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WASHINGTON Removal of General Irwin McDowell from the Command of the Fourth Military District. Riotous Conduct of Negroes in Virginia. Proposed Exclusion of the Votes ef the Cnor- ganized Southern States from the Electoral College. The Tariff Bill Reported to the House. Wasninoton, July 1, 186% Removal of General McDowell from Com- mand of the Fourth Military District. The folowing order has been promulgated from the War Department:—- ® GENERAL ORDRI NO. 33. HRADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ) ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OF FICE, WASHINGTON, June 30, 1863.) By direction of the President of the Uniled States the following orders are made:— First—Brevet Major General Irwin McDowell 1s re- Heved from the command of the Fourth Military Dis- trict, and will report.tn person, without delay, at the War Department. Second,—Brevet Major General Alvan C, Gillem is assigned to the commagd of the Fourth Military Dis- trict, and will assume#ommand without delay: By command of a General GRAN E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General, ‘The Fourth Military District comprises the States of Mississipp! and Arkansas. Riotous Conduct of Negroes in Virgin! There has been a speck of war at Freedmen’s Vil- lage, a settlement of colored indolents and invalids, lying on the Virginia side of Long Bridge , close by Arlington Heights, The cause of this little rebellion was hogs. Dr. Howard, who is relative of the pat- riotic General 0. 0. Howard, proclaimed war against the porkers inhabiting the village, considering them intruders not recogized by act of Congress, and as Prolific sources of disease not beneficial to the hygiene of the village. It seems the Colored inhabitants of the place had accumulated a number of hogs In numerous pens throughout the village, and Dr. Howard condemned the aforesalc hogs and pens, and ordered their removal. The freedmen objected to the Doctor’s ideas of hygiene and resolved to “root hog or die’ sooner than sur- render their precious privileges. The Doctor was Orm, and ordered out a force to remove the nuisances, When a collision occurred, in which the favorite weapon of the colored patriot—to wit, the razor— came into prominent display. The Doctor’s agents were dispersed, and a colored messenger named Jacob Smith, who was spotted by the incensed @arkies as an informer and enemy of his race, was threatened with terrific punishment. Some of the more furlous freedmen set upon poor Jake, who was only saved from death by extraordinary effort. Dr, Mclivaine, a surgeon of the United States Army, re- celved a gash over the nose from a razor while en- deavoring to rescue Jake from the hands of an as- satlant. Another attaché of the Superintendent's Mice was likewise injured while similarly engaged. The - military guards were called for in time and prevented any more dangerous re. sults. Dr. Howard has since caused the re- moval of the nuisances which led to the Aisturbance and a strong detachment of the Twelfth infantry is now posted about the village to preserve order. Exclusive of the military there are only four ‘White persons connected with the management of the Freedmen’s Village. These are Dr. Howard, Dr. Mclivaine, Miss Heacock and Mr. Hennessy. The colored people residing at the village are the very ‘worst class, being both ignorant and brutal tn their habits. It may be supposed, therefore, how charm- ing and enviable is the post of these four white folka set in authority over the freedmen. A great effort has been made to suppress the particulars of the case through tender regard for the reputation of the colored pets of Congress and Gene- ral Howard, but these facts came to my knowledge to-day. A special commission has been sent to the village by General Howard to investigate the facts, and areport will soon be ready. Six of the ring- Jeaders of the rioters have been arrested and con fined im the Alexandria jail. Some of them are ‘women. Movements of the Chinese Embassy. Mr. Burlingame, since his return from New York, bas passed the larger portion of his time in the State Depastment, pursuing the immediate object of his mission—a treaty of amity and commerce between the governments of Washington and -Pekin. fhe arduous labors of Mr. Burlingame and the Secretary of State are progressing finely, and it is expected that not many days will have elapsed when their task may be consklered approximating its close. This afternoon Mr. Burlingame visited the House of Representatives, particularly to hear Thad Strvens’ speech in favor of the acquisition of Alaska. Mr. Burlingame thinks many advantages of a com- mercial nature as well as in potnt of resources will accrue from the purchase of this valuable and exten- sive region. Tho Indian Treaty Swindles. The opposition started in the House by Mr. Julian on the subject of the Indian treaty swindles now pending in the Senate, it is understood, has #0 dis- concerted that body that a disposition is now mani- feoted not to act in these measures this session. Nominations Confirmed by the Se ‘The Senate this afternoon confirmed the following nominations Daniel M. Fleming, Assessor Interna! Kevenue, Fourth district, Obio. , Postmaster at Pottstown, Pa. vis, meiter and refiner in branch mint, Denver, Colorado. Edward ©. Darlington, Collector of Customs at Yorktown, Va. John J, Robinson, of Tennessee, Consul at St. Weat Indies. Harrison Theobus, Postmaster at Old. Point Com- fort. Thomas William Ward, Collector of Customs for | the district of Corpus Christi, Texas. Benjamin ©. Nigon, Postmaster, Jeffersonville, In- the ! bends ten per cent. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET.: ‘Texas, amended to divide Texas into three States instead of two, as at firet proposed. The eommittee instructed Governor Boutwell to prepare another bill for the removal of political disabilities. Order in Relation to the Pay of Engineer Boards. Secretary Schorield has issued a genera! order pro- viding that members and recorders of boards of engineers convened for the various purposes for which such boards are called together shall be allowed the same per diem that is allowed to mem- bers of courts martial. Bill to Tax Interest on United States Bonde je be Reported. The Committee of Ways and Means has agreed to report @ bill, im obedience to the resolution offered by Mr. Cobb, of Wisconsin, and adopted by the House last Monday, to tax the interest of United States The report will be made to- morrcw. Statistical Summary. MONTHLY REPORT OF THE STATISTICAL BUREAU, ‘The monthly summary just prepared by the Statis- ‘eal Bureau gives the following bighly important results) — The total vaiue of imported merchandise for the months of January, February, March and April, 1868, follows:—January, $22,254,857; Februar: 785,037; March, $39,175,938; April, $34,313, Th gold value of exports was as follow: January, — $33,409,363; February, — $31,162,091 March, "$33,169,263; April, $31,499,104. “The value of foreign ‘commodittes remathing in warehouse at the cioge of the months named was as follows Janua DrUarY, $39,763,901; March, $89, 40 7,662. ‘Fhe total vaiue of the gold exported was $20,095,249; imported, $5,213,300. The value of the products of American fisheries dur- ing the quarter ending Mareh 31 was: rm oll, $214,618; other whale* oil, $170,157; whalebone, ry Total, $560,497. The number of passen- gers who arrived at New York during the same period was 30,404; at Portland, 2,499; Boston, 1,972; San Francisco, 1,605; Baltimore, 484. The value of goods in warehouses was as follows:— March 31, April 30. Bleached and unbleached cotton. $339,273 $345,626 Printed, painted or colored cotton, 278,731 181,050 Jeans, denims, drillings, &c. . 130,324 57,249 Woollen cloths and cassimeres, ..1,215,589 1,119,198. Carpets: 317,560 341,479 Dress goods. 1,860,113 1,504,091 The value of foreign commodities remaining in the warehouse at Boston April 30 was $6,190,829; at New York, $26,530,646; at Baltimore, $2,207,950. STARTLING DISCLOSURES. The Operations of an E rant Aid Company Under the Law of Congress Establishing White Slavery or Peonage in the United States, Approved July 4, 1864—The Don- nelly and Other Emigration BiHs Parts of the Same Job—How Emigrants Are Sold into Servitude to Pay Their Passage—As- sisting Emigrants to Buy Lands, the Seller Making from Oue Hundred to Four Hun- dred per Cent Profit. WASHINGTON, June 30, 1868. About this time, as the almanac makers would say, 100k out for jobs in Congress, The last month of the session, when both houses are thin and perhaps no quorum insisted upon, ts the time generally se lected to put through the most nefarious jobs. There is one known as the Gibson, Donnelly and Flanders Emigration job, now brewing in the House Commit- tee on Foreign Affairs, that ts so likely to slip through without the yeas and nays that I am constrained to throw a flood of light upon it. Mr. Robert Gibson petitions Congress for the ap- pointment of a “Consular Immigration Agent, whose duties would be to distribute and diffuse gratuitously all useful and important details relating to each State and Territory of the United States, to the people of Great Britain and Ireland, with a head office at Liverpool, and sub-ofices at Glasgow and Dublin, Said agent would be ready to receive proposals from States, colonization societies, railway corporations and individuals as to business of any kind; while his endorsement and authority by the United States government would give him great power and advantage to manage anything practical, this endorsement being really the chief aim,” &c. Hon, Ignatius Donnelly’s bill is introduced ‘to establish, under the direction of the Secretary of State, agencies in Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and Norway, forthe promotion of emigration to the United States.” Hon 4 Planders? pill io “to establish an unpaid emigration agency at Liverpool, Glasgow and Dub- lin, in Great Britain and Ireland.” Both these bills and the petition are before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Their object is to ex- tend and facilitate the operations of certain “emi- grant aid” and “colonization societies,” and to en- large the United States Bureau of Emigration, already existing under the law of Congress, entitled “An act to encourage emigration,” approved July 4, 1864, : Very few are aware of the existence of such alaw except the parties operating under it. It was slipped through Congress during the heated term of 1864, when both war and weather facilitated its passage. It creates four sinecures in the State Department, and establishes peonage, or a species of white slavery, in the United States. The first two sections are as follows:— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That the President of the United States ts hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Commis- sioner of Immigration, who shall be subject to the direction of the Department of State, shail hold his office for four years, and shall receive a salary at the rate of $2,500 a year. The said Commissioner may employ not more than three clerks, of such grade as the Secretary of State shall designate, to be appointed by him, with the approval of the Secretary of State, and to hold their offices at his pleasure, Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all con- tracts that shall be made by emigrants to the United States in foreign countries, in conformity to regula- tions that may be established by the said Commis- sioner, whereby emigrants shall pledge the wages of their labor for a term not ex ling twelve months to repay the e: ses Of their emigration, shall be held to be valid in law, and may be enforced in the courts of the United States, or of the several States and Territories. id such advances, if so stipulated in the contract, and the contract be recorded in the recorder’s office in the county where the emigrant shall settle, shall operate as a lien upon any land thereafter acquired by the emigrant, whether under the Homestead,law when the title is consummated, or on property otherwise acquired, until liquidated by the emigrant. The remaining five and a half sections of the law contain a little buncombe ostensibly for the protec- tion of emigrants and an appropriation of $25,000 to pay the sinecures the first year, It is very strange that the aame Congress that abolished negro slavery should at the same time re-establish the old colonial jaws permitting White emigrants to be soid into ser- vitude in the United States to pay expense of paa- sage, as provided by the terms of a contract made in a foreign country where relative values are entirely lana. Hiram Calkins, of Wisconsin, to be Receiver of Public Moneys for the district of lands subject to ale at St. Croix, Wisconsin. | John Burke, of Louisiana, to be Receiver of Public Moneys for the district of lands subject to sale at New Orleans. Witham Murphy, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth Collection district of Kentucky, Richard T. Miller, Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court of Idaho Territory. | Constance K. Hall, Collector of Customs for the | district of Texa Nominations Rejected by the Senate. The Senate rejected the following nominatiot James R, Hubbell, of Ohio, Minister to Ecuador. George Hubbard, Collector of Customs at Stoning: , Conn. | Andrew J. Moulder, of Caltfornia, to be Surveyor General of that State. | Harvey Beckwith, Superiniendent of the branch | mint at San Francisco. Mr. Evart# Nomination Not Yet Acted Upon. The Jndiciary Committee of the Senate met to-day, | but did not act on the nomination of William M. | Evarts, which was laid over until after Butler's re- port to the Honse. Recelpt of Goverument Bonds by the Union Pacific Railroad. Yn yesterday's statement of the amount of United States bonds issued to the several Pacific ratiroads and the repayment thereon by transportation of goverument freight, according to the fifth section of the act of 1864, the Union Pacific Ratlroad should have been credited with $592,621 85 instead of $30,949 07, as reported. The former sum is one-half the amount of government transportation to May 1, 1968, The Senate Committee on the Tax Bill. The Senate Finance Cominittee had under consid eration the section on Tax bill today. Mr. Sbesman expects to report the bill with amend ments to-morrow. Praceodings of the Reconstruction Co: The Reconstruction Committee to-day authorized Thad Stevens to report jig WIV for the livigion gf |} of Cherokee neutral | under the laws of Connecticut and bleased for a time | workmen, whereby, under « unknown to the emigrant making it. The most extensive operators under this law appear to be the American Emigrant Company, land notoriety, incorporated with Mr. John Williams, the self-styled author of the national bank system, as General Agent for Emigra- tion. The face of the broad geal of the company, as well. asthe advertisements in its oMfcial organ, inform us that “the American Emigrant Company” is “in- corporated for the purpose of procuring and aassiat- ing immigration.” How it assists emigrante can be seen by another advertisement in the same paper, which states that ‘the American Emigrant Company possesses tracts of land in the State of Iowa to the extent of several hundred thousand acres, which it offers for aale to actual settiers on terms particularly advantageous. The price will range from two anda half to five dollars per acre.’ 1am informed by good authority that these lands were obtained under the Swamp Land acs, at a cost to the company of less than fifty cents peracre. But sup- posing the full government price of $1 25 per acre was paid, it will be readily seen that the American Emigrant Company is engaged in the work of “as- sisting” itself rather than the “Immigrants,” par- ticularly when you take into consideration the fact that these poor settiors are really entitled to the lands gratis under the Homestead law, if this grasp- ing monopolist had not interposed. Though incorporated under the laws of Connecti- | cut the American Emigrant Company states under its broad seal that “it undertakes, under the sanc- tion of the law of the United States, to make con- tracts on behalf of American employers with British n conditions, the expenses of the workmen are advanced, to be repaid by instalments out of the earnings of the emigrant.’? In short, the Emigrant Company will undertake to egil, to emigrants who have money, their lands, “of Senators, with the understanding that it will be which, under the Homestead law, should be @istri- | Patent Omice fund, for the buted gratis, at from one hundred to four hundred Per cent profit, while pauper emigrants will be sold to pay passage money. Here are letters showing how it is done:— AMERICAN EMIGRANT COMPANY, Xe 3Bowuna es, New You«, Dec. 11, ieee, | ‘Deam Siu—Your esteemed favors of the 20th and 30th ult. and 1st instant all came safe to hand om the sb instant, enclosing Do... Also orders for it hands for 1. twent, netx hands for Mhoon. we r! to get there is any large number to go or anything cult journey to perform. ° 1am, dear sir, yours most trul) JOUN WILLIAMS, General Agent for Emigration. In place of “risk of losing’’ in this precious docu- ment read “risk of running away,” and for “econ- ductor” read ‘‘overseer,” and you will see the aystem as it is—nothing more or less than peonage. A letter from another emigrant aid concern is as follows:— . ALEXANDRIA, Va, 186—, DEAR Sir—We beg leave to inform you that we have completed arrangements by which we wili be able to supply at short notice German laborers, with or without families, on the following conditions:— Laboring men at $100 per annum; wom boys and girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen ears, hall price, Board and lodging of course to be nished them, both of a character as w: tomarily given to the former sy#tem of labor State. Payments not to be made in advan contracts to be signed by both parties, Our charge is $25 per head for men and women, and $12 50 for boys and girla from twelve to fifteen years of age. These charges must be prepaid tw every Instance—such being our contract—the money to accompany the order, Of this charge $10 is to be deducted from the wages of the men and women, and $5 from the boys and girls, from their first year’s wages. These Germans are te be industrious people—far- mers, gardeners, dairymen, &c. All orders will be promptly forwarded, and you will be notified of the time of the arrival of the la- borers at our oMice, and any expense incurred by our not promptly meeting them will have to be paid y you. KNOX & SMITH, Or GEORGE WASHINGTON, Agents, Within the past few months these concerns have been growing more circumspect in their operations, but I have reason to believe that the eraof emigrant swindling has by no means come to an end, In- stead, therefore, of passing the Donnelly or Flanders bills to factlitate the operations of these land grab- bing, emigrant swindling and colonization earpora- tions, Congress should by all means repeal the Emi- gration law of 1864 without delay. The Bureau of Emigration at the State Department is of no earthiy use, THE FORTIETH CONGRESS. Second Session. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Jury 1, 1868. PROTESTS PRESENTED. Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) of N. Y., presented a protest of the wholesale liquor dealers of New York against portions of the pending Tax bill, Referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. SUMNER, (rep.) of Mass., presented a@ protest of Alexander H. Bullock, Governor, and other dts- tinguished citizens of Massachusetts, against the sanction by Congress of the recent action of the California, Uegisiature in giving certain rights in the Yosemite Valiey to private individuals, ferred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Mr. THAYER, (rep.) of Nev., presented several re- ee of the citizens of Kansas against the reaty. Also of several Osage chiefs of the same purport. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. CONNESS, (rep) of Cal., offered a@ resolution, which was adopted, asking the President to direct heade of departments to promulgate the recent bill Mee the hours of labor in government work- sho) TIE SOUTHERN STATRS AND THE ELECTORAL. Mr. EDMUNDS, (rep.) of Vt., called up the joint resolution to exclude from the electoral college votes of States iately in rebellion which shall not have been organized. The joint resolution as reported from the committee on the Judiciary is as follows:— Resolved, de. That the Sates of Virginia, North Carolina, South Caroling, Georgia, Florida, Alabina, Miseiae Loulslana, Arkensae ald Toras respectively etall nut be cent, ‘AS respect tled to representation in the electoral college for the choice of President or Vice President of the United Fecelved or the States. No electo- ral votes sball time yurauant to f, shall have, since the 4th stitution of State government @ government shail have been organtz ‘and sbail be in operation, and unless such election of electors shall have been held under the authority of such constitution rnment and such State al ave also hecome en: tit presentation in Congress pursuant to the act of Congress in that behalf. Mr. TRUMBULL, (rep.) Of Ill, regarded it as of much importance that Congress should take some action on the subject of the votes of the late rebel States, If @ count in the electoral colleges should be made excluding those States ‘the party against whom the count would operate would be very apt to claim that unfairness had been exercised, and from that cause, if any could make it possible, another rebellion might result. Mr. Trumbull continued his argument at considera- ble length, basing his opposition principally on the fact that the resolution would include Arkansas and Florida in its operation, these States having the same rights as Hiinois or Vermont, and contending also that the clause which prescribes that the elec- tion of electors shall be held under the authority of the State constitutions was improper and absurd, since by the constitution of the United States the manner of choosing electors was to be regulated simply by the laws of the respective States. At the conclusion of his remarks he offered an amendment to strike out from the resolution the words “Arkan- gas and Florida.” Mr. Davis, (dem.) of Ky., rose to speak, but the morning hour having expired, Mr. MORRILL, (rep.) of Me., culled for the order of the day. THE CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILT. Mr. EpMunpDs moved to lay it uside for the purpose of continuing his bill, and called for the yeas and nays. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, (rep.) of N. J., would vote against the motion, for the purpose of giving the Senate more time for consideration on this bill, The motion was rejected by a vote of 19 to 20, On motion of Mr. THayeR, (rep.) of Neb., @ night session was ordered for the consideration of private bills, and the Civil ae aha bill was taken up. The question was on Mr. Sherman's amendment from the committee, to place the Funding bill asa rider upon the Appropriation bill. Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, rose and withdrew the amendment, at the request, he said, of a number taken up as a separate bill, effect. Mr. HENDRICKS, (lem.) of Ind., offered the follow- ing amendment, and submitted a letter from th Secretary of the Treasury asking its adoption—‘To meet the expenses incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, $15,000, to be disbursed udner the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury""—which was agreed to. Mr. THAYER moved to amend by appropriating $4,800 for LAR he yin boundary between Nebraska and Colorado; which was amended, on motion of Mr. HARLAN, by requiring the money to be expended un- der the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and adopted. Mr. Pomeroy, (rep.) of Kansas, moved to increase the appropriation for surveying public lands in Ore- gon from $25,000 to $40,000; which was agreed to. Mr. Monaan, (rep.) of N. ¥., from the joint com- mittee on the library, offered an amendment to pay Mrs, Sarah F. Ames $509 additional compensation for her marble bust of President Lincoln, which was He gave notice to that to. POMRROY moved to increase the appropriation for surveying public lands in Nevada from $20,000 to $50,000, “Agreed to. Mr. Pomenoy moved to appropriate $20,000 for the survey of public lands in Florida. He understood that there was a large emigration now setting to- | wards that State. Mr. HENDRICKS thought there ought to be some ea- timate from the Land Office before such an appro- priation was made. i The amendment was adopted. Mr. Crain, (rep.) of N. H., offered an amendment proves that no repairs or improvements of the Japitol extension shall be made aniess under the direction of the supervising architect of the Treasury buildings. Adopted. Mr. CRAGIN sald that Yeretofore $10,000 had been ppropriated to pay the expenses of the impeach- ent of the President. The entire expenses of the furniture, witnesses, &c., would not trial inciadii bo over $16, pronaty something less. He moved oe ye Sag $4,000 additional to pay the expenses ‘of the trial. Mr, Pomeroy asked if the referred to the entire expense of the trial. Mr, CRAGIN meant so far as the Senate was con- cerned, The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Consett, (rep.) of Oregon, moved to appropri- ate $5),000 to construct @ custom house, post office and United States court house at Portland, Oregon. Adopted. Mr. STRWART, (rop.) of Nevada, offered an amend- ment appropriating $5,000 for the collection of statistics on mines and mining. Adopted. Mr. Coxs, (rep.) of Cal., offered an amendment ap- propriating $8,000 to enable the Secretary of the In- terior to institute measures for the planting and cul- tivation of trees on the plains. Adopted. Mr, WiLLRY, (rep.) of W. Va,, offered an amend. ment, appropr $1,800, to be paid out of the nator | | oratory, in which he (Mr. expenses of SgSite erg mie tages Mr. WILLEY another amendment author- Azing to rent ex- an amend- of labor authorizing em- aya satisfactory and favor- ries Mr. ANTHONY stated that és of the government same wages as are cl em- Bt Was agreed to, Mr. ANTHONY called attention to the mutilated combition of the bronze doors in the western end of the Capitel, and - stantly being carried ot, He ofteres directing their removal by the ‘of the Capitol to some place of secarity, The amendment was acopted, AeTRROON, (rep) of N. H., offered an amend- lirecting