The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-24

that the whols subject may rs reisrfedt 10 somse ""
power to send for persons and papers
am prepared TO account ior every dollar which ha
through my hands and hope also to show thai m
expenditures were necessary and proper
Ihsve the honorto be,
Your Obsdisht servant =, .,,,., 81.
i wAsHIssroS, July -. 1876.
/ Mr.. Boar (leaye having bean denied) had move'
a suspension Of the rules to enable him TO offer tn
following resolution;
Rssossd That committee of Ave members be spponte
to inquire report the legality and Propety Of tn
expenditures of Messs Butler and Lewis, commissioner
the Cumanehs and other Indian tribes and that the Gem
mittee have power 10 send for persons and papers
Pending which motion the House had adjourned
| The question therefore now required, 'Shall th'
rules be suspended" for the purpose OF the intro
| duction Of the said resolution
The SPEAKER said that when the question o
order was raised on the resolution last evening, III,
Chair had decided that il could not be entertained
without a suspension Of the rules; but reflection
| the chair Of opinion that nasmuch as the reso
! luton contemp plated only a motion which was Incl
dent TO the letter itself, then before the House, i
! might be received without suspension Of the rules
The resolution being thus before the House, anC
the question being on It's adoption,
| Mr.. BOWLlN asked the yeas and nays; which
were ordered, and, being taken, resulted as fol
| lows:
sSys SrGdSsyS as
Burt, william W. Campbell, j. H. Campbell Clarke, Cobb
CranstOn CrOler, Cullom, Culver Daniel Garrett pa
Giles Graham Order Grinnsn, Harper, billiard. Ella
B. Holmes, O s Houston, samuel d. Hubbard, Hunger
Andrew johnson, kaufman. Daniel P King ThO@s. But
Ter King, LsSks. La sere, Lewis, LumPkn, Mcclsand
Bsresy Martin. Psadleton Psttit, Pillsbury. Pollock
Ramsey, Rslfs Rhett. Roberts Julius Rockwell Runk
scammon, seaman Severance Alexander Sims, LeonsT'
H. Sims, Truman Smith Albert Smith, Caleb B. smith
stanton, starkweathsr, stephens, ST. John, strohm
| Thomssson. Benjamin Thompson, Jacob Thompson
| Thurman, Ilbbatts, Itlden lredWay, 1rumDO Nlnton
white Wick Woodward. Woodwork, and Young-Ol.
Dsrsan, DTOmsooIe Edssn Erd%an, TieEnn Foster
Goodyear, Gordon, Hamlin, Henley, John W. Houston
j c%s. ss IS' Joasa PS.Sn King La%rsnce Long
MCLEAN MsGSSshsy Msrh MGRs j N Ri,,s soseIsy
Vance Wheaton, and Williams-3S
So the resolution was adopted
| Mr.. B0WLIN, in connexon with the same sub
ject, and on leave given, offered the following
resolution
Resolved That the select committee in the execution
the commission under the resolution TO examine into the
pendures relative to the commissioners to the Cumanch
indians, shall notsend for persons beyond the District
Col.mba but in lieu thereof shall receive such AFFIDAVIT
the may procure to be taken and certified
by any judicial officer shall said committee sit during
the vacation between the two sessions Of Congress-
Mr.. HOPKINS, remarking that this resolution
would in effect operate as revocation of the orig
nal resolution, m owed the amendment which follows
| The resolution which had been adopted amounted
TO nothing this late period Of the session unless
authority given to the committee to sit during
| the recess
Strike out the words NOR shall said committee sit during
the vacation between the two sessions OF Congress"
Mr.. G. s. HOUSTON suggested to Mr. BowLn
so to modify his resolution as to remove the resrc
ton which il imposed on the testimony TO be taken
and which, If not modified, would operate to the pre-
judice TO the government II this was not done he
thought that the resolution should be voted down
or that the vote adopting the original resolution
| should be reconsidered.
Some conversation followed between Messrs. p
KING, BURT, and HOPKINS to the powers
which the resolution Conferred on the committee.
The SPEAKER, by consent, laid before the
| House the following communication which, the
Speaker said, he had just received:
To N. honorable the Speaker
of the House Of Representatives
have Just learned that Governor Butler
has made application for an investigation into
the expenditures Of our mission to the prairie In.
dams in consequence of some animadverso upon
| them in both houses Of Congress. was absent
when this application was made, or would have
joined in il most heartily hope will be included
in it now. feel fully prepared to account for and
to justify the expenditure Of every dollar from the
beginning TO the end of the mission far as | am
| concerned.
Your obedent servant,
M. G. LEWIS.
Messrs. MCKAY, DRoMGOOLE, and BURT,
motion, which had been ntmsted by Mr.
BRopHEAD, to reconsider the vote by which the
original resolution had been adopted, came up.
The previous question was demanded and second
ed.
The main question, was ordered, and, being taken
| the vote was reconsidered.
The question then recurring the adoption o.
! the said original resolution,
Mr.. G. w. JONES moved that the whole sub
ject be laid on the table.
The question having been taken and decided il
the affirmative,
The phols subject laid on the table.
| PRIVATE.
On motion of Mr.. McCLELLAND, ordered that
leave be given to withdraw the papers in the cas-,
of Henry Dsbrow.
| THE HOUR OF ADJOURNMENT.
Mr.. BOYD rose and asked leave to submit mo
ton to which, he said he hoped there would be M
| objection.
The joint resolution which had passed bo,f
houses, providing for the adjournment of Congress
on Monday, the 10th day of August, had not speci
fed the hour at which the adjournment should take
place. The result might probably be that the two
| houses would remain in session all night. To OBJ
vate this state Of things, for which there was M
sort of necessity, he would move that the hour
which the two houses would adjourn should b.
tUeipe meridian.
| Ahc NhuNinS Gthcn tue Ol JONI
resolution) was agreed to mem. con.
| NAVAL PENSION BILL.
The SPEAKER, by consent, laid before the
House message from the Senate informing tn,
House that that body had passed the bill making
| appropriations for naval pensions, with an amend
ment appropriating $4,000 for the payment of in
valid pensioners, which, prior to 1874, had beer
paid from the private pension fund.
| Mr.. Mckay moved the reference of the bill tc
the Compttee Of the Whole on the state of tn,
| Union.
Mr.. KING, of Massachusetts,, moved that tn,
House concur in the amendment of the Senate.
The SPEAKER said, that inasmuch as tn,
amendment involved an appropriation, the bill mus
be committed.
| Whereupon the bill was committed to the Com
mttee of the Whole the state Of the Union
| THE WAR WITH MEXICO.
Mr.. J. r. INGERSOLL moved a suspensions o
the rules, to enable him to offer the resolutions which
he had yesterday offered, but which were not ther
received, and which follows
Rssousd by the Senate and House Of Representatives. Of