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| | ¥ WASHINGTON The Bill Abolishing Taxes on Manufac- tures Passed by the House. The Tax on Tobacco, Liquors and Petroleum Retained. Report and Bill for Readmitting Alabama Into the Union. Revelations Relative to Whiskey Frauds. Passage of the Consular and Diplomatic Appro- priation Bill in the Senate. ‘WASHINGTON, March 10, 1868, Report on the Readimission of Alabama into i the Union. The Committee on Reconstruction, to whom was referred the application of Alabama asking admis- sion into the Union as a sovereign State, reported ‘this morning as follows:— That itis the intention to pursue the spirit if not ‘the letter of the law of March 23, 1867, entitled “An actsupplementary to an act entitied ‘An act to provide the more efficient government of the rebel States,’ March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration.” ey eenetally, iutend to enforce the spirit of that law when there seems to be conflict in the facts in_ evidence between the spirit and the letter. Such is the true principle laid down by mora! for the government judges. By the act two were evidently iuteaded—one was to admit Alabama as a State if, after full registration, with time for deliberation, a majority of her citizens should in favor of admission; the other was to prevent and precipitate legislation before the people id have duly examined the subject. Hence the Taw provided that not only Alabama but all the con- territory should have all her legal votes regis- by proper oficers, and if a majority of legal Voters thus registered shall cast their votes in favor of B@constitution a convention should be ordered for tiie ose of framing one; but if a majority of all the tered votes by either their own volition or casu- alty should not be cast against a constitution they Bhouid still be counted in the negative—a most unu- sual provision in our or any other government, but in ordinary times it would have but little effect, ‘xcept in so far as removals and deaths took place between the time of registration and the time of vot- ing. Onthe day of the Alabama election a most extraordinary and unexpected state of things ex- isted. Ina very large portion of the State, especi- ally in the republican portion, a very severe storm Tazed from morning ti night. The streams were Swollen to such an impassable degree that it is testi- by Governor Smith, now elected Governor of the State, and other respectable gentlemen that it dd from the polls numbers of voters who would erwise have attended. In atiempting to reach the places of election one or more persons were drowned, which deterred many from proceeding fur- Thus all who chose to siay away were counted ‘as voting against the constitution, though if they had all gone and voted against it it would not have changed the result from a positive majority in its favor to a majority against it. A large majority of the legal voters then in the State are known to have east their ballots for it. Besides, a very large propor- tion of the registered voters were deterred by the Most infamous threats from coming to the polls, or when there from casting their votes for the constitu- tion. Very few white men did, and very few black men 4: thus to cast thelr votes, lest_ they should be ie ae of food for which they are suffering. All this proven by the sworn testimony of the Most respectable portion of Alabama. Indeed, two hundred laborers have volun- tarily come forward singly and testified to their violent ese since the election by their ‘ernel employers Yor having exercised the elective franchise according to their own will and pleasure. ene analysis has been made as well as could ~‘e of the number of votes tat were destroyed, boxes seized ond thrown ont of the windows und other ‘Taodes of violence used to destroy them, and it is Delieved from all this that the number of votes thus @estroyed and detained from the polls by violence, ontrage and fraud, had they been cast, would have overbalanced all those counted against the constitu- Me whether cast or entimerated as lost by reason of sic! absence or death. Some time before the Alabama election the Convention saw the injustice Of the law and requested Congress to restore the majority principic in the vote upon the adoption of the poustitation. ie House did not hesitate to perceive ite justice and passed an act and sent it to the Sen- ate. The Senate by some unaccountable delay, from motives which it is hard to fathom, suffered that act * to sleep upon their files for two months, till after the fate of the Alabama election was announced. They then took it up and passed 5 and it has now passed both houses of Con; he principle, therefore, *that a majority of the votes cast should govern has restored, and your commitiee can see no reason why it should not govern in the present case. The circumstance of the almost unheard of storm on the = of the election, the violence of human passion, Dut little less malignant and g, and the wild ae, of former masters at the lls, together with the evident injustice of the principle in ques- tion, upon which no one has yet acted, secin to your committee to demand that Ala- Dbama_ should be admitted to the Union as one of the States thereof. But while this free people are rebuilding a mighty nation in which there must be no taint of despotism or in- Jastice, ares examined carefully all the pro- ‘visions uf the constitution, and as a precedent which they hope will never be departed from, but which becomes necessary by the injustice of the sister States, they have determined that no State shail ever be admitted into the Union when the right to ‘universal suffrage shall not be made permanent and impossible of violation. Fearing also that some cunning scheme might be devised by which peonage Buch as is already established in some of the South American States might be created, they recommend the passage of the act for the admission of Alobama a8 a State in the Union. y Virginia Not a State in the Union. The examination of the case of Samuel 8. Strong, ‘who was arrested yesterday on a requisition fom the Governor of Virginia as a fugitive from justice and who had a hearing before Judge Fisher, before ‘whom he was brought on a writ of habeas corpus yesterday afternoon, was resumed this morning. After a short discussion of the points involved, Judge Fisher decided to release the prisoner on two viz.:—First, because Virginia is not a State im the Union; that the proclamation of the President, and more particularly Congress by its legislation, have expressly refused to recognize Virginia and the Other Southern States as forming States of this Union; that the requisition of Governor Pierpoint €annot be recognized under the act of Congress pro- viding for the rendition of fugitives from justice as the act of the executive authority of a State of the United States. Second, that there is no afiidayit ‘with the requisition showing that Strong is actually @ fugitive from justice. ‘The Alleged Destruction of Bo ing Burean, The Congressional Committee on Retrenchment, ‘which has been for some time engaged upon in- vestigations into the affairs of the Treasury De- partment, inquired this morning into the alleged destruction of bonds at the Printing Bureau of the department. Several