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< WASHINGTON CLOSING SCENES OF CONGRESS. General . Butler’s Reply to Senator Davis. Savage Attack Upon Butler by Beck, of Kentucky. »’ Froclamation by the President Convening an Uxtra Session of the Senate. The Ku Klux Bill Signed by the President. Departure of General Grant for the West: WASHINGTON, April 20, 1872. Concluding Sceues in tae Houve—en Butler's Reply to Senator Daviv—Farnsworth, Mhiaeis, Takes a Hand in the Quarre!—Mer- ciless Ouslaught Upon Butler by Beck, of Kentucky. ‘The closing hours of the House to-day witnessed ‘one of those scenes which, in the olden time, hap- pened at rare intervals, but since the aavent of fen Butler have been of frequent occurrence. Some ‘weeks ago there was a personal difficulty between General Butler and Garrett Davis in the Senate, the particulars of which were reported in the HERALD at the time. Subsequently Senator Davis, in the course of @ personal explanation in the Senate, spoke of Butler in terms more forcible than either elegant or parliamentary, denouncing Ibm as a “damned scoundrel” anda ‘cowardly blackguard.” Ever since Davis delivered this speech Butler has been anxious to reply. Ip order to Keep ‘Within the bounds of parliamentary decorum Butler departed from his usual custom and went to the trouble of writing his speech. Early this week ne rose in his place in the House to a personal expla- Ration, intending to deliver his reply to the ralous Garrett,” but the Kentucky delegation, learn- ing of Butler’s intention, determined to object to his making his personal explanation. As 800 as the Ume for adjournment sine die had been agreed upon Butler took advantage of the rule of the House which | Provides that within ten days of the adjournment | the rules may be suspended, and accordingly he moved to suspend the rules to-day 80 as to make his explauation, With 2 mingled feeling of generosity and curiosity the democrats, with the exception of the Kentucky members, voted with the republicans to suspend the rules. This was within an hour and @ haif of the adjournment. It was generally known Rot only that Butier proposed to make such an ex- Planation, but the character of the explanation it self was well unuerstood. When Butler arose in his place there was an invol- untary congregation of the members on both sides of the House around him. The Kentucky delegation, meaded by that awkward but able Scotchman, Mr. | Beck, seemed determined to get close to the bold Wen Butler, Farnsworth, of Illinois, who, it was understood, would be alluded to in Butler's speech, ‘was also in the foreground. The people in the gal- Jeries who had come to witness the dissolution of the firet session of the Forty-second Congress made @ rush for the [front seaga, as if tatent upon hear- img all that Butler had to say. Garrett Davis ‘Was not present, probably because he did not ex- pect that the Kentucky objection to the explanation could be overcome. Butler read his speech, but he ‘Was s0 familiar with it that he frequently aban- doned his manuscript and fspoke with a force that gave effect to what he had to say. There was noth- ‘ng very severe in his remarks about Davis, except the denials of that Senator's allegations. When he came down to Farnsworth that gentleman pricked up his ears and listened intently to every word. 1t ‘was evident that ne intended fo reply, though he took no notes. When Butler had concluded, after some little delay, Farnsworth obtained the foor. Farnsworth is an old member of the House, famiilar With all the rules of depate. He knows how to ve Bevere and at the same time to keep within the vounds of parliamentary decorum. His tall, angu- lar figure, hts long, Maring beard, and a certain sar- donic expression, together with his cool manner, lent additional force to what he said. His remarks were confined principally to areview of the testi- mony taken by the Military Committee in the inves- tigation of Butler's management of the Na- tional Soldiers’ Asylum. It was very evident that Butler felt the force of Farnsworth’s remarks; for the Massachusetts member arose seve - ral times to make pomts of order upon his antago nist. His principal port was that the member from iinois was abusing the privileges of the House in making 8 personal assault upon nim. The Speaker Tuled that this was not a specific point of order, but when Farnsworth charged Butler with gorging him- self with'the public money and Butler rose a second time to a point of order the Speaker ruled that such language was not parilamentary. But the House, by an almost unanimous vote, allowed Farnsworth to proceed, . Of course Butler obtained a few minutes for re- ply. He endeavored to defend himself against the charges of Farnsworth, but it was evident that he Made little impression upon the House, ‘Then Beck, of Kentucky, claimed afew minutes to reply to Butier’s attack upon Garret Davis. This ‘was in some respects more severe than Parnsworth’s reply. Beck gave Butler to understand that, not- ‘withstanding the age of tne Senator from Kentucky, the member from Massachusetts could have what- ever satisfaction he desired, there or elsewhere. He giso stated that in the Reconstruction Committee room he had seen Farnsworth shake his fist close under Buties’s nose on several occasions, in the presence of ten or a dozen members of the House, 4n euch @ manuer as no white man should take fron another. At this point Butler arose and provested that Farnswerth was not a white man. Whereupon Beck gave it as his opinion that Farnsworth would pass for a white man in the State of Kentucky, ‘This created a laugh at Batler’s expense, The debate continued until the hour of adjourn- ment, and the House may be said to bave broken ap in a row. Proclamation by the President Couvening an Extra Sesston of Senate. WASHINGTON, April 20, 1871. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION, Whereas objects of interest to the United States require that the Senate should be convened at twelve o'clock on Wednesday, the loth aayof May next, to receive and act upon such communications ay may be made to it on the part of the Executive, Now, therefore, I, Ulysses 8. Grant, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to waue this my proclamatien, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United states to convene for the trans. action of business at the Capitol, in the city of ‘Washington, on Wednesday, the 10th day of May next, at twelve o'clock on that day, of which all who at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the twenticch of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aod soventy-one, and of the independence of the United States of America the nmety-Mith. v.. GRANT By the President. HAMILTON Fist, Secretary of State. Bills Signed by the President. ‘The President to-day signed and approved the fol- Jowing acts:— An act huthorizing the Secretary of the ‘Treasury to convey the Unitea States Brauch Mint at Danto- nega, Ga., to the trustees of ine North Georgia Agricultural College tor educational purposes; aa act to enable the Aulantc and Pacitic Railroad Com- any to mor! 18 Toad; an act to enable tho joughton and Ontanagon Raflroaa Company to make a survey of its road; an act for the relief of Nicholas P. Trist, for the negotiation of the Treaty of Guada- Joupe- Hiaalge; an amending the thirty-second section of the Internal Revenue act of Jniy, i870, Eg ag to provide that in cases of a diferencd the width of gauges of connecting railroads the goods may be Imwediatcly (raveferred from one car of | under the personal ~ such rules at Pot » Va., and for other Pr, Authorize the payment of dup’ bursing officers. Congress at this session, ‘fasseq about forty bills of a public and private “Aaracter, The Ka Klux BillySigned by the President. President Grant, accompanied by Secretary Robe- son and Generyi” Porter, came to the President's Yoom at the Vapitol at noon to-day. The Ku Klux bill was presented to him at one o’clock, when ne Bigned ft. The bill is now, therefore, a law. The Veticiency bill was also signed by him. Nominations Confirmed. The Senate, in executive session to-day, con- firmed the following nominations:— Military,—FUth Artilery—First Lieutenant David ! A. Kinser to be he gence! Second Licutenants Thomas RK, Adams and James Crung to be first lieu- senants. Twenty-fourth Infantry—Second Lieu- ; tenant R. M. Custer to be first lieutenant, Nominitions Net Acted Upon. About eighteen Executive nominations failed of | action. bythe adjournment of the Senate to-day, | among them Joseph Nimmo, Jr., to be "Inspector | General of Steamboats; Henry M. Moorhouse, Asses- sor of Bleventh district of New York, and @ number of nominations for the Engineer and Marine Corps, Departure of the President for the West. ‘The President, accompanied by Senator Morton ana General Porter, left Washington for the West on the forty minotes past five o'clock afternoon | train, in a splendid car. The President will be ab» | { sent one week. Settlement of Claims for Vessels Lost ia tho Service of the Government. In the settlement of claims under the act of March 8, 1849, for vessels lost in the military service of the United. States, Comptroller Brodhead decided that | the government was subrogated to the rights of the | Owners in respect of insurance, and that conse- quently only tbe value of the lost vessel, less the | | underwriters, on the contrary, claimed that, having paid the insurance, they were subrogated to the Tights of the owners, aud had, therefore, a legal claim for reimbarsement from the United States. The Comptroller stated that the party which re- ! colved the premium ought to stand the risk, and | ment. An opimon of a former Attorney General | was invoked im favor of the claims of tne insurers, but the Secretary of the Treasury sustainea the ; Comptroller and declined payment, | Republicaus Organi for the Campaign of 1872. | ‘The prestdents of the several republican State associations in this city have determined to organize | @ separate association, to consist of the president of each State association, and oue delegate to be elected by the associations. Holders of Pardons Without Federal Courts. The conference committee on the Deficiency Ap- | Propriation bili strack out the House amendment in j regard to the effect iu United States Courts of par- } dons granted by President Linco under the am- | nesty proclamation of December, 1863. The law ) which debars the holders of such pardons of stand- | | mg m the courts therefore still remain on the statute book, Immediate Payment of Census Marshals. The Deficiency Appropriation bill as signed by the { President authorizes the immediate use of the ap- Standing in | propriations for the ninth census, made at the last session for the next fiscal year. This will enable Superintendent Walker to make full and final pay- | Ments to ali assistant marshals, including the ad- | { ditional compensation authorized by the act of | March 3, Interesting Cases Before the Supreme Court. ‘The case of Kielu against the United States and one other case from the Court of Claims, now argued before the Supreme Court, presents for de- remedies | vinlons of the act of A\ amount of the insurance, would be paid. The | that it would be @ novel and unsound principle of | law which would give an ineurance company the | to | premium and impose the risk on the govern. | | cision the question of the constitutionality of the | Proviso relating to amnesty and pardon in the Ap- | propriation act of July, 1870, That act provided that no pardon or amnesty granted by the President should be considered by the courts in deciding upon | any claim against the United S:ates. . Person Secretary Bontwell will leave Washington on | Monday next for Chicago, tobe absent about ten | days, on private business. Reports of Cabinet Changes. From the Boston Advertiser, April 20.) | ‘The reports of Cabinet changes are aguin revived, ' and itis generatly believed tat one if not two of the present Muusters will retire as soon as some | pending a estions in which they have taken part , are seitied. The Secretary of State has often ex- pressed a wish to be relieved from his duties, but has remained atthe President’s desire, which, so far as the public have any knowledge of it, 1s still unchanged. If Mr. Fish retire, and the President should select his successor from those who are now in public life, probably no name would inspire more general contidence or bring greater strength to the administration than that of Senator Frelinghuysen. Keports are also current once more of a change in the Treasury Department. “Removal,” some or the despatches call it, ‘The relations of the President with Mr. Boutwell, as mdeed with the other members of the Cabinet, are believed wo be the most cordial, and if any change occurs there it will undoubtedly be by Mr. Boutwell's ex- press desire. He is, however, too deeply interested 1 the success of the financial measures he 1s now carrying out, and in which he has entire confidence, | te make that supposition probable. There is more ground for inferring vnanges in the odices of the Post- Inaster General and the Attorney General; but here also there is nothing but inference, resting on outside efforts known to have been made from time to time to procure the removal of the preseut incumbents. THE KU KLUX BILL. {An Efficient Measure for the Suppression of | Southern Kn Kluxes, The President Empowered to Use the Army and Ravy for the Enforcement of the Laws in All the States—The Writ of Habeas Corpus to Be Suspended in Certain Cases—The Test Oath Required of Jurors in United States Courts. AN Act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amend- ment to the constitutiontof the United States, and for other cted_by the Senate and House of nta- wc United States of Atmerion in Congress steomble st any person who, under color of any law, statute, ord!: nance, reguiation, custom or usage of any State, abail subject Or enuse to be subjected any person. within, the juried of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immutiies secured by the constitunon of the United States, hall, any such la w, statute, ordinance, custom or usage of the State to the cont . be Hiaole to the party injured in any action at law, salt | in equity or otuer proper proceeding for redreas; such pro- ceeding to be prosecuted in the several District or Circuit courts of the United States, with and subject to the same Fights of appeal, review upon error and other remeatea pro- vided in like cases in such courts under the provisions of the act of the Sth of April, 1886, entitled “An act to protect all raons in the United States in therr civil rights, and to fur: high the means of their vindication,” and the other remedial lawa #t the United States which are in their mature applica- le {4 such cases. qisortow R That it two or more within‘any State or ‘eritory of t uiter on conapire together to over: throw, o¢ 40 pin down, of 10 destroy by force the governmens of the United Btates, or to levy war inat the United government of the or to o by force the ai United States, or by. force, intimidation orthreat to prevent, hinder or the execution of law of the United States, or by force to, solse, take or a any property ‘of the United States contrary to authority hereof, or by force, intimidation or threat to it any per- eon from ace yy holaing any oMes, or OF place e United States, or discharging the of by force, intimidation or threat to induce any olllcer of the United States to leave any State, district ace where his Gutige oa sual arr might law! formed, or to injure him In hia person or on aocHunt of his Inwful cigcharge of the duties of hie sales, or to injure hig person while engaged in the Im ‘of the duties of his otfce, or to injure his molest, hinder, interfere with F impede him f ‘of hisoficial ‘duty, or by ferce, intmidath | to deter any party’ or witness in'any c ited lates from atten such court, or from testifying matter pending in auch court, fully and truthfully, or arty or witnees tn his person or pro faving so aliended oF testified, o by force, to Influence the v nttnent or indictment of any juror ot grand juror in ‘ny court of the United States, or to injure auch juror fi pesty on account of any vertict, jawiuliy assented to by bim, or win uch juror, or shall conspire guise upon the public high Tor the purpose, either directly 01 say person or any clase of (the laws, or of equal privileges jaws, or for the o The constituted autboriies of ¢ 10 all persona of in any manner impedin, toy "or ‘eton «ay Nie due course of Saatice 1a ety State oF Territory, with Intent to deny to any citizen of United Btates the due aod eyua) protection of the laws. or to injure Ee) if § $3 prived of citizen of the rived of such rights and privileges may Cooly tf of ea occasioned injury or deprivation of rights and privileges ne or more of the pers ‘an action for the any 01 persons i Conspiracy, such ‘action to be prosecuted inthe proper Dis- | | frlet or Citeult Court oF the United States, with and subject to the, same rights of appeal, review upon error and other wided {n }ike cases in such courts un 1866, entitied “An act to protect tates’ in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication.” m0. 8. That in all where insurrection, domestic vio- unlawful combinations or conspiracy in shy, State shall s0 obstruct or binder the execution of the laws thereof ry of the United States as to deprive any portion or class of all persons in the United y, eople of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or franfunkles or protection nained in the consciation and’ se: cured by thi ball efther fail in or refuse protection be deemed a denial by such tection of the laws to witich they are entitled un e stitution of the United States; and in all such cases, or when- ever any such insurrection, violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct the laws of the United Btates, or the due execution thereof, or {mpede or obstruct the due course of justice under the same, 1t shall be lawiul for the President, ‘and it shall be bis du.y, to take such measures, by the employment of the militia of the land and naval forces of the United States, or of elther, or by other means, ashe may deem necessary for the suppression of such insurrection, domestic violence or combinations; and any person who ‘shail be arrested under the provisions of this and the preceding section shall be delivered to the maralal of the proper district, to be dealt with according to law. 8E0. 4, That whenever in ny State or part of s State the unlawful combinations named in the preceding section of this act shail be organized and armed dso numerous and “powerful as to be able by violence to either Cnet or set cl » and of ‘at defiance the constituted authorities of the United States within such Stal or when the constituted authorities are complicity with, or shall connive at, the unlawful pu of such powerful and armed combinations; and. whenever, by Tea: son of either or all of the causes aforesaid, the conviction of such offenders and the preservation of the public safety shall become in such di ict impracticable, in every such case such combinations shall be deemed a rebellion against the government of the United States, and during the con- tinuance of such rebellion and within the limits of the dis- wiet which shall be so under the sway thereof, such limits to be prescribed by proclamation, it shall be law- ful for the President of the United States, when in his judg- ment the public safety shall require |t to siapend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, to the end that rebellion may be overthrown ; provided, that all the provisjons of the eec- ond section of an act entitled “an act relatin; habeas corpus and regulating judicial peoceed- ings in certain cases,"” bigathe March i which relate to the discharge of prisoners other than vri- soners of war, and to the Penalty for refusing to obey the order of the Court, shall be in full force so far as the are applicable to the pi sions of this section; provided further that the President shall tirst have made proclamation, as.now provided by law, commanding auch Insurgents 13 disperse, and provided also that the provisions ot this sec- tion shall not be In force after the end of the next regular session of Congress. Seo. 5. That no person shall be a grand or petit juror in any court of the United States upon apy inquiry, hearing or trial of any suit, proceeding or prosecution based upon or arising un the provisions of this uct, who shall, in the judgment of the court, tn "complicity" with any” mucn combination oF spiracy; and every such shall, before entering upon any such inquiry, hearing or trial, take and subscribe an ath in open court that he has never, directly or indirectly, counselled, advised or voluntarily atued any such combina- tion or company; and each and every person who shall take this oath and shall therein swear falsel; all be guilty of perjury and shall be subject to the pains and enulties declared against that crime, and the first section of ihe act entitled ditional causes of chal- lenge and rand and petit jurors in the June 17, 1862, e and the ‘SKO. 6. That any peraon or persons having knowledge that any of the wrongs conspired to be done, and mentioned in the second section of this act, are about to be committed, and baving power to prevent or ald in preventing the same; shall neglect or refuse so to do, aud such wrongl act. shal ye committed, such’ person or persons shall be lable to the person injured or his legal representa tives for all damages caused by any such wrongful act, which first named person or persons by reasonable diligence’ could have prevented, and such damages may be recovered in an action on the case in the proper Circuit Court of the United States, and any number of persons guilty of such wrongf neglect or refusal may be joined as ‘d such action, provided that ch = action commenced within one have accrued; and if the by any such wrongful act and tfves of such deceased persot of a ney legal, representa- ‘have auch action therefor, and may recover not exceeding $5,000 damages therein for the benefit of the widow of such deceased person, it any there be, or it there be no widow, for the bene fit of the next of kin of such deceased person. ‘That nothing herein contained shall be construed yy former act or law, except no far ugnant thereto; and any offences inst the tenor of any former act ll be prosecuted, and any proceeding already commenced for the prosecution thereof shall be continued and com- pleted the same asif this act had not been passed, except so far as the provisions of this act may go to sustain and vall- date such proceeding. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION. THE FIRST TERRITORIAL ELECIION General Chipman Elected Delegate to Congress— The Legislature Republican—Grand Repub- lican Jubilee—Speech of Colonel For- ney—The Administration En- dorsed—Gen. Grant Renomina- ted for the Presidency. WASHINGTON, Apri! 20, 1871. The citizens of the District of Columbia held their first election to-day ander the recent act of Con- gress giving them a new form of government, and for the first time voted for a delegate to represent them mm Congress, and for members of the House of Delegates, the members of the Council, the upper board of the Legislative Assemblyhaving already been appointed by the President. The election was remarkably peaceful through- out the District, but few incidents having occurred requiring the interposition of the police. In seven of the voting precincts a num- ber of women approached the polls with tickets in their hands, claiming the right to vote. They were treated courteously by the Commissioners, but were informed thelr hames were not on the regtstry list. They thereupon presented amMidavits that they were legally qualified voters, and that they had pre- sented themselves for registration and been refused, ‘These aMdavits were presented as preliminary to legal proceedings. In some cases the women were accompanied by lawyers. The republicans to- night are jubilant, Bonfires are blazing all over the city. At the Union Club House to-night, where many of the principal repudlicans were assembied, , there was a serenade, when Colonel J. W. Forney oh ‘was called for by the crowd and delivered a sp in response, SPEECH OF COLONEL JOHN W. FORNEY. My FELLow C11izENs—To-diy’s event will go forth to the people of America as something more than a mereg municipal triumph. It is the crystall- zation of the logic of the overthrow of the rebellion. It closes vhe period of repubix dissension and opens the future of republican victory. It 1s death to the defeat that springs from personal quar- rels and life to the spirit born of personal wag- nanimity. Itsaves the capital of the nation from Tiodical discussions about impossible removal to jonbtful localities, (Applause.) It indicates the ability of the colored man to enjoy oe aa won by the bullet and consecrated by tre ballot. It rescues the capital from influences which, however capabie, must have been certainiy calamitous, It invites to you Northern men and Northern money, and through you pours emigration, enterprise and wealth all over. the fertile and semi-popalated ex- panses of the Soath. Had you failed in your struggle to-day, the great capital started by Washington and sar Grant wonld have been @ sort of Flanders between the North and the South, where discordant factions, shaming the name of democracy, would have plotted new distrust in the one and new devas- tation and treachery in thegother. But from this night you date a new evangellsm; you begin another career; and, in the name of millions who are get- ting prouder every day of Weir country as they contrast it with the lacerated condition of such a nation as poor, bleeding France, so do they become prouder of the capital of that country. ‘In_ their name and as one who has followed your fortunes throagh good and evil report, I congratulate you on the maguificent victory of to-day. (Applanse.) Let us not, however, my friends, m this hour of victory forget those who aided us to prepare and organize victery. 1 have always believed that the party that seizes and controls the government of the city of Washington and the District of Columbia ig of infinttely more importance than the party which seizes and controls many of the States of the Union. ‘This is forcibly true of the present period, with its new elements of invention, of progress 1m the shape of raiiroada, telegraphs and printing presses, President Grant, evidently after a careful study of the situation, ' doubtless deplioring the unhappy feuds among iis political | sup- orters, encouraged the new territorial system Incorporated by Congress, and began his recognt- tion of it by the significant appointment of Henry D. Cooke a3 Governor. I desire to be quite candid when I gay, while wholly supporting the selection of Mr. Cooke { did not suppose that with all hus large means, earned by hard and honest toll, he would enter into the canvass with the determination, wis- dom and enthusiasm be bas displayed. To these qualities, so fully foresbadowes in his inaugural h, he has added a generosity and a toleration which have been crowned by extraordimary restilts; he has conciliated and brought together discordan friends; ne has counselled the appointment of re- presentative men of beth races; he has advocated education and manulactures; he has encouraged art and scieace, and he has prowrlt to bear apa = i his whole policy a comprehensive statesmanen!p the which snows him to be a citizen above mere per reat, ‘0 | gonal ambition and regardless of the narrow Infu- in a | enees Supposed to surround the possessor of large ‘any | Wealth. But while we honor Governor Cooke for Vice | these attributes let us not forget the man Con- | withont whom there would have been no inhis | republican victory to-day, That man if mallty of President Grant. (Applause.) I @o not conceal from you, my friends, that I have deplored some recent events In our great organization, and have mot hesitated to give utterance to my senti- Ments in this direction. But the President's two recent mesasages—that in regard to St. Domingo and at demanding the protection of the Union men of the South—have convinced me that if the republican mad desires success in 1872 it must be under the ner carried by the man who led thei to victor: in 1868, These two State papers alone establis! the fact that he will have no policy against the will of the people, and that he will ae all the powers of the government to Protect the people in the enjoyment of their own Opinions, and supplemented #8 the latter has been by the prompt passage of the bill enforcing the fourteenth amendment to the constitution ,and sus- taining the hae of the people of the South, in ac- cordance with his message asking such legislation, and signed promptly by tum this very day—this fact completely dissipates all accusations that he ls not the firm and fervent friend of the loyal people of America, white and black. We are in the very forefront of the next Presidential campaign. Your great victory of | to-day is the trumpet call to national baitie, (Ap- plause.) ‘pe democracy will be reinforced next year by cohorts such as they did not dream of in their philosophy of 1868. They have two great treasuries from which to draw their subsidies—the | treasury of the British free traders tn Liverpool and the treasury of the democratic tree traders in New | York, It is no figure of speech to say thal unless | the democracy can elect a democratic President in | 1872 ‘British “manufactures will go down and the people of England will demand of ther rulers the higher wages which at once enlighten and elevate the workingmen of America, These combinations, working to a com- mon centre, will place in the hands of the demo- cratic party next year ut least ten millions of dol- Jars to be wielded by men who are now shaping the Legislature of New York so as to make that State | secure te them and to enable tnem to seize Connec- tout, New Jersey, Penusylvania, Indiana, and even Ohio, and to wield these States vo a South consoli- | dated in support of their policy, never denied and repeatedly stated, of repudiation of the national debt, the overthrow of the three amendments to the consti- tution, the recession of the negro to virtual slavery, the assertion of State rights and the destruction of the ballot. (Applause.) pea city would have been a@ copy ef the mmanied New York. Here the fulcrum would have. been placed whence to move the South into new rebellion and new desola- Uon. But now, under the lead of tne soldier who rescued you from the rebellion and whose adminis- tration of the national government as secured for him the confidence of the whole American peo- ple, whose generosity to Lee and the southern army at Appomattox mm April of 1865 has never known retiring ebo, and whose claims to renomina- tion to the omice he has filled so honorably in the midst of unutterable diMculties is now conceded by friend and foe, our city has not only been delivered from the damaging control of a party pledged to uni mmabdle retrogression, but the country itself saved from a terrible reaction. (Applause.) Of the twenty-two members of the House of Dele- gates the republicans elect fifteen and the democrats seven. General Chipman, republican, Is elected Delegate in Congress by a majority of 4,087 oser Richard T, Merrick, democrat. YACHTING. Englith Honor to Mr. Ashbury—The Commo- dore’s Remarks on the Ocean Cup Contest. Lonpon, April 20, 1871. Mr. James Ashbury, having been re-elected Com- modore of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, an- nounces a number of prizes for general competition, including an ocean cup, “for which races," he says. “the Americans are bound to send their champion vessel, and not a fieet,’” The Yacht Josephine—Continuation of Her Went India Cruise. The schooner yacht Josephine, ef the New York Yacht Club, which has been making an extended cruise in the West Indies during the past winter, arrived at St. Pierre, Martinique, on the 2th ef Had you foiled to-day | | TOK STAT CAPITAL FINAL PASSAGE OF THE ELECTION BILL. The Supply Bill Passed with Amend- ments in the Senate. Proposed [Impeachment of Judge Woodruff. Parting Testimonials to the Officers of the Lesislature. THE FINAL ADJOURNMENT TO-DAY. LEITER OF DEFENCE, WINAN Love of Erie the Influencing Cause of | His Defection. ALBANY, April 20, 1871. ‘The reading of Denny Burns’ reAlution calling upon our Senators and Representatives in Congress W move for the IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE LEWIS B, WOODRUFF created a decided sensation in the Assembly this morning. The resolution, with 11s heavy batch of of election out of notoriously bad characters and ex- convicts, was handed up to the Clerk’s desk just as the House was about to adjourn, All the names of the snpervisors were read care- fully, Considerable merriment was occasioned by the details that were given as to the wayward ways of some o/ the scamps; how one had “cut a boy” and another had spent afew years at an up- the-river town as a guest of the Warden of the State Prison, and how a third had got hold of a nice gold watch which didn’t belong to bim, and which, It is supposed, he had the heartlessness to wind up with in a pawn shop of small dimensions and large pro- fite, The constant repetition by the Cierk of the words burglary, murder and highway robbery after almost every name seemed to uckle THE FANCY OF THE GALLERIES immensely, and even the republicans appeared to take the whole thing asa very good joke. In fact, but few of the democrats looked serious, or even tried to look as though they thought the resoludon and the charges would ever amount to anything. Goodrich, who always has his say on every subject, ‘was the ouly republican who attempted to “go” for the prosecuting party, and he did so by asking for information as to whether the men whose names were being read were the democrats whom the Judge bad appomted as supervisors. ‘yhis created quite a guffaw, and when the reading of the precious document had been conciuded he again tried to put in a word on the subject, but the House adjourned before he could catch the Speak- er’s cye, or, rather, before the Speaker's eye had seen ft to waader tn his direction. IFORMED CONDUCTORS. An attempt was made during the rush of busi- ness this afternoon te have a bill passed re- pealing the act which requires conductors of rauroads to be uuuormed, The vill did not actually repeal tie act, but it virtaally March, and sailed on the 28th for Cuba. SBiTUARY. Willi: A. Moore. We regret to anuounce the death of this popular and well known theatrical manager, which sad event took place in this city yesterday. Mr. Moore had been confined to his home for over two years, suffering from dropsy and heart disease, and the mental anxiety caused by his straitened circum- stances aud his imability to place his family shove’ Want was only egualied by the phy- sical in he suffered. He was born in Bath, {Eogland, m May, 1825, and made his débui tn the United States in 1849, at the Astor Place Opera House, as a singing witch in ‘Mac- beth.” “Subsequently he held the ition of prompter at Nibio’s Garden. During the engage- ment of the Ravel Family at the same theatre in 1956-57 he was stage manager, and on the close of their engagement travelled with the family, In 1850 Mr. Moore went to Europe with James M. Nixon and engaged the Cooke's Royal Circus, with which he returned, when he became manager of Nibio’s, and during the following year was proprietor of the bar and refreshment saloon. During the season of 1965-66 he was stage manager at the Arch street theatre, Philadelphia, and was afterwards employed as travelling business agent for Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. When Mr. Willlams opened the Broadway theatre Moore was appomted mana- ger—a position he retained unul the theatre was closed forever. As is the case with too many members of his pro- fession Mr, Moore «id not “look out for the ramy day’’ when in prosperous circumstances. He leaves behind a wife and three children in a want, and we trust that managers and actors will display t.ecir traditionat benevotence by according to them that assistance in the name of the deceased which th; for his sake as well as for their own, 80 mi serve. AMUSEMENTS. GRaND OPERA HOUSE—BENBFIT OF ELIsk PER- Stni.—This charming young artiste—the best in Mr. Fisk’s company—took her first benefit last night, appearing as Orestes in ‘La Belle Héléne.” She also sayg during one of the ent” actes the Jewel Song from Gounod’s “Fanst,’’ and a new song, ‘‘ALxa,”? composed expressly for her by M. Brunel. Mile. Persini has a light, agreeable voice, of better quality and — superior cultivation to what one generally hears in opéra doufe, and she has all the vivactty and sprightiiness necessary for this kind of entertainment, without a particle of the Coarseness and indelicacy that many of the Parisian celebrities unhappily bring to it. She deserved @ better house than what greeted her last night, for there were many empty benches, Yet the audience made up in enthusiasm what tney lacked in numbers, and the fair beneficiaire was re- peatedly applauded. Signor Carlo Patti, the leader of the orchestra, has @ benefiton the 27th inst., and Mr. H. C. Page, the indefatigable business manager, one the week following. A MUSICAL SENSATION.—Mr. Fred Rullman tele- gtapls from Vienna the news that he has effected an engagement for the next season with a celebrated orchestra, consisting of ladies, the conductor being @ lady also, with Madame Fabbri, prima donna; Muller, baritone; Daillester, basso profundo, and Missy ir, a twelve-year-old prima donna, who is said to be a prodigy. He is also in active negotia- tlon with the tenor Niemann, who may be induced to come, as his wife, Hedwig Raabe, is under en- gagement to Mr. J, Grau for the fall EUROPZAN MARKETS, MARKET.—LONDON, April 20—5 P. 3, for money and 93% for the acount, United States tive-twenty bonds-— SEE SE AS es he ke SE ee a are wage COTTON MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, April 2 ®' downward LIvERrooL 6 P.M.—The cotton market closea with tendency. Bee, uplands, Tid.; middiing Orleans, Tigd. The sales of y have been 10,000 baies, including ulation. Holders were pressing sales at the opening of the transactions, ADSTUFFS MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, April . 64. per cental for the highest grades of No. 1 vo the lowest grades of No. 2 new red Western apring. Corn, 4 per quarter x for new. LivRRPoot PROVISIONS MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, April Cumberland cut, 420, 6d.; short rib 20-" Evening.—-Bacon. middien, 4a. 64, LONDON PRODUCE MARKET. —LONDON, April 20.—Sugar, 208. a 308, 6d. per cwt. for No, 14 Dutch standard, atioat. Tal low, 428. Sf. a 488, per cwt. Linnced oil, £31' 1s. per ton. Rosin, 6s. 6d. per owt, for common North Carolina, and 1és, for One. VRRPOOL PROVISIONS MARKET.—Lrverroot, April 20-5 P, M.—Pork, 728. 6d. per bbl, for extra prime meas. PETROLEUM MARKET.—ANTWERP, April 20.—Petroieum, 4859/. for oe pale American, THE COTTON MOVEMENT. | List of Vessels Arrived at Liverpool With Americana Cotton Cargoes, April 19-20. Lrverroot, April 20, 1871, The undernamed vessels arrived at this port with American cotton cargoes during yesterday evening - the Sp VIZ Day of Sailing. Baler. “date 8 March 1 M: ship St Audley .. Ship o KOC... Biip Ce Mareball did by providing that @unitorm cap and a budge should be all tne uniform required, an amendment that the companies shoud pay for the uni orms, This was voted down, aiter exciting considerabie discussion, which finally ended by the deieat of the bill. 1t is claimed that the old act is disregarded by the majority of railroud companies, Dut Liat is certainly no argument to show that the act is nota good one. If properly enforced by tue proper authorities passengers on many roads coud be Saved uo iictle trouble, THAT RIG INSURANCE BILL. Probab!y oue of the most extraordinary bills that Was ever introduced in the Legisinvure was the bill enutled “An act to provide for the imcorporation aud ruture rezulauou of life, health and casualty in- nm tw agencics of surance cotupanies, and iv relat such culmpanies,” was killed to-day im te } Assembly. yhe mam tmterest of the bil j Was undonbtedly a good one, but it was drawn up in such & way that ft would virtuauy have placed every insurance company at the mercy {of the Superintendent the Insurance Department. Strict supervision by the State of the business done by the compames is & thing Chat cannot ve too highiv com- mended, but it ts quite another thing to give the unlimited control ot every compauy mito the nands of one mau, as regards every department of its business, ‘The bill was passed by tue Seuate with- out being amended m the shgntest degree, and It ‘Was omy when it fell into the bands of the lasurance Commuttee of the lower House that THE “NIGGER”? were scooped out. General Miller was the author of the bill in its original shape, and for weeks past had endeavored to have tt referred to the committee with power to report complete, put he was unable to gain Selkreg, finally got hoid of it and struck out the most objecuiouable features. The advocates of the bill were afraid to allow the measure to go into Commnittee of the Whole} even after the pruning pro- cess had been gone through with, and this tact of itself drew out against it an opposition that would have otherwise probably not have appeared at ail, Ji was killed on motion of Mr. Nelson, of Rockland, to strike out the enacting clause. ‘The motion was carried by @ vote of sevenvy-five to twenty, and a mouon to reconsider was voted down vverwhelm- ingly. To give you an idea what ‘AN IMMENSE POWER the bili would have given to the Superintendent if passed in its original form, I need only refer to a section or two as it stood when first drafted. deetared It to be the duty of the Superintendent, if he “suspected”— that’s the word—the correctness of any annual statement of any company, to cause an examination, &c, Another pronipited any company from consolidating with another, ever “after ob- taming the consent of the majority of the trustees,”’ uuless—and here's where the committee put in their erasing pen—unless it could beforehand get the consent of the Superintendent, Yet another ave him the appointment of all receivers, the Xing of their compensation, the approval of what clerk and actuary hire they should have. One sec- ton Was al extraordinary oue. Alter providing that if ‘in the opinion” of the Superintendent any company should “appear” in such @ condition as to | render tie issuing