The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1869, Page 3

WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN SENATORS IN CAUCUS No More of President Johnson’s Nomi- nations to be Confirmed. Opinion of Judge Cartter in the Bradley Expulsion Case. The Citizens to Have a Non-Par- tisan Inauguration Ball. PETITION FOR THE ‘PARDON OF DR. MUDD. Further Revelations Regurd- ing Booth’s Diary. A Southern Pacific Railway Bill Intzo- duced in the Senate. WASHINGTON, Jan, 2, lvoe General Grant Besieged by Visitors. The visitors made it very busy for General Grant again to-day. Quite a large number of callers were admitted, among whom were a goodly proportion of Senators and Representatives, and a delegation of gentlemen from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. No speeches were made on either side. They were merely introduced, chatted a moment or two, and then withdrew. The Washingtoniaus Will Dance at the In- anuguration. - It is publicly annonnced that citizens of Washing- ton of high social position, without respect to party, are determined tc have an inauguration ball. The New York Steam Navigation Company. « The agents of the New York Steam Navigation Company, who have thus far been unable to get the Postmaster General to come {3 terms by signing 4 contract giving them a subsidy for carrying the Pails, are besieging the House Postal Committee for relief. To-day they had ©, 8 Bushnell, of the Union Pacific Railroad, before the cofmitiee, The didi culty seems tobe the inability of the company to build or buy steamships, and for this reason the committee has been averse to taking any action that would itterfere with that of the Postmaster General. Mr. Bushuell now comes forward and pledges alijthe steamships necessary, the funds to be furnished by the “solid men” of the Union Pacifle Railroad, provided Congress will{gnarantee the bonds of the company and secure itself by agreeing to give the company a certain amount annually for carrying tie mails. The committee, it is said, are now look- ing more favorably upon the project than they have doae heretofore, © - Neminetions Before the Senate. As the statement has been widely made that Gen- eral Grant expressed himself as desjrous that no more of President Johnson's nominations should be confirmed it is worth while to announce that during his late visit to Baltimore he denied ever having sald anything of the kind. On the contrary, when the subject was called to his attention, he unnesitat- Jugly said that the statement was entirely untrue; that he did not consider that ax*General-in-Chief he bad any right to dictate or even advise the Sen- ‘ators what they should or should not do concerning any matter that might come before them; that he preferred to leave the subject of confirmations, as well as every other subject of the kind, to the good Jndgment, discretion and sagacity of the Senate without expressing one word himself either for or agaist any of the nominees. Apropos of this mat- ter it Is said that this expression of the Geueral’s views was drawn out mainly with a view to the case of Stewart, of Maryland, who Was recently num nated for the Tarkish Ministry, vice Morris. Nominations Sent to the Senate. ‘The President has nominated to the Senate to- day:— Edward 1). Neal, to be commissioner of edneation, in place of Barnard 8, Johnson, as a codifier of the Jaws, Postmasters.—A, 8. Russell, at Bedford, Pa.; H. L Stephens, at Honesdale, Pa.; W. W. Montgomer: at Bellefonte, Pa; William F. Keeler, at La Sal Ni; John B. Ly at Wabash, Ind.; William Worthington, at Attica, Ind. Isaac Gass, to be Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Bighth district of Ohio. A Republican Cancas Decides Against Con- firming the Presidents Nominations. ‘The republican members of the Senate held a can- cus this morning to consider the disposition of busi- ness in executive session from now until the 4th of March. Senators Wade, Howard, Sumner and Ed- munas spoke briefly on the subject of confirming nominations sent in by the President, and expressed their opposition to any further confirmations until the advent of General Grant. Senators Fessenden, Nye, Conkling and Cameron disapproved of permit- ting oMices to rematn unfilled that the public neces- sities imperatively demanded should be attended to at once. Each Senator gave an instance or two where vacancies were now existing thatshould have been Milled, regardiess of the wear inauguration of a uew administration. An tinmense number of nomina- ttons had accumulated on the hands of the Senate, some of which. it was admitted, could be very well ‘allowed to go over until after the 4th of March, but there were many others for various positions in dif- ferent parts of the country that the Senate could ‘just as well and properly act upon now as at any other time, It was contended by Mr. Edmunds that a rule or resolution was needed to guide their action in executive session at this particular time, as It had Happened frequently, of {até when thé Reiate de- sired to reach those names that were necessary 8 confirm some Senator started the consideration of Others that could be well allowed to go over, and thereupon debate after debate arose, without anvining being Analy dong After some further Giteussion b Fesolatleh Ws proposed and adopted hy a vote of twenty-cight to eight Ha Gea te confirmations be made by the Senate in executive session, except for offices where vacancies exist of locol importance and for which candidates are urgently recommended’ by mombers of Congress themselves. In tie meantime, before the vote was reached, about a doven Senators dropped separately out, and evidently exhibited a decided aversion to having their executive proceedings controlled by a caucus resolution. The general impression among those who quitted the caucus Is that the resolution will be ect aside at the next executive session, which may be to-morrow, and both Smythe and Cummings Will loom wp once more before the sun of their shortening day sets forever, Is It Smuggling or Not? ‘The history of the peregrinations of the old telo- graph cable belonging to the Western Union Company has already appeared Inthe HeraLp. It appears now never ‘o have been regularly imported, asthe Western Union Company have petitioned the Committee of Ways and Means to recommend that it shail be admit+ ted duty free. If it has ever been landed on United Statos soil it seems as though the owners might be liable to the charge of smuggling, In any case there ig no reason whiy the duty should not be paid in full. So long as the poor laboring mon of the United States are forced by iaw to pay an import duty varying from fifty-two to 512 per cent on the clothing they ‘wear there {8 no just and fair reason why a monopoly like the Western Union Telegtaph Company suould not pay full duty on cables Imported for speculative or other purposes. The Alaska investigationThe Conjectures of a Witness. The Alaska Investigation Committee held another meeting to-day and had before them Louis F. Tasis- tro, who stated ne came there as @ very unwilling witness and might be apt to say mang things an- Bieawant (9 Mr. Martin, Jie considered the purchase } over. General Bajks, who was generally deemed in limited pecuniiry elrcumstances, made a heavy investment about fhe same time, and General But- Jer, who had promised Thaddeus Stevens to insist upon the paymeni of the Perkins claim for arms furnished Russia, dropped all further agitation of the claim, and appeared to rest satisfied with the Alaska transaction as it stood. A Magnificent Railroad Scheme, but Difficult to Accomplish, The Pactfle Central Transit bill, introduced to-day by Senator Kellogg, has 6 political as well as a com- mercial bearing and aims at the peaceable conquest of Mexico by opening up direct overland communi- cation through the tidewater region of ‘'exas, with the richest section of the neighboring republic, through which a connectng line will run to the port of San Blas, on the Pacific, bringing the Sandwich Isfands nearer to New York by 1,200 miles and creating a wide field in the northern portion of Mex- ico for Yankee emigratioy and Yankee manufactures. ‘This billto aid in the eonstruction of the Pacific Central ‘Transit Railwey and Telegraph from the city of New Orleans, La, to a point on the Kio Grande river, near Texas, in the direction of San Blas, on the Pacific coast, provides that the eastern terminus of the line of railway and telegraph shal) connect at a point on the Rio Grande, with similar lines running through the republic of Mexico to San Blas and city of Mexieo., The Central Transit Company of Louisiana and the Central Transit Company of Texas are authorized to consolidate, under the title of the Pacific Central Transit Company, and are aiso authorized to do any andall acts necessary to carry out the purposes of their several charters, When the company shall have constructed ten miles of rail- way and telegraph it shal! be the duty of the President to appoint three commissioners to examine the line as far as completed and report, after which the com- pany are authorized to issue first class mortgage bonds, maturing in thirty years from the date of issue, at the rate of twenty-five bonds of the de- nomination of $1,000, bearing six per cent intercst, payable semi-annually in coin. The Secretary of the Treasury shall officially ajgn the bonds, and this on- dorsement shail, ipso suelo, constitute a first lien on the line for the protection of ‘he Treasury, and so on to the completion of the road. The company are authorized to provide and operate one or more branches of railway, connect their main lines with thé Mexican Gulf or its waters, and these branches shall be entitled to the same privi- leges, The grants and privileges conferred upon the companies are bestowed on conditions taat each of them shail, within six months from the passage of the act, file with the Secretary of the Interior reso- lutions of their respective board of directors signify- ing their acceptance of the provisions of the act, and furnish maps, &c., of the route, ‘The whole line is to be completed within six years after the passage of the act. Troops, munitions of war, &c., sha}i be transported over the line when the government requires it, the compensation for the same to be applied to the payment of the interest on the bonds. A sinking fund 1s provided for to pay the bends at their maturity. An annual report shall be filed with the Secretary of the Treasury showing the condition of the respective companies, their iabilities, assets, &¢., at the close of each year. To the several com- panies shall be granted eigitt sections of land of six hundred and forty acres each for every mile of rail- way completed, the land to be selected in alternate sections. To landless laborera on the road a pre- emption right to & homestead of torty acres shall be given. P i State Dinner at*the Excentive Mansion. The first State dinner of the season at the Execu- tive Mansion was given this evening at six o'clock. The following guests were invited, and wero all present:—Secretary Seward, Secretary and Mrs. McCulloch, Secretary Schotield, Secretary and Mrs, Welles, Secretary an@ Mrs. Browning, Postmaster Genera! and Mra_ all, Attorney General and Mrs, Evarts, Senacor and Mrs. Dixon, Senator and Mrs. Doolittle, Senator and Mrs, Henderson, Senator and Mrs, Hendricks, Senator and Mrs, Norton and Senators Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, McCreery, Ross, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers, Whyte and Fowler. The guests numbered thirty-two in all. The Presi- dent sat at the centre of one side of the table. On his right sat Mrs. Randall and on his left Mrs. Evarts, Mrs. Patterson sat at the other side of the table, opposite the President, with Secretary Seward at her right and Senator Doolittle at her left. At one end of the table sat Mrs. Henderson, with Senator Norton at her left and Senator Trumbull at her right. The opposite end of the table was ocenpied by Mrs. Norton, with Senator Davis at her right and Senator Henderson at her left, The other guests were appropriately | seated between these prominent groups. The tabie was beautifuily decorated with bronze and gilt vases containing artificial and rare, fragrant natural flowers, artificial and natural fruits and choice con- fectionery, and the dinner itself was a perfect suc- cess, The guests rose from the table at about nine o’clock and repaired to the East Room, which was brilliantly lighted for the occasion. Au hour or more was here speut in conversation, when tne guests took taeir departure. The Lobby Jobbers. The members of the lobby are very much dis- heartened at the Waterloo defeat of the pioneer sub- sidy job of the session yesterday in the House—the one known as the Union Pacific Eastern Division. The lobby had been at work on the job for the past thirteen months, and had got it as far as the Speaker's table when the HeRraLp opened on it with asertes of letters and articles exposing the whole job from its first start in 1866 up to the present time, | and fairly Iaid it out. Previous to the Hrranp’s rst attack upon the job there was hardly a newspaper tn the Union that dared expose it; but, encouraged by example, they soon followed their leater, so that now there is not a single journal that makes any pre- tensions to honesty hat dares to advocate this or aby ott 7 Sitbaidy job. ~~ The Senator*Pomeroy Job. The Senate wil doubtless pass the bil! granting the Atchison and Pike's Peak Company, now kuowa | as the Union Pacific Central Branch, an additional | subsidy of about $7,000,000 In land and bonds; but tt can never pass the House la this world, The sub- sidy jig is up. Establishing Gangers’ Feros. ‘The Commissioner of the Internal Kevenne is pre- | poring a reply to the resolution offered in the House by Mr. McCullough inquiring whether there is any uniform rate of gaugers’ fees established for the whole country. The reply of the Commissioner wii oxplain the system by which the fees of gaugers are regulated and how itis that to those not familiar with the manner in which tne internal revenue jaw operates the system appears unjus'. The law, sec- tlon fifty-three, provides thas gaugers shall receive fees for their services not to exceed $250 per month. ‘The fees shall be paid by the person owning the liquors gauged, and shall be paid to the ool Jector who pays the gauger. The law established no fixed rate of fees, but left tat to the Commissioner, That officer soon perceiver the dimiculty in the way of fixing the rates, as some districts furnished much more work for the ganger than others and gave him far less trouble to doit. The plan adopted to fx a fair standard, therefore, was to write to each col- jector, ascertain the number of stills, their capacity aud their distanco apart, the number of rectifiers ‘and dealers, &c., and the scale of fees for such dis- trict was arranged from the data thus obtained. In districts where there are several distilicries, recti- fiers and stores, and where one or more of the dis- tlleries jalone furnish enough to keep one anger busy, the fee is fixed at five or ten cents a barrel, or suMcient to make the ganger’s fées amount to $260 per month. In districts containing but few places where yauging needs to be done, and those places a long distance apart, producing but a few barreia or kegs of liquor, And all of Whigh the gauged myst visit once in every | power three days, no matter what the weather may be, and in order to do @o must keep a horse and yehicle, in such districts the Commissioner has placed the fees at five or ten cente a gallon, that the gauger’s re- muneration may be nearly, if not quite, as high as the amount fixed by law. It is almost impossibie, however, to so arrange the assignments of districts as to come anywhere near equalizing the proits of gaugers. In some of the busiest districts the gaugers receive quite a large reve- nue from supplying to distillers triplicate copies of their gauging certificates, for which they charge from five to ten cents per barrel, and which cannot be included in their salary of $250, as the law does not require them to furnish copies to any other persons than the assessor and collector. Consolidating the South American Missions. Secretary Seward has addressed a letter to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and one to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs protesting against the adoption of Butler's. amendment to the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill consoli- dating the South American missions. The Secretary of State says that the adoption of this amendment would be unwise and impolitic. The case of Great Britain, cited by Mr. Butler and others in the debate, which keeps avery few representatives tn South America, Mr. Seward says is not analagous, because our relations with the South American republics are more intimate and our commerce with them larger than that of any European Power. Acquisition of the Danish West Indie?. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs held a meeting this morning and heard a speech from General Raasioff on the importance to the United States of the acquisition of the island of St. Thomas. ‘The General pointed out the necessity which this country was under to maintain a naval station in the West India waters, where so much of its com- merce ig directed and where its future interests are so greatly concerned. He dwelt a good deal upon the bugbear, as he termed it, of the St. Thomas earthquakes, and ridi- culed the notion that these unhappy manifestations m the bowels of the earth were chronic in the isiand, but rather a casual volcanic visitation, which even Washington city might be afilicted by in the years to come. These disturbances had been the means of throwing cold water on the idea of the purchase; yet their occurrence in the future might never transpire, as lightning which strikes in one place seldom hits the same mark again. The General gave the subject as much attraction as it was capable of receiving. The committee, however, being obliged to attend a caucus meeting, did nothing in the mat- ter, Several letters of Secretary Seward’s were read descriptive of the Danish islands and of the negotia- tions instituted for their purchase Petition for the Pardon of Dr. Madd. ; This afternoon Messrs, Stone, A rand Phelps, of the Maryland delegation in Congress, accompa- nied by R. J. Merrick, of this city, ca!led upon Prest- dent Johngon at the Pxecutive Mansion and presented Lim a paper signed by tle Maryland members in Congress and giving reasons for he pardon of Dr. Mudd, now in ceniine ment on the Dry Tortugas for alleged con plicity im the. plot that resulted in the assassination of President Lincoin. Mr. Stone, of the Fifth district, presented the paper and stated its contents. He called the President's attention espe- cially to the statement contained in the paper that there was a disagreement of oplniza between the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and that of Judge Boynton, of the District Court of Florida, and also invited atten- tion to the statement that Congress had, by the law of March, 1588, deprived persons accused of all right of appeal to the Supreme Court in habeas cor- pas cases, He argued thai this case was one in which the Executive should interfere, as, under the law referred to a party under punishment for al- leged crime 1s virtually without means of obtaining relief. The paper presented to-day, he said, was aa- ditional to that presented some days ago, and which was signed by all of the democratic members of Congress. This was signed only by the Mary- land Senators and Representatives, who believea it to be their duty to enforce the former applications inevery possible legitimate way. If the President had coubts upon the legal subject matter presented in the paper, his doubts might be dispelled by a cor- rect legal statement of the case. The President, after hearing Mr. Stone, took the papers and said he woul duly consider them. The subject had already caused him much serious thought, but as to the questions of law stated he did not think that in @ case involving the exercise of Executive clemency it was his duty to determine them, Mr. Archer presented to the President reso- lutions that had been adopted by the Medical Asso- ciation of Hartford county, Md., asking for Mudd’s pardon. He called attention to the merical ald that hac been given United States soidiers during a late epiiemie at theDry Tortugas. The President took the paper, remarking that he had aiready received a copy of the resolution. Mr. Merrick next addressed Mr. Johnson, and said he felt a deep interest in the case because he had known Mudd from childhood. He was about to continue, when the President interrupted him by re- marking, substantiaily:—“Mr. Merrick, there is no gentleman from whom I would rather hear an argument upon this case to-day than yourself; but! have unorougiily examiued the subject and have al- most made up my mind what! shalldo. It is oniy a question of time.’ Mr, Merrick sald thea if the President had made up his mind it was of no use to address him further, but that he had simply in- tended to say something with reference to the legal point méde im _ the paper, but more particularly to bring to the President’s at- tention @ matter of evidence which was not brought oui at the trials The President said the latter was always in order in an application to an executive oMicer for the exercize of the pardon- ing power, and he intimated ats willingness to hear Mr. Merrick, Mr. Merrick sald he would discuss nothing. but only call attention toa fact, The legal question suggested in the petition is simply to the effect that as there is a doubt as to the regularity of the sentence it is a case de- maniing investigation by the Executive, anid to show that under a law made against the veto power he has no relief in the courts of the country; but the matter of fact to whicit he referred he deemed of the gravest importance. At the trial before the military commission the Judge Advocate examined Everton J. Conger, who was beside Booth at the time Of his deat , The witness, 29, appears DY reference to the record of the trini, identified 3} knife, a pair of pistols, a file, a -pocket compass, @ spur, & pipe and various other insignificant articles a8 having beon upon the persen of Booth at the time of his death, and the Court was left (to infer that the articles identified were ali the articles found and taken from the dead man's person. It Was the duly of thd Prosécttion to have produced and proved them ail, aud the Court and the country | supposed that afi of them had been produced and | proved. Many months afterwards it became known that at the time of the trial the Judge Advocate was in possession of a diary which had been kept by Booth and was taken from him at the time of his death. Pubite opinion finally forced this diary to be bronght from its place of concealment and it was offered by the government on the trial of Surratt, This paper fully Acquis Dr. Mudd of any complicity in the as- sasstnationy plot, Mr. Merrick read portion of the diary to the President and said he based this application for pardon on the ground that the tribunal that tried Mudd were cheated and defrauded of this evidence, which, tf before them, would have secured his acquittal; and further, that he, the President, was cheated and defrauded into an ap- proval of his sentence by those. bad and malicious men. It was, he said, now before the President, and he claimed that by all the rules that govern the ex- ercise of Execative clemency Mudd was entitled tg a pardon, for he was suffering under a judgment ob- tained by fraud. In the course of Mr. Merrick’s re- marks the President said that long after the conspira- cy trial, when he bad found out the existence of the diary, he was the person who had requested It to be made public. After some further discusston a general conversation of a pleasant character followed, and Mr. Photps sata that now the larger matter was dis- posed of ha would call the attention of the Prest- dent to the petition pefore him for the pardon of some persons conBned in the House of Refuge. The President replied, siniling, that this was taxing the hrecutive clemency prohably very heavily. Mr. Merck them ead thet, as the pardoning yous the only = Executive = peroga- | Rgrertta te the Committee on Appropriations. tive Congress had left to him, ne ougne to exercise ii liberally, After some further general | conversation the interview terminated, evidently full of hope, if not absolute confidence. The ex- tract from the diary refer®d to by Mr. Merrick is that in which Booth records this under date of Aprit 14, 1865, the day of the assassination:—‘‘ Until to- day nothing was thought of sacrificing to our coun- try’s wrongs,” An Energetic Officer. Some time during last fall, soon after Caleb Cush- | ing resigned nis position as commissioner for the | codification of the Unied States laws, the President appointed during the recess of the Senate a Mr. Simeon Johnson fl the vacancy. Although he has not yet been cofifirmed, Mr. Johnson has drawn since his appointment his salary of $100 a week and has not yet met the other commissioners. One of the commissioners has never seen him and does | not even know him, Redistribution of National Bank Circulation. H. R. Hulburd, Comptroller of the Currency, was before the Committee on Banking and Currency to- day in relation to @ redistribution of the national bank cirenlation. A pressure has been brought to bear upon the committee from ihe West and South, where, it is alleged, there is a scarcity of cur- rency, while tt is plethoric in the Eastern States. ‘The circulation, which was fixed before the national banks were established in the Southern States, is not equal under the new order of things, and it will require some further legis!ation to remedy the mat- ter, The committee discussed the subject, but have come to no determination thereon. . Reduction of the Army. General W. 8. Hancock was before the House Mill- tary Committee to-day relative to the proposed re- duction of certain grades of officers in the army. Genera) Hancock gave it as his opinion that the re- duction can be made without detriment to the ser- vice. The McGarrahan Case. The case of McGarrahan came up again to-day in the Senate, and went over again until to-morrow. Before the assembiing of the Senate a copy of the letter of Senators Conness, Stewart and Nye to the Commissioner of the Land Ofice had been left on the tanle of every Senator and created quite a favor- abie feeling toward McGarrahan. “The impression to- night is that if the case is taken up to-morrow it wil be considered and a decision in favor of McGarrawan rendered, Personal, General John Cochrane and Judge Pierrepont, of New York, arrived here to-day. The latteris now mentioned for the Attorney Gencralship in case Mr. Eyaris should not remain in the Cabinet. Condition of the National Banks. ‘The general abstract of the national banking asso- clations of the United States gives reports from 1,626 banks, showing their condition on the morning of the first Monday of the present month before the commencement of business, It embraces the follow- ing ilems under resources:— i i Loans and discounts... $043,090, 736 United States honds to secure nd deposit $72,828,300 43,790,525 . in 142,405,591 29,599,964 87,980,728 418,858,931 116,433,650 0 | Lepoaits. Due to ba $1,589,060,020 Aggregate of liabilities. The Cupreme Court. In the Supreme Court of the United States, on motion of ?. Phillips, A. R. Mauning and Thomas A. Hamilton, of Mobile, Ala., were admitted to practice as attorneys and counsellors of this court. Gn motion of Hon. L. P. Poland, Charies ©. Dewey, of Rutland, Vt., was admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor of this court. Case No. 6—Ethan Allen, appellant, vs. Rolin White et al.—The argument of this cause was con- cluded by Mr, Curtis, of counsel for the appellant. No. 24.—Thomas W. Prince, appellant, va. The Untted States, and No, 259, The Dover Five Cent Savings Bank et al, appellants, vs. The United States.—The argument of these causes was com- menced by Mr. Goodrich and continued by Mr. Biack, of counsel for the appeliants, Bids for the Pauper Contract. ‘This morning the Joint Committee on Printing opened the bids for paper to be used for pubilc printing during the year 1869, The paper required is divided into six classes, as follows:— Class 1,—2,200 reams uncailendered paper, 24 by 38 inebes. Ciass 2.—9,000 reams calendered paper, 24 by 38 and 22 by 34 inches. Ciags 3,—1,000 reams sized and calendered printing paper, 24 by 32 tnches, Ciase4.—1,000 reams supertine map paper, 19 by 24 inches, Class 5.—300 reams writing paper, of va- rious sizes, Class 6.—3,100 reams paper for Post Ofiice blanks, various sizes. ‘The bids received were as follows:—Charles Mar- gee & Co., Philadelphia, 2,000 reams, class J, at 16 40-100 cents per lb.; 1,000 reams, Class 2, at 18 40-100 cents per Ib.; class 3, at the same, Russel Paper Company, Lawrence, Mass., class 3, at 18 40-100 cents per Ib.; Class 4, at 191-5 cents per pound; class 6, at 17 47-100 cents per pound. R. Kingstand, New Jersey, classes 3 and 4, at 17'¢ cenis per peund. W. J. Bryan, New York, ail of class 2, ab 17 47-100; Classy 5, at 211-9 Camp- bell, Hali & Uo., New York, class 1, at 15 9-10; class 2, al 18 45-100; Class 3, at 143¢. Blanchard & Mohun, Washington, D. C., 5, at 20%. William W. Harding, Philadelphia; 10,000 reams, class 1, at 16 93-100, Willlam H. Hoifman, Baltimore, 1,500 reams, class 1, at 1389-100. ©. W. Weeks, Albany, N. Y., 22,000 reains, class 1, at 16 46-100 per pound} 8,000 reams, class 2, at 18 cents; 6,000 reams, Class 6, Hi. M. Clarke & Co., Boston, 22,000 8,000 reams, Class 2, at 17%; class 3, ‘ 6, ab 1794. J. A. Weed, pClass 2, at 17%%5 class Philadeiphia, Ciass 1, at 1841-100; class 2, 18%¢ ; class 3, 1044; class 4, at 25; clas# 6, at 24%; class 6, at 1749-100. 8, D.War- ren, Bostou, class 1, at 16 cents; Class 2, at 18; class 3, ati9},, J. i. Bryson, class 28%. Kigsup & Moore, Phuladeiplita, class 2, at 18 40-100 and 1941-100; class 3, At 20; class 4, at 25; cldss 6, at 18 48-100, wee & Co., Philadelpiia, 3,000 reams at 10 16-4 ass 2, al 18 65-10); ‘class 3, at 18 65-100. ‘Tue bids will be considered by the committee and contracts owarded m the course of afew days THE FORTIETH CONGRISS. Third Session. SENATE. “ | Wasirtveros, Jan. 26, 1869, CREDENTIALS OF CHARLES SUM Mir. WHL20N, (rep.) Of Mass., presented the ereden- tials of Charles Summer, Senator elect from Massa- chuseits, whielt were read, VEMENTS IN BOSTON NARROR. (rep.) of Mass., presonted the petition of the pgrbor masters of Boston for an appropria- | {yn to make certain improvements In Boston harvor. | anted # petition N. Yu. tun favor Of wing pensions to the survivors of the war of | . Keferred to the Committee on Pensions, THR BANKRUIT LAW. Nr. DRAKE, (fep.) Of Mo., presented resolutions of the Union Merchants’ Exchange of St. Lonis re- monstrating: further extension of certain provisions of the Bankrupt act. Referred to the Committee on We; nEORG ENS r 1 ih DEPARTMENTS. My. SHERMAN, (rép.) Of Oliio, said that the Com- n Finance Lad considered carefally the bill » the Treasury Department, and, feari that they could not rey a bil om that sw which would meet the views of Ce act directed him to report a resolution providing for t appointment, at the begining of the next sessiot of a joint committee, to consist of three Sena- tors and dive Representatives, with leave to sit during the recess of the Forty-tirst 5 to exainiae and report upon the ex) cy of reorganizing the civil service in the several de- partinents of the goverament, the examination ex- tending to the clerical force necessary in each de- pariment, the rates of compensation, and such rules and regulations as may Fegnirea to increase the efficiency of the service, resolution was adopted, PRIVATR CLAIMS, Mr. SUMNER Asked that the Committee on Foret Relations be diecbaraed from tie further consid- eration of the memorial of Charles Wylie, | a Untied States consul in Peru. A treaty, he had recently been negotiaied with Pera providiag for a commission to hear and consider the claims of Et snee ne paanenioeen citizens, oon 3 oe might, 1 Hy prosecute his claim before the commission. The ittee was harged from the consideration of this memorial. Mr. SUMNER, from same comitttee, made an the aret tion for services ered Morse asking Co! by Isaac Morse at DISADILITIEG OF PARKER, OF VIRGINTA. Mr. SUMNER ited resolutions of the Union Let at Wine! Va,, setting forth that a few disfranchised rebels with them were ad removal of the dis abilities of Virginia, and be ae ae Suepegies oS ON 798 ° and citing a charge delivered by nim to the Grand dury curmy the war. preseniing the resolutions My, Suumer renarked from what he liad heard on this and other oceasions of this Judge he thought that the lave Kichard Hildreth. 1 ative, would find hina 1 subject for an additional chapter of his work, t» be led “Atrocious Judges.” Tie reso- lution was referred to the Comittee on the Judiciary. EE ANIZATION OF TiE NAVY. RBORG. Mr, Grotes, .) of Lowa, introduced a bili tor the reorganiaadlow We the pee of the United States, Referred tothe Committee on Neval Atiairs. Mr, Grimes? bill provides that no promotion to the g es 1 | of commodore on the active fod shaii be made until the number in said grade reduced to fificen, which shall thereafter be the meximum number. It Prowse, ina similar manner, for the reduction of ‘eutenaat commanders to eighty, and fixes the number of leutenauts at 230 and of masters and cnsigns at 100each, The bill also provides, in detail, for the reorganization of the medical, engi- ineer and pay corps of the navy; abol s the ‘ade of third assistant rund the oficers of the Chief Bureau of Medicine and and Chief Bureau of and Clothing, It provides that an it as Ohief of the Ba- | Teau of Steain Engineet as flect captain, fleet surgeon, fleet ymaster or fleet engineer shall ho additional rank OF pay, ond that olllcers eg medical and engineer corps above the grades of staff surgeon, staf paymaster and stati engineer shail not be required to do duty at sea, unless in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy the exigencies of the service demaud it, The bill also provides that nothing therein shall be construed to give auy ad- ditional ciaim to exercising military coamand or Tight to quariers. Finally, it provides that com- manding and executive oMcers shail take prece- dence of ail staff officers, ‘THE VENSION APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. Mornit, (rep.) of Me., from the Committee on Appropriations, reported back the Pension Appropri- ation bill, with amendments reducing the amount appropriated for invalid pensions from ten miilions to nine miilions of dollars, and the appropriation for Cone Ceog A rig Or cpantoey miliions o a m 3 also the itary Acadeiny Appropriation bili with a slight amendment. Pasir THE PACIFIC TRANSIT RAILWAY. Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of La., introduce? a bill to aid in vhe construction of the Pacific Transist Railway and Telegraph, from New Orleans to some point on the Kio Grande in the direction of San bias on the Pacific, which was referred to the Committee on the Bactfle Railroad. It provides for the consolidation of the Central ‘ransit Com- pany of Louisiana and the Central Trau- sit Company of Texas, under the style of the Pacitic Central Transit Company, and in aid of the above ineniioned enterprise proposes that the gov- ernment shal! guarantee the payient of interest on thirty year six per cent bonds of the com} to the extent of $12,509 per mile, the United 51 to be secured by first mortgage. If is also provided that the company shall be authorized to construct and operate one or more branch lines, connecting its main with the Mexican Gulf or its waters, which branches shall be entltled to the same privileges as the main line. The bill also pr6poses to grant eight fections of public lands per mile, to be selected in the States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippt, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and ‘Florida, and provides that the company shall sell every landless laborer on the road who desires it forty acres of land at one dollar per acre, Work is to commence within one year, end the line is to be completed within six year’s froma the passage of the bill. THE SOUTMERN EXPRESS COMPANY. Mr. Ric, (rep.) of Ark., introduced 2 bill to incor- porate a Southern express company. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, NEW ORLEANS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY. Mr. KBLLOGG iniroduced a bill to aid in the con- struction of a railway and telegraph iine from New Ovieans [0 some point on the Rio Grande. Relerred to the Committee on the Pacitic Railroad. RELIEF OF WILLIAM M’GAReAH Mr. Mouton, (rep.) of Ind., moved to take up for reference to the Jadiciary Commitvee the bill for the relief of Wm, McGarrahan, indefinitely postponed at the last session, E Messrs, WILLIAMS, CONNESS and STEWART urged the point of order made-yesterday against a like mo- tion, that the bill, having been iudeiinitely post- Ponca, was finally disposed of, ‘ube discuésion of us point was interrupted by the expiration of the morning hour, whic! ag 5 up the unfinished business of yesterday—the bill in relation to the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Raftroad. CENTRAL BRANCH OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD, * Mr. Doonitriz, (dem,) of Wis., spoke briefly in favor of the bill, the object of which, he said, was to enable the company to connect with the Eastern Di- vision of the Pacific Railroad at a point forty-five niles further east than the piace at ‘which the june- tion was originally intended to be made, and the effect to save the government the difference in bond and land grants between forty-five miles and one hundred miles, Mr. HARLAN, (rep.) of To maintained that the design of Co. 38 indica’ = I tion of 1862 Was thatthe branches and the trunk line of the Union Pacific Raiiroad should be constructed as one uniform road, connecting the waters of the Missis- sippi river with the Pacific, end that the Central Branch Company without the aid tobe given by the bill, form the junction with the main line, which the law requires them to make. Mr. Parrerson, (rep.) of N. H., said that he had examined tye law and satiafled himeclf that it im. d no obi to this bill, Teainst which, thei ne weld would vote Mr. POMEROY, (rep.) controverted of the statem . Conkling yester- day in regard ce = between. the terminus of the Central Branch road and the Eastern division of the main line. The reason he supported this bill was because the claim of the com was spovane, aad he believed that the people we be always found as ready to sustain an equitable as a legal clatin. Mr. MORGAN 0} bill, as it designed to give $2,400,000 the public money, besides land grants, to a corporation formed for the profit of indi- viduals and having no good on the govern- ment for such gift. Mr. HOWARD, (rep.) Of Mich., said he would vote for the bili upon the same principle that if he were a chauceilor would make him decide a case in favor of api whose claim was equitebie, Mr. ig gon of Ky., dented that the facts pre- sented Ig the advocates of the bill sustamed the equity of the claim. Incidentally, lic objected to Mr, Conkling’s pronunciation of the word “route” in the French manner, and requested him to cali it “rowt.”? (Laughter.) Mr. CRAOIN, (rep.) of N. H., replied to Mr. Davis, and advocated the bill, Mr. Cox, (rep.) of Cal., was in favor of giving all reasonable aid to railroad Se, designe to connect the Atlantic with the Pacitic States, but he thought that if the Central Branch Company had realiy an CA pogeen claimf it would be better for the government to pay them the amount they had ex- pended on thé road so far and take it off their hands, and if necessary let it go to ruin, than to give them the additional subsidy of money and land provided for tn the bill. Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) of N. Y., repeated some of the objections urged by him yesterday agaiust the bill, and Mr. HOWARD restated the grounds of the com| "s claiin, Mr. Convert, (rep.) of Oregon, said that the de- bate had satisted him that the bashage of the bil was not required by any legal or equitable obliga: | ous of the government to the Central Branch Company, and he withdrew the ameuduient offered by him yesterday. Mr. CONKLING then offered an amendment, in the nature of a substitute, providing that nottl i tained In the act of July 3, Ind, relating to the Fastern Division of the Union Paciilc Reltroad shall deprive the Central Branch from contiauing Its road aut bm by h lines from the termination of the on bund: miles mentioned fn the act incorporat the riage! to connect with the Union Pacilic Railroad, Eastem Division, as @ branch of that road, bat requiring the continuation of the Central Branch road to be wade to @ point at or near Fort Riley, in Kansas, npon the saine terms, in all respects, a8 are now provided by law for the construction of the east rn division of the Union Pacific Ratiroad: and providing, farther, tha o subsidy shall be allowed to sai Central Branch Company for any ater length of road than forty miles trom the aination of the 4 mules on which bonds are aiready authorized to Mi the amendment and amrmed the equity of the After further dts ion by Mesers. Rowrnps and ‘0 ING, without acting on the amendimens, the mate, al twenty minuies past four o'clock, ad | journed. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. "He WAsuixeron, Jun. 20, 1900, PETITION OF MRS. LINCOLN PQ PANeI The SPRAKER presented, under the Tul, "1 vett- tion of Mrs, Abraham Lincoln for @ pension, which was referred to the Pension Commuitter. PRES OF GAUGERS OF LIQuOns. Mr. McCcLLoven, (dem.) of Mil., offered a resola- tion calling on the Commissioner of internal Reve- nue for iniormation as to the rate at which he has fixed tire fees of gaugers for gauging aud ting wore w the act of July 20, 168, section Afty- tahoe ‘aio ae to how tluch revenue has been re- celved for inspecting and gauging liquors wader that acl ir. LY NOR, .) of Me., gave notice that he would call up, after iiemorning jour, his bill to provide for the general resumption of specio payment. REMISSION OF DIRECT TAXRS IN SOUTHERN STATES. Mr. HEATON, (rep.) of N. C., introduced a to amend the eighth section of the act of August 5, 1861, to provide for increased revenue from ti &c., by suspending and abating the collection of the uncollected portion of the direct taxes made by that section upon the States of pay Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, om oy jorida, Lovietana and Arkansas, Referred to the Committee of Ways aud NPMENT OF THR PENSION LAW. Mr. Pennase (rep) of Me,, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported @ | Operations of the Pensio? !aw. ‘The first section shail bo bill relattag to the that no 10M, or toa wilow teuprestiet Ae ihe she has been liv! for five amendments, chicfly COMMILS. SE, NIBLACE, (dem.) of Ind., suggested that the bil! should be re- committed, with matractions to make the second sec- rt apply to male pensioners as well as female pen- oners, Mr, Penitam declined to yield to that motion, Mr. INGERSOLL desired to Know the purport of the second section, ‘The SpRaK Was not before the House, the 5 nestion last ataendineat reported by Mr. Perham. Without disposing of the last ae the morning hour expired, and the bill went over till the morning hour to-morrow. DUTY ON SHINGLES. Mr, Cuvnenit, (rep.) of N. Y., presented the me- torial of Alvin Osborn and others, shingle manu- facturers, of Oswego, N. Y., asking for an 1creased port duty upon shingle '. Ralerees to the Sconces ot ‘ays and ” ir, ALLISON, (rep.) of To’ me the business on the Speake is eye RUSUMPTION O” SPECIE PAYMENTS, Mr, Lyxei claimed his right to the 1 orde! that he might cali up his bill, bia r ‘Mr. ALLISON withdvew his motion in order to Jet Mr. Lynch make a speech on his bill, stating that he had not been aware of the arrangement made. Mr. Wasuocrsg, (rep.) of lil, renewed it, and then, pending that motion, moved to go into Com- mittee of the Whole on the Legislative Appropria- tion bill, ‘The latter motion was negatived y a vote of 20 to as Lm yechonene seas for we yeas and nays on the motion, and for on the yeas and but both were refused, i@ motion to proceed to the business on the Byes table was then rojected by a vote of 18 Mr. Lyncw then, at twenty minutes before two rapa called up hid bill to promis for the resump- tion specie payment, proceeded to address q the House in support of it. SPEZCH OF MR, LYNOH. Mr. Speaker, among ail the contlicting theories 11 be po to our financial! aifairs, and the incans to opted for their improvement, there is a very fon. eral agreement upon one point—nameiy, that itis desirable at the earliest day practicabie to place our currency upon a specie Some contend that we should do nothing directly toward Leng resumption, bu that by @ proper adjustment of tariff and a rigid economy in the administration of the governinent the balance of trade will be turned in our favor and the desired result be thas brought about in due season and without ony disturbance tn businsss. But money is the subject of contracts for future payment, ag well a3 a medium of exc! and contracts for the fa- ture cannot be made with confidence go long as our currency is of fluctuating and uncertain value, Mr. Lynch here states that of the debt $1,557,344,900 are so funded that we have the option to pay it within three years, and in order to fund this at a lower rate of interest, and to do this we must improve our credit, the Gepreciation of which is caused by the depreciation im our currency, He argues that if our currency were brought to par our banks would foliow. He then states our demand lia- - bilities to be provided for by resumption, at a total of $752,371,860, our present means lo meet which are the net amount of coin in the Treasury, $85,700,275, or about twelve per cent of our demand Habilit-es. discusses the remedies Re asi— 1, Contraction; 2. Repeal of Legal Te: act; 3. Buying up the legal tenders at a discount, which shall duiinish one per cent per month until we buy them at par; 4. (Morton’s plan) An enactment by Con- that specie payments shall be resumed by the government at some fixed day in the future, to be foliowed at a later day by alike resumption on the art of the national banks and by a re of the Legal Teuder act, resumption to be provi for by retaining in the Treasury all the surpins of coin after paying the interest oa the public debt, and by com- pel ung the banks to retain the specie receive in- rest on their bonds, with which to maintain hel circulation upon a specie ba (9 argue that the cont jon Mr. Lyoch pt policy lias faiied and would be hyper or — see al ihe Legal Tender act would compel lebtors to pay their debts In gold or ite which the government itseif cannot ao that the third (General Garileid's plan) would fail, because ernment cannot by an act of Co = fi price of gold. After complim Se Morton’s plan he says:— And this brings me to the bill before the House, Does it possess the necessary elements of success? Let us examme its provisions. They are:— First—To destro; all United States tender notes ved into the course of ordinary transactions, and to issue a like amount of United States notes, redeemable in coin on deimand, at and after one year from the ste at sane. Second—To cause all national bank notes received at the Treasury to the bank issuing the same in si tender notes, w! legal tender notes shall in manner be destroyed, and coin no’ one year, Issued in their stead- the the the 7» at hus discretion, tority of Les first issued, issue the coin notes 2 nge my he present United States notes at a Jess time t S90, TORK DOA Ant oe 8 nes: Simm; San fares gE te Sovestary is sien: anther. t maiatain the redemption of the coim notes after maturity, purchase coin to the amount fg ag To state more in detail, the bill pro- lato the Treasury of the United States, in the ordt- nary course of business, after July 1, 1869, will be desiroyed, and ail national bank notes so received will be changed with the banks issuing the same for United States notes, which notes will also be de- ed. and in lieu thereof a like amount United States — at the United Si of about #1 (00,000 month, or of doy. That is during the month, of Sulys 1960, theee would be paid out from the Untied $15,000,090 In notes payable in one issue, on demand, tn coin, at the followed by alike amount each year, bon ry aoenl seme verted du e Se ee lt sa reas converted int coin notes durtng the next fiscal year. ‘That is,one-hai the present volume of United States notes would convertible tuto notes payable in coin in one year from the date of boca few during ihe iiscal year ending June 30, 1870, the other half woul be thus couvertea during 80, 1871, Thus gradual subsiitut payable on acertain day for legal tender notes, never actually Bis able on their face, is the first measure D roposed by this bill, Itis the means of pre oy ‘and of waking not only practicabie and sure, bi gradual aud easy, the Pong ong d of oe * Meats. This ts to be the first step under this gill to be tiken toward the return to @ specié cur: reacy. ‘the next step reiates to the bay. men. of these coin notes. This process to commence one year after the date of their frat sue, On that day the $500,000 in cola m | tasted a year befor il vecome redeemable, and | presented at the ury must be paid. As pay- ment esa only be demanded at the same rate | the origtoal issue, say $ 4 datly, the t peel RI be arin ba! exion period ‘0 years, from 1, 1949, to Jtuy 1, 1872. These notes tits become invermediate curroucy between the present ee vender — aad gokl, and serve wo Vi poses, Ww to me tial = to healthy CONTINUED ON TRNTA PAG”,