the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of executing the treaty of Washi made August 2, 1842, lo pay the State of Maine $1 26 per acre for 01,122 acres of land, and the State of Mas- sachuselia $1 25 per acre for 28,150 acres; provided those States agree with the United States that the settlers ascertained to be entitled to it by commis. sions hereiofore instituted shall have been quieted by @ release of the title of the said state, Messrs. Parrenson (N. H.) and Fessenpen made statements in regard to the mat'er, (o the edect that the fourth article of the «ald treaty provided that parties who had come in irom New Brunswick and settied on lands belonging to the States of Maine and Massachnsetia, wiih or without grants from the government of New Branswick, shall have their titles made good, As Massachusetts aud Maine had the fee sim of all the territory, they claim that the United States, whien ‘took it from them under the treaty made and gave it to private ties, shound, pay them for it. had already settled the principle by pay- ing private parties who had grants of land for lands taken from them hy the treaty and given to partics who came in from New Branswick and settied upon them, The claims of Massachusetts and Maine, who gave the tities to these private parties, must be equally, i. Over « thousand pos held vanes there without good titles, Massachusetts and Maine refusing to give lilies without receiving indemnity for them, In 1863, the year after the treaty was ratified, these States ted commissioners ty survey the land and determine the extent of the ob ligations of the government to private parties, The commissioners came to Wi on and the United States government paid their claims for this servicer, thereby recognizing tt# obligations. All the clatmes of those States for indemnity have been turned over to the Euro and North American Katiroad Com- butld a ratiroad from St, Jotn, New Hrans- Bangor, Me., to connect the province with ie, Mr. SHERMAN raised the point of order that it was @ private claim and that it did not arise out of any st on of the treaty. jensrs. FESSENDEN, and PATTERSON, Of N. H., con- tested the point. Messrs. HENDRICKS and ConKLING supported i. The tatter intimated that when the merits of the claim come to be examined it will be found to have no Validity, and he referred to former minority re. = to that eflect from the Commétice on Fordign ra, Mr. SUMNER contended that the potut of order war merely @ technical one, Shortly before five o'clock, pending a motion for an executive session, Mr. CONKLING introduced @ bill relative to the find whole length and breadth Ta ever gt a reads of the United States who territory: chusetts (Mr. ) ae ana me rete Sxeanane os the United ded upon v1 ion territory. That gentleman had oct off yesterday with the declaration that the Committee on Forel Affairs felt itto be its duty to report this bill. He (Mr, Washburn) asserted, however, that no majorit; of the committee had ever concurred in the rej re Four members of the committee were in favor oF ie report, four against it, and one member had given no opinion on the subject. Mr. BaNgs remarked that he had not stated that there was a majority of the whole committee in favor a report, although he believed that to be the Mr, WASHBURN said he was sorry the ‘gentleman's speech yesterday had not appeared in the Globe this morning, so that he might answer every one of his statements, He, however, took up the report of the majority of the committee and proceeded to criticise it. He declared that although it might be argued that Congress had never fatled to make the necessa1 Sppropriations to ceny out a treaty, the House hi always asserted its t to consider the question and to make or withhold the appropriation as it deemed fit. All the precedents, he sald, justified the House in exercising its best judgment in the matter. If Congress ayprcres ofthe treaty it should vote the money; if it disapproved of the treaty it should not vote the money, Mr, Washburn read from tue stipulations of the treaty of 1859 between Russia and Great Britain, giving the right of Sear Sry all the rivers and streams open- ing into the itlc Ocean, and showed that, under a re-existing menace Russia and the United tates, the same rights were conferred upon citizens of the United States; and that at the time this treaty was negotiated citizens of the United States had the right of navigating freely all the inland seas, gulfa aud ereeks along the coast for the purpose of fishing and trading with the natives. By the same treaty ES bo Britain the port of Sitka had been made a port. Mr. Pauyy, (dem.) of N. Y., remarked that the pre-existing treaty with the United States was only for ten years, and asked whether, by that expired treaty, the United States was entitled to all the privi- leges granted by Russia to the most favored nations ? Mr. WasunUnN replied that the treaty of 1832 had never been abrogated until a certain notice had been given, Which never had been fev: Mr. PROYN remarked that it might be terminated at any time. Mr. BLaine inquired how the transfer of the terri- would affect the treaties with otuer Powers, WASUBUKN said that when the treaty was first tiated the price fixed was only $7,000,000; but Mr, Seward had insisted that the United states should have the territory free from all encumbrances, Mr. Stoeck! had replied very promptly that he had complete authority to grant it free, and t ir. Seward volunteered to give $200,000 re. The encumbrances had been removed could not be removed. They were, first, the n to navigate the rivers of Alaska forever. How did the. Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Reia- Hons propose to get around that? Mr. Banws remarked that the right which Great Britain had acquired was to navigate the rivers jumbia and passing through Rus- ered the Stickeen river only. ich thts country bad claimed of the government—that where in the United States its citizens Ww it to its mouth, bo we concede (hat in reference to igh from the founda’ a river takes it have the right to Mr, BLAINE “ faim it, But we do not concede it to Great Britain . Mr. Wasneons— While we have claimed some- thing of the kind other nations have never conceded it. Do we have the free navigation of the St. Law- rence? Mr. It is not in our territory. Mr. Wasuneny went on to show that Great Britain ‘the same rights on the coast of Alaska as the Untied States had, except the right of governing = thousand or *ixty thousand miserable savages. K ‘ig (© & report made by the Commissioner of the General Land Ofice, he spoke of it as the report of Joe Wilson, recently made “Doctor of Philoso- | phy.” and declared that there was not a word of truth in it, Mr. Perens, (rep.) of Me., referring to the right of navigating the rivers of Alaska, mentioned the case of the St. Jobas river, which forts the boundary ne between Muine and New Brunswick for about x wandred miles, and said that although its largest tri- butaries took tts rise in Maine, Great Britain had of indictments tn the courts of the United States within the rebel States, which Was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. After @ short executive seamion the Senate took « | recess unt! half-past seven o'clock, PRIVATE Afier the recess Mr. Mon the bill for the relief of the Mr. Fi YSEN called ap the bill for the re- lief of the widow and childres of Colonel James and Yates, was passer. 4K tilt for the relief of rairix of Samuel J. Jones, Mr. WILLBY streneously tak! iF the absence of Mr. Lay & of the on Patents, who was in possession of all the fwo! Messrs. veeaae Mr, THAYER © Martha M. Joues, deceased, rofessing, however, the eet for the peneficiary, an amiable and ini lady, a# every Senator could testify, he had no (Langbter.) Mr. JOHNSON, (dem.) of Md.—1 can, for one. Mr. THAYER explained that he had not been aware of the absence of the chairman of the tee When he called up the bit, That Senator was aware, however, that the bill would be passed, After some debate between Messrs. Willey, Thayer and others, on its merits, the bill Was passe Mr. HLENDRICKS Called up tie bill to fmctiitate the settlement of certain cases in the Southern district of Florida, which was passed, Mr, STEWART Called up the bill for the relief of A. | J. Atocha, which elicited ¢ Opposition from Mr. Edmunds and others. Without any action on the bill, at ten o'clock the | Seuate adjourned, | | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasminaron, July 1, 1868, | EXTRA PAY ASKED POR BY DEPARTMENT CLERK Mr. WasteuRy, (rep.) of Ind., presented a me morial of 1,656 clerks of the departments in Wash- ington asking for extra compensation for the year 186%, Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. CONSOLIDATION OF THB BONDED DEBT. Mr. BLAINR, (rep.) Of Me, amked leave to offer « never acknowlerged the of Americans to navi- gate the St. Johns river until the treaty of 1842, when the Unived States bought a qualified use of it by the State of Maine, giving up large area of terri- ae Age oT abe had a claim, v. Wiatxe aided that the ceded territory was worth * and that the goverment of the Pa ted only given Maine $150,000 for it, Mr. WASHBURN, im contradiction of Mr. Banks? statement as to the agricultural and other capabili- bes of Alaska, read extracts from a report recently made by & Russian Under Secretary, in reply to quiries made by the American Minister at St. Pete berg, a bo the land sytem of the territory, He said oo faney the jolly ime the Russian Cabinet when reading Mr. Seward's ietier as to the system of disposing of land tn Alaska. The report of the Russian Under Secretary was that the ni ¢ popu. ay CObList y and grazing purposes, anc reason fur endeavoring to extend the limite for property tn land; that the per- manent fogs and dampness of Alaska, t of solar beat and light, would make it cattle, And this, ‘hn bad been nt terma by the Foreign Affairs, that of Kden, Instead of rales, Was really in pa preted yesterday tm such eloqui chairman of the Commi. ce one ' Mmgh! <Appowe tne Gard on the hanks of (he © inquired who had written that report. HOUKN—A member of (he Kussian Cabinet. was made? Rave, (rep.) of Hi., unquired whether th on read by Mr. Washburn related to tie whole Mr. BLaIne—And made by those who best knew s went on to speak of the ma- Ht to bear to influence the Senate and He spoke of Francisco Mr. Seward that the mb were greatly excited im ot truth i resolution instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of reportiog without unnecessary delay « fanding bill providing for the consolidation of all the bonded indebtedness of the United States into five per cent ten year bonds, and four and @ half per cent thirty year bonds and four per cent interminable annuities, the holders of outstanding bonds to have thelr choice of (how three forms of security. Mr. Pomenoy, (rep.) of N. Y., objected. UALIFICATION OF A FLORIDA MEMBER. Mr. corte, (rep.) of Pa., from the Cormmittec on Elections, reported that Charies M. Hamilton ty | entitled to a seat as Representative from the State of Florida, "The report was agreed to, and Mr. Hamilton was sworn by the Speaker and took his seat asa Kepre- sentative. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. The House proceeded to the business of the moru- | ing hour, being the call of committees for reports. j tue byl reported in the morning hour yesterday by Mr. BoUTWELL, (rep.) Of Mass., from the Judiciary Committee, regulating judicial poeedings in cer tain cases for the protection of officers and agents « the government and for the better defence of th Treasury against unlawful claims, Was taken up am assed, Par. OnTH, (rep.) Of Ind., from the Committee on Private Land Claims, ed the Senate bill con firming the title to @ of land iu Burlington, Iowa, Which was passed, Mr. BAILEY, (rep.) of N. Y., from the same com- mittee, reported the Senate biil for the relief of own ers of land within the United States survey, No. 17, in the State of Missourt, Passed. Mr. LOUOMRIDGE, (:ep.) of lowa, from the same committee, reported the House bill for the relief of the grantees of Ann D. Dureling, of Dubuque, lowa, Passed. Mr. STONE, (dem.) of Ind., from the same commit. tee, reported the bill in reference to certa claims in California, Mr. JouNnson, (dem.) of Cal., moved an amend. ment saving the rights of settlers under the Pre- emption or Homestead jaws. ‘ihe morning hour having expired the bil went over untii the next morning hour. THR ALASKA APPROPRIATION. Mr. WASHBURNE, (rep.) of Ill, gave notice that he would move to-morsow to postpone the bill maki an appropriation for the Russian treaty and to Oe ran (ie) ot Mi posed thatthe vote ir. BANBS, ( ) jane., pro be taken on the Alaska bill on Thursday of next week and that in the meantime debate may be con- sidered as not closed, The proposition was agreed to, and it was 2 ordered | that the vote be taken on Thureday, the 9th of July. DANGER OF THR WANT OF & QUOWUM. The SPRAKER stated that so many indefinite leaves of absence had been granted to members that uniess some tlemen returned there might be some that there would not bea working quorum iu the House. Mr, WASHBURN®, of lil, said he would object to farther leave of absei any ace entered without the full understanding of the Hi ALASKA IN COMMITTER OF THE WHOLE. clock went into Com- mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union, Mr. pM ES ‘Ohio, in the chair, and resumed ‘the consid of the bill ropriating $7,200,000 in coin to carry into effect the treaty for the acquist- tion of Russian America. Mr. WASHBURN, (rep.) of Wis., addressed the com- mittee in opposition to the bill, He said that could not have falled to observe chusetts absence of authority for hia statement stitution for such eathority of a style of spread eagle | yashburne) would not en- | ter into competition with him. He would leave the spread eagle business to the man of the Com | mittee on Foreign Affairs. The first propositior which he would attempt to demonstrate was that on the 0th of Mareb, 1867, there was nota man in we that General the tme be wre the sentiment of know any thi ab peopie Of Califorui the He denied all (he statements as to the agriculiaral and mineral capatitities of Alaska. declared that the fur trade there Was exhausted, and timt there wos ta fot Me tl bank within the luis of Kassin America, t he had clearly demonstraced of that country, Hf the $7,200,000 was to be the end of the ex ve willing to submit to it; bat im would come an annual expense of several millions & year, General Helieck had stated that if our Indiag aystem were introduced tn Alaska Indian wars would follow, and the resuit would be the ex- penditure of many million# a year, if this wl pammed he ted that withem taree days a rescia introduced in ‘be Senate jor the pur . . He helt im his hand a docu ment Which showed that it Was even in contemple Hon to parchase Greeniand loctand. (Laugtter.) The second hour allowed to Mr, Washbura having that he be aiiowed half an he ve saying that he desired to refer par expired, Ht Was mov I 3 what portion of the territory he was wiliing to give away. Mr. PRicg replied that he cou!d not spare an inch of Wisconsin. (Laughter.) He went on to a that the spprapeiecn of $7,200,060 was but the be- ginning 0} it, and that that was’ the first loss; that e next loss was $432,000 a year as interest upon that sum—for the money would have to be bor- rowed; and, in the next piace, there was the expense of the Territorial government, amounting to several thousand dollars annually, and to that muat be added at least two millions a year for the purpose of taking care of the Indians. He asked whether this government had not Indians Sooke on its hands now to take care of. This was the time to say to all panies that money wrung by taxation from the ands of the peovie was not to be paid for real estate speculations, or for any other purpose, e the representatives of the people decide it to the interest of the country aud in accorda the constitution, He would let Russia take back her timber, her mines, her fisheries. If they remained there till he voted to pay for them they would re- main till the last echo of the trump of time had faded away among the hills of eternity. (Laughter). Mr. DONNELLY, (rep.) of Minn., said that in a nar- row and limited view the objections against the pur- chase of Alaska had considerabie weight. The time Was not ripe for this acquisition. The question now is—Shall we reject the purchase made by the Presl- dent and the Senate? He believed the House had full power to make or refuse the appropriation, and no action of the President or Senate could coerce the judgment of the House into voting an appropriation, because it 18 one of the necessary steps in the expan- sion of our nation over the whole North American Continent. ‘The territories and the people of the Con- linent are gravitating toward us, inevitably drawn by our increasing greatness, the benignity of our in- stitutions and the prosperity of our people. Our form of government is adapted to civilize man everywhere, It will eventually sproad to the thread of land the Isthmus of Darien, on the one hand, to the extremest limit Of human habitation on the other, The Gulf stream of the Pacific extends up tis coast, modifying the climate, There was no reason why populations a cay and industrious as those of Scotland, Swe- ‘ten and Norway should not exist on those coasts and islands, The acquisition of this country would compel the annexation of Western Briush Amer- ica, the finest region of agricultural land left unsettled on the Continent. The valley of the Sas- katchewan river will sustain @ population as dense as that of Northern Germany. We must embrace the entire Continent, We ave yet in the days of small things. Soon we will open communication by the Pacific Railroad with the 400,000,000 people of China. and with the vast populations of India and Japan, Our flag is there now, It must not recede. The en- tire Pacite coast, fronting India, Ching and Japan, must be under the flag of our nation, whose destiny it is to grasp the commerce of the seas and the ae tre of the worl - Mr. SHELLABARGER, (rep,) of Ohio, argued against the bill. He said that In favor of it were ine land acquiring tendencies and the destinies of the people of the United States and the friendship that existed between the United States and Russia. In dealing with the question he would say naught that could be construed by the very utmost stretch of con- struction or of imagination into an unfriendly act; therefore he approached the matter under the enormous pressure which the feeling that the re- fusal to pass this bill might be deemed unfriendly toward Kussia brought upon his mind, This was the first example in history of the government where it had sought to acquire territory that was not contigu- ous to its own borders, and in entering upon ‘this policy he was afraid that the country would be en- tering upon the policy of those nations in the far pase that had gone down under that system of foreign acquisitions. Strong governments, he argued, were those that were compact—compact in territory, compact in the homogeneousness of their institutions, compact in their language, com- pact in their laws and compact in their love of coun- try. Somebody had said, rather facetiously, that this country was so large already that he could not love half of it ata time. There was philosophy at the bottom of that remark. He went on to argue aguinst the bill, and expressed his conviction that ‘as an original question the purchase of Alaska would not receive twenty votes on the republican side of the House, Mr. STEVENS, of Pa., made an argument in favor of the bill, He said he should not make a speech, as he was too much exhausted for that, and at all events the very learned and eloquent speech of the gentie- man from Massachusetts (Mr. Banks) yesterday had exhausted the subject, so that nothing could be squeezed out of it, But a few words he would say as areason why he should vote for the bill, Ithad been asked what was the utility of this acquisition ? He would answer that question by saying t o, When this country was first settled, every Kind of fish that the ocean’ produces, from the whale to ¢ herring, swarmed along its coasts, and that the wrdy people of the country had found these fisheries en, as they al shad been found, of very great utility. Gentlemen who asked the question now and who sneered at the value of the tisheries had better go back and ask their hardy ancestors as to the utility of the sea mals that swarmed on the coasts of America when they were first inhabited. ‘These fisheries had now become almost extinct; the fish had ted to other regions for refuge, and’ now fishermen, If they wish to pur- sue the whale, had to go around the Cape and take their harpoons high up in the jatitudes of the Pacific Ocean, Almost the Whole of the whale and other fisheries were to be found now between Puget Sound, the North Pole and the mouth of the Amoor river, where the United States does not own one foot of soil and where no American can go to catch and cure his fish, He thought it a blushing shame that up to Uhis time our government had not procured a footing in that region. He asked whether it was of no #ervice to have a place in those regions where the hardy sons of Nantucket could have the right to go and fand and cure their fish and repair their ships. It had been said, and with truth he did not doubt, that on every one of the hundred i#lands in that vast archipelago, as well as on the main peninsula of Alaska, there was to be found the best and toughest, ship timber in the world. It might seein strange, but it was nevertheless true, that the sweetest ture anywhere was to be found im that region. A salubrious breeze coming from the Pacific Ocean, together with the ten thousand boiling springs, so modifies the air as to make that - one of the most comfortable places to live in. All that American fishermen would have to do would be to turn out the live stock that they had on hand on these islands, and in two or three years they would not need to transport an ounce of food from the Atlantic Ocean, bat would find it all_ ready to their hands when they wished to use it. He sab- mitted whether it was stateamanlike or becoming the representatives of a great people to refuse to make this acquisition at the small expense of $7,200,000. To show the incredible wealth of these waters he would relate a fish story which he had heard first ten years ago, and which he laughed at at that time, out which he was assured within the jast year was an actual fact:—Two schooners from the mainland had gone into Behring Strait, which 1s thirty-two miles wide, and had found the herrii packed one upon the other, from the bottom of the ocean Lo the top, so firmly that not one of them could move, One of the captains attempted to run them dowa and ran his vessel upon them and broke its back. (Laughter.) Members might laugh. He had beard the story ten years ago, and last year he saw one of the ca) who vouched for the fact, which he himself did not believe before. It was that Alaska was a barren country. It was not half so barren as members tried to make out; not half so barren a# their brains were in arguing against the ball, ( ter.) When @ farmer hada e tract of land wi was barren it was an encumbrance vecause had to pay taxes upon it; when a government owned it and had to pay no taxes it was no encumbrance, There was nothing which so exalted the glory of a nation as its vastness. What gave such a glory to Home but that she could say t her territory was bounded by the Uitima Thule and by Persia? But it Was argued that if the United States acquire this territory it might acquire all creation, Weil, he would not much care if it did acquire all creation as ob as this, although just at praesent, with the larly lo some ponte ty Mr. Banks’ he STRVENS, (rep) Of Pa., objected, remark that somebody) ese should have an opportimity speaking for len minutes, Mr. Lovonr: por moved the amendment which be inj ov bad» ed im the evening sesston of yestertay Mr. Exsor, rep.) of Mas, moved to amend the bill by adding @ provieo that no purchase tm behalf of the United states of foreign territory shall be | hereafter made uuti! after provieton by law for tts payment, and declaring that the treaty maki power did not include any power to complete the hase of territory before the necessary tion was made therefor by act of Congress, mode the poin' of order that the amend Jeague Was pot germane to the Vill overruled the order. dem.) of ¢ ‘ g H ") je ‘opeatt pert be 4 of gentiemen 10 * y vate Treasury of the Chee States ae io gold, they taking the fee simple of \errtory of Alaska and re) the eminent dowalo in the it © 3 tent as to cause the House of the propriate some removing the Mississippi river, and — of — that of the — territ 4 be acquired. He seid that the op ‘ cost of tran Ca ’ pplies of the Upper at by river navy a than pay for all tb asked fo r that improve Mr. Bi the gentien Pree) kad sposea of ovr having ory, aud be aneed thy on hand, he would hardly know how to take f it, If there was anything for which he gave redit to the Secretary of State, active minded as he knew him to be, it was the effort he had made to en- sarge the boundaries of the country. Had he suc- ceeded in bis efforts in the other archipelago and ob- tamed the Bay of Samana, he (Mr, Stevens) would have f ven him all his sins and given him a fair « to the place where he hoped they would all io ier.) But yet the clamors of the peo- e ad driven him from acquiring that possession—a ay Which would have held all the navies of the world. In conclusion he said he should vote for this bill, THE URIDGR BETWEEN BOSTON AND RAST BOSTON, The committee rose, and Mr. Coox, (rep.) of Il., from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reporte: & resolution to provide for the Late of a commission to report to the next Congress on the wubject of how the bridge from Boston to East Bos- tou affects commerce and affects the interests of the government at the Charlestown Navy Yard, and directing that io the meantime no bridge shall be wade under the charter granted by the Massa- husetts Leg/viature wo the Maverick Bridge Com- doped. ve o'clock, took a recess til ing Sesslo' The House resumed ifs sewsiva at haif-past seven © TARIPR BILL. WJ (rep.) of Pa., from the Committee of Ways aad Means, reported! back the Tarif bill and printed and made the special order (dem.: of Mi), objected to its being order. was then ordered to ve printed. 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