The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1869, Page 3

WASHINGTON Postmaster General Randall’s Report on a Postal Telegraph. Congress Recommended to Unite the Telegraph to the Postal System, Dismissal of the Surratt Indictment by the Grand Jury. He Is Decided to Be Included in the President’s Amnesty. Report of General Sibley on the Ogeechee Troubles. WASTIINGTON, Jan, 6, 1869, Granv’s Cabinei, A statement, derived from excellent sources, throws the most satisfactory light that has yet been shed on the appointments that are likely to be made by ‘General’ Grant for the positions of Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy. Admiral David D. Porter will be appointed, it is said, Secretary of the Navy, pro tem., and will hold the office until the naval survey, which creates three admirals, is com- pleted and approved. He will thereupon resign and accept one of the three offlegs 80 constituted. Gen- eral Schofield will take mn in the Cabinet ou the same conditions, and thus the yecent projected legislation in the Senate about limiting the number of oMices to be held by one person will be avoided in these two particular instances, The Electoral Vote. Messengers arrived to-day with the vote of the Electoral Colleges of Vermont and Maryland, which were deposited with Mr. Wade. All the States have been heard from now except those on the Pacific coast. The messenger for California started, but died at Panama of smallpox contracted on the steamer. When he found he was about to die he Qelivered his’ papers over to some friends with a power of attorney authorizing them to deliver them to Mr? Wade. There is no law making the power of attorney valid in this matter, and, as the case is unprecedented, it will probably require some action of Congress to place the vote of Calitormia legally in the hands of Mr. Wade, Nevada has not been heard from yet. The messenger from Oregon is reported snowed up in the Rocky Mountains. It has been stated that there 1s a law imposing a fine of $1,000 upon any messen- ger who fails to deliver the electoral vote of a State tothe President of the Senate within a specified time. This ts not the fact. The law provides that any person occupying the position of messenger from an Electoral Coilege and then retusing to deliver the Vote of the College to the President of the Senate shall be fined $1,000, The law does not apply, how- ever, to messengers who start out and are delayed on the way so as not to reach Washington in time to count the vote. ,The New Yerk Senatorial Election—Morgan Off for Albany. Senator Morgan received a telegram from his friends at Albany this morning stating that the friends of Judge Noah Davis and Governor Fenton had combined and that Morgan’s presence was ne- essary at Albany, The Senator in obedience to this summons left at noon to-day and iutenfs going through to Albany, where he will remain until after the Senatorial election. ‘The Peunsyivanin Senatorial Contest. ince the nommation of John Scott for the United ‘States Senate by the republican caucus of the Penn- syivania Legisiature the politicians here have come tothe conclusion that Senator Cameron’s reputed sway over the radical party in that State ts something more than mythical. Scott is known to be an out-and- out Cameron man and is indebted to Cameron for his nomination. The anti-Cameron men here are fear- fully demoralized, especially Forney, who says that ‘this is only a fresh instance of Cameron's purchaaing the Legislature. Cameron is expected to return bere in a few days. ‘The Appropriation Bills. ‘The House made considerable progress to-day with the appropriation bills, passing the Pension bill and completing the Diplomatic and Consular bill in Com- mittee of the Whole. It was discovered that the Committee on Appropriations had loaded the Diplo- matic and Consular bill with a good deal of extraneous matter, which partakes more of the nature of legislation and is not germane to the bill. Had it not been for this the bill would probably have been considered im the House and passed to-day. The debate, however, on the extra gections would have taken too much time, and in order to allow members opportunity to examine the law on the subject it was postponed until Monday next. The bill proposes considerable reductions from the appropriations of last year. Among some of the reductions are the following:—For the pay of commission, warrant and petty officers and seaman, $7,000,000, in place of $8,000,000; Navy Yard at Nor- folk, $30,000, in place of $50,000; Pensacola, $30,000, in place of $60,000,; Naval Station at Mound City, Ill., $5,000 in place of $27,000, For the Bureau of Equip- ment and recruiting, $800,000, in place of $1,000,000; for the preservation of vessels, &c,, $2,000,000 in place of $3,000,000. In the appropriation for the Marine Corps a proviso is