Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1875, Page 1

, THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Excepted. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, BY The Evening Star N 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. neapeeee THE EVENING STAR is served by carriers to subscribers ai TEN CRNT* PRR WEEK, OR FORTY ee Cute Pan moxTu._ Copses of the ia & month: sr months, 93,00; one year, 6.00 HE WEEKLY STAR—published om Friday .00 a year, postaze prepa: SF All redscreptions invariably to edvanes, ane EF Race of atoertisine farnvihel on application. AMUSEMENTS. NATOsAL THEATER. *, then go ahead — Dramatic Liters. S1X NIGHTS and SATURDAY MATT mending MONDAY NIGHT, March 1, i tinguished actor, Mr FRANK MAYO, Assisted ty Miss ROS RAND, Anda cuperice Dramatic Company zi " "p VY CROCRETY. with new and approprince « novel a wents ant properties. and a splendit cast of Mr. Frank May: No extra charge fo D eos Cirelow, onl &, com: the dis 7 TONEY DEN PANY. AND This Ever OMIME COM. ORLD OF WONDERS, * UMPTY ABROAD. sday Night, JACK AND THE BEAN STALK 25 SPECIAL ARTISTS. 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THE “FORCE BILL,” which passed the House on Saturday, as stated oa our third page, will it is ihought, be earnestly fought by the democratic Senetors, who will resort to every available means to defeat its pass- age. NAVAL OnpERs.—Lieatenant Thos. Perry ordered to the receiving ship Vermont, and Commander A. T. Mahon has reported that he was detached from the command of the Wasp, south Atlantic station, on the 2d ult., and has been granted six months’ leave, with permission to remain abroad. THE ARRANGEMENT on Saturday nighi at | midnight on the election or force bill saved the House .rom a Sunday scasion. Speaker aving the House vent it. rs ership the Hou.e t any kind on Sun THE CIVIL & TS BILL was passed inthe Senate precisely as it came from the House Saturday asternoon. The vote is given on our third page. Among the republicans who Yoted_ with ¢ minority against the biil were Messrs. Curpe.ster, Ferry of Connecti- ent, Hamilton of Texas, Sehurz, Sprague and Tipton. The President approved the bill to-day,so that it is now a law. Tur Precmatic TeBe—Mr. Anthony in the Senate this morning made a report with reference to the construction of the pnematic tube between the Capitol and the Govern- ment Printing Office. priation ¢ It provides, in_ brief $13,000 to_ complete the y. the Joint Commit to be let to the lowest ¥ FIVE-TWENTY of the Treasury to- . §.351010,000; $100, Nos. , Nos. 11.101at oon. The interest on thes June ist, 1875. CONFIRMATIONS.—The Senate in executive session Saturday evening confirmed the fol- lowing rominations:—John Bruce, United States district judge for the district of Ala- lama. Amherst W. Stone, associate justice of the supreme court, Colorado territory. Owen N. Denney, collector of internal reve- nue for the district of Orezoa. Collectors of Barnabas M. Roberts, Belfast, Me ; le.; Ebenezer T. Fox, Bangor, Me.; Benjamin F. Martin, Marblehead, Mass.; also, the nominations of ® number of postmasters. No INJUN THERE.”—A band of western Indians were visiting the Treasury depart- ment a few days since, and were taken into the Secret Service division where there are merous photographs of people of peculiar chasactes, Kewerpemipe | thieves, counterfeiters, &e., men; women and boys of all nations and colors, but no Indians. After looking over the entire lot the spokeman of the Indian party, turning to his white escort,drew him- self up proudly, and, with a majestic wave of his hand toward the group of pictures, said, “Ugh! No Injun there!” THe LOUISIANA COMPROMISE IN THE House.—After some preliminary business in the House to-day, Mr. George F. Hoar, from the select committee on Louisiana af- fairs, moved to take op the resolations rec- ommended by the majority of the committee. The first recommends the seating of all mem- bers of the legislature legally eleetod, and the reseating of the five members who were put out of their seats by the military. The sec- ond resolution recommends the recognition but are me: of Kellozg as governor until the expiration of his term of office. The resistance of the democrats was altogether to the latter r ly succeeded in separating d getting a vote on. eweh Vunanimously, the see- 3 to 89 yeas.” Th have not tie fo wuGenda tloas Tur WratHer IN Feercary.—The me- teorological summary of the Signal office for this station the past month (Theodore Mosh- er. observer.) shows it to have been the coid- ry ‘or five yea The general t Ww:: Highest b t hes ¥. 1873, hes; Febru pruRry, 03 inches. THE New ConrEerenck ComMrrrrs the legislative, ex 4 judicial priation bill held a meeting this morning aud agreed to report to their respective h nnot agree on the points he two Honses. The ve ison the subject of n employes of either For instance the House bill fixed the of principal clerk, principal execa- rk. minute and aod r ead of $ia2 nate cut dowr ¥ of the chief « purnal clerk of the House from $3,600 to atoftwo reading clerks, assis 1 clerk and tally elerk ne statement of the public debt of the Uni- i States fer the month of February, 187: ym the Treasury this aft issued pillows: Deis be tim corn Bones at Bonris at 5 per cent Debs bearing tnterest su lawful money. $473.000 00 14.0080 000 69 Certificates of indebtedues at 6 per ¢ Navy pension tand at 5 per cent Debt on which since waturity interest has Debs bearims no vaterest - ~ $392.07: Ola demand apd legal temier notes Certificates of deposit - 45.555 000 OU Fr emrreney 44,904,983 Coin certificates 22 2H0'400 0 __$495.101 511 12 Total debt Interest J 1 deit, principal aud interest Treasury $75,425.08 5 45,855.00 99 $151 500.18) 1 y 92.157 315.989 17 ht - Debt, leascach in the Treasury. - 2.143.996.1472 29 rary 1, 15, of debt during the past mouth, wee Bonds issued to the Pacific Bailw ‘ful money Prince ce? | Lout ~ | TROUBLE W307 38 | % * which Sumner contended. of the: WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, RCH 1, 1875. tar. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. —— Se PACIFIC MAIL, What Irwin is to be Arrested For, THE BEECHER TRIAL, Tracy's Argument Continued TWO CENTS. THE LOUISIANA COMPROMISE. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEN. BUTLER. [a ee | | After the exciting scenes which culminated in the passage of what is known as the Force bill by the House of Representatives late Saturday night, a STAR reporter visited Gen. Butler at his residence, and finding him in very good humor talked nearly an hour with him. The reporter took notes and figures in order that no sentertious phrase of his might be distorted, and that no one of his positions in whole or part might be misrepresented in the subjects touched upon. The following is a detailed report of the conversation : General, whatdo you think of the action meres in the last few days in passing the eivil rights bill and the bill which is called the * foree bill?” ABOUT “THE FORCE BILL.” A. I don’t reeoznize the latter bil! by that name. When Jackson was obliged to stop the nullification proceedings in South Car- | olina, Webster drew a bill for that puipose, | by which the revenues might be collected. and the sécessionists of that day denomi nated it force bill.” and it received by a { democratic Congress the same term of de- rision that is now applied by the NEW-FASHIONED DEMOCKATS OF TO-DAY | to the bill which the Honse passed Saturday | night. I hope the bill will go through the | Senate, as the civil rights billhas done. The two will supplement the measures of the re- ublican i to finish their work, and will an evidence to the country of the return- Ing vitality of the party. 'e have frittered away the last two years of our power in Con- ors in each trying toshow that himself was ‘tter than the other, and in investigations, fruitful only in the result whieh is stated in the Nation newspaper, that the people re- quire proof of the innocence of the averaze Congressman of corruption. An examina- | tion of the voles will show that the party in the House have nobly broken away trom its leaders in doing this. NN. BUTLER THINKS ABOUT THE CAN LEADERS OF THE HOUSE. None of those who ciaim to be the leaders | or organs of the House are found voting with | the republican majority, but with the demo- | cratic minority. The situation apd manner in whien this bill passed are precifely similar | to those in 1871, when the kaklux bill was pessed. That was not done except as against the protest of the official leaders of the House; and yet such was its benificent effects upou the country that it was claimed by those same leaders on the stump in 1572 as having been the crowning giory of republican lezis- lation, and endorsed by the people precisely #s this bill will be endorsed fn 1876. “lam in- clined to believe that its good effects will be seen in the coming elections in New Hamp- shire and Connecticut. If not so, it will be because the members from Connecticut, with one notable exception, voted against it! There 1s another coincidence quite as re- markable. The kuklux law was ssed against the opinion of the leading republican newspapers, precisely as this enforcement bill has been. IS AFRAID THE BILL WILL NoT GET THROUGH THE SENATE. J am afraid, so much time has been allowed to be wasted in its consideration, that there Willnot be opportunity to pass it through the Senate against what possibly eo 8 be the factions opposition of a minority talking against time. But even if it fails in the Sen- ate thedeciaration by the republican major- ity ef the House will ear. st ‘the hands of the President in using all wer that is confided to him under the ginal ku-klux law to prevent the disorders and crimes in some of the southern states which have been so fully demonstrated hevond cavil or doubt in reports of the commit- lees upon the state of affairs in Alabama, Louisiana, pera! gr and Arkansas. In- deed, in my judgment it is much better that the tT andeven the sundry civil ap propriation bill should fail than that this measure should not be adopted to strengthen the hands of the Executive, so that the peace of the country may be preserved, and we may it nol DRIFT INTO ANOTHER WAE, which without it seemsnot only possible bat imminent. Not that I believe that war is desired by the older, clearer-headed and thinking men of the South, especially 2.0 who took part in the field in the lace 6ne, bat neither was war desire; nop thought of by the same ¢l<, but the ho'-blooed. Thea: thoughiless, backed by tl southera press, which was'as violent then now, drove that portion of the countiy into the war against the better judgment of sober, Wiser men and Its thinking statesmen, Q. Generai, they hammered you a eal m this matier, but you appear to be happy under it? A. If 1 am not happy, it is not because of the hammering of my’ opponents, either inside or outside of the party. I was very glad to receive any abuse, either personal or «ther, in so good a canse, and should have {elt disappointed if ] had not got it. SADNESS OF GEN. BUTLER. 1 I am sad in view of the future. great To —while I hope I ani not needlessly alarmed. has been no darker day I left W: on in December, 1860, to go home to Massachusetts and advise Governor Aadrew, in view of the im nediate future put the mil war footin to tiaof Massachusetts at once on a . 48 I then did. GEN. RUTLER ON THE NEXT WAR. I saw the danger then from se: per of the southern men, not of statesmen. J see it now through the medium. Domestic wars are never planned bows that nations drift into them better judgment of th zmen of both cor sober and tending is only my trust in an ov idence in favor of the destiny of this country that gives me substantial Lope now. And T yet hope, above all things, that rebodings are unfe ad and waswo- my AROUT THE WHEELER COMPROMT Q. Do you think the Wheeler compromise i ntire peace that is claimed will for Louisiana? A. By no means. ever bre No enforced compromixe Louisiana never bi heen at peace s 6) in her political tion. J was told when I was there that, on emorning after the Presidential vote at } Buchanan's election, there were nineteen dead bodies found in the streets of New Orleans, and they have not improved since. ‘ana has never had her Presidential h in a contest since 1860. Aad this | is one of the changes in the immediate fatare which troubles me. In the Presidential con- test in 16 TH WILL NEVER SUBMIT » have & President elected by the votes of the southern states, controlled by ku-klux | vote w ! and white raiders, by intimidation and force Whichever party prevails—and as I believe | that force in elections is the ruling power there and not the peaceful ballot —I fear the commotion which may arise out of the very counting of the vote. ‘The means of doing it | in a couvention ,of the two Houses are so feeble and so cuuribrous, that in any counting | of votes where there is a substantial contest there will be only anarchy and confusion. ANTICIPATED IN THE NEXT \ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. | The contest between Burr and Jefferson | was final, because it was an ¢lection in the | House of Representatives, which has itselfa | casting vote. The counting of the votes of | electoral colleges, the honesty and Fy ie of whose election are in dispute by the ne | and Senate. may be a very different thing; | and the only hope of | ea may be that at that moment we shall have - A MAN OF FIRMNESS AND PATRIOTISM LN THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR. Q. Then you fully endorse the President in | sending Gen. Sheridan.to New Orleans? | A. 1 fully endorse all that Sheridan has done, because I should have done the same thing myself, only more so. ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. Q. What, in your opinion, will be the effect of the civil rights bill as passed? Will it meet Mr. Sumner’s dying hope from Con- ‘A. It carries ont all the principles for Wiliie it hoes not ich all the objects, its value is that | Hin declaration ot sett prinelpie othe ciple enunciated is a living declaration that ool 8uy by the public taxation of all should open equally to all. Q. You have studied the Arkansas and 7 mes J peed that they are rely rent in r causes and effects; | the Senate concurred in the House amend- _ how would you make peace in those | ments to the bill relative to writs of error. _ ABOUT ARKANSAS. Mr. Frelinghu; |, from Committee on Ju- - A. [believe the present government of Ar- ee ee mens at Jezislature ask! refunds: kansas to be founded wholly on force and | of the cotton tax collected from 1603 to 1803." fraud. If there were no other evidence the solution Yoprint Witun copies of the cetenios fact that the vote in October in favor of the | Tesolu' onde are hart ting cng a hew constitution was 103.500, while the en- | delivered on the late Senator Buckingham. tire number of male polls in the state enum- Referred to Committee on Printing. erated in the same month was only 103,800, Mr. Chandler called up bill to establish the and the republicans abstaining from vo! g | consulate at Amor river, and establish a con- atall on the constitutional question except in Be ee pen poe vixen ne a few counties under the direction of therepub- sO, snthorize the consicuction of lican state convention, because they deemet | ¥@gon bridge across the Mississippl at or the cleetion an illegal one, and that three | (ar Dubuque, Iowa. Passed. weeks afterwards, in November, in the Con- | ,, The Vice President laid before the Senawz grcssional election, where there was a very | the credentials of Isaac P. Christianey severe and bitter contest, only 6 votes | #8 Senator for Michigan for the term were thrown, both parties voting t commencing March 4, 1875, which were read strength, would be sufficient to convince me | #24 placed on the file. After the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Chandler moved that the time to the Committee on Commerce be extended 30 minutes. Pending this Mr. Edmunds asked the Vice President to lay before the Senate 2 TEM “FOR CEBILL,” which had been received from the House during the morning hour. Mr. Bayard objected, and asked if it did not require unanimous consent to lay the bill before the Senate at this time. The Vice President said the universal cus- tom of the Senate had been to lay mi s before the body at any convenient ti e therefore directed the Clerk to read the bill. jpilt: Thurman.