The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1868, Page 3

é NEW YORK HERALD, SAT | Se PS BS ee es ee URDAY, 4 a cg jeeisiation. “fe British Minister asky whe- a Abate, iiihaiitesichatall : at Hep py | sire Se peng Sages et ast | claim meson nos wna pects. | sds cae on ae ema cents @ tom on wauld sxetude aswuring you of a equally contial | worth of whieh was consumed i'4 {aes section teat | democrats of Alabama would prefer being thus ad- ca ty the suvesas aware Autdtipent and calight- year, and that this course B& ‘geen gsdopted by the ed rather than have the provisional government ened Chinese goverument, and people will allow me Canadian government im tg hope that the govern- . SAULSBURY, (dem) of Del., inquired how the Vixit of the GQinese Embasny to | 2buiaupen or empire ead of enulutag at ment of the United State ewonid sanction some recl- | of thai State caine to’ make the Senator we tofore merely passive, will forth be ced t: '. 4 White House. sere ieee aotive part ta the feneral progrea of tL erihis dikercaasan in prepeted to coneiaar tho. | withteresze replied tat ho road the newspapers Nization. ‘There a oe ‘ee Bd we questtob. ‘fie matter having been referred to the | Saulsbury), like the rest of his democratic friends, i ta vies havea ‘with a llue a 80a = Coupee iarten pons toy hp ees i oe rena har oe. ct ne —- P 8 ‘across v re O| pt . 2 must recognize the u people Speeches by Mr. Burlingame | the racitic ocean. In two or three years more there | ie did not consider it proper that the Executive | as the highest law, overruling all technicalities, and he wi vote for an independent bill to adit Ala- He thought it unwise, however, to saddle should reopen the question unless Congress shail | jana this bill with the additional weight of Aiabama, and the President. aud @ oD canal, Sonmracted a FP = give some indication of its desire to dose. The eens fy | je thmus Suez. pape: since are men who cannot vote for its present there remain besides ali these, and more ERAT beter She Comarsicton af Warn and Manns, admission, and this bill has to pass the ordeal of the Release of an American Citizen from Confine- ment in Ireland. ‘The State Department is in receipt of intelligence to the effect that Dennis O'Connor, the last im- prisoned American citizen in Ireland, has been re- leased and is now on his way to the United States. President's veto, He had before said that tn his ry mm the fourteenth amendment was already adopted, If Ohio and New Jersey could withdraw their consent to it, once given, Oregon could shortly do the same thing. Mr. STEWART said he was in favor of trying the experiment on this bill. ir, HOWARD, (rep.) of Mich., repelied the su; tion Reported Sale of Two Iron- Clads to Peru. feasibility of such a work would imply ap ignorance of the science and the weaith in which we live. Your important mission will enable you to contribuie largely to the achievement of thatgreat enterprise. [ respectfully request you, therefore, to commend it to ‘ jt | the favor of the United States of Columbia as well as The Monthly Finagcial Statement. that, in refusing to admit Alabama now, Congress Debute im the Senate on the Bill to Admit } ( the government of China and the several Luro- | ‘The monthly statement of the public debt and the | acted! in bad faith, “Tha theory of the reconstruction pean Stal which you are accredited. ts Ct acts pn that when a majority of the isteres North and South Carolina, Georgia, : statement of recetpts and expenditures will not be | ote iia sired admalssion a state akould be admitted, ‘The speeches on both sides having been delivered, the Secretaries of the Cabinet were severally intro- published until to-morrow, owing to the delay oc- He had opposed the admission of Louisiana on the casioned by the closing of the department yesterday, proposition to require only a vote of one-tenth, on Alabama and Louisiana. duced. Gideon Welles, tt must be said, made the Personal. * the ground that no State should be brought in by the ~ pearance most profound impression, and whether the Cetestials | pon, John Morrissey made his appearance in the ee ~. (Sonne ~ ae panel objec! mn woe ane took him at first sight for the priest of the oracle or the real ruler of the nation cannot be ascertained, feared that a two-thirds vote could not be had to pass the including Alabama, over that veto. It was cla thas five more States were required for the House of Representatives to-day, after au absence of Tv Bill i. Progress of the ‘Tax im several months, the House. One thing, however, was plain, that his magnificent | professor Abner 8. Brady and Mr. Barclay Wilson ‘ i + | ratification of the fourteenth amendment. After satiate iiik white Thibetian lama beard was the cynosure of | of New York, are here om important revenue | a careful examination of ques- every Mongolian eye, Secretary Browning essayed to | pusiness, tion was that the fourteenth amendment 1s already a part tution. He argued that the political rights of the rebels passed into the hands of the govern- ment by their own act. At the same time he would be very reluctant to leave this question to a decision in the courts of a rebel State, and he therefore thought It the beat ‘seception ef the Embessy by the President— @peeches by Mr. Burlingume and Mr. converse with Sun Tajen about the interior of China; but beyond divers pantomimic gestures on the part of Sun, who seemed to say that China had no home- stead or pre-emption lots to spare, nothing was eli- cited. Secretary MeCulloch spoke to Mr. Tung, Removed tor Abusive Language Agaivat the President. Newton Crawford, examiner in the Patent Ortice, was removed by the Secretary of the Inierior for abusive language in public and on the streets Jobuson. or to provide further security Wasuineron, June 5, 1968, ,| but said nothing about finances. The interview | against the President. by asslnng this bill, with Alabama left out and Before noon to-day a considerable number of per- | altogether was brief, and when: the Presilent de- Nominations by the President. an BUCKALEW; (dem.) of Pa., sald it would have parted so likewise did the Celestials. In the State Department the embassy spent about two hours, visiting every room afd learning in de- tail the secrets of Secretary Seward’s bureau. The little bell that tinkle@ ite ominous tintinabulations some few years ago was exhibited as a precious relic of the times that tried men’s loyalty. The archives of the office were also shown, and the gradual though sudden rise and spread of the glory and greatness of the republic were duly impressed on the Mongolian mind. . At three o’clock the embassy returned to the hotel, after which Mr. Burlingame, the two Tajens and the two Secretaries, Browne and De Champs, went and paid their respects to Post- master General Randall, Mr. Welles, Secretary of the Navy; Mr. McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. Browning, Secretary of the Interior; the French, British, Russian, Prussian and Brazilian Ministers, at six o’clock and returned to the hotel to dine. Sun ‘Tajen received a beautiful bouquet of towers from the ladies of Secretary Browning’s family. After dinner the placid Celestials retired to their rooms, lit their opium chibouques and in dreams revisited the Flow- ery Land. Mr. Burlingame has been besieged with visitors all day, in batches of a dozen at a time. Everybody wants to see the Minister from China, of American birth and raising. Some want to see him to find out if China is a good field for the introduction of certain Yankee notions, and others would like to know if the Brothér of the Sun and Moon has any more missions to give away. The ordeal is trying, but Mr. Burlin- game bears it with almost Chinese plaq@iity and po- liteness. To-morrow the embassy will visit the rest of the foreign Ministers, General Grant, the Secretary of War and other distinguished officials, and ou Mon- day they praceed in @ government vessel to visit: the tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon. sone assembled in the ante-rooms of the White House to witness the entrée of the Chinese Embassy on their omictal visit to the President. Preeisely at four o’clock four carmages drove up under the portico of the White House, and when their occupants alighted the crowd which had assem- died im the vestibule made‘ a@ lane through which, im the order of rank, Minister Bur- Jingamie, his secretaries, the two mandarin and gix students of the Imperial College of Pekin passed into the Blue Room, Secretary Seward leading the way. Minister Burlingame aud the two secretaries were dressed in plain black suits, without insignia. The two chief mandarins were attired in gorgeous figured and highly wrought silk wowns, girdled with silk and jewelled cording, pad wearing sashes of their rank and office, of pectliar richness and brilliancy, Upon their heads they wore peculiarly shaped sundown straw hats, which were covered with a loose flowing deep red fringing. From the top of the ceutre of these hats was su pended @ glass ornament surrounded with jewels. Loose flowing pantaloons of rich colored silks and magnificently worked silk and velvet sandals, with aiaménd clasped buckles, completed the costume of the two chiefs, while the interpreters, who are all high officers of the eighth rank, were nearly wmilarly attired, the only difference being various marks of rank either about the style of the dressing or the color of the cloth Contrary to the expectation of some the Chinese did not forget the place, like the Siamese Ambassadors at the Court of the Tuileries, and, throwing them- eclves on all fours, scramble inte the presence of the Chief Magistrate. On the contrary, like a set of sensible and dignified gentlemen they walked erect aud with steady eyes directly up to bis Excellency and bowed to him with the most perfect Oriental grace, while each one grasped and warmly shook his hand as though he were a long lost brother. ‘The re- wveption took place im the Blue Parlor, the gilded mouldings and azure damask of which quite capti- vated the taste of Sun Tajer® The embassy formed in a circle around the President and Minister Burlin- game, the latter being the spokesman of the party. ‘rhe public and the press were excluded at first from witnessing the ceremony, but after a while an order was given to admit them as far as the princi- Pal entrance to the Blue Room, and immediately a wuxh was made by both ladies and gentlemen to get a peep at the proceedings. The cluster of spectators around the door was very dense, and a good dea! of Sacetious comment was indulged in at the expense of the Celestials. Minister Burlingame read his letter of introduction and handed it to Secretary Seward, after which the Secretary read the answer of the President. ‘Whe letter of the Emperor of China, engrossed on yellow vellum and containing the great seal of the empire, was then unrolled and exhibited to the President. Mr. Burlingame spoke on the occasion as fol- fows:— Mr. Presipent—If yon had not already, through the.Secretary of State, kindly relieved me from em- barrassment, my first duty on the mt occasion The President to-day nominated Martin McMahon, of New York, to be Minister resident at Paraguay, vice Washburne, resigned; also W. H. Parker, to be Secretary of the Territory of Idaho, vice Howell; also Nathan Goff, Jr., to be United States District Attorney for West Virginia; also ex-Congressman John 8. Millson, of Norfolk, Va., to be United States District. Attorney for the Virginia district, in place of IL. F. Chandler, whose commission will expire on the 30th of June, inst. Confirmations by the Seante. ‘The Senate to-day confirmed the following nomi- nations:— H. G. Worthington, of Nevada, to be Minister resi- dent at the Argentine republic, vice Asboth, de- ceased. oe Allen, of Kentucky, Consul at Foo-chow, na. Thomas B, Asten, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Eighth district of New York, vice Bleecker, to be removed. Commodore Thomas Tnrner to the active list and Captain John L dore. Receipts from Customs. ‘The following are the custom receipts at the ports below mentioned from May 25 to May 30 inclusive:— Deen intelligible if Congress had kept ont these States until they were ready to vote right in the eyes of Congrese. li would have produc union, t nd contentment in the Southern States, and about the same results would have been reached as by the present circuitous and doubtful means. The Senator from Ohio, after a constitution had been defeated according to the law of Congress, was in favor of admitting the State upon ex parte statements, He (Mr. Buckalew) had seen statements just as strong that extensive frauds had been committed there in favor of the adoption of the constitution. As much weight should attached to cne as to the other, The simple, fair and honest way would be to recog- nize the defeat of the constitution aud hold another election. tt was sought to give the semblance of the assent of the peopie to the project of reconstruc- tion; but take out the Freedmen’s Bureau, &c., and even South Carolina would not have been carried for the constitution. Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) of N. Y., suggested that it would not be in the interest,of reconstruction to in- sert the amendment including Alabama. He thought that in the future thev might conclude that it had been an unwise act to change Ube,provision that has excluded Alabama, If the enemies of reconstruction not only abstatned from voting, but by menace, vio- Jence and fraud hindered others from voting, they stood wrong and ought not to be allowed to take the benefit of a provision they had ay td to trample under foot. He, too, urged the inadvisibility of en- dangering the bill by this amendment. After the re- cent vote admitting Arkausas there could be no doubt of the passage of ihe present bill. Doubtless. some of the several pending bills on the subject of Alabama could be passed providing @ provisional or other government, Mr. HENDRICKS said that except on the hypothesis that Congress can legisiate the Southern States into the Union, or otherwise Alubaina could not be ad- mitted, since there was a clear expression of the ople against the consiitution, It was plain that it as been rejected as the case stood, mm what principle, then, was it proposed to establish this con- stitution after it had been rejected by the people under the laws and under the voice of Congress? If Congress could thus make or change # coustitution— e rear admiral on Worden commo- ° Naval Orders. ‘The following ni orders have been tssued:— Rear Admiral H. K. Thatcher has been detached from the command of the North Pacific squadron on the 6th of ey ee pert, and ordered to return to New York. Rear Admiral Thomas J. Craven has been de- tached from the command of the Navy Yard at Mare Island, California, on the 1st of August next, and ordered to report on the 6th of that month for the command of the North Pacific squadron. Passed Assistant Surgeon 8. T. Shaw has been detached from duty at League Island, Pennsylvania, and or- dered to the practice ship Macedonian. Commodore James Alden has been ordered to take command of the Mare Island Navy Yard, on the fdetachment of Rear Admiral Craven. Surgeon N. ©. Allen has been ordered to the practice ship Macedonian. Passed Assistant Surgeon T. N. Penrose hay been ordered to duty at League I#land, THE FORTIETH CONGRESS. Revo breathe into a dead constitution the Breath of Iife— why not adopt a constitution in all cases made by rest? It was idle to say that Maud controlled trolled the elections appointing radicals, net con- servatives. In reply to the argument about the un- favorable condition of the elements at that erection, he asked who ever heard of deciaring the result elections because of a swollen river? ‘That might be good ground for @ pew election. ‘They, themseives, in order to admit Alabama, must say they would disregard their own law, since, prima fol, there was a vote against the admission, and ‘Ray to the people that staying away from the polls was equivalent to ® vote against the constitutior To admit Alabama atter the constitution was r jected by that means, in big judgment, was litt short of @ fraud. Mr. Moni suid they coult not MISCELLANEOUS WASHINGTOV VES. WASHINGTON, June 5, 1863, ‘Tax Bill—Probable Kece mittal. The controversy which has @lready manifested it- self in the consideration of the preliminary sections of che Internal Tax bill seems to have extinguished all hope inthe minds of a large number of being able to dispose of it this session. It is now talked, in the course of a day or two, to move the recommit- Jal of the bill to the Committee of Ways and Means, with instructions to report a shorter one, covering only those features requiring immediate action by Congress. This movement does not meet with much favor in the mind of the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, but it is quite likely he will be compelled to subunit to the overruling of the majority of the body of which he is a member, y Refusal to Permit the Recently Sold [ron- clads to Leave New Oricans—Pera the Alleged Owner. Some days ago, in accordance with the resolution passed by the House, at the imstance of General Van Wyck, the Secretary of the Treasury gave instruc- tions to the Collector at New Orleans not to grant a The Interval Seasion. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Juue 5, 1868, Mr. McUnrery. item.) of Ky., presented the pe- tition of some three thousand citizens of the North- west praying for the passage of an eight-hour law. Also the memorial of the Mechanics’ State Labor As- sociation of the same import. Referred to the Cuin- mittee on Naval Affairs. LAND CLAIMS IN| ARKANSAS, ‘Mr. WILLIAMS, (rep) of Oregon, introduced a bil? concerning land claims in “Arkansas, Keferred to the Committee on Private Land Clalins. COIN CONTRACTS. Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, called up the bili re- lating to United States notes, and the substitute of the committee, viding that any contract here- after made spect y payable in coin, shall be legal and valid, and may be enforced accordiny the people of that state were in favor of the cunsti- tution, and he asket why, then, the same Congresa that passed the law could nol amit Ala- bama to representation, The former constitution was framed by @ convention elected by @ n of the white men of that State and had nev submitted for ratification, and that constitution it was proposed to retain in preference to one adopted by some five thousand short of « majority of the whole people. In view of all the facts, there having been only one polling piace in a county, the bad sea- son, the poverty of the people and the means used to deter men from voting, the vote was remarkably large. He had no hesitation in voting for the imue- diate admission, but as some Senators had iudicated objections he must vote against this amendment and support a bill for her immediate admission, itr. WILSON, (rep.) oF Mass., remarked that in the most excited elections one-fifth of al) electora stay vapi. | Clearance to either of the iron-clad vessels, the Oneoto to lis ray . " pak prac ad Oe eag ou bow & bag tote cep aud the Catawba. The resolution declared, “There | terms, anything in the bill relating to United States maidrity of the Fexsterea aterm trey tue consider: to china, have now. returned here a Minister trom | was reason to believe that these vessely were | "0les to the contrary notwithstanding. ation in the power of ihe enemies of the country, Mr. BayaRp, (dem.) of Del., moved to strike out the words “hereafter made.” Mr. SHERMAN said there were several suits now pending that might be affected by making the bil! retroactive in its character. Mr. Bayaxp denied that the amendment would affect any such suit, claiming that it would leave the wae of antecedent acts to judicial interpre- ation, Mr. Hexpricks, (dem.,) of Ind., favored the amend- ment. He thought where partios had specifically honld be held to their and in addition to that it violated the secrecy of the bullot. Such a provision could not be defended here or elsewhere, ¢ recounted further the influences that had been used to deler men from voting. A’ man who bad once sat in the presidents chair of the sen- ate (Mr. Fitzpatrick)}—a traitor—had discharged all of his Laborers for voting. He denied that the iwili- tary and the Freedmen’s Burcau bad affectes: the election. era! Swayne one of the best menu that ever lived, had never, while there, been invited to enter anouse, ‘The resuit wight have been diferent hina to the United States, You will permit me to renew in this formal manner the expression of thaw! for the kindness and liberality with which this change of representative character and responsibility on my art has been allowed by the American people. (ie. president, the Imperial Chinese government, within the past three years, having accepted the tows of nations as they are allowed and pra tixed by the Western’ Powers, that government s further concluded, if permitted, to enter into munication through the customory dipiomatic bought from the Navy Department by Swift & Co., with the design to dispose of and deliver the same to the government of Peru, then and now ina state of War with a friently power of this government.” Within a day or