Show toting TO ting Tins DESERET NEWS to senate the vice president submitted the resolutions of rhode island and theair finla legislature ratifying the constitutional tut ional amendments which were referred to the committee on judiciary sumner Introduce introduced da a bill to enforce the amendment to the Constitution and declaring the right of suffrage not to be denied on account of race color or previous condition of servitude it provides for the fining and imprisonment imprison imprisonment meni of persons persona hindering citizens from voting or being registered and the district cour courts tsure are given exclusive jurls juris juristic dic die sidn in these cases the chair announced the appointment of revels bevels upon the committees of education and labor howard offered a resolution instructing the committee on public lands to insert in all further land grant bills a provision to secure the right of settlers to a homestead thereon requiring the sale thereof at the same price as the alternate sect sections lons Jons held by government stewart offered a resolution which was adopted directing the secretary of state to furnish information as to what legislation was necessary to effect the administration of justice and protect american interests in chin china a and japan the funding bill was taken up and sherman made a lengthy speech in support of it explaining its benefit and results at three the senate went into executive session and subsequently adjourned jour ned wilson riison introduced a joint t resolution for the better observance of sunday in the military and naval departments revels kevels presented a petition from the colored men of philadelphia for the pa passage s of a bill to secure them equal protection of the laws MOUSE the committee OK on commerce are discussing a bill for the leasing of alaska aa as seal fisheries thus carrying out the suggestion of the special agents who visited those fisheries the bill permits the killing of a hundred thousand seals annually unless the secretary of the treasury considers it necessary to restrict it to a smaller number all the privileges granted by the act are to be given to the alaska commercial company for a period of 20 years they agree to pay a dollar and a half of internal revenue tax for each akin shipped and to give reasonable wages for the labor of natives also to furnish them with food goods and clothing at reasonable rates to maintain schools for the education of children and not sell spirituous liquors to the nati natively na vew the company are to give bonds in three hundred thousand dollars for the per firmance for mance of their duties the government has not subjected any expense on behalf of said company to congress and reserves the right to amend or repeal the bill at pleasure secretary boutwell opposes the bill but appearances indicate that some such measure will pass the military committee will today to day report a resolution for the expulsion ot of Dawe bof bot north carolina the evidence showing conclusively that he sold bold a cadetship in the naval academy for nive five hundred dollars and promised to sell a west point cadetship general inspector general through whose hands the west point appointments passed testified that he held back fifteen appointments last spring on the ground that the appointees were not residents of the districts from which they had been appointed the attorney general however decided that one days residence would meet the requirements of the law various bills were introduced and referred including the following one to provide for the enforcement of judge ments in lawful money one to regulate the civil service one to amend the internal revenue laws and one lo 10 relieve the people of the late insurrectionary states palmer offered a resolution instructing the committee on banking to report a general law authorizing the establishment lish ment of national banks unrestricted in the aggregate number and the circulation cu based on such buch issue of united states bonds as shall induce the lowest rate of interest the house refused to second the previous question md abathe the resolution went over spunk spink offered a resolution in favor of such tariff for revenue on foreign im ports ts aa as will incidentally protect dom mr destio ie manufactures and without impairing the reye revenue nue impose the least burdens upon and best promote and encourage the great industrial interests of the country the house seconded the previous question wood moved to table the resolution which was without a discussion and the affe resolution was adopted by against 48 the resolution was copied verbatim from the national democratic platform of 68 yet the democrats generally voted against it the speaker presented the resignations of golladay of kentucky and Deweese of north Carolina who are understood der stood to have been implicated in the matter of selling cadet ships the house went into a committee of the whole on the indian appropriation bill the massacre of the piegan indians by colonel baker was further discussed by a number of members stevenson cavanaugh and mccormick defending the act after progressing through 34 pages of the bill the committe rose adjourned the senate amendments to the post route bill were concurred in resolutions solutions Be were adopted