—I object to the second read- oe. Mr. Hamilton (Md.)—I object to the first reading of the bill ‘Phe morning hour has expired, the tax bill is before the Senate, and it cannot be dispensed with except by uuani- mons Consent. The Vice President repeated that it had al- ways been customary to lay bills before the Senate at any time. As such had been the universal practice, he woukl rule tat it was ip order to lay the bill before the Senate at this time. Mr. Hamilton (Md.) called for the reading of the Mth rel The Vice President directed the clerk to read the rule whieh prescribes the order of business during the morning hour, specify ing bills and resolutions from the House as inat- ters then to he laid before the Senate. rhe Vice President said this bill would have been laid before the Senate during the morning hour, but, at the suggestion of a that the chairman of the Judiciary was not then present, the Chair had waited till the return of that Senatorr. There was nothing in the rules prohibiting the lay{ng of bills from the House before the Senate at any time, and the Chair mast again rule that it was in order to lay this bill before the Senate now. Mr. Bayard appealed from the decision of the Chair. Mr. Edmunds moved to lay the appeal on the table. Mr. Nn focon withdrew his yong The bill was then read the first time. Several Senators on the democratic side objected to its second reading. It was then, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, ordered to be rinted. . Mr. Hitchcock, from Committee on District of Columbia, reported favorably bill toamend the act of July 27, 1868, relating to the Alex- andria canal. Mr. Logan, from Committee of Conference on bill i, region action taken by the Secre- tary of War under act of July 15, 1470, in re- rd to mustering out of supernumerary of- cers, made a report, Which was concurred in. The time asked by Mr. Chandler for the Committee on Commerce was ited, and, on his motion @ number of bills were dis- FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. opener cohen Morpar, March 1. SENATE.—On motion of Mr. Carpenter, ir entire of the fact, if there was no other evidence. The vote on the constitution was about one in four of all the inhabitents, black and white, great and small. E in the old- settled state of Massachusetts, in the late ction, we threw scarcely one to eight. Nothing will give peace to that state, or any southern state, so jong as it is understood that such a violent and foreefal overturn of @ legal state government can be made wi out the interference of the general govern- ment. So that 1 see no hope of peace there. ABOUT MISSISSIPPI. I cannot conceive how there can be peace in the state of Mississippi, when in a county where there is a very large repubiican ma- jority hundreds of men and women are mur- dered simply because some of the citizens believed that some of the sureties on the Sheriff's bond were insufficient, although the constituted authorities had decided them sufficient. The result of the non-action of Congress in the case of Arkansas, it seems to me, will be to encourage the minority in each af the southern states to hold unauthor- ized constitutional conventions, overturn the constitution and the duly-elected state govérnment under [t, aud setup a new gov- ernment for themselves. That is exactly what was done in Arkansas, and what will be done in the other states as soon as the white leaguers believe they can do it v safety, without the interference of the eral government. There are regular steps of gradation. In September the government of Louisiana is overthrown by an armed and organized mob, without the form of a new election; in October the government of Arkansas is overturned by a like mob through the forms of an eleciion; in Deecem- ber an assault is made upon the duly eonsti- tuted officers of the state of Mississippi by a like armed and organized mob; and in each attempt hundreds are murdered and nobody punished. And you ask me how there can be peace in such & state of things. WHY THE REVENUE BILL WON'T BE DE- FEATED. Q. Suppose the democrats and some repub- lieans, joined, should defeat the revenue bill in the Senate, as they threaten? A. They won't do that. The revenue bill is for the purpose of making good the sinking fund by taxation, and there are too many banks and others that hold bonds interested in having the sinking fund kept up, in order to keep up the bonds in sey to a any such action. The revenue bill wi pass. The late chairman of the national demo- Fini committee was an agent of Roths- hild. Ft com eutalaaed in the Senate vote solidly against it. A. ‘They. have not voted yet. That isa po- litical dodge to show that the democratic party is not in favor of taxation, and is against the bondholder. It is a sop thrown out to the House of Representatives; but the bill will pass for all that. If there is substan- tial danger of its being defeated, I think the democrats will come to the rese' Q. That bill was made the s] 70 Saturday night. Mr. champion, with Mr. Sherman to oppose There was.a bare quorum, there being forty- one members present; a majority were demi- ocrats,and Mr. Morr«l refused to allow his bill tocome up for action in such a Senate. gation on the Mississippi river. 4 Senate bill to promote economy and em- ciney in the marine hospital service. Passed. Mr. Chandler said he would to-night move to take up the steamboat bill. Mr. Scott said he hoped the Senate would give fe A es one hour to~lay to the steam- Seat bill. ‘Mr. Edmunds objected to any arrangement being made. THE TAX BILL was then taken up. Mr. Morrill (Vt) said he was sorry tuat circumstances had thrown this bill into his charge. He did not propose to make an: elaborate 5) 3 reasons and the necessity for the passage of this bill. The question is whether the gov- ernment shall be furnished with the means to carry on its necessary busines ‘here no question of protection in the bill, but revenue. Three years ago we received millions for customs, two years ago 183 mi lions, and Jast year only 163 millions. thus apparent ‘that we have reduced th revenues of the government below the point required for its ordinary exper ses In the present time of depression we may expect that our revenues for the year will still further be reduc Much more than half the annual expenses of the government are anent and fixed, and cannot be reduced millions to pay the interest on the national debt, and thirty millions to pay the pensions: thesé eannot reduced; thus leaving one- tations from which dedu He then took the ground that the expenses of the army and the nay could not be lessened, as both those arms of the government service were asm now as they could be to preserve our dignity. The -sinking fund also would be provided for, 1a] order for orrill was = = eerae certainly haye been defeated then, think. A. Ido not like to pass criticism upon the action of the Senate. It migit seem to re- fleet upon individual members. been speaking of party tactics. stateme.t which you mai were there in majority, a as it was th atic Ihave only If, upon the . the democrats sired t ofeat special orde that they force the vote and it? Q. I have nothing fart question. Will sy to sayon that they pass the telegraph WHY THE TELFGRAPH BILL WON'T PASS. A. No, for want of time. There is large majority in the House in favor of it If Leould get ittoavote. But as necessary as I think it, certainly would not antagonize It toa great national measure like the southern out- rage bill, and I could not get the floor under the rules of the House, against an appropria- tion or tax bill. Q. Then the public will be at the merey of the Western Union telegraph monopoly for a long time to come? 10 Means. There is one good thing atic party. They have not for gotten theix old opposition to monopoly, and Ishould rely with great ¢ onfidence on their destroying ‘so odious and intolerable a mo- nopoly as the telegraph, especially as they have the thrice- reeorded official opinion of as old and tried a democratic Postmaster general as Cave Johnson of Tennessee, that the gov- ernment. in the interest of the people, ought to contro} the telegraph. THE EXTRA SESSION PRO AND CON. Q. The President, according to report, has stated that he will not, under an. circumstances, call an extra si pose he should change your ju jure the it would be im) ible to fund any more of our debt at a lower rate of interest. The river and harbor ‘appropriations might, be suspended, and also the work in the public buildiogs throughout the countrys ot which were in process of completion. reviewed the fiffferent sections of the bill, and said it was not such a bill as suited him, but the Senate must either take it as it is or get nothing. HOUSE OF REPH ENTATIVES.—In accordance with the arrangement made on Saturday night the reading of the Journal was dispensed with. On motion of Mr. Albright, (Pa.,) the Sen- ate bill Hxing the number of paymasters in the regular army was taken from the table and passed. Mr. Williams, (Mich.,) from the Commit- tee on Pacific Railroads, rey amend the act of June 25th, 1868, relating to the filing of reports of railroad’ companies, adding a fifth section, with additioual re- quirements. Passed. zment, the democrats benefit party through their doings in aa ‘on? the part of the President nd T should made any part, as a republiean, 1 SHOULD MUCH DESIRE that a democratic House should go into ses- sion on the 5th of March, so that we might bave an immodiate development of their policy; and I believe the shrewd and saga- cious leaders of the democratic pasty are much more opposed to an extra session than the President or any good republican possi- bly can be. They threaten to investigate all that we have done, Thesooaer they do it the better. If we have