inserted that the number of non-commissioned officérs, musicians and prt- vates ehall be limited to 1,600. The bill further proposes that the offleers of the Marine Corps shall hereafter consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colo- nel, two majors, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartermaster and assistant quartermaster, twelve captains, eighteen frst lieu- tenants and eighteen second lieutenants, and to re- duce the sergeants and corporals two-fifths. The se- lection Of officers to be reduced or mustered out to be determined by lot among the officers and non- commissioned oMcers at present in commission. An additional section provides that no accounting officer of the Treasury shall pass or allow any account for payment in excess of ‘the appropriation made in the bill, The total amount appropriated by the bill is $15,243,672, being a reduction of $2,001,578 from last year's bill. Ben Butler offered @ very important amendment to tne Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill in Committee of the Whole, which, after some debate, was agreed to uy a very large vote. it consolidates the five missions to Central America in one and re- duces the ten missions to South America to four, in- cluding the mission to Brazil. By this one stroke of segiajation, Butler has saved about $78,000 per annum to the government. To be «ure, it reduces to some extent the patronage of President elect Grant, but his frieads have clamored so loudly for retrench- ment and economy that they eould mot consistently oppose Butier’s amendment, which ne put purely upon the ground of economy, It is sired that the main otyect of Butler is to legwlate General Kil- patrick, the present Minister to Chile, out af office. ‘This is out of reveuge for Kilpatrick's efforts to de- feat Butler in the recent campaign; for it will We re- membered that Kilpatrick went into Butler's disarict and took the stamp fur Dana. At all events the government will be the gainer. Mr. Brooks made an effort to get in an amend- ment to the bill providing for a renewal of the mis- sion to Rome. This gave rise to @ lively debate, during which Mr. Covode, of Pennaylvania, made an onslanght apon the Roman Catholic Church in gene- ral and the Roman Catholic voters of Western Penn- sylvanta in particular. Advancing towards the democratic side of the house, Mr. Govode de- clared in an excited manner that the Ro- man Catholica were engaged during the late eampaign in mannfacturing fraudulent naturaliza- lization papers, wholesale and retatl, and had de- Seated him in his district, This was the grounds he took against sending a Minister to represent the NEW. YORK’ HERALD, THURSDAY, rn United States at Nome, Mr. Covode spoke with much feeling, and evidently let out the animus of the dominant party’s opposition to the méssion to Rome. Some of his friends took occaston to dis- claim a fellow feeling with him, but the amendment was defeated by @ nearly solid vote of the repub- licans. Work of the Reconstruction Committee. The Reconstruction Committee had a short ses- sion to-day, but did not do much beyond agreeing to a bill relieving certain citizens of Alabama from political disabilities. They also ordered a resolution to be reported to the House authorizmg the committee to print the re- port of General Gillem, with the testimony attached thereto, concerning the election’ in Missts- sippi. The committee hold a meeting to-morrow for the purpose of taking testimony as to the condition of affairs in Mississippi. Several witnesses have ar- rived—all tadicals—who will appear before the com- mittee. Collector Smythe and the Russian Mission. Collector Smythe, of New York, arrived here again to-day. There is @ probability that his nomination for the Russian mission may come up in the Senate to-morrow, though as many Senators, friends of Mr. Smythe, are absent, it is thought his chances of con- firmation are very promising. Serious Charges Against a Supervisor of the Revenue. Mr, James Marr, Sypervisor of the St. Louis dis- trict under the new internal revenue, is the subject of very grave charges, though whether true or false Ido not pretend to state. An affidavit made by Martin Miller was laid before the President to-day, in which Marr is charged with running a whiskey distillery in St, Louis under a Meense merely to distil fruits, and that the whiskey so manufactured in violation’ of law was sold without having been mspected, marked or branded by any government official, and without any tax having been paid thereon. The offence is alleged to have been committed before Marr’s appointment as Supervisor. The aMdavit states that Marr and a.certain’ Frank Kelerman agreed to havé the license taken out in the names of Martin Muller and Simon Aple, so that the latter two would appear to’be the proprietors. While Marr and Kelerman would furnish ali the money and get all the profits of the illicit trade, Muller and Aple were to get $100 per month fof their services. According to Muller, Marr stated that It would be best for the license to be obtained in this way, because should anything go wrong Muller would have no- thing to lose, but that there was no danger of detec- tion anyhow, as he (Marr) had the internal revenue officers “all right.’’ Muller is very circumstantial in ‘his\aMdavit, stating how the whiskey was put into old barrels with old inspection marks, how it was taken from the distillery early in the morning and to whom it was sold, The charges have been referred to Secretary McCulloch for investigation. Collection of Debts Due the Government. There isa number of old debts, mostly in Judgments, the United States, out of which nothing has been collected fer many years, Especial effort has been made during the past three years to make something out of them. In some cases lands have been levied-on, which are so ehcumbered by pfior liens that nothing can be made by ordinary proceedings, In other cases debtors have disposed of their property in such manner as to prevent it from being Mable to the payment of these debts by ordinary proceedings, In other cases debtors have equitable interests which can only be reached by proceedings in chancery. In other cases sioner of Indian Affairs states that the only officers absent from their posts at the date of the resolution, 80 far as known tohim, were the following, viz:— Superintendent H. B. Denman and Special Agent J. W. Cullen, who were directed to report here in person on official business, and Agents 1. Mann, Jr. and H, Chanklin who were granted leave of absence by the Superintendent? in whose charge they are em- The Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas. By direction of the Secretary of War, Brevet- Major-General J. J. Reynolds is relieved from duty as Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau ‘for Texas, and Brevet-Major General Canby assigned to that duty. The Stationery Contract of the Interior De- partment. An impression having gained currency here that the despatch in the Heratp of day before yesterday in relation to certain irregulaties by the stationery contractors of the Interior Department referred to Philp & Solomons of this city, it is proper to state that they are not the firm implicated. ‘The Alaska Purchase Investigation. ‘The investigation into the Alaska purchase affair will be resumed to-morrow, when it is expected the chairman, Mr. Hubbard, will be in attendance. The Case of Judge Bumeed. ‘The case of Judge Busteed was continued to-day, the three members of the Sub-Judiciary Committee being present. Senator Spencer, of Alabama, whose examination occupied @ portion of the past two days, gave the concluding portion of his testimony to-day. Nothing of any importance was elicited. A great many questions foreign to the subject in hand were‘put to the witness, such as asking his opinion about the character of pther judges beside Judge Busteed, and similar exterior teatimony. Oficial Report of the Georgia Troubles. ‘The following despatches were received at head- quarters of the army to-day:— PHILADELPHIA To General U. 8. Grant, Washington, | tapers I transmit the latest received from Gen- eral Sibley, Ly roe i ie, eget ui the rece, Genera inst 101 permit the t whether white or black, zation of any armed bodies, ~1 a % eh eerabe wie the peace at azards, wi u authorities i, same on ‘aot to ‘All assemblages of the negroes and them submit to the legal action of the civil euthorinen " GEORGE G. MEAD, nang reer wali 6 from headquarters, Distiict of Georgia, navehaae Ga., January 4, 1860:— fee Gees Cosmet & Mauer ee, nor my x ‘and to og Ys Sauipe tt tart oan AP appl to execute the arrests, bat po fatoris vent met deputies In went with two make arrests, but ened at the mn as: sembling and ran ‘of. He calied for a posse and went a 7B bey fourteen “pele cul tnd. shoe hes : idan through the leg. #aw some other negroes at the sta uv se teed th ions, a Sed Sofoneior ae” Teey ave enlisted from 800 men and are 'stlll organ- Hing. (1 ordered “Major Ferking °to ed “out 10. eee he “pezroen, aod went with him mgmt. We. arrve uw made kn our inventions "not 8 tro able Mina They became pactied and us their side : = nestion. We found the feet about Ay 5] o mn we then tel z rangenents for them to come in to-night and sur- vomeclyes to tbe Beri under the military provec- JANUARY 7, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. tion. ‘They are to come in to-night, as they are afraid to come in by daylight, To-day the Sheriff reported officially be could not enfores the laws, ani called upon the mill- “tary to do it, Ithink no more troops wiil be required tere at Prewat. | Ofietal report will be seat to the department head quarters by