied at the Intetlor Deparfment to know the canee of the deln{. and the Commisaioner of Pen- rlons Informed him ho must apply to the Penslon Agent at New Orleans, thoreforo he submitted this resolution, as he had no desire to nppiy to the Penalon Agent. The resolation was agreed to, Me, Morrill (Vt.) ealled up the ITonso jolnt reso- Intion declaring that a reduction of the tax on die- tllled spirits 18 Inclyed!nnl. which was discuered nntil the oxplration of the morninz honr, And then nid aside, and the Senate resumed consideration of the Silver bill. Mr. Merrimon epoko In favor thereol. Tle purened, in the main, the same line of argament as in hie spcech of rome daya ago, Mr, 8aundcrs supported the bill, and anid ho was opposed. ta all amendments, and would vota for it Just ns 1t came from the llousc, The cry about this country being overburdencd with sflver incase this bill sliould becoine a law, was nulh'ng but & scare crow, 10 a1l the miuts of the United Stales ruould De put to work and _tan day ana night untll the next session of Cangress thay would not coln more than 81 for cach person In the eountry. It was the continned tinkering at our finances hy Con- grons that created disteust among the people. [F it conla be announced to-day that the Siiver bill had psssed it would carry moro joy to the hearts of the people than war cxperienced when It was announced that Abraham Lincoln had stenck the chains from fonr milllons of people. Congress conlil fiot feglsiate moncy into the packots or the people, but it conld so legisliate as to encourage onr indostries. Me, Allison, In charze of tho Sliver bill, asked that it bo nndorstond by unanimous consent that an Fridny next the Senato wonld continde in ses- slennntil the vonding bl and all smendments shonld be disposed of, After debate, it wae understood by unanimous consont that a vote ahould be taken on Friday next. Mr. Sargent opposed the bt ae tending o siain onr nationn) honor by repadisting & sacred obliga- tlon, and sald: **I" belleve it will disastronsly affect American Industry by au fmpro discryminating reduction of cnstom will furnish coln under the deceltful ap; & dollar to underpay the wages of labor, tanco of the pensfoner; that It ¢ive unconaclona. ble advantage to the speculator of silver at the ex- enac of the Governtment ann people, while it bane shes pold from the country. ' Mr, Hereford argued that tho act of 1873 ue- monetizing silver wap not known to the country when it waa pasi 11e also rond an extract frons a speech of James A. Gardeld, recently delivercd in Ohio, to the efect that he did not knaw the act of Feb, 12. 187}, demoneticed wilver, when it ‘was beforo the House of Repressntatives, Bir, Dawes argued that the bill demonetizing riiver waa thoroughty examined and discnssed. lie denled that the demonetization of silver wassmig- gled through Congress, No measare during the inst twenty years had been wo spread before the ublic and so deliberately ezamined. The bill, bo- ure it became a law, was sent o distinguished financiers nnd bankers throughout the conntry, and thoy roplled, somo favoring and same onposing the blll, He read at wome longth from the ro- pties from bankers and others in regnrd to that il and the eftect of It becominge a law, ] Ar, Voorhees sald ho knew the inzenaity of the Senator from Massachunetts (Dawus) from long years of scrvieo with him In the Houso of Repre- rentatives, buthe (Voorhees) relterated every word of his remarks o few .days ago to the’ effect that when the sliver dollar waa withdeawn from circulation no round of warning was given to the Aniorican people, If the hill wus so thoronghly dlscursed, how did the Scnator {Daswwex) occount for the fact that s able a logis- lator as was J, A, Gardleld, who was then Ch man-of tho Committec on Apnmrrmllum. recent] acknowledged ina !Hlflflfh in Ohlo that he did nol know the bill paseed? Mr, Maxey sald on the 0th of April, 1870, in this Senate,” Jann Sherman, then Chaleman of the Commlttee on Finunce, in rorponso to 8 question from bim (Maxey) sald no Iaw had passed do- monetlzing ellver. That was threo years ofter the prsrage of the LIt Mr. Jones (Nev. ) then took the flaor with the understanding that ho wonld procecd with his Tomarke L-IMOTIOW. Adjourned, HOUSR. Mr, Rica (0.), Chalrman of the Commlittee on Penaions, reportod 8 bill graunting rcmlom 011 uce count of wounds, , contracied fn thu servico of the United Statow sitice March 4, 1801: for tho payment of arrears of penaions, and for the reatos ration o the rolls of the namea of Invalid pension- ers, atricken therefrom on_account of duluy-n{. Roferred to the Comulttes of the Wiole, and inad the special order for this day two weoks. Tha House ihen went (nto Commitico of tho Whole, with Mr, Blackbuin in the chalr, on the Milltary Acadomy Appropriation bill, the 'pendinyg amendinent being to striko ot the section prohlb- iting the appointmont of civiliuns to the rank of Second Licutenants when no more vacancies ocour than can bo filled by the next graduating clasa of adem; the AT amendment providing that Mr. Whnite offered nothing in the bill should prevent appolotment for commissions In the ariuy of meritorious non-com« miarjoncd oflicers ar private Adopted. A motion to strike ont was then defeated. Tho section which provides that when a cadet has once watriculated ot Weat Polnt 1o othor appolut- ment from theeame district ehall by made during tho term for which sach cadet was appulinted i & vacancy should occur from cause other than death or physical disability, w ricken oul. Mr, Clymer offered ndment uraviding that only such number uatos of the Milltary Acaldemy In ong year shall bo entitled to appolnt- ment to Secontd Lioutenant a8 are requiced to fill vacancies in that wrade u(-unwul{ 1 each year, thona ontitled to such appolutmenis tu be doter- mined on the basls of the standing of the graduat. ing claes, and hereafter no supernumerary oficors shall Lo autached o auy corps of the army, snd al) gradunivs of the Acadeniy not attachud to the army under tho provislons of thls act mhall bo dls- charged {n graduation from tho Academy. Alr. Iteagan offured as a subatitute an amendment providing that us vacancies occur in the Acadeny, wvery siternate vacancy suail remaln vacant for one acatemic term, so there shall be for the futuro half tho present number of cadels. Br. Souttird, In supporting Mr, Clymer's amendment, refeered to the eyl of & lurge atanding army, 18 was tho history of the world that siandlug armics sapped the libui- tles. of thu poople. Thic country had ween the {nstances of tyranny and oupreasion of a stand- ng aray, notubly In tie last Presldential eloction, Ten thoussud men would be suflicient ta prutecs onr_horder, while Congress had kopt sn army of 25,000 all theso years for tho purpose of ovor. riding conetitutional privileges, Mr, Cunfi(-r aafd ho did not know why his friends anthe other alde were bonnd on destroying the army, and kept nibbling at it on all occasions, le had”often asked what the hidden motive was, bit noman had aunwered him, but stieltored theu- wclves behind the beautifal celes of economy. Ilis friend from Ohio (Southard) Las et out the secret a litlo way, aud sald it was because the army bad been aeed" In the South in & Presidential electon, Under the pretenss of economy, the Democratic party were cutting down the anmny. Mr, Ilumrhny opposed the cutting down of the mng. e thought o largzo standing army 'mmu. ed the libertles of the people. Where wuuld thuss hibertlen have Leen last summer It 16 nad not beon for the standing ariny? Mr. Hale ruiterated the charge made by Mr. Conger thot the Dewmocratic party was deterininod to cut down the army. Mr. Atkius—There I8 no such motive. It tas false masumption on tho poart of the gentleman from Michigan that thore ls 8 hidden wotive on Lis slle of the House to destr: ¢ ariny, M. Ilalo waid he had listencd day by day to specches tending Iu that dirvction. 'That was core tatuly tho curront of thlnws, = The gentleman froim Obiv (Bnulhurd& bad objucted to 1h ariny because it biad been used in the South, Those troops had Leen withdrawn 88 u jneasuro of recanclliation, oud the anewur Lo that measure of reconciliation ‘was that the knife was put Into the army. Mr. Clinlmers sald he Liad hoped the war wi over. He boltoved thle was the day of roconc| tlon. He believed the Goversment could adord to do justice to its citizens on both wides in tho firny conviction that both aldes wero welded togethor In bond of uniun, Uentluwen had cowe buck to the Unloa ui in theie hearts no mallce, no lingering feeling, no li-will to the gullant guutlvaen whoin the] d et ou the deld slae of battle. Mo saw theso gallant men bulure, be- hind, énd_sround bim, Men who liad foughit un the Buuthern side were not jealous of the wresths of fame which wore worn by thcee geatlenou who had fought on tho other side. He cuntrasted the bonor done to the nivn who had beeu killed on ¢ltber side, but ho did not gricve about that. The Kentlemen on his side did” not have the ellghost Teeling af dlyloyalty toward the Union, Mr. * Conger, amid contemptuous laughter on the Demucratic side, statud st kume length that thy real motlye which tue Dewocraty kad in cutting down the army was in order that, whon it got the appointiog power, iho army might be flled with thie old officcrs Who had left the ey f0F redsong of thelr own. Mr. Hewltt (N. Y.) sent to tho Clerk's desk and rusd the rumarks he hsd made last Monday fu rexurd to the selllng of West Point, and tue charve which hed beou made agsjust him by Mr House (Yeun,) that he had slandered the people of tae outh. He had feit deeply grieved ut by language of that gonticuan. . 1fa'bud fisen Bt ‘the mowent and attewpted to get tho fivor In order to corrcet the wisapprehension under which the gentloman from Teunessco (House) was evidently laboring. 1f thery was anything in the lanzuage which by bad used which could be construed futo suy slau- derlog of the Represcutatlves of the Southern Stutes hv would taku it back; Lut be (usivted that 1 106t ks were 10 dufeud the Represoutatived of the South frosi the siander wilch had Leea uttered azainst thue uod Bawe by ths geutleman from and to mako the streets of New Orloans ran with blood, e went on to defend the actlon of the Tietnrning Boant, and particularly to show that the raturns from Vernon Parieh had been published In the newspapers bofore ono claim had been met up that thera had been fraud or alteration in them. The Returaing Honed had aliminated certain vates which were elaimed to have bheen cast throngh in- timidatlon and frand, and throngh tho overawing mthierce of armed bodies of men Inthat State. Mr, 1alo's time oxpired before ha had been ahle to concluda hie atatement, and his effarta for an extension of limo were unavalhing. The Honse was in an Intractable humor, and wonld make no concenston, bnt finally My, 1fale ained his point rilally by ufllng that ho ross to a creonal exolanation, Under that cintm he cons Houth Carollna (Afken) when he doclared that West Polnt was an Incuhus on she country. Mr. llonse rapited to Mr. Hewitf. Tt that gen- tleman intended no reflection on Sonthern Repra- rentatives. he (Houne) was glad to hear it, The remark which he hiad madae had been based on his nnderstanding of the gentleman's remarks, 1t he had misundorstood It, then justice Impelled him to ray that he should not have made the reply which not any good rearon why South Carnlina and Loul- riana shonld not be rased from It. “Thereupon, of my awn motion, [ weatto my friend from Ohlo (Foster) anit made to him pretty much the remark thut I now make, The reanon why 1 went to him wan because ha had madea «veech on this floot In whieh he declared what the Dresident's polic: would be, and he bolieved ft. And 1 helloved it. aald to that gentleman, **T fear there will be he had made, 1ie had unaemtoad it, however, as | tronble nnlesa you can matlafy theso Sonthern gen- & reflection on overy Sonthern member, a4 4 atate- | tiemen thia policy which yon have declared to he the ment that the rematk of the gentleman from South rl\llr of the incoming Adminiatration will bo ad- Carolina (Alken) had been inepired by Sonthern | herod to." Tia sald to me, **\WhatconIdat" I hostility to West l'oint, because, throngh the akil | sald, **[do nat know. 1t §8 not my business, and proweas or A West.Point oflicer, South Caro- | but Feen yor the facte.' Tle said, *' Iwill sre linn and other Sonthern_ Statcs had been whipped | abont it." and subsequenily (1 think ihe next dny back Into the Unlon, 1le thought that the You he came back to me and showed me a letf 4 ern Reoresentatives shonld he nermitted to dix by Mr, Daves, which letter has eince inued s remarks, 1lo said that the actlon of uestions of public policy without hnsing | lished, 1read it Hewajd, Y3l tha tho Ttetnrning Board had been sustnined by the the fact that they had participated in the Rebelilon | factory? 1sald, **Me. Foater, it Is not me Electoral Commiasion! and that following fhat 0 you have to ratisty; it Ia other gentlemen. To me it wanld not ba satisfactory. but yon mast go to them and matisfy them that this policy will be carrfed out,™' ‘That was the last interview 1 had with Mr. Foster on the subject. What followed came to me from ofher persons. I had no part inn targaln, If it wos made. 1 knew nothing of its terms, Lut 1 was told un tho day the Vermunt re. tnrn liad been put througn the Joint convention that these ventlemen from South Carolina were ratis- fied, aiil that there conld be no guod reason why the count ehunld not proceed. I do not know how they were matisfled. I have neveracen any mem- ber from Loujsiana aboat it. 1 oniy know that they told me they were sattaled, and i #o faras 1 had any intluence I eacrted it for tho completion of the count. [ did it in tue intercat of peaca. | did it {n the Interest of my cuantry. 1 Delfeve that 140l theu the wisest and best aci of my life #o far aa1had any connectlon with matters, I other men mado improper margmne, 1 know nothing of llave [ answered the genileman’s (Blls- flung offcnawvely inta thelr facee, They foaght like men, and, since the surronder, behaved like men, Ho dld not aeny his Jove for hia section and for ita people, The man who did not Jove the #pot whero hiw niother rocked his cradlo was un- worthy of any country, [Applanse, ] Mesars, leirdtt (N, Y, ) and Atken nddressed the Chair in the midat of confuslon and excitement. Mr, Fort suggested that the public businees shoitid bo proceeded with, Mr. Towntond (oxcitedly)—A Southern man (Fonre) has jnst had time given him, why not give n .\"nnllc!’n man (Hewltt) time? |Lsughter and applauee, pflh\ Atkinasuggested that there was no necessity Tor so much exeitement. Mr. Dufinm demauded the rezular onder of busl- nees, hut tbin call was only laaghed at on both sides of the Ho,*n, and, without any diminution of ex- citemont and. confusion, Mr. Howlit agnin got tno floor, 1fe rald he was glad to hear what had fatien from the lips of the xenticman from Tenncsace (House). Tho remark of hin which that gentle~ question to his satisfaction? man had taken excention to wis that of the gen- Mr. Ellewarth made no response, hut Mr, Conger tieman from South Carolina (Afken) that he wonld n‘mln manifested a very eagur desira to pnt & qnes- vote for tho abolition and salc of West Tuint, | tfon fo llewilt, an opportunity which neither lie (ewitty did not belicve that thero was | Hewitt, the Chairman, nor Comiilico secnied in- another member from the Southern States who | elined to give him, wonhl give hin assent to that proposition, and Mr, Durham—ifaving eharga of this bill [loud hence, {n_repudisting that declaration (astie had | lanchter and slionts of ** What bHI?™], I am not feit lwund to repudiate it an a Democrat whose olitics, T am talking about busi- motlves might he called in question), ho had ox+ | ness, ' Tam talking abont tlie Military Acadenmy pressly limited his asecetion to the State from | biil, not the Klectoral bill, {move the Commitica which that gentleman (Afken) came. Ile hiad ex- | rise fur the purpose of closing the debate on this pected to hear from other members of that State | amendment, whether they sesented to the propunition of ther v, fommittee, by a vote of 120 to 40, deters colfengue. *Thero had been o intention on his | mumed to e, et to fnclade any vther portion of the South. He Lnuw that they wore to-day a8 loyal and true tothe Union ns any et of men In tho country. It wns fat that reason ha hau devated two yoazs of his lite 10 an eflort tu have the constitutlonal rights of the South recognized, and the strong arm of_the miji- tary power withdrawn from the South. No matter what uight have been tha results of that strugglo on his purk. the country would bear him witness liayew hod bren inaugurated. Ie id not know what the acreemont was, did not know that any exiated, Lut ie knew that whether the troons had been withdrasn from Loalsiana for conatitutionnl tensons of aa a matter of concllistion, the Nicnolls Legialatare had pansed a resolntion that it woold discountenance any polltical prosccutions, and ho knew and beliaved that the prosecntion of mem- bers of tho Hetuming Tioard were of that kind, He hnd elgned the dispateh referreil to, becanse ho dld not beltove thero men ought to be . abandoned, or that the Administration ought to abandon thom. Mr, Ells made an effurt 1o get a hearing on Mr,iale's plea of personal explanation, but failed, Mr. Ellia (La.), who had been oot of tho hall during the discussion, and whio had evidently boen All-Informeil of the purpose of Howitt's remarks alout him, obtnined the floor, and, assiming that Hewitt had held himeelf and his coiloagues re. sponeiblo for the Presidentisl bargain, doclared dl:ll tho lip which nttered the “arscrtfon {fhat Louisiana or any ropresentative of Lontelana had ever bariered of sought to barter or entertain a rroponlllon to barler away the Interesta of tho Jemocratic party or Intorcsts of tho whole ,l""' pla of the Unlon in tha election of Bamuel J, Tilden 1led in heart and lied in hus foul throat, 1le thon wenton to relate the conference at Wormley's Motel, mentioning as th actors on that oceasion, himeclf, E. A, llurke, of Louisinna, and Henry \Watterson, of Kentucky, on the Democratic aide, andon the Repnvliean eido 3ir. Garfield, Mr. Fonter, ex-Goy. Dennizon, Stanley Matihews, and Senator (now Becretary) Sherman, 116 doclared there was 10 bargain; thiat the on)y matter which tranenired was on interchange of views, and that he and his friends rojled npon the assurances of Mr. linyes' close friends as to what wera hin views and sent(. ments In repaed to Loulsiana and South Carolina, Theso gentlemen had pledged nothing for Mr. Itayer. They had bound him by no promu no pledge. The Jangunge they had held wan: know him: we know his aentiments towards the South. Wo know ho believes in the aclf- government of those States, and, withont spenking After revernl motions to adjotrn had oeen voted down, Mr. Durham moved ilint when the llouse nest go tnto Commitice of the Whola the debata shonld clows in one minute. After xome confixlon and delay thoe Houso agaln went {nto Committes of the Whole, the debale nn the hiit to close In one hour. Mr, Conger deired to call the attentian of the geutleman from Nuwy York (lewitt) to some ex- ‘due 10 1t that. milh it e v the Tiessing of. froa ‘rovor fhiat, 1t was duc 10 1t that military power d 18 o hed ud opinian, e Wil give the hiessing of fra govorn. hok to~ay dominate tn Lonislana and South Carg. | oriliaEy Ha8mente be e e 0 gviat | mient tn tiono tates: thnt ho WHICHieE Thew from fina. 11, "In tho Bnal our of that terrlilc scene in which his party and his country had been robbed of ihelt rights, assurances had not been given that that mititary domination should cease, ho had rea- son to know that the Flectoral count would never have teen completed within she halls of Congress, ‘What would the Unlon be without freedom to the States and withont freedom to indivianala? That had oeen nssured, He confeased when he Lheard 1t enld he wasa alandoror of Honthern Representa- tives his blood tiad bolled, and It had taken twen- ty-four hours to get [t back into calmer and cooler condition. [Longhter.| Mr. Conger mudo 8 persistent effort toput s question to Hewitt, but hin cffart was met with shouts of *'Onlerl Order)' from the Domacratic e of the House, and after gomo time Mr. Atken obtalned the floor, and spoke na fallow 1t has been dlreetly aeserted here withont any the bload and dust in which they bave been trum. ted, and that (In tho language of Mr. Foater) the ag shall ficat there over freo Statea, and no looger orer conquercd and abject provines Mr. Davls (N. C.)—Was thers any screement that membera of tho Hotarning Board should not Mr. Ellis—None. be prosecuted? Bubrequently Mr, Ellls again obtafned the floar to make 8 persunal explanation, and retractod all thie uffennive allusion to Me, Ifewitt in his remagks, saying bo had been assured” by thiat gentleman Andl othier friends that be had “been “entirely mis- informed. The debato rlgsed, and tho cumunuuwlz prosy ‘business of the bill was resumed. For the hour or two that this personal and political skirmish Jast. ed, the acenes in the Touse werc of o highly ox- cited character. 1{ona neked him, If ho nnderstood the gentleman rignt ho had eald In bis place on tho floor the P'res. idency was sold ant, bt no Northicen man sold It, The wentloman rald that the Presldency had been sold out, i Mr Howitt drose to reply. M, Coneer—[ don’t yield, Mr, liewlitt—I will not allow any gentloman to put words tnto my month, Mr, Conger assitred him that ho was trying to keep the worde out of the gentieman's mouth, Laughter.] The Iangnage which the gentleman d uactl was, that no Northern man had sold out. Whatt The Vresiiency, intimating that a Southern mon had, He had made no reply an to that, Thero wos another proposition o which ho had made no reply, The gentloman had salid that a nroposltion had boen tade to him 1o acll out, i I Y The members on_the Kepublican ustification that & hail suld { would voto ta hava | \Whatt 'The Presdencyl Notto buy, When tho | &o" goemed to enjoy keonly tho . internecing , P Touse and country had been eager and anxlous to '\\m Toint put to the block, That gentleman ,e:‘r‘“ \hosc now devolopmants about the gentlo- | WAF o tho oppuilte eids of tho chamber, (lewitt) knows as well as 1do that he ml{ht nn well tako a phraso_out of any cll:\alnro! the Diblo ta prove any doctrine as to mako tho assertion which he did” from what [ eaid. 1made an argu. ment In favor of economy, which argument ho could not snawer. L proved my argnment by fgurcs and facts, showlng lack of ‘cconomy In the adiiuistration of affaira st Weet Loint: - 1 felt it niy duty to say what L dld, and he could not an- swer it, and could not rebut it; but the gentloman gots up hore, proving that he fe ~what ~the gentleman “from ~ Tenucsaco (Ifouso) .asserted that he was, (Lond langlllcr.’ 1 have nuthing to uz against West Point, i property conducted. I know that West Point has made a record for iteelf. 1 have only to point to ‘men Mke Jeforson Davis, Robert K, Lee, Stone- wall Jackson, Joo Johnston, Bydney Johnston, Gens, Dragy, fardeo, aud o whole host of others from West Polnt, and I know that my Unlou friends canon their side'polnt to s lmo of noble, gallant #pirits who camne from West Point and fought on tho other slde. 1 bonor them, [ Kknow their worth, 1met them and measurod steel with then, and I neyer eaw him (mesning llewltt) there, (loud lnu:fmer ond great excltement., | and were anost eager in the oncouragement of Alken, Ellis, and other antagonists whom How- 1tt haa on hand, and Conger was constantly and irrcoresaibly on his fect socking to send polsonod arrows {nto the enemy's camp. The remarka made by Mr. Garflold " were delivered with even more thun ks usnal caresiness and vohomence, and the suplause which greoted them from his own side of the Houso was hearty and spontancous, Hut withull the confuslon and exeitemant of the acenc, thero wag an entiro absonce of any dangor- ouy clement or bitter 'mrly fealing. It only aecny el to bo pecnliarly relished and enjoyed as n pleas ant contrast to tho dslly dulincss of.(ho scesions of tho Houso, Mr. Iteagan's amendment wes rejected nnd Mr, Clymee's ageeed to, and the bl was reported to tho Hfluu. bot, without action, tho louso ad- £ Jouene e i—— FURNITURE. Attompts of tho Leading Men to Recure Khorter Credits and Longer Purses. man’s solling ont, the gontieman had come for. ward and quoted from reporta which had been cinted for monthe, The gentloman had stated rhn s proposition had “beon made to him 1o gell the Preaidency, not to buy It. Was that a satiafactory answer 10 give 10 o charze made ttfe gentleman from Houth Carolina that ho (llew- itt) had solil outy Wan It un answerto tell tho Ilouse that ho had & proposition to buy the Presi. dency, which he had not accupted? He ashed tho genticman to follow up his remarks and tell him Who made the praposition to him to soll tha Prasi- dency. Mr.’ Ilewlitt—Nobody, Mr. Conger—1 den't yleld. [Langhter,} ‘)lr. Hewiit—1 want to answer you 98 yon go along. 3 o Conger (continnlng) sald that Mr. Iewitt lind stated thot assnrances had been made to him that tho troopa would bo withdrawn {f the Commis- slon's work could go on, and he hnd heea shown IFunurA\ Tetter of Mr, liayes siating his viewe, DIt the gentleman think that statement wonld sag. I#fy tho country, when ho had made assurances that anch a proposition Lad been made to him? Mr. Chairinan, West_ Point has peodnced great | [Lzughter.] Sveelal Dispatch to The Chieago Tribune, v Mr. Finiey said in his opinion the timn of tho Q! il P o T e B e 1o e 4eno 319 | H1ousa ha been epont mors. fooiiahiy to-day than | N&w Yons, Feb. 1.—~Tho furniturc-nakers on any dny of this wession, The gentleman from New York (llewitt) had stated that & propomtion hnd been mado to hin: by J, Madison Wells to soll out tho Presldency, 1o (Finley) desired to add that the houry-honded old ruscal and hia fellow. conspirators liad been fndictod $a Loulslana, and that one of thom had been convicted; and yet to- day members of Congrens, of the Jlouse and Sen. ato, and members of the Cabinet, wore sending to this convicted eriminnl leiters of condolence, Not only that, but, 1f tho napers apoke lrul(. there was oven now a serious disciiaion su the Cablnot over a grnvmlllun of sending the army, \Ir. Townaen ‘hoy should not have been taken sway into Loulstana to wrest from the hands of the {nw tho convictod eriminal. Mr, Hanna rose to discuss the Academy bill, but was jntorrupted with Inughtorand crices of **Thas not the aubject wo are on.'" Ile, however, pora vered in hls purpore, lnylnh that the Democrats from tho fouth snd Republicaus from the Notth did not caro two cents about Samuel J. Tilden, [Laughter.] Mr, Sparks quofed from the lotters written b, ‘Welle to Senatar West and J. JI. Msadox, in which ha applied for help to procced with the count in Lomslans, In order to show that tha voto of Louistana biad really bean offered for sale. r. Fosteraald thab 1t had not been his gooa for. tunoe to hear the opening remnarks of the gentle~ man from Now Yark (Lowitt), but In the romain. held two sessions to-day, with no action of Im- portance ns o result. The queations of credits and the Bankruptey law were discussed with conslderable differcnce of opinton. Regardiog credits, Mr, Brown, of New York, had given the subject much thought, and was at n loss what nction should be taken by the Conventlon, It wonld be difficult to enforco any rule they might adopt. Ho was fearful that the Convention did not possess tho power to bind avy man not to sell his own goods on eredit 1t he desired to do so. Mr. Blackstock, of Wisconsin, doubted his power to plelige the Northwestern Furnlturo Exchange to llmit the length of credit. It was amatter for common consent, and not coor- clon. Mr, Kolir, of Now York, thought alferently. TIn this position ko was not sustained by bia col- leagues, Mr, Metealf, of Chleago, was willing to agree totry and Induce the members of the North- western Furnituro Exchange to adopt o system West Polnt has never produced an Eauu, It has nover produced a Benedict Arnold [excite. ment];: It has never produced a man who put up the Presidency and aold It, |Continued loughter and oxcltement,] 1 hope the pgentleman from New York has the Intallcct to sppreclate what [ mean, M. Chairman, | was not cdsicated at West Point, but I was cducated 1 ichool whers there well-organized militla. and where our Alina Mates tanght v to shed ourbloud in defonsu of the Hlato when sho called upon us. 1 responded 10 the call, dld not do as some men did, stay at homo and pay asubstitnte to gn, and helv todefend my coun- try. [Langhter.] 