Show by I 1 eieg raph congressional SENATE 5 when the clause appropriating for rent of the building for U S pension office and bureau and education was reached a long discussion ensued and the amendment was at it last adopted which apar appropriated for that purpose all the other amendments of the committee restoring salaries of employees in the bureau of education post office department and the department part ment of justice and agriculture were agreed to 5 S 6 at 1 the legislative business was suspended and tho consideration of the articles of impeachment against belknap resumed counsel for accused filed hied a motion that the senate vacate so much of the order recently adopted holding as naught the plea as to the jurisdiction filed by him for the reason that the said plea was not overruled by a vote voto of two thirds of the senators present the order submitted by whyte on thursday last directing the tho defendant to plead further or answer the articles of impeachment within ten days from date was amended BO so as to read that the defendant have leave to plead further etc thurman submitted an amendment to that order as follows and in default of answer to merits within ten days by respondent to the articles of impeachment the trial shall proceed as upon the plea of not guilty I 1 the rho rhe question being an amendment a vote was taken and resulted yeas 31 nays 5 no quorum voting the sergeant at arms was directed to request the attendance of the absent senators after a short time the senators responded and the amendment was agreed to by a vote of 35 yeas to 7 nays lord then submitted ao an order that on the lith of july 1876 the senate enate fe sitting as a court of impeachment peach ment proceed to hear the evidence on the merits of the trial by this house sargent moved to amend by inserting june instead of july lith pending this discussion blair of counsel for the tho accused gave notice that if these propositions were rejected he would move to postpone the trial until the lat of november next Bl morrill orrill said the tho question for fixing for this trial was very important he moved that the galleries u be cleared and the doors closed that senators might confer upon that question agreed to after aften a short time the vote was again taken yeas 35 nays 7 many senators opposed to the j jurisdiction did not vote whyte further modi modified nned fled his motion so as to read as follows ordered that mr belknap have leave to answer the articles of impeach ment ten days from this thib date and that in default of an answer to the merits within ten days by the respondent to the articles ef of impeachment the trial shall proceed as upon the plea of not guilty agreed to yeas 33 naysh nays 4 lord submitted an order that OB on the lith of july the senate sitting as a court of impeachment will proceed to hear evidence A long debate ensued on the question fuestion as to when the trial should ngin ugin begin the senate went into secret session and on being opened reopened re the orders were read that the datlof date of july sixth be nixed fixed upon sargent submitted an order directing the managers to furnish defendant or his counsel within twenty four hours a list of witnesses they intended to call in this case edmunds moved to amend by inserting four days instead of twenty four hours houm agreed to the court then adjourned till the it being understood that the court would then meet to receive rece ive lve the answer of the respondent under the order adopted the legislative business was then resumed the chair laid before tha senate the unfinished business being belog the legislative executive aud judicial appropriation bill the pending question being befog the amend amendment mont of edmunds that all appointments in the executive department of the government shall bo mada mado up on a careful and alid impartial examine atlon of the candidates by a board composed of not less than five live Se senator natorp to be appointed by the president and with the advice and consent of the senate senates and the most capable and worthy of the competitors examined shall bo be selected for such appointment washington 7 windom from the committee on public lands landy reported favorably on the house bill to amend the act of dec 1874 for the relief of certain settlers on public lands passed it extends the provisions of the act mentioned for one year so aa as not to deprive homestead set tiera who were driven norm horn their homes by the locust plague of their rights the resolution proposing a common unit of money and account for the united and great britain which was discussed last monday was called up and passed HOUSE washington 5 the comm committee it on elections offered a resolution declaring bennett the sitting delegate from idaho not entitled to his seat ordered printed blaine rising to a question of privilege proceeded to address the house and after a lengthy speech said it was his intention to read every one of the letters referred to the first letter blaine read was addressed to fisher and dat datt d 1861 it referred to the settlement between the writer and fisher and contained an allusion to a note given for spencer rifle stock blaine said an explanation was necessary in reference to this note two years before ho he came into Cong congress persons who owned the patent for the spencer rifle came to him and said the rifle ring in washington was so that they could get no chance for a contract he came to washington and succeeded in getting the war department to recognize the spencer rifle for which service he was paid a reasonable fee afterwards before he came into congress he was asked and took of the spencer rifle stock which he had paid for the next three letters cental contained ned nothing important and referred mainly to the settlement between him and fisher the fifth letter referred to a decision made by biame blame aa as speaker on the last night of the session in 1969 ruling out the amendment offered by julian to annex the memphis and el paso bill to the bill relating to the Little Attle rock road Gen GenIi Logan ogan at the suggestion of the speaker made a point of order against the amendment and the speaker ruled it out this was some months before he blaine Bl alne aine became interested in the stock of the road additional letters were then tb en read in full blaine maine making explanation in regard to one which referred to of the union pacific bonds which blaine said belonged to a member of his hla family gall hamilton and u upon P which he bad lent mo money ney these never belonged to him there were three other papers included among the letters relating to the northern pacific railroad concerning which blaine said nothing except that be he would have them printed in the record with the other letters the memorandum of letters made by mulligan was then read at the clerks desk and blaine then said this was all having finished reading the lettle letters rs he said he had been completely exonerated by all the witnesses from the bond charge AMERICAN YANKTON D T 5 A targe large large party retied returned to today jay day day from the black in dust they report no indians indiana on the fort pierre route and look on the order of the military suspending travel as an outrage several ore freighters who left teams at pierr pierre e are arc expecting fo to buy loads here and and return at once A dispatch received from the military headquarters today to day dated the ath dinst states that a courier arrived from red bed cloud this morning in says sasa yellow robe arrived at to the agency six days ago from the hostile camp cam Eighteen teen hundred and aud six sis lodges on about to leave for powder river bel bei below ow the point of crazy hornela horsed fight and the indians oy say they will fight and have three thousand i warriors ciry crry mo 5 1 P A and F TA Hes teiman telmac liquor dealers 9 langas city were sentenced in la the U 8 district lii strict today to day to one month in n the jackson county jail and the firm to pay washington 5 speak speaker kerr came into the committee room quite quito feeble and presented a long statement which was read by elliott in this statement kerr says he remembers green having come to him and thinks likely that harney introduced him but that point he dont recollect lle he is certain however he never knew the man haney and that consequently harney never visited him anywhere harney never paid nor proposed to pay him any money for any purpose in the world his whole statement on that point is wickedly false SAN BAN FRANCISCO 5 A dispatch from froin carson nev nov reports that from sixty to a hundred armed men supposed to be the anti coolie club duo of that city stopped a gravel train near the tunnel a mile west of the town on the virginia truckee railroad and ordered back the chinese laborers that were on the train and would not allow them to work it ia is reported that both parties are arming in anticipation of a fight chinatown is in danger of being burned excitement intense NEW YORK 6 the tribune Y abune in in an editorial says blaine has seized his hla opportunity and is once more the man of the hour the patriots who have been parting his garments among them may as well abandon that thai cheerful task he is not half so near dead as his persecutors there can be no mistaking the concurrent judgment of the observers of all parties as to the effect of the tha dramatic scene seene inthe in the house yesterday the division in blaines Bla bia inea favor is instantaneous and overwhelming if he was a strong candidate a week ago he is stronger now what blaine has done is far more than simply to disprove the allegations against him that indeed he has done thoroughly the letters about which the confidence man mulligan declared that blaine was ready to commit suicide about are given to the world and seen to be harmless the times boston special says mulligan states that blaine has not read all the letters and he never will the times thinks kerr has made his long pron promised alsed explanation of hia hla appointment of green and does not leave leave the case much clearer than he found it ibl he is unable to account for his acquaintance with green or the introduction of that gentleman to him the case remains substantially an open one this means that the case against kerr is not conclusive and he be is entitled to exemption from the suspicion his previous character creates for him the in an ed editorial thinks the kerr scandal is wiped out washington 6 ex governor wm A newell of new jersey nas nab called a meeting of the national execl executive tive tivo committee of the union league of america to be held at the grand central hotel in cincinnati cin clu nati uati on the evening of the day the convention closes members who cannot attend aie ate requested to send substitutes ao so that every state and territory may be represented DENVER denven col 6 eight companies of the fifth cavalry under command of col carr passed through here today to day enrite ute to j join oln oin gen crooks indian expedition the detachment numbers men hunters from the head waters of the republican say bay that the and Arapah oes are leaving in large humbers bumbers bound north it is supposed that they are going to join the sioux MONTREAL 6 the metropolitan bank of montreal is in difficulty it is proposed to reduce the stock and amalgamate the concern with some other bank serious charges are made against the directors by rhodes of quebec who claims damages owing to his being deceived into buying stock of the bank through a highly colored document issued by the board of directors he also aiso charges the directors with using g money belonging to the bank for their own private ends SAN FRANCisco 6 at a mee meeting 4 ing last night of ithe the anti antl chinese central union composed of delegates of all the city clubs the following communication was read california Antl anti Coolie secret organization june 1 1876 dear sir we beg to refer you to ono one 0 of our letters to the six companies published in the daily papers vors week and as wa we see bat hat you are likely to be in correspondence with every anti chinese club we wish you would call tion to the same since that letter ietter r was written our great organization has spread immensely and is now called as above we have received more support than we could have expected our supplies for the city are nearly all at hand band and our country depots are complete and ready for action we cannot te be too strong therefore if there are a few among the clubs who will sup eup port us all the better for our cause we neither intend to respect the chinese or their employers As ours oura ia is a secret society much work necessarily falls on me the president we shall fore deem it a favor if it you will make this known to every member we every anti antl coolie coulle club from any participation in the organization we are a picked army of true americans determined to have the centennial our own to celebrate signed sworn and registered registe rec according to the thu jaws daws of the above organization signed THE tue PRESIDENT A resolution was passed depreciating oa 08 the part of the union and hud city clubs all violence towards chinese and calling on the chief of oi police ta to protect the chinese and bunh punch h those committing outrages upon them jarrett palmer opened to a full house at the california theatre last night and were well received washington 6 the prominent points made by pixley were that there had been a great change of sentiment on this question in california that the people had been disappointed in realizing any benefits from the presence of the chinese in california and that opposition to them con til luing tinning immigration was common to their religious and laboring classes that the chinese interfered with all the best interests of the pacific coast and that their influence ia Is demoralizing to the community in which they reside he here presented that in the heart of san francisco there were cill Clit chinese nese presenting a disgraceful spectacle of squalor filth disease poverty and crime that of this number were professed criminals and were prostitutes that china embraced five hundred millions of people the united states forty millions and the pacific states about one million of people that the cost of passage from china to san ban francisco is less lees than from mississippi to california and that the chinese threatened to overwhelm the pacific coast to destroy its industries and to imperil its prosperity it was explained that beaith health and police regulations could not be enforced in san francisco because the penalty of imprisonment was a welcome relief to the Chinese who found the comforts of the county jail superior to their ordinary life that the vicious and idle classes are rapidly rn multiplying ul and threaten to become a pest and a burden to the state and city government the chinese are monopolizing opol izing all the lighter industries and driving the laboring classes in into extreme want they are mostly adult males capable of living upon a little rice tear tea and dried fish and that the white laborer could not compete with them and earn elou enough gh to support and educate I 1 his Is I 1 ab children ildren that the strain upon the laboring population is so severe that there is danger of or violence and bloodshed pixley claimed that ho he depre rented the popular opinion of all intelligent and respectable classes upon the pacific coast that it was an intelligent public opinion formed by actual observations of the chinese for years and was entitled to great consideration in conclusion be said that the pacific coast demanded of the treaty making howera modification of the treaty and the executive onford enforcement of existing law to restrict the chinese immigration and especially that of cool coolies leg lei 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