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WASHINGTON Senator Sumner’s Bill for Resumption of Specie Payment. The Georgia Bill Before the erate, Senator Trumbull’s Exposure of Balloek’s Administration. Dissatistaction with Lo- gan’s Army Bill. The Deficiency Bill Reported in the House. WASHINGTON, March 14, 1879, Secretnry Fish Before a Congressioyn! Come .mittoce—His Opinion of the Caban War. Premier Fish last week was gently invited by General Banks & Co.) of the koreign Affairs Commit- tee, to appear before them and show cause why Cuba should not be set free of the existing diplo- matic entanglements in the way of beiligerent rights and recoguiuon, and Premuer Fish w-day saw fit to accept the invitation and at the same time make his first appearance at the Capitol since ‘lug accession to the guiduance of the ship of Stave. Premier Fish produced a regu. jar wave of excitement by his apearance at the Senate and House. Grant himscif could not have made a bigger sensation before the House committee. He made a long statement as to his views anent Cuba; occupymg from eleven A. M. until half an nour past noon. He was principally auterrogated as to the real condition of the Cupan Jndependently the and jate revolution, peared in spondence, of published (he way diplomatic — corre- al3o as to whether there was apy fad important correspondeuce with the government on the general subject, As ww the first braach, Mr, Msh's statement suowed no vari: as to the status of ihe Cuban revolution between the pubitshea and unpublished corresponiience. He maintained that the policy of the adiunisiration was the only one that could be Justified py national honesty and fair dealing and a due regard for the jus geniium. The coniended that the information recetved, both from official agents and unoilicial correspondents, enttvied to credit, showed that the Cubans had not atiained that advanced condition as betligs ats to enutle tem to solemn recognition by any foreign government; that, in fact, thongh they kept upa state of armed opposition to the Spauish authority on the island, it was not an opposition taat could be digutfiead witha titie much nigher than that of a guerilla warture, which might continue for many it ap- years, He bad received tate despatches from Consul Biddle and. also a statement ol the Prussian Consui General, witch con. firmea mint im these views. He produced Jate coxrespondencd from diferent parts of Cuba, all of whict tend to show that hus opinion as to the real condition of ailairs was correct. The comiitt- tee heard Mr. Fisi's statement with profound atten- tion, but Lam imformed that no member found any- thing in 16 which changed his views in tne slightest degree. The commitiec, with the exception of Wil- Jard, of Vermont, is in favor of taking sume action m favor of the Cubans, and it 1s not improbable that a suitable resolution will soon be reported to the house. Expiration of the Income Tax Law. There ts & good dea! of controversy concerning the time when the law creating the income tax e pires by limitation. That law, since its first en- acument by the Thirty-seventh Congress, hasander- gone several amendments. The lavest was im the act approved March 2, 1867, “Section thirtcen of that act, which is amendatory of the 119th sectton of the act approved June 14, 1864, provides that sec- Won 119 be amended by striking out all after the enacting clanse, and in: ing iu len thereof the following:— ‘That the taxes on incomes herein imposed shall be levied on the Ist day of March and be due and pay- aple on or belure the 13th day of April 1a each year, until and including the year 1870 and no longer. Tv wili be seen from the language of the act that the tax extends over the present year and that it cannot be otherwise construed. ‘This is the view taken by the Ways and Means Committee of the House as weil as vy the Commis- sioner of Interna! Revenne. The bill which passed the house a few days ago extending the tax over the year 1870 was introduced by a member not well posted in the acts of Congress, and was rushed through without attracting mach attention, Tue fact that th was no necessity for 1 was disco- vered by some of the learned lawyers of the Senate, which secured its prompt defeat in that boay, Fup ia Prospect Over the Funding Bil. ‘The Funding bul is itkely to jead to a lively little discussion in the House when the question as to Which committee tb ought to be referred comes up. Mr. S chairman of the Ways and Meaus, and Garfield, chairman of the Banking and Currency Coumsnittee, are reported to be av daggers’ points on the subject, scheuck constdera the Ways and Means siould have custody o: the measure, while Garfield says “No siree—mine is the proper committee—yours has nothing to do with ure subject.” Schenck says his commit- tee 1s the proper one, Garfield wants to know “Why? And the uit likely to be is as I observed above, aright smart prush in the House between the two Solons eager for the honor of man- aging the great measure before the commoners and @somnolent gallery, Tho later always enjoy a sugoze when financial matters are under discussion, Schenck has tried several umes during the present xession to have sim lar matters bearing upon vance referred to his commutice, but he has uniformly met with defeat. Tam told that pow he has worked himself inw a white heat of indignation about the reference of the Funding bill, andjthat he threatens, in case the house don’t back him up in bis claim to have the thing committed Lo his care, be will resign his posi- tion as Chajrman of the Waysand Means. He will be completely huffed, will Schenck, and perhaps May find it impossibie to heal his wounded honor short of resigning his seat in Congress. Gartield must take this threatening catastrophe into consid- erauion before he commences bis wrangle about Tunding. 4 Yankee Congressman in a “Fix? —Coolness Between the President and Mr. Dawea—The Mansachusetts Member Taking the Back ‘Track. ‘The economical chairman of the House Committee oD Appropriations, Henry 1. Dawes, who achieved such a reputation, a few wecks ago, in attacking what he termed the extravagance of the adiminis- tration estimates for the next fiscal year, is fast coming to grief. What with the onsiaught from Ben Butler and other leading republicans and the raid now being made upon him by the demo- cratg on account of his gomg back upon them in his New Hampshire speeches, poor Dawes 13 kept busy deiending himself. He has made several attempts to reconcile ais famous re- trenchment speech in the Legisiative Appropriation bol with bis ubverauce on the stump im New Hamp- shire, but the more he explains the worse he gets muddled. One of the leading republicans of the Movse said the other day wat the trouble with Dawes is he don’t know What he is talking about. This same gentleman says the President and Dawes are by no means the intimate friends wat certain telegrams sent from this etty about