witnesses were examined, including General Spinner, the Treasurer of the United States, It was discovered that the destroyed Sheets were blank paper which had been laid out for printing as bonds, but which were not printed on ‘account of instructions given to the proper officer some time ago by this committee to suspend certain operations, including the printing of these bonds, during their investigation. The sheets were re- ceipted for at the office of the Treasurer as blank paper, and the only loss vy their not having been printed is that resulting from the destruction of blank paper. Last of Valanbles Stolen jfrom the Patent Office in 1857. ‘The box which was deposited in the Treasury De- partment, in 1857, for safe keeping, and which the Secretary of the Treasury was recently authorized by resolution of Congress to open, was yesterday sub- Jected to an examination of its contents, which were stolen from the Patent OMice in this city, in the year above mentioned. They consist of the following ar- ticles of value, viz:—One bottle containing attar of foses and supposed to be worth from $1,600 to $2,000; one vial, containing pearlg; one vial, containing dia- monds; one gold plate inside lining of a snuff box, Presented to the United States Minister at St, Peters- burg by the Emperor; a paper containing a gold ornament and a silk tassel belonging to a necklac paper containing thirteen diamonds and four pearis and two lumps of gold. There was also enclosed a certificate signed by Hugh McCormick and R. 0. Weightman, dated United States Patent omce, June 14, 1857, stating that they saw the articiog ls at the Prints NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1868-—-rKIPLE SHEET. placed in the box. The lump ef gold is probably worth $900. The Treaty Between the United States and the Nerth German Cenfederation. ‘The President sent to the Senate this afternoon the treaty just negotiated by Mr. Bancroft between the United States and Prussia. Secretary Seward was on the floor of the Senate when it arrived, consulting with Mr. Sumner. On motion of the latter the Senate immediately went into executive session, when the treaty was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, Our Territorial Acquisitions. A Washington despatch to the Evening Telegram states that the Senate yesterday ordered the Alto Vala papers to be printed. This is a claim of the United States to an exceedingly valuable guano island discovered and developed by citizens of this country. Seven years ago the President of St. Do- mingo, intending then to make St. Domingo a Span- ish slave colony, drove our flag and people from the island by force of arms. The act of Congress makes this island an appendage of the Union. St. Domingo has never made any claim to the island except what was asserted by force; but Mr, Seward, it ischarged, hassetupaclaim which he has attempted to main- tain by suppressing official documents and making statements wholly untrue. It is charged that he pro- mulgated a solemn and deliberate official untruth to keep the claimants from appealing to the Presi- dent for a review of his inexplicable conduct. The motive for his action is unknown, but he is freely ac- cused of acting in the interest of a foreign country for private reasons not at all creditable, The Reorganization of the Treasury Depart- ment. ‘There is an impression among many of the officials connected with the Treasury Department that the bill-recently introduced in the Senate for the reorgani- zation of that office will be passed during this ses- sion. It is represented that the utmost necessity exists for its passage, and that unless the measure be accomplished the services of some of the most valu- able employés now in its service here will be lost on account of inadequacy of compensation. The Removal of Municipal Officers of New Orleans, General Grant to-day transmitted to the House of Representatives additional correspondence in rela- tion to the removal of certain members of the City Councils of New Orleans. It appears from the papers that thesemembers joined ina memorial in which, among other things, they said they were removed by ‘Special order for having proceeded to hold an election for Register of New Orleans, in contempt of orders from the headquarters of General Hancock. They remark, when General Sheridan reconstructed the City Councils he did an act of justice to the newly enfranchised citizens of Louisiana and of the United States by appointing a few representatives of thelr race as members of the Common Council. By removing the aforesaid members not-a single re- presentative of that numerous class of newly fade citizens remains to defend their rights and interests of the government of a city to the prosperity in which their labor, capital and industry so largely contributed, On the 2ist of February Major General Rawlings, Chief of Stat, wrote to Major General Hancock, by order of General Grant, acknowledging the receipt of General Hancock’s letter in response to a telegram from the General commanding the army, dated the 8th ult., in the matter of the removal of certain Aldermen ond Assistant Aldermen of the city of New Orleans for contempt of a military order. He also acknowledges te receipt of the memorial of said Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. General Raw- lings says in conclusion, after setting forth all the facts in the case:-—“On assuming command of the district you announced in General Order No, 40, dated November 29, 1867, that it was - your purpose to preserve peace and quiet in your command, and that as a means to this great need you regard the maintenance of the civil authorities in the faithful execution of the laws as the most eMicicit under ex- isting circumstances. Also that when the civil authorities are ready @nd willing to perform their duties the military power should cease to lead and the civil administration resume its natural and rightful dominion. Unger this state of facts the City Councils of New Orleans might reasonably have pre- sumed it to be their right and duty, especially under the order of the court and your order No. 40, to fill the vacancy in the office of Register. It appears they did from your report of this case, dated February 15, 1868, The same fact, too, in connection with the printed proceedings embraced in your report of February 15, 1868, precludes the presumption of any intended contempt of the military authority by the members of the City Councils. The case of the Jetfer- soa City Councils is not deemed a parallel one, in this, that they had not their own unquestioned acts in similar cases nor the order of the department commander to justify them. There being no con- tempt of military authority intended by the Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen of New Or- leans, relieved by Special Order No. 28, dated in February, and a proper administration of the Recon- straction acts not requiring their removal, said special order removing the Aldermen and Assistant Alder- men therein named and the appointment of others in their stead is hereby disapproved and revoked, and the members of such Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen removed by it are hereby rein- stated, and wiil resume their duties as Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen of the city of New Orleans the same as if said order had not been issued. You will please carry this into effect.” On the 27th of February Major General Hancock telegraphed to General Grant, saying what he did was adopted after grave deliberation, and, as he be- lieved, was the result of a necessity imposed upon him which could not have been avoided without a disregard of the interests of the public service and of the obligations imposed upon him by the Recon- struction act and by the order of his predecessor. After explaining at length the state of the case, he concludes by saying:—“I conceive no violence was done to the principles enumerated and declared when I gave effect to the order of my predecessor and restrained the members of a municipal body ; from doing an act for which no existing law gave them any authority. I entertain serious appre- hension of the revocation of my order, and the rein- statement of the Council removed by me will be injurious to the public interest and increase the em- barrassment under which the command is now la- boring. Y6ur order will be immediately executed.” General Grant, in a letter dated February 25, ad- dressed to Major General Hailcock, says:—“There ‘was nothing in my order which doubted your author- ity to make removals and appointments when the public exigency required it. I only exercise an authority given to me as General of the Army, under which law both of us find our authority to act in these matters. Your order of removal was based on certain charges which I did not think were sustained by the facts as they were presented.” Major General Hancock, on the 27th of February, wrote to Adjutant General Thomas as follows/— Gengrat—I lave the honor to transmit copies of my correspondence with the General-in-Chief, in reference to my recent action concerning the re- moval from office of certain Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen of the Councils of New Orleans, made by me for contempt of the order of the district com- mander, I request that the sathe may, in an appro- Ea manner aud as explanatory of my jon and or his information, be lald before thi ‘resident, with this my request to be relieved from the com- mand of this military district, where itis no longer useful or agreeable for me to serve. When relieved, should the exigency of the service permit, it would be most in accordance with my inclination to be sent to St. Louis, Mo., there to wait farther orders, The Postal Service Between the United States and Switzerland and Italy. On and after tho 1st of April next correspondence will be made up and despatched by the New York Post OMice in closed mails, via England, Belgium and Germany, direct to Switzerland and to Italy respeo- tively, under the provision of the postal conventions recently concluded with each of those countries, The rates of international postage for letters and all other postal packets originating in the United States and addressed to Switzerland or to Italy will be as fol- lows, viz:—On letters fifteen cents per single rate of fifteen grammes, one-half ounce, prepayment op- tional; but unpaid or insuMiciently prepaid letters Will, in addition to the deficient postage, be subject to 4 fine in the country of destination. On newspapers four cents each, if not exceeding four ounces in weight, and an additional rate of four cents for each additional weight of four ounces or fraction of four Ounces, prepayment required; on book packeta, Prints of all kinds, patterns or zamplea of merchan- dise, eight cents per four ounces or fraction thereof, Prepayment required. If, however, the postage on any article other than letters shall be insuMciently Prepaid, it will nevertheless be forwarded to its des- tination, charged with the deficient postage, and also subject to a fine on its delivery. The regulations to be.observed with respect to printed matter of all kinds and patterns or samples aré substantially the same as those adopted for similar postal packets ad- @ressed to Great Britain or the North German Union. New York is the office of exchange on the side of the United States. Postmasters will levy postage accordingly on and after the 1st of April next and forward to the New York D, P. 0. Deposits and Coinage of the Mint During February. The following is a statement of deposits and coin- age in the United States Mint at Philadelphia during the month of February last:—Gold deposits, $204,947; silver deposits and purchases, $24,821; total, $229,769. Gold coinage (22,260 pieces), value $169,622; silver coinage (121,057 pieces), value $50,966; copper and nickel (4,146,500 pieces), value $165,700, Total num- ber of pieces coined, 4,289,817; total value, $76,288, Ocean Telegraph Banquet in London. The following telegrams were received at two o'clock P, M. to-day, and the replies forwarded at three o’clock:— PaLAce Horer, Lonpon, March 10—7 P. M. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:— The guests assembled at the telegraph banquet send their assembled greetings to the President of the United States, and trust that the telegraphic union between the oaiand and America may never interrupted nor their friendship broken. Cc. W. FIELD. PALACE Horet, LNopon, nh 10—P, M. W. H. SEwarD, Secretary of State:— The principal gentlemen in England that have been connected with establishing telegraphic communica- tion between this country and America, now assem- bled around this table, send their kind regards to the Secretary of State and remember with pleasure the interest he has always taken in communication across the Atlantic, CYRUS W. FIELD. WASHINGTON, March 10—3:30 P. M, To Cyrus W. FIELD, Esq., Palace Hotel, London:. I congratulate the telegraphic builders that in- stead of building a bridge for the tramp of hostile armies across the Atlantic they have stretched a wire beneath it which effectually exchanges friendly sentiments, sympathy and affections. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. WASHINGTON, March 10—3:30 P. M. Cyrus W. FIELD, Palace Hotel, London:— Express my congratulations to the telegraph fes- tival assembly. I wish them all possible success, that their wires may be multiplied through many seas and their stakes extended around the world. ANDREW JOHNSON. Mlicit Distilleries in Alabama. Internal Revenue Agent Goodloe writes to the Bureau here, from Huntgyille, Alabama, under date March 7, that he is crédibly informed that there are fifty illicit distilleries in operation in that district which had been ordered to be seized and forfeited. Arrival of the Collector of the Port of New York. Collector Smythe, of New York, arrived here this evening, and of course speculation will be again rife as to the nature of his visit. United States Supreme Court. The following cases were argued in the Supreme Court to-day:—No. 97, Justin vs. Dufirf, and No. 98, The South Fork Canal Company vs. Gordon, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Why Did Jchnson Remove Stanton—A Big Plot Among the Anti-Radical Leaders—The President Advised to Fight—One Hundred and Fifty Thousend Men to Aid Him—The Success of Impeachment and the Presidency. WASHINGTON, March 9, 1868, In these exciting times, when the air is so full of startling rumors both as to the designs of the radi- cal