Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-12-21
Thirty.fifth Congress.-.2ud session.

MONDAY, Dec. Is, 185s.-Senate.-T stand
ing Committees were voted for. The only i'm
portant change is the substitution of Mr.. Greer
for Judge Douglas as Chairman of the Commit
tee on Territories.
The Pacific Railroad bill was then taken up
and advocated by Mr.. Gwin.
House.-The Watrous case was resumed
Messrs. Cochrane, Taylor, of La, and Adrair
spoke in favor of impeachment, and Mr.. May
nard, of Tenp., against it.
TURsDAY.-.Senate.-T Pacific Railroad bill
came up again. Mr.. Mason, thinking it unlike
ly the matter could pass both Houses in this
brief session, moved, to test the feeling of the
Senate, that the bill be laid on the table, which
the Senate refused to do by yeas %, nays 80, as
follows:-
Yeas :-Messrs. Allen, Bates, Bayard, Benjs-
min, Brown, Cameron, Clay, Clingman, Grit
tenden, Fitzpatrick, Hatnlin, Hammond, Hous-
ton, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson, of Tennessee,
Mason, Pearce, Reid, Sebastian, Sidell, Thomson
of New Jersey, Toombs-23.
Nays-Messrs Bell, Bigler, Bright, Broderick,
little, Durkee, Fessenden, Fitch, Foot, Foster,
Green. Gwin, Harlan, Jones, Kennedy, King,
Polk, Rice, Seward, Shields, Simmons. Stuart,
Trumbull, Wade, Ward, Wilson, Wright-32.
Mr.. Davis, of Miss, spoke in favor of the
measure. Other Senators participated in the
debate, which had special reference to the route.
House.-The Watrous case was further dis
cussed.
WEDNESDAY. -Senate-M Cameron, of Pa,
delivered ad elaborate speech in favor ofincreas-
ing the duty on iron.
The Senate, in executive session, ratified the
ND ft,a anti m
pointments of government officers in Illinois,
and confirmed Mr.. Preston as Minister to Spain,
Gen. Ward as Minister to China, and Mr.. j.
CLANCY Jones as Minister to Austria. On the
last there was party division.
Rouse.-The impeachment case further deba-
debated, and resolution declaring that the testi-
mony was insufficient tojustify the preferment Of
articles of impeachment against Judge Watrous,
was aGopted-yeas Ill, nays 81. Thus ended
the question.
THURsDAY-Senate.-Mr Clingman endeavor-
ed to bring up his resolution to abrogate the
Clayton and Bulwer treaty. Mr.. Mason, the
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela
tions was in favor OF laying the resolution on the
table If the treaty be abrogated, he said, it will
place the two countries rs they were before 1t
was entered into, and will call on US to define
the vague ''Munroe Doctrine" We have rea
sons to believe even now that the Executive IL
engaged in trying to arrest the misunderstood
lngs under the treaty. Mr. Clngnan replied
Mr. SHIELDS and others expressed their senti
ments on the question, and the Senate refused
to take up the resolution. Yeas %, nays %.
The Senate then resumed the consideration of
the Pacific Railroad bill, when Mr.. Bell deliver
ed speech in favor oft.
Adjourned till Monday.
House.-The contested election case from the
Bird District of Maryland was finally disposed of,
the House refusing Mr.. Whyte permission toI
speak, and confirming Mr.. Harris right to the
seat by laying the whole subject on the table,
The bill granting pensions to the officers and
soldiers of the war OF 1872 was debated in Com
mittee of the Whole
FRIDAY.-House.-A bill to provide for the
of claims of citizens of Georgia and AL
ALBANIA on account of loss sustained by the dep
relations of Greek Indians, was advocated by
Mr.. Shorter, and opposed by Mr.. Washburne, Of
Wis. Adjourned to Monday.