instructing the judiciary committee to inquire whether the cherokees or other tribes of indians are citizens of the united states under the amendment and whether a treaty can be made with them logan from the military committee reported the testimony in the case of deweese with a resolution setting forth that deweese had made ments for pecuniary consider consideration atlon and declaring that his conduct shows him to be unworthy of a seat in the house the testimony was read by the clerk also a statement by deweese acknowledging the receipt of money but that at the time he did not know there was i any wrong in it but as boon soon aa as ho he realized that be he had done wrong he returned ithe ethe money the resolution was adopted unanimously logan glogau asked instructions as to what the committee on mill military affairs should do in the investigation of sales of cadet ships by the members of a former congress woodward bingham banks and logan thought the house had no jurisdiction various suggestions and resolutions were offered and modified and it was finally resolved on motion of garfield that the military committee be reinstated to continue the investigations of the purchases creales or bales sales of cadet ships by any member of the forty first congress or any person holding any executive or judicial office garfield presented the te testimony stimon 1 taken in the gold panic investigation with the report agreed to by the committee cox presented the minority report of himself and jones both reports were laid on the table and ordered to be printed and committed recommitted re this gives the committee control of the matter so as to call it up at any time adjourned julian from the committee on public u n bill relieving from the payment of fees under the homestead laws honorably discharged soldiers and sailors passed bennett from the committee on commerce reported a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge over the niagara river elver at buffalo and making it a post road passed ingersoll from the committee on roads and canals reported a bill grant ing lands for a railroad between st james mo and little bock rock arkansas olman oiman 9 holman opposed the bill on the ground that he was against against giving away any more public lam law lands s considerable discussion ensued the friends of the bill explaining that the road ran through a poor country whose land had been in the market for fifty years and had not been entered an amendment was offered and adopted reserving to the Government the right to fix the rates of freigh tand passenger fare the morning hour expired and the bill went over the house went into a committee of the whole on the indian appropriation bill after some time had been spent in its consideration the committee arose butler offered a resolution instructing the judiciary committee to inquire by what means and by whom the privilege of the house had been invaded so that the testimony given before the gold investigation committee had been published before being reported to the rouse house hoube he also inquired what action was necessary to protect members of Con congress gresi fib m t fi e cons eracles of office brokers ardd arid athe others i r making cb charges chargi argi against 1 nat them for extortion adopted w 1111 maynard offe offered redl a re resolution calling on the secretary of the navy for in formation in regard to the loss of the steamer oneida adopted GEN genendal EnAL WASU washington INGTON 28 the secretary of the treasury has directed the assistant treasurer at new york to continue the sale of one million of gold and the pur chase of a million of bonds each alternate week during march on account of the sinking fund also to purchase a million of bonds each alternate week for a special fund the senate judiciary committee have unanimously agreed upon the reports relative to georgia they do not recommend any further legislation but say there were irregularities in the organization of the present legislature and decide that the terms of the governor and the present legislature commenced in 1868 the report is considered favorable to hill and miller though the committee make no special recommendation men inen dation with regard to the senatorial question the supreme court today to day in the captured and abandoned cotton cases from the court of claims decided that the people of the united states were not called on to determine for themselves when the war of the rebellion closed but that august 1866 the date of the presidents proclamation declaring the fact was deemed conclusive on the question SAVANNAH savannar general lueada quesada Qu eada and staff passed through here on saturday from florida the general was in excellent health and was very cheerful with regard to their cause he represents that the cuban army consists of twenty thousand men but he says they need arms he ire ba bays says ys they will succeed whether they are aided or not NEW yore YOKE the american christian commission organized to evange evangelize the whole Ameri amerl amerlean american caia cala people met last evening addresses were made by the rey rev dr adams and dr duryea of brooklyn thomas eaton late police commissioner has been appointed superintendent of the united states assay office for this city wm H seward attended divine