two past infotmati was received that the vessels were to be sent oulon an experi- mental cruise professediy, but in fact to escape to Pern, Accordingly fresh instructions have boen ; # : my, agreed to pay incom they # > rinany, Prossia, Spain and Sweden. This desire | Movement. The Committee on Retreachment has | bill passed. : informed that from 26,000 10 30,000 had been dis. RESTORATION OF SOUTHERN STATES. Mr. TRUMBOLI, (rep.) of Ih, called up the House bill to admit North Carolina, South Carolina, Loni. sana, Georgia and Alabami He explained that ie the substitute the committee had stricken out Ali bana, and that by mistake. Florida was ingertet contrary to the opinion of the majority of the com- vate pugh be personally had favored inserting it, stated the number of votes cast for and agatust the constitutions in the States enumerated this matter under consideration and may soon renort upon the subject. It has been ascertained that although the original purchase price was only ($755,000, the vessels have been sold to the Peruvian government for $2,000,000, three-foughs of which atnount bas already been paid. | Correspondence Retwees Secretary MeCul- Sranchised by Congress. Mr, WILSON suid there never was 3 take. Iu none of those States had 1 ‘been 29,000 distranchised. Virgiia hed the most. He would admit ail the States without reference to how their votes would be vast at the next election. He had never had any doubt 48 to the result, and le would vole for his amendment if he voted alone, Mr. Yarers, (rep.) of Ul., said be had all along pe. greater ints. Jet y are charged, at the expense of what might bear the appearance of egotism, tO say that there are nine emecial Tanks in China, By way of showing the reatest possible respect to the Western Powers the { tera to which 1] refer were. committed to the care miyselof the first rank and to Chih Tajen and Sun nm of the second rank, myself being vested He Witt perenne Remmecceen’, yr eneer loch and Mobile Lawyers. Ail in the matter of Florida Teal w-eomminication | Heved that none of uve Southern states should have ‘1 and envoys, We have now the honor to deliver | The following correspondence has passed betw on Se ae = pte # telegram | ihe people were loyal, and he had thought il better the letter of his imperial Majesty, which is (hus ad- | secretary MceCuiloch and the firm of Raphact & 0. J. aa pare eat auta, Ga, June 4 ¥ toxeop teu out for Mity ar sif mecemary anil they diexsed e Pre e United States. Ab the ver eutton ‘ Semmes, attorneys-al-law in Mobile, Ala. A mau ring his remarks the bill to admit Arkansas - ~~ sloing so-we-obey a charge given us by the Emperor over from the,Hoase with a request for a Con ee ee named Marks, it appears, has been engaged for some time past in selling lottery tickets at the Custom of Cluna to assure you of a sincere desire for your personal health, honor and happiness, and for the p of Conference, mite On motion of Mr. TRUMBULL the Senate insisted on ings Would of: * He might vote for thts bill ul nat | ioe a chosen Lo preside. House official, and has been selling these tickets, it setiiay rs Lyn Drake and Wilson were ap | their doctrine of State rights and repudiate th ‘Phe President replied a8 follows :~- ed, with the sanction of the Collector of | General Meade’s telegram states the majority in | Melton by mee eg Men phan yl bel Your EXCELLENCcTES—States, like indivi 1 men, Marks having consulted the Semmes firm | favor of the constitution tn Floridi at 5,050, better condition todo so When the milivary :e in Mr. TRUMBULL proceeded to expiain the substitute of the committee, which has already been published. WILSON moved to amend by Inserting Ala He said that State had prepared its constitn- rlier than any ower State, and voted t a ory inauspicious season, giving a larger vote than any of the other States excepting South Caro- Mina. If ® fall vote had been cast he hat no doubt ihe constitution woold have been adopted by thirty to fifty thousand majority. She failed solety on ac. count of the provision (since changed) of requir majority of the registered voters for the adoption of the constitution. Mr. DRAKE, (rep.) of Mo., aggued that it woul better to lay this bill aside until the Conferences mittee can agree apon the fundamental conditions to be inserted, Mr. SHERMAN hoped Alabuma would be admitted, saving that she is in a better condition to maintain » State than perhaps any of the others, and that th proceedings there have o regular and the con: have two distinct characters in the fleld of activity the ope domestic, the other social. If it be true, as t think it is, that the several political communities of the earth are now more actively engaged than at any previous period in ameliorating their res) constitutions and laws, it*certainiy is not less Jest that they are zealously engaged in ameliorating and perfecting the assistance of international inter- course and commerce. The appearance here of this the tirst mission from China to the Western nations jw in this respect not more sh lar than it is sug. yestive. During the first eighty years of our La ype foreign nations generally evinced hemtani®, caution and reserve, uot to Kay jealousy, in regard to advances of the United Piates. Of late these features have seemed to dimappear, There remains, socially, one civilized and regularly constituted State with which we have not formed Petations of cordial friendship. So far from tecking W topose fetters upon our commerce as \eretofore, nearly all nations now .invite us to es- as 10 lis amenability to the State laws of Alabama in selling lottery tickets ina building belonging to the United Stat tanding on land ceded to the national government, was advised by the latter to continue the sale, a8 the State laws had no jurisdiction over the ceded lands. Marks, however, was arrested and the Semmes firm was retained by bim as counse!. ‘To defend the accused it was found necessary that a copy of the deed of cession to the United States from the State of Alabama should be filed, and this could only be obtained from the Treasury Department. ‘The following letter was accordingly addressed to Mr, McCulloeh;— removed, Mr. Dootsrr.e, (rep.) of Wis, took the floor and made an elaborate argument on the yeneral subject of reconstruction and negro equality. He insisted that bis mind Was not influenced by pariy considera iions, to support which assertion fic said no one would doubt that as son as the white people South choose to exereise (hetr intellectial and moral supe- riortty they conid regain their wonted suprema-y, citing as proof a district in Georgia where the negro uiajority Was about seven thousand, and where the whiies took an interest in the canvass and mit their candidate by twelve hundred majority. His opposiuon was based on the belief that Congress violated the constitation in Lerges the right to de- cide who shall vole in the South and to change State constitations at pleasure, ‘The disfranchisements in the Sourh were violative of the President's » rogative of pardon, He insisted stroagiy upou the negroes’ aufitness for