leaders on the one side and of the President of the United States on the other, anything that comes to one’s knowledge bearing the appearance of plau- sibility and intended as an explanation or analysis of the situation is, perhaps, worthy of being noted down for the benefit of the public. I do not mean that every well contrived story, calculated to excite the public mind and to destroy con- fidence in the stability of the government, should be recklessly flashed over the wires or sent by the slower process of the mail to the datly news- paper, for that would be criminal trifing with the peace and safety of the country. But when one gets in even a semi-reliable way what purports to be an unravelling of the supposed plotting and counter- plotting that ate supposed to exist here and elsewhere throughout the country, I hold that one is justified in laying it before the public for what it is worth, without exaggeration or embellishment. With this view I am about to repeat for the benefit of the public certain information that has reached me respecting the alm of President Johnson in his late extraordinary movements, and the objects of Congress in suddenly reviving impeachment, ap- parently with an carnest desire and firm determina- tion to put it through without fail. In his perpetual contentions with the legislative branch of the government the President naturally has been brought into close relationship with the anti-radical element, which is composed of all sorts of people, as well those who are highly conservative as those who are ready and willing for any descrip- tion of adventure, however wild or chimerical. It is said that some of the latter class proposed to the President a desperate plan for defeating the whole radical plan of reconstruction. They recommended the President to resort to arms as the only sure means of carrying out his mild and beneficent policy for the restoration of the South and the re-establishment of peace and prosperity throughout the country. They argued that to depend upon the slow, pradent course of popular reaction or an appeal to the courts would be simply to make the same fatal error that was made by _ Virginia in the first ‘stages of the rebellion. Had Virgin they contended, taken a firm stand in favor o! Southern rights at the commencement of the rebel- lion, and thrown herself into the fight at the head of it, instead of allowing hersclf merely to drift into tt, she would have forced Maryland, Delaware, Ken- tucky and Missouri to follow in her wake; she would have taken the control entirely out of the hands of the Planting States, and have so operated upon the great middle States as to have decided the whole controversy without a battle, and on terms the most favorable for tie South and the rest of the country. Prompt, determined action would then have resulted ina struggle “short, sharp and decisive.” Cow- ardice, disguised in the cloak of prudence and moderation, prevented Virginia from adopting this course, and the result was tet the planting States took the lead, the old Dominion was finally forced to participate, and her soil became the battle grounds of the struggle. The President, they argued, earnest and sincere though he was in his desire to see justice done to the South, was only re- peating the binnders of the “prudent” men of Vir- ginia. ‘The radical leaders were bent upon carrying out their plans of Africanizing the South and of thus insuring their perpetuation in power atany sacrifice, To accomplish this end they would not tolerate bin as an obstacie. If he (the President) stood in their way they would remove him certainly, no matter how plainly r might be on his side, no matier how “pradentt, he might manceuvre, no matter how frequently he might pepper them with vetoes and protests, iaying bare the unconstitutionality of their proceedings and exposing their revolutionary tendencies. If, then, Mr. Jolinson really wished to defeat (ese radical ‘scheme’, only one means was left him, and that was an ‘appeal to the sword, promptly and with determination, But how was this appeal to the sword to be made, the reader will ask. Tre people who thus advised the President ex- plained that one hundred and fifty thousand men were at his service. Twenty thousand of these were ready at a few hours’ notice in the little State of Maryland. Five thousand in the city of Washington would sul fice to do the business. The men were already organized who would respond to his call, if by prompt action he would only show himself worthy of their confidence. How would he begin? The first step he should take, they advised, should be the issue of an order declaring that he assumed actual com- mand in person of the army and navy of the United States, as Commander-in-Chicf thereof under the constitation. In that capacity he could remove such generals a8 would not obey his orders, He could then issue a proclamation to the oe of the whole country, appealing to them for their assistance to maintain the constitution and the laws. Such an_ appeal, a urged, would be followed by @ gathering of hundreds of thousands of men from all parts of the country around his banner, and also by a repudiation by the reat body of the army of their radical generals. The avy was alreaty sequre, being under the control of men to be relied fipon. ‘ As Chief Magistrate of the nation he had a right to remove the Secrctary of War and all other subor; dinate civil officers, ‘and as Commander-i jet of the army, commanding in person, he would have a anes right to issue orders and to remove and pun- 1 any Oilicers that might not obey. Thus Stanton mist ‘be promptly set aside, a new war minister in- tailed, Cenetal Grant arrested by the latter, a new acting General-in-Chief appointed, and all would well. The reliable men of Maryland would pomety C hand at the start to back him up tn his ing policy, uch, in brief, waa the pl to hav laid before President Johnson. a ede he peat to it, or by silence induced the conspirators to be- Heve that he assented, I have not been informed. The series of moves made by the President last Month tended for a whiie to make these Hghting President mean in di man er Thomas and to remove it? In the noi po te mination of Thomas @ prearranged understanding that the fron George -H. was to be counted upon in coring out the armed intervention for the good of the country. Whether President Joh ever allowed himself to dream that he could carr: out such & programme I cannot of course say, muc! Jess that he even contemplated it. I can only state that I believe he never entertained seriously for a moment ny Ang scheme, however much it may have been talked “at him’ by hot-headed revolu- tionists, His own statements, that in suspending and removing Stanton he simply desired to make a& case for Me porpoee of testing ‘the constitutionality of the Civil Tenure bill, ought to be entitled to more consideration than the assertions of any number of disappointed ultraists, The latter are how as loud in denouncing Mr, Johnson as a coward and fool as a few weeks ago mise were enthusiastic in lauding him as a statesman and patriot of the first water. He has lost their confidence, say they, and allowed to slip from his hands a golden opportunity to make for himself a name second to none in American