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WASHINGTON. Cipher Despatches To Be Investigated. ACTION OF THE POTTER COMMITTEE Failure to Produce Promised Intimi- ; dation Testimony. TNE BURNSIDE ARMY: BILL. Varied Views on the Sugar Tariff Question. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. ‘Wassmnaton, Jan. 10, 1879, THE CIPHER DESPATOHES TO BE INVESTIGATED— RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE MAJORITY, THE MINORITY DECLINING TO VOTE-—-PROMISED INTIMIDATION TESTIMONY NOT FORTHCOMING, ‘The cipher despatches have turned up at lust. In the Potter Committee this morning Mr. MacMahon preseited resolution in the following words :— rilishod, iniipting that attempts were made after five Presidentiat election of 1876 to influence, by money or other fraudulent methods, the votes of * electors or the action df returning officers in the States of Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina and Ore- gon; therefore Resolved, That the Chairman of the Committee be directed to apply to the House for authority to in- vestiyate the sume and any other matter connected with the election in said States, and for the means of conducting the inquiry. After some conversation a vote was taken, all the members of the committee being present except Gen- tral Butler, and all the democrats voted for the resolu- tion, while all the republicans declined to vote. They put their refusgl on the ground that they have steadfastly refused to vote upon or to support any in- vestigation whatever relating to the clection of 1876 ‘Mr. Potter will present the request of the commit- tee at the earliest opportunity, and no doubt it will be granted. It is understood that the movement for investigating the cipher despatches has been urged by Mr, Tilden, who, as has been already stated in these despatches, is reported to be desirous at the proper Hime to testify in person concerning his relations to them. Mr. Potter presented to his committee also to-day the report of the sub-committee, consisting of him- self aud General Cox, which recently visited New Orleans. It appears from ‘this report that they went down to hear testimony concerning iptimidation and violence in‘1876, at the desire of Secretary Sherman’s counsel; that when they got to New Orleans they were told by republicans that it would take ® great deal of time to get the witnesses to the city. Thereupon Mr. Potter offered that the sub-committee would visit the parishes and hear the witnesses at their homes, Whereupon the republi- can agents finally backed down and declined to pro- @uce any witnesses at all, on the double plea:—First, that recent violence had so. greatly intimidated them that they would not testify; and, secondly, that they would all testify anyhow before the Teller Commit tee. Thus all the republican promises to prove wholesale intimidation and violence in 1876 at last ends in smoke. & The committee are troubled with @ man named St, Martin, who offers to testify to some wrong doing by members of a former sub-committee in New Orleans, but who is so little trusted thatno member of the committee is willing to have him called as his wit ness and he will probably be heard independently. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. ‘Wasumneton, Dec. 10, 1879, THE NEW ARMY BILL. It appearsthat the sections of the new Army bill defining the duties of the General of the Army is = simple revival of the old regulations of the army in force prior to 1861 and 1863, when the new regula- tions, prepared under the direction of Secretary Floyd, and which were an outgrowth of the views of his predecessor, Jefferson Davis, were enacted into ® law. Under the administrations of the War Department prior to the rebellion there was a woll defined plan to deprive General Scott of all authority Im the event of the troubles which came. Since that time thore has never been an understanding between the head of the War Department and the General of the Army as to what are the duties of the General in time of peage. The new Army bill seeks to restore sections 48 and 49 of the old army regulations, which are as follows:— The military establishment is placed under the orders of the major general commanding in chief in all that regards its discipline and military control. Its fliscal arrangements properly belong to the ad- ministrative departments of the staff and to the Treasury Dopartment, under the direc- tion of the Secretary of War. Section 49. The general will watch over the economy of the service in all that relates to the expenditure of money, supply of arms, ordnance and ordmance stores, clothing, equipments, camp equipage, medical and hospital stores, barvacks, quarters, transportation, fortifications, military academy pay and subsistence; in short, everything which enters into the expenses of the military, whether personal or national. He will also see that the estimates for the Military service are based upon proper data, and made for the objects contemplated by law and nec- essary to the due support and useful employment of thearmy. In carrying into effect these important duties he will call to his council .and assistance the staff and those officers proper, in his opinion, to be employed in verifying and inspecting all the objects which may require gttention. The rules and regula- tions established for the government of the army, and the laws relating to the military establishment, are the guides to the commanding general in the per- formance of his duties, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL LIFE INSURANCE COM- | PANY—BSUIT AGAINST THE ORIGINAL STOCK- HOLDERS, The National Capital Life Insurance Company of this city, which achieved some notoriety under the management of Benjamin Noyes, now serving a term in State Prison, is again before the public here through @ suit instituted to compel the origjnal stockholders to pay an assessment of forty per cent for their stock. The old stockholders, it will be remembered, reinsured in the Pennsyivanis Mutual of Philadelphia and passed out of control of the com- pany’s affairs, which were then assumed by the Noyes party. It next absorbed several other com- ponies, among them the American Mutual of New Haven, the American Life and Trust Company, and the Natfonal Life of New York. An examination showed that the original stockholders had nover paid but fifty per cent upon their holdings, andsthe policy holders of the consolidated institution are now suing to compel them to pay an assessment of forty per cent to make up deficiencies and losses, The persons made Jefendaat are Alexander R. Shep- perd, M.G. Emery, J. C. Hall, John Purdy, Z. D. Gilman, T. M. Plowman, F. R. Howard, Lewis Cle- phane, Samuel Marment, Nicholas Acker, D, 1. Pier- son, George H. Plant, M. J. Flanagan, W. H. Claggott, J. W. Boteler and ail others who may be discovered to have been stockholders. CONSUL GENERAL TO VIENNA. Tho President having tendered the position of Con- sul General to Vieuns to a gentleman who declined tho office, it has been decided not to make any chango at present in that position, and Mr. Sidney Post will continue as Comul General. ae GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. ‘Wasuxheron, Tan, 10, 1879. THE SUIT AGAINST GENERAL GRANT CoMKs ‘TO AN ABRUPT CONCLUSION, ‘The case of Thomas J. Biguine against ex-President NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY ll, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. Grant for false imprisonment, in causing Biggins’ | agreed to appoint a sub-committee to visit Chicago arrest and commitment to the Insane Asylum, came toan abrupt close this morning. The Judge instructed the jury to bring in a verdict for de- fendant, whicly was promptly done, counsel for plaintiff having acknowledged that the testimony was not what they supposed it.would be. THE SUGAB QUESTION—MESSRS. HAVEMEYER AND BOOTH, OF NEW YORK, BEFO:E THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE. ‘The hearing of the representatives of the sugar interest was continued before the Committee of ‘Ways and Means to-day. Mr. Theodore A. Have- meyer, of New York, commencing his remarks? pre- sented the petition of 6,250 workmen connected with refining, asking that there shall not be established & uniform rate of duty on sugar, but that duty shall be collected on an ad valorem principle, without dis- crbnination against any class of citizens, He also presented petitions of @ similar character from tho principal grocers of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Coluin- bus, Troy, Detroit and othor large cities of the West. He said the house with which ho was connected im- ported a considerable amount of sugar for refining purposes. The first point to bo considered here was as to how the interests of the public at large were to be protected; the next protection of the men who labor and the capital employed. The legislation on the subject was the best which would afford sugar to the consumor at the lowest price. If it could be shown that sugars are cheaper here than any other sugars in the world then he claimed that the consumers would be most benefited by leaving the matter as it stood, The consumer, he repeated, would be pest protected by a tariff which would approximate to free trade, and next to. this, the passage of such a law as would leave undis- turbed the relative values of sugar, as when pur- chased at the places of production. He believed that 50,000 workinen were connected with the refining in- terest, and that that interest expended about $16,000,000annually. The refinera supply consumers with sugar cheaper than ayy other country in the world, A uniform rate of duty up to No. 16 Dutch Standard would annihilate the refining interest of the country and therefore be injustice to the interests of the people. Our interest is to’ obtuin raw sugar at the lowest rate, as our facilities euable us to refine it cheuper,than it can be done elsewhere. The alle- gations of fraud against sugar refiners were dis- proved by the highest Treasury agents. The reports have been circulated in order to procure one rate of duty. _Mr. Havemeyer said, in conclusion of his re- marks :— Admitting the necessity of a twofold standard of value, namely, one of color and one of saccharine strength, the Boston plan appears to me the most equitable which has yet been devised. With the possibility of dooencing shat plan for Treasury yurposes, I think the datafurnished the committee by fessrs. Candler & Spaulding, of Boston, render any remarks of minesuperfluous. The New York plan aims at the retention of the present tariff with such. pro- visions as will the 4 jury to correct existing regulations (of which we have wrongfully borne the lame and odium) rather atthe devising of a system which should be mathematically equitable, T think, in fact, that under any properly lish, Dutch, standard equitably tho most recent scien- tific aids the revenue on sugar can be honest}; and fully collected, but I am very foxy convince that there never was proposed to’ the Comunittee of ‘Ways and Means a more unwise, unequitable and dangerous fiscal measure than the unitorm rate of duty, which, while ing the interests of the consumer, imperils directly @ great industry and offers a bounty of some $10,000,000 meres | to foreign producers to the immediate an permanent detriment of the labor and ep. ital engaged in the refining industry. If the refining industry is an incubus, on the count Tam willing to see it die; butsuch a result, althoug! of great moment to me, does not appeal to me nalf as powerfully as the a. that by any well in- tended but ill consi: legislation the wheels of this great industry should be stopped, and that the men who have brought it where it stands to-day, foremost of its class in the world, should be able attribute its ruin and consequent distress to an act of Congress. William T. Booth, of New York, next addressed the committee, saying that as he was # protectionist to American industry be was, therefore, in favor of pro- tecting the refiners, With regard to the polariscopo, he said it could be depended on only according to the accuracy of the tests of the samples. Much mischief was done on the wharves by men who were employed by the merchants to aivance their inter- ests, Sugars were not sold owing to their having been treated by the polariscope, but principally on “the of color. basis ‘The present tariff was prohibitory except as to the ow grade sugars. The tariff law compelled me r- chants to acquire all the low sugars they could lay their hands on. This ten nesty d to bring dis! left i into the business, the door open for false classification. The people were uot satisfied with the refined si which cagne to them. In September last took his stand before this committee, when they-sat in New York® maintaining that there were adulterations in refined sugar. It would be injurious to dpe to force s whether: they will or not. Mr. Booth then prod several samples of sugar to show they were adulterated. Elevate refined Segat, he said, und Americans would have no need to tear Cuban or other foreign competition. This was to be done by honest w rk and not by adulterated stuff. ‘Mr. Havemeyer here said that he represented a ot it) eres, refiners yusiness process of fi nied the statement of Mr. tion of sugar by refiners. He stated inciden: during the last three years $4,125,000 to the business ot the one, whi by merchan' Gattet, Rates, het seeraoen hake e fensor He took the ground that we can cheaper in this country than in any that, therefore, it the refiners had a fair they would monopolize the sugar trade of the world. ie protested ‘against the adoption of one rate of duty as to su; and said that the equities of # tariff demanded the duties on imported articles should be assessed ac- cording to their relative value, THE NAVAL INVESTIGATION—TESTINONY PRE- SENTED BY EX-SECRETARY ROBESON. Henry W. Gardner, treasurer and agent of the Providence Steam Engine Company, called by ex- Secretary Robeson, was examined by the House Com- mittee on Naval Affairs to-day in relation to the sale to him by the Navy Department of some $50,000 worth of old material in December, 1876, the amount to be croidited on account of his contract for repairs on the Kearsarge. Witness stated that he had paid the highest market rates at that time for the material; the amount realized by the government was fifty per cent more than could be realized for the samo ma- terial now, and double what it would have brought had it been sold at auction. In reply to further inquiries