self-government, Mr. PATYERSON, (rep.) OF N. TH, reminded the Se Mosier, Ala., May 20, 1868, HONORABLE SRCRATABY OF THE TREASURY Sik--Enciosed please find aMfdavit of Mr. Marks, who is seiling lottery tickets in the United States | toblish free trade. Our national thought that the | © °. " i that he could | Maton agood one. In spite of the organized opposi- smeritan Centinehs aid, Wines are wighttully m4 pmo H vo “a A. = we ‘state tion to the adoption of the constitution, as shown by | ator of a speech he oe at the trae the deportation served for the ultimate establishment of independent | of Aiabam if the ‘ground on wiich the ao be grag em Seige ee Heels pietete. Ons Srarmaaa the oonia Waco, i et ra % st 4 ; inds of erueity, anc spire i 4 can States ts no louger anywhei i ears building stands has been ceded to the United States. | oe tne” unfortunate eatarceuce’ ‘ot natural ita lished ia the tropics by the neg rivallmg the yn@ and well established Europe now freely cede to us for fair equivalents such of colonial possessions im tus hemisphere as nd desirable for strength and jeommerce. ne inherent right of man to choose and change ymelte and ailegianc principle essential to Can we obtain a copy of the deed of cession from your office ¢ Very respectfully, your obedient servants, | h, & 0. J. SENMES, ‘To this letter the Secretary of the Treasury replied Atnertcan republic, and he inquired how that eo be if the negro was so debawed. Mr. DooLrrrhe replied that the negro was the only race rat could exist and thrive in the tropics. In anewer to a further question he admitted that the negro here is superior to bis African brother, but stacies, the vote lacket oniy four or five sand of @ majority of the red yote, would be unjust tw deprive them of their con- stitution when they did all they could. He thought it necessary to settle this matter before the Presiden- tial election, 80 that there shall be no controversy as man TOMs—I14 COT ed recent treat follows: se dianges, although not lean importat or wage Wasntnotoy, D. C., May 26, 1888. | 10 the Fight to pucwete eat amen He utged bg A, Bs fy —™ a pe ron 1 ] ff Rests y the’ goth bh eceive that Ainbama be not given buck to lawlessness anc « \. . Jess striking than the extension of our irieadiy Genre Yours of the 20th inst. 19 received. | eparchy in the Ba rf Mr. Johnson's minions and | Senators would find that (heir States would not tereourse with Oriental nations. We have recent “pened reciprocal and equal intercourse with Gree With the Ottoman Porte and with Japan. Chin: In reply | have to say that it is not the practice of the Department to furnish evidence to protect parties from the consequences of crimes committed against respond to these doctrines, ‘They could not wrench the government of the country from the hands of civilized nen und put It tate the hands of tools, as Would be the ease when the military yov- ernment is sus] jet. 2 having accepted the laws of nations as they are ex: | the law i bape t Ly ander ‘TAR DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILt. staan ! H ne laws Of any State in which pul property The beticiency Appropriation till at thie point | halfclvilized negroes aud be mpported by the peo- {nour approved compilation, now avails | ity charge may be, locatet. Your request caunot, | sit ver team the towne, mic the announcelment | ple, Ohio, Michigau and Oregon were but the drops erself, through your missio: auction, to ihe Christian States of Europe and Aweriv® ‘These events reveal the pleasing tact of « dapid growth of mutual trust and confidence ‘among the nations, resulting from a gener#] suspension of the policy ot war and conquest uid tie Rubstitition a sravernal and benevolent policy in it place. aur Excellencies, we have not failed to appreciate the xagacity with which the Chinese empire responded to this change of policy by the Cbri of your triendly intto- | therefore, be grantell. Very reapec y. H. McCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. ‘The Semmes have again written to the Secretary in reply to his letier, taking a highly dignified and pompous stand, addressing the Secretory in very dis- respectful terms, asserting that all documents and public papers on file in any department of the that foretold the coming sturm. He had in bis hand st memorial signed by a thousand intelligent white men of Alabama-— ‘Mr. CONNESS, (rep.) of Cal. (interrupting)—Kebels. Mr. DOOLITTL® (resumi Soiwe of thei were in the rebellion and some them were not. fn my opinion thoe men are rebels who are against (he con- stitution, He i® @ rebel who is opposed to the constitution and would trample tt under his feet, | hat the Senate amendments are coucurred in, and # fursher amendment inserted, which, on motion, was concurred in, and the bill gocs to the Presi dent. THE RESTORATION QUESTION RESUMED. Mr. SHeeMAN continved, detailing the Infinences that ope id to defeat the constitution in Alabama, saying that aa none but those im favor of the consti- tution went to the polle it was an easy matter to tian nations. We acknowledge with. pleasure government should beheld at the command of any ae vi cmeecuter those who voted for it. Nine-| whether he belougs to California or yedial and enlightened "saoption. of that policy citizen who ni desire to inspect them or take tenthe it the loyal people of Alabama were in favor | other piace Mr. ite proceeded to ret tne onsen hations, acting in coucert with the | copies therefrom, without let or hindrance from the | of the onstitution, and ra a ae Iota on ate ae ‘an won ‘ Chang Me ed States, especial! . France, “ * " r the opinion of 0) e y by Great Britain, France, | pupiic oMeer who may have temporary control over S A doubt that ten? thousand voters had been | pray areas §=to continue over them the pf the sword rather than force them to submit asia, North Germany, ttaly, Denmark, Sweden, oliand and Belgium. “f deer it not unworthy of occasion to bear witness to the merit of the them, and concluding by making a peremptory ae- mand for the paper in question. ts excluded because of their re from the places ru of their registration. If Alubamna was not now ad | to the rule of the negro. He said such was the con- resentative nts wh ni . ds of ber best men would | current testimony of nine-tenths of all the witite culminated in Urinyiug ihe empire of Chit The Canadian Government Desires Another | Miited tons of thonnanly i iT agthey were they | poovle of we South. He quoted Mr. Lincoln's de- Ty into the family circle of Meciprocity Treaty. would never return—and (hit upon a mere technical | slaration that he was not tn favor of the sorial or politieal equality of them », wade in the debate with Mr. Douglas in 1868, Jefferson also, white wiitling that she negro mnuat be free, had maid (hat uid never jive On equal terns with ine white Doolive ched ular quimeams wud facts objection, It was a trap that Congress ought to de. feat. Mr. SreWARr, (rep.) of Nevada, was satiafied that the same test applied to Alabama ax had been . died tg omer biates--vewely, & majority Of Prince Kang and Wenshian on part of China; yourself, Mr. Burlingame, ou the the United Siaies; the lamented Str Frederick the British part; Mr. Berthemy on behalt of ; aod Movers. Bailizck and ¥ Langnily op The British Minister, it t# said, has addressed a letter to the Secretary of State calling attention to ihe fact that the Canadian government admits Ameri- can con) figy of duty; that it has reaigtes the pressure a he wan, Mr. HAS SA HPL SP, rep.) oF Ind doubt, rome jevte thine appear, that a majority of of negro equatity and reconstruction, ir tue iar} of Mr. Lincotn that change oe The they vote could get—negroes, monkeys, tad- Nee sie ne son g » fo corr statement made by Mr. little. to the enct that Governor Perry was a Union man. He said he had @ document home showing that that gentleman had held a position in the rebel service, which, he thought, was Commissioner for hupressment into the rel He hast also a copy of the Charleston Courier of 40 1861, containing a ot made by Mr. Perry on May 20, 1861, saying, ‘I give iny son, two horses and @ negro boy to the Brook's cavalry, and will give my services whenever they tauy be re- Gara? is pot that man, Mr, Summer asked, a rebel? Mr. Doosirrne adhered to his opinion, and said he would settle the point with the Senator after further examination, Mr. CONKLING called Mr, Wilson to account for having sald that the law in regard to the required majo ty of registered voters could not be defended, He from the Glove'the record of the proceedings at the time of its passage, showing that Mr. Wilson had twice voted for it, He then proceeded to defend that provision aa a just and expedient one, At half-past four o’clock it was evident that no ‘tion could be had on the bill this evening. and, on motion of Mr. Conness, the Senate went into exocn- tive session and soon after adjourned, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASAINGION, June 5, 1868, Mr. LAWRENCE, (rep.) of Ohio, presented a resolu. tion of the Ohio Legislature for the survey of the Miami and Erie Canal, for the,purpose of enlarging it to the capacity of a ship canal connecting the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers with the great lakes, He remarked thaf he had already in- troduced a bill to secure the ship canal, wiuch he regarded as of more importance ‘than the proposed ship canal from Chicago by way of Joliet to La Salle, The resolution was referred to the Commit- tee on Commerce, Mr. DAWES, (rep.) of Mass., offered a resoiation calles for the report of Brevet Brigadier General Russling to the Quartermaster General for the year ending June 30, 1867, which was adopted. PRINTING REPORTS, Mr. LAFLIN, (rep.) of N. Y., from the Committee on Printing, reported resolutions for printing 15,000 extra copies of the be pr of the Commissioner of Patents; 5,000 copies of the Sinithsonian Institute, and 2,500 copies of the Coast Survey wes adopted. Also a resolution to print: of the let! of the Secretary of the Treasu report of George W. Brega, relating to the (rade with the British North American provinces, Mr. HARDING, (rep.) of IIL, opposed the resolution, stating that the report was partisan representation of one side of the question, and au argument for a new Reciprocity Treaty. Mr. BLAINE, (rep.) of Me., agreed with Mr. Hard- ing, and hoped that the report would not be printed. ir. LAFLIN remarked that the Committee on Print- ing could not be supposed to read all the documents referred to. This report was in type and it was only proposed to print twenty-five hundred extra copica, the cost of which would be $167, After some further discussion the resolution was withdrawn for the present. THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. BL. from the Conference Committee on the Army Ap) ‘lution bill, made a report,which, after an explanation, was agreed to, ax there was no question of public interest involved, REPORTS OF A PRIVATE CHARACTER, The House pros ed, as the business of ihe morn- ing hour, to the consideration of reports of a private character from committees. Mr. TERRY, (rep.) of Mich., from the Committee on Naval Afuirs, reported a joint resolution direct ing the President to advance Captain ‘Thomas H. Stevens, United States Navy, not exceeding twenty-one numbers, on the list of captains iu the navy -for gallant, faithful and eficient service during the late war. Mr. Terry explained the circumstances, and pronounced a high eulogy on the bravery, merit aud modesty of Captain Stevens. Mr. BROMWELL, (rep.) of Il)., said that there were other instances of a like kind and mentioned the case of Commander Young. ‘The joint resolution was passed. Mr. Hataur, (dem.) of N. J, from the mittee, reported a bill for the relief of aruapder John L. Davis, appropriating $271, which was passed; also a joint resolution for the restoration of Captain James 8. Armatrong, United States Navy, from the retired list to the active list. After an ex- planation the joint resolntion was passed. Mr. Jones, (dem.) of Ky., introduced a bill to ereet United States court. roots, post office and internal revenue oMices in the city of Covington, Ky. Re- ferred to the Commitiee on Appropriations. Mr. MULLINS, (rep.) of Tenn., from tie Committee on Kr volutionary Pensions, reported back the Senute bill to give George Lynch, a soldier of the war of 1812, @ pension of twenty dollars a month instead of eight dollars. Passed, ir. FLANDERS, of Washington Territory, intro- duced a bill to enable Clark county, in Washington ‘Territory, to provide a fund for extinguishing ite ppereancte. Referred to the Committee on Terri- tories, Mr. PERHAM, (rep.) of Me., from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported @ bill relating to pensions, The first section construes the Copy ension laws 80 a8 to give precedence to relatives of deceased per- sons leaving neither widow nor child, in the follow- ing order:—First, mothers; secondiy, fathers; third, copies brothers and sisters, who shall be pensioned jointly if there be more than one, ‘The other sections ply to matters of detail, After discussion and ex- planation the biil w Pace Mr. Dricas, (rep.) of Mich,, introduced a bill to authorize front progierors co the Menomonee river in Michigan and Wisconsin, a8 riparian owners, to have surveyed and to enter the fast lands in that Referred to the Commitiee on Public Lanes, THE TAN BILL, ‘The House then, at haif-past one, went into Com- mittee of the Whole on the Tax bill, Mr. Pomeroy in the chair, sixth section, which gives the ap- polutment of al! revenue officers to the Commmixsion- er, being under considerate Mr. Woop, (dem. section by provi ‘The report me com river. moved to amend the ¢ ppointments shall be made by and with the advice and consent of the Representatives in Congress from the district in which the duty 18 pers vocated the ainendm e Mr. Wak», (rep.) of + Opposed the Whole pro- Position as conferring ‘too vast a power upoDd a single person, They had no assurance thw nedi~ ately after the adjourniwent of Congress thy Commissioner would not be suspended and man appointed in whom they had no confiden who could turn ont of oMce every revenne who might be obnoxious to bin, against a