done wrong, the country ought to know it. Ifall the charges made in the newspapers are simply false—and I be- lieve they are—the country ought to know that; and if they would begin their investi- gations now, we should have time to answer bee charges that investigations might de- velop before the next Presidential election. LOUISIANA. Mr. G. T. Hoar (Mass.) moved to suspend the rules and pass a preamble and resol: tions as recommended by the majority of the elect Committee on Affairs in Louisiana, recommend: i; to the housé or representa- tives of Louisiaua that they take step® tw seat the members lawfully extitied to seats, and the second recognizing Wm. P. Kellogg as governor until the end of the present term: r. Potter (N. Y.) asked if there could be a vote on each resolution, The Speaker said there could not. Mr. Potter appealed to Mr. Hoar to modify the motion so as to allow @ vote on each ves- olution, but he declined to do so. Mr. Spear (Pa.) asked if the House could be ree te upon Wo p! ious as stimet as these. The Speaker said the House could suspend the rules and pass every bill on that tabi pointing to an enormous pile by his side, if two-thirds voted for it. Mr. Randal! (Pa.)—Then our only redress is to have the yeas and nays. The motion was not nays &—not two-thirds vi Mative. The vote was a with the Q. you think they would try to repeal the civil rights bill, the kuklux bill, and others of that character Of course they conld not repeal them without the Senate, and I should be very glad to have them attempt to do it, so far as Lue House is concerned. Nothing would so REVIVE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY in the hearts of the people, and bring back to our memories Andersonville, Fort Pillow, and the massacre at New Orleans in 1866, WHAT GENERAL BUTLER THINKS ABOUT THE REPEAL OF THE MOTETY LAW. Q. Iam told, General, you still believe it was a mistake to repeal the moiety law. 4. Iso stated In the House the other day. i am certain of the fact; and Iam certain that it will have to be substantially restored or else & larger amount of revenue will be than what is The Speaker said the question e rould he decided b; 8 mafori a i Beveral on the acc fe #1d6.—I object to tha Mr. Hoss’ wa Spee by a number of republicans i w his motion and give way te other business, but he \. gs his belief that the we of thése would toa give harrassed: epee ae in the to be one ~ changing the re- = ee it to buy their silk ‘zoods of that sort of pedilters; because they import them withia ET ee cor ike mer irave skid a Geer ageney connected with the old W&s more odious eal aueieaetaet ucts = clarij resolu ACCORDING to of Nerehatel, there are eierd ip the mechani 75,000. 13; nays, 89. Cifans) Sener (Va.), and Sanit It takes one hundred | otherwise our credit would be impaired, and | He | | Congress b; | the fi | any person practising before the departments ted a bill to | | tention having been directed to the fact that = FPINCHBACK FIGHTING IT. APPROPRIATION BI Mr. Smith (N. Y.) moved to sux vat rules sod make in order anamentment to | A NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION. the sundry civil or deficiency appropriation bills, to pay parties to contested election cases such sums as the Committee on Elec | tions may recommend. i The rules were suspended and the onter | ie. Mr. Marshall (11). from the Appropriation Committee, reported the military acatems riation bill, with the recommendatio i = ¢ Senate amendmeats be concurred in. op itaxt. Mr. Wheeler (N. ¥.) reported the army a propriation bill, with sic recommen tation t the House non-concur, request committee of conference. So ontered. Mr. Loughridze ( lowa) gop the Indian approprirtion bill, with Senate amen t ments thereto, in some of which they recon concurrence and in other DISASTROUS FIRES. ‘Tracy Still talking. New York, Maren 1—The Brookiya city court room was filed again this morning ‘With the usual throag of spectators. Tilton and the defendant and his wife occupied their usual seats. Mrs. Tilton and ber friends Were absent. Her youngest son Ralph has been very ill the past few days of paeumo. nia, but is recovering. She has been at his becside. | General Tracy continued bis ad- He had shown them, he said, that he Woodhull publication Mr. Beecher, by the Advice of the mutual fried, Moul- non-eoncurrence. mt accepted the policy of silence Mr. Randall (Pa.) opposed the amendment | 1818 : siiisend = appropriating £15,000 for the payment of the | TILTON’S DIFFICULTINS WITH MR. now Indian Peace Commission, as it had become | arose and were augmented, so Tilton say an expensive institution. by Mr. and Mrs. Beecher. On December 20th Mr. (Mo.) read tables to show that i | the chy against Beecher were made, and Peace Commission bad purchased Indian | jt was then determined to suppres: the supplies at a much chéaper rate thah had | Bowen promised to support ti ton in his been done by any other parties. Mr. Randall moved to non-coneur, but the House concurred by a vote of 144 yeas to 75 nays. On the disagreeing votes a committee of conference was orlered. Mr. Garfield reported the deficiency appro. priation bill, and it was ordered to be print and recommitted. The whole amouat ap Propriated 1s $1,761,327.3. ‘The