Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-08

Sickles' seat
a. The Nevads Territorial bill passed al,
g. the Dacotah bill.
The joint rule was suspended and {
10 SENATE amendment to the Post Office b
was made the special order for tomorrow
IL o'clock. - ,-- ,a..H-t b. -.
=. After much squabbling the Volunteer b
u was take up.
,, John Ccchrane opposed it.
o Adjourned
Q WASHINGTON. March 2.
S1NATE.-TheSenat met at the usual hon
d A large crowd was observable in the eallerie
MIR. Price reported from the committee
conference on the Indian Appropriation BIZ
I The report was agreed to.
MI. King presented Q large number
petitions, mostly against compromise.
Messrs. Sumner, Wilkinson and Camera
: presented petitions of similar character.
A communication from the President Wa
received transmitting papers in relation I
the extradition Of the negro Anderson, whic
was ordered to be printed.
A number of reports from the committe
on printing were adopted.
Mr.. Simpsons survey of the wagon roa
was laid ovr.
A number Of private bills were passed
Mr.. Sumner read motion to correct th
journal whero said the resolutions frou
the House were read first and second tim,
by unanimous consent. lie contended tina
when the resolutions were read a secont
time he himself objected, and others nea
him.
Mr.. Douglas claimed that the amendment
were read twice.
The discussion continued some time.
MIR. Foote presented the credentials of Ja
cob Collamer, reelected Senator from Yer
mont.
The journal was corrected, yeas "a, nays 7,
and the resolution from the House was read
second time, yeas 80, nays 5.
The special order being the Peace Conven-
ton propositions, they were taken up.
Mr.. Lane resumed speaking against the
proposition, ard defended himself against
the speech of the Senator from Tennessee.
Mr.. johnson. He referred to the Withdrawal
of several Of tho States, and declared that
Virginia would also 60. if nothing was done,
and join in the great Southern Confederacy.
he also argued at some length in favor Of
secession.
HoUsE.-Thc Speaker laid before the House
letter from Thomas II. Ford, resigning his
Office as Printer.
The occasional struggle for recognition
by tho Speaker, occasioned the greatest pos
slble confusion; twenty or more members
vigorously sprung to their feet, holding in
their outstretched hands the propositions
they severally strove to offer The chorus
OF "Spesker'' was deafening. That officer
bore the infiction with becoming resignation.
Mr.. Haskin, from Committee on printing,
reported resolutions, which were passed, to
print 1000 copies of the Abstracted Bonds
Investigation; also the same number of Nor
daci & Deladeld's report on military opera
tons in the Crimea; also 1900 copies of the
Morrill, amended Tariff bill.
The House then proceeded to the Senate's
amendment to the Postofice Appropriation
bill.
The House concurred in the Senate
amendment by vote of lit to 43.
Ii was presented then 5y Senator Wilson,
and annuls the present Butterfeld & Co..
mail route 20 California, via Ell Paso, which
now costs 100000 for a semi-weekly letter
service. During the remainder Of the con-
tract time, three and half years, gives them
the Central Overland route in lieu of the
other. They are to carry it daily, at one
million, and deliver the mails at Denver and
Salt Lake, tri-weekly, and to run pony ex- |
press semi weekly, carrying five pounds each |
trip for the Government, free Of charge, and |
to reduce the cost Of letters by said express |
one dollar per half ource.
If Butterfeld u Go. fail to accent. this |
before the 25,h of March, their present con-
tract is to be absolutely annulled, and the
Central route to contract is to be let to the |
lowest bidder, not exceeding one million.
The entire letter mail is to be carried through |
daily in twenty days, and the residue in
thirty-five days, with the privilege of sending
the latter by steamer, in twenty days,
at the oontraotor's expense, and the latter /
receive two months pay for damages for the
Central route. But the Butterfeld Company
were required by Messrs. Colfax and Shsr-
mans amendment to enter into written |
agreement, to be filed in the Post Office |
Department, and to De incorporated in their
contract agreeing to carry 600 pounds of !
mail matter per trip, which will take all the |
daily papers besides the letters, and also |
relinquishing all claims for damages provid.
ed in the Senate's amendment.
The bill, after debate, was concurred in
exactly cs it came from the Senate So it |
is now a law. 1t reduces the cost of the |
mail service to California from ST., ,437, 900 |
to 81, 900, 0,000 increases tho service to daily,
concentrates the mail carriage on one line, !
and abrogates the Butterfeld contract, with |
out incurring any claim for damages.
MIR. Bingham moved to take up the bill! |
reported by him providing for the collection
of the customs On shipboard in the event of
illegal combinations or other obstacles to
the execution to the revenue laws, and au-
thorizing the President, if he deems it
necessary, to employ the army and naval
forces, &c.
Mr. Phelps objected to its consideration.
Mr.. Bingham moved tho suspension of the
rules. Disagreed to - l03 to 62-not two
thirds.
Mr.. Davis called up the report of the
select committee, concluding with a resolu.
ton that the Secretary of the Navy, in
accepting without delay or inquiry the res.
ignations of officers of the Navy who were
in arms against the Government when ten
dering their designations, and of those who
sought to resign that they might be relieved
from restraint imposed by their commissions
upon engaging in hostilities to the consti-
tu.ed authority Of the nation, has commit
ted grave error, highly prejudicial to the
discipline of the service and luxurious to the
honor and efficiency of the navy, for which
he deserves the censure of this House.
MIR. Dawes moved the previous question.
Mr.. Branch moved TO lay the resolution
on the table. Disagreed to 81 against 96.
Mr.. Branch, as member OF that commit
tee, inssmuch as the testimony had not been
printed, and as the facts proven in the COM
mittee would not sustain the resolution, he
asked Mr.. Davis to allow the majority and
minority reports to be read.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Phelps offered resolution, that the
thanks of this House arc due, and ere here
by presented, to the Hon. illiam Penning-
ton, the Speaker, for the faithful, courteous,
and impartial administration of his duties
during the present Congress. He moved