law that would vest In the Presic the whiskey rings which surrounded hit i to nullify the revenue laws. Mr. SCHENCK, (rep.) of Ohio, opposed amendment, and mention ws au ilinstral Way it would work, tte that te Cols Assessor of the district commended for removal mohths ago—t for gross inatiention to business and the ¢ for hopeless ignorance of the law, and man “ y to learn it, ir. Woop sald he had no disposition to a favts, but argued that they proved sothing his proposition. If the responsit on the inembers respectively there ber who would dare to matutain 1b office, id be improper ofttetals ndinent offered by Mr. Wood was rejected. Mr. DAWkS commented on the fact tha: um (he midst of a Presidential canvass the whole Internat Revenue Department of the government was to be stricken down. Deplorable as (he adininistration of that department was at present, and rumous as it was to the interests of the couniry, matiers would be still worse if, as would be the effect of the passage of tis bill, there were no officer at its head, and when #ix thousand oMicers were swept away “al one fell swoop.” Mr. MAYNARD, (rep) of ‘Tenn., replied to Mr, Dawes, aud said that the Committee of Ways and véans had been, in the preparation of this bill, try- to solve a finsneial, not a political problem, ir. Boren (rep.), of Mass., thoved to amend tbe section by faserting the word “not, so tual the Commissioner shall not Pave power to appoint officers. In his judgment the lirst section oP eke pil! legisiated out of office the Commissioner of Internal Revenue; it abolished the burean and created the department; aud Congress could not push the head of # bureau bodily into a department. The appointment of the head of a department was in the President, by and with the cousent of the Senate, The effect would be to give the contro! of all the revenue offices to the Pfemdent in the midst of a Pre- sidential canvass, and Whoever denied that, then him had he (Mr. Butler) offended. 1. SCHENCK replied to Mr. Butler's argument and declared that the adoption of his amendment would destroy the bill, If gentlemen wanted the country to be committed to the existing tem he wished them to say 80. Mr. Perens, (rep.) of Me., bad no doult, as a law- yer, that if the trst and sixth sections of the law were passed Mr. Commissioner Rollins wou'd be legisiated out of office, and no person on earth had the power to fill the office ex wient of the United States. He protested ™ the atate of Maine the assessors and collectors were honorable meo, If the tax on whiskey were lowered to seventy: tive or fifty cents the temptation for fraud would then be removed and there would be no ne eeaity for the proposed change. Mr. Lowan, (rep.) of UL, sald he could not uader- stand the arguments made inst ihe fret and sixth sections. The object those sections was amgly to confine the responsibility for the collection of the revenue to one man, It was mere political claptrap to say that the law would give (he Pres t power to remove all the revenue officers of the ev! try because he now had power to remove every lector and assessor. Mr. Perens reminded Mr. Logan thut that could not be done without the advice and conseut of the Senate. » , Mr. Logan admitted that, but said that the Preai- dent could suspend them as he had suspenied Mr. —_—s and what wan-tne seusedy? ‘They tui tried — ment and bad failed. ir. BROR, (dem) of Ky., offered an amendment to regulate the appointment and removal of revenue officers aecording to the system provided in the Civil Service bill, as reported by the Joint Committee ‘on Retrenehment. After a few remarks he withdrew the amendment. dr. FNegnaons. oom ) of HL, moved to amend the 4 at ee sixth section ty scribing os he wi - and fO ag the nt those the President by and with the and of the Senate, and to give the appot Y meas of dinate oMcers to the Commissioner of Internal venut, He argued in support of the Mr SHU ) of O., argue that the Ir, SHRLLABARGER, (1 of a de finan offer wise heappotate 7 the President, by and with the advice consent of the Sepate. Nol was clearer to his mind thar that. It followed that Co could not expand an inferior onicer into one of those officers who must be anne appointed. hp Bicenae the coneaanas con nol avol or evar a sue! 4 Would it not be queer that Mr A whose a neas for a Commissioner the Senate had passed, Should be expanded into the head of a department, in regard to which position the Senate had not Passed ou his fines? It followed that the President Would have to appoint a man to the oifice thus pro- vided, and this imau would have (under the sixth see- tion) power to remove all the revenue oMcery throughout the conntry, thus destroying whatever little Virtue Gad been left’ in the Civil Tenure act by the late action of the Senate, Mr. SrevENs, (rep.) of Pa., remarked that it seemed to him that the House had’ al perpetrated one unconstitutional act by attempting to appoint the head of a bureau. fe was proceeding to state his Views on the sudject, when he excused himself and’ resumed bis seat, saying that he was unable to con- “ae = reaiarks. ir. BUTLER, referring to Mr, Schenck's argwnent? as to the President having the power ew to re move the four hundred odd collectors and aeseasors? said that the President was not likely to commits wholesale act of that kind, because, “ie he did, there Was not money enoagh in the wi ey ring to boy his acquitial on an impeachment. Mr. Boawscx, sad Hoes. Uf sentionen esived ta: perfeet, not fo destroy the. they uu ropose some amendinent looking to that object. ithe eoin- inittee did not see how it could apply to.the Revenue Department al the pi les. of the Civil Service bill, though he or of seeing them applied to all the departments. ot the government. Mr, KNorr, (dem,) of Re Proposed to amend the section by adding a prov at no collector or as- sessor should be removed from. ofiice .by. the.Com- missioner except for cause. fle saw that the collector and assessor of his district were He and faithful ofticers. He argued that the autocratic power of appointing and removing such an immense army of oficials ought not to be given t one Man, and that if it were its excess should be limited, as proposed in his ainendment, ir, GARFIELD, (Pear) of Ohio, referring to’ Mr. Schenck’s intimation that those. who opposed the new system should propose plans of their own, said it was not for members generally to do so, but that 1t was for the Committee on Ways and Means. He thought the question should be brought to a test at once, and therefore he asked that the vote be taken on is motion made last night to strike out che eixtl section. Mr. INGERSOLL moved to amend the sixth section by providing that the President shall have power to appoint and remove all collectors and assessors, and that the Commissioner shall appoint and remove alt the subordinate oMicers, This would leave the pow- ers of appointment and removal where they now were, Mr. SCHENCK regarded Mr, Ingersoll’s proposition asa sortof compromise, If they could not get more than that, even that with the Commtssioner’s office a3 an independent department