history— an opportunity which, if seized, would have resulted in a speedy settlement of the reconstruction question on the most liberal terms for the South, the restora- tion of peace and confidence, and the utter disgrace and demoralization of the radical leaders, Now, say they, there is but one hope left to the country, and that lies in the hands of the democratic aud conservative elements. If these elements POmnAy, assume a bold, deflant and determined front; if they flock to the capital in an overwhelm. ing array of strength and moral influence, the Senate may still be forced, through a decent respect for popular will, to give a crashing verdict against impeachment. If not, good-by to constitutional checks and balances, and enter Ben Wade, backed by a Congressional oligarchy and a military dictator in the person of the pliant General of the Armies, Once let Wade robe himself in the Presidential parole and suffer the radical influence to gain abso- lute control of the government, and negro supremacy is secured, proscription of the Southern whites established, and proscription of the democratic and conservative leaders of the North also, The whole power of the Sorernens through its immense patronage, aided by the national banks, would be used to operate on the elections in the North, and a sufficient number of votes thus secured, in connec- tion with those of the South, to return a radical President, and perhaps the conversion of the gov- ernment from one of the people into a despotism, So say these fighting counsellors, THE FORTIETH CONGRESS. Second Session. SENATE. WASHINGTON, March 10, 1868, PETITIONS, MEMORIALS, ETC. Mr. Moraay, (rep.) of N. Y., presented remon- strances of the paper manufacturers of the city of New York against the passage of the International Copyright law, which were referred to the joint Committee on the Library. Mr. Srewart, (rep.) of Nevada, presented a memo- rial of the Legislature of Nevada praying for the reimbursement of money advanced to soldiers of the United States, which was referred to the Committee on Claims, Mr. TRUMBULL, (rep.) of TIL, presented a memorial of the Executive Committee of the Colonization So- ciety, which, after describing the condition of Li- beria and the difficulties of communication between the conntries at this time, states that some 300,000 persons, mostly from North Carolina, are now de- sirous 01 ting thither, and that the funds of the Society have been exhausted by sending some 1,200 during the last year. They unerefore pray an appropriation of $100,000a year for the establish- ment of a line of steamships, and that $100 be 4o- nated to each immigrant, the Society undertaking to defray all other expenses and to provide for them on arriving at their destination. Referred to the Com- ittee on Finance. THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL—REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC. Mr. Howarp, (rep.) of Mich., from the select com- mittee of seven, reported a substitute for Mr. Anthony’s resolution in relation to admission to the galleries, &c., during the trial of impeachment, pro- viding that no person shall be admitted to that por- tion of the Capitol set apart for the Senate and its officers, besides those now entitled to the privilege, and the:clerks of the standing committees, except on tickets to be issued to the Sergeant-at-Arms, not ex- ceeding one thousand in number, good only for the date of issue. Forty are appropriated for the Diplo- matic gallery, to be distributed by Baron Gerolt and the foreign legations; four to each Senator, four to the Chief Justice of the United States, four to the Speakerof the House, two to each member of the House, two to each Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States two to each Judge of the Supreme Court of the District, two to each Judge of the Court of Claims, two to each Cabinet omicer, two to the general of the army, one euch to the Mayors of Washington and Georgetown, cue to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, one each to the Commissary General, the Quarte: master General, the Surgeon General and the Pay- master General, one to each admiral of the navy, one to each minister of a church in Washington, six to the President of the United States; sixty are to be issued to the reporters of the press by the President pro tempore, and the residue are to be distributed to the Senators in proportion to the representation of their States in tie House of Representatives, (rep.) of Cal., favored throwing open a ie galleries to the public. Y, (rep.) of W. Va., dissented from the ion by the ticket system. He did not know that the families of Senators were any more entiticd to seats (han their constiiuents. Mr. WILLIAMS, (rep.) of Oregon, thought there would be great dissatisfaction on account of persons being unable to get admission. He was in favor of throwing open the doors to the public. Mr. Howarp said the committee had given the matter their best attention, and they had concluded that te system proposed was the best possible. Mr. FESSENDEN, (rep.) of Me., hoped that the reso- lution be adopted, otherwise the seats would be occupied by a mob, to the exclusion of well be- haved people, and they would be in danger of di turbances similar to those that occurred the other day during a vote in the court on a mere question of order, He thought a thousand witnesses each day of the trial would be quite sufficient. Mr. pbs of R. I., moved to strike out one thousand and insert nine hundred as the number of tickets authorized, saying that the ener could not comfortably accommodate more without occupy- ing the steps, in which case the officers could not reach the offenders if a disturbance occurred, and confusion would attend every entrance and exit. Mr. THAYER, (tep.) of Neb., was glad that atten- tion had been called to these expressions of appro- bation or dissent in the gallery. It was reprenen- sible, whether coming from the friends or enemies of Congress or of the President. Mr. Grintes, (rep.) of Iowa, asked why the heads of some bureaus had been favored and not ail. Mr. Howarp said that some must necessarily be exciuded. Senators could furnish them tickets if they desired. He already had two hundred applica- tions for ticks He expected to see a greater mob assembled around the lodging of each Senator than here. Mr. Jonnson, (dem.) of Md., advocated the resolu- tion. They would otherwise find the galleries filled by persons for the most part insensible to what was due to the occasion, and expressions of approval or disapproval would ‘be sure to result, periaps in in- sults to individual Senators or to the Managers or sel. Anorder might be given to clear the gal- but he hui once. be crowded had never seen such an order executed Without this provision the galleries would n five minutes after they were opened by ‘tain class of people in the District who took & great in! st in this matter at this time, and thou- sands of men from all parts of the country would be here who conld not be kept quict except by force. Whatever might be the result of the trial he had too much confidence in the patriotism and good sense of the people to suppose that there weuld be any real danger to the government. It would go on as it had in spite of