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.VOL. 6.—NO. 178.

FORTY-FOURTH GREjSS.

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ThelrrepressaMe Amnesty

RANDAL AND 1UYE A SET

The Amnesty Bill Falls Short

BLAINE MAKES A SPEECH AND 0* tfERS AN AMENDMENT ACCEPTING JEFF. D*YIS

FROM THE BENEFITS OF THE BILL,

Morton Tells the Senate What He Knows About President's Pro. Tern.

SENATE.

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. Washington, Jan. -10. Mr. Hamilton introduced a bill to secure a speedy completion of the Texas Pacific R. R., from a point at or near Marshall, Texas, to the southeastern boundary of California, and to authorize the Southern Pacific R. R. to aid in building the same, and also to build a branch of its road to San DJago, California. Referred.

Mr. Anthony submitted a resolution instructing the committee on public buildings and grounds to inquire and report whether the monuments enacted by order of the Senate to the memory of deceased Senators, have been piaced over the remains of those Senators, and suitably inscribed and also whether there are any deceased Senators not honored by the erection of monuments. Agreed to.

The chair then laid before the Sen' ate various petitions from the citizens of Michigan, asking Congress to give a bounty of two hundred dollars in money to each union soldier and sailor in lieu of the homestead donation without actual settlements.

Also a joint resolutiou of the same body, asking Congress for an appropriation for the survey of the Michigan ship canal, from the mouth of vhe Kalamazoo river, and eastern shore of Lake Michigan to tbe mouth of Raisen river, on Lake Erie. ferred. lieu*

resolutions submitted by Morton, in regard to the President pro tem. of the Senate, were taken up together with the report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections.

Mr. Merrimon, member of the committee on elections, gave his reason at some length for dissenting from the report of the majority. He argued that the President pro tempore of the Senate was not a mere occupant of the chair by the courtesy of the Senate. His official character was recognized by the coustitutiou as well as by the other departments ef the Government. He quoted from the act of 1792, and argued that the Senate had no power to vacate the office. ...

Mr. Saulsbury did not agree with the views expressed by the Senator from North Carolina. [Merrimon.] He [Saulsbury] argued tnat the Senate had a right to change its officers at pleasure. If the President pro tempore of the Senate should fail to discharge his duties, and the Senate

not the power to remove, then there was no remedy, as he was not an impeachable officer. He spoke in complimentary terms of the present President pro tempore, and said that all were satisfied with his fairness

and

impartiality. This was a question not affecting private righte, but one of a legal character.

Mr. Jones, of Florida, spoke at some length in opposition to the

power

of the Senate to change the

President pro tem. at will. The question being 011 the adop

tion of

resolutions by Morton, Merri-

man called for a division, and vote being taken on the first one, it was adopted unanimously yeas 59, nays none. The second was also unani* mously adopted, yeas 62, nays none, when the third resolution was read.

Mr. Thurman moved that it^ be laid over that the Senators might have more time to consider after dis cussioo.

Senate adjourned.

MORNING SESi. ION.

Washington, Jan. 10.

Mr. Oglesby presented a petition from the citizeus of Saratoga, 111., asking for the repeal of the resumption act of January 1875, as well as the national bank act and the substitution of legal-tenders for the national bank notes. Referred.

After

the expiration of the morning

hour Mr. Cooper announced the death of his late colleague Andrew Johnson and delivered an eulogy.

Mr Morton followed Mr. Cooper, and H*M»lared that Mr. Johnson was a brave and honest man. He referred to vote for his impeachment which he gave and said for that h6 had no apology to make. He believed Johnson had violated the law. but he was willing to let tbe memory of his faults be buried with him and to remember only his 8er"c.esJ_ J?,1® country. He (Morton) asked for hnn the same charity he would ask for himself in the inevitable hoar. He re viewed at some length the life o£ Mr. Johnson, and said his services should always be remembered.

HOUSE.

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. Washington, Jan. 10.' The annosty bill having finally been forced to a vote without any amendment being presented, the Republicans voted solidly against it, but therefore failed of the requisite two-

t'JMr.8Randall—Docs

that side of the

House object to debate. Mr. Blaine—It does not nor does this side of the House desire any unreasonable time for debate though as Coneress has been in session nve -weeks and as the sessions of tbe House have averaged only two days per .week,

it might be considered that an hour or two of debate would not be too much to allow on a bill of this kind.

Mr. Randall, (persistently)—I want to know if anybody

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that sido of the

House objects. Mr. Hale, of Maine—No,

BLAINE TO.

s:r, but we

want debate and amendment both. Mr. Garfiield—We want consideration of the subject, which means debate and amendment.

Mr. Randall—I propose that we give an hour's consideration to it. Mr. Garfield, (sneeringly—Aye, consideration without amendment.

Mr. Blaine—I told the gentleman (Randall,) in good faith that it was absolutely impossible for him to put his bill under that kind of tactics. The vote on the previous question has revealed the fact that considerably more than one-third of the House objects to the bill going through under the gag.

Randall—I do not propose to put it through under the gag

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ry I propose to put it through alter the debate, If that side of the house objects to debate it, it will be itself responsible for there beinu no debate. It is for that side of tho House to say whether there shall be a debate or not.

COllIcSubO

Mr. Blaine, (defiantly)—The gentleman will search the globe for the last twelve yeare in vain, for a case where a bill of this magnitude was attempted to be put through without discussion and amendment. Never sir, I defy him to give an instance.

Mr. Randall—Was not this very bill passed last year, under the previous question, on a report from the Committee on Rules, of which you svere a member?

Mr. Blaine—And to which I objected. Mr. Randall—Never in or out of tho committee did you object to it.

Mr. Blaine—Being in the chair and unable to object myself, I got several entlemen to object, (laughter at tho .ast speaker) I asked tho gentleman from South Carolina (Ramey) to object to it, but he, with the delicacy which did honor to his position and race, said ho would be misunderstood if he did so, although ho thought, tho bill ought not to go through.

Mr. Randall—I say that this bill is almost identical with tho bill reported last session from the Committeo on Rules, without any objection on your part.

Mr. Blaino—I differ with the gentleman on that point. I did not object to although the gentleman does not Re- observo the parlimentarv rules when he refers as to what took place in the

The Senate then proceeded to the committee. IV nrl consideration of executive business, came1last'session from andwhen the doors were opened, tie nnmmittee on Rules, and that

Mr. Randall—I repeat that a precise-

tho Committee ou Rules, and that neither as a member of the committee nor as a member of the House, nor as presiding officer did you object to it. On the contrary,as far as you were able, you facilitated the passage of that bill.

Mr. Garfield—I make a point of order that the rule3 require tho gentlemen to address the chair, and not address tho gentleman from Maine as you,"

Mr. Randall (contemptuously)—The gentleman from Ohio is getting very fastidious. [Laughter on the Democratic sido and in the galleries.]

Mr. Banks demanded yeas and nays on ordering the maiu question, and yeas and nays were ordered.

Mr. Blaine: I desire it distinctly understood that the effect of ordering the main question is to cut off all debate whatever.

Randall—And I desire to have it equally understood that it is not the purpose of this sido of tho House to prevent a debate, and if tho debate is cut off it will be the fault of tho other side of the House. This sido will accord to the other side of the House all the time it wants for discussion.

Burchard, of Illinois—1 ask whether, under the rules, the minority can have that privilege.

Randall—It can by unanimous consent, (sneers on the Republican side of the House) and the objection, if it comes at all, must come from that side.

The main question was ordered yeas, 168- nays, 99. A strict party vote. Randall—I now ask unanimous consent for an hour's debate before the final passage.

Garfield—I join with the gentleman, and add to it that it be by unanimous request. Amendments may be offered.

Randall—I have not heard anybody object to my suggestion. Speaker—Is there any objection to tbe request?

Garfield—With privilege of offering amendments I understand. Randall—The gentleman does not understand any such.thing.

Garfield—Then without that privilege, I object. Blaine—I desire to say a single word.

Randall—You may have thirty minutes if y.on UKO.

Blaine—The Jindictationa of the vote are plain. Tho bill in its present shape cannot pass. If it shall fail to nass I will immediately, if the speaker will recognize mo for that purpose, move that the rules be suspended and the bill brought against tho House for consideration. I shall therefore move as a substitute tne amount which I endeavored to offer, and the House can choose between them. It is only to have a fair vote. There is no disposition on this side to dodge the question or(to «. vade it, but we must have an opportin ity to make a record on this question. The gentleman must evi dently see that he would save time and probably create a better feeling and more harmony by allowing that course, because this side has the power to enforce that course. S:.:

Mr. Raudall—This bill is exactly the same, word for word almost, as the one which tho last Republican House massed without, even yeas and nays. Jwico have the Republican Houses passed this bill, and twice has It been strangled in the Sesate. I do not know what has come over the spirit of the dreams of the Republican party, or of the gentleman from Maine.

Mr. Blaine—The gentleman will not allow me to state it. Mr. Randall—I asked unanimous consent, and objection was made on that sido. I don't know why the gentle* man shouhLwant to change the bill in any particular from what it was a year ago when he was Speaker, and bad the party majority under his control.

Mr. Blaine—I want the opportunity to tell what has come over the spirit of mv dream.

Mr. Rindall—I

ask the qnanimo'us

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cousent that you may have thirty minutes. Mr. Blaine—I don't want to talk except for some practical purpose. I want to talk to an issue, I want to talk in favor of an amendment. I do not want to bo confronted with a statement that that amendment cannot even have the poor privilege of b^ing voted down, as I suppose it would be voted down. I want it to go on the journal of the House.

Mr. Randall—I have permitted the amendment to goon the journal of the House.

Mr. Blaine—NX at all. Mr. Randall—It is on the records of the House.

Mr. Blaino—But not in the journal. Mr. Randall—The gentleman's object is already accomplished, if he wants to go before the country as an obstructionist to amnesty.

Mr. Blaine—The gentleman Is obstructing amnesty. He is holding down every man in the South, and keeping off amnesty, because he will not allow us to vote on excluding Jefferson Davis.

Mr. Randall—Did you allow tho minority of the House to offer amendments to tho civil rights bill, (murmurs ot "no, no, nor to force the bill

Blaine—The gentleman from Pennsylvania knows Mr. Benton left on uiuia ui -no, uu, nut iu iuiuo tuo um record the saying that tho very essence either," from the Democratic side, and of legislative power is amendment, and calls for regular order from both sides.1* tlin frflnflaman I'rnm Pnnncrlvflnia THQ nnoot.inn wno t.hfln Irtlrfin finfl Mil tlio ^gentleman from Pennsylvania, confesess a weakness of his cause when

The question was then taken and the bill v/Sa rejected. Yeas, 172 nays, 97

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he attempts to deprive the minority of not the requisite two-thirds in majori tUe* HAnoa nf tho nurlinniflnturv rinhfc f.Tr. the House of the parliamentary right to offer amendments.

Mr. Randall, (tauntingly)—I am glad that you see ligut for very many years you were blind to such considerations. (Laughter on the Democratic side, and in tho galleries.)

tyMr. Blaine—I now movo to reconsider the vote just taken, and I desire to address tho 'House on the subject.

The House was soon restored to order, and it was prepared to give close attention to Mr. Blaine, who continued: If I can induce the House to recousider the vote, wheroby the bill was rejected, it is my intention io offer my amendment. Every time tbo question of amnesty has been brought before the House by a gentleman of tho other side for the last two sessions of Congress, it has been done with a certain flourish of magnanimity which is an imputation on this side of the House, as though the Republican party,which has had charge of the Government for the last twelvo or fourteen years had been bigoted, narow, illiberal and as though a certain few worthy and deserving gentlemen in the Southern S'ates, were bound down under great tyranny and oppression which Congress could not be prevailed upon to remove I desire now to place on lecord just what tho Republican party has done in this matter, I meant to place it there as an imponitrable record of a liberality and large mindnedness, and the magnaminty and mercy such as has not been shown in the world by the conquerors to th9 conquered. The gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Randall) and myself entered this Congroas in the midst of the hot flames of its war, when the Union was rocking to its foundation, and no man knew whether we were to have a country or not. He would be surprised when he and I were in the 38th Congress, if he could then have foreseen that before our mutual services was ended, he should see sixty-one gentlemen, then in arms against the United States Government, admitted to equal privileges with ourselves in this house, and all by tha grace and magnanimity of thje. Republican party when the war ended. According to the universal law of war, the party in possession of the Government, or the Government itself, which was controlled by party, had no right to determine what ehould be the status of these people. Did we sot off on a career of bloodshed and vengeance? Did we take property? Did we prohibit any man all his local and civil rights? Did we take from him tho right which he enjoys to-day, to vote? Not at all.

What you ask us to do is to declaro by a vote of two-thirds of both branches of Congress, solemnly that we consider Mr. Davis worthy to fill the highest offices in the United States, if be* could get a constituency to trust him. He i3 a voter. He can buy and he can sell. He can go and come. He i3 as free as any man in the United States. There is along list of subordinate offices to which he is elegible, but this proposition proposes in view of the record which I have read, to declare by a twothirds vote of the Senate and a twothirds vote of the House, that Mr. Davis is eligible and worthy to fill any office up to the Presidency of the United States. For mo, on full deliberation, I will not do it. Now, as to general amnesty, it is too late to debate whether it has, in all respects, keen, wise or unwise. I shall not detain the House in discussing it even if I had convictions on that question. I do not know that it would be productive of any great good to discuss it. But at tbe same time it is a very singular spectacle that.tbe Republican party in possession of the entire Government, has deliberately called back into public power the leading men of the south, every ene of whom turns out its bitter, relentless and magligant foe, and that to-day, from the Potomac to the Rio Grand9, the very men who received this amnesty are as busy as they know how to be in consolidating into one compact, political organization the old slave States, iust as before the war, and'we see the banner blazoned again with the inscription that with a united South and a few votos from the Noith, this country can be governed. I want tho people to understandthat this is the motive, that this is the animus and the intent. I don't think that offering amnesty to the 750 men who are without it will either hasten or retard that movement. I don't think that granting or refus ing amnesty to Davis, will hasten or retaad it I hear it said that we are going to elevate Mr. Davis into very great consequence by refusing amnesty to him That is not for me to consider. I only see before me, when his name is presented, the man wno, by a wink of bis eye, by a wave of his hand, by a nod ot his head,could have stopped the atrocities" at Andersonville. Some of us had kinsmen there. Most of us had friends there.

All of us had countrymen there. And in the name of those kinsmen and friends and countrymen, I hero protest and shall with my vote protest against calling back and crowing with the honors oi full American citizenship the man who organized that murder. [Loud applause on the Republican side of the Jaouso and in the galleries.]

Mr. Cox, of New York, then took the floor to reply to Mr. Blaine. Ha commenced ny saying that the gentleman from

Mnine, who, by some dispensation of providence, was no longer Speaker of this House, had Been proper in this Centennial year to tear, away

the plasters from the green and bleeding wounds of the lat© civil war, and had seen proper to attempt to justify his conduct in the light of history. He, Cox, ventured tosay that there was no precedent in 718t°ry and no canon in political philosophy which the party now in majority on this floor

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has not outraged by its objections to clemency and by its persistence in making reprisals in times of peace. The gentleman from Maine had begun by a reflerence to the Duke of Alva, and there is no doubt that that gentleman and his party had been since the war at least, quite familiar with that history. The history of the Netherlands or the Duke of Alva was the history of radicalism. Spoliation, murder, death and tyranny in the South since 18G5. [Derisive lsughter on the Republican sido of the House and applause on the Democratic side.] He would refer the gentleman 2,000 years old and would say that all history was filled with such precedents, to tho effect that nations should not erect monuments to vengeance, that nations should not erect monuments,except to foreign conquest, never monuments to domestic calamity It had been reserved to the gentleman from Maine to fly in the face of all history, Pagan history, Christian history, and Christian doctrine, and to issue, in this year of grace and jubilaties,the anathema marantha against the South. For such he had a purpose, (spoken with Ironical emphasis) which purpose would appear as he proceeded. He (Cox) took issue with the gentleman from Maine. Whon ho said that tho Republican party had been clement and amnestical, it was not true. It had been true during the war It had not been true sinc9 the war, and it was not true to-day. Wlienover that party had proposed any clement policy it had been sure to spoil

applause.]