mall. ‘0, ©. SIBLEY, Brevet Brigadier General U, 8. As, commanding, Se. Telegram received at Washington, D. ©., January 4, 1909, from Savannah, Ga., January 4, 1860:— To Major Genera! Grongr G. MzaDE:— Fourteen of the men against whom warrants have been fsued and who live on the Ogeechee plantation have volun- tarily surrendered to the military authorities, Four more will be in during the day or night.” This 1s. all of the original nomber of warrants that Sherif had to execute. understand that 150 or 200 additional warrants have been taken out, but asthe Sheriff has made no effort to execute them I do not fee! justified, under present instruc- tlona, to aid him until he has made an effort to execute them. ‘These Warrants tn tions” Y would edvise the'use of the miliary, an think it 1 wo mi would be almost sure to resuit In. contlet Ifthe Sherkit were to go out with « posse of the people. ‘There {s mich ex- eitement hy ry ould not be averse citer ere and many of the people would not be ave Brevet Brigadier General U. A., commanding. End of the Surratt Case. The Grand Jury has dismissed the case against Surratt on the ground that the President's amnesty proclamation pardons him of all past treasopable offences against whe government. bi Cost of Printing Fractional Currency. « In response to a resolution offered by Senator Cor- bett on the 16th ult., the Secretary of tbe Treasury transmitted to the Senate to-day a statement pre- pared by George B. McCartee, Acting Chief of the Division of Engraving and Printing, showing that the total cost to the government of the issue of paper fractional currency since its authorization, from which it appears up to the date of the resolution there had been printed and delivered to the Trea- surer of the United States, at an estimated cost of $1,265,948,or about 1 36-100 per cent of its value, the following amounts, viz.:—Three cent notes, $605,250 five cent notes; $3,506,614; ten cent notes, $21,177,638; twenty-five cent notes, $35,546,588; fifty cent notes, $38,263,451. Total amount of fractional currency issued, $99,099,636. Mr. McCartee states that the, present cost of printing the ten, twenty-five and fifty cent notes is only one and five hundredths per cent of the value. Cases in the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court of the United States to-day argument in case No. 22, Louisiana Mutual Insur- ance Company vs. Tweed, was concluded. The case of the heirs of the late Stephen Girard ‘vs. the City of Philadelphia was argued th behalf of the heirs by Mr. Ingersoll, and by Messrs, Meredith and Olmsted for the city. Ball of the Naval Cadets. A ball will be given on Friday night by the second class of naval cadets at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Admiral Porter, General Grant and several prominent officers of both branches of the service will leave here to attend. Report of Postmaster General Randgll to Congrese—He Recommends the Government to Unite the Telegraph with the Postal Sys- tem—A Company to, be Chartered by Con- gress and to Make Contracts with the Government to Deliver Telegraphic Mes sages at Low and Fixed Rates—The Plan Proposed—Review of the Postal Telegraph System in Europe—Objections to the Mo- ; mopoly and High Charges in the United States. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1869. The following report of Postmaster General Ran- dall on the subject of a postal telegraph will be sent many other lines by private corporations, and at the time the telegraph was introduced upon the Conti- nent of Europe was connected by the Se with New Orleans aud Boston, and New York with Citcago and St, Louis. ‘The ruilug principle held by the continental gov- eruments bus been that correspondence to other correspondence, The impor- ry tance of pos possessing t and reliable meanstof tel “V ormmuafeation i considered to be even = service. ie pew the whole of continental urope the telegraph is under the exclusive control and ee of the respective The mh fretan periecion in jum and Switzerland. In ties for the reception and. delivery, of tna ages the ities for the reception very Of the and the enterprise Imoat proaiabie wo = ae re tg fi vestigations into e operations system, shows:— Pirst—That being to each message,inciuding date and signatyre. Tne annual number of messages in Switzerl: a nearly one to every two io Beigium one every three persona, in the United States, estimati the number of annually transmitted This time to time as the business increased; that every great reduction of rates has been followed by a large and immediate increase of aew kinds of business, reducing the proportionate expense of cach mes- Fourth—That the facilities afforded fir the recep- tion hoe hn Mi A Ly ty are May A great and over the country. are filene Facttvion that in switzerland ‘one-blir ot the stations do not average mypro than two messages a day. Fifth—That the telegraph ts but little used by the press, an organization like the “Associated Press” being unknown. Sizth—That by the anton of the telegraph with the posta great saving # made im the expense of the velegraph, without any corresponding increase of ex- pense to the Post OMce. If the aystem bas succeeded with low rates where distances are short and the jauon and countries where the habiis ef the peopl politi- cal conditions are such that the press makes but little use of tts lines, and where the chief advantages Of the telegraph cannot therefore be realized, it Must be more succeseful in our own country, with ita vast extent (where the telegraph anticipal ay the letter sent by mail), its favorable cl Tate and its ee culiadee oF The telegraph in land has been controlled by private companies, and in that respect resembles our own system, Companies were organized and lines constructed 88 soon as the result of Mr. Moree’s experiment Was Known. There has been little competition as com. red with that which has existed in the United tates, and rates, originally high, have alwaya been | 1 profits have been large, increasing with each re- duction of rates. The Intimate relations between Great Britain and the Continent made British mer- chants farniiiar with the working of both systems aud the superiority of the continental over the English has long caused dissatisfaction among them, ‘Their reiterated complaints finally induced the Postiaaster General to examine into the Cee of the post system, and in 1896 @ repo! made by him to Parlainent. his report stated as the opinion of weil qualitied to j — ts epee igh ond tena Pap check we potind essages are ni of telegraphic correspondence. Second—That there is very often delay in transmission and inaccuracy in rendering the mes- Prtra—That many important towns are unprovided with facilities for telegraphic communication. Fourth—That in the great majority of places the oMice is inconveniently situated ‘and open for wo short a time, press messages. For those use by the press 18 very extensl’ aw similar abroad by ten Lata the rates oe fe jeoniny Pr! exorbl- tant, varying in amounts same different lines—oiten higher to @ nearer more remote station on the same line, prepared by Mr. Hubbard with the number of stations at di! s ° A Bei Hf iy 3Fs8 miles of Boston were ef sEe ‘These rates are to Fifth—That little or no. improvement can be ex- pected while its working ts conducted by com; striving chiefly to earn a dividend and ina wasteful competition with each other. Sixth—that under the ex' system the devel- quences of telegraphic has been re- Seventh—That the growth of such correspondence — greatly stimulated in Belgium and Switzer- and, d Highth—That in England like resulta ld fol- low, and from the annexation of the tel ph to the Post Office would accrue great advantage to the public and, ultimately, a large revenue to the State, A supplemental report was made in February, 1868, in which the arguments in EL ronal union of the two systems were ‘These ments were intended to prove that the cost of inland messages in Belgium resulted in a dead loss of thirty-four per cent; that any considerable extension of the system in England would involve an aunual }08s to State; that village postmascers and post mistresses were totally unilt to work the telegrapn; that the delays in sending out the messages by the letter carniers would be very great, and that the con- solidation and amalgamations of the different com- panies conld be better effected by the companies themselves, To this the Postmaster Gene replied that, al- though there had been a loss on the inland messages transmitted in Belgium, that was occasioned in part by. the fact that the telegraphic services of the State and railroads were per- formea without charge; that the number of uniform for like distances and have been reduced, from time to time, as the business has increased. these messages was 284,000. against 692,536 inland messages, the charges for which would have exceeded the actual loss; that although the reduc- ton In rates of one-half not suificed to reduce by one-half the average cost of each inland m yet but for the extraordinary increase in the num! of inland messages the cost of the other m would have remained the same, instead of largely reduced; there would have been less loss on the inland service, but @ smaller profit on the other service; that it was proposed to extend the lines gradually and only to such places as would pay; at postmasters and their children have work and are working telegraph instruments in some places; that boys work them in many public offices, and in private establishments they are en- trusted to warehousemen, porters and cellar men; that instead of there greater delays in delivery they would be more free and rapid; that an extension of the duties and expense over a divided herve pg and triple es- to & committee of a, heard evidence upon the various point and the Telegraphic act of 1838. The preamble contained the reasons for the passage of the act. fraphe. within here Kingdom of Great Britain end Ire- are oNherena it would ve atended with gest cat savantage to the ‘State as well asto merchants and and public expedient that her 's Postmaster General be Ww fered to work in connection with the administra- tion of the Poss The act enables the Postmaster General to pur- chase the existing of telegraph, maintain and each message, provides for free special delivery and the reception of m at every street letter box and Post Oftice in the om. act does not panies. From them he obtained information in re- ee ae cred S remeein artes of tel the effect of a reduction o1 rates and com! with it, and other facts in regard to the of the system. Their answers were eee te Rows sail tt oe resolution of the ‘This letter the Senate resolution contemplated the estabitshment of the telegraph along the mail routes i that this would require 22,741 miles of 4 that the cost of of six wire on Spier eee oaeaaee inaugurate. the oven stam “of velegraphy as 8 part of Penal sero, only Pa —_ fipanctal —_stcceas, al questionabi: under our political system. The ny RY Se ee b+ NE connected with companies. In December, 1866, bilis were in! in the House ae Z z er i ue E32e82 288 3 PH 4 : aH Z HH Fi Ps F i 2 g g ef 35 2 i naered it hae proposed thatthe nent ® sould either comberhct or purchase, lines’ of tele on a by En RT pense, experimental i ington and New “York, | which ‘would over , i i : i ! i iF E #2 with the approval of the both oupections, “i theve could be obviated the advantages which arise from po pe kT telegraph are it their ly_ well the stamping, tha, distribution of and letters, all of a ae now in- currea by companies be saved and Teg y {ES fo ea gece oul py a ve freed [rom @ monopoly ve to the t i i Eeyze HE < jetts : ee eval FRA E #3522 iu Tinllidnes: E : i 2 & g< a 35 aaj é messages in ton partment, by contract, suhstantially in the same manner as Feasonavie, &@ Dill was corporate the United Siatos Postal Telegraph Com- and to esfabiish @ postal tel ays. lem. = in 1 _reqnes one of ted those gentiemen, Mr. Gardiner ©, Hubbard, to prepare statement of the operations of the telegraph systems in bi a ‘This has been inade as full as was practiceble in tie limited time allowed. In regard to the operations shows:— | First—That the telegraph is relatively leas used | transmit less not, ted but six twenty ing @ limited num! would be distributed oO the telegraph who are | interests opposed to theirs and There is no country m the world so favorable for the development of the te! States, and when me ‘the West to the from Ws ere be any doubt fete: nena im acconent ice, Whether | heen $916,237—over $30,000 a mile. the same ha eee portant an A year the Spent CEN was $365,204, leaving euterprse, Under the ‘postal telegraph ‘ayntem | Ealroad’ for. year. vant Fu incorporation of suthority to constract lines of roads and routes of the country, hundred dollars each sum is large enough for the lines with a fair margin inflation of capital. ‘The establishment of a 3h shall include— of good for profit, and will prevent showed how unasto sad how wrong ft was postal telegraph | the country who visit Ww at e Te | E — 3 z : ii fl ‘ ee ; H z i | atte : Lf i | : t i 5 i 5 & ae i Begs : ei i é | Fe | be g i i : i e it u | i : I : Hf : ee | Hi : i : i 3 f ( E 5 z é z i £4 i t : é : : i E i 3 oi if i é may be Mr. Sum» of Maas., ee (rep.) presented a bounties. Keferred to the Affairs. IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGR. Mr. PomRRoy, (re} ‘ham Missouri in favor of without distinction of race or color. Committee on the Judiciary. PATENT OFFICE STATIONERY selection of one person with the agricultural State, fo Occupy a ment, Adopted. Mr, SUREMAN, (rep.) of from citizens of Oa s sexing, agra juleat naturalization. Committee oa the Judiciary. UNOS CIVIL OFFICK BILL. » (rep) of Vt., from the Judiciary of the telegraph in this country the investigation | Committee, reported su the bill fotrodaced by him on the ith of Decomber to prevent fe holding of civil offives by military i 3 officers, and to prevent the holding of more than one ofiice at the same time:— Be it enacted, &c., That no shall hold nor shall he receive s salary or compensation for performing the duties of more than one office or place of trast or profit under the cou- siitution or laws of the United. At the same tine, whether aueb office or place be civil, military dr naval; an ny person holding any such ollice oF place who, shail socept oF hold any other or placo of trust or Bradt nner tho constitution or laws of the United States shail be deemed to have vacated the offiee or place which he beld atthe time of THE AIR LINE RAILROAD. On motion of Mr. ¥, the Senate took up tit bill to extend the at of John Young for a wash- joaars. MORRILL, of Vt., CONKLING and DOOLITTLE opposed the bill, and on motion of Mr. SHERMAN the consideration Was postponed and up his bill to promote commerce between the States, Se the Air Line Raulread bill, which was read at SPEECH OF SENATOR 8) Mr. SHERMAN said that the cfnmitice had not thought it necessary make a written report in Teport upon sul juestions involved. Dill, he said, pro r of three railroads—one from Washi ton to New York, one from Washington to burg and one from Washington to Cincinnati. The quesuons to be bill were, first, the necessity for such new roads, and second, the extent of the power of Congress where such lines a8 | over existing railroads and to authorize the con- struction of new roads. regard to the first ques- tion, it was a femarkable fact that the only shosea ple Te- | the general government, Congres ba exclusive ttle | control over the affairs of Di on Post sponding duties, ‘one of which might reasonably be istrict, had corre- rovide for citizens of the District arise from’ the fact ph as the United | that this pogpeestion had @ mono} of railroad be transmitted trom | transit to and from co Washington, even if it were cou- essages m2 East at the same rate that was for- | tent with a fair profit upon its investment. But such few merchants will y ne Paine where te wo) . was not the case. A careful examination would show and telegraph lines for the transmission of the mails hic. mi Fielded a profit grossly out of proportion to its cost. maintained at cheaper rates by by the government. that the transmission that the Washington branch of the road That branch was only thirty miles long, extendin; to the Relay House, ana the report that year to have $580,008 as the prodt ‘on thirty’ miles of had statement of but from | new when he faces westw: There should f ph Rl Ey lg 2, gy which ig the nearest tide water to Pittsburg, v0 or | But ae a i af. hundred the interests of Wasi ‘ be Ee iad occasion “to visit “irom ‘the i l al i i i HH ft H rH i H gE fe ¥ Ta ul $2508 1th Hi 38 3 5 z F Hy : BR ‘The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communt- | ™ country; bu warned them that this effort cation from the Secretary of the Interior, in response | evi Tesult in imnaitony both inthe Sales to the resolution of inquiry in regard to the fur in- | and in nen Ma gy terests in Alaska, transmitting the report of Com- | ‘ han chown bet only that foe Companion mander J. W. White, of the revenue service, of his be territorial cruise during the past summer in the Alaska waters, | Tesources and decreasing the cost , Dat also Referred to the Committee on Territories. Pp A ee yg LY LLY injurious to them, that wou! no reason ‘eats en eenaras tae ect enenbangthe 3 Se a ieee interior in regard to the num! names of Indian blacksmith shop in @ town does so know- ing that as soon as there arises a demand for otner abeont from thelr posts. Relerredto | stmtiar mills and shops they wilt be built, and he Seiad cntgee Sean's campeon eh Sg fae report of the Chiet Clerk no better reason for limiting by law the ‘number of Wwoads than iting num! steam- sponse to the resolution of inquiry in regard to the | Doats or cotton. milla in illustration of | Boo LDIBRS’ BOUNTIES. effects of,competition he referred to the raili on | extraordinarily raprd development resources. olunteers’ in reference to | Sir."'swerman: then. discussed tne question of the Committee Military Tight of Congress to pass the bill under considera- toe power ta commneron petereen. te pett. | States, and he led the right of Maryland, general sudtrage, | Seq maintain’ ae salted menopoly. to. the Referred to the | inconvenience and injury of the citizens of other States of the United States. Fier ont meee, ciarmed this right for Congress upon the yo ground of ite necessity, internal Sarmiee oration if yoo Sartatial te nation ex! ma ‘Sao, object of guverament appointing ‘of the hi Such con | tn the conventio ton, he cited also the statement of in No. 11 of the Federalist that the of the Union in @ commercial nee vee about whicn there was room to en! a gate. At the conclusion his Sherman Moved to postpone the consideration of the a bill until neat, which was done. Sach State, iar RRLIRP OF MRS. MURPHY, OF ALABAMA. interests of suc The Senate then resumed the of the Position in the depart GQ eae ag Ala. Mr, WILLEY, (tep.) of W. Va., advocated. i ated a petition | bee Doro the antes was ie ‘proper to pass laws | taken by the Army of the United States for t At of the edt States, and not a claiin for co: m- pensation for property destroyed by tae enemy as an incident of war, and should, therefore, be allowed nader the general principle that the government hag CONTINUED ON TE? & a)