treason, no matter what should be by the Senate, Mr. Anthony's amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Frssenpen offered an amendment to strike out of the resolution the provision appropriating one ticket each to the Mayor of Washington and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, the heads of certain military bureaus, each Admiral of the navy and each clergyman in the District. Mr. HARLAN, (rep.) of Jowa, meved to amend by inserting the words “four tickets to the Mayor of Washington and two tickets to the Mayor of George- town.” It was not agreed to, Mr. ANTHONY moved to add the following to the end of the resolution:—“The seats now occupied by the Senators shall be reserved for them, and the Ser- geant-at-Arms shall provide suitable and convenient accommodation for the members of the House of Se in other portions of the floor.” SHERMAN, rep.) of Ohio, thought the Senators would be more comfortable, and consequently more tient, during the long sessions if they retained heir seats, ators Who could not hear might change their seats temporarily, Mr. SUMNER, (rep.) of Mass., took the same view, reminding them that the plan of uping the Sena- tors on benches during the trial of Judge Humphreys had been found exceedingly inconvenient. He sugges ted that the desks might be brought nearer ther. ir. HENDRICKS, (dem.) of Ind., understood that during the progress of the trial the morning hour ‘was to be devoted to legislative business, hence | Ages might result from giving up their desi Mr. Morton, (rep.) of Ind., thought they should be brought together more com Ys xperleice In courts taught bim tet wttccasta abSakihig In an Gruinary (One sou not be heard by Sen: on. the outer row, the members of the House should be properly accommodated, as they ought to be Pegi irther discussion do which Mr, Mon- RILL, (rep.) of Vt., rau be expected What thelr oral: pu to accommodate the Post Trea United States public oces, aud au the purpose. Ata quarter-past two Mr, SoMNEN presuming thet the Senators were aware that business of 2 ithe pocmance to the public interest demanded it, moved into executive sessic which was agreed to, and’ the Senate Baecordingly "went into ‘executive session. THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR APPROPRIATION BILL. sf After executive seasion, when the doora were opened, at twenty minutes before four o'clock, the ‘onsular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was under consideration. The question was on a motion to strike out the Speropeias lon to Greece. Debate ensued, during which Mr, CONKLING, (rep.) of N. Y., referred to a report in the newanapers in regard to @ proposed appointment of a Minister to Greece, which he said they would doubtless be glad to con- firm, and he hoped they would not throw out Greece. The amendment was not agreed to. Mr. POMEROY, (rep:) of Kansas, offered an amend- ment as an additional section, requiring that alf per- sons appointed as consuls or consular agents or com- mercial agents shall be either native born or natural- ized citizens of the United States, Mr. Morrtut, (rep,) of Me., said that the only class allowed by the law to comprise foreigners was that of commercial agents, Mr. SuMNeR said there were many important places abroad which American citizens would not think it worth while to take; for example, the Con- sulate at Falmouth, England, had been held by @ Png family of the name of Fox, he believed, since the Revomtion, several Americans having deciined to take it when it was offered to them, on the ground that it was too small, Mr. Pomeroy said there had been agreat many abuses poring out of the system; but he frould with- draw the amendment, as it might not be proper in an appropriation bil. Mr. Morgan, by instruction of the Committee on Commerce, offered an amendment providing for Consuls in the cities of Osaca and Jeddo, Japan, at a Salary of $3,000 each. Agreed to. On'motion of Mr. Cone the Consulate at Guaymas was changed from the $1,800 to the $1,000 class. Mr. SUMNER, by instruction of the Committce on Foreign Affairs, moved to amend by inserting the words “for expenses of additional clecical assist- ance to the Department of State, $5,000."? Mr. MorRILL, of Me., referred the Senator to the thirtieth rule of the Senate, requiring one day’s no- tice for amendments reported from cominittees to an Cg aes bill. T. SUMNER said notice had been given by the President of the United States, expressly asking in a recent message that this appropriation should be mae. r. MORRILL—If the Senator was ready to adopt the suggestions in messages of the President of the United States, that might be applicable. Mr, SumNer—Do I understand that my friend makes that objection ? Mr. MORRILL—Most decidedly. (Laughter.) Mr. SUMNER—Then | give the Senator notice that T will make the objection on the first bill of his that comes aiong. ‘The bill having passed through the Committee of the Whole, the estion Was on agreeing to the amendments thercin Mr. BUCKALEW, (lem.) le. of Pa., hoped the amend- ment of the cominittee striking out Ecuador would not be agreed to, and made @ strong appeal for the retention of that mission, urging Its great import- ance commercially and the advantage over us that England and France would have from representation there if the mission was d sed with. Mr. JouNSON and other Senators took the same few, and the amendment was lost by 9 to 26. So mission to Ecuador was not stricken out. Tie amendineut striking out Bolivia was also dis- agreed to. Mr. SUMNER asked for a vote on the amendment reducing the amount for coutingent expenses of all the missions abroad from $60,000 to $20,000. He again urged the advisability of leaving the pro- vision as it came from the House. Mr. MorRILt, of Me., opposed it. Mr. FESSENDEN sald the S¢ tary of State had in- formed him that he would prefer to have $10,000 more, and would try to get along with that. He would move to amend by making It $30,000. After further debate he withdrew the amendment. Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Olilo, renewed it, and it wes then adopted. Mr. Hows, (rep.) of Wis., then moved to strike out Portugui, saying the Senate and House had refused to make thet appropriation, and he hoped they would not contradict their former action. The motion was lost—yeas 16, nays 23, and the ap- os to Portugal remains. ‘The remainder of the amendments made in com- mittee were agreed to and the bill was passed, SPECIAL ORDER. On motion of Mr. SugRMAN the Funding bil was made the special order for to-morrow. THE POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. MorRILL, of Me., from the Committee on Ap- paper the Post Office Appropriation Pyoncienlons, ill, with amendments. PAYMENT OF SOLDIERS’ BOUNTIES. Mr. SueRMAN called up the bill to facilitate the payment of soldiers’ bounties under the act of 1862, authorizing the employment of fifty additional clerks in the Second Auditor's office, &c. UMNER called attention to the facility with whicff they appropriate $50,000 to one department of government when they had just refused a like ap- propriation to another department. On motion of Mr. Corbett, (rep.) of Oregon, the bill was amended so as allow duplicate checks to be cashed at San Francisco by the Assistant Treasurer at that place, and was passed. THE NAVAJOE INDIANS. Mr. Hrenperson, (rep.) of Mo., called up the bill for the removal of Navajoe Indians and for other pur- poses, He explained that the bill proposed the re- moval of the Navajoes—upward of seven thousand in number—from the Baske Rotundo, where they had been placed after their capture in New Mexico by an expedition in 1862, and were now held against their will, Nobody who knew the facts considered that the Indians were to blame, great wrongs having been done them by the New Mexicans. He claimed that the war last summer, extending from Fort Laramie to Montana, in which the Cheyennes, Arapahoes and other In- dians had commiited outrages, was entirely unneces. sary, an opinion in which not only civilians, but Generais Sherman, Harney, Auger and others con- curred. It was originated by General Hancock, robably not intentionally, but he had been deceived. ‘ne Peace Commission went down to the North Platte, in Nebraska, last summer and gave the Chey- ennes arms and ammunition, yet who had heard of any outrages since, althongh in the preceding two weeks they had thrown a train from the track? He believed that the present war in Idaho would not have exist but for the course of General Crooke, and Arizona would be peaceful but that the general commanding there had tasued an order declaring the Indians public enemies, He hoped-they would be removed to a place where they wouid be no longer an expense to the government of $700,000 a year, a8 at present, and where they could sustain themselves by agricultural pursuits, &¢., as they had done before their capture. He had re- ceived a telegram informing him that they were now at Fort Larawie by the request of the Peace Com- mission to wait the action of Congress. Mr. HENDERSON here gave way to a motion to ad- journ, which prevailed, and at five o'clock the Senate adjourned. es) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, March 10, 1868, Mr. Cnitcorr, (rep.) of Col., introduced a bill to repeal certain parts of an act of the Colorado Legislature in reference to the Penitentiary building; also a bill to grant the right of way to the Denver Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company. Referred. RESTORATION OF ALABAMA, Mr. STEVENS, (rep.) of Pa., from the Reconstruc- tion Committee, reported a bill for the admission of the State of Alabama, published jast week, which was ordered to be printed and made the special order for to-morrow. POSTAL FACILITIES WITH LIBERIA, Mr. Exsor, (rep.) of Mass., presented a memorial from'the Colonization Society asking for postal facili- ties between this country and Liberia. Referred to the Post Oflice Committee, . A PERTINENT INVESTIGATION. Mr. Woop, (dem.) of N. asked leave to offer a resolution instructing the Committee on the District of Columbia to ascertain and report the names and positions of government officers who have had real estate in the District of Columbia transferred to them since 1861, with a description of the property, Adopted. REPLACING CLOTHING OF SOLDIERS DESTROYED TO PREVENT CONTAGION, The Senate joint resolution providing for the issue of clothing to soldiers and others to LS ony clothing destroyed to prevent contagion was taken from the Speaker's table, explained by Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ohio, and passed. MILITARY AND POSTAL ROAD BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. Mr. Cook, (rep.) of lil, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported a substitute for a bill to authorize the building of a military and postal road from Washington to New York, chartering a com- pany to construct a road, by the most direct route, @ with condition limiting passenger fares to three cents per mile and requiring the through trip to be made within seven hours, Ordered to be printed and recommitted, REAL RSTATE FOR THE FREEDMEN’S BRREAU. Mr. Extor, from the Committee on Freedmen’s Affairs, eens & joint resolution directing the Sec- retary of War to assign and get apart for the use of ‘reedmen’s Bureau @ certain lot of land in St. the Augustine, Fla. r, Woon suggested that the joint resolution — #0 a8 to direct the proper oficer should be to execute i Mr. FARNSWORTH, (rep.) of Il., inquired who that was. Mr, Woon sald it was eretary of War ad ieaerty, Comme nomen be y (aa cinarked tiat that oMcer was n if Adjutant General. Mr. Woop added that the now inthe War tre yout rewotution wad Nr. Patna, rep) of Wie trols the wampe commit: of all the St. ‘Helena States Direct ‘Tax Commissio Port Royal, 8. ©., subject by such Tax Commissioners and @ sre soion sathcrines 10 Bel lots, not exceed! freedmen who are now toa’ ‘bel January, 1 were residents t islands'in Se bakes if posal jommissioner, The fourth section requires all Sons who have acquired claims under General Si man’s order of January 1. 1865, to obtain warranta for the same before the 1st of May, 1888, and sub} the lands not required to meet such warrants to by the Tax Commisstoners to men who ara heads of families, or who have served in the United States army or navy, at not less than one dollar @cre, and in parcels of not more than forty acres any one purchaser, except the lands on Phillips’, Capers’, Tripps’, Hunting and Harbor Islands, which may be sold at not less than any cents per acre, and tn papoeia not exceeding three andred and twenty Mr. PAINE, in reply to questions and objection eo by Menara: Caner, eer aioe an others, gave explanations of the objects and pros visions of the bill u = “Mr. FARNSWORTH suggested that this was such an important measure that it should be postponed until the State of South Carolina will be represented in Congress, which will be in a very short time. Mr. CHANLER, (dem.) of N. Y., suggested that the area of advertising, which in the bill is required only in the Charleston papers, should be considerably enlarged, a8 much of the property in question is owned by persons residing in the North. Mr. ParNe replied to that objection by stating that the publication of the provisions of the bill would give all the requisite publicity. He moved the pre- vious question, The previous question was seconded, and the bill ‘Was then passed—yeas 75, nays 34, PERSONAL EXPLANATION, Mr. Cancer, rising to a personal explanation, said he had been informed by the gentleman from Tilinois (Mr. Logan) that a part of his (Mr. Chanler’s) personal explanation yesterday, in which he ree tracted anything he might have sald personal to that gentleman did not appear in the Globe, He hi made the proper retraction at the time, but it apparently not been heard by the reported. wished the correction to appear. : ION OF THE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU. He oa from the Committee on Freedmen’s Affairs, reported back # substitute for the bill to con- tinue the Freedmen’s Burean for one year from the 16th of July, 1868, with authority to the Secretary of War to stablish the bureau where it has been dis- continued on being satisfied that the personal safety of the freedmen requires it. The morning hour having expired the bili went Went over till to-morrow. ABOLITION OF THE TAX ON MANUFACTURES, Mr. SCHENCK, (rep.) of Ohio, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported back the bill reported by him yesterday to exempt certain manufactures from internal tax. The second section is modified so a8 to read:—“That nothing in this act conteined shall be construed to bas omy or interfere with any law, regu- — lation or provision for the assessment or collection of any tax which, under the existing laws, may accrue before the Ist of April, 1868.” ‘Tue third section is stricken out altogether. Mr. ScuENcK proceeded to explain the bill, The Committee of Ways and Means had _ intended to pre- sent a complete law, covering the whole subject, and not to present a special bill repealing the tax on manufactures, It had, however, been urged on the cominittee from members of the House and from out- ide interest asa thing exceedingly desirable that, having determined to relieve manufacturers from the tax of five per cent, it should be done without wait- ing for the general bill. Such a suggestion had been made the other day by the gentleman from Pennsyly vania (Mr. Myers). ‘The committee had therefore conciuded to ‘present this subject specially to the House. The committee had intended to retain the five per cent tax on some half dozen manufactures, sich as the manufacture of billiard tables, fancy candies, &c. These had produced in 1867 about @ miliion anda half of doilars; but om farther consideration the committee had at length concluded that it was hardly worth while to keep up the machinery of the law necessary for the collection of that amount, but that it was better to wipe out the tive per cent tax on all manufactures and to put a somewhat higher special tax on the manufactures of those luxuries and on their sales, The House might be curious to know ‘how much the five er cent tax on manufactures amounted to. Taki ie full returns for 1867, it would be found that the receipts from that source amounted to $146,223,670. The committee did not to remove the tax from ull manufactures, but to retain it on olls di tilled from co on fermented liquors, on distilled ‘on tobacco, smu! and cigars and ‘gas. The nguregaic tax collected, ‘les in 1867 was §*1,429,019, so that the diminution effected by this bill would amount to $84,794,654. Some of this sum wou! be made up, however, the increase certain special taxes on different manufactures, and bya tax of one-twentleth of oue per cent on their sules when amounting to over a given tomer 4 $5,000, This would produce about $20,000,000; that while this bill would remove @ burden of some eighty-four milltons It would not cause a loss to the: government of more than about sixty millions, In short, the effect of the bill was to remove the five per cent tax on all manufactures, leaving to be taxed as manufactures nothing but distilled spirits, fer- ented liquors, oil, gas and certain kinds of wine and tobacco, This bill was to take effect in such @ way as that manufactures should be xeicased from tax after the present month, wired whether Mr. Woopwarp, (dem.) of Pa., the tax on whiskey was to be redu Mr. Sck sald there was no provision of that kind in thia bill. The majority of tie committee , decided to stand by the $2 tax and the ation bill would provide for a $2 tax. Woopwarp inquired further whether tho enues of the country could be maintained while the tax was taken off manufactures and the tax on retained at $2. SCHENCK expressed his belief the belief of the committee that a much larger revenue would be derived from the whiskey with the tax at $2 than with a reduced tax. The committee was preraring stringent regulations and measures to be applied to the collection of the whiskey tax. Remarks in commenglation of the bill were made Messrs. Myers, ey, Blaine, Farnsworth, Raum, 8 and others. Mr. SCHOFIELD, (rep.) of Pa., desired to have the tax removed from the various distiliations of rock oil. Mr. SCHENCK stated that when the general bill will be reporied the genticinan might offer any proposi- tion of that kind, Mr. Woop asked Mr. Schenck to let him submit a proposition to reduce the tax on whiskey to fifty cents a gallon, 80 as to test the sense of the House on that very important Vee gong Mr. SCHENCK declined to do so, saying that if he had no other objection to it such a proposition would not be germane to the bill, as it did not refer to whis- key direcily or indirectly, fir, GRISWOLD, (rep.) of N. Y., expressed the hope that his colleague (Mr. Wood) Would not embarrass the passage of the Dill by such a proposition, adding that for himself he dissented from the majority of the committee on this subject, and would be found on the side of his colieagne when the proposition could eee be made. ‘After some further disenasion the bill was passed, by yeas 122, nays 2. The nays were Messrs. Hawkins aid Johnson. RIGHTS OF NATURALIZED CITIZENS AGROAD, Mr. BANKS, (rep.) of Mass., from tue Committee on Foreign Atiairs, reported back the hill concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign States, and ad dressed the House in advocacy of lt. Referring to @ statement in 1 of the Chicago papers that the Committee on Foreign <Alfairs had been influenced by the State Departmeut, and that the bill reported expressed the judgment not of committee, bat of that departinent, he a that Uiat Was & most unjust mist truth. » bill Was the judgment of the committee alone, wninfuenced by anybody outside of the flouse. For himself he ed among the disciples of © was more Indispose el of other men or to tury to impose his ‘8 upon ed his colleague whether it would not he a better course If he siruck out of the third section the threat which it contains, and instead of giving the President power to order the arrest and detention of the citizens or subjects of forein gov- ents offending against the principles of tie bill, insert a declaration that such delay and refusal should be regarded as an oifence to the United States, and ing atible with the continuance of friendly relations with such foreign governments? Mr. BANKS replied that if it were a new question he should say that the course sugested by hls col league would be the better course, But it was not @ new question; It had been debated for seventy-nine years; © war had been fought on the question, and tt Was now as far from settlement as ever. The ceclara- tion suggested by his colleague was not enoug) a just declaration of principle were made it should be accompanied by such measures as are opon to the American government and aa will compel Buropean governments at least to open their ears to the repre- sentations of this government and give to them sucht a decision as justice and right may require. Mr. VAN TRUMP, (dem,) of Onto, addressed the House in support of the bill, He alluded to ‘he dee interest felt by the people in the proposed ction Congress, and said that although the bill w: he could wish he would give it iis hearty st held that the rij ‘as found in the great law of n: u individual when he became a part of fO- clety; that the natural rights of man were paramonnt to the delegated powers of government, aad that no ernment had the right to impair or coutrol it, He toon issue with the report of the Ce with the gentleman who had preced de- that our government ha tupon the stibj iavows Jagistation and judicial in in some doubt ground that for this reason we cf de in asserts liett snd goming t ouiiee Eiger ie CONTINUED GN TENTH