Mr. Gardner stated that he had done work for the Navy Department to a largo amount, from 1861 to the present time; had never known work {or mrchinery done under advertise- ment for proposals; his contracts had always been made by correspondence; in his business intercourse ith the department his dealings had invariably been with the Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engi- neering and never with the Secretary; had no recol- lection of being present at the Boston Navy Yard when the material was condemned; was certainly not there in connection with the condemnation of the material and did not know when it was condemned. ‘The committee adjourned until halt-past ten o’clock A. M. to-morrow. THE SHANGHAI CONSULATE INVESTIGATION. ‘The counsel for the prosecution in the matter of the Shanghai Consulate this morning fled with the Committee on Expenditures in the State Depart- ment, of which Mr. Springer is chairman, au affida- vit, covering some ten pages, setting forth what they desired to prove by the books now in possession of Mr. Seward, and which he refuses to produce before the cominittee. Messrs. jCoflee and Lowis, former clerks at that consulate, submit- ted a stdtement, prepared by them during the past fow days, showing discrepancies between the blot- ters and the fee book amounting to about 91,900 in favor of the blotter. The committee ordered a subpana duces tecum to be formally served upon Mr. Seward this evening, and, in the event of his refusal to obey it, the ques- tion willcome up at to-morrow’s moeting whether ho shouid be reported to the House of Reprosentatives 4s acontumacious witness and be compelled to pro duce the books or suffer punishment for contempt. © Mr. Seward’s counsel refuse to allow him to bo sworn or to produce the books called for on two grotinds :— First—That he is the accused party and cannot be required to testify. Second—That the government is in possession of all the archives of the Shanghai Consulate, these books not heing properly a part of the archives, CHARGES AGAINST JUDGE DBLODGETT TO BE IN- VESTIGATED, The House Committce on the Judiciary to-«lay for the purpose of investigating the charges pre- ferred against United States District Judge Blodgett, in accordance with the letter of that geutlemsn re- questing the same, which was laid before the House on the th inst. The names of the sub-committee were not decided upon, but it was agreed that Chaim man Knott should act as chairmen to the visiting committee. PROCEEDINGS OF SENATE. Wasurxoron, Jan, 10, 1879, In the Senate to-day, the unfinished business, being the bill to amend the patent laws, was laid aside informally, on motion of Mr. Windom, and the Senate proceeded to consider the Indian Appropria- tion bill, Mr. Wrxno, (rep.) of Minn., said the amendments to the bill were but few. As it passed the House it appropriates $4,681,278 58, The estimates were $4,933,244 80; so it would be seen that the House had substantially conformed to the estimates. The net amount added by the Senate Committee on Ap- propriations was $58,757 25, and the most important items in the amendments were $2,500 for the North- ern Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians, $23,400 for the Sioux and $29,400 for pay of.Indian police. AMENDMENTS AGREED TO. The amendmenis proposed by the Commiitee on Appropriations were agreed to as follows :— Vor the pay of seventy-one Indian agents, instead of seventy-four, as im the House bill; increasing the appropriation for the Northern Cheyennes and Arrapahoes from $35,000 to $37,500; and that for the Sioux of different tribes from $15,000 to $38,400. WILD TRILES IN INDIAN TERRITORY. The committee reporied an smendment to strike outof the House Dill the clause directing the Presi- dent to prohibit the removal of the Apaches and other Indians of Arizona and New Mexico to the Indian si! Mr. Maxey, (dem.) of Texas, moved to non-concur in the amendment of the committee, and said that the five civilized tribes now residing in the Indian Territory were prosperous, and it was detrimental to these Indians a3 well as to the States bordering on that Territory to bring wild tribes of Indians among them, Mr. Wixpom said there was no law to allow the settlement of wild tribes in that Territory, and there was no necessity for this prohibition, Mr. CockrEnt, (dem.) ot Mo., said it was well known that wild Indians bad been taken to the In- dian Territory. ‘Mr. Donsy, (rep.) of Ark., said wild Cheyenne Ind- ians had been taken to the Indian Territory and con- ducted themselves very well while surrounded by soldiers. As soon as the soldiers were withdrawn these Indians broke loose and raided through Kansas and other States. The Apache Indiuna were among the worst of all, They were now in Arizona, and to bring them into the Indian Territory would be an outrage upon the surrounding States. Mr. INGaLLs, (rep.) of Kan., said that during the past six years the process had been gradually oing on of concenirating unfriendly Indians into the Indian Territory. The Modocs, Northern Cheyennes and various other bands had been concentrated there, In September lust, in con- sequence of the unlawful concentration of the Cheyenne Indians in the Indian Territory, not less than thirty citizens of Kansas were mussacred in cold blood by these Indians, who had been placed in the Indian Territory by the Executive Department of the government without the authority of Congress. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth igh ipa was destroyed, and now, when the people of Kansas, Arkansas and’ Texas asked that they might be pro- tected against the unauthorized acts of the adminis- tration, they were met with tho statement that there ‘was no law to settle these Indians in the Indian Ter- ritory. At the proper time he would move to enlarge the provision of the House bill so as to forbid the in- troduction of any Indians into the Indian Territory without the consent of Congress. Atter some further discussion the Senate refused to concur in the amendment of the Committee on Aperopristiens to strike out the clause, by @ vote 8, nays 32. . Incas, of Kansas, then moved to amend the clause of the House bill so as to read:— And the President of thefUnited States is hereby directed to prohibit the removal Rid Indians to the Indian Ter- ritory aniess the same shall be hereafter authorized by act of Congress. Mr. Winvom, of Minnesota, said he was opposed to the amendment unless we were going to vacate the Indian Territory. ‘If we are going to Vacate it and turn our colored brethren over there I am in favor of the proposition.” Several Senutors on the democratic side—What do you think of that? . After some further discussion Mr. IncaLts said that, at the suggestion of friends of the bill, he with- drew his amendment. Anameudment of the committee increasing the appeaprieiion tor the support of tho Tonkawa Indians Fort Griftin, Texas, trom $2,000 to $2,729 was agreed to; also amendments of tho committee in- creasing the number of privates for the Indian police from to 800, and the number ot officers from 50 to 100, aud the appropriation for that service from $30,600 to $60,000. An umendment reported by the committee to strike out of the House bill the clause authorizing the Sec- retary of the Interior, under,direction of the Presi- dent, to use any surplus that may remain iu any of the appropriations made by the bill for the purchase of subsistence tor the several Indian tribes, and’ to supply eny subsistence deficiency that may occur for any tribe, providing, however, that funds appropri- ated to fulfil treaty obligations shall not be usea, was reed to, wethe bill having been considered in Committee of the Whole was reported to the Senate, amen ts made in the committee were concurred in and the ‘bjil was read a third time and passed, ‘The Senate, at half-past three, on motion of Mr. ALLttox, of Iowa, went into executive session, and Pe the doors were reopened adjourned until Mon- CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasuixctow, Jan, 10, 1879. The House, at a quarter past one P. M., went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Burcuanrp, (rep.) of Ill., in the chair, on the private calendar, the first bill be- ing the William and Mary College bill. Mr. Conekn, (rep.) of Mich., opposed the bill. There had been no Dill before Congress which had brought to its aid so much eloquence and rhetoric, and yet which contained so little substantial legal merit, as the William and Mary College bill. He con- sidered it the entering wedge to the successful prose- cution of hundreds and thousands of war claims, in- volving millions of dollars. No Northern man could vote for thet bill, and expect to re- ceive the approval of his tituents, This peace- ful abode of learning, sbout which the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Loring) spoke, was used as aprison house at the time it was ¢aptured by tho Union army. He appealed from the fancy sketches of the gentleman from Massachasetts about the home of the Muses, where the Sacred Nine tripped along the grass, to the historical record of the day. He sent to the clerk’s desk and had read a letter to the Svei- tng Post from its war correspondent, giving a deserip- tion of the filthy condition of the college when the Union forces obtained possession of it. ‘Mr. Goons, (dem.) of Va,—What is tho name of the gentleman? Mr. Concxr—I cannot tell you. Mr. Goope—An anonymous scribbler, Mr. Congen—No, sir; @ man periiitted to go with the United States army to report to the people the events of the war. Continuing, he said that this was « schemo to wheedle money out of Congress by the siren song of the sweet minstrels of Virgiuia, aided by the tuneful aito ot Massschusetts. (Laughter,) tening to them, he was himself almost willing to vote uway to that colleye the American dollar, with the American = eagle it and © motto “In God we trust,” | ceo geome But his warmth had subsided and he had been save from committing the great fault of voting for the bill. He bad found that the eine paanre the Confederate soldiers, aud even it he desi todo reverence to ancient institutions of learning he could not do so in thin case, REPLY OF MR. LORING. Mr. Lonex«, (rep.) of Mass., said that he was not 1n condition, physically or mentally, to reply to the eloquent, fair, toned and clear speech made by the yentleman mm Michiyan (Mr. Conger). Le wished he had some of the ekrenigth which he had when he had addressed the House be- fore, nut with » view to surrender his views ot the general policy of the government, but with the desire to let his people and his country know that the time had come when, looking beyond all local trials and all tho difticultie: of the yreat conflict, they should seize the bright au luminous spots of the contlict and turn their atten- tion to peace, come here believing in the educational institutions of the country and the old moxs-yrown colleges which had sent such scholars forth into the land to guide the councils ot the nation. He had come filled with veneration for them, end his veneration had been increased instead of diminished by the attacks made upon thom. Ho loved the old institutions stil, and he was detor- mined to love them, notwit ‘tho attempts to tarnish them, Mr. Coxcen, of Michigan, said that he had made o little gentle personal allusion to the y from Massachusetts, so mild and so tle that he had thought it bat just to give tl #2 oppor. tunity to wpologize to the House the country for his former speech in behalf ot the bill. He did not attribute that yentieman’s mistake to lack of experi- enee, for the Lord knows that if there was anybody that need never go to any other Legislature to learn anything, it was a man who had boen in the Massa- chusetts Legislature. (Laughter.) The gentleman had pre) his views in the closet and not by law labor, and had asked the House to make a gratuity to the institution merely because it was @ college and because he wan s lover of colleges, MR, LORING AGAIN, Mr. Lontxo desired to statv the grounds on which he had adyeated this measure. He recalled the fant that his distinguished predecessor presented the first memorial in behalf of restoring William and Mary College, and that a strong republican House passed the Dill, every Mussuchusetis republican but two | voting for it, with some ot the leading republicans from other States. He accepted the ‘measure from the repudiicun side of the House, and he was gston- ished when he was charged with recreancy for sup- pe what his predecessors had so ably adyvocuted, le Was no advocate of Southern war claims. He had no desire to surrender the great doctrines of State and society secured bythe war, He proposed, in his speech a: the last session, to prevent presenta- tion of such claims by constitutional amendment, und he was proud to see that the distinguished statesinan from Vermont had presented the question to the other brauch ef Congress, He stood on this ground now, He looked on this question as war claims. If the colleges and school ho the South had Leen restored at the conclusion of the | war the government would have presented to the world a high and honorable example, of which the people of the United States would have been proud, | and it would have done much to cement the conflict. ing sections, according, as it would, with the example of wll civilized nations in civil and foreign wars, The imagination of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conger) presented one picture of the scene, his | another, and he was willing that each one should enjoy the fruit of his own fancy, He had received approval for his course from those who were dearer to nim than life, and trom hosis of sound republics who stood by. He was sure that those who criticised his course with severity hud been misled with regard to his position. Referring to some ironical remarks made as to the love existing between Massachusetts and Virginia, he reminded the House that the tie of blood formed centuries ago coud not be broken more than that existing between the Eastern States and their younger sisters, whom they had peopled and of who they were roud. He regretted the conflict over this question. The time had come, and it was manifested in the last elections, when this country was to be divided by broad overshadowing questions in which men in all sections would differ jardless of sectional lines. He was for justice, tre m and right everywhere, | and would eniorce these principles by all means in our power. He was unwilling to be misrepresented in this or any other matter, He had supported the meusuro as & reyfublican, and regretted that he was brought into difference with those with whom he acted on all the great questions before thecountry. SPEECH OF ME. GOODE. Mr. Goong, of Virginia—There is no necessity for reply to the very chiructeristic speech made by the entleman trom Michigan (Mr. Conger). I it atfords | that yentiemenu any pleasure (us it evidently does) to indulge in ill-natured flings and to pour out the vials of his unpatient wrath on the mother Commonwealth, | Jet him enjoy it, but he may rest assured that ali his shatts will tall harmiess and tail to reach the mark at which they have been aimed. The time was, in the early days of the Republic, whea Virginia, in @ spirit of patrioic and disinterested selt-sacrilice, surrendered for the common good Vast und almost iliimitable dominion in the very section trom which the gentleman comes. Lustead of cherishing a filial regard to the mother Coinmon- weulth he seems utterly unwilling and even unable to do her honor, and, iike the unuatural daughter |. of King Lear, ties on wll occasions to make her feel | “How, sharper a serpent’s tooth it is to havea | thankiess child (Langhter,) I now iesve him alone in his glory, kuowiny that he will not be able to sour to those heights occupied by the gentleman) | from Massachusetts (Loring). I leave him burrow- ing amid the ruins of Willism and Mary. [ leave him to hug to bis bosom his ideal of revenge and hute amid tue hootings of buts und owls. Mr. Coxcrr—I hear them now. (Laughiter.) ABOUT WA CLAIMS, Mr. Goope—You heard them, then, because you last heard yourself, But 1 turn trom the gentleman and address myseif to those who believe that the Southern end the Northern States are coequal, He then proceeded to argue in favor of the bill. It was not a warcluim, He denied it, The peopie of the South did not now expect, and never had expected, that the losses incurred by individuals as incidents of the war would be reimbursed to them. ‘They hud gone into the war with their eyos wide open. They had staked everything und lost, and they accepted their lous as the fate of war. Con- tinuing, he said :—I tell the gentlemen and Congress, so tar us the question of war claims is concerned, we will give huu a receipt in full, and he may put in the bill that it is not to be regarded as a recognition of war claims so far as individuals are concerned. We wiil put iton the ground that it is a bill to pro- vide for and encourage and advance the great cuuse of education in our land. And the gentieman has speared uere in a new rdie to-day and played the part @ bulldozer, and undertaken to say trom his place there is no mau in the North, republican or demo- erat, who dare—dare was the word—vote for this bill. Heavens! “Upon what meat doth this our Cwser feed that he has grown go great.” (Laughter.) ‘The liberal minded, public spirited’ people of the North, especially those who fought in the war, would, notwithstanding the speech ct the gentleman from Michigan and his intimidation and threat here to-day, hail with approval and satisfaction the pasaage of this bill, for the reasons so eloquently ae ay enlightened and public spirited friend trom Massa- chusetts (Mr, Loring), REMALKS OF XT. MONROE. Mr. Monnox, (rop.) of Ohio, expressea his regrot that in supportimg the bili he found himself separ- ated trom the majority ot his political friends. But he bad formerly supported it and did not tind it con- sistent with Be ee record to change his poxi- tion. He had v lust session with the majority of his republican friends for au appropriation of $10,000 to build u monument by the grave of Thomas Jefferson, and he could not distinguish Between the feeling with which he yave that yote and the feeling with wiich he would vote to-day something toward restoring the vencrable monu- ment that was uuder discussion to-day. He did not discover any difference in his motives or any difter- ence in his teelings. He was willing to vote to aid in restoring aud rebuilding any of the venerable _his- torical monuments of the country, whether at Bun- ker Hill or at Mount Vernon. He did not regard this in the ight of a war cisim. Whenever @ purely Southern war claim came before the House he would be found resisting any such claim. Mr. REED, (Pep.) Of Maine, reminded Mr, Monroe that the title of the bill showed it to be a war claim, It was a biil to reimburse the College of William and Mary. MF. Mownor, of Ohio, replied that he understood that the title was to be changed. Mr. Reed, of Maine, said that that reminded bim of the deacon who would not drink cider as cider, but had no objection to it it it was called apple juice. (Laughter.) Mr. Monnor, of Ohio, said that he did not believe in time of peace in getting up in the middle of the night and blowing trumpets and beating drums and making war demonstrations when men should be sleoping quietly in their beds, Neither was he to be bluited off on the cry that this was an entering wedge. Ho was the sworn enemy of entering wedges, and did not believe in any sach things. (Laughter.) SPERCH OF MR. TUCKER. Mr. Tuckxs, (dew.) of Va., closed the debate with a speech in advocacy of the bill and claimed that it stood on grounds different from those of any other case had come before it or would come after it. In regard to war claims, he dociared that the pvople of the South were as tired ot them as the peopie of any other part of the covn- try, and that for himself he would stand at the door of the Treasury and resist any claim that was not based on legal and equitable grounds. (Derisive laughter on the republican sive.) He spoke ot his at the, college grandiather having | been trained of William and Mary, and having worn tue uniform of @ republican soldier at tue surrender ot Yorktown; of his father having been trained there, and of its having numbered ainong its alumni, John Marshall, Winficid Scott, Jefferson and Madi- son, and he said in conclusion:—They come here and in mute appeal from a higher sphere appeal to you to rebuild this old college. It has been said that Virginia, like the mother of the Grucchi, points to her sons. She might, standing at the grave of her mighty and illustrious dead trained at this institu- tion of learning, point to their tombs and to their memory to show where they have trodden the fields ot glory apd have rendered Justre to their country, and she might say “Go and follow their examples.” Respicere exemplar vitw morumque jubebo, Mr. PHILEIPS, (rep.) of Kansas, moved to strike out the cnacting clause of the bill, Defeated—yeas 79, nays 86, THE BILL DEFEATED, The committee then rose and reported the bill. The House proceeded to vote upon the third read- ing of the bili, and the result was yeas—-s7, nays 127. so the bill was rejected, and this action was made final for this session by a motion made by Mr. Conger to reconsider, and to lay the motion to reconsider on the table, The following is the vote in detail. jars. Aiken, Athi B ueky, Clark of Misyouri, Cox of Ohio, Uravens, berson, Davis of North Carolina, Divrell, D Bilis, Evins, Felton, Franklia, i Gun arris. of Gi Ee oil lorbert, se Luttrell, Mack Money, womeca i aio, ju jorse, Muldrow. . Pekin, Feidenere, Rainey. Renan, Rice of Odio, Rovertso: lot hoberseen, Gayler, suelo, witey, mitt