the tine Dawes giarted for New fampshire represented. On the contrary, the President bas not forgotten the attack of Dawes upon the adménisuration, which he re- garded as uwprovoked and unjustifiable It will be romembered iliat Dawes 1 fis speech said he had expected to tnd the estimates of the administration for the coming fiscal year on a descending, mot an NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, the New Hampshire campaign Dawes called ‘upon the President—the first cail he had made since hig retrenchment speech. “Mr. President,” said Dawes, in his blandest man- ner, “what message shalli take from you w the people of New Hampshire?” “You may tell them,” said Grant, with the great- est coolness, ‘‘Uiat the expenses of the adminisira- tion will be op the descending, not the ascending scale.” Dawes could not fall, of course, to recognize his own words, differently put, and is said to have been somewhat taken aback, rhe Vresident undoubtedly meant to cut him, whether he understood it or not. When Dawes returned from New Hampshire, in de- feuding himself agatnst the attacks of the democrats for the inconsisteucy between his course in te House and his speeches in New Hampshire, he shifted the blame of the estimates Jrom the Secretary of the ‘Treasury to What he terined the heads of bureaus in the Trea- sury Department. He asserted that he had called upon these gentiemen, time alter ume, to get them to reduce their estimates, and all tono purpose, A prominent repudlican member of the House, who has been giving a good deal of attention to the sub- ject, says he don’t beheve Dawes knows what he is talking about when he refers to heads of bureaus of the Treasury. ‘There is nothing in the statutes recoguizing any bureaus in the ‘Treasury except the Bureau of Internat Revenue and the Currency Bureau. “If,") said this gentic- man, ‘he means by heads of bureaus the First and Second Compiroliers and the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fiitn and Sixth Auditors, and General Spin- her, the Treasurer of the United States, I can ceruly that he has never called upon one of these gentie- men; that he has never asked them or either of them to reduce thelr estimates; that the estimates as made out by them were potjchanged by the Com- Mitvee On Appropriations, and that they passed the House in the Legisiative Appropriation bill just ag they were originally made out by these so-called heads of bureaus,” The Report of the Committce on the Sale of Vadetships=Butler, of ‘Yennessce, to be Censured, ‘The session of the House Committee on Military Affairs to-aay was devoted to the consideration of the report which will be made to the House on the cadet sale investigation. The investigation is vir- tually closed, only one witness tn the case of Judge Chureniii remaining to be examined, and he is not deemed importan:. No new cases are reported, and the committee 18 anxious to gel the mutter closed up, so that they may be discharged from the farther consideration of it, It @ppears that quite a discussion took place In com- titcee as to What should be doue in the cuse of R. KR. Butler, of Tennessee. The majority thoughta resolution of censure would be suiicient, while some members of the committee favored @ resolution ex- pelling Bauer trom the House. It was finally de- cided, however, to report a resohition of censure. The report ja ait the cases imvestugated by the committee and not hitherto reported will be pre- sented Co the House oa Wednesday, Llogether with all the evidence taken. The action of tne House, 1 is , Will not be required tn any ease, except that of , lb 18 understood, will pe ex- ‘There is some talk of a munority report 5 of Buder and one or two others, but thai has net yet been determined upon. Beciine of American Commerce--Subsidies Reanired for American Built Tron Ships. A delegation of iron snip builders had a hearing to-day before the aelect committee on the causes of the reduction of American tonnage. ‘The following iron shipbuudimg trus were represente and Continentai tron Works, of New York; € Sons, of Philadelphia; Pennsylvania tron Works, of Chester, Pa., and Harian, Hollingsworta & Co, of Wiloungton, Del, The delegates asked the commit- tee to ameud their bill so as to have a rebate and drawback On iron and steel plates, bars, bolts, beams and forgings, used im shipbuilding. They urged that the proviso itmiting the amount of drawback be stricken out and requested that the amount of subsidy on iron sicamshivs Muay be fixed at $250 per ton, The committee agreed to make the amendments proposed and to make the subatay'two dollars per ton to iron ships. They have BeTeGg 47, s4It the Operation vf the act to té% Yeats from the Ist of July next. The members ot the délegation urged the immediate passage of the bilt, and stated that if it passed there would oe immediate activity on the part of shipbuiladers and capitalists to place tron ships on the ocean. They did not doubt that six months after the bili becaine a law there would be sixteen Iron vessels of 3,000 tons each afloat. Jnmed late action, they said, was necessary, as all the shipbuilding Inter ests of the country were at a Standstill, and at least a thousand inechanics now out of empioyment would be at once put to work. The delegation also had a conference with the Presi- dent to-day. It is said that he will send to Congress to-morrow his message relative to the decline of American commerce and the means of reviving it, and that he will take strong ground in favor of the Dill reported by Mr. Lynch. Dissatisfaction with Lognn’s Army Bil—Its Injustice to Veteran Oficers—Injurious Efe fects on the Personnel of the Army. ‘The fact that Logan does not give his speech on the Army bili to the printer for publication exciies considerable suspicion here and has @ very bad effect on public sentiment. it is said to have con- tained 80 many grave errors that he means to have it thoronghiy revised and corrected before giving it tothe people. The more closely this sweeping bill is examined the more glaring do its dangerous fea- tures appear, according to leading army officers. 