Show by ay iy teleo 8 telegraph ele eie raph graph S SENATE r W L the chaplain of the senate in his opening prayer returned thanks to providence for tile the repeal of the salary bill washington 11 14 selium said sald the issue now seemed to be between resumption and inflation he thought the doctrine of procrastination in redeeming the legal tenders a au alarming and dangerous one no ho he was opposed to tile tilo re issue isado of any portion of tiie the ODO of the reserve and he argued at length against the policy of expanding the currency in any way as not only not calculated to relieve the people but rather to add to the present results every consideration of good faith aud and sou pol poi icy lie declared declare durges urges the U B S to put an ond end nd to tilis tills this iniquitous system he especially criticized the plan plau for resumption proposed by ferry of mich midi which he lie said was to extend the currency until the country was prosperous and then resume payment he also critic criticized izod the plan of boutwell Bout weil weli which lie characterized as a the know noth which the country had IM had too much already the return to specie payment must be preceded by severe retrenchment in public and private expenditure by prudence in business enter enterprises arises i and by a recognition of the truth that honest and productive labor is the true source of wealth he argued that the west and south h had ad never been and never would be benefited by the expansion of the currency but would bo be greatly benefited by a resumption of specie payment ho he argued that the pre pro bent sent was an auspicious time to begin gi i resu resumption emption as one 0 of the greatest est esi difficulties 1 in the way the shrinkage of prices was now less than ever zefore in conclusion lie announced ills hia intention of voting for the tige resolution of the mIn minority I 1 offered by bayard did and J if C that failed for that of the majority as the next best and lie he expressed a hope that a bill would soon be prepared providing 0 for a return to specie payments at the close of schurz speech the senate went into executive session bio sio nand and soon after adjourned f HOUSE the house took up the tho substitute for the salary bill hurlbut who introduced the bill which this was a substitute declared his willing willingness ness Dess to accept substitute as a satisfactory solution of the vexed question he yielded the floor however to haie hale abair chairman of tile tiie the select committee oil on subject who a concurrence in the substitute and called for the previous question butler and dawes wanted to ofner offer or indicate an amendment and cox said that himself and others wanted a more perfect bill but hale stood firm that he would not risk the subject being opened again he believed that the bill was as good as the house would get the question was then seconded to 57 and tile the substitute was adopted adopted yeas nays 25 the bill now in the tho house the report of committee on tho the revision of laws was received it is a ponderous document containing thousand printed printed pages and it agreed to hold hoid old oid two evening each week until it was disposed of the house then went into a committee of the whole on the same an and after dafter some discussion ada burned AMERICAN t BO bonton BOSTON 13 flemin fleming ls bookbindery on the upper floor of 74 sudbury street was burned this morning also the stock odthe of the other occupants cu pants A of had valuable works in tho the bindery bindert the loss is not stated the loss of fleming co binders by the destruction of establishment in sudbury street today to day is on their stock forty and fifty thousand only partly insured they had on hand b binding inding anding about worth books belonging to publishers boston and new york among the losers are J osgood A co sc shepherd jno TJ sperry congregational publishing house home 11 S daly co E estes stes lauriat Sau San hiat riat armstrong co the kossof of woolworth ainsworth aco co publishers N Y is about 10 ogo insured 11 the boston congregational publishing society lose insured lee and shephard lose about insured the total loss will probably bo be misses may and peabody Pc two of the women recently elected on the school committee were admitted to seats in that body last night pending the question of the legality of th their ein eln election A AUSTIN U STIN tex 13 both noth branches of tho the legislature met today to day and organized without opposition A committee was wag hp pointed appointed to inform governor davis of their organization and of their readiness to receive any message from him charleston S C 13 at a meeting of property holders at columbus yesterday it was resolved to ask the taxpayers convent convention on w which aich meets on the 1 ath of fe feb b in view of tho the ruinous rate of taxes imposed by the state legislature to petition congress to remand the state to a territorial condition or to place it again 0 under military rule NEW YORK 13 sid sidney ney uey mcleod a ship carpenter has been arrested in jersey city charged with causing the death of his wife wire by violence ex senator Gra gna graham harn the defaulting president of the walkill national bank bink was today to doy day sentenced to tell ten years yea