eo! le, he ‘ker, Turner. Vance, Waddoll” Whitth vilits ad a ian: Bacsn, , Hanks, Banning, ¢, Bickuel!, Blair, Bonk, wiewer, Atiggs’ Stowho, uekne tt FE . "Bre, Burchard Caldwell of ‘Ten Caimpbe non, Clattin, Clas ot Jove, oll x t mn Dennison, Bunnell, D Les 4 oo of Indiana, F Gartiold Haley Hamiiton, is of Massachusetts, larrivon, ton, Hondee, Hiscock, Hunter, ford, Ittner,’ James, Ji et Ohigy dJoyee, | Kei Vamp, Col ne Marri 1 1 Humphrey, jow Poddte, Pet MRendoipl, Ren i of Lid FS spat S dtewer of Michty Fhompeon” bon, Town of Now otk, owen ‘oe ot Feuneglnts Wittiauset New Yorke Williansot W econ. nN ‘Of Delaware, Williams of Oregon, Willits ‘The House, at half-past four, adjourned until to- morrow. ‘Pulls dd, P vd fore, B itty: Robluson of Mt ian m1 o KICKED TO DEATH, (BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD.) Davexront, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1879. Astock buyer of Marteile, Jones county, named Joun Paul, was fatally kicked evening. by @ vicious horse last | ARMY REORGANIZATION. GENERALS SHERIDAN AND POPE ON THE BURNe SIDE BILL—VARIOUS FEATURES COMMENDED— INTERCHANGEABILITY OF LINE AND STAFF CONDEMNED—SAMPLES OF CIRCUMLOCUTION. Washineron, Jan. 10, 1879. ‘The following letter from General P. H. Sheridan with reference to the Burnside Army bill, was re- ceived to-day by General Sherman ;— Cuca Jan. 4, 1879, * D¥aR GENERAL SuesMay—Your kindness in givin, me the Burnside Army Dill is fully appreciated, have carefully examined it, and give to that portion ot it which covers the general administration of the army iy hearty approval. It defines the duty of the Secretary of War and the General of the army, and ean auy candid man object te what should be an exposition of the duties which belong to each? The supreme power of the Secrotary is ac- knowledged as paramount. No infringement is m upon his authority by the power conferred on the General of the Army, and the whole system of army administration is made homogeneous throughout. ‘Lie Secretary loses nothing; the Gcueral of the Army gains nothing; but the heads of bureaus loge an_in- dependence which, I think, should not be claimed by auy officer holding a commission and subject te army discipline. OBJECTION TO REORGANIZATION. As to the reorganization of the urmy under the bill Icannot yive it my cordial support. I think the prevent organization ix good and well ‘snited to our Western frontier, and I am not willing to give m; consent to any new and untried organization. Ithin it unfortunate to di cavalry strer by cutting off two of the regiments, What is wan is to give the present num- ber of regiments more soldiers, The bill bears heaviest on the line of the army by setting officers, from major down, back a number of years in position, while no loss is sustained by the staff departments except to change the duties of the offi- cers. The staff departments should be cut down to the figures named in the bill, but it would be best if | it could be done by stopping promotion in the lower | une of the stalfor by retirement, or by both. I loubt it the officers of the staff would object to diminishing the number even down to the figures of the bill if it could be done in this or some other good way, and it would meet with less opposition from them and the line of the army and Congress. I do not. like to soe the number of gen- eral officers diminished, Those now holding such rank of course are all right, but the aspiring f®ung colonels are cut off from all hope, and I fear they do net look upon that portion of the bill which covers the reorganization of the army with much fayor, Yours truly, P. H, SHERIDAN, Lieutenant General, LETTER FROM GENERAL POPE. The General of the Army received to-day a letter from Major General Pope, dated Fort Leavenworth, January 2, in which the latter reviews at length the salient features of the Burnside Army bill, which had been sent to him by General Sherman for examina- tion, and criticises. somewhat unfayorably its prin- cipal provisions. The following is a full abstract of the more important parts of the letter: — ‘onr Lravenwontu, Kan., Jan. 2, 1879. General W. T, SHERMAN :— GrevERat—In bet et with your request that I should examine the bill for the reorganization of the army presentyd by Generals Burnsid#and Banning in the Scnate and Honse, I submit a few remarks upon the general subject without undertaking to criticise the bill in detail. ‘The organization of the staff department bas al- ways appeared to me goad; as good, indeed, as ex- perience is likely to make it. It has stood the test of a great war, and if changes be made in it they should be carefully considered and adopted with ex- treme caution. The misfortunes of the army have been not due to the organization of the staff, but to the methods in which its dutics have been adminis- tered; methods with regard to which I have often expressed my opinion, ofiicially and otherwise. The 5 CORK'S TREATMENT OF GRANT. ‘Theve gathered about @ fireless stove in the armory of the Irish Volunteers in Seventh strect last evening Messrs. F. F, Millen, D. F. Burke, M. Kerwin, T. M. Costello, Edward Walsh and James Haitigan. These | gentlemen compose the sub-committee of Irish- American citizens appointed to make arrangements | for # mass ineeting to disapprove the slight offered by the City Counc’! of Cork to General Grant_on his visit to Ivelend, After consultation between the ot the committee it was announced that the mass mveting of Irish-Americans of the city of New York would positively take place in the great hall of Cooper Union on next Wednesday evening. Members of the committee stated that they were not prepared to announce the naives of the speakers who would particlpsie in the meeting, but all the details wouid announced in due time. In the lobby were Jere- miah O'Donovan Ressa and other Irish-Americans, who were “‘lookers on” in the army of the trish Vol unteers, GENERAL GRANT'S FREEDOM FROM RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY AS SHOWN BY GENERAL SHER- MAN—HOW PIUS THE NINTH BEGARDED THE “GREAT AMERICAN SOLDIER,” [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Wasurnaton, Jan. 10, 1879, General Sherman said to-day that he did not think the action of the authorities of: the city of Cork in re- fusing to welcome ex-President Grant to the hospi- talities of that eity did them any eredit, especially it they were moved by the reasons assigned for their/ action. “I have known General Grant for many years,” said General Sherman, ‘and I do not recall a single instance in which prejudice upon religious matters ever had the slightest influence in the discharge of | his offictal duties. Many of his intimate personal friends are Catholics, and during his resi- dence in St, Louis his circle of acquaint- ances was almost altogether among families of the Catholic faith. He nominated Henry T. Blow for the Brazilian mission, a gentleman well known as a member of the Catholic Church, and one of his old acquaintances in St. Louis. Ido not recall just now any other name, but it is ‘bosh’ to talk about Gen- eral Graut insulting any one on account of his re ligious convictions. THE DES MOINES SPEECH. “The Des Moines speech,” the General continued, “was prompted by adesire to defend the freedom of our public schools from sectarian influence, and, as I remember the conversation which led him to write that speech, it was because of the ceaseless clamor for set religious exercises in the public schools; not from Catholics, but from Protestant denomina- tions. His son Fred married a Catholic lady and his aunt, Mrs. Fred Dent, is a Catholic, so that I know there is no prejudice in the General’s mind, such, at least, as he is accused of harboring against & cles Sy people many of whom are his particular riends, “How strangely the action of the authorities of Cork contrasts with theconduct of the late Pins IX. you can best judge when I relate this sneident:—In the latter part of the winter of 1872 I was visiting with Colonel Audenreid nd Fred Grant. We were at a reception given by Mr. Healy, the artist, and among the Americans who called to Ry their re- spects was Dr. Chatard, president of the American college in Rome and now bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, Ind. iy Chatard extended to me a cordial invitation {> call upon the Ho! and the invitation included Colonel Audenreid and Fred, ‘The next day, according to appoiutment, we went to St. Peter's and without delay were shown to the special audiencechamber. The Pope, after our re- ception, invited us to accompany him in his rounds evils, however, of which I compiuin can be easily romedied by regulations which shall be of binding legal force and shall not be altered except by the au- thority which enacted them. ‘THE MATTER OF SUPPLIES, In wy opinion the great defect in our present system of siatf lies, not in the form of its organiza- tion, but in the practice of centralizing in Washing- ton the whole administration of the service in respect to soppiien. For example, when there was an arsenal here, directly in sight of these headquarters, I could not, with all my authority as department com- mander, procure so much as a wooden tompion to close the muzzle of a piece of artil- lery without forwarding a juisition to division headquarters in Chicago, to be thence forwarded to the Adjutant General tor the General-in-Chief; thence to the Secretary of War; from him to the Chief of Ordnance, and finally back to me through the same channels. ‘To say nothing of the long delay occasioned by such a practice, it is doubtful whether the chief of a staff corps in Washington, who has no direct respon- sibility for the condition, or eiticiency of the troopsin @ military department, ‘is a botter judge of the needs of these troops than the department com- mander himself, who is respousible, and upon the accuracy ot whose knowledge and judgment depends his official character aud standing. I cite this merel; call attention the to to manifest goo policy of local administration in the army as well as in civil affuirs, instead of too much centralisation. The system itself seems to have been the result of private consultations be- tween Secretaries of War and the chiefs of supply departments; while the army, which alone profits or sutfers by it, was not cousidered in the matter ut all It is not, therefore, so much a change in the organiza- tion of the statt, which seems to me desirable, as a chunge in.its administrative system. GRADED RECIPROCAL AUTHORITY. Second—Any military organization whatever, to be efficient, should have from bottom to top a continuous chain of official control and responsibility, so that every officer may understand pertectly his rights, ob- ligaffons, duties and authority. Why this system of gtuded, reciprocal authority and responsibility is now enforced throughout the line of the ai sod is not enforced upon the chiefs of statis aud their subordinates in Washington is one of those strange anomalies which, to me at least, is it find ing out. These details of administration, however, are subjects for army regulations, and. uré to a large extent independent of the forms of organization. The Burnside bill in no respect cures these evils, either by its forms of organization or by its code of regulations and articles of war. LINE AND STAFF, Third—I cannot understand by what process the belief is arrived at that the army would benefited by an interchangeabie relation between tho line and staff. The kody dere that none but officers inex- perienced in stwif duties shall serve in the staff, as it enforces their withdrawal as soon as they are com- — to perform the dutics, and their replacement y new and inexperienced men. How efticiency is to be secured in this way it is hard to see. Such @ system would not be adopted, or considered in accordance with common sense in sny other business. The work of each of the staff de- partments is @ specialty, and to perform it requires practical knowledge of ‘business methods and of minute details which cannot be had without study and experience. A captain or lieutenant of the line, whose whole service has been on the fron- tier, cannot have the ee acquaintance with business methods or business mon. The idea appears to me to carry absurdity on its face, But the eflvct of this interchange of positions be- tween the line and staff would, in my opinion, be extromely injurious in another way. It would de- stroy the personal pride which every officer takes in his regiment or staff corps by constantly changing him about from the. line to the staff, from one department to another, until he would be- come & jack-of-all-irades, and not only master ot none, but absolutely without special interest in any. In my judgment the effect of the bill in this | respect will be insure inefficient officers both in the staff and in the line, and will work equal injury to all arms of the service, I cannot, therefore, con- cur in that part of the bili reorganizing the staff do- partments. RELATION OF THE ARMY TO THE PEOPLE, But, above ail, Lobject to the bill because it ap- pears to me to lead the army further and further away from that relation to, and iufiuence with, the ao of the country which are indispensable to its fo as well gs necessary to the satisfuction of the nation. In order that the army should be main- tained in anything like @ satisfactory or efficient state it is essential that its relations to the people and to the government should be made closer aud more harmonious. Unless this can be done it always invites and will always provoke criticiam and unfriendly action. In my opinion the present sys- tem of discipline is so foreign to the spirit of the government and so distasteful to the habits of the people that it has been found impossible to har- monize them. In all the occupations of civil life, for instance, 4 man depends for success upon his indus- try, capacity and good conduct; he is advanced in Dosition Megpene pr to his sorts while in the army the 0: ualiticyion requ: for promotion is simply tenacity of it tne man who lives longest attains the highest rank. As I believe tho cffect of this bil will be to withdraw the army stili further from the sympathy and interest of the people, 1 should be unwilling to see it become a law, ‘There are other provisions of the bill, some of which I regard a8 oxcellent and_ some as injurious; but Inced not discuss them. The general features whieh I have touched upon appear to me to be those which most vitally and unfavorably affect the army, bee extraordin: powers conferred upon court marti however, by this bill, ought not to be over- looked. Instead of being lett as they are now, and as all civil courts are, calm, im- artial tribunal, for the administration of justice, they are forced by the pro- visions of this bill into such direct and active par- ticipation in the trial of all cases brought before them that they must, of necessity, flud themselves in the attitude either of prosecutors or defendants of the accused parties. They would be in no sense courts of justice, but, rather, organized boards for the weution of defence of accused parties, and not for their trial. " 1 am, geuticmen, very respectfally, your obedient JOuN POPK, servant, Brevot Major General U. 8.'A, SUCCESSFUL STRIKERS. PorrsviLee, Pa., Jan. 10, 1879, Operations will bo reaumed at Bucksville colliery, Shamokin, Pa., on Mon niorning next, the ators having wvabmittod Vo the doeeed ot ‘de miners for the restorstion of their former wages, toa number of business apartments in the Vatican, and while we were walking he said to me:— ‘I understand you have in your @son of is he not your great soldier and President. with you ?” lied that the President's son was in Rome, he was unwell and not able to accom) wnt “l but that me on this visit. The Holy Father continued :. regret very much his illness,and more so because, in the absence of the father, for wuom I have the highest respect, I would rejoice to meet his son, You will please convey to him my kindest wishes, aud, if agreeable, I trust he will not leave Rome withont coming to see me.” “On sotareing to our quarters I told Fred of the special inquiry the Pope had made ‘for him, and on the following day he went to the Vatican, was received most cordially by the Holy Father and brought away not only the blessing of the head of the Catholic Church for his father and mother but numerous souvenirs which Pius IX. gavo ta him for his friends at home. It is fair to presume that the Pope is quite as good a judge of men as the authorities of the city of Cork, and that the esteem in which General Grant was held by one 60 universally beloved by the Catholic people of the whole world as Pius IX. will show the folly of the mistake which a few of the children of that faith have made in accusing General Grant of bigotry and intolerance.” General Sherman is not, as has been said, @ Cath- bo but he 1s the only member of his large family who is not. CONYNGHAM AGAIN ANSWERED. To rae Eprror or THE HERALD:— Notwithstanding that D. P. Conyngham has not re- futed my statements of the causea which probably led the people of Cork to decline giving an official re- ception to General Grant, and that he reasserts that Grant has not shown any bigotry to the Irish or Catholics, I must ask spuce fora short reply, Mr. Conyngham feels aggrieved at what he calls my at- tack on his ‘professional and military character.” I do not know to what profession he is attached, and 1 don't believe, even by his own showing, that he had any military character in the feld, The appomtment of General Meagher’s son to West Point was given by Congressman W. RB, Roberts, when President Grant had been asked and refused; the committce were also offered, right before the President, an appoint ment by Thomas Kinsella, of Brooklyn. Mr. Conyng- ham’s supercilious opinion of the effect of the Des Moines speech will be taken for what it is worth. IT do not think it probable that Catholics or even Irish- men — yd ig him or the Sega gentlemen who propose indignation mectings as the true ts of their feelings in this matter. bras General Grant's visit to meet the pilgrims was the Merest matter of chance—teeling, one way or the other, had nothing to do with it. Let me supple- ment my list of reasons why I believe the people of Cork were averse to receiving offic General peer stating one which came home to them as nationaliste more than any of his other acts. In BT ery large and euthusiastic meeting was held in Dublin, the object of, which was to congratulate the people of the United States on the centenary of their Republic. An address was prepared and band- somely illuminated, and two Irish members of the House of Parliament were deputed to present it to the Executive of the United States. It was signed by all the leading Irishmen im Ireland. There was not asinglo objectionable phrase in the whole address; yet when Messrs. Parnell and Power presented them- selves at Washington they were rofused an’ andience by President Grant, who stated they were only an in- togral portion of the British Empire and that the ad- would only be received through the introduc- tion of the British Minister. In 184% Mitehel, os O'Gorman and others took an address from tho Irish people to the new French Republic. They were hospitably received by Lumartine, the President of the French Republic, their address received and replied to. Yet the British government then made ‘no protest or sign. It remained for General Grant to make international law to suit his own Teel TRISH BRI ADK MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, New York, Jan. 9, 1879, To tig Eprror or Ta: Henap:— Tagree with your editorial of to-lay that there is much ado about nothing in this Cork business, and would like to ask our representatives of the republi- can bone picking brigade, who style themselves “generals,” “colonels,” but not “privates,” who authorized them to speak im the name of the Irish people in this country either for or against Grant, or denounce the action of the Cork authorities in the matter of his non-reception by them? Is it not time that a new departure was taken in this country by & ional “Irish” patriots to allow the men at jomne regulate their own affairs in their own way, and without “foreign interference?” If these men have become American citizens let them attend to matters of American interest and they will find plenty of work on hand, without endeavoring ta excite feclings of contempt (which I deny they can 4 for the people of the city of Cork. ‘Thank God the old dissensions are longer Corkonian or Fardown is by of Lrishmen; brotherly love and hope for the glorious future of a free Ireland have taken theiz Place, and in the vanguard of that hoped-for day, when Irishm all meet their hated foe, the men of Cork will stand, Lhope this movement, started in the interests of American politicians, will receive its quietus at once. Your article of to-day must open the eyes of all right thinking mon as to the ab- surdity of prolonging the discussion, and deserves for ite ti appearance and logical reasoning their gratitude, Lem, thankfully yours, ER. SENATOR CONKLING INDORSED, About one hundred colored men met at No, 149 Bleecker street last night for the purpose of marking their approval of the political career of Senator Conkling, Mr, Washington Parker presided, and resolutions were F esoyet appoin' ® committee to superintend the firing of guns in Washington Park om the dist inst., when it is ¢: that the Sena- tor will be re-clected to # third of office. Tho Rev. 1. 1. Garnett was expected to be present and de- liver an address, but he wus detained at home by ‘ing away. No from the lips sickness, Mr. Freeman and Mi. Miles spoke of the | reat actvices rendered to the colored people by Soustor Conkling and the meeting adiournad.