service at trinity church yesterday and dined with thurlow weed me he receives friends friend at the astor house today the people of long island are still excited over the success of the mormon elders who are making converts to the faith those members of the society who were driven from freeport the other day by a mob located at patchogue where protection is promised them by a justice of the peace this action on theeart the part of the justice has caused much excitement excite met yesterday a meeting was held at christian hook I 1 and it was thought for a time that a serious disturbance tur bance would occur but malcontents were dissuaded from makin making g an assault elder eider brower of salt lake harangued the assembly it is predicted that if the mormons cormons continue to hold meetings to prorogate their doctrines on long island iT erious serious disturbances will occur terminating in bloodshed on saturday officer parsons seized a quantity of gunpowder gun powder which had been shipped on a passenger steamer to bridgeport conn as merchandise the powder was turned over to the fire commissioners at a great revival meeting held ata methodist church on long island which is still in process converts have been made having joined the church the right eight rev bev david W bacon catholic bishop of maine who return I 1 ed from rome borne last week preached yesterday in the church of which he was formerly pastor the bishop said he would return to Rome borne boon soon he had arranged some matters connected with his diocese A committee of colored laborers of the union association of new york have resolved to hold a meeting to celebrate the ratification of the amendment on the day previous to the antislavery meeting wendell philipa fred douglass senator morton and senator revels bevels have been invited to address the meeting A letter from rome borne says that the archbishop of baltimore has formed a third party in the ecumenical council archbishop spaulding thu the american episcopal force intermediately between the extremists of italy and germany on the infallibility question and other vexed subjects american prelates pr elates may thus thu s carry pw oft the greater number of vacant scarlet hats 3 services were held at e each pek ack of the water st mission houses yesterday crowds of passersby passers by attracted by the novelty filled the rooms the worlds havana correspondent writes that the assassin of greenwald barnot bas has not yet been tried and his accomplices have been helped to escape from the island by means of funds secretly raised by volunteers birthday was complimented with a salute of 21 guns from the flag ship spanish admiral A further decline in gold is predicted even bets were made yesterday that it would touch in ten days general jordan has notified the spanish authorities that for every cuban murderer murdered hereafter he will kill ten of the spanish officers who are now his prisoners A regiment with officers battery and artillery leave montreal for the red bed river eiver country in may A letter from montreal says that complications are likely to arise which will wiil implicate earl granville formerly president of the hudsons Hud Huda ons sons bay company he earnestly recommends the canadian government to pay the price agreed upon for the red bed river biver country in order to avoid an investigation which will be promptly demanded if the money is not paid CHICAGO the tribunes washington special says that a characteristic roaring farce meeting was held on saturday night in response to a call from the friends of gen butler the fact that he was waa appoint edat the union league hall where female suffrage meetings have been held excited general curiosity and ridicule the object appeared to be to palm it on as a gathering of soldiers and sailors who served under butler at new orleans but the meeting consisted of a bras brass band ba nd and less than a hundred people the speakers generally proclaimed butler as the republican publican Be candidate for president in 72 A resolution was adopted thanking butler for his defence of wittemore in the house after adjournment the crowd numbering forty nine individuals including some policemen and a colored woman proceeded to butlers re residence idenie and serenaded him butler made a brief speech and then withdrew the meeting was apparently carried on by insignificant and obscure men SAN FRANCISCO 28 late arizona advices advises state that the mining news is favorable rich mineral discoveries are reported one gold bearing quartz near bradshaw mountain has been traced for feet twenty claims have been located on it the rock assays essays from two thousand to thirty five hundred dollars per ton flour at prescott is 36 per barrel and on the decline ST louis A bill passed the lower house of the legislature on saturday almost unanimously requiring the school board to appropriate to every private school now or hereafter established at st alouis louis louls ten dollars for each scholar receiving free tuition in such school it ills Is said that if the bill becomes law it can be made almost entirely to break up the public school system an effort will be made to defeat it in the senate washington the fourth military district is abolished and the state of mississippi is attacked attached attached |