1b issatd that tt will save to the people only a few thousand dollars after ail, while the Injustice it wiil do to many of the bravest and most pairlotic oMicers of the army cannot be estunated by dollars and cents, Itis thought that the bill strikes at and aims to degrade such officers a3 Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Hancock, Meade, Park, Humphreys, Barnes, the Surgeon General; Shires, of the Com- missary Department, and Dyer, of the Ordnance, and as effectually destroys what glory they gained for the military power of the country during the war us the rebels could have Gone had they been victorious, It is urged that the only oMicers to be benefited by this sweeping bill are tbe young, inex- perienced striplings, who gained positions in the army after the war was ended either through favor- itisin or the infinence of members of Congress, many of them being relatives. Many members-of the House say they allowed this bill to pass merely to save tme, and with @ firm belief that it would be defeated ia the Senate, where the true fight against it would have to be made. It looks very much, however, as if Messrs. Logan, Butler and Negley, the originators of the bill, were resolved on reducing the socia! and intellectual status of the army to the same standard as that by which the people estimate Congress itself at the present ume. An Unfounded Rawor Quieted—Letting of Calie fornia and New Mexico Mail Routes, A story was put in circulation some days ago by interested parties to the effect that some irregu- larities had been discovered in the contract branch of the Post OMice Deparunent, and woulda be the subject of Congressional investigation. It appears @ party of individuals from Texas tiled a statement vefore the Senate Committee on Retrenchment that the El Paso Stage Company, who have a contract for carryipg the mails, and for which they were recety- jug large sums of money, were not filling their agreement with the government at all. Last spring the parties withdrew their charges. ‘They were, however, renewed several montns ago, and in order to understand the matter the Senate Retreachment. Committee sent for books and papers rejating to the subject, but found that the De- partment was all righi, The parties making the charges in doing 80 supplemented their statements with & pid to carry the mails themselves, Tne mat- ter las been investigated and no irregularities Jound. Should at any time in the future the stage company be found neglecting 1ts contract it will be rendered void by the Department, ‘The uaval process of opening the proposals for car- rying the mails 1s as follow: ‘The bids, numbering hundreds, and classified by routes at the time pre- Viousiy announced, are openea by a elerk, who hands bid immeatately to the Postmaster Gen- eral, who looks at it and pots bis initiais on it It is then paased to the Second As- sistant Postmaster General, who also puts lus initials on. The bids are then handed over to clerks ascending sale, dust before marling ous om | who seousd them, Frome show: stavemente the con- tracts are awarded. There is no secrecy in the mat- ter, and the books ure accessible at any time to re- sponsible persons, ‘To-day a large number of contracts were awarded, of which the following constitute the through routes:—Oroville, Cal, to Portland, Oregon, daily, ‘Theodore Lee, $80,000; Sam Juan to Los Angeles, daily, Theodore 8. Hapenuy, $20,970; Santa Fé, New Mexico, to Pl Paso, three times a week, C. W. Lewis, $9,000; Messilla, New Mexico, to Los Angeles, Cal., 200 tniles twice @ week, James W. Cullen, $42,000; Phil Sheridan, Col., to Santa Fé, New Mexico, daily, A. O. Wallace, $13,000; Corinne, Utah Terri- tory, to Virginia City, Montana, daily, Gilmeran Sauisbury, $9,750; Kelton, Utah Territory, to the Dailes, daily, Theodore Lee, $75,000; Walla, Wash- ington Territory, to Missoula, Montana, once a week, L. L. Blake, $15,100; Austin, Nevada, to St. Joseph, Nevada, three times a week to Belmont, and once a week rest of route, Benjamin Jackson, $12,400; Prescott, Arizona, to San Barnadino, Cal., weekly, James Grant, $16,448. In addition to these principal routes a large number of less importance were let, embracing the distrinution of the mails in all the territories except Dakotah, and including the States of California, Oregon and Nevada, The De> partment on the ist of April will let the carrying of the mails in all the States west of Indiana, including the Southern States of Missouri, Tennessee and Ken- tucky. - the Civilization of the Indians, ‘The Senate Committee on Indian Atfairs to-day re- Ported hack to the Senate Mr. Wilson’s bill to pro- mote the civilizatton of tudians and to prepare them for the rights and duties of citizenship. ‘The committee made @ favorabie report and the ques- tion 18 now open to discussion, It 1s certain that something must be done in regard to this Indian question, and Senator Wilson’s Dill has many friends, as combining utility and @ practical exercise of authority, The bill contemplates the creation of a board of inspectors for the protection of Indians in amity with the United States. The inspectors are to be appointed by and with the advice. of the Senate and are fixed at five tn number. The Secretary of the Intertor and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs are also to be included in the board, the former to be the presi- dent, This board is to have the management of the entire Indian business, Next to an absolute and re- sponsible military administration the bill of Mr. Wilson is considered the best that has yet been sug- gested. . The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. ‘The Secretary of the Interior, in reply to the reso- lution of the House of Representatives, says that in December, 1866, the President of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company forwarded to the Depart ent of the Interior a full survey and the proceea- ings of the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Directors. In November, 1865, the President of the company forwarded a paper containing the terms and conditions of the grant. A map showing the route of the road from Springfield, Mo., to the western boundary of that sate was received Octo- ber, 1865, and on the 16tn of December following the Land Ofiice was directed to withdraw the land grants m Missourt, which was done on the 25th of December last. The company flied a map of the route in California, from Columpia river to San Francisco, betng the same as that upon which a withdrawal of lanés had been made for the South- ern Pacific Railroad Company. Without passing on tue right to construct a railr in that State Secre- lary Cox declined to recognize their right to con- struct one i that State, With a paper from the so- licitor of the company, January, 1870, there was a report siated to have been tn compliance with the thirteenth section of the grant. As it was not in compliance with the requirements of that section 1t was not accepted. No report has been filed under the second section of the act of 1868, and no report has been led showing the construction of any part of the road, Troops to be Sent to North Carolina. General Litdefleld, of North Carolina, with Sena- tors Abbott and Pool, called npon the President to- day and laid before him Governor Holden’s com- munication askiag for troops. Tue President said he would attend to it, remarking that he had al- ready sent troops to Tennessee. Fort Kearney Military Reservation. The Secretary of War reports to the House of Ra. presentatives that the United States Military Keser- vation of Fort Kearney, on the Missouri river, is no longer required for military purposes, and he there- fore recommends that said reservation be included in the proposed bill providing for