1am noyraduate of West Polnt, biit 1am from g Stalo which hasshown from 1ta past couduct that {n war it Is tho braveatof onewtes and that in peace it 14 the beat of friends. Iam bold to defend my Staty, Nothing connected with the record of the past has ever smirched bhor record, and God grant that I may always be what I Liclleve Iharebeen in the past—-n worthy son of such o State. _[Applause, Mr. Fort—In viow of the harmony exlsting on tha Democratic slde, Tdemund the regular order of ‘business. |Laughter, and cries of ** No, no, no. "] After some time, and in tho midst of increasin; excliowent, dir. Lewitt again got tho foor, an sald: Mr, Chalrman, 1 have recofved hard hits In m{ time, and lave loarnod to toke them, and now pruposy only to say thist thers were brave men fore Agumewmnoni thors, were brave moq | Uer of hin statement thero was really moth- | of abiort credits, but did not thiuk the Conven- B oot Coneitan Lol | e which’ HAd nOL - oGn. pGIIsned 13 | Slom Tt povtn o comenel them e o kon), but [ bave nover known of any | tho world time - and agaln, unleis » P Q ] bravo men coming home from the war and boasting | It was o statement that ha had - reason to The resolutions offered by Mr. Brown, provid- of deeds of valor, - A brave man leaves that to o | bellovo that some bargaln had been mado with | Ing for the division of tho country into fivo some Loolsiana gentlemen. There had been no bargain made so far oe ho (Foster) wus concornea, 1o never knew ol nn{. For himselt, ha had con- feared that ho had felt great solicitudo at the con. ditlon of the conutry. Hu had deslred o peaceful solutlun of the Electoral Count bill, He had voted for it nyainst many of hin purty friends, becanse ho belleved 1t was inunenrely Inore Impurtant to the country that that question shoald be suttled fn a poaceful, orderly manner, than that etther [tayes oF Tiiden ahould be Frealdant, Whon thio fllbus. toring wovement bad been commonced on the Democratic whie, he had agatn become solfcitons hlatorinn, und to that record I consign tho gentle- man from South Carolina. And nuw | roquest the Clerk to_road the languags of the gentiviman 1o which 1 replicd tho other ay. [The extract having been pead, flowitt continned, ] “The genticman in- muuates that somebody suld ‘out the Prosidency. No Northern man wold out tho Prosidoncy, 'The proponitiow ta seli the Presidency was madv (o me, and | contemptaously rofuded it. [Kxcitemontand souts of **Namet Nawmol"} geouraphical scctions, and the placing of each in the hands of the Hoard of Trade which has Jurisdiction over that particular territory, forthe nanagement of fallures thereln, was referred. Mr. Brown explained that the object was to provide n system whercby a case of bank- ruptey In any apecified sectfon of the country could bo handled by ono wan, instead of by five, as 8t nresant, Mr. Miller, from the Committee on Bank- ruptcles, read a paper ombraclngithe vicwsof o Mr, Ellsworth—1 want to know who it was that Km;mml to the gentleman to sell out the I'resi- ency, » New York Board, on the subject of fatlurcs, and ol Nerhictt th, Hous e 1o e et | of*beacs BB Sad Sl T 11 | st cortan, medltaions and aniend- Cricaof **Letua bave 1t alll" and ‘grese excie. | fiought then that knew oy o | P ancral dcusalon Tohowed, an went, | & clte | Huyes' feclings wore on the question of | A 5un_c]m ducussion Cnnnwafi, and tgu fact Mr. Hewltt, aftor onder belng Ssomewhat re- local self-gosernment, 1o had “made pub. | Was developed that the Conyention was divided lic proclamation ©of tnat in e place an the flaor, and dav, Ilayos had thanked bim for maklngit, and that was the letler to which ey much reforonce ha been made, la did_not know that at that time the gontleman from Now York (Howitt) was playing auy impartant part in that cave until after ha had come to_biw (Fostor) to tn- quire something sbout It At thultime he (Ilewitt) was not o great factor In the problem, e other gentleman from New York (Wood) was conducting th Democratic anti-Mibustering movoment. Mg (Foster) had labored |lmr|y for the veucelu) executinn of the Elsctoral bill withoutuxaeiingan promices cxcept stating wbat he bad hnllu-fl would bo the policy of Presldent liayes, No one thini wos dono anywhere oc In any place, and he deted morial man to bring evidence to Lhat effuct, that obliged anybody to (0 suything in considerae on of anythini being done by the olher aide, Atr, Garlleld sald when the deciwion of the Elect. oral tribunal was stnounced, thoro ware betwoon thirty aud forty gentlemen on tho othor sid of waom had been in armae oyalnst the United Htates, who belloved D thefr honor they were hound' 1o staud by the result. hoy did 5o, and they rosisted liko yatrlots every effurt to break up this count and bring this country into clvil war, a3 to what actiun should be taken upon the qurstion. Mr. Henshaw, of Cincinnati, sald his dolcga- tion was Instructed ta voto fur the unconditional repeal of nmlrmcnl law, and Mr, Duyall, of Loulwllle, anid that he had come to the Con- ventlon with similar instructlons, AMr, Anuzle, of Chicago, was not {nstructed, and would niot ask for a repenl of this Jaw. Ha was in favor jof an amendment dolug away with Rewisters, and thus preventing compro- nises and fraud, ir, Riackstock, howeyer, from the samo Ex- change, was In lavor of repealing tho law, as was also 3r, Ketr, of Now York, who looked upon it &8 nothing more nor less than Jegalized JSrand, Mr., Mitehell, of Clncinnati, was tn favor of receal, and Mr, Motealf, of Hoston, was In favor ol an amendment, as were also Mr. Brown, ol Now York, Mr. Holmes, of Boston, Mr. Gard- nen of Now York aid M, Whittelacy, of h{cago, ‘The delegates hope ‘o conclude thelr labors stared, procecded to recount the - facts connucted with a proposition made to hlm vy Col, Plckett (as coming from J. 11 Maddox, Special Agent of the Treusury Doparuwent) to rly-l. Madiron Wells, Chalrman of the Returning loard of Loulslana, for Kiving the count of that Btate to Mr. ‘Tilden, afl of which was testified to by Mr., Mewltt bofore the Cynmittoa of the Houso at tho last session, Mr, Ellsworth intorrupted tho narrative, and wanted ta ask Howlit & question, but Howltt du- clined to ba eatechised sny furthor, say(og ho was already snswerlng the ?unluun‘ And now, ssld he, in couclusfon, Task fho gentieman from Bouth Carollua (Alken) 10 tel) me by what rizht he turna on e wnd accunos no of sellink the Fresldency, 3ir. Atken—The gentloman from New York has been off the track entiroly on which 1 was truvel- iny. {le has slmply been giving ue here published testlmuny whlch anybody uight bave read for him- well, 1 alluded 1o the specch which he wado on this foor, In which he wald, or in which the nowspapers reported him as having sald, that, as fur a8 the €14 of the Prosidency woe in lus hundw, ho would rather kive up the Prestdeucy than woe one drop of bleod wpillcd In the defenss of the Democratic party. 