of additional policies and annuity bonds INJURIOUS TO THE PUBLIC INTEREST, 1t went on to state that aiter the Supreme Court had heard allegations and proofs the Superintendent should appoint @ “receiver of ali the assets” of the company. This was not bad for the Superintendent, but what was this conclusion of the section? “And in no case shall a receiver of any Jnsurance company be appointed upon the applica- tion of any other person than the Superimvendent of the Insurance Department, except by and with his consent in writing.” ‘This indirectly took the whole control of the receivership business out of the hands of the Supreme Court, ui the real friends of tue bill acted wisely they could have made it so strong \ but they sisted 1 weeping: it out of the Committee of the s hole, event aiter Selkreg and Burns had knocked the “ooues” ont of it, and now have only themselves to thank for the terrible deieat they met wiih. One of the provisions of the bil was an excellent one. It prohibited insurance tion, after three years from the issuing of any policy, that such poilcy Was obtained by any misstatement or misrepresentation, “not amounting to actual fraud on the part of the Insured.” This was the Flagg bil, in a shape more ugreeable to the insur- ance companies. However, there ts no use now of crying ever spilled milk. tthe good provisions had to be killed becanse of the suspiclops that were first excited When the measure put in its appearance In its original shape. Thus has ended the insurance legislation of the session, which has from the start caused such a hubbub and talk in both houses. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Among the many biils passed to-day m the lower House was the Election bil! and the Bufalo City Charter and Police bills, Two of these were of the number proscribed by the republican caucus, and thelr passage makes the bumuitation of the caucus. ers complete. Of course, for the show of the thing, Littiejonn, Alberger and one or two other republi- cans spoke againat the bills, bat they Knew that it was all of no use, and so they made no attempt at fillbustering. The following Is tae Election bril in fatl, whicn the Governor's signature will make a jaw to-morrow. The people of the State of New Yor! Ate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SROTION 1. At each anvual or special election at which a | Representative in Congress, Senator or member of Assembly represented in Sen- is hereatter to be elected the Inspectors in the several elec- tion districts In this Btate shall provide and keep @ separate box in which ail ballote for Representatives in Congress,to be gndorsed! “Congress,” shall be deposited ; also & separate box w 1 tn, ali ballote for Senator, to be endorsed be deponited; and also & separate bor oer of Al bi ndorsed ‘state, f the indorsed ‘7 ogee An acts and parte of acts. inconsistent with tne | 4 f thin act are hered: ed. Pee tte Sata cae mci, d Jade proparet ry te the homeward of old and new duds prey ory e' marcit hag at last begun Mm downright earnest, and } the busts and cousaion whicd Drevall just Bow im charges as to how the Judge had made supervisors | fieids goo in | 1 his port, ‘wo members of tie committee, Burnsand | One | that ifs defeat would have been out of the question; | companles from interposing as @ defence to an ac- | nd about the hotels reminds one very forcibly of the Ist.of May in the neighborhood HA tenement , house row in New York. ‘frauks full of all sort, boxes crammed with legisiative documents, Valises bursting with gartnents that the waslherwo- men avout town have noc had a chance this week to get a scrub at, and negro waiters fuil of expecta- tions a8 to the gross receipts, that are doubttal in thetr coming, for services rendered tn the past, trl One up at every step in the hallway, vestibule am anterooms, In f: everybody is bent on being ready for the grand exit, aud everybody is doing his “perspiring utmost to have all hia little bills settled §=or exe in time to get up and get without delay when the Speaker's gavel to-morrow knocks the present Legisiature into Py oolivion. Ever since Monday last there has been great lamentation among some of the New Yorkers on account of this now all absorbing topte of the adjournment, for they had bee by strange ana parently reliaple rumors, to believe that the final goodbys of the season would be on Tuesday night or at best on yesterday morning. Believing tec “Boss” infaluble on this subject they sent thew trunks home by express and ever siace the poor Jeliows who did not make their pile uring tie ses- sion have had to exist WITHOUT A CHANGE OF LINEN, Paper collars and dickies are now in great de- mand in certain quarters, and if by apy mishap the grand wind ap should noi be gaveled out to-morrow there will be such consternation and such sudden dealings in made ap paper things for wear and tear ag will astonish this pious litre viege ‘as it never was astomshed before. There Is but little doubt, however, that by to-morrow night the members will ail be on their Way home in as good @ condition as they possibly can get themselves: into in the hurry and furry of the momentous occa. sion, Indeed, the flat nas gone forth from tne head centroship from which radiates all the wires that keep the democratic machine in order that. come what will, safer who may, the halls of Senate and Assembly that know the present members new shall know them no longer after nightfall until peo- ple who have more votes than they know what to do with may be perverse enough to send them back again. Tiat the ship of State will suffer much by the majority of the crews present not being ens a again when she gues’ on another legislative yyage is very doubtful, and if the men who have on interest in the hulk, the masts the salis, and last, but not least, the cargo which she must always carry, shoukl take it into thelr heads to pick up new hands all rounds, { do not think that the change could possibly be for the worse. ‘This evening, when the two houses reassembied, the best of Goon HUMOR prevailed upon all sides, and as Mill after bilk | that was betund hand was shified about from one House to another for final action, parliamentary discipline was relaxed, and Members and outsiders mingled together on the floor in true democratic contusion. indeed every- body seemed determined to wear a smile as “child~ | like ana bland” a3 though scowls had never dark- | ened any member's face when the war of legislative battle made even the fearless galleries tremble in their well patched boots, All lands had evidently } made up their minds to bridge e past differences: and become tor once “good fellows well met.” Bven | the more bitter of the republican caucusers forgot | thelr hard feelings toward 4 WINANS, } and he and ,they chatted and laughed together a9 frecly a8 though he had not dene a good thing for himself, to the exciusion of a dozen others who were as wililng to ‘go and do likewise’—on the sly—had there not been an awful slip between the cup and the lip just as they were making ready to feast and be merry. Weed, who had fought during the Via- } duct fight with Hitchman and Armstrong and Fields, and the Lord Knows who else, on the ma- jorny side of the House, unl his ‘chances’ for the session seemed ails) lost, hobpobbed in tie most cordial way witn alt his old foes. Indeed, he it was who was finally put into the chair when the usual time-honored resolutions of thanks to the Speaker and the Clerk were offered and 1. aiter Littlejohn, Alvord and Husted had exhausted the English language for words to express their love and admiration for the Speaker, whom the former had good reason to style “the most prompt, impar- tal and energetic party leader oe ad ever known in his whole experience as @ legislator.’ Even Goodrich, between whom and the Speaker the most desperate encounters had been had almost every aay in the session, was so full of fhe milk of human kindness that he, too, had to fall into line, and while acknowledging that he and fis fellows had been “ruled with a rod of iron,” after all they would never forget to think of each other kindly, so long as there were two political parties | under the sun. Randall was the only man who threw cold water upon the general good feeling by @ series of resolutions de- | nouncing, in the name of the Legislature, the mil ; tary dictatorship at elections, exercised by the administration, but as they were laid over the cloud turned out to be a passing one only, that left na | trace of dire dismay betind it. Under the good- | humored circumstances o! the deligattul occasion It was quite natural that everything passed off smootiily, and that the House, while abiding the result of the conference committee work on @ naughty, Knotty bill, should have taken a recess for | a@ half hour, and, ‘with Tom #telds in the chatr, , threw Croswell's Manual to the dogs and left parita- meniary rules for the time being to be observed by the Senate alone, It is needless to enter into the details of THE GLORIOUS PUN | that was had durtag the mock session, to describe how the fuors were crowded to sutfocation by hv dreds ot persons who had scented the sport from without, in the lovbies and vestibules; how the ' galleries were literally packed by @ iuititude whe applauded and roared with laughter at the epiey ; Parts of the proceedings below with as much enthu- | Blasin as though they were real. Nor would it be | necessary to fell how all sorts of ridiculous bills were read and amended; how poetry about the amenities i of legislative ie was spun out by the yard by # | country laureate ruymster, or how ® messege was received trom the Governor tn the shape of an empty bottle and Was referred vo the Committee on Judiciary | with power to report compictely full—bottle and committee—and how it alt wound up by stirring | debates about the “progv’ of the sesston and the hopes that were blasted and those that were real- | ized. ‘The Senate got rid of all the ordinary bills this evening, aud Sut until a late hour debating THE CHARITY BILL. | The Senators were tn as jolly @ humor as the | Assembiymen, although the lobpies were crowded | with clergymen, who were anxiously awaiting the fate of their little appropriations and battonholing every Senator they could get into an out of the way corner, Mindful that, although the Senate in the | afternoon had knocked the Weed & Parsons on clause for $152,000 out of the Supply bill, they had | Managed to put Into ib a milion de more thin ; the House, the ‘Boss’ got on his mica! horse | and succeeded in cutting all the cuarities down titty | per cent. TO-MORROW FORENOON THE CONFERENCE COMMIT: TERS | wilt settle the tate of the State Appropriation, the Supply aud the Charity bilis, and then the goodbys will be spoken and the Legislature wil] be among the wortutess things of the past. THE REPUMLICANS, who have held a caucus with a view of healing ail | breaches de inthe party, have decided not to issue their address to the people until a week | after tne adjournment, Winans will then come ; in for his share of the howl, and it i» | sald his reply wili shake the dry bones badiy, | the statements in certain partisan papers to the con- trary notwithstanding. Here let me repeat that | several of the minority were ready to go over to the + wajority on certain valuable considerations being | Toade beiorehand, and that the only reason they did | not succeed was because they were slower than was | good for them, Fellows who prate abvont refusing | $6,000 a piece to vote for one of the bills pro- Keribed by the caucasers of last week, several | or whom voted for the Water Supply bili for $100 each, although they had resoived in cancus to oppose it, may mouth virtne as jong as they ase, but It will be of little avail. It 1s the sheerest onsense for either party in the Legislature that dies to-morrow to boast now or hereafter of its mn- ' ery. during the session, They each have had | theic bl sheep, but a few republicans succeeded ju turning the scales in toeir favor for dishonesty jong ago. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE Senste. ALBANY, N. ¥., April 20, 1871, THR SUPPLY BILL was taken up at the point where it was left last night—on the New Capital Commission and appropriation. Tae appropriae Hon was made %650,000, Mr. CHAPMAN moved to atrike out all names of Commis sloners and leave the Goveruor to appoint all the Commise sioners. ‘The Care d ‘8 motion to reconsider the vote naming Commissioners, fn by the Assembly and already pub- ished, "Was uccessury, a» the Senate had adopted those Mr. CHATMAN moved a reconsideration. Lost. So the Coromission a8 named by the Assembly stands. Mr. SANFORD moved to strike out the appropriation anc not make any. Lom. L ENNEDY moved to atrike out the item of $20,000 to be paid for the Washington reites, Lost, Mr. MURPHY moved to tuert the aumendment that no print- {ng done in contravention of law shall be paid for. ir. CHAPMAN moved tondd that this shall not apply w work already completed. Adoptet—1d to 8 Mr. MORGAN moved to add $21,000 tor tne Hudson River Hospital (or Insane. Carried. Mr. KENNEDY moved to. give ¥2.000 to James Terwilliger, as secretary of the Capito Commissioners. This be was en- titled to, according to an understanding ; but the Comptroller found no authority to pay tt, Mr. Low opposed the motion and it was lost—13 to 14. Mr. LORD moved several amendments, among which was One to strike out the item to pay 86,000 ‘counsel fees ia the Witveck murder case, This was lost. The item to pay | Henry Mi. W Hilame ol for servives mnmisaloner, £0 tue French Exposition, stricken out last week, . bor to the Law Library of the Eigntly Mr. LEw1s moved 85 disiziet. hr YwEm moved to amend, the districts, Carried. ‘Mr, LEWIS moved an extra appropriation to the library of r 2 of $2,500, Carried. aan etre ved $4060 to the New York Prison Asuu- elation, Carried. ragraph to Weed & bay oi tendered the State, bit fire and was burned j by giving $1,000 to each of parties, Tl although they aid parties Meena ning him, he could afford to let them abase ce. The amandment was adopted. an then oJ esmowed for $25,000 vo build wn armory at ie nrror ep te. tone etbenate Mr SANFORD rooved to strike out the appro CONTINUED F'30M TENTH PAGE.