Abstract

The Week

The article provides information on recent political developments in the U.S. On the occasion of a Southern "loyal claim" for supplies furnished the Union Army, Edmund S. Bragg of Wisconsin has delivered a wholesome speech in the U.S. House, in which he improved it to denounce the Southern Claims Commission, on principle, and to express his surprise that these claims should receive the votes of ex-Confederate members. The U.S. Senate has passed the U.S. House Refunding Bill without dissent, and the Consular and Diplomatic Bill; and the Naval Appropriation Bill, after James G. Blaine had wasted a good deal of time in advocating amendments which he saved from defeat by withdrawing, and in dodging George Edmunds' patronizing thrusts at him for his "record" and his great expectations. The resolution introduced into the House last week by William Windom, of Minnesota, for enquiry as to the feasibility of securing the emigration of African Americans from those parts of the South in which the exercise of their political rights is prevented or hindered to other parts where it is not, overlooked the fact that there has been a great deal of emigration of African Americans from one part of the South to another, and that it still goes on, under the influence of economical motives.