the disposition of useless military resgrvations now understood to be before the Committee on Military Affairs. The Marine Hospital Fund. The Secretary of the Treasury asks Congress for $230,000 for the Marine Hospital fund. Colonel Baker’s Report on the Piegan Indian Massacre. The Secretary of War to-day transmitted to the Honse of Representatives the report of Col- onel Baker respecting the expedition against the Plegan Indiaus. General Sherman, in a letter dated March 12, says: In submitung to the Secretary of War the w! reports I will remark that they ire Uns moment ceived and will bear careful perusal on account ot the unusual severity with Wiich Le matter Las been treated both by Copgress and the press. General Sheridan took the precaution to send General Hardie—(a inost humane and coasiderate officer, well kuowa here in Washington}]—to Montana to jndge on the spot between the conflicting statemenis oi the parties there, and he justitied the expedition against Mountain Chiet’s band of the Piegan tudians, Col- onei Bacer followed the instructions of his immediate commander, Colonel De Trovriand, but he does not, as is proper and usual, report the sex and kind of indians actually left dead at the camp on tae Marias. I will tasiruct General Sheridan to call on Colonel Baker for @ fall report on this potat to meet tne charge that of the mumber killed the greater parc were Squaws abd child! Duriog the temporary absence or perintendent Janney from the Northern supermtendency that dis- trict is in charge of a daughter of Mr. Janney, who has been appointed clerk to the superintendency, A report has been‘received at the Indian oftice from the lady, stating that ludian matters are quiet in the superintendency. ‘The Naval Appropriation Bill. The Naval Appropriation bill, reported from the Committee on Appropriations to-day by Mr. Wash- burn, of Wisconsin, proposes @ total appropriation Of $15,641,555, The appropriations for the several navy yards proper are as foillows:—Portsmouth, N, H., $15,400; New York, $14,500; Washington, $13,900; Pensacola, $4,978; Boston, $16,389; rhila- deiphia, $13,900; Norfolk, $10,900; Mare Island, $15,475; for the Naval Asylum, $6,143; Bureau of Yards and Docks, $800,000; Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, $1,500,000; civil establishinents at the several navy yards $33,680; contingent expenses of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs, $125,000; Bureau of Navigation, $149,500; expenses of the Nautical Almanac, $20,000; expenses of the Naval Observatory, $31,800; contingent ex- penses of the Bureau of Navigation, $6,000; Bureau of Ordnance, $389,000; Bureau of Construction and Repairs, $3,530,000; civil establishments at the several yards, $65,500; Bureau of Steam Engineer- 1ng’s Civil establishments at the several navy yards, $59,400; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, $781,050; Naval Asyluin at Philadelphia, $1,000; contingent fund, $75,000; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, sup- port of surgeons, &c., $61,000; Annapolis and Mare Island Hospitals, $40,000; civil establishments at the several yards, $50,000; for the Naval Academy, $193,786; for the Marine Corps, $1,025,627. International Telegraph Conference. Information, ofMicial and unofficial, suows that the Proposition of Secretary Fish for an miernational conference to regulate ocean telegraphs has been assented to by Sweden and Norway, Denmark, Austria, North Germany, ‘lurkey and Greece. The other governments have not yet responded, The Satro Tunnel. The House Committee on Mines ond Mining this morning decided to report adversely on the bill to repeal that portion of the Sutro Tunnel act which gives tne company a royalty of two dollars per ton on all Ores extracted from the Comstock lode, only one member of the committee favoring the proposed Tepeal. Judge Strong of the Supreme Court. On the opening of the Supreme Court Judge Sirong presented bis commission as an Associate Justice of that court, which was directed to be read. ‘The oailt of oMice was administered by the Clerk and he wok his seat on the bench, A Disappointed Andience—A Higbly Colored Sensation. The galleries of the Senate to-dgy were crowded totheir fullest capacity in anticipation of a specch from Mr, Revels on the Georgia question, The crowd, however, was disappointed, as the worthy Senator will not give vent to tus views unul Wednes- day next, The colored Senator from Mississippi 13 now the sensation of the hour, A Souvenir for General Spluner. General Spinner, Treasurer of the United States, was the recipient, not long since, of a handsome present in the shape of a paper weight made from some of the metal of the plates used in printing the currency, United States bonds and other government securities, It was presented by Mr. P. Hammona, one of the commission that destroyed the plates, General Spinner replied in a brief vote of thanks. Executive Nominations. The following nominations were sent to the Sen- ate to-day:— Seth C. Hawley, to be Collector of Internal Reve- Rue for the Kighth district of New York. Albert G. Allen, to be Assessor of {uternal Revenue for the Second district of New York. Peter Rose, to be Col. lector of Internal Revenue for the Eighteenth dis- trict of Ohio. Abram Hl. Bowman, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Seventh district of Ken- icky. George E. Paine, to be Postmaster at Paines- ville, Ohio. Nominations Confirmed. The Senate in executive session this afternoon confirmed the foliowing nominations:—Edward J. Solomon, of Illinois, to be Governor of Washington Territory; George Oulton, oliector of Internal Rev- enue forthe First district of Caiifornia, The Senate rejected William Leaby, to be Assessor of the Eighth district of Virginia, After the confirmation of George Oulton as Col- lector of Internal Revenue for the First district of California, a motion to reconsider was entered and is sti) pending, FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Second Session. SENATE. WasHINaTon, March 14, 1870, SPANIGH AFFAIRS—-EXPLANATION BY MR. SUMNER, Mr, SUMNER, (rep,) of Maas., rose to a personal ex- planation relative to the statement in the foreign telegraphic correspondence of a New York journal, under date of Madrid, March 13, as follows: In the Cortes yesterday a deputy asked if there was any foundation for the statement made by a New York journal that Senator Sumner raid he had received propositions from General Prim for the sale or. ceaston of Cuba to the United slates. General Prin pronounced the statement to be ute terly false. Mr. SUMNER Said the denial of General Prim was perfectly correct. No communication had pagsed between them. The statement in the New York journal to which he (General Prima) replied was pro- bably 1ounded on the fact that a gentleman, purport. ing to be an agent of General Prim, and coming direet from him during the spring, arrived in Wash- ington aud proceeded to invite tue atienuion of our goverument to a mode of settling the Cuban ques- tion In &® Manner advantageous to the Unances of Spam, He (Mr. Sumner) forbore to give (ue details of this proposition, altiiough they were known to him, fie saw Unis agent at tie Wine aud heard bis report. This report became the basis of tne propos tons made by our government through, General Sicales, which would be found im the correspond- ence on the table. NATIONAL BANKS—RESUMPTION OF aM Mr. SUMNER Introduced a bill w sirengthen tne legal reserves of Lhe naional banks and to provide for the resumption of every National bank to r es by the subsiitnuion of coin at the rate of one per cent per mouth upon the whole amount of llabiiities, Jorthe redemption of which the reserves are re- quired, and provides such substitution to continue untd the whole onnt of le wrerves shat become coin, and thereatver every national bank shall hold iu its yaulls an amouut of coin equal te amount of reserves required by law. The Second section directs the Secretary of the ‘reasury, upon the passage of the act, to give public potice of the intention of the government to resume payment in specie upon all its Haviliites not laver than the 1st of Jan- uary next, therealler the payments by the Treasury to be upon a coin basis, ‘Tue Secretary is also ree quired to retain in tac Treasury ihe coin received from customs and other sources im excess of the requirements of the public dept; and sucn further supply of coin a8 may be necessary in the execution of tn® provisions of this act may be obtained under the act entitied “an act to authorize the purchase of coin and for other purposes,” approved March 17, 1862, The bul repeals all acts making anything but coir a legal tenderfor debts, pubic or private; suspentis the further printing of United States notes and fractional currency, aud provides for the redewptinn and cancellation of mutilated fractional © cy. itelerred to the Committee on Finance Sud ouered to be ured, RESOLUTIONS OPFERED, Mr. Moron, (rep.) of Ind., offered a resolution requesting the Naval Committee to report to the Senate joint resolutions expressing the deep sorrow of the nation for the loss of the oflicers and men on board the war ship One: 1g the national admication for their g. t and the nae tonal abhorrence jor tue human and brutal con duct of the commander of the Bombay, Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) OF N. Y., thonght the resolu ton prejudged the case, and suggested # modiilea- tion, 80 44 Co leave 16 discretionary with the cout tee to muke @ report, if Luc tacks warranted 1 Mr. Morron indicated his witli 34 to accept the modiicauion., The resolution was fuatly iatd over, with ajview to securing lurther information on the subj Mr. Wi (rep.) Of Mass., oifered a resolution requestiig the secretary of War to tansmit a fut report of the recent bombardment of the Indiaa vil- lage at Fort Wrangel, Alaska, Adopted. ‘rhe concurrent resolution for the appointment of @ joint special committee on Indian adairs was fur tier considered aud laid over. BILLS INTRODUCED, Mr. Sawyrr, (rep.) of 5. C., introduced a bill ine corpotating the Southern: Trans-Contjnental Rail- way Company and granting ihe right oi way aud lands in uid of It# construction. ‘The object of the company 13 stated to be the establisiment, witi the railways already constracted or to be consurncted, of @ complete and continuous first clazs railway line and telegraphic communication between some sale barbor on the Atlantic to the arbor of San Diego, on the Pacille Ocean, pursuing in che construction of the westera portion of the route What is Kuown as the thirty-second parallel; land 1s granted to con- siruct the road from the Kio Granae to tie Pact Ocean to the same amount as im the case of the Northern Pacifle Railroad, Referred to whe Com- mittee on Public Lands, Mr. Apnorr, (rep.) of N. C., Introduced @ bill to amend the Vankruptey of March 2, 1867, by making i864 read 7505 1n the first proy Keierred wo the Judiclary Committee, Mr. Sry. ) granting land Bir ECIB PAY- th construcuon of the Caait road, Ito the Sommitiee on Pub ‘, (rep.) OFR. 1, called up ta Incorporate the gNauonal Bolivian Nayigation Com- i MR. TRUMBULL ON! ORGIA BILL. At one o'clock the Georgia bill was taken up in the of an Imineuse audience tu the galleries, ).) Of TL, sald the Judiciary eported the bill as it came from the with the fundamental conditions added, far deferring to the sense of the Senate as ex: ved tn the imposition of condition upon Virginta Mississippi. He tien recited the history of the orgla case, (rom Which It appeared shat In com- phance with the requirement of an act of Congress, Georgia ratified tbe fourteenth amendment, struck from lier recently adopted State constitution certam clauses, and having entitied herself to representa- ton Representatives from te State were, after full examination of their credentials by a committee, duly admitted to seats m the House. Senators were hot admitted simply because the election did not take place in time to allow them to reach Waahing- ton before adjournment of the session 1868, The expulsion Of colored members from tie Legisiature, contrary to the constitution the Stave and the ineligibility of members uhder the fourteenth amendment, and the subsequent legista- ton of Congress to purge the Legislature of melt. gible members, were referred to. in support of the proviso, Known as the Bingham amendinent, to re- strict the terms of the Governor and other State o! ficers, Mr. Trumbull detatied the irreguiarities at- tending the organization of the present Legisiature, persons being admitted who bad never been elected, Various aMidavits of members showed the devices resorted to by those who now control the Legis. Jature to secure and perpetuate their power. John Hi, Penton, a member elect, was inveigied into sign- ing an application ror relieffrom political disabilivies, although he was never opnoxious to the fourteenth amendment, the object being to deprive lim of bis seat. Mr. Dunning, anotuer member, held the oMice of postmaster at Atlan Ww direct violauon of the State constituuion. Varlous minority candidates— persons who received the next biguest number of votes—had been substituted for those who received majorities at the eiectiong Nie of these int nority candidates were “admitted to seate in ihe Legislature, and the number may have been since increased, Their claiins were not based on anything contained tm the constivution or laws of Georgta, but upon the rule of pariiamentary iw, that yoles cast for ineligible persons are to be Thrown away gnd the poll of the next highest candi. date only is t#remain; but thts was on Where the ineligibility Was Obvious and Was known to tue voters at the tne, Congress having repea' edly removed the disabilities of successful candi- dates to permit them to hold office. —Nowwithsta ing Governor Bullock's tterferenc jature and te fact that not entivied to them th How udiciary Committce, in r sponse to @ resolution of inquiry, had re- ported that no additional lemsiauon on subject was necessary--or, at least, were not prepared “ to | recommend ‘They came to that concluston becan it better for the peace and quiet ol Geor look all these irregulariues and aquies to over- ein what had been done, if thereby the Legislature could be her relations tn organized and the State restored the Union, Bat this was nov a who heid power in Georgia, They nov only insisted vhat this Istature should be allowed to stand as DOW OfRsuimed, iit Lous Its exuLence. as alsa the | ment coniry] o) in| hela true | |. burn of Wi oMctal term of the Governor, should be gontinaea for two years over the time for which they were elected.” ‘fis would be a swindle upon the people of Georgia, more famous than the attempt some years ago in Kansas to compel the people to submit to a government set up by the minority and held there against the will of the people. The Governor of Georgia had appeared before the com- mittee and boldly argued in favor of tne proposition. He (Mr, ‘frambuil) Was of the opinion that if the power of these omtctals cola be perpetuated untit March 4, 1871, thelr tenure of ofice could, with equal propriety, be made entirely unlimited as to tune. “In Uns connection he remarked tiat in elect ing two Senators whose terms of office did not corm~ mence until March 4, 1871, the present Legisiature had ignored the Legplature to be elected ia the coming fail and usurped the functions rightfully be- longing to its successors. He proceeded to show ‘that provision had already been made by law for ap election of State oMicera in November ol every other year, He claimed that the sole object of the Bingham amendimeut was to prevent the Governor and Legislature from misconsiraing the acts of Congress to promote their own interests. He then calicd attention to the practice, which had grown quite common, of manufacturing newspaper telecrams and privatecorrespondence, with # view to aifecting the votes o1 members by ae- celving them as to the condttion of the public sentl- ment in particular localities of the Sout. A‘ & specimen of the unreliable character of these com- munications he read from a letter purporting to come from @ citizen of Georgia, representing that the admission of Hill and Miller as Senators from that State would make the Unton men worse off than @t any me during the rebellion; that they would not be allowed to live in Georgta, &c. Yet Joshua Hill, in regard to whom these assertions were inade, Was untversally recognized ag @ Unton man during the war, having occupied a seat in Congress and had done all he could to sustain the Union Such @ letter defeated its object. Al! such letters: were manufactured to order for the purpose of co- ercing Congress to pass a law to continue @ certain class of oliciais in power and were unworthy of credence. In view of tne facts that the Legislature dnd Governor are in harmony and bad the miiilary bower of the United States to back them, there was ho reason why the law should not be enforced in Georgia, and an election held for State oMcers dur- ing the coming fall, Mr. BYEWART, (rep.) of Nev., doubted whether under the State constitution an election should be heid next |. He argued in favor of an asssumption by Congress that the government of Georgia was provisional up to this time, inasmuch as the require- ent in the original reconstruction ack had not been complied with. EXECUTIVE SESSION. At three o'clock the Senate went into executive session, and after several hours adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, March 14, 1870, BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED, By Mr. Wasunurn, (rep.) of Wis., for bringing home the remains of General Asboth, laie Minister to the Argentine Confederation. By Mr. CLARKE, (rep.) of Kan, for the relief of the inhabitants of citics and towns on the lands of the Great and Little Osaze Indians, by Mr. Perers, (rep.) of Ll.—The resomtions of the Legislature of Matne, asking an appropriation by Congress vo pay the interest on advances made by Massachusetts m the war of 1812-15, when Maine Was @ portion of Massachusetts, By Mr. STARKWEATHER, (rep.) of Conn.—To pre- vent prize Ayling. By Mr. Anns criminal proc laws. by Mr. GiLFILLAN, (rep.) of Penn.— hali-pay penstous to Widowa aud orp diers, (rep.) of Penn.—Retating to under the internal reyenue lating to is Of sol- By Mr. Cc (rep.) of N. ©. ending the act of July M1, 1868, which presert’ path of Oice to be takéw by’ persous relieved ivom political disa- bint a, By Mr. Dox, of Ala.—To pension indigent offcers and soldiers of the war of tsi2. by. Mr. Burien, (rep.) of Tenn.—To amend the act vo Diotect all persons in their civil rigiits. By Mr. SiA NS, ‘or & preliminary soutuern portion chigan and the Outo river. By Mr. CULLOM, (rep.) of LL.—Providing @ territo- rial goverament for tue Disirict of Columbia, By sr. Rocers, em.) of Ark.—To abolish female Clerks ia the government departinents. By Mr. HAMILTON, (rep.) Of Fia.--To grant the Chatiahoochie arsenal to the State of Fiorida. Also, to restore the lighthouse buoys at Mosquito inlet, on the east coast of Piorida, RESOLUTIONS OFFERED. by Mr. Lovaunipcg, (rep.) of lowa.—A joint reso- lution providing for the safety of pabsengers on Western river sizamboats, prohibiting carriage aw freight or stores of nitro-glycerime, coal oll, crude boos vated naphtha, benzine, beuzole or camphene. ass By bir, Pommnoy, rep.) of Jowa—Lo print 1,000 extra copies of evidence and reports on the goid ex- amination, Referred to the Committee on Prinung. Mr. MoCRARY, (rep.) of lowa--Cailing on the Secretary of the Navy for information as to toe ships aud officers in commission. Adopted. By Mr. Suyru, (rep.) of lowa—Calling the Secretary of the for a tabuiar statement showing the operation of the sinking fund ta extin- guishing the debt of the war of the Kevoiuuion and the war of 1812. Adopted. by Mr. RoGers—-Calling for information as to the financial operations of the Freedmen’s Bareau. The previous quesiion Was not seconded and the resolu- ton went over. By Mr. Hay, (rep.) of Il—Deciaring that the preg. ent systeul of taxation, 13 exorbitant and needlossiy burdensome, and chat a reduction of taxation to tie Jowest poini Consistent with the demand for revenue should be made both in tariff and internal taxation, ‘The House refused to second the previous question by 51 Lo 68, and the resolution went over. Mr. MARSHALL, (dem.) of il, offered the follow- in ved, That the depressed condition of bus various industrial interests of the count. gresa prompt action in relfeving the p taxation not absolutely necessary to provide for the wants ot the government, economically administered, and that In re- forming the existing Tariff laws legislation should be on thera principles, to wit:—First—That wo duty should. be impored onany article above the lowest rate that wiil vield tie largeet aunt of revenue. Second—That the maxitnum revenue es. Tnird That the duty rate ax equally as poselbie acriminatioy neither for nor agaiuat Id be wo tinposed nughout the Union, ction. Mr. Ho! , (dem.) of Ind., in order to test the sense of the House, ioved to lay the resolution on the table, and called for the yeas and nays, aunoune- ing that he would vo.e against ils own inmotion. The resolution Was not laid on the table. bollowing 13 the voue:— YrAs—Moesars. Amb'er, Armstrong, Ayer, Banks, Burnott, , Brooks of Buckley, Butler of Mass,, liton, Harris, Kee, Morrell, tel, kiand, Alifzon, Are! Birdy bi Atwood, vk of Adams, Benj ey insou, Dockery, Do Finkeluburg, Fitch, man, Hale, Hawkins, bia man, ingeraol Ketebam, K Mot Moure ¥ il, Hol, Kerr, arthy, ‘3 of Ti, 4 Sch un, Stalih of Ohio, Sinith of V son, Stiles, Stokes, Stone, St ner, Trimble, Tyner, Upson, Van is, Washburn of Masy., Wilkingon, Williams, Wilson of Minu.. W Wood—U18, Mr. MARSHALL moved the previous question, r, SCHENCK, (rep.) Of Ohio, inquired wheiter, if the previous quesiion were pot seconded, the reso- lution might not be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. ‘The SPRAKER replied in the aMrmative, The House refused to second the previous ques- tion by 55 to,81, and then the resolution, on motioa of Mr. Scheuck, was referred to the Comumitice op Ways and Means without a division, Mr. DAWES, (rep.) Of Maas., asked leave to Intro- duce @ joint resolution, directing, in consideration of the distinguished services of Edwin M. Stanton, the payment to his widow, for herself aud his chil: dren, of @ sui equal to one year’s salary of Anso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to which office he had been appointed at the ime of ls death, Mr. VAN Taumy, (Jem.) of Ohio, made the point that as the joint resolution made an appropriation it must be first considered in Commitiee of the Whole. ‘Tuk Speaksr—Does the gentleman object to is comming before the House? Mr. VAN TRUMP—I do. Mr. DAWES moved t suspend the rules so as to have the joint resolution introduced and passed. Mr. MUNGEN, (dem.) of Ohio, said he objected to the preamble witch mentioned “airilagnished ser- vices, ‘The rules were suspended and the jolnt resolution Passed by yeas 122, nays 40. Mr. KNorr, (dem.) of Ky., moved to suspend the Tules to allow him to offer a resolution for the a pointment of a comumistee on the ‘tice Jecied. Mn. tornek, (rep.) of Mass., introdu Tesolution wiowing owners of hommes duct tie intercet paid on mortgages therevn irom teir income returiua. Passed. NAVAL APPROPTUATION Btibe Mr. WASHBURN, (rep.) of Wis., frou ine Communit: tee on Appropriations, reported the Navy Appropri- ailou bill, and it was made the special orver for Wednesday, March 24, THE CENSUS BIL AD, (rep.) Of Vi, @shod leave to offer a quiring the census Mars (ing lo the surviving off of the War of 1812, and the widows of ased soldiers, which Was objec Fr. STOKES, (rep.) Of Teun., neved Lo suspend the Tules so a8 to attach to the Deticieney bil a proviaing for We next UNWARKANTED ACTS OF REVENUE OFFICERS. Mr. MUNGEN asked leave to offer a resolution in- structing the Cemfiites of Ways and Means to 1 Voor! hee Well Mr. Wi reso) stat tion | guire into the reported violation of personal rights ‘on the part of rey where, Which was nue ONlcers Mn New York aud else pected te ITIONS FN By Mr. Brooks, (dem) of Of the New York Chamber of Commerce for the construction of a kar bor ot refuge on Wock Island and against govern: wogtak Nag, Alpe a peilon of was rejected. | etcetera meer citizens of New York againat the absorption of public jands by ratiroad and other corporations. By Mr. SHAFER, (dem.) of Idaho—Remonstrance of 2,000 citizens of Idaho Territory against @ division: of the Terr tory and anvexation to Nevada, By Mr. STARKWEATHE—Of citizens of New Lon- don, Conn., for Congressional aid vo Captain Halls Arotic expedition, By Mr. Barnum (dem.) of Conn.—Of the citizens: of Furfleld, Conn., for an appropriation of $26,000 to repair the breakwater at Southport, Coan.; aiso of shipowners of Bangor, Me., for the improvement of Bridgeport harbor, Conn. CONSIDERATION OF THE DEPICIENCY BILL. The House tien, ab tWo o'clock, went into Com- miiltee of the Whole (Mr. Scofield im the chair) ow the Deficiency bill, and was addressed by Mr. NIBLACK, (dem.) of Ind., in defence of the demo- cratic party and arraigament of the republican party. He continued the ertiictsm of the diserepan- cies between the League Island speech of Mr. Dawes, of Mass., and tis New Hampshire speech, and said that he came to the conclusion that Massachusetts coud not afford to quarre: with President Grant ana his administration or the republican party. Im other words, (hat Massachusetts was uader bonds to keep the peace, And why did nesay so? Be- cause Massachusetia had two Cabinet officers, the Secretary of the ‘Treasury aud the Attorney Genera!; the Minister to England and a@ long list of’ subordinates, diplomatic and consular appointments, the cnainimauship of two inportant committees in the Senate—Foreiyn Affairs and Mut tary Affairs—and the chairmansiip of four leaiing committees of the House—Appropriations, Clans, Foreign Aftuirs aud Reconstruction, He was, there- fore, jusuilied In saying that Massachusetts could not arrord to quarret with the adiniiscration or repabii- can party. He argued that it was unfair to hoid Mr. Jounson’s administration responsible for the gev- erninent expenditures, because tbat adminis! was a Congressional one, and one with whicn the Executive Department had very little to quoted aspecch made by Mr. Biaine in the House last Congress to prove how economically the govern- ment was administered in comparison with Mr, Bu- chansn's administration, Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ohio, next addressed the committee, He took no pleasure in making party speeches, Which became another forum than the House of Representatives, anu he very rarely in- dulged in them here. His triend from Indians (Mx, Niblack) had said that if the republican party claimed the glory of the war, thea it was algo re~ sponsible for the burdens of the war. If the demo- crats north of the Potomac had, in 186%, rallied to the support of the war, how jong would it have lasted? Not & week; and tta expenses would not have amounted to ten milion dollars, Mr. SCHUMAKER, (dem.) of N. Y.—The demoerats aid do that in New York. Mr. GARFIELD said be would, therefore, Jay at the threshold of the democrauc party ali tie costs and burdens of the war, and all the lives sacrificed im it, Mr. SCHUMAKRER—By blundering brigadrers. Mr. GARFIELD (not noticing the remark) went on to compare the receipts aud expenditures of the last and present administrations, Tue expenditure in the second year of Andrew Jobuson’s adminis- tration was $46,000,000. The next year it was $377,000,000, un increase Of $31,000,000. For the fiscal year endingtiune 39, 1869, but four months ef which Were unoer Gencral Graat, the expenditures fell Ww $521,000,000, @ falling off of $56,000,000 im a single year, Tue year two close next June, by the showing of the Secretary of the Treasury, would bring tie expenditures down to §292,000,000. "There was the progress made; there was the difference between tue democratic aud repubjican adsainistra- ons. ‘Then, as to the receipts for ile seal year ending June 50, 1869, the amount of tares collected WAS 5.170,000,000; for this year bue amount received frou the sume source Would be $96,09),000, Wwikh- out the increase of a dotlur or a cent in the rate of taxatioa, The collectton o: tax on disttilea spirits for te last six mouths of Mr. Jolnsoa’s adiminis- lon, When the tax was two dollars a gallon, ounted LO $15,500 000; for the corresponding six Grant's administration, wien tue tax -tourta, 1 amounted to $24,500,000, ming of Mr. Grant's adonintst: given new tie to th HG aad saith of tu cap people, From losiag credit, irom getting pe~ had, the scaie Lad been turned, Within We last year there iad been a decrease of $90,009,000 in the public debt, aud the eredit of the government had a steadily appreciating. One line of United 3 bonds was now Worth more than gold, the Stace premium on gold was failing, the value of Amertean RECULILIE, ywhere Was appreciating. Aud why? Precisely beeaase such doctrines as were auvocaied on tne other side of the House, in relation to the public debt, had been put down by the pe ihe pubite faith upheld by th u Mr, MARSHALL remarked that the aduni Mr. ScumNex also replted to Mr. Niblack, ‘The comparison between the last and present admiuts- trations was to be deiermined pot mere'y by econo ny im CxXpeaditure, but also DY Wise aclion im tne collection of the revenue. For the year enaing June 50, 1869, with all the advantage derived from the payment of the tax on spirits taken out of bond, and we advantage derived from the reduction of the tax from two doliars to fifty cents, uhere bad been collected from whiskey $46,026,401. An esu- mate had been made to ascertain tue amount cok fected for tue year ending January * 31, 1870, and It Was found that tat amount was $50,155,116. ‘The amount recetved from tobacco for the year ending June 30, 1564, was $23,440,707, and for Lie year end~ jug January 31, 1870, $29,227,000, being a rate of in crease of nearly a million @ woulk. The whole amouut collected from internal revenue for the year ending Jane 40, 136%, was $160,124,121, aud> jor the year ending January 31, 1870, $174,89,900, Showing an increase of | nearly sixteen milons under the same laws. This was an exlibit which devoted an incre; tor the whole fiscal year ending the 30th of Juue} 1870, of about tuirty milion doiara What did tits mean? It meant 4 more whoiesoine and honest administra- lon of the laws, it meaut that while guarding in reference to outlay, the admiuéstration was cor- ducted with @ View algo to every question connected wiih the collection of tue revenue, As to Mr Niblack's reinarks about the caairmausip of the committees, he (Mr. Schenck) showed thai the Western States had nothing to complaim ot im that respect, Laving the chairmanship of the Committees of Wa; Banking and Currency, Vuviic Lands, Yost Ontees, Agriculture, Indian Adairs, Military Afvairs, Mite, Disirict of Columbia, Judiciary, Terri Mr. NIBLACK MLtrioased the increase of Lie collections to the labors of the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means tn amending the laws, Mr. Voorupes, (deim.) of Ioa., in reply to Mr. Gariieid’s remarks throwing ou the democratic party the responsibility of the war, reminded pun gud the House that the great organ of the repupiican party (ite New York 7ribune), when tue hoar of cot- lision Was approaching, told the Scuthera States to go, and vo In peace, and that the sane sentiment presset by the Cinema Cornwercial, the 8 Journal and other leading republican ling the peogie of tne Soam that there nid be ne co lision of arms. Tue course Of the repablican press was more than any otter cause responsible lor the war ‘The discussion was farther contiiued by Messrs. ack, Beck, Garlield and Vooruees, aud then the committee proceeded to consider the bull by uses for amendment, ‘The comumitree rose, and the House, after an t- effectual effort by Mi. Dawes to tive au eventing 0 conclude the bill, adjourned at Mfwen SAVAL INPELIIGUNG Lieutenant Commander Ch: Manding Ue United states rea 1 Steamer ranklin, eomm- saucus, under date oj Fevruary 28, reports to the Navy Departinens Washington bis arrival, 11 company with te surveying steamer Bibb, at Havana on the An omicer from the Spanish Admiral’s ship sirst ten- dered the usual courtesies, Commander ‘anki returned the visit, a8 aiso Visits frou the Bogist irou-clad Defence, and the French stp Latouch ‘ree ville. The following is a list of the oMcers of the United Stal J econd rate), which Was to eiplia yesterday fur Boston on a trial She bs tie Nageoip of Commodore Green:— Joniinodore—Sosepn 8, Green. Captain—N, Be wares Lreuienant Coimmanses—R. 8. Cook and 8, A. Me- warty. Li vutenante Charles H, Stockton and Eugene B, Thomas. Master-—Willam Watts, Ensigns—J. V. B Uicecker, Joseph L. Stickney ama Adolphus Mauox. Mates--ivayid Fader, George P. Giffora, Dautel C, flarrington, James M, Creighton and Willem J. Innes. Sargeon—Wililam M. King. ystant Surgeon—dJonn J. Legget. LYTUABtE) A. er Schenck. Bagiieers— vel, Janes W. Thompson, Jr; Fires Assistants, A. I. Fister and D. W. Grafey; second Assistants, Waltec D. Sumtth, W. A. B. Allen, Re We Milligan and D. M. Futiner. Luwwenanisef Marives—Charies L, Sherman and BE, T. Bradforr Poy Certk—James S. Alexander. Boatsrain Wiiraim J, Tompkins. Gunner—Sarmuel D. Hines, Carpenter— Leonard Hanscom, Savimaker—loun J, Stanford, DEPACHED AND ORDERED, Lieutenant Commander George W. Armendrout Js ordered to the Nyack. Paymaster Henry Btang is ordered to duty ature Naval Asylum at Uhtiadet- pata on the Ist of April, relieving Paymaster George Cochrane of that poruon of ts present duties. Lieutenant Commander Kaward K. Prebie b devacted from the N sign John ©. Irvine duly at Wasdiuycon and orde: North Pacific squadron of the P Assistant Surgeou Fraok L. Du Bois nas been de- tached from the Naval Hospital at Chelsea, Nass., and ordered to the receiving ship tadependence ou the 10:8 of a pril next. PARTIAL STRIKE OF PAINTERS. ing last Week of the Painters’ Society hat four dollars a day for ten hours’ Several the ree work should be the Wages of society men. employers objected suit to pay this rate, that the employes of about & dozen shops sirack and sell remain onsirike. ‘Ine strike threatens to become general, At Lue meeting of the body last evening eight of the men On strike Were unanimously admitted to meme bersmip without naving to pay the usual initiation fee. The aseistant secretary of the organization was dismumed for working ten hours a day for $5 50 peg way, being