would still be an im. provement. lis colleague (Garfleid) showed that he was in favor of retaining the present system; but he (Schenck) and the committee acting with him, after Months of patient research and examination of the whole question, came to the conclusion that the present system was a fatlure, Mr. Logan replied to the objection maite to the sixth section, He declared that he would rather to- day that the democratic had the head of the Internal Revenue Department than the republican party, because the democratic yy would then be responsible for the non-collection of the revenue. One thing certain, that no man could be put in t) lace who would collect leas revenue than Mr. Rol- fas. Of what benefit was Mr. Rollins to the country and to the republican party in view of the fact the man Wooley, now in custody of the House, hart himself made or procured the appointment of one of the most important officers in the revenue? If the President wanted to appoint anybody im Mr. Rollins’ lace let him do so, and let the President and Senate ht It out. rhe debate was closed by order of the Honse, The various amendments which had been offered from time to time had been either withdrawn or rejected, and the question was narrowed down to the motion of Mr, Garfleid to atrike out the sixth section. ‘The vote was taken by tellera and resulted ayes 64, see. So the sixth section wes struck oat. committee then proceeded to the consideration of the seventh seetion, which provides a si Ny of internal revenue foreach judicial district and re- ulates his duties, &c. The provision that be shall faye power totransfer officers from one distillery or lace of duty to another was, on motion of CHENCK, struck out. Mr. KNorr moved to strike out the provision which authorizes the Supervisor to examine persons, papers, books, accounts, &c., and which, Mr. Knott contended, was in contravention of the constitution, Mr. ALLISON, (rep.) of lowa, said that this was pre- cisely the provision of the present law. Assessors had that power now. ‘The amendinent was rejected, ‘The committee then proceeded to the consideration of the eighth section, which regulates the duties, &c., of internal revenue storekee} Several amendments of details having been offered by Mr. Schenck and agreed to, Mr. Logas moved to strike out the whole section, because it provided for bonded warehouses, and if the whiskey tax were reduced and were to be collected at the still worm— the only way In which the tax could be collected. there would be no need of bonded warehouses, Mr. ScHeNCK opposed the motion, stating that bonded warehouses were for storing other articles besiles spirits, and also that if the whiskey tax should not he reduced it would be necessary to have the system of bonded warehouses provided for in the generat bill. Mr, Logan said he had been all the time to bonded waretionses, becanse they were tht es source of whiskey and tobacco frauds. Tet the whiskey tax be reduced to twenty or twenty-five cents and the distillers could afford rhe at the still, Thousands of barrels of wi y, on one retence or other, had been removed from the yonded warehouses, without paying a ceat, by the authority of the head of the rtment. Mr. Covone, (rep.) of Pa., he had just tecetved a note from the Collector of his district that 1,900,000 alions of whiskey were now in bond in the ware - houses of that district, Since distillers had been forbidden to ship their whiskey in bond they had not been able to dispose of it, because they could not afford to pay two dollars a gallon tax and then sell the whis at one dollar and fifty cents—ihe prices in the astern market. sii rifle oN argued inst si Mig on sec se it WAS vitalto the harmony of the gen- eral provisions of the bill. Mr. Jupp, (rep.) of [i1., asked for information that would reconetie the seerion with the law which Con- gress had this session passed under such a farote of excitement, In to bonded warekonses for whiskey. He had hoped that the committe would have submitted a system which would do sway with alithe bonded warehouses and haye ibe tax eol- lectend at the distillery. Mr. Woup remunked that the two geu‘lemen from Iinols (Messrs, Logan and Judd) had at last strack the nail upon the head, It was by we bonded ware- house systern that allthe whiskey frauds bad rpetrated. ‘The tax should be collected at the the whiskey is manufactured, and then ail thix machinery and al! this opportunity. for fraud would be dispensed with, Mr. Senence defended the section as being a gen- eral provision for warehouses. He admit that if Congress should provide that all the tax on wi should be collected at the distillery, and all the tax on tobacco coflected at the manufactory, then c wonld be ao need for the section, which would only nugatery, not mischievous, and no officers woul be appointed under it. Mr. Myers, (rep.) of Pa., remarked that all the facts in relation to whiskey frauds showed that the government had not the right system, A committee of which he was a member nad last session a report on which no action had been taken. ‘That the proper way to get at the tax was to tax the fer- wenting capacity of distilleries, He proposed to offer a resointion to that effect, It was the system. adopted in Prassia and Austria, Why should ff not he tried here for at least ayear? Let the tax be re- «hiced to a dollar or to seventy-five cents, and jet v4 fermenting capacity of distilleries be taxed, and believed « large proportion of the tax would be col- leeted. After farther discnasion, and without taking & vote ee at half-past four took on the segtion, tive con & Tecess until Nalf-past seven. Eveuing Session. The House resumed its se@sion at ral f-past seven o'clock. Mr, Jvon withdrew his motion to strike out te eightn section, with the understanding that the pec- tion would be reserved for amendment in view of futare action on the whisky tax. ‘The committee then proceeded to the ninth seg. tion, which regalates the appoinffuen: and duties of wyeneral ameudtments of details ote been made. Mr. GaKerteLp moved to amend by ving, the. ea pointment of gaugers to the Seeretary of the Treasury Instead of to tite Commissioner, ‘There being 09 Quorum present the question was reserved, The to the co! Ir. minities then proceeded sideration of the teuth section, whtoh regulates the division of ase ye k Howre, (reps Ind, offered a substitute to constitute State and Territory a cotiectton dts- wee ane in States where there are lurge cirtes, wi No other amendment was offered to the section. No amenument of importance was: made tw sec-, tiona eleven, twelve or thirteen. On motion of Mr. AcHENCE, ection fourteen w: No amendment was made to section fiftern, regu- lating the acceunts of assistant assessors. Several amendments of detalles were Wile to fec~ tion sixteen, which regulates the pay and aliow~ ances of assessors. . LAWKENC reduce tes yet orki that mechanics did not average jan go a . on third more tha the — a4 — to or He superintendent's of ot an it assessor more than he Sond pay an itfad mat He had expected to CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE