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Show WASHINGTON. Tli a It cas.ie tabling or Con cress Enforcing Law in Sontli Carolina. Caro-lina. Nome IV o men's Ueiolnllons, Washington, 9. There will be a quorum of senators to-morrow on tbe reassembling of congress. About forty are already in the city. It is not bo certain that there will be a quorum of the house. It is not anticipated anti-cipated that any business ol interest will be transacted until Monday. The firBt business in the house is the pending resolution of Wood, instructing instruct-ing tbe principal standing commit tees to inquire into any errors, abuseB or frauds in the administration and execution of existing laws, with a view to ascertain what change and reformation refor-mation can be made, so as to promote the integrity, economy and efficiency of the several departments. A telegram to the commissioner of internal revenue fromKevenue Agent Wagner, dated Charlotte, 3. 0,, today, to-day, says: "Governor Hampton has directed the sherifl of Union county to see the law enforced, and proposes to remove the trial justice and disband the militia company implicated in the rescue of the ledsral prisoners at Spartansburg. We shall call on the sheriff tor a posse and beliavo we shall be able to avoid all trouble." The Woman's Suffrage convention to-day adopted a series of resolutions, setting forth tbe duty of the national government' in maintaining in equal rights all its citizens, without regard to sex; the injustice of remanding women from a hearing before the highest tribunal of the nation to state legislation; the right of educated tax-paying tax-paying women of the nation to have precedence over tbe Chinese and Indiaus; in reference to congressional action on their civil and political status; condemnation of tbe proposed sixteenth amendment, which introduces intro-duces the sectarian idea of God into the constitution; the injustice of taxing tax-ing the properly of widows and spinsters to its full value, while the clergy are largely exempt; lastly, the proposition that education should be made compulsory, and that alter 1835 there should be an "educational quali ficatiou to the right of sutfruge. Miss Morgan, colored delegate from Mississippi, Miss-issippi, addressed the convention. She said that the colored women in the District of Columbia were under the fourteenth and fifteenth amend menU eu titled to sulfrage, but they diil not propose to demand it until their white sisters were accorded the Baiue privilege. She wanted no privileged classes. Tbe statement that Conk Hug will introduce a resolution inTcstigatiug the president's title, is universally discredited. dis-credited. Bon Butler declares he never heard of such intention. Southern men Bay that if introduced it would be defeated by the southern votes. |