Civil Rights Bin. charges agains: Beecher, and got him to take the letter to him, but Bowen after this be- game Titton’s enemy. Two days after this Tilton found hunseif deserted by Bowen, and had mAde himsels inimical to Mr. Beesher, The next day Moulton comes and carries ‘away al! the letters, not as emblem of war but one of peace. The only criticisms to be passed on defendant was ‘thal having ac- cepted the f silence he endeavored faithfully it out. Tilton himself was then covered all over with STORIES OF SCANDA’ those raised by Bessie Turner and bis wife Unreatening to leave him for bis tniidetities and cracities to ber. These stories must be suppressed at any cost. Bessie Turner was compelled to sign @ retraction of her stories in order to stop them. and she was sentaway to prevent her tattling, and so her ¢tories Were suppressed. Then Tilton published the Stories circulated by Bowen inet Beecher tn the Gotten Agr E iiten’s stores about her teeatment mus E The following is a copy of the civil rights bill, whieh is now a law, it having passed both houses of Congress and been signed by the President: Whereas it is cexent Just government. we rec fall men before the law. and persuasion, Teligi r sppropriate object of leg copies into law fe DK t jon to enact good prai That all persons within the jn lites States nleall be entitled to {be coe she was let to bell must de denied. Tilton's manner of conduc ing the aTair Was lo make statements and publish them, while Moulton's way was t Preserve slience and allow parties to make stotem eam advantages, f very Face and col 1 of servitude That any person who shall viol ction by denying te any citi xardless of any previous condith bee. 2. Mareh 1 aid regardless rHiA. ge W ude, the full e «r box factory, at #th and Beeetiows, advantages vets, canght fire at Sfx o'clock this said section ntire destroyed. The ‘th stacet, fell, carrying down grieved thereby. to be aph wires. The factory was With full costs; and shall very ¢ sive, giving employment to Ge be deemed guilty of a girls, whoare thus thrown out of work. The ou thereof shia bor me thems im priscthe ere than thirty days nor more thar year; provided that all persons may elect te the penalty aforesaid oF to proceed tne vie joss fs total. but the ami @ tained Later.—The building was worth $59,000, and the stock was valued at $10,000. On the stock there Is Ap insurance of £58,000. The building isonly pertially insured. The manufactor; Was operited by a stock company, of which Geo. W. Plomiy is president. At'10 o'clock the wall on the 4th street side fell out into the street, but fortunately no one was in- jured. The origin of the fire was accidental. tor whea be slipped and fell beating’ the | tor whea he 's fell, i he lantern, which i) ited some light materint wnt not yet ascer or the others proceed in the other jurisdiction shall tut this proviso ehall not apely to either nnder this act or law of any state. And provided further, Judgment for the penalty in favor of the party ag grieved. oF a judgment up6u an indictment, shall ‘be a bar to either proseention. respectively. Sec.3. That Courts of ' the District and Ciren: ited States i have, exch all cr of the several states. cognizanc on te aor ie te A... id offence inet aid visdations of the prosis amped fire out the Of thinact; anf actions for the pensity given by best he could. and then ran for some water. meautime the flames spread with frightful rapidity, and when he returned he found his serviees of no avail. Then it was that the alarm was sounded. er's paint and plate-class warehouse was consid - “4 receding section may be prosecuted in the Terri. Yorial, District or Gireuit Gourte of ‘the Unied States wherever the defendant may be found, with ont regard to the other iy And the district at- forneys, marshals and deputy marshals of the tates. and cominieioners appointed bs the ¢ eotly Gautnaet te ace ake re er eee of the ne neigh smal. awelling én Brauch street was par- fenders against the laws of the United States tially burned off. by repecially aut Tequired to institute i Fire. Frecendinige agalnet every person who shail violate rch 1.—A fire at Mecban- re provisions ol Wand cause him to bear- | jesbe Fested aud imprisoned or Uailed, a» the case i anaes. Ow end ecanty, Sunder sim, mn be ty, destroyed eight buildings, Tactuding several Stables. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $18,000. Su incendiarism. 45tna and Home of New York, had small risks. Balance of the insurance tn local offices. Sixteen Business Firms Burned Out. St Lovis, March 1.