1 Rot 1bat from $be newspa- believed It then; I believe it yet. l“"“ ‘The country wil) not teliove that after thoy de- | to-dag. Laughter. | clared thefr purpose 10 do so they stained thelr ——— Mr. Howltt—It soema that on & mere newspaner | honor by dolng wha they wers dolng as a matter THE WEATHER paragraph this Immacnlate and honorable gentle- | of trade; and | do not helleye it. [Applause. 3 :ml-'rmubha th :.'n;ul'{u. lfiulll;‘aull! ":.'xm nmun -n..’. ..u-u‘ who {!umwd m} l.\l;hua;wlln dun thal wOI‘"Cl OF THB i‘“:z" Bigynan Orrices, rother Deutocral ad ol ¢ Presideye 0 | widedid It un o grounds of nationa) duty au AsiuinaToN, D, O, 3 L R j* Wil surprivoi 10 Kiuw thut 00 wuch WOrdd ovr | fiett canseloncon e ben, Audir thers pos Thoseal anovom D). Gy B L=t g o fudien full from my lips on the fluor of this l{uuse or any- where elee,and that when [eaw it golng the ronnds of the ncwepaperd i was ong of tho very few calumnles that [ contradicted over my own name, Mr, Alken—1am plad to hiear It Mr. Hewitt—1lo says ho ls glad to hear it, If he has had such a timent fn hie heart, and if he had had that bigh feeling of bonor which shouli overn & Bouth Carolluian, he would, bafure wake g that charge on the foor, have comu 1o me sud auked how much truth thers wus iu it fwur m) beart usun my eleove, and there is nothing wmei 1 have done from the buginning to the eud of that businces which [ am not ready to proclaim anl have publishied, Az, Luttroll suggested to Mesars, Hawitt snd tlous—For tho Loke Regiun, partly cloudy weather, followed by lncreasing cloudinsss and rain or sngw arcas, variable winds mostly from the cast, stationary or higher tomperature and gezerally falllng barometer, LOCAL OBSEWVATIONS. Cuioaga, Fob. 13 s o UNIOKGA FON. 18, Time._|Bar. | 7o Iia| Wind. |el| Rn.) Beaier N L ol o =014 36| 71K, m53 U3 | 70 man in thie world they traded, 1 bellove that that wan Hes, [Qre nvpl-.mu.' $say s fue them, and if thero be » man In thls worfd that saya that any man on this slde of the 1L or iy esidont, or soy man fur tho Prealdent. made a trade, 1 hopo ‘ho will ehibit tho trado, and let tho scoundrel who mada It, or who authorized i3, bo lushud nakod ihrough the world. [Applauss,] But § bolieve that the man wha allcues that there was such a tradu (v either o decelved and fovled man or o liar. [Applause, | Let us have done with this nonscnae atout trading Pre clos and selliug Presidencles, Whal man here hau a Frasidency for sale or was in the mar- ket to buy & Presidency? {Laughter.] Let tha won who has such warce for_esle snow them, snd ouse, Alken that it was vuly olybt oiles to Bladensburg | not thuuder in the jndox, but let the budy of hls GEXERAL OBSEUYATIONS. {tho fanions dueling ground), and that, ulthough | work how L bas the manufacturce e w«, s to Cuiwada. Fob. 13—Midalghs, the roads were muddy, he thought they coutd got | aell, 3a rezard to what hos been vaid about tae Stalions. Bur,| Tar, ind, Rain; IFealher, there, withdrawal of troops frony Loulsiana, [ diucialu, | r——ee— ‘———' —i—— Mr., Hewitt brushed aside tho intimatlan, and | for vue, b far as my Gloclaluior poes for anys | Bemblua .. = :: reah. o |I..;. anow. thuts sald e would unswer the question as to what | thing, uups Werw wilhdrawn As 8 tunt- 5 s ausurance Liad been given for tho withdrawal of § ter of policy or conciliation. Toey were 3 § the troops from Loulslans and South Caro. | withdrawn as 3 matter uf constitutionsl 23 na, and on thls pomnt Le eald: After | duty, sod ae suc I defeud the with- o the ' docislon of Ihe Klectoral Trbunal in | drawal. [Applause.] Butthe evils which have 2 the louisfans case had boen snnounced | fullowed and the teuculent upisit exbibited by somes w8 it became npparent (o mua a¥ it did to every lntel- wontlemen u Loulslannls a poor recompense for ligeut pervun who studied the situatlon, that the tho cffurts of our peopls lo Testre 10 the wWhole 30 ducluiou of 3lie Electoral Commilssion wotld award | couatry the splrit ol ud conelliaton. [Ap- Fid the Presldency to Hayes, Of course [ felt it was & | plause oo the Republican aide, x ereal grievance, but 1 felt thut we had submitiod [ Mr. Buuthani—\Will the gentleman say what the o tnat ‘auuuun to the Tribunsl, and that we weeo | truculent apirit is? i bound sng concluded by its decivion, sud 1 told Bpeaker 1] (10 & low tone from the Clerk's itd everybody that 1 shoald vote to in uvery de- | devk)—** Bunisbing the guilty. 2 cluion of thu Pribuosl, o wmatt quuuce might be, Butl did nel ses aby reason why, because Mr, Hayes was golua into tho Presi- deacy, | should lguore the fach tbat there was # large nuwber ot kentlemen in the Houso who dig not look un the question us I did, and that thoy had told wo the count shoald uuver Le Mr. Garfield—The persecution, tho outrazcous wrsecution which ts followlng the weinbers of tho tetarning Board lo thy City of New Urleans, {Contemptuous laughter on the Democratle side. Mr, Male, referring 10 Finley's denunclation of J. Madisun Wells a4 un old rascal, sod of his fel- low-members of the Huturnivg Board of Louistaua THE PILL-BUILDERS, completed. On that statemoent | redected, | ua cunspirators, aud of othurs who Lad been veud. LoutsvitLs, Ky., ¥eb 13, —~The Western A« und 1 wald to mywelt, Uoless ft Is on- lnl( Ietters of coudolence o the cundemned | goclation of Wholesule Druggists opened its deretood that thy 1roove shall be withdrawnn from | celmlual, satd Lo bimself (lalo) was one lticetipti she Qalt. Houss todsy, A Loulsiana sud South Curoling civil war witl sueely | of those who had beew invi | Mutust macing $ e k out, for the wembers from Loulviana ss- | Loulslana after the Prealdentlal election )| large number of leading drugglsts from the wured me that thelr peoble would no jouger sub- 10 seo that there was o fair count. [C‘ontvmiptus ous laughter and jeers on the Democrasic -mu,l le bad yunu thete because he knew the wplril which bad fur years prevalled i the Dewocratic party taorw was wullclently sctlve to fawe sgain, West aud Northwest, including the cltles of Chilcagn, Pittsburg, Burlington, Cinclunati, St, Yaul, Philadelphia, lndlaoapolis, Nashville, 5t Louls, and Milwuukee, wess prescut. Arthur it to wilitary duwluation. ed, other Boutberi States would 1 hunor Louud to belu thens, d 1 thought that if 1 could uAt rave the Prealdency frow tie wreek thero way 1 kuew if thoy renlat- MADIVAY'S REME Peter, of Lontsville, was_etected President for S t.hlu rmu(nn y'cnr. l“l‘lo fhylwnnl orcln.l:‘m: m“r:- A A A A A A e Ay ceiving reports and diseussing Important qucs- tions bearlng on the leading interests of the I‘ tll ll ‘ d teade. At noon a lunch wns‘uerved the mem- |r0m 0 0"0 Tllm'low vee bera by the white-lead andoll trade of Loulsville at the Rufera lotel, and at night a fine banquet was tendered them at tho (alt House by tho wholesale druggiats o Loulsville. INponsiNG Dr, RADWAY'SR. R, R, REMEDIRY After Using Them for Several Years, Kew Toux, Jand, 1877 _Drap fen: laving for sor, erat yearentd o meiclnes, donntindy’ st b atler nxperiencing thole elicacy with full conis L {8 no )gva & plenaurs than & duty to thankfuily howleqgn th advantaRe we Navo derived from th re revorted loAsoflen ax ore: anil Alwayd with the desired effect. Tha caunot ha befter described than [t i b pniy the liniment frequently an. Flaby ‘Snding tho prowaised +Freliet, 1§igned) Tl Di. Favwar. RADWAY'S READY RELIER CASUALTIES. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, Sorelal Dispateh t Tne Chicago [rib e, 3.—A. N. McGionnigle, Trrranvra, Pa., Feb. 13. time-keeper at the Unlon Depot, was Instantly killed at 8 o'clock this forcnoon, by eing run over by a locomotive which was backing out from tho Unfon Ncpor platform. Tha wheel passcd over his hend, crushing it into n ahapeless mass. lie was employed ns a clerk in the freight department of tho Maltimore & Ohlo Rond for several years, Last October s ac- cepted the position of clerk to Depor- t Pains In £ o Master Butler. Mr. McGonniglo was about uren the }v‘::;"',‘mnm“fum a5t 43 or 00 yeurs of nage. o leaves o family of four wrown children, two sons | DTOT OINE EFEXOUR, and two daughtors, Ills eon Robert Al(crnmllnnmu advertisement. l’l‘(‘" ANy one anfre; ain, ADIWAY'S IHEADY RELIEF 1S A CUJ FOT WKy BAIN: " 16 was the aracs aud 16 it The Only Pain Remedy at {nstantly stops the moyt excruclatinia pafns, nita ATAMmAtion, A cares Congeations, wiether' of thy ungs, Somack, Bowels, of other gladds, of urgans, by one application FROM ONE TO TWENTY MINUTES, o matterhow vinlent or excruclating thia patn, the IHIUNATIC, Bed-Riaden, Inirm. Crippled, Neryous, ouralgic, ur prostrated with disease may suller, RADWAY'S READY RELIED WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE. Infiammation of tho Kidnays, Inflnmmation of the Biaddor, Inflammation of tho Bowols, Congestion ot tho Lunas, 8ore Throat, Difloult Breathing Palpitation of tho Heart, Hystorios, Croup, Diphtherin, 1a ngent of tho Pennsylvania Itoad at Fast Lib- criy. Another son, the Rev, John Mcuwonnigle, F a IPW(":\'QMM and highty-respected minlster ac arker City. . About 10 o’clock this morning the Erle ex- ress an tho Fort Waynoe Rond collkled with the Cant-bound frelght near lHomewood, (n this county. Engincer Wilson and Fireman Flough, of the frelght-train, were kitled. The men Hyed in Alleghen; C!H. whither thelr remalns wero taken, * Both trains wero wrecked, The necl- cent §s safd to havo oceurred by a misundor- standing of running order. UNSEAWORTIIY. ‘Wasmnaton, D. C., Feb. 186,—Capt. Merri- man, of the rovenuc marlno service, having been ordered by tho Scerctary of the Treasury to Investigate the wreck of the Metrapolls, reports that the fracinents of the wreck are unusually small, and her rottenness 1s so ap- parent that thero was but one opinlton as to her unaeaworthiness. PuiLanerenta, Fob. 13.—In the Investigation Oatarrh, Infiuenza, Into the causcs of the loss of the Metropolis to- n"fld“lfl‘- Tfl%‘{lfiflhar W day aoveral witncases testifled to having honrd Neuralgis, Rhoumatlsm, Cold Ohills, Agus Caills, Chilblains, and Frost Ditag, eatlon of the READY RELIEF to t Ty gy the Captaln spy after tho wreck that he hod been told by Mr. Lunt. one of the owness, that it be had any accldent not to make any lalfl- way business about it. If he made a wreek of the ship ho should make It o good one, This was corroborative of that heretofore given by Paul J. White, engineer, and A. J. Newton, Capt, Ankers will be examined to-morrow. or parta tiie palu or dilicolty exists w SLICI comorl. *Fhiriy fa aixty drops n half atumbler of water will g ew momenis CuraCrawmps, Snasma, out Siomacr eartbun, Kiek lieadache, Diarely Dysentery, Colie, Ind in the “(IWIK' 4, AR nteru: ns, "Fratele {2 simaya catry & bottla of RADWAT'S . LF with'them.” A few drops in water Wit proyent slcknors Or pain from clinnge of Whter. 1; TeBelter than French Urandy of Diiterasa Mimuitnt FEVER AND AGUE. PRVER AND AGUR cured for 50 conts. Therels & remedial ngent $n tix worid tnat will criro Fever aw o aud ailother Matarlous, Biiots Kcarler Typhal {Ellow, and other Fevera (atied by RADWAY'S 1L toauielas RADWAY'S KEADY RELIEY. ™ Fifty coiu per buliu. HEALTH! BEAUTY! ) L Rieh Tlood—Tncreasg af Flesh an B T A Svaiivon Compiowlod soeirud DR. RADWAY'S Sarsaparillian Resolvent tck, sorapld B e e Tt T R of this truly wonderjul inedicine, that Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Weight is Scen and Felts WRECK OF A WIIALER. BAN Fuancisco, Feb, 1.—The whaling bark Roman, of New Bedford, Mass.,, was wrecked Jau. 2 on the const of Lower California, about forty miles north of Capo Lazarel. She struck asand-bar at night, and soon broke up. Thu crew cseaped In - boate, and arrived hero on the steamer Newbern crday. CANADA. lonors Pail to tho Governor-Goneral at Montrenl=The Grmeo-Canucks—Financinl ~Winulpeg=Tho Scareat Quobec—Toranto ~New Brunswick Spectal Dupatch to Ths Chicaga Tridune, MonTiRAL, Feb. 13.—There were o nnmber of Chicagoans present at the grand ball In honor of the Governor-Uencral last night, fncluding TPotter Palmer and wife, To-day bis Excellency attended the Conven- tion of MeQill Collcge, when the Degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him. Tho addross by tho Chancellor, and the reply by tho Qovernor, were delivered fn Greek. 'Tho atten- tlon paid to tho Vice-Royal party by the cltlzens exceeds all anticipation. They are halled with unbounded enthuslasm wherever they go. Offers by Canadisus [n tho States have been made to come in o reglment hero for service in the East, If England cogages In a war with Rus- sl J. B, Withers, a stock-broker, has fafled. Liabilities, $40.000, Charles Alexander, & canfectloncr, has called a meeting of his creditors, Llabilities, 160,000, ‘1hc naseta show a surplus of 865,000, buv can- not be realized at present, Hamilton & Papencau, dry-zoods merchants, havo_assignods labllitics, $18,000. This firm fufled two years ago, and compromised for 83 cents on the dollar. L. 11, Latour, Notary, has recelved Knight- homl by the late Pope’s orders. William H, Mitchell, son of the Hon, Peter Mitchell, has been committed for trial in con- nectlon with the alleged steallng of o promis- sory note clalmed py his late partner, TOE (&S BLOOP PURIFIED. Every drop of the Sarsapariliiag Resolvent communs, eates through the Biovd, Bweat, Urine, and otlier Bald( 8nd juices of the systom, the viKor of life, for {t preparcy the wastes of the body with new and sound matesial, Berofuld, Syphlilia, Conuinption, Ulcers 1 the Tnroat, Mouth, 1 Glands and other iartd of thy gtous Dischargea trom the and th Hkin Discascs, l’ruflllunt Fover Bores, Heald lie Ting Worm, ¥afy Ttheum, “Krysipelas, ‘Acme, Blac §) ‘Worms in the Flesh, Fuiors, Cancersin the nd il wasies OF the 1if principie, aro witfin o rangu of this won Two speclipeus of phosphates have been 3 curaiv onder af modern cliemistry, broueht Pero from the dtta Ty, welghtng | &R o ortiers 5% power o cure respectively 1,600 aud 8,000 pounds, ' They are | them, i A W Tthi0 pattent. dally becomlng reduced by the waites e et e SoRfAbGEILY FrOKFMITE, succecds In arrestlug those wastas, Infl'.rll!l the same ‘with new inaterial mado frown Lealihy blood—and this tho Sarsapariiliag will aud doea sccuro—a cure {s ovs taint for when ouce this remody Summenced 1ts worl of purification, aud aucceeds in_diminishing tho loss aatcs, iva roiaics will e rapid, snd evary day tie sitent will foel htmaclt wtrazger, tho food dixentiug tier, appotite lmproving, and Oesh aad weightine X6t only does the Barsparfllian Resolvent exerl alt smedial ‘sgents In the curs of Chroufe, ferofulons, UAtItaHORL A0 BKIA discascd, but 1t 1s the OBy pob v Curo for very flue, ‘Tho Papal Zouaves {n this city have resolved to wear mourning for tho Pope for throo months. Spectal Dispated 10 244 Clgnao Tyibune, ‘WinNirEg, Man., Feb, 13.