by some

small peddling operation. (Laughtor,) Ho (Cox) had had the honor to boa member of the House at the beginning of the war, and ho had the honor to briug forward the first measures of an exchange of prisoners. Ha asked whether tho record of the Federal administration was all right in the matter of exchange during the war. He had it on tho authority of some 60 gentlemen present, who had b8en in the Confederate army, that no order had been issued aj any time in the South with reference to prisoners of war. as to rations or clothes, which did not apply to the confederate soldiors. Ex parte affadavits taken by that humbug committoe on the conduct of the war could not controvert tho facts of history. These facts were to be determined on a fair issue made. So far as the confederate Government was concerned, the orders of that Government, whatever might be the bad conduct of certain officers under it, had boen couched in a spirit of fairness and humanity. He spoke sneeringlv in reference to the remarks of Mr. Blaine, that Southern gentlemen were now members of the Home through the grace of the Republican party, and ho said, down on your knees, gentlemen of the South, before His Majesty, of Maine. (Loud laughter on the Democratic side.) He knew that the gentleman from Maine wes known io be a candidate for the Presidency, but that wai no reason why he should be a mean man, He was the last mau to whom ho (Cox) would attribute any bad nature, But one thing was very curious, and that was that he (Blaine) was antagonizing President Grant on this subject. He (Cox) did not like the looks of that. (Laughter.) Ho therefore called on the Republican gentlemen, especially on that little knot of colored members who fought so nobly, and who were now fighting for Ja. third term, to vote down this obnoxions exception proposed by the gentleman from Maino. Had not tho rresidontjn his annual message of December, 1873, renewed his previous recommendation for general amnesty? But General Grant was a soldiar and .not a scurvy politician. [Laughter.] To be sure General Grant has made some little trouble down South. But he has never proposed an exceptional, partial amnesty: He wore the plume of a soldier and the plume of a soldier, as some poet had said, even in the din and firepf battle could be waved by a breath or a zaphar. How could he contrast the conduct of the gentleman from Maine with that gentleman [Grant] without giving his views on the Presidential question. And that he did not want to do. They bad all come here by tbe game tidal wave. Those men from the South had been sitting there, taking little, contemptible insults from the other side about the organization of the House, while the fact was that more maimed union soldiers were appointed to subordinate offices in the House under Democratic officials than bad oeen appointed in the last House. He condemned the cause of the gentleman from Maine in raking up the embers of the late war and he intimated that his speech was, a bad, malicou3, mischievous speech and one that never would elect him to the presidency if he lived for a thousand years. In conclusion he referred to the story told by Livy ot a Reman general, who having conquored Phillip, of Macedon, had it announced unexpectedly by a Herald to the peo» pie of Greece assembled at the Isthmian games that their taxes should remain forever abolished, and that no record should remain of the tyranny exercised by the Roman over the Greek. That was a year of Grecian jubilee. He in this jubilee year of 1876, would like to have a herald proclaim from tbe capital the delivery of the south from Republican exactions and from the rod rule and the ushering in of that glorious, blessed light which cometh from above, and which will shine on the doma architrave of the temple of American freedom. [Loud

Mr. Blaine remided Mr.

Cox of something said in his speech about his(Cox)havingspokenagainst the poisoning of wells, and he asked bim whether he me&nt to iutim&te that the government had ever favored such policy.

Mr. Cox disclaimed such a" "mean

idg and

said that he would correct

his remarks in the record. Mr. Kelley, of Pa., then took the floor and made a strong speech against Blaine's amendment in favor of universal and unqualified amnesty He quoted from a former speech made by him on the same subjeet and annealed to his party associates ?o make the centennial a year of jubilee and to proclaim to the world that no man stood disfranchised for

any

political conduct or any crime

for

which he might have been tried ten vears ago, but was not who had been allowed to walk unchallenged in the interim.

Mr Hill, of Georgia, obtained the floor,'and the debate went over until to-morrow. ...

Tbe speaker atinouced the followkySfc.-'.

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ing select committees: On the Texas frontier trouble, Schleicher, A. S. Williams, of Michigan, Lamar, Banks and Hurlburt on the Freedmen's Bank failure, Douglass, Bradford, Sterger, Riddle, Hooker, Bliss, Farwell, Frost and Rainey:

The House then adjourned. MORNIXa SESSION. Washington, Jan, 11,—A bill ou finances was introduced in the house and referred by Morrison.

It proposes to retain gold in theory to the amount of thirty percent of outstanding legal tenders requires national banks to retain gold paid for their interest on on bonds and deposited to secure currency till they have thirty per cent of their outstanding notes and repeals that portion of resumption act compelling specie resumption in 1879.

Mr. Hamilton from the Appropriation Cnmmittee reported the military academy appropfiation bill which was made the special order for Thursday next. It appropriates §231 241.

J.'Di Williams (Ind.), from the Committse on Accounts, reported tqe resolution fixing the number and compensation of clerks as follows: Elections, 5.00 per day banking and currency, 5.00 Pacific railroads, railways and canal, combined, 4.00 commerce, postsfflce and postroads, 4.00 Indian affairs, mines and mining, combined 4.00 military affairs, 5.00 District of Columbia, 4.00 judiciary, 4 00 private land claims, education and labor,combined,4.00,naval affair 4.00 expenditures in postoffice Departments Foreign affairs$5Territories $4 War and Invalid Pensions $5 Patents $4 Public Buildings and Grounds, and expenditures in the Treasury and War Departments $5 Accounts $5. In course of the discussion on the resolution, Mr. Williams stated tnat his committee was prepared to provide for 20 of the committee clerks, in addition to the five provided by for law, and 25 in all, whereas at last Congress there were 35. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Vance, of Ohio, from the committee on printing, reported a resolution against printing an ihdex and summary of the cases adjudicated adversely to the claims of the commission. Adopted.

Mr. Atkins from the Appropriation Committee reported pension appropriation bill, and it was made a special order for Friday next. It appropriates $25,533,500. The House then proceeded to the consideration of

THE AMNESTY BILL

and was addressed by Hill of Georgia. He disclaimed all desire on the part of himself and his associates from the south to reopen ill feeling between the sections of the country had already suffered enough from frauds. He and his associates had come here with a patriot idea to remember nothing but the country, and the whole country, and turning their backs upon all the honors of the psst to look with earnestness to find glories for the future.

The gentleman (Blaine)- who was acknowledged leader of the Republican

party

in the House and was the

aspiring leader of the Republican party the country has however willed otherwise and seemed determined that wounds which were healing ehould be reopened and that passions which were, should be rein' flamed. He (Hill) wished the House to understand that he and his associates did not reciprocate either purpose or manifest the desire of gentlemen and while .they felt it their imperative dnty to vindicate the truth of history os regards their section, they calculated to aid the gentlemen in that work of culmination of {recrimination and of keeping up the war by politicians after the brave men have said-the war shall end.

The gentleman' from Maine had made two points in his speech. The mognanmity and.grace of the Republican party, and the brutality of those whom he pleased to term reb» els. As to the first question he did not propose to wearp the House today, because with the history of the last fifteen years, yet fresh in miud, of the world it was useless to speak of the grace and magnanimity of the Republican party, with' master enslaved with, intelligence disfranchised, with society disordered, with the States subverted and with the Legislatures dispersed, the people could not afford to talk of grace and magnanimity- If that were grace and magnanimity, he prayed God to save the country in the future from such virtues. The gentleman from me had made the grave indictment against Mr. Davis, that he wa3 guilty of the murders and crimes at Andersonville. The gentleman [Mr. Blaine] stood before the country with his very fame in peril if after making such a charge he failed to prove it. Mr, Hill would take up the gentlemans propositions. He hoped that no one would imagine he was here to pass any eulogy on Mr. Davis. The record of which his fame must rest, had it been made up, and his companions and friends had remitted that the record to the only tribunal, that would give an impartial judgement honest posterity. In the meantime no enlogy of his could help it, no censure from tbe gentleman Blain could damage it, and no act or ressolution of the House could effect of a Congressional committee. The testimony read was exclusively apart from the testimony taken, while the gentleman now on trial was in person without a hearing and without the opportunity of a hearing. If there was any principle held sacred in the Anglo Saxon mind, it was that ®n Englishman was not to be condemned.

The charge against Mr. Davis was that he was a deliberate, wilful, scheming murderer ot thousands of his fellow citizens. Knowing the high character and reputation of the gentleman from Maine, he (Hill) had supposed when be heard the charge fall Irom his lips that he had certainly made a. recent discovery, and he listened for the evidence, but what was nothing but the partial report, until he should be confrobted with his witnesses, but the testimony was not only parte, but was mutijpted palpably, most adroitly mutilated. In, this-. connection Mr. Hill referred to the

statement of Dr. Jones, one of the witnesses on the Wirz trial, who had been sent by the Confederate Government to make a report as to the condition of Andersonuille, but whose report had never reached tbe Confederate authorities. That report had, in the hands of the Judge advocate had been mutilated and Dr. Jones had called attention of the court to the fact of one of the suppressed statements being that homesickness and disappointments among the prisoners had been more destructof life than any physical cause.

OHIO LEGISLATURE,

IMPOSING A FINE FOR SWEARim

Compulsory Education.

Columbus, Jan. 11.—In the Senate a bill was introduced imposing a fine of 950.00 for taking the name 01 God ia vain in the House.

Bills were introduced to provide a registry law for cities, first class, to provide for combulsory education, to make the fee bill of last session applicable to all county officers to autboriz? insurance of public property.

THE BEECHER I1HBTOGILO.

Rev. Dr. Scnddera Church RefoMes (The Invitatlou to Arbitrate tbe Matter.

New York, Jan. 11.—Rev. Dr. Scuddder's church, of Brooklyn, voted to send delegates to the mntual council called by Plymouth church, .'has declined to attend, jndging.that the question to be laid before the council will be the guilt or ianocense of Mr. Beecher. One reason ia the question has thus tar proven insolvable, and is impracticable of solution in this world. Dr. Scudder himself and one of his deacons favored tbe acceptance of the invitation.

Crimes and Casualties. LYNCH LAW.

New Orleans, Jan. 10:—Burgess, a colored man confined in the Baton Rouse jail for the murder of a white mau, was hung by a mob Friday night.

FIGHT AMONG MINEUS.

Woodsviile, N. H., Jan. 11.—In a fii$ht among miners at Lylan, William Marston was fatally stabbed, and another was dangerously wounded, and several were badly cut and beaten.

A FATAL QUARREL.

New York, Jan. 11.—During a quarrel last evening, between John Knight and his wife, at 343 Water street, the wife fell through a glass door, and was cut so horribly that she died in a short time.

BEA1.

Bjrrou Binffham Btes of Appoplexjr at Hi« Home In Patvlia. Evansville, Jan. 10.—Gordon yron Bingham, one of the Bingham Bros., who were so heavily implicated in the operations of the whisky ring in this city, died at bis residence in Patoka this evening, at 6 o'dlock. His death was caused by appoplexy, superinduced by extreme nervous depression. He lingered unconscious from four o'clock until liis death. He was to have appeared at Indianapolis to-mor-row as a witness in the prosecution, and he seemed to fear tlfat it would cause his immediate sentence. He was evidently insane the day proceeding his death.

Failures.

A WASHINGTON GROCERY.

Washington, Jan. 10:—J. H. Martin & Co., wholesale grocers and commission merchants, on Fourth street, suspended. Liabilities reported at #90,000 assets §110,000.

Passed th® Stake Boat.

Pittsburg, Jan. 10.—James Hammill, ex-champion sculler, well known in this country and Europe, died at bis residence, on Second avenue, in this city to-day, after a short illness..

Markets To day.

Chicago—Wheat higher, 98%c for January,.99% March. Com 44K° f°r Januaryv, 43J4j Feb., 435£c tor May. Lard 12.59 for February, 12.60 bid for March. Pork 19.75 March, 20 20 buyer for April. -Now York—Wheat firm, receipls 29,000 1.05 to 1.08 No. 3 Chicago, No. 2 Chicago 1 24, Corn heavy, receipts 36000 bushels 66K® for new Western mixed, 73c for old. Pork firm,

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$ St,*-"*

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new mess. Lard 12%c. Whisky 1.11%. Cincinnati—Wheat firm, 1.30.- Corn 4Cc. Gats unchanged. Whisky firm, 1.08. Lard firml2%c. Bulk meats and bacon uncnangcd. Hogs rather dull, 7.20 to 7 30.

Railroad News.

W. H. Waters general agent of tbe Adams Express Company left the city, yesterday for the. East, having completed arrangements while here for running a messenger from Terre Haute to Vinceunos, over the Paris & Danvillo road by Robinson.

T- D. Messier ,, of Pittsburg- and other officers of tbe Pennsylvania' road and Major John E. Simpson, general manager of the St. Louis pooled lines, passed through the city this morning on tbe limited mail train,en route from Indianapolis, to Greenville, 111., where there is a meeting this-afternoon,of the directors of the St. Louis roads, They were joined here by President McKeen and Col. R. W Thompson.

NEW COACHES FOR THE I.

ST. L.

A. J. Sanborne, Superintendent of the rolling stock of the Indianapolis & St. Louis road, yesterday placed on the line two coaches which have been rebuilt at the Mattoon shops in a

improvements, such as the Miller platform, Westinghouse air-brake,etc., are attached.—[Indianapolis Journal.

CATHOLIC CHARGES.

TBE BODY OF ORPHAN CfTILJDK EN is BROUGHT VP FIOX VfNCENIfES INJCHARdE

OF BIM If OP ST' PAJtLOS.

A Large Number or.PcJrsaua at tb* Depot to KreMve* and E*Mri Them.

This paper has two or three times contained Items referring to tbe purchase of the hospital by the bishop of the Yincennes diocese to be used as a female orphan asylum, tbe building at Yincennes having proved to small.

This afternoon at 1:15 the E.

C.,

train came in with tbe orphan children, the platform at the depot was packed with people. The German and Irish temperance societies were represented as were also the sodalities of the Immaculate Conception.

Tom Gist was on hands with three omni busses, into which were placed about fifty of tbe smaller children and babies. The little things were all neatly dressed, wearing pretty blue flannel bonnets and waterproof cloaks. The larger orphans walked ia procession, headed by the boys' band. The GAZETTBEB, anxious to know what would be done with them when they arrived at tbe hospital, inquired of one of the gentlemen in charge whether there would be ang nsrvice at the building an their arrival. "Oh, no, none," said he, "except to feed them. I guess they will all be hungry." The Sisters of Providence will take charge of their education.

The Foak Packers.

Davis & Co have concluded to suspend operations for the present, on account of tbe high price of hogs. This morning they sold toS. S. Early 112 hogs, all that remained in their pens.

Mr. Early received 217 head of hogs by the Yandalia Road this morning and about 500 by the I. A St. L. They will kill about 500 hogs at this establishment this afternoon.

Mr. Early evidently intends to fight it out in spite of high prleee. Davis has killed in the neighborhood of 7,000 hogs, and is constantly buying.

Early has not killed quite so many thus far. Groendyke rented his packing house up the river the last season, and his renters are doing something, though not a great deal.

Preston & Co., at Hutsonvlile, have not killed a hog thus far. Notwithstanding the unfavorable prospects thus far, owing to the weather, an old pork man assures us that in his opinion more hogs will be killed throughout tbe west this winter than last.

The'packing was all over this time last season. The minor points are doing leas this season than last, hut the. large cities are killing fully as heavily.

The receipts of hogs at Ciecinaati yesterday is statod at 8,000. The cheapness of corn and the fine weather for feeding will prevent the hog raisers from bringing in their hogs for some time. All OTer tha country thousands of hog9 are rapidly gaining weight, and that too, without much expense to the owners. It need not. therefore, be expected that they will be brought to town until the weather breaks and the easy times for fattening are over.

Packing this season will not be -vr until way along towards spring. The price of pork ia *teadiiy JMsvancing, as will be seen by our quotations elsewhere. 'r.*

The Light-Fingered Visit Ma toon. On last Saturday ni*ht some thief or thieves broke into tho house

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that i3 very creditable. The upholstering and finish of the coaches is very attractive and elegant, while the exterior is painted olive brown, highly ornamented with gilt work. All mod

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Court House Echoes. MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Thomas .Calaban to Catherine Dawney.

Mr.

Chas. Alshular, at Mattoo-, uiul abstracted therefrom sciiiethiug ovrr $200 in goods and money. Mr. A.. known to our citizens as a lorn er clerk for Mr.. X. Goodman, Sr., uud later as having been here with the Mattoon folks in the cantata of Queen Esther.

THE teachers of the outside townships, with Superintendent Royse, have agreed to give each one day's wages toward a Centennial fund. There are one hundred and twelve teachers. The money is to be paid at once and arrangements made to represent the schools of VigJ county in the Centennial exposition of America. —[Journal.

THEstave and barrel works of Councilman Gilman are running on nine hours' time at present, and about fifty hands are employed.—[Express.

fobtbadsT

vacant lot,

103

feet, on

SoutbFiiaTsUeeM^t^eei Wilson and Btrmtfl for a hotMS and lot on Fifth or Sixth street", between Qfclo and Crawford B»reets, wortn Ave or

tboa-

•anddoUars, the difference paid In cash. Inquire at tlila offloo.

To Life on the Fat of iMd Willioat Work i« tfc® Aim Of Itavellav Agenta.

We don't employ them, but sell to the nMr at factory prices. Bend for onr

free

nrlce list which will give you *he Prtoe-

5nd lound satisfactory, to that the purchaser absolutely runs no risk wb»tej«j Thos is the way the best Scales inthe are sold by JONEB, of Blnghamton,

Cnicago, 111.