imprisonment in the albany penitentiary neuben reuben lieu ben M murdoch a special policeman shot hh hn wine wife dead tonight she had been out to a neighbors and i returning et at ten she entered tho the jjack jaack back door her husband thinking ing it A ivas was a bur burglar glar blar fired he was arrested manchester N J 13 3 the engineer engineers sand and train and track hands of the new jersey southern IL RR it quit work last evening the locomotives are in the shops partly disconnected and aud taken out the track has lias been torn up in din diu ement erent P places laces preventing the tile trains from running the caucus of republican senators was called more aspeci especially illy to exchange views relative to the nomination of cushin cushing for chief justice the meeting of the senate at noon interrupted the proceedings ce edings of the caucus but after an early adjournment ot 0 the session the caucus resumed when senators edmunds conkling and boutwell advocated the confirmation of cushing these were his ills principal adv advocates ac at but those who spoke on the other side were far more numerous and beform before the discuss discussion loti ended it was observed that the nominees friends were in the minority finally ib it was informally decided to ask the judiciary committee to call upon the president and represent to him the feeling among the republican Republic au senators against the confirmation the opposition lo 10 cushing is solely upon political grounds TOPEKA Ks 13 the legislature convened at nobmi noon today to fo day B H Mc Me Eckson of cloud county was elected speaker of tho the house by a unanimous vote in taking the tile chair he announced himself an original republican but fully in sympathy with retrenchment and reform and opposed to all monopolies the senate met and virtually decided not to go into a reorganization of that body as had been contemplated tem tom plated DES drs MOINES 13 bogli branches brandies of the legislature met today to day the senate elected the nominees of the republican caucus for officers and adopted a resolution censuring severely the members of congress who voted for and the president for signing ane increase of salary bill and demanding its repeal SAN FRANCISCO 13 the news that the china was spoken at sea ben ei all right dec has done much to allay the anxiety for her safety but blat the chinese who have oil on board a full outfit for their new temple are constantly at prayer for her safe arrival in port the weather ie mains remains very coll cold for this locality HELENA ma 13 yesterday id ill digging inthe ruins of the enters inters national 11 hotel otel the tile body of ronrad konrad knipper kilpper was found ho lie having perished in the late fire the weather is cold the tiie thermometer three below zero idro CHICAGO 14 washl washington n toil toli specials I 1 1 I is give ive lve a lively account of the cusi ang ing aing caucus yesterday the inter special saysie says bays if lightning had struck the ngom room in which the senate caucus was held heid it would not have disturbed Cushi nays nals friends mom more than the letter produced and read by sargent from cushing to davis davig president of the confederacy when the ca caucus acus met it was fully attended Cush ings friends feeling confident dwards edwards E opened and presented the case for the committee but showed plainly that personally he had bad little heart in the matter sargent opposed the confirmation gave way to cameron who said lie he desired to leave on the noon train but ho he wished to indicate his position he then attacked tile nomination with gre great at vigor and said that if made it would destroy the republican party sargent resuming referred to Cush ings antecedent and coming down to 1802 1882 produced and read a letter of cushing to marcy of new hampshire denouncing the tile war in a style that would have done credit to scott followed very much in the strain of sargent and cameron he would not support the resolution unless it could bo be proved to his liis entire ai satisfaction dis faction that cushing was sound on the great question growing out of the war and lie he must have convincing proof Freling huysen of the committee followed and endorsed those views scott spoke of the great importance of the office and said that it was essentially political and that it would not answer to put a man there if reasonable suspicion existed that lie was not riot in the fullest accord with the settlement of or the war his speech had great eddle effle effect ct Bout ivell lvell next got the floor but as it was noon lie ho gave way to the tho motion to adjourn it was agreed that the caucus should meet again as soon as the senate adjourned which ic did very early boutwell began but was considerably embarrassed barr assed by the letter which sargent had read he went on to say however that from his acquaintance with with cushing since the war he had bad been led to believe that he was fully committed to and in sympathy with the pol pos position of the republican party and that he believed cushing had been in favor of the tile iwar he based his belief in this regard on his newburyport speech in 1861 already printed in the newspapers he was greatly surprised ed at the tche letter to marcy which ho he had bad just j heard for