Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1877 — Page 11

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announcing the signature of the pre siden to H. B. 116. House bills from 275 to 372 inclusive were read and referred to proper committees. Adjourned. X SOATL Friday, Feb. 2. The senate went into committee of the whole on the bills and resolutions relating to the question of interest, with Mr. Straight in the chair. Mr. divan moved that the committee rise and refer the whole matter back to the senate without, recommendations. Agreed to. The concurrent resolution to allow the financial committees of the two houses to employ clerical help was read, with thereport ot the committee recommending that it be adopted. Mr. Harris moved that the matter be referred to the judiciary committee, so that inquiry may be made as to the authority of the assembly to employ such additional help. Agreed to. fc B. 3, providing for the repeal of all laws and parts of laws authorizing the levying of a money poll tax, was read the second time and recommitted to the finance committee. . S. J. 32, amending the civil code, was read the second time. The report of the committee recommending that it be indefinitely postponed was, on motion of Mr. Moore, so amended as to provide for an amendment to the bill, to the effect that when properly tinder execution has been twice offered and fails to sell it may be returned and other property levied upon. The report as amended was agreed to. On motion of Mr. Givan the vote was reconsidered. Mr. Moore withdrew his amendment. The rejort of the committee was rejected. Mr. Moore then renewed his motion to amend, which was agreed to. and the bill, as amended, was ordered to be engrossed. S. B. 128, amending the civil code, was read the second time. The report of the committee, recommending that it be tabled, was concurred in. S. B. 88, amending the code, was read the second time, and the report of the committee, recommending that it be indefinitely postponed, was concurred in. S. B. 107, providing for the protection of wild game, was read the second time. The report of the committee, recommending its passage, was concurred in. Mr. Streight moved to amend by extending protection to prairie chickens to October I. Agreed to. Mr. Stockslager moved to amend by extending the time for taking quail to the 1st of February. Not agreed to. The bill was then ordered to be engrossed. S. B. 92, amending section 20" of the act regulating descents, was read the second time and laid upon the table. 8. B. W), providing that justices may issue executions on judgment to constables in other counties, was read the second time. The report'of the committee recommending indefinite postponement was concurred in. Mr. Moore moved concurrence in the house resolution inviting Mrs. Livermor to address the general assembly. HOUSE. Mr. Grubbs, from the committee on judiciary, reported back H. B. 32, by Mr. Lane, recommending that it be so amended as to reduce the maximum penalty for libel to $1,000 fine and three months' imprisonment. It was referred back to the committee with instructions to further amend. On the recommendation of the committee, II. B. 181 was ordered engrossed, and II. B. 137 laid on the table. The committee on judiciary reported back IL B. 2G7, with a recommendation that it do lie on the table. Mr. Carlton, from the same committee, presented a minority report in favor' of the passage of the bill with amendments. It is the bill introduced by Mr. Yaryan, enabling husband and wife to become competent witnesses for or against each other in divorce suits. After debate the bill was recommitted to the committee on rights and privileges. Mr. Henderson moved a suspension of the order of business that H.H. 372 be read a third time and put upon its passage. Passed by a vote of 54 to 23. The bill provides for the redemption of property sold for taxes by the payment of a penalty of 20 per cent, instead of 50 per cent., as the present law provides. The special order was the consideration of II. J. It. 10, instructing our members in congress to favor the passage of a law granting a pension of $S per month to all soldiers of the Mexican war. A majority rejort favored the passage of the resolution and the minority report was to lay the majority report on the table. During the debate the previous question was called and the minority report was adopted. Mr. Lanham, from th committee on elections, reported back that part of the governor's message which refers to the election law, and introduced H. B. 376, providing for definite boundaries when there is more than one voting precinct in a township, and preventing voters from voting in other precincts than that in which they reside, and to allow two representatives of each party to witness the count. The special order for the afternoon was the consideration of II. B. 22, by Mr. Langdon, providing for taking the sense of the jeople at the next general election, in regard to holding a constitutional convention. The judiciary committee had reported in favor of the passage of the bill. On motion of Mr. Langdon the order of business was suspended, the bill read a third time by sections, and passed ayes, 51; nays, 2G. II. J. IL 4, providing amendments to the constitution, was also embraced in the special order. Amend art. 2, sec. 2, by striking out "may reside," and insert "may hnve resided GO days next preceding such election." Amend art. 2, sec. 2, by striking out the word "white," and by striking out section five. - Amend art. 4 sec, 4, by striking out the . word "white," and section 5 by striking cut the word "white." . , Amend by striking out the whole of article 13. Amend art. 2, sec. 14r to make it read "all general elections shall be held on-the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, until otherwise provided for by law."