—Sixieea basiness firms were burned by the fire at Wichtia, Kansas on Salunda: y be for trial before euch courts of the United States or ‘Territorial courts as by law has coguizance of the offence, except in respect of the right of a¢ tion seeruing to the person aggrieved: and such district attorneys shall cause such proceedines to be prosecated to their termination as in other cases: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall be construed to deny or defeat any right of civil action accruing to any pereou whether by rea- on of this act or otherwise. And any district attor ney who shail nifetty sail to inericate and ute at greg Proceedings hereip required, fur ever, CHBACK. snch offenee forfeit and par the «um of five hundred Sollare te the pereon azrieved thereby. to bercey. | M€ Opposes the Louisiana Compra- ered by an action of debt, with fall costs, and shall, mise, New York, March 1—The Times Wash- ington special says: Pinchback is very angry on account of bis failure to get a seatin the Senate, and has been using all bis influence with the colored members of the Louisiana mnviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misde: Gned nx mere han $1.00 noi rd. Surther, That a ment for the penalt or of the party ageinst any such t attorney or « judgmen' Upon an indictment against any such district attor- ey. shall be a bi prosecution. respect. | legislature to prevent the adoption of any i ee ER compromise. He is said to Mave received Sec. 4. That no citizen messages from Louisiana, which convinee him that the proposition made by Mr. Wheeler and accepted by the conservatives cannot be carried into effect. The conserva- lives who are here seem to fear that the ef- forts for an arrangement of the difficulties will be defeated by his hostility. On the other side it is believed that Pinch back wilt not be able to wield the influence he professes and that the members whose seals are awarded to Couservattves in accordance with the eq ities of the election will certainly be turned out to make ruom for those actually Tace, color. or pri © tude: and any officer or other person any duty in the selection or summoning of jnrors whe siaal exclude or fall to strumon any citizen for the cause aforesaid shall,on conviction thereof, be deemed guilt aud be fined not charged with this act in the courts eviewable by the Sup: States, without ier the samme prov entitled to their seats. Provided by law cra po re said court NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION. AT THE £.--Seuator-elect Appropriate Burnside, Rear Admiral Rodgers, Jv Kidder, deiegat sentatives Cobb. Hale, Darrell. Wat elect from Dakota; Re; Ransier, Burchart, R “+ nore Aud Fiek sum in the sundr 1 appropri for an Arctic expedition. Whe ‘Bee re, ex-Gi ‘oods, of Utah: og Ritz. of | retary of the Navy favors it, and it will have Washington territory; Joseph Brooks. of | the favor also of « number of Senators and Arkansas, and Joseph Macfarland, corres- | membre The Navy department will be pondent of th: iladelphia Press and Bostou | authorized in the bill to provide and to fita Globe, had interviews with the President this | proper sbip and to man it with officers and morning. A BILL To REGULATE LonnyixG.—In their report on the Pacific mail investigation the Committee of Ways and Means recom- mend the passage of a bill regulating the practice of lobbyists and claim agents, and forbidding the solicitation of legislation in agents except in accordance with revisions of the bill. Under its terms men already under pay and awaiting sea duty. The extra expense will be siaall, not more than $50,900 to the government, bat Jt is proposed to make action by the govern- ment Contingent on private subscriptions Wy the amount of $25.000, anc It Is hoped by the of Polar research here that the New graphical Society will use te in- » to raise the money, wil give limely notice if it n exped!tion. PACIFIC MAIL. Irwin's Arrest for Alleged Embezzte- ment Threatened. Cricaco, Mw 1—Mr. Bartiett, attorney ¢ Pacific Mail company, was here yes- or urging leztslation vefore Congress, must file with the Clerk o the House or Senat« With the Chief Clerk of the Department be- fore which he appears. a statement giving his name, residence, thy Jeet in which he is interested, and the amount of hix compen- ¥. In an interview with corter he sation. When the matter is before a com- | affirnis the state that the |. +a use of mittee of Congress, a duplicate of th funds by Siotkw i Irwin ¥~.. aauthor- statement is als ¢ filed with that com- | ized ty the stoc! ers. He also » ated that 0 mittee. Under these regulations it is be- lieved the lobby ean be governed, and fature jobbery largely prevented COLLECTOR Beoru. oF BALTIMORE.—At- the company has instituted er'rdnal pro- ceedings against Irwin, and thet @ warrant has already been issued’ for his arrest on the charge of embezzlemi The Snow Storm. AT PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, March 1.—A drivi show Sturm cai at eight this morn- ing and still contiaues, AT NEW YORK. NEw YorK, March }.—A severe northeast snow storm sel early this moruing, and con- tinues, oe N. SP Seaven i — The sch:coner é& 18 Collector Booth, of Baitimgre, as an interest in a steamship company, which renders him ineligible for the position which he has held two years, the Baltimore American says he will al his business connections and bold = lees ———. onisit I el ion jaa elega’ any repul TUCKERTON Jason, owned by Wail ry New York, ber, went ashore on Lite life-saving men on station on the crew ashore safely after much —— a The re 2S PRT ‘task oF a —— ‘th whom they had a conversa ou the subject. stating that Mr. Booth’s retention in office is al age eR od in stated that be that he must next i were wall when our report closed. for an audience with the President. Peer hl 2yy following have J. H. Sewall, Pittsburg. qi Cokimbans Judge We LAG “olum| . ‘sikine ‘ana wie, Mi