—Two thousand five bundred cattle will leave Montana for Manitoba {u tha spring. ‘The Ked River Tmmggrmuma Company In- tond placing two steambonts on tho Asainiboing during the coming season to run between Por- tage Ia Prairie and Winnipeg,—thy proposed freight rate to ba 25 cents per bushel, Oats are nnmn(; at Winnlpeg at 85 cents per bushel cash; wheat, 60 centa.. The Hudson Bay Company aru paving 70 ceuts,—oug-third cash, and tho balunce In goods. The want of snow In the placrics has cansed a rise of 40 ner cent fn tha prico of lumber hers, Goyernment advertises for tenders by the Blat of March for the building, track-taying, ete., nceessary to completa tho sfxty-threo miles on tho Pewnbina Hranch Rallway between St, Bont- face and the boundary-line; also for tenders by tho i8thof Fevruary for sguars and flatted timber for the same work, That portion of the road {n Minucsota uncompleted will be bullt during the coming summer. The contract for the latter has not yet beon awarded. Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary and Womb Disoases, Gravel, Disbetcs, Drot Bloppage of Watet. Incontinooce of Urine, lirl! Discasa, Albuminuris, 8id 1 all cases whero there F‘;l waior |s thick, clundy, ml. whita of sa rfi{.nrl)\fl‘ like anca and white bowo: ‘morbid, dar ipea. i, DU ScOMsCIOR o b Daming wALer, 104 ek Chich ‘paminig wALer, a1 16 1ha Al OF 116 DACk and 0% hE JoTus. Tumor of Twolve Years' Growth Cured by Radway’s Rosolvont DR, Rapwav=1 have bad Ovarian varfes wud bowels. All the doctors safd ** tliero wad noueiptor it 1 tried’ evorything that was recom: mended, but nothin Teaw your Liesolvent Ing helped me, and thpght 1 would try 151 bus ‘had o faith fo it lee umot in the R % cause ] bad sullered fur twelvo years. 1 foukcals bottles QuEBEC, Hobe BT 1 Xeported wiat the | i e tisolventand unoLoxbl iiadey fuiguin Quubee overniment contempftes removing thu | Peaor 16 5o sgeoe Telt: and | Teel bortors aa/arits, ai seat of (Jovernment to Three Rivers, owlug to | hannl 1 Tkve f0F twelve yenrs. The WOrst 1imo the lata rlots, 2 ftaide of the bowels, aver (hu groin, o wrlte this 0 107 §18 Lencht of uthiers, You rad yu’bn-h 1% ou’n‘:‘l‘:‘mn‘l U RANNAT T BNAVP PRICE, = = $1 Por Dottlo, AN IMPORTANT LETTER. ¥ Anpon. Mich., Apz!| RT3, =] filfl Biry 1 have Ile!upll m QuF Rew) ating I'ille, snd alio using the ttesdy Jtel eAP for UVAFiAD tumord Oi the alxdoinen, whi-h ke ust eintuent phisiciane’ of our Mloical Coliexe pros nounced lucurs iy wero iike knots on & tree. My welght was 211 vl Beed with Your Tentciics, & unds when I con ow It 18 Lo ndred and ten pounds. but ey are dich "Fho ex-Treasurer of Qucbee Cltfi {8 belng ex- amincd under onth, and declares that the deflelt recently dlscovered in his accounts had existed slx years, and nono of the Corporation were aware of It. Sverial Dimatch to Tha Chicagn Zridune, ‘onoNto, Feb, 13.—Archhishop Lynch has {sated w oastoral sotting furth the faithfulncss aud tho trlals und tribulations of tho late Pupe, aud ealling upon all the priests snd_people of the Archidloceso to reclte the Rosary of the blessed Virgin, and say u communion” for the repose of his soul, during tho tinie which will elinss petore the Couclave moots, and then | il gone yot. Ihavo taken twontyfanr otties of he: offerup prayers fmploring the Alnighty to fi;;'flf-‘-!::fifl-’n'-‘:-"fidm"fl Rt chooss o worthy successor, JOur book ** False and Trus." 3 7 To-night the Rev, Father Berlean delivered MRS, 0. KRATP. an eulogy on the late Popo, and to-morrow morning & flmnd requlem-iass wiil be cele- brated in Bt. Michacl's Cathearal, Hpeciat Dispulch 10 Tas Chionga Tribune. 8t. Joun, N. H., Fob, 13,—New Brunswick Anotlor Letter from Mrs, C, Erapf. el rer Dz, Ranwav—Kind Birs ““1}:’-‘5:!%“’1'3%:"4«' or) ot being satisiod Wwith the barzaln whieh sho | Fobr Gasiiclale thres ot sho-tumcrs a18 Yy made o cutering the Confederation, Mr, Fra- | E35eand ihe tourth s nearlysa, Drope) ,,';flf;‘.:‘:.m‘ acr, Provinclal Becretary; the How, Kobert | Rave wala. mmy’uu.‘n summer to fnyutsu ol Young, Preatdent of the Councll; and the Hon, | tuo wond eFUl Chra YOuF tediving bt duns for 518, 023 J. 1L 'Crawlord, momber of the Exccutlvo | ifom Ublo, ona from Canada, thrce frum Jaciiars tud Qouucll, huvo started tor Uttawa to seck better RS TEAC Y v et st pi Mo Mislh et At Wickham, Bunday night, & houso belong- | EHLRRRISISGY, a0d very henavolent, (Sho [ by the o lats of Al 1 Micted with (Bl!!' Eg?f?flufil:&;nmrbfl . Fr':lflr?u Nondertul curce ected by it. Yaurs sespestlullyyppn s oy & 0. . Ann Arbor, Micb., Aug. 18, 1673, ————— DR. RADWAY'S REGULATING PILLS! AWk 1, e 3y Ptk Tor the_ Gire.Of ail disardcra of the Sioil: oo, "Liver. Boweia K idae e Nervous diss Sk It a e Conmivattin, Coetivencas, IpULIE: Dyspepels Billouyaess, Bifious Fever, Intasy A CoRtalIug b mepcury, mia® lomiSE eymptoms resulting {rom Infl to Daniel Reardon was burned. Reardon, wife, aud four children perished (v the Hames, The neignbore kuew notbing of the catustrophe till morulnw, when tho charred remalos were fouud lu the 3 THE INDIANS, Yanston, D. T., Fob. 12.—Advices from the Bpotted Tull Agency aso to the offuct that Jast weok Charley 8mith, & half-breed, accompanted by severs! Indians, crosscd the Niobrara River inta Nobraska sod stole seven horses, with which they recrossed the Niobrara to tho Indian rescrvation. Swith was srrested by tho mills tary, snd placed in tho guard-house. On Satur- duy ovening, a short time after he was confined, bo uudertook to take his e by shootiug bims self in 1o left breast, but his alin wus too high, and the ball passed through bis body without vroducing u fatal wound, [le sald b had no muu? todetend blmsclf ln the cousts, snd jon of the o would rather dfe thy 9 Digeslys Organs; Blood In Bkl wilf eover, "o b taken bo Yanktun pricd et R e, = e SRRt et QCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. o Stomach, Bwiniming of 1he e, uumcrwk-,fl LoxDox, Feb. 13.—Tho stesmships Uder aud ?n‘ Ew&'fi n’:‘.':‘a'..*&h“."fi':‘ N ol ,“.J.«‘»‘»}‘:mg\ng; l ABCRe o e Lo 254 Do) painin o licad, 3 Bl il et Bute of Iudians, from New York, and Mara- ey thon, from Boston, havo arrived oat, K e fapirasions hfi burelsd New Youx, Feb. 13.—Arrived, steamship ‘the desb. sy Norade, from Liveroool, Ameriqus, from | 2l FASHRSIAN TUGIR! (RAOED NoviLLE, Feb, 13.—The steamship Ethlopla, from Now York, bas areived. READ FALSE AND TRUE. olax Fasxcisco, Cal, fi'ci}. 13.—Tho steamer y o ekiog, from ONE Aong an vko- WAY &CO. No. 52 Vi 1s Irlax’ outskly the burThe sen s | o Sendone Wier i n MAREAT 46,050 ~hate pnakig to o fu. | gyl ey e