- ... The committee on elections had separated each amendment into a resolution of itself. The resolutions were then taken up separately and adopted. , "

SEXATE. Sati-rpat, Feb. 3. The senate mt at 10 a ra, -The journal of Friday was read in part, wLn, on motion of -r f: . i T" i- j jur. uiwn, nie mruier reading was uispensea With. Mr. Wilson ' t 'reseated a communication from George Callahan on the subject of hog Cholera. ' Mr. Vil.n Hatred that it be referred to tfce committee on agriculture. Mr. Sbtf-ksUer moved its reference to the special committee on state board of health. Mr.. Hi-eve moved to lay the whole matter on the table, on which qnestion yeas and nays were demanded, and the motion was lost yeas 3; nays, 35 ' Mr. 8to-kHlafer's r.jotion was withdrawn, and the communication was referred to the agricultural -onimittee .Mr. Givan presented a petition from citi

zens on the subject of turnpike road laws. Referred to the committee on roads. Mr. Johnston, of Parke, presented a petition from physicians of Vermillion and Parke counties, praying the passage of the bill proposed by the Allen county medical society. Referred to the committee on rights and privileges. Mr. Baxter offered a resolution that the senate proceed to the hall of the .house for the purpose of listening to an address by Mrs. Livermore. Mr. Fowler moved that the resolution be laid on the table, on which mstion the yeas and nays were demanded, and the vote resulted yeas, 20; nays, 12. Mr. Givan moved that the order of business be suspended and the house joint resolutions amending the constitution be taken up. Agreed to. The resolutions were read and referred to the committee on judiciary. Mr. Johnston, of Parke, moved a call of the senate. Before the call waa concluded Mr. Larue moved that further proceedings under the call be dispensed with, which motion was agreed to. New bills were introduced as follows: By Mr. Stockslager: S. B. 224, creating the 42d judicial circuit. Referred to the committee on the organization of courts. By Mr. Peed: S. B. 225, authorizing the building of county bridges. Referred to the committee on county and township business. By Mr. Givan: S. B. 220, amending the fee and salary act. Referred to the committee on fees and salaries. By Mr. Tarlton: S. B. 227, amending the act concerning enclosures, trespa sing animals and partition fences. Referred to the committee on county and township business. By Mr. Bearss: S. B. 228, amending the civil code. Referred to the committee on the judiciary. By Mr. Donham: S. B. 229, dividing the several counties into commissioners' districts. Referred to the committee on elections. By Mr. Johnston, of Floyd: S. B. 230, providing for the reimbursement to certain counties of taxes illegally collected. Referred to the committee on county and township business. By Mr. Stockslager: S. B. 231, amending the civil code. Referred to the committee on judiciary. By Mr. Barreil : 8. B. 232, for the relief of Peter McOsker. Referred to the committee on claims. By Mr. Dunham: S. B. 233, for the stay of executions for one 3ear. Referred to the judiciary committee. By Mr. Tarlton: S. B. 234, authorizing appeals from decisions of county boards in reference to relocation of county seats. Referred to the committee" on county and township business. By Mr. Dykeman: S. B. 235, providing for the concentration of land records of lands in the office- of the auditor of state. Referred to the committee on finance. By Mr. Bearss: S. B. 23G. amending the act concerning landlords, tenants and lessees. Referred to the judiciary committee. By Mr. Bell: S. B. No. 237, providing for the punishment of- persons having in his possession stolen property in another state. Referred to the judiciary committee. By Mr. Wilson: S. B. No. 238, authorize ing incorporated towns to employ a corporation attorney. Referred to the committee on organization of courts. By Mr. Moore: S. B. No. 239, providing for the recording of executions and issue of bail. Referred to the judiciary committee. By Mr. Olds: S. B. No. 240, to punish certain offenses. Referred to the committee on judiciary. By Mr. Harris: S. B. No. 241, amending the act to establish superior courts. It gives the Marion superior court an additional judge, and any three of the judges may hold a general term. Referred to the committee on organization of conrts. Mr. Bearss moved that when the senate adjourn, it be till Monday at 2 o'clock. Agreed to. Mr. Dykeman moved that the senate adjourn. Not agreed to. Mr. Bell moved that bills relating to the penal and reformatory institutions be made a special order for Monday week at 2 o'clock. Agreed to. Mr. Hendricks moved that S. J. A. 1G be taken from the table and referred to the committee on federal relations. Agreed to. Mr. Dyce moved that the senate adjourr . Agreed to. HOUSE. The house was called- to order at 9:30 by the speaker. The reading of the journal was dispensed with. The following reports were received from standing committees: Bv Mr. Garver, from the committee on organization of-counts, reporting back II. B. 212, recommending that it do pass. Also reporting back II. B. 205, with amendments, recommending that it do pass. The report was non-concurred in as regards the latter bill. By Mr. Adams, from the ways and means committee, reporting back II. B. 100, recommending that it do pass. On motion of .Mr. Craft, II. B. 376, which is the new election bill, was read a second time, and referred to the committee on judiciary. Mr. Kennedy, of Rush, moved to reconsider the vote by which II. B. 372, by . Mr. Henderson, was passed. The motion was entered on the minutes. , The special order for the morning was the consideration of the resolution declaring that it is the sense of the house that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States confer the right of suffrage upon all citizens alike, regardless of sex. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore had been invited to speak on the question, and before the resolution was submitted to the house for action, it was decided to hear her, views. Mrs. Governor Wallace, Mrs. Maiy Thomas of Richmond, and Judge Carlton and Mr. Gering addressed the house briefly, after which Mrs. Livermore spoke for about an hour. The following is a synopsis of her address: , The speaker , maintained that man was neither woman's inferior nor superior; that the constitution needs no. change to give the woman the' right of suffrage; tkat she thought , little of the movement being made to obtain woman suffrage through the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment to the constitution. The great questions of intemperance and social evil will never be properly dealt with until the power is delegated woman to vote and express her sentiments upon these niattern. The refining' influence that woman would exert if given full scope was dwelt upon at length, and in describing woman's devotion and love the speaker affected many to tears in the audience. . Women ask that whatever rights men have they may equally enjoy. We J ask not to be pnt under the foot of man. for it is not sate for any one class to legislate and dominate for another! It is complained that women are extravagant and don't manifest the seriousness and dignity that belongs to American citizens. If you hedge up the way to grand work ana noble endeavor, don't complain if woman fall into something small ana undignified. Reference was made to the emancipation Of the negro, and conferring upon them unsolicited the right of suffrage; and the conciision drawn that if sucli an ignorant class were volimtarily giyen this privilege what an injustice

has been done to the intelligent American woman in refusing a like privilege. The speaker replied happily to the argument advanced that if suffrage was extended to woman she would neglect her domestic duties, and that she should not vote unless she could fight. If this were t be made the rule fully a third of the rustic population of the country, among them some of the brightest intellects, would be disfranchised. The appeal was eloquent and logical, and was by far the best speech that has been made in the house during the present session. Messrs. Swayzee and Ashby followed with a few remarks. The question being upon the adoption of the resolution, it was lost 22 to 51.-Many voted against the resolution who expressed themselves in favor of extending the right of franchise to women, but they objected to the wording of the resolution, thinking a lGth amendment would be the better way to dispose of it. House adjourned till 2 o'clock Monday. PINCHBACK ON PACKARD.

The Leading Colored Politician of Louisiana Denounces the Returning Board and Its Supporters, Scathing Exposure of the Rascalities of the Ring Trying to Capture the Pel can State. The subjoined letter, which fully explains itself, was received by the person to whom it was addressed a few days ago and he was persuaded by a Sentinel reporter to allow it to be published: New Ohleans. Jan. 24, 1877. Hon. J. 8. Ilinton, Indianapolis, Ind.: My Dkak Kir Your favor or the 2Jnd inst. to hand and contents noted. I am not surprised to learn that my recent action has "caused considerable feeling;" every great movement for a time creates feeling, and very o.ten harsh and unjust criticism. You will, no doubt, remember how, In conversation with you, I often relnted the miserable cupidity and venality of the men chosen to represent the colored people in our southern legislatures, white and colored, the sad story of mv election in 187.1, etc., etc. Well, as Boon as the returning board returned a majority of the legislature republican the colored men constituting 24 majority on Joint ballot I concluded to make a fight for the long term senatorship, and as last as the members arrived In this city, I either saw them myself or hnd a friend to see them on this question. All or nearly all agreed to stand by me at once. Kellogg, finding that I was likely to succeed called, uro und him a few of the shrewdest and most üncrupulous white demagogues among the members, and hjtd them form a ring called the "friends of the administration." They were furnished rooms in the stale bouse, "wined and dined," and bought up to support him (Kellogg) for the long term senatorship. In the meantime my personal friends were told that I ought to be satisfied with the short term, which would be given to me by a unanimous vote if I would accept it. On the e;irnestfsollcitations of my friends, who, no doubt, had. been tampered with, I assented. You may Judge of my surprise and disgust when, after accepting this arrange ment, i round the wnoie power anu Influence of the outgoing and incoming administration arrayed against my election even for a short term, and worse than this, committees from rings formed in both houses of the legislature waiting upon roe to see how much I was willing to give to each to secure my election. Having obtained ample evidence that the present pretended Packard government Is a monstrous iniquity and Its success would entail still futher debauchery and demoralization upon the race, I resolved to destroy it if possible, and hence the remarkable position which I have assumed. I conld, by beggaring myself, have been easily elected to the short term senatorship, as you may see by the record. I was ahead In the ballot when I had my name withdrawn and announced my opposition to the Packard government. I have not abandoned the national republican party, but if to denounce the thievesin Louisiana who are fast destroying the manhood and integrity of my people renders me ineligible to membership In it, I shall have to seek shelter elsewhere and continue my struggle for Justice and equality for the race. . The treachery and venality In this case is made the more marked as the party was pledged to my election by a resolution unanimously adopted by our last state convention; and the truthfulness of my charges is manifest in the unanimous election of Kellogg for the long term.the most unpopular man in the state, and the disgraceful proceeding over the choice of a man lor the snort term. Rest assured, old friend, I know what I am doing, and at no distant day the people of the entire country will Indorse aud sustain me. P. B. 8. Pinchback. P. S. The Louislanian will keep you posted M to my movements. In an interesting conversation with the reporter Mr. Hinton said that he thought the better elements of society in the south, both of the white and the colored races, will form a conservative party. He intimated that it was his opinion that the colored men would have more Influence by dividing their vote. The Louisianian of New Orleans, the .American Citizen of Lexing'.on and the Memphis Planet, the three leading colored papers of. the country, indorse these views and the course of Pinchback. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. Decrease of National Indebtedness SlnecJnn SO, 8,5S7,T72. Washington, Feb. 1. The following Is the public debt statement issued from the treasury to-day. Six per cent, bonds fm.SujVti Five per cent, bonds 7VZJtM,4.rH) Al2 per cent, bonds 44,600,100 Total coin bonds ' $1,691,797,500 Lawful money debt 14.000.000 Matured debt .. 10,912,510 Legal tender notes 6,000,24 Certificates of deposit.... 83,745,000 fractional currency Si,424,.Tti7 Coin certificates 53,313,700 Total witliout interest . 477,533,501 Total debt.- 2,1944.1,511 Total Interest 16,327,007 Cash in treasury, coin... ,477,680 Cash in treasury, cur-. rency 9,496,266 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit 33,745,000 Total in treasury 129,718,917 Debt less cash In the treasury....... $J,0!0,Köl,f72 Decrease since June 30, 1876 . 8,567,772 Bonds Issued to Pacific Railroad ! Companies, Interest payable in lawful money, principal , outstanding 64,fi23,512 Interest accrued and not yet nald 323,117 Interest paid by the United rttates : 84,018,923 Interest repaid by transportation . of mails, etc : 700,455 Balance of Interest paid by the ' United States ......i..... 27,014,370 Arbitration. Burlington Hawkeye. ' "Held npabit," exclaimed the under man in a Front street fight yesterday afternoon,' trying to, pull his thumb out of the top man's mouth, and vainly struggling to disentangle the top man's hand from his hair, and glancing with considerable apprehension at the top man's other hand ' which .was doubled np into a formidable nst, and coming down toward his face a thousand miles a minute, "Hold up a bit! " Let's refer, the rest of this fight to an arbitration committee and have a ' compromise count, and agree beforehand to submit to the coramittee'a decision who licked,"

THE TEXAS PACIFIC.

Mr. Landers Introduces a Bill to Aid in " Its Construction, And at the Käme Time to Increase the Amount of Trensnry ote In Clr- - eolation. The following bill was lately introduced in the house by the lion. Franklin Landers, representative from this district, as a substitute for the Pacific railroad bill now in the hands of the committee. Its significance will be seen to be in the last section, which firovides that the treasury notes to be deivered to the company shall be a new issue and shall be receivable by the government for all purposes: lie it enacted by the senate aud house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the Texas and Pacific railroad company is hereby authorized to construct that part of its line from Forth Worth, in Tarrant county, Texas, through Texas westwardly to the Uio Grande river, at or near El Paso; thence through New MexicoJand Arizona to a crossing of the Coloratio river at or near Fort Yuma, and from thence westwardly through California, by what is known as the direct route to San Diego, on the Pacific coast. Section 3. That the bonds of the Texas and Pacific railroad company shall le duly executed and deposited with the secretary of the treasury to the amount of thirty thousand dollars per mile of road to Iks constructed and equipped as aforesaid, and shall be made payable in lawful money fifty years afterdate; said bonds to bear interest, payable half-yearly in lawful money, at the rate of two per centum per annum. Interest to begin to run three years after the date of said bonds. Sec. 4. That whenever the said Texas and Pacific railway company shall tile a certificate, signed by its president and chief engineer, that ten or more consecutive miles of any portion of the said line of railroad and telegraph bet ween Fort Worth and Ban Diego bay have been constructed aud are ready for service, with equipment, sidings, buildings, and other appurtenances necessary for the business thereof, the president of the United States shall require such commissioner or commissioners, not exceeding three in number, hs may b appointed by him for that purpose, to examine the same and report in relation thereto; and if it shall appear to the president that ten or more consecutive miles of said raflrond and its telegraph line have been constructed aud equipped as required by this act, the secretary of the treasury shall deliver to the said Texas and Pacific railroad company, for road so constructed and equipped, treasury notes to an f mount not exceeding the maximum rate of ihirty thousand dollars per mile; and the provisions of this section shall apply to each continuous section of ten miles or more of said railroad, aud shall be complied with by the United States in the same manner as provided for the first ten mi?s or more, until the entire line between Fort Wo; th and San Diego is constructed as aforesaid: Provided. Thai all incumbrances, whether created by deed of trust, mortgage, or otherwise, by said company, upon any portion of its road and equipments bet ween tnc'points designated in this aet, that shall be examined by commissioners and reported upon as herein provided, or on the equipments, property, or franchises appurtenant thereto, or the lands granted by the United States in aid of Raid road, or on the lands granted by the state of Texas on the lipe of said road between Fort Worth and tho Rio Grande river, shall be satisfied or secured to the secretary of the treasury or the attorney general of the United States before any treasury notos shall ne delivered, pursuant to the provisions of this act, to said company for such portion of It line as aforesaid: And provided further, Tnat it shall be the. duty of the commissioners appointed by the president to certify under oath to the actual expenditure of the money required for the purpose of constructing and equipping the line of said road up to tbe government standard as required from the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at the time of their cons' ruction ; and if it be found that a - less amount of treasury notes than those stipulated to be delivered for each section of completed work will be sufficient to meet the actual outlays, then, and in that event, the amount of treasury notes delivered for such sections shall not exceed the amount of such actual outlays; the object and purpose of this act being that all treasury notes herein authorized to be issued in aid of said railroad not absolutely requred to complete the work shall be retained in the treasury of the United States, and be subject to the further provisiouspf this act. But if the cost of constructing any such section of 10 or more miles of road shall exceed $o0,0oö per mile, then the secretary of the treasury shall deliver treasury notes to said company to the amount actually required to construct such section: Provided, That the average rate of construction shall not exceed the sum of 930,000 per mile for said railroad as aforesaid : And provided further, That said road shall be constructed with iron or steel rails of American manufacture of not less weicht than 56 pounds of iron or 50 pounds of slsd per yard. . Sec. 5. That the acceptance of the provisions ot this act shall, ipso facto, constitute a first lien or mortgage upon the said line of road and telegraph upon w hich such bonds shall be executed and deposited with the secretary of the treasury, with the rolling stock, depots, shops and property of every kind appertaining thereto. Including the franchises of said company connected therewith, and all the lands granted by the United States and the state of Texas, situated on the line of road between Fort Worth and San Diego bay, and so much of the earnings of said company as are set apart by the provisions of this act to provide for the payment of interest and the redemption of the bonds of said company as herein provided; and it shall be the duty of said company, on accepting this act, to file a mortgage with the secretary of the interior, duly executed under Its corporate seal, to secure the said bonds and the Interest th jreon, which mortgage shall be In such form as shall be approved by the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general of the United States: and for the purpose of more specifically providing for the interest on said i onds, as It shall mature from time to time, and to redeem said bonds In the manner herein specified, there shall be set apart by the said company and paid into the treasury of the United States, 10 days before the interest on said bonds shall mature 1. The entire net cash proceeds of sales of lands granted by congress and the state of Texas between Fort Worth and San Diego bay; 2. The whole amount that shall be earned and be due from the government of the United States for the transportation of troops and supplies and other government transportation, and for mail and telegraphic service; 3. All of the earnings of said road, except what are actually required for operating expenses and repairs. - , . The said several amounts arising from sales of lands, government transportation and mall and telegraphic service, and from the net earnings of the road, paid into the treasury of the United States as aforesaid, shall be applied by the secretary of the treasury as follows: 1. To the payment of the semi-annual Interest on the bonds of said company, as the same becomes due and payable.' 2. To the redemption of the bonds of the said company held by the secretary of the treasury ; said bouds thus redeemed to be canceled and returned to the said company nntll the entire amount of bonds deposited with the treasurer of the United States as aforesaid are redeemed and returned to the said company when the mortgage of the bald company shall be duly satisfied by the secretayy of the treasury: Provided, That the rates for freight and passengers shall be so regulated, under the direction of congress, that the earnings of the said road over and above the amount required for operating expenses and repairs, and payment of Interest on the said bonds as aforesaid, applicable to the redemption of said bonds,' shall not exceed 2,U0O,O00 a year: And provided further. That after said bonds are redeemed and said mortgage Is duly satisfied by the treasurer of the . United States, the said company shall transport all troops and supplies of the government and perform all mail and telegraphic service required by the government over said line herein provided for, free of charge for the period of 100 yeats: And provided further. That all bonos deposited by said company with the treasurer of the United States in excess of the treasury notes delivered to said company, agreeable to the terms of this act, shall be returned to the sskl company ' provided for, it being tho intention of this act

to secure by bond and mortgage the repayment of the amount of treasury ,'notfs actually issued to said company, in "pursuance of the provisions of this act, and the interest thereon tt the rate of two per centum per annum; And provided further, That the said lands granted by congress and the state of Texas, situated on the line of said road between Fort Worth and San Diego, shall be put in the market for sale as rapidly as the road Is completed, and be sold to actual settlers only, at not to exceed $2..r0 per acre. Sec. 6. That the treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized to apply such amount of the f'5o,0U0 per mile or treasury notes herein authorized to be delivered to said company as maybe required to pay for books, blanks, clerical bervlces, and all other needful expenses incurred by the government of the United states under this act. Including flO per day and 10 cents per mile for distance actually traveled for each of the commissioners authorized by this act, the amn to be charged to said company. Sec. 11. That the commissioners appointed to examine said road as aforesaid shall have access to all books, papers and vouchers of said company, and be furnished with all other facilities necessary to ascertain the actual cost of the road during its construct ipn : And it is further provl led that after the completion of said road the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized to annually detail a competent official belonging to his bureau to inspect the books, pupers and vouchers of said company, and report on oath as to the revenues of the road, a copy of which said report shall be transmitted to congress, until such time as the bonds of said company and all other obligations to the government are fully satisfied. Sec. 12. That the secretary of the treasury Is hereby authorized and directed to issue treasury no es of the United States to the amount required to carry out the provisions of this act, and the ftrmof said treasury notes shall be as foUows: "The United btates will receive this treitjry note in payment of all taxes, duties, imposts, excises, debts and demands of every kind due to the United States to the value of J-V or whatever sum or denomination may be ex pressed thereon. And the said notes may be reissued from time to time in the general business of the government, and shall be retired no faster than the bonds of said Texas and Pacific railroad company are redeemed by said company.

TUE NEW SEX ATE. The Members Chosen to the Fppr Branch of the Forty-flftli Conffres. The following is the senate as it will be constituted on the 4th of March next: There will be republicans, 39; democrats, 35; independents, 1; vacancy, 1; total, 76. The figures before each name indicate the year in which the senator's terra will expire. Thoe who were senators during the term of the forty-fourth congress are marked with a (). The seat of Kustis, democrat, of Louisiana, will be contested by William Pitt Kellogg, republican, and that of M. C. Butler, democrat, South Carolina, by I). T. Corbin, republican. The vacancy held to exist in Louisiana for the term ending in 1879 has not been filled by the democratic legislature of the state, but James Iewis has been chonen for the place by the illegal Packard legislature. ALABAMA. 1879 (1 K Spencer, R 1S83 J T Morgan, D ARKANSAS. 179 S W Dorsey, R 1883 AH Garland, D CALIFORNIA. 1875 A A Sargent, R 1881 Ü Booth, R CO LOR A no. 1881 J B Chaffee, R 1883 II M Teller, R CON N ECTICITT. 1879 W II Baruum.D 11 W V Eaton, D DELAWARE. 18X1 T K Bayard, D 1883 E Saulsbury, D FLORIDA. 1879 S B Conover. R 1881 OA Jones, D GEORGIA. 1879 J B Gordon, D 1883 B H Hill. D ILLINOIS 1879 R J Oglesby, R 1883 David DavbJ, I - INDIANA. 1879 O P Morton. R MiHsiMSirri. IRS1 11 K Bruce, It ISS1 L Q C Lamar, D MIHSOURI. 1879 L V Bogy, D 1881 F M Cockrel, D NEW HAMPSHIRE 187 Ii Wadleigh, R lsSa tj It Kolllns, 14 NEW JKKSKV. 1881 T P liandolph.D 183 J It McPherson, D MEW YORK. 1879 It Conkllng, R 1881 F Kernan, D NEBRASKA. 1881 A H Paddock, R 1883 A Saunders, U NEVADA. 1879 J P Jones. R 1881 W Sharon, R NORTH CAROLINA. 1879 A 8 Merrimon.D 1883 M W Ransom, D Oil io. 1879 J Sherman. R 1881 A O Thurman, D OREfJOI. 1879 J II Mitchell, R 1881 J E McDonald, D 1883 L B G rover, D PENNSYLVANIA. 1879 S Cameron, R 181 Wm A Wallac, D RlIOnK ISLAND, 1881 A K Burnside, R 1883 II B Anthony, R SOUTH CAROLINA. 1874 J J Patterson, R 1883 M C Butler, D TENNENSTE. 18X1 J K Bailey, D 1883 I O Harris, D TFXAS. 1881 S B Maxey, D 1883 Richard Coke, D VERMONT. 1879 J H Morrill, R 1881 G F Fxlmunds, R VIRGINIA. 1881 R E Withers, D 18S3 ' W Johnson, D WEST VIROIKIA. 1881 F Hereford, D 1883 II U Davis, D WLSO0N8IN. 18-9 TO Howe, R 1881 A Cameron, R IOWA. 1879 W B Allison. R 1883 H J Kirk wood, R KANSAS. 1879 John J In galls, R 1883 P B Plumb, It KENTUCKY. 1879 T C MctT-ery. D 1883 James B Beck, D LOUISIANA. 1879 (Vacancy) 1883 J B Eustis, D MAINE. 1881 II Hamlin, R 1833 J G Blaine, R MARYLAND. 1879 G R Dennis, D 1881 W P Whyte, D MASSACHUSETTS. 1881 II L Dawes. R 1883 Ueorge F Hoar, R MICHIGAN. 1881 I PChristlancy.R ist T W l-erry, it MINNESOTA. 18R1 S JRMcMill'n.R 18S3 Wm Windora, R Respects to Morton. Chicago Times. Mr. 0. P. Morton ia one of the foremost of the traitorous conspirators who have been plotting to usurp the executive government by fraud and force. He is not a person guided by any fixed notions of primary truth upon any subject or question, but he is a political empiric, a quack to which character, a plentiful lack of mental and moral training, had added the qualities of a reckless and violent partisan and bulldozer. The speech of this violent humbug in the senate on Monday was one of the most characteristic manifestations of the man's depraved and reckless political character that has ever appeared in print. It can not be fairly called an argument for treason and revolution, for it lacked the method of reason which the term argument implies. The furious shaker of the bloodyshirt did not hesitate to assert the programme of treason and all that it implies. Rut the traitorous demagogue is not appalled, is not in the least intimidated, lie accepts unhesitatingly the revolutionary consequences of the treasonable theory, etc., etc. Conld nt Wait. Chicago Times. Not so particular was the couple that awoke Justice Morrison from his midnight slumber on the same date. He had them admitted, and when the gas was turned on to a full head he saw before him a young man who held the hand of a younger woman. They were both confused, and only after many blushes and stammers did the justice divine their mission. It was matrimony, of course. But the young mac had failed to procure his license and was told to come another day. The young man whispered to hia divinity and she put her hands to her eyes and turned crimson. Then the young man came over to the iusttce and whispered in his ear: "It's mighty cold to-night, yer honor; would it make any difference just for one night, jidge, yer honor? And 'on cur souls we'll get the papers in the morninV Thy went away with a smile apiece on their faces, tlthough the justice avers he told them they must wait. Physiognomy or tbc Board. Washington Special. The faces of Kenner and Casanave look like a cross between a Sicilian bandit aud a Mediterranean galley dave, and qnite in keeping with the dirty work they have been engaged in. '

THE CITY POOR.

Wrtehlne In 1tiew iihI (he Need of Earliest Work. This nation now has one-fifth of its population in cities. What are we to do with the social barriers which allow a great city to be not only a great world, but ten great worlds, in which one world does not care at all for what the other worlds are doing? In every great town there are six or ten strata in society; and it is, one would think, an hundred miles from the fa&hionable to the unfashionable side of a single brick in a wall. Superfluity and squalor know absolutely nothing of each other, such as the utter negligence of the duty of visiting the poor in any other than by agents! I do not undervalue these, nor any part of the great charities of our times; but there is no complete theory for the permanent relief for the, poor without jersonal visitation. Go from street to street with the city missionary or the best of police; but sometimes go all alone, and with your own eyes see the poor in the attics, and study the absolutely unspeakable conditions of their daily iives. Not long ago I was in a suffocated tenement house where five or six points on which I could put my hand were in boldest violation of the laws which it is the business of the board of health in this city to see executed. The death rate of Boston in summer in the north end is often above thirty in the thousand. The registrar general of England says that any deaths above'seventeen in a thousand are unnecessary. Live one day where the children of the perishing poor live, and ask what it is to live there always. I know a scholar of heroic temper and of exquisite culture, who recently resolved to live with the poor in a Stirling part of this city, and who, after repeated and desperate illness, was obliged to move his home off the ground in order to avoid the necessity of putting his body underground. You can not understand the poor by newspapers, nor even by novels. Our distant lavender touches of the miserable show the barbaric blood yet in our veins. Going about from house to house doing good is t great Christian measure permanently instituted by a typical example, which in a better age may be remembered, and be the foundation of a nobility not yet visible on the planet There was One w"ho washed His disciples' feet, and in that act founded an order of nobility, but his cond symbolic act seems not to be apprehended even yet by some good Samaritans in gloves! The way from Jerusalem to Jericho lies now through the city slums; and, for many an age to come, there will be the spot where men oftenest will be left stripped and wre and half dead. "We want all good inlluences of the parlor and press, from literature and the interior church of the church, to work upon the problem of saving the perishing and dangerous clasps in great cities." Poor naked wretches wheresoe'ver you are. That bide the pelting of this piitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped aud windowed raggedncss defend you From seasons such as this? Take physic,, pomp; Kxpoe thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the supertlux to them And show the heavens more just. . j Lear, scene IV. Method In Iii Midnna. Philadelphia Times Interview with George Francis Train.J "If Mr. Hayes succeeds to the presidency what kind of a chief magistrate will he make?" asked the reporter. "You can't have much of a yacht race without any wind," said Mr. Train. "Haves represents the psychology of luck. His riatboat will weather the storm that sunk the clean-keeled privateer. Nevertheless he is a sheep surrounded by a pack of wolves. There's Frelinghuysen, Grant's fugleman,, impotent as a jolitician, a senatorial nonentity, wjth splendid opportunities never utilized. Hamlin is an octogenarian fossil in revolutionary stove pipe. He wears flap pantaloons and swallow tail coat in midwinter, and has occupied one senatorial seat for 34 years without doing anything but tax knowledge in his cheese-paring mail economy bill. Xext, Saint Cameron, who is too old to be ambitious, is well pleased with Don's success in the cabinet and his addition, division and silence policy. Chandler, cheering himself over his returning board partnership is amply satisfied in having so hand-victory, his cabinet appointment, his Gould cosomely snubbed Michigan for letting him drop through the ice. Sherman. Edmunds, Booth and Boutwell are freetrade, crazy and specie mad. Logan, Butler Kelly and Moses Field are apostatizing their greenback creed for spoils. All these jewels from the republican bosom will soon tumble into the Potter's-Field ditch togtther. I shall soon issue 200,000 copies of my paper with obituaries of Grant and these men, edging each column in black." PAIXTIXG PAILS. Work of the Tounprers In the Minnesota Penitentiary. Minneapolis Tribune. This is the home of the Younger brothers. Naturally the Northfield trio were the much sought after of the convicts yesterday. 1 brought up the rear of the first party to arrive, and Bob, looking np from his work, caught my eye, and with a pleasant twinkle of his own, nodded recognition, and when I had advanced, extended his hand and asked how I had been. His arm is still, stiff and always will be. Cole has entirely recovered from his wounds, and even his left ej-e, the nerves of which were paralyzed by the passage of the ball which is lodged beneath the right eye, does not now trouble him. He finds his "sublime life" in revolving pails upon a sort of spindle and applying the first coat of white paint by a rapid process. Jim, who conversed but little, revolves a machine by which the pails are grafned, while, after the bands have been painted brown by another mechanical process, at which a red headed, convict assists. Bob piles the pails npin rag ular tiers. They occupy the first three cellson the lower tier at the right of the main entrance, and all look as though they werestall fed fat enough to kill. Giving It I'p. The following is an extract from a debate in the Packard legislature in Louisiana, as telegraphed to the Cincinnati Enquirer: Dn.kgrave wanted to know whether "Warmoth thought that Nicholls or Packard waselected. Warmoth said on the face of the official returns to the returning board it "appeared . that Nicholls received about 10,000 majority. The board reported a majority of 3,500 for Packard. He did not know by what means the board arrived at the result. He was not prepared to admit the legality of the means used by the board to produce the result which they did. When it was explained to him how the result was reached, he would then be prepared to say who had been legallyelected governor. When all the members of the legislature who were elected should declare in joint assembly who had chosen the governor, he was ready to recognize that man, be he Nicholls or Packard. Mr. McMillan said his advice to the legislature was to keep its hands oft" the question. Louisiana is an interested party. It is her vote whih is in dispute. It would be in bad tiste for the legislature, under the present circumstances, to take any part in the matter.