New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-21
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Especial Dispatch to the st. Louis Republican,
TWO pIseRAcEFuL SCENES IN CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. April 16.-Both houses OF Con- l,
gress were to-day distinguished by dlsgraoe eta
scenes of personal character. II .ae s 20 NJ
Mr. CONFESS made some personal illusions " M,
McDougall, who charged, in turn, