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\ weed “ie NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEBY. bo OES ne »- j to favor an amendment doudiing the House appro- | considerea which shall a nt to more than | Senator from Maino (Mr, Morrill), that tt was a iezat | not understand that there was sucn a thing as free | of 1he oLber party nor any Tioltion of professional W A Ss a | N GS (@) N Priation, Another good reason exists sor cairying | $990,000 for the twelye rouad voyages per annum, Impossibuity for a citizen of tae United States to be | trade, Wout was tree trade? lt was a mych—a | Morais or courts sy to insle¢ upot the right. ° forward the Nor anless the same is trom a respunsibie citizen or | wituout an Inhabitancy, he asked, Would it be seri- | theory, Jf it had apy men al at all it was that a ‘TLacve 19 & anygesiion whicw I hardly venture in ‘ work with all posstble despatch. | citizens of the United States. Under any contract | ously contended tnat lanadieaney Meant mere teim- | country should permit ail ardicies iuported trom | this presence wo wlyert to, but it f made by The Mayor of your city has permitted Mr. ? ¢ to xo Into effect by January 1, 1871, the mall porary Tesidence at a plat Was every guost ata | abr to come in Wilhout any charges at ali in the | Mr. Caviiste in the letier f bold ta my haad, that Hulburd to occupy @ large portion of the , The Texas Senators and Mom- | corporation grount sajomug ‘uve Post Otne Steamships employed im the service are to be ex- ‘ashipgton hotel an inhaditant of Washington? Ho | shape of tuuport duty, ‘Tha; would reaily be tree #03 In the composition of the court Maving eupt from ail port charges and Custom House dues | held that somethi 4 more than mere physical pre: | trade. For his parb he was for Gizerunination ia wired they saould uot effect the riguts of bis At Lhe ports of arrival and departuce im the Uniied | sence ina locaiity Was meant; it meant regidence in | regard to interval taxation and also in regard to | ehout, It may be inedipa on} for ais cient that he bers Sworn In. site, on the express condition that 18 be eurren- | Sta 8 locality with the animus remanendi oF legal in- | import duty. Gentlemen usd qycted the theories | sionid not have outaiuet aludgineni, aud thus pre- * ered whenever called for by the city authorities, On The bill Was referred to the Committee on Post | tention to make that a permanent abode. He then | and pracices of Kngland, France, Belgium and | ciuded any further inquiry tute the controversy at @ this Ontices. reviewed the whole question at length. Germany as againat the practice pursued in the | time when, tor some reason or other, & decision Was Sround Mr. Hulburd bas nis machine and BILLS INTRODUCED, Wituout closing the debate the Senate, at five | United states,“ Lad they ever thougat of the alder. | made by a court. waich was not permanently, and u - ‘ Workshops and storerooms, and it is statea that were 4 Excitement in the House Over a Demo- | tne government obiiged to rent a simiiar piece of @round it could not be had for less than $50,000, In craile Carpet-bagger. Consequence of the slow progress of the work Mayor Mr. Parrerson of N. H., introduced a bill to | o’clock, adjourn ence between the Uniied States a3 "a councry Uled | ultimately sectied to be the taw of the land, But i¢can establish a poe ‘of Applied Adres bi ” with tree people, living under free institatios and | hardly be considered by @ jadieial tribunal thas 5 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. those countries whose exampie tey would have | this ig any deprivation of the right of te Mr, KBLLOGQ, (rep.) of La., introduced @ bill to e followed? He conld undearstaud low a country | party, We find a whole volume priated and given authorize the Marine ital at New Orleans to be WASHINGTON, March 31, 1870, lumited i territory, Mito in the ‘numoer | to the profeasion, consisting of a ust Of cases over- - Hall afew days ago wrote a letter to Senator Fen- | five to she Btate of Louisiana for hospital services. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Saly aE goa renctions, making. perhaps | ruled sit do cage by & decision Which does not alte 3 ton, stating that unleas greater apecd in prosecuting THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. By Mr. Brooke, (dem.) of N. Y.—From large num- | and cudery, might wish, in order to | macely rest aa the estabiished aud pronounced law; tho construction should be practised he (the Mayor) Mr. SAULSBURY, (deu..) of Del., offered aresola- | bers of boller makers in New Hampshire ana | feed its milliops of underpaid and il-led | and thas some other party siouid not have been Ben Butler Foiled With His tion directi Secretary of state to inform the Workmen, to have brought to its shores freely every- | able to get an erroneous jedgutent in wis favor by “ would certalnly withdraw the Hcense to occupy the | Eenate of ths deve at the Tatiileation of the pro through the Middie States on to Michigan, fora thing produced in some other more abounding coua- | coming in at tie sdme luc. it may be his pecu. - Own Weapons. Ground referred to, Mr. Hulburd representa that | fitovnth amendment to the ‘coustitution of tee | Teduction of the duty on Wrought tron tubes and | try and let it take back in retura its limuted produc. | utary loss, but It cap uardly be considered as a. should the Mayor carry out bis threat it would be a | Untied Fag A the several respectively | fues, . fons, But wus thas the condition of the United | wrong, If tie case had been reversed, and @ J GiMcult matter to find a auitadi which have ratified the same. By Mr, M i States? Here was a country exten‘iing almost from | mentin one case which, if appliod to his, mi . @ suitable piece of ground to | “yengmy can (rep.) of Nev,, objected. 'y Mr, Moone, (rep.) of N. J.—From the Pluladel- | thé Arctic circle to the tropies, washed vy the Atian- | have mvvlved @ judgment against him, had beeu be used for similar purposes. The trouble is that if Mr. SAULSBURY explained’ that his object was | Pi!a Commercial Exchange Association, for the | tic on the one side and the Pacific on wo other, em- | given, and on & ung and reconsideration of the Attempt to Reopen the Decision of the Su- |, we House appropriation is amendea the matter ‘will simply to secure reliable information ag to the dates, | abolition of compulsory harbor, port and pllotage Dracus all that waa most vainabe, wiva every’vaci- | question he waa wot with the suggestion wat a8 is preme Court on the Legal ‘Pender Act. go back to the House and the old ‘ght against Mul- “I DRABE qld the luforneeriee bea already been . SVasdiors wp meh an extent that ts pooule ne same jadgenens, corneas he would be much leas rf . Jett be resumed. It 18 considered that'the beat plan : THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION BILL. if they chose, raise their own cotton aud spin it, | ready to press that principle and would say whab- A 38 to pass the Hovse bill, and then immediately ‘The lution was then laid over. ‘The House then took up the bill reported yester- | their own wheat and grind it, their own irou and | ever was the ultimately settied law im the case was . WASHINGTON, Mareh 81, 1870. bring in, in @ deficiency will, the required additional SUBVEYS BY THE WAR DBPARTMENT. day by Mr. Arneil, from the Committee on Educa- | Manufacture it, living independent of ail other ni- | what he was best entitied to and would desire to tons, Gentlemen thought it proper to appiy to this | obtain, and I should have great dilicuity in gerting country the rules and theortes o. those Wsigmificagt | up and ciaiming that the rule should be o} spois of earth, having uo great variety of produce { So much, may it please your, Lonor, for the tion, They might ag well undertake ty ase the tion of the case. I suppose that tue Occasion mi ments of a Itttle chud to clothe some great, gruwing | aiso make it proper formeto say why {| think giant; or, to make the igure more appropriate, they | hope that your Honor will allow§this question to be might just as well undertake to tt tne vel of & | reopened for argument, and to consider it ag am great, lusty, growlug youth in tle rime } open question before you. I am not iusensible to ts vigor i aad of large stature | the great weigtt of acter, of judicial i a déerep! orn out, dwarfesh old | experience, 0! public reputation, of the of WILLBY, (rep,) of W. Va, olfered @ resolution Airecting an ery by the Commitee on Com | “0% 8nd Labor, in-reference to the Bureau of Edu Merce ihto the expediency of causmy a survey ana | Cation and discontinuing the Freedmen’s Bureau. examination, under the direction of Wer Dopart- Ar. MCNEELY, (dem.) of {l1., a member of the same the tine of water communication betw committee, addressed the House in opposition to the Docot, of bet tidewater mes them “othe “cheat Kanha i bill. He intimated that the manager of the Freed- OL er way james aud Kanawha rivers, and | men’s Bureau had mace nice perty speculations sheir tributaries with a view to ascertain the prac- | with whe funds of the dure: hai the House Lrg A) utility of such water communication | constantly refused to adopt a resolution offered ry, as may julred ‘for the transportation of mill- | Mr. Rogers, requiring an account of the disposal of tary supplies in tle of war and to meet the com- | those funds, and charged that the real object of this Merclal Neossities Of the Mississippi valley, with | Dill was to cover up the Freedmen’s Bureau and let luberty to report by plil or otherwise, Ad spied. At escape from examination by confounding it with Mr. Rice, (rep.) of Ark., introduced a bili granting | the Bureau of Education, Jands to the. sunsas ily and diemphis Matlroad The bul was further discussed by Messrs. Dock- Company, * ery, Shanks, Arueli, Hoar aud otler members util TNE CASB OF GENERAL AMES, the ciose of the motning hour, At ope o'clock tho case of General amer- ‘The discussion being closed, Mr. Brxyamiy, (rep.) as Se ie elegs from Maneisaipy!, came up m | of Mo., moved to lay the bill on the table. order, aud Mr. Vickcus, (dem) Of <d, widipssed Mr. WASHBURN, (rep.) Of Wis., characterized It as the Senate upon the question of tubabiiancy a3 a | 8 most astonishing bill, which ought to be laid on quailication of citizensurp, He quoted trou autho- | the tab!s. rities Wo show the general interpretation of the term Mr. MAYNARD, (rep.) cf Tenn., thought it a very “dababianv? and “resident.” aud argued that the | good bill, which ougut not to be laid on the table, alioged declaration by General Ames to become a Mr. Woon, em.) of N. Y., satd something, not oltizen of Mississippi did uot amount to anything, very audibly, about its beim a bill vo enable Gene- as no voluncary act on itd part could | ral 0, 0. Howard, who had grown rich out of this be shown to make tue iiteniion Valid. | bureau, to control six lMndred thousand dollars, Alter going to Mississippl in what respect were ‘The bill was not laid on the table—yeas 63, nays General Ames? relations to the community and to | 92—and it then went over Ullthe next morning the government changed? He still received his pay | hour, and rations irom tue geverameut, fe deciared ms TRE TEXAS MEMBERS SWORN IN. intention to leave tie army and reside in Missis- Mr, PAIN, (tep,) of Wis, irom the ilection Com- Ssippl, but he never did leave the army, aad fus pur- mittee, reported that the credentiais of the embers p0se Was Not execuied, His relations were not in | elect {roi Texas were regular, and that they were, the least chanwed {rom whut they were boior ir. | prina jucle, entitled to their seats. Vickers continucd at length, refuting the argument tir, BUTLER, (vep.) of Mass., opbosed the swearing that @ mere deciaration of a party constituted sui- | in of Mr. Connor, obe Ol the members eect, and liclent evidence of habitation, as opposed to tue | read co the House various a‘lidavits accusing hun of principle of ail judicial decisions. LU tere was any Whipping negro soldiers while he Was a captain m the one well settied principle it was wat which reguired | United States Army, and of bis having boasted that the act of the party to be shown, aad only when acts | he bribed a negro Lo Swear lalsely before ihe cailitary Were of a dowvifui character couid decierauons be | commission Which Wied hun for the olfence. received af ail, Senators on the otuer side would Mr, Vay ‘TRUMP, (deme) of Ohio, asked whether the preler the declaration to the act itse.f Inthe case | affidaysia wore ez pare, Of @ soldier stronger evidence was required to prove Mr. BUTLER Admitted that they were. oitizensbip van iu the case of a citizen or- Mr. VAN ikUMP Subautred that iiey should not be inarily. In conclusion he deplored the changed | used'to affect the judgmeat of the House, condition of public affairs, Formerly we went upon My. SHANKS, (rep.) of Ind., moved to refer the the idea that lovelligence, virtue and patriotism Ra es againat Connor to the Committee on Elec- were esseniial to the perpevuay 09 of Our iaséito- 3 _ uous, Now the opposite elements were ably it. STRVENSON, (rep.) Of Ohio, a member of the 0! ‘adie { Committee on Kiectious, de(euded ke report of the io order to sustain party peer toaty, & eifect Was to destroy the equiltbritial of our sysiem. commitiee, avd charged that the objection thade to Connor was thet lie alone of the delegation was a of Roverament and weaken tue coufidence of the ped) democrat—a bad Texan boy. ‘That ight be all ple in 1s eer, Mr. BawYEs, (rov.) of 8. ., discussed the general | true, Me did not expect co see any very High. Bpeci- men of Chrisiian gentlemen seht ub here from quesiton and replied to the admission that in the event of Mr, ayes’ re-election by the Mississippt Toxas, but what bad they to do with thaty How Legisiature, involving the withdrawat of the preseut | dia that affect Mr. Connor's prima Sacie ngnt to his elaine, the present diiculty would neyavotded. Tuat | seat? ‘fhe miember from Massacnasetts, who Legislature bad deciared Mr. Ames to be a citizen of charged that person, on ec parte affidavits, with Mississippi by electing him, and why should they be | subornation o perjury, had himse:f .defouded a asked to repeat the declarauua? A new election | member of the House for a greater crime. It was, 1p fis jadgment, a farce; and worse, it was a base would not make Mr. Amea? intention to reside there any more complete than was hs former intention. artisan proveoning, and as gach he denounced it, Mr. CARPENTER, (rep.) Of Wis., e&td there would PrGood tor you!’ from ademocratic member.) be this difference. If Wenera! Ames would now go Mr. Onv'H, (rep.) of Ind., denounced this proceed- to Mississippi and stay there over night he would ing against Captain Convor as most preposterous. He was a native of the State of Indiana, had entered have remained of his own free will for @ longer pe- riod than at any time prtor to his election, the army and served continuously uniil the ciose of Mr. SAWYER repiicd that the taference from the | the War, and had then been appointed captala in the regular army, in waich ne had served til ine Senator's remark Was that he (Carpedter) heid to tme he accepted the nomination as a candidate for the opinion that an army ofiicer could not at any Coneress in the State of Texas, Against his loyalty tue choose @ domictic, Mr, CARPENTER explained that ag General Ames | the breath of Suspicion Could not be brought. Ca; tain Connor was charged with being sovere to hi: went to Mississippi in obedience to tho orders of & higher authority, too fact of nis belng taere could | soldiers, If that Was # disqualification other mew- hot be considered as an element in the creation of | bers of the House might be ousted from thelr seats, it might exclude those who were attempting to ex- his miabitancy in that State. This being conceded, clude this young man from his geat. fHe was aorry it would not have made the slightest difference, in this view of the caso, if, instead of going to Missis- | tat Captain Connor came hero—ihe onl dem ocratio mm Cougruss, The AMAavits read from sippi, General Ames had gone to Chicago $5 tele. | carp: graphing {roip shove that us seg a Ml newspapers were unworthy the aitention of tha 18 tot he House, and he hoped the House wouid promptly ssIppL ana cust With titat peopie af it ‘Say 80. Kir DAWES, (rep.) Of Mass., sald that this was the the Legislature would elect him to the Senate, and he had then, first titne that an objection bad been made to the swearing in of @ member elect because of unbecor- pean bis election, come irom Cricago to Waste: r. SAWYER Went on to argue that the elements x ing or lunproper conduct whiie he was hot a member, Watie he (Air, Dawes) was chairman of the Commit. necessary to create inhabitancy were the bodily rescuce, with the intention of remaming. The tee on Hlections statements and aMidavits had been reovivod af to Mo crimiaal vonauvy ur weber lily presence was first created by virtue of @ milt- from New York, and the committee had directed tary order aid subsequently the ‘intention to re. main an innabitant of Mississippi was formed, him to retura them to the persons sending them, with the notice that that was aquestion between Excitement in the House Over tho Admission | $400,000. ore—Debut of a Demo- | Submariuc Telegrayhfo Uablen—Proposed Line . from Cnijtornia to China. ; ‘Tho admission of the Texas deleyation in the | Mr. Cyrus W. Field appeared to-day before tho ; House to-lay was attended with @ good deal of fun.| House Committee on Foreign Affairs urging the pas- ‘@nd excitemont. The occasion of it all was an odd | 88g¢ Of a law allowing o submarine cable to be laid looking specimen of a carpet-bagger, named Connor, | from any country to the United States, provided the ‘Who claims to tepresent the Second district of Texas, | United Seton or any _oltizen thereof can Connor has the misfortune to be a democrat, which | !ay a cable to such country on equal terms; in is & great drawback, especially when he happens to | Olver words establishing perfect reciprocity be a carpet-bagger from the south. Connor’s cre- {*6overnment messages to have precedence over all dentlals were found to be in due form by the Com- | Other messages {rom the United States gna Bee amittee on Elections and in all respects simiiar to | dence over ail pilvald inbadegés ta the United Suates; Mose of the other members from Texas, Having a | heavy penalties to be tmposed upon any persons prima sacte right to @ seat, the commiitee re- | !Mjuring the cables. Me argued against the provia- Ported in favor of bis being sworn in. Ben But- | ion in one of the Pending bills which gives our gov- mi ier,- however, thought otherwise, and so he | ernment the free use of each eable one hour in undertook to lead tne House in a raid | every twelve, or with the three Atlantic cables equal upon the unfortunate Connor. {% soon pe- | % siX hours in every twenty-four, and he pointed came evident that the House was not in the | OUt the various conflicting ciauses in the various humor to be led, at least by Butler. The democrats | bills now bofore Congress, one of which asserts Were early on tie alert co defend the rights of Con- | Perfect reciprocity and another gives.an exclusive hor, for thelr ranks are so thin that thoy hat every | Tight to lay and use a cable for fourteen years. He mew accession with a8 much delight as a beleagued | Presented a list of submarine cables now in snc- : garrizon would a friendly army, Brooks, of New | Ce8sful operation in the different ports of the world, Yors, was anxious to get at Butler, The latter, | Showing sixty-four of thom, aggregating a total through the mismanagement of the chairman of the | length of 22,007 miles; and also another lst show- Commitiee ot Elections, got control of the floor, ana | Ing the number of cables under contract to alter throwing mud at poor Connor tor about halt | ¢ completed during this and next year, @n hour commenced to farm out tle remainder of | With @ total of 20,823, Mr. Field pressed on the his hour. Brooks soon discovered that Butier would | Committee the importance of establishing a subma- have enough to do on the repubiican side of the | tue cable line from San Francisco to the Sandwich House, and he and other democrats looked on | Islands, Japan and China, which would require, complacently at the little family reud that followed, | With the usual allowance for slack, over 8,500 miles Schenck, Dawes, Garieid, Stevenson, of Omo, and | Ofcable. Tnis- sme would. complete the circuit of Urth, of Indana, all got after Butler, and the latter | the globe in connection with the lines now in work: e goon found himself in hot quarters. There was, ot | ug order and the cablea now under contract to be course, 10 great sympathy among the republicana | !ald. for Connor, but the position taken by Butler was co | Novel Celebration cf the Ratigcation of the Untenable, and tie opportunity for demonstrating Fifteenth Amendment. s ‘he unwillingness of the House to follow the lead | A geveral alarm of fire was sonaded ths after- of Butler so favorabie, thus men nke Schenck, | 2000, all the steam engines and trucks were brought Dawes and Gariield eagerly embraced it, Butier | out, and vy the ringing of bells and the blowing of maintained that tue Louse uad o right to inquire | whistles much excitement was created, many sup- Anto the porsonal character of members elect, and if | Posing they were on the way toa great fire; but it ‘Shey turned ont to ve of doubiiui morals the House | Was soon ascertained the movement was In celebra- 4 Might refuse to admit them or expel them aiterthey | tion of the ratification of the fifteenth amenament. Were admitied; in ctuer words, Butier is bent on re- | t the constitution. The hands attached to the c, torming the morals on the House. Bis reformation | apparatus’ are both white and black. They greeted 4s to be retrospective—a fact which, as Stevenson, of | the Metropolitan Board of Police on their way to the Ohio, intimated, might operate unpleasantly upon | Executive Mansion, where the President was com- ~ More than one member of the House, But the House | plimented with three cheers ama the blowing of Was in no humor for moral reform or moral reform. | Whistles and the ringlag of the gongs of the appar- ers, The only members who came to the aid of But- | atus’s. der were Ingersoll, of Iilmois, and Shanks, of In- Gonsideration of Cousntar Appoiutments. jana. When tho vote was taken in Connor's case The Senate Committee on Commerce met to-day Batler wied to get the ayes and noes, go as to get the | and considered a number of unimportant consular members upon the record on the moral reform ques- | appointments still in the committee Awaiting action, ton, but he could net muster enough force to caii | It 1s ‘understood several names will be reported the yeas and nays—not even to demand tellers. So | at the next executive session if the opportunity s00n as the Texas members were admitted Orth, of | Offers. Indiana, asked that Connor have leave to make a ‘The Case of General Ames. Personal explanation. No objection being made, | The Senate refusing to go into executive seasion Connor arose aud imitated Schenck, Dawes ana | 0D the St. Domingo treaty another day was ex- : the other veterans of the House by pitching tnto pended on the case of General Ames. The Genera Butler. Connor 1s a boyish-looking individual, of was on the floor, and a very attentive listener to the slight bulla, smooth face and very light hair. His incomprehensible remarks of the erudite and drowsy style of oratory is decidedly Texan. Atthe end of | Vickers. By general understandig it is now in- every sentenge be would pull up his cuat sleeves tended to take a vote on the admission of Ames to- and gestioulate towards where Butier sat, as if he | Morrow. Jt is generally coikcedéd that he wil, get intended to have a set-to with him. He did pretty Well until he called Butler @ low comedian, when | 2aforcing American Claims Against Vone- i een at the Man. These were things that were not mere matters | clauns—the just claius—to tbe ' confidence of nistory; they were facts, There were many things | of the profeasion and the opie iM the bil witch had not met Mis avproval aud | this country of that majority of the Court which proe which he would vote agaist, For instance, he liad | nounced the opinion on the Legal Tender acta, and beeu for coming down twenty per cent on the duty | in a case which had involved simply the construc- ou coal, but ihe majority of the committee was not |tuon Of @ statute and the determination of a private Of the Same opinion, and therefore the bill had been | right, 1 auould have beco reluctant, especialy in @ reported without any awondmeat on the subject of | case which cyery one inust Admit 1s opea to argue Coal, bub leaving the duty as it vow stands, He had | ment too sirong on bot sides,fro have asked your nouced that every man who had anything to protect | Honors to reconsider it. But Hg Coat will pardon: Was quite willtag to bave that protected, but was | me if I state what in my view 4s case and this de- Wiliug to fall ma with the cry “tree trade’? as to | cision involves, and how it 19 presented, both to the everything else, He understood it to be the mien | parties having rights and to the people of ton of some members to move to recommit the bill | this country, A more unportant decision, in or to strike Gut tho enacting clause; but he re- | its consequences, it seens to me, was hardly over inmded the House that the ¢ffect of hot passing this | made by this Court, as 1 understand it and have it bli wauld be to leave tho law as it now siauds, and | here, peaking upon the record 1 stands thus:— to whica the peuding bill was a great reduction. | Your Honors have not decided that vais Lega! Tender ‘Tue bill, i ‘passed, would effect a saving of | act did not ag a matter of construction, appy to 22,994,451 in taxation on the Lnportation of last | contracis made belore the Passage of the act. year, though it would not lessen the revenue to that | If that Were #o it would seitie no. very amount, becouse of the increased consumption | important and great principle; but your Honors Which would result from the reduction of the duty. | have decided that it ‘was hot within It the Dili were recommitied the commities might | the constitutional power of Congresa to insert that ™~ Vary the articles of whicit the reduction had been | provision making ‘treasury notes legal tender for mmade—tea, susay, coffee, splees, &c.—but would | private debis Previousiy contracted in the scatate. hardly recomunend @ reduction greater im amount, | We have, then, this posiiion of avairs which bear on having dae reference to the public debi and the pub- | private and pavlic grounds. I feel thatl havea hie credit. ‘The comumittes Nad set out with cousid- | rught to press upon your Honors? notice a stature ering how much it could probably spare from the | passed by @ large inajority in Lota houses of Congre; customs revenue, and had fixed the sum at twenty | approved by the Presidcut, baving.ail the forms y Millions OF doilas, A close cuiculalion, however, | luw, the attention of Congress when it passed snowed that on the importations of iast year the re- | being called to the question of its constituuonality. duction recommended woulda amount’ to nearly | With cits weight of authority te bexin with on one twenty-three intilioas of dollars. In conclusion he | side, a statute substantially Said that the real, practical debate would take place | peopie of che United states on the detaus of the bill, und as that thing Would | than seven years of which mi come up iret to-morrow ln comiitice on tae bill he | contracts have veen settied to Would invite them all to tea, (Laughter), parties to them—a statute 1 ‘Tue committee then rose, uware, with but one excepti: THE IRISH COLONIZATION SOCIETY. stitutional by every State co. Mr, LOGAN, (rep.) of iL, introduced (at the request | most thorol h, elaborate av of a irtend) a bill to incorporate tie Irish Cojouiza- | sivn. a statute, upon the tion sociciy, Referred tu tue Commitiee on Public | this court, at a time woen Landa. Freie ones = isngee WATER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE JAMES AND | eyter its Judgu rt : PER ta instructing Bic aa sana sndictas 4 pingie Mv. Stevenson oiférred a yesolution instructin: 0, pu LL UL the Committee on Commerce to inquire into the ex- | man, Whose voice turned the majority, that greas disney of catisiug a survey and exammation to | quesjion ,, Mijndicated, and if, which 19 be inade of the lue of water communication be- | & suppurabie case, it turned ont that it ‘ween ude water ou the James river aud the Olio | was aa opinion about which even the deciding river at the mouth of we Kanawha, with a view to | Judge of the court had entertained a dierent ascertaining the pracucability of water comiunica- | opinion, at some other Ume it would come down tion for transportation purposes between these | to the poivt tbat on the divering opinions, at diter- bonts. Adopted. po umes of his od ae single oe aa Minas The Clouse, quartor-past five, adjourned. sticational power of Congress: ; ane Res MER ‘A aii time of the direst nauional necessity of tiis popular acquicscence and the decisions of State tribunals was to be subverted and set aside, and expurged from the pracvical powers of tha nauon by the judgment of suis Court, and Log the ques tion whether it was necessary tor the exercise of admitted constitutional powers te deciding that thas necessity is a judicial and not @ puliueatone, The ravily of such a decision your Houors, I have no ¢ Houbs, justiy estimates; time It wos my duty. {f the question could be presented again Ly propriety ia the exercise of my official THE LEGAL TENDER QUESTION. Arguments In the United Statens Supremo Court on the Proposition to Reopen the Question of the Constitutiouaiity o: the Le- wal Deuder Act. * WASHINGTON, March &1, 1870, fo the Supreme Court of the United States tnis woraing & motion for the rehearing of tne question of the constitutionality of the Legal Tender act was argued by the Attorncy Gencrat for the United Btates, and by Iamed M. Caitinte om vue uppusve side, The Attorney General addressed the Court as follows ARGUMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL MOAR, May 16 please the Court--1 hold in my hand a letter which I received from his Honor the Ontet Jusuce, enelosing @ cominunication from Mr. Corhsie and tnformlog me that the Court would hear me upon the subject of that communication ut tuc opoaimg of the court this moraing. [uudersiand the question upon which I have permission to addresg your Honors is whether the cases number six and number ‘unctions to do 80, seemed to me clear and, may it please your iiguors, involving as it does such ® great mass of private tutereste, but more, oecause it seemed to me to mvolve a fundamental principle im the powers ql tha wenceriucul, apprehandom favelve tue question whether fis"ever constivutional to have a rebeilion beyond A certain maguiade, J have decided at the earttest possible period to present it te your Houors when the court should be ful! and tp ask that if thie 18 not to be bencefe and forever the settled view of tia jaud? Jt shall pow be .deciared what the law ig, It if not necessary for me to call your Honors’ attention w.the fact that this is by no means unexampicd. I had occasion thea other day to observe that in the great case of McCul. loch vs. the State of Marviand, tue court allo within ilve years alterwaras, trat whole question to Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) of N. Y., said in many cases bodily presence became the overt act, and in’ others °y , be re-opened aud re-argued. It seems to me that If it had nothtug todo with the question. Me men- | the member and mis consutuents, and that Ut they at t Mr. Carisle’s case, but which the Speaker calied him to order. Connor promises The 7 poe ci ttte doned aaupposable case of the purchase of an estate } chose to be represented by that gentieman it was would Spore peraps, substantt iy” the samc wean on heme ceaenten win qr Ashton ot “ie. to be quite an addition to the democrats and some- @ House Foreign rs Committee agreed to- | in peausyivania as g residence ior himaselt and faut: | their own business, and rot Lit business of the | question--the ‘case in’ which Mr. Merriman | Sour thar ais accion ‘on further conatterat! what of @ character in the House. day to report & bill authorizing the President to ly 80 oem pe a pated Lt an mbabitangt of | Co ee on protperstae! be Lees regen reply to tne Is concerned—shail stand for argument, Sonne mignt be changed. It mast be obvious to ev x is that State without ever here, T. BUTLER ai ha Ul ol hh * The motion on the part of the Unived “J Swearing In the Texas Senators fend a war yeasel to ‘Venesueis for : the collec Mir. SAWYRR, resuming ne argument, contended } denunciation of nis eloguent and impulsive friena | WLab points, Pr mind that the more speedily i 18 done tie better for States is, tuat tax cases standing upon the docket to be decited by this court, in each of waicn tue United States is a party on the one side and a pi vate person on the other, shail be heard and de- elded by your fouors. In making the motion from what had previousiy occurred [ called your Honorg’ attention to the fact that the quostion of the constitt- Uonality and the validity of the act making Treasury notes a legal tender for private and public debts, involved in these cases, Was raised upon the record, aud asked your Honors whether it would be your fre-tye to Hea us upon that question, { deemed ib my duty, fror respect to the court which had so receatly aunounced a mage involving that ques- tion, to make the application, because in some cases, undoubtediy, where the Court has maturely aua fully considered a question of law and has decided it, the same Court does not copsider it proper to take up the time which other suitors are watting to occupy with a reconsideration of a question upon which their minds are fully made up, We desire, however, that your Honors sail repeat that question, and, in the first place, my atcention is very forcibly directed by this communication, and af tt had been made when I was present in court it would have tion of the claims due by thas government to Amer- ing ance thie ote nee ae besragphn 4 lcan citizens. The government has tried every requisite to complete the entee representation of means to obtain some satisfaction from Venezuela the States of the Union in that body, Afier fitteen | SPOUt these claims, but tn vain. cscs hes minutes of the time of the Senate nad been consumed seagate nae bene ae ate fa wrangling over euch e grave question of Brate as geaiamy tee at tue principal commerctat port, and to whether or not tne doors of the Senate were in | °° en Act for New Mexico. fact open when the President's message was re} 16 ronse Comuliteed on Territories reed to- ceived yesterday, Mr. Brake presented ‘the creden- ” rf e b tiais of Messrs. Morgan C. Hamilton and J. W. Fiaut. | ®2¥ '® Teconsider its action postponing the bill to Gan, the former for the term ending March 3, 1871, provide an enabling act tor the admission of New enittive aitae for the term ending March 3 1875, Mr. Mexico as a State into the Union. The bill wil) ‘Tburman, from theo her side, demanded tlie reading pa seg Laci sia appears owe val ‘Thomas ‘Of the credentials, the two Senators meanwinie oc- Mkt nee ins tio Funeral, tg _ shadibeesaraae tae | stipe tee me The President, with General Sherman, will have ~motion of Mr. Drake that tiey be sworn in being lime to attend the funeral of General Thomas at ss Troy. Several members of the Cabinet will also at- ‘semried, that gentleman, taking Mr. Flamgan on his | sina win dther alstinguisbed officials from here, in- thatthe fact of General Amos’ acceptance of the Senatorial nomination was as significant ag buying @ plantation or any other act he could pertorm to show his intention to become a citizen, It was not necessary for him to purchase a house or engage in business in order to become an inhabitant, but for this particular purpose it was necessary for bim to become such. Mr. MORRILL, (rep.) of Me., reviewed the facts tn the case, and argued that General Ames, as a citl- zen of the United States, as also every other citizen, had @ habitation assigned hun by law; that a cit- zen could not be without a domicile, An army officer was not 80 divested of his own free will tnat he could not choose for himself a dwelling. The restriction was only a8 to his oficial auties, The Senator from New York (Mr. Conkling) in his general reference to the question of inhabitancy had ine cluded cases of women and children, as to whom the law excluded a consideration of free will entirely, and assumed that their mere existence in a certain place was sufiicient to determine their inbabitancy. The analogy between these cases and those of army officers would be seen. all parties conceraed, aad er for the country. REPLY OF MB. CARLISLE. Mr. James M. Uarilsie Mb ctor saying that the At. torney General had aeualyged and disparagin; criticised the Court because, as he had remégrk the question Was decided by a vote of @ single Judge. Howevér that might be, it wag the judgment of we court which had beep pronouuced im chat case, What now was to become of the highest fudicial tribunal m the Jand if opinions were to be reopened and vecause Of the smatl majority deciding a question. Whatever might be the inajority, it was, neverthe- less, the opinion of the court. What had they to dg with the previous action of the court? He then referred to the fact that the case of Hetner & Griswold, one of the bank principles applicable to other parties, poned from one term to another fur tie purpose of argument, tius showing that they had all been carefully and elaborate.y conyidered, The 1 a they would take the matter under advisement. from Ohio (Mr. Stevenson) that this was @ partisan proceeding, because, with a majority of three- fourths in the House, one democrat, more or lesa, Was of no consequence, He bad believed it his duty to bring to the atcention of the House the four atiida- Vits which he had read of ofllcers and non-commis- sioned oliicers swearing to what Captain Connor had suid at 8 public meeting where he advocated his election on tie ground that he had waipped his negro sOluters and then bribed them to commit perjury. Mr. UARPIELD, (rep.) of Obio, asked Whether It would be safe to establish tho rule of inquiring into the characver of speecnes which candidates for Con- gress mignt make in the canvass ? ddr, BUTLER replied that his proposition was that the Jonge could inquire mto avytuing that ought to be imquired into. (Laughter.) Mr STRVENSON~1 Would lixe to ask the geutiemen One question. Mr, BULLER—No, sir, I cannot yield to you at all. Mr, STEVENSON~I want information. Mr. BuTLER~I have not time to give you all you Want. (Laughter. Mr. STEVENSON—I do not believe that the gontie- > o Mr. CONKLING inquired whether the honorable | man 1s competent to inform tie House, eceived attention at the time. ‘To the position bel pie we igi Sed Seat tite vid oione cluding Senators and meinbers of Congress, gontioman thought he meant to include ponerse | en. BorLer—'Then why ask me? (Laugiter.) PR A cee may say to your Honors what on TeUaRE. E ee Mapes jo the Vice Presi- Internnl Revenue Receipts. Mr. MORRILL replied that he did not know how dir, SYEVENSON—Because I believed you would re- | ail of you, except the members of the court who aagek dent’s desk. Mr. Flanigan took the oath aml Mr. ‘The internal revenue recetp's. for the month ere far the Senator’s mind might run in connection with | fuse. have recently become such, axe aware of, that William V. Brady. Hamilton made aftirmation. After Yeceiving the Wee ae ss banies, (Laughcer.) Mr BUTLER went on to say ‘ih he Va brought | since it has been my duty to represent the United We regret to announce the death yesterday of - congratulations of the Vice President aud Messrs, $12,735,281, For the same month last year the re- Air, Davis, (dem.) of Ky., tose to correct 9 misap- | the altidavits to the atteation of Captain Connor States noching hag been said or dove 1 velation to turns reached $11,611,992, Weekly Castems Receipts. ‘The customs receipts for thejweex ending March 26 are as foliows:—At Boston, $304,170; New York, $2,551,060; Philadelphia, $219,565; Baltimore, $264,736; San Francisco, March 19, $173,388. Tota}, prehension by the Senator from Maine (Mr. Morrill), ad explained that he had not iatended by a recent Temark to asxert that General Ames was personally the master of the Mississippi Legislature, but that fo his oe capacity that body had been made his saborainatés and were virtually his slaves. He would now say that the real master in the election of Mr, Ames was the President of tae United States; and that ig had said tat be was not responsible for What he bad sald iM @ political speech ta get votes, Mr, SttanKs said that he nad once sent Connor a3 @ cadet to the Naval Academy, and that he had been dismissed for utter wortalessicss. Mr. STRVENSON alluded to the fact that the con- trol of the subject had been taken from tue Com. Mr. William V. Brady, eX-Mayor and ex: Postmaster of this city. He entered into pubite life in 1642, when he was elccted Assistant Alderman on the whig ticket, representing the Fifteenth ward. In the year following he was chosen by the voters of the same ward to represent them in the Board of Aldermen, thoge cases which has any bearing upom the quea- tlou. I find those cages upon the docket. The party I represent is a party to the suit, and has a right to be beard by tits tribunal upon any question in- volved in the suit which afects the rights of that party, unless the argument has been 80 far exhausted and the opinion of the Court which { address is so clear and decided that they deein ito Drake and Cole the Senators were shown to thetr seats. A number of Senators gathered around and kept-up quite a lively nandshaking for a few min- ‘ules, Among the most enthusiastic was Mr. Revels, who put on one of his fascinating smiles in honor of the occasion. The sumission of the two Georgia $3,452,068, tuat the election was merely the execution of a | mittee of Elections by a gentleman who generally | wasto of their time and an Improper pressure upon'| #erving until April, 1847, when he was elected Mayor Senators and General Ames will corapiéte the roil. A Treasury Leak Stopped. Presidential behest. took charge of everyting. According to the argd- | my part to reopea the matter for uiscussion. ‘To | of the city by @ vote of some 18,000, to 17,000 for his Imperiance of th: San Francisco and Aus= The H . tt oni a dir. MORRILL had not understood that anything | ment of that gentieman (Mr. Butler), tf anybody | such an mtimation. of the Court I should of course | democratic adversary. While the disaifection of the od he House Committee on Appropriations to-day | oyensive was intonded, buy could not see the Sppil- | brougt (o the House ex parie ailidavits taken 10 | bow with profound respect. Li the Court did not | citizens with the management of the municipal gov- _— x tratin Steamship Line. decidea not to recommend any appropriations for | cation of the Senator's re ark, that the same power | Virginia, New Orieans or Texas, making charges think that any further presentaiion of the question ernment canged Many democrats to keep away irom the polis, the rane Popularity of Mr. Brady, who had pledged himself to ecouemy and to having the streets kept clean and im thorough repaif, aided greatly in securing his election, He served his term through creditably, aud was subsequently appointed Postmaster of this city—au ofice he Alied to the satise still remained. Mr. eae not the power of the Commander. in-Chief thore? Mr. MonRULL—Not any more than in Kentucky, and by the grace of God my honorable friend comes here in suite of the President. (Langhter.) Mr. Davis—Yes, sit, and I trust that grace of God The Senate Comunittce on Post Offices and Post | the commencement of new public butldings, Roads held thetr usnal meeting to-day, and listened Consule Recognized. , to a renewal of the interesting statements of W. H. The President has recognized José Rosa Perez as Webp, of New York, on the subject of American Consul of Nicaragua at New York. ‘sommerce, with spectai reforence to the trade of the Pacific, Mr. Webk urged the ectablisiment of an against @ member, he would have to be ousted from ‘is seat and tried on these charges. He had heard some of the most outrageous charges made against sandry members of the House, He did not beileve thei, He did not believe tuat any member bad ever taken @ minister of the Gospel and chained him in a chain gang of negroes and made theui all work to- could affect 18 decision it would be unbecoming in a counsollor of the court to urge a pohearinig, ‘Theso cases stand upon the docket, as I said. Last spring I inquired whether tuese cases that stood upon the list of cases of ine United States fur- nished me Were to be tgard, and was told that as they involved the qnesiion in some aspects of the Will exist foréver; but I say It dees not 6xist in re- | gether like slaves, (Laughiter.) He did not peneve Legal tender act, and a3 that had b-en fully argued feared ¢ per ice ” holt bier rv ate 7 x ‘ ‘ \ @ 3, * ut De render id b¢ retired to private Iife, from which he pever after Aterican line of steamships from the United States FORTY. FIRST CONGRESS, lation to Mississippt. (Renewed laughter.) that any member of the Houge had carried away | and was under consideration by the Court, they | emerged. Personal! he Wa3 & warm-hearted, liberal to Australia and New Zealand, by way of the Fojeo —~ enn Mr. MORRILL inquired upon whaf authority the | the treasure of ,& whole otty. Warr dorrty it | had been passed until) a decision should ba gentieman, of excelieut character in bots his social 3 Islands, He sh 2 th te Secoud Sessiou. Senator asserted that the independence exercised by | was false, if anybody sald it, and he, jor one, | announced upon that question, Last October, | and business relations, Immediately on recelpt of Jans © showed that there were 3,000,000 hu- the people of Kentucky did not oxist in Missis- | would spurn with contempt the man who would when the court cae toget again upok | the news of his death at the City Hail the fags vere Man beingr who would be reached by this enter- a ae i tied We'tias ti saan os Gh eaenioy bs heeft tive eb ey rare Ce sAicusumens iy Ased mgt Vide of | hoisted at half-mast, aud im other parts of the J a r. Davis replied we had the most palpable, that louse trie 8 qnestion it would have to ty’ applied to the Court ia regar ese | similar marks of res) iH 18 fe anti a thevalue of the resources was not less SENATE. repeated and humiliating evidence o1the enslaved | Mr. BUTLHR—WIIi the gentleman let me say — Cassa when. they were reagaed a’ thelt order, | Pg ae ere re cn ee eee than etween — $20,000,000 and $300,000,000, WASHINGTON, March 81, 1870, conaition of the miliary power, not only of the Mr, STEVENSON-—No, wii; I belleve in the lez} and sald to the Court that I understood that they Rev. Archibald C. F. In addition to this very important consia- SENATORS FROM TEXAS QUALIFIED. people of Mississippi, but of all the Soutuern States | talionts, had been passed pefore my term of ofice com- id ~ ns atte formerly tn rebetlion. Mr. MORRILL seid the Senator knew how often he and his colleagues during the great struggle of the reveilion had risen on the floor to say the satne flog of the military power in regard to bis own tate. Mr. Davis desired to make the further state- Ment, that when the military power was there pre- Sent in its atrength in Kentucky it did domineer and tyrannize over ‘the people, trample under foot her constitution, fer laws ald the liberties of her people ag 1t did everywhere. Mr. SAULSBURY thought some Illustration of the tpg of the President and Congress Was shown in he case Of Georgia, which had been reconstructed some three times, and Mississippi once. Suppose Mr. BUTLER—T hat 1s, I gave you five minutes; you will not give me ai Mr. STEVENSON. @ gentleman robbed the Com- mittee of Elections of ite whole time, aud gave back five minutes, (Laughter.) . Finally the discussion was closed, the motion of Mr. Shanks was rejected and the four Texas mem- bers were sworn in, ‘Their names are W. 'T, Ciara, J. ©. Connor, E. Degener aud G. W. Whitmore. On motion of Mr. Oxta Mr. Connor was allowea ten minutes for a personal explanation, in which he attributed the opposition of Mr. Shanks to tue fact that big (Mr. Counor’s) father had been @ prominent oppouent to that gentieman in the convention that nominated him for Cor 84, and to the fact that he (Mr. Shanks) supposed that he owned him, Lage ration the distance by the proposed route Mr. DRAKE, (rep), Of Mo., presented the creden- Would be from seven to ten days shorter tials of Morgan C. Hamilton and J. W, Flanigan ag and through o heaithier latitude than by the East | senators elect from ‘Texas, the former for the term Andian and Suez line of travel. In one year the pas- ending March 4, 1871, and the latter for the term #enger travel from Australia to Europe reachea euding March 4, 1875. He asked that the gentlemen 32,000 persons, The comimittee opened thetr eyes | pe sworn into office. ‘When these facts were laid before them, Mr. Webb, Mr, THURMAN, (dem.) of Ohio, called for the read- ‘by way of encouraging this enterprise, asks a sub- | ing of the credentials, wich were then Tead, being sidy.of haifa miilion. The committee toek no ace certificates of efection signed by E. J. Davis, Gover- tion, but cortainiy were struck with what they | nor of Texas, Had heard. Senator Kellogg was also before tne In response to @ request from the Vice President somiuittec to urge the establishment of a steamshtp | Mesars, Hamiiton and Flanigan came forwara, micuced, because thoy involved the question of the legal tender, and asked wheter it iy, Prd leasure of the Conrt that we should proceed to alate em; and your Honor said that tiey frould be passed for the present; tbat they might as weil be continued, I think wos the impression; and I think they were continued. When the term opened and the docket was Commenced again the same question was asked by me of the Court, and the same reply was made, That is all of my official relation to the cases; that 13 all of which I have any personal kKNowiedge. I had made no suggestion that the judgment in these cases should depend upon or have gny other con- nection with the cases in which the Court rendered judgment a few weeks ago than to inquire of the Court ther it was their pleasure that the argu- This well known clergymae died a few days ago at Clarens, Switzerland, where he was temporarily sojourning in quest of health. Mr, Foss was for Many years a pastor Of various churches of the Methodist denomination. In 1462'he joined the New York Conference, and was sasigned to duty as Lenox, where ne remained during the follow: year, and at its close accepted @ call as pastor of sh Morrigania Mission, H@ perfermed bis religions, sumed charge of the Metuodist piseope! chusen sum e ‘Thirtieth street, in this city. In aoe Hr, Foss offi ated a1 St, Paul's M church a8 a0 ass octace y 3 the Missigsippt islptore should displ the fed. | he tad thi cademy. of Rev, Dr. McClintock; im 1860 he was tor of & dine netugen Nev, Qgieans and Mextco. cseorted by Messrs, Drake and Vole, and after being | era power by not returning General hones’ Seat oes | tee eg uinated him to the Naval rermeraaste | cts, ould manag enone | Unt atlor tat | Church’ at Taxrytows, aug im 160, wes ‘appointed _ “Khe AP oF nonfer the New York Post | duly qualified, took seats upon tho republican side | conswuction rod would again be lifted’ over the | talent and avility, he had been forcibly impressed | state from persona: kuowledge what took | Professor in the Wesleyan University. Tis position yrengl* Office. of the Senate. e to-day with the conviction that he (Mr. Batier) bi place before, but I have iuquired of my | He held watt 1663, whew ae became Presiding Elder The 1. \yaqtiacy of the sum of $400,000 allowea RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT FOR THE MEMORY OF missed his cailing, and that he would have made @ much better character.for himself in the protession of @ low comedian, The SPEAKEX reminded the gentleman from Texas that his language was not parliamentary. Mr. BUTLER (disdatnfully)~On, be doos not Ruow in the Poughkeepsie diswict, He returned to New . York ta i @ad again eitictated as pastor of the Thirtieth street church, Two years later he oved to sin, Sing, and about @ year ago Was compelled ta retire from the uiinistry, because of i yedlth, With a view to recovery he wept to Europe, and State, ir. Mopi Temarked that that would appl: dquiy Wee Delaware. (Laughter.) shite Mr. SAULSBURY—Jr. President, I know it ts so aaserted; you have the mere physical force, but if the state of Delaware had the power to huri you and every man who would attempt toao such @ thing predecessor in office, and he has informed me: that no other stipulation, agreement or suggestion bas been made by him or with lis Knowledge, Mr. Mer- Tian says there was none made as far ashe knows, It comes, then, may it please your Honors, if that be ‘by the House for the progress of the work on the Tne Honse Joint resinous of armpathy. and re- new Post Oitice is likely to be realized vy the Senate, | pect for the memory of Major General George H. 1 am informed that a letter, signed by Wiliam B, | Tomas were Wen taken irom the table and passed, Astor, Moses Taylor, Wm. E. Dodge, Peter Cooper Mr. Scort, (rep.) of Pa., presented @ memorial 90, direotly to the question whether, because in the a8 1 would advise them todo you would never dare | any better. (Laughter.) opini ‘d the tribanal whi gment was travel on the Coatingat when ended and several of tie foremost ¢itizens of New York, | ftom citizeus or Atleghany county, Pa., for an en- attempt it 19 Delaware. er Conxon—Lwithdtaw it. Suid, the oountnd oan Pee, ae oe bie ny ! his career, Vv. Mr. Foss ed a very iarge has been forwarded to Senator Morriil, chairman cf | {''2 abrogation of the income tax, and callea atten. | Ar. MountL hoped that the day was far distant | | Mr. SHANKS relndrked that the member from | case has Seon passed Mech eeeteee case bad beep | Cltcle of warm friends, who will leara of ls d \ . 1 You to tie necessity for speedy ata definite action | when the United States would mifay ltseit agaluet | Telus Wants, TeerKe House that he was turned | argued and considered. that gives such a case any | With deep rogret. He was Sie Bp Ea : ~ the Senate Finance Committee, uryting tke necessity | on tue subject, In View that by the terms of the law | Dole Out of the Naval Acadeimy for utter worthlessneas, | legal riglt to follow the same adjudication. ‘it is 4 | SUd ab ornament to the reugiods aenoli b of allowing @ more liberal appropriation—at least | the ax bad expired on December 31, 1809, and ita | Mr. DRAKB—Or Delaware array itself against the | and again added that he was wounisy differeat party. Without his agreement the Court {| Wich be was a member, $800,000—to enable Messrs. Mullett and Mmibura to | UDseduent co ction was unjust and Resa Ar. Savzesuns added that the time had heen dena irom Jexastwan omn wows hd cate should able iy eae ner sido, Say that his ENGLAND RETHODIST OONFERENCE. + hurry forward the construction with the sespatcn | ‘The bill Felasing to offcers of soldiers’ al- ] when the military puwer had been exercised in Deia- | and that remarks in reference to him wich were 8 fulned by it ‘as lee bf Tam concaresd taeeinnt cad nd beck back J ‘ and energy which tho magnitude of the job de- | lowing retired army oMoers to be assigned to duty | ware, and even he, @ r of the United States, | order an hour ago were not in order now. ~ Ho Please, though it has never been my for- SPRINGFIBLY, Mass., March 30, 1870, mands. The letter represents tm farorabie | Me ae ee GREAMSUIP SERYIOR ad bea denied the privilege of voting in the town ull, Suanns-I beg pardon of the House, but not ot tng in rofeeaoual life {0 ave any doubts with | ‘Tre New England Annual Conference of thé : J. forms the progress of tho work thus far, | Mr. Coun, (rep,) of Ual., Introduced a bil autuor- | Nr. MORRILL then agked for the reading of asorios THB TARIFF BILt. Siiy in contraes la Teenrdtoaeermene Aipniations | Methodist Episcopal Cuurch cloved an etgyt days? and calls for appropriate co-operation on the tang the establishment of an ocean mail steamship {| of resolutions recently passed by the teaigetp} The H bef then, as half-past three o’ctock, went {| or understandings, 1 think that I have the right to | session in this city to-day. The application’ of Mi part of Congress tm the shape of the bas 4 reed ET ce ee Austraile. me a asking that General Ames be admit a mie . of ie Whole, Mr. ee ‘he | stand upon the record in the cause and to say that | yan Cote, the woman evangeitat, for admission te’ required increase in the amount passed by thé lower | posais for mall steamsnip service vetwoen the pore | the resolutions were read. port of, ne ty ME. BoHESCR, (rep.) of Ohler chatemog of veatagas teak these case oheae “os postpones, | the Conference on triai, was withheld for this yeat house. Mr. Hulbind says that he cannot getalong | of san Fraaclsco dnd some port or ports in Aus t. THURMAN Bald the question was a purely logal | of tne Committee of Ways and Means, He congra ¢ because the result would, perhaps, make wu, 1 the 3 vss tralia and New Zealand, toachiwg gt Honolaiu and | oné, tuto wiich party. considerations could pot tulated tha House on the closing of the discussion,- | view of the parties, Hoaterial furiho “aiseuss Aevently with less than $800,000, which, be states, ports in the islaads of Feejoe and iow Caledonia, by | eater; but the treatment which the report of the | wiith, he sald, haa been tuo general ‘ou geuerail- | tho questions yet ‘af the Teralt, hae oe wade will cnable him to tect all the demands between | means of a Moatily line of frst cless Americay | Judiciary Committee nad received showed hi wut: | ties in general, and not particular enough on! in teir Judgment immaterial to their in- mow and next August. Senator Morrill was in your | bulb seagoing steamships, of not less thaa 2,000 | teriy us@ess—now worse tian uselegs—hé was} particulariies in parucular, @ pDrase which { teresta to iscuss =the question, and the ity recently, aud was s!™<n tho coidition of the Fegister tons burden ecch. He ts igo to contract | almost induced to gay how coutemptivie—had béep | ais Western frichds = would understand, A | tribunal that they address are wilay to hear thom city revontiy, and was q . Wita the Jowest responibio bidder for sajd ‘ice | that committee whicd Was charged with inveatiya> | guod doal liad deen’ wuld by the Opponeats of the Upon the subject, I think that they nave he to ork, Mowas portecl/ _ahyand is auderstood | for a voral oF twelve yeaL¥s but Do propoaals shalt bo | tous intO We laws in QuUswer Vs tue poulien of tke 4 as aot eae al free trade, He did | 4900, sad’ thas 4é us oltner a violdtion of weerigut for motives of policy. The sentiment of the Cony ference Was doubtless ageinat her oe 4 resolution merely commending Mra, Van Cote’: Christan work, rejoicmg in her success and mi mending her al evangelist Was tabled witho: ORs dovale, Various routine bastvess Was tral and Bishop Sout read We appolutmenta Une wg.