The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-29
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION.
"WEDNESDAY; Jan. %, 1876,
HOUSE oF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The journal of yesterday was read and approved.
The SPEAKER announced that the regular bust
ness would be the call of the committees for reports
DEPosirE BANKS, &c.
Mr. WASHINGTON HUNT rose and asked
the House at this time to take up and consider the
following resolution, which he had introduced on
the eve Of the adjournment yesterday:
Rssored That the Secretary of the Treasury he directed
to report to this House detailed rtaemen showing the
amount Of public money lost by the treasury since the Isl
OF depoe banks and also the amount lost during the
same period by OF the delaleaton delinquency Of
the collection custody and disbursement OF the Pubhe
funds and what steps have been taken for the recovery Of
tho same.
Mr. HOPKINS was understood to say that these
statements would make a very large volume, and
would entail very heavy expense on the House
He must therefore object.
MIR. HUNT appealed, Intellectually, to Mr.. Hor-
KRs to Withdraw his objection
SO the resolution was laid over.
PRIVATE.
Mr. STANTON rose and moved a reeoDsideTa-
ton Of the vote by which the following resolution
reported yesterday by Mr.. Prrrr, from the Com
muee on the Judiciary on the memorial Of William
LsnPhier and Joseph Harris, had been adopted;
Rrs0issd, That the said wilsm LsnPhisr and Joseph
Harris are not entitled TO any relief
Mr.. 8, in support Of his motion, and in reply 10
the report of the committee, that these gentlemen
had done more service 10 the government than
they had agreed TO do, entered briefly into state
ment Of what the parties themselves had to say--
and Of what he thought the committee ought to
say, as TO place the parties on proper footing.
The matter, (Mr. 8. said) was important 10 nobo-
dy but the gentlemen themselves, and the whole
sum involved did not exceed five hundred dollars
Mr.. RATHBUN briefly explained the action Of
the Committee on the Judiciary.
And the question was then taken and decided in
the negative.
EXECUTIVE coaaUsIcArIoEs.
The SPEAKER, by leave, presented the follow
lng communications, viz:
A message from the President Of the United
States transmitting the annual report of the inspect
ors Of the penentIary for the District Of Columbia;
which laid on the table, and ordered TO be print
ed
A letter from the Postmaster General, transmit
ting in obedience TO the lth section Of the act OF
Congress approved 26th August, 1912, a list OF
clerks and other persons engaged in the department
during the last year. and the salary of each togeth-
with the residence Of each at the time OF his APP
pointmeni; which letter and list laid upon the
table.
A letter from the Second Auditor of the Tressu-
Ty Department, transmitting, in obedience to the
act Of the 30th June, 1884, copies Of such accounts
as have been rendered by persons charged or in.
trusted with the disbursements of money, &c, for
the benefit of Indians, from the LIST Of October,
1874, to the Goth September, lo45, inclusive; to-
gether with other information upon the same sub
Ject; which letter and copies Of accounts were re-
ferred to the Committee on Expenditures of the
War Department
A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting,
in obedience 10 the resolution Of the House of Rep
resentaies Of the l7th instant, copies Of all docu-
mens and papers containing all the evidence in pos
session of the department Illustrative Of daring acts
and ourages lately committed in the Cherokee ma
ton, and Of the persons or party who were respon-
sibe for such outrages; which letter and docu.
ments, &c, were referred TO the Committee on In
dian Affairs.
THE OREGON DEBATE.
Mr.. c. J. INGERSoLL rose and offered the fol-
lowing resolution:
Rssored That all debaen the Committee Of the Who'll.
House the State OF the Union joint resolution No
d.y FebTusry sh IL the oommt,se shall not sooner
conclusion upon the same and the committee shall
ing offered the and shall then report to th
House with such smendments as may have been agreed
hy the committee
MIR. p. KING asked the yeas and nays on tn,
adoption of the resolution; which were refused.
Teers were demanded.
MIR. HOUSTON moved that the resolution be laiG
on the table. r.-
The motion being agreed to, the resolution with
outa county was laid on the table.
OREGON.
A motion to that effect having been made sno
agreed to- the House resolved itself into Committee
of the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. Tn.
BATS, of Kentucky, i'm the char.)
The CHAIRMAN announced the unfinished
business to be the Joint resolution from the Com.
mtee on Foreign Affairs providing for the termina
lion Of the convention of 1897, between the gov.
ernments of the United States and Great Britain
concerning the territory of Oregon.
Mr.. OWEN was entitled to the foor but being
al the moment out of his seat,
Mr.. THOMASSON asked the committee to take
up the bill Cor joint resolution referring the Pos
Office Department the claims or Seth Leavenwortf
for ad ustment.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that that bill mus
he in committee Of the whole, and not in Committee
Of the Whole on the state of the Union.
Mr.. J. R. INGERSOLL moved that the commit.
tee rise. --..--- .---.Z ...
Mr.. sTARKWEATHER hoped, he said, thai
the motion would not prevail. There were many
members who were DESTROYS to speak
The CHAIRMAN said that any gentleman who
claimed the floor would be entitled to it.
Mr.. WENTWORTH said the gentleman held the
floor, Mr. OwEN,l would be in the House in few
moments.
A motion again made the right of tn,
chair, that the committee rise.
The CHAIRMAN Undressing Mr.. J. r. NIGER
SOIL, ! inquired whether he insisted on his motor
that the committee rise.
Mr.. J. R. INGERSOLL said yes, because tn,
the gentleman who was entitled 70 the floor wal
not at the moment u the House.
The CHAIRMAN was about to put the question
when
Mr. OWEN, who had entered the hall cd interim
rose and claimed the floor, and addressed the com
mittee during the allotted hour.
Mr.. O.'S remarks were published in last night
paper.l ..u... ..t
Whilst Mr.. OWEN was addressing the commit
tee, the Speaker resumed the chair informally, ;,
receive message in writing from the President of tn
United States, by the hands of J. X. Walker, esq.
his private secretary.
MIR. OWEN having concluded the chairman CAV
the floor to- . .a ..a., 49,. a.. ... :.
MIR. THURMAN, who spoke during the hour.
Before entering upon the consideration of tn
main question, Mr.. +. intended to do what nigh
be deemed work of supererogation, viz: to discuss
the question brought up by the minority of tn
Committee on Foreign Affairs, for that position
seemed to have been abandoned by almost every
body, both here and elsewhere. The proposition
however, came from respectable source, and il
an imposing FORM and was entitled to consideration
He briefly referred to the facts out of which tn
question before the committee arose; the conflicting
Of InIlnl cd "a L