lor tile first time he closed with feeble words the tha letter had evidently stopped his speech toward the close of bout wells speech edmunds interrupted liim him to say that he had just heard a report that cushing had written a letter to Jef lerson jennerson davis tavis in 1861 1661 and he lie thought it just and proper to mention it boutwell resumed to close his remarks and while lie he was speaking sargent came in and lie he was soon sonn noticed to be showing around what appeared to be a jetter letter mr air edmunds sl ma created great excitement cit but no one knew that such a letter ietter as lie alluded to had llad been seen by anybody among others conkling was wal observed to take sargents Sar gents letter to tile tiie window and read it he defended cushing saying that lie was like ilke many mariy other democrats at first opposed to the war but afterwards they were loyal to tile tiie the union urion after t lie speech of conkling there were calls on oil all sides for sar saren sargent en to read the letter lie he had 1 he objected saying staying lie he had been requested by senators not to read it in the caucus but so rna many senators insisted that finally ho read it it was dated washington march match 21 yol yoi 61 and was addressed to jeli jeff davis and began my dear friend 11 ip up to 0 9 late hour faour it has been impossible to obtain a verbatim copy but it read in substance as follow follows ss 1 my dear friend this will introduce to you my friend abra abraham baui bani powers who has been clerk in one of tho the depart ments here for six or seven years he ire leaves the here hero on oil ac ne count of opinions opinion and sand belll belli being a southern man by berthand birth birt hand and education and devoted to what he lic regarded as his country and the confederacy ho he lias has been a contributor to de do bows and I 1 fully acquainted quaint quain ted edwith the tilo questions which undermined and have now broken up the american union 1 commend him to your favorable notice as is a man who is worthy of your confidence signed calen CALEB CUSHING the readi reading tig fig produced an immense sensation thosa those who had llad defended cushing cushin looked blank and amazed lewis of virgi Virgl virginia nid uld cried out to learn whether the political disabilities 3 of cushing had llad ever been removed the caucus was for sonie sonic time jime broi brol broken kete kett up and senators were in confusion talking the matter over and again azain for the tile paints points at lt tt oraf r wih wim restored when it was at once dei elded without opposition that the judiciary committee should wait on the tile president and ask him to withdraw the nomination of cushing oil on the ground of correspondence with the enemy during the rebellion the gentleman thus commended to davis da vis was a clerk in the attorney generals office here under caleb cushing gushing he was before a midshipman from texas with this letter he went to montgomery goi gol nery and on its strength was made chief of the confederate states produce bure burc bureau riu and served in that capacity in the confederacy the committee will wait on the president today to day the letter was found round yesterday by an official of to the h gov government e r n m ent and given to the A adjutant dju tnt t nt r general en J who took it at once ne to S secretary e cr e t belknap and the latter took it over to the president it was mentioned in the tile cabinet to today duy day and senator sargent learning ln of the letter this afternoon went to the department anspro and procured a copy the case recalled the letter of jesse D bright for which he was expelled from the senate this letter dated three weeks before Cush ings was as follows washington march 14 1861 scaly MY DEAR SIR allow me to introduce to your acquaintance my friend thomas B lincoln of texas he visits your capital mainly to dispose of what he be regards as a ireat great improvement in fire armean arms and I 1 recommend him to your navor havor favorable abio ablo considene con consideration tion he is a gentleman of great respectability and reliable in every respect very truly yours jessie jessle D bright to his excellency jefferson davis president of the confederate states 11 althou although h the senate has confirmed cushing as minister to spain the universal opinion is that lie he will not be allowed to sail and that the president will revoke his commission the tribunes Tribune 8 special says cush cugh cuth ings inga letter was found among the tile captured archives of the confederacy BALTIMORE 14 the national bricklayers Balck Baick layers union yesterday rejected a proposition to receive colored men of the craft washington 14 the tho cabinet meeting fully attended was held this forenoon to consider the subject of Cush ings nomination for chief justice suase subsequently bently the matter was settled by cushing writing at the presidents request for the withdrawal of his nomination which was accordingly done in a communication just sent to the senate LONDON 14 dispatches from cape coast castle report that general Wool wooi selcy seley and staff stamm with two hundred seamen started for the river december 27 and that ills his scouts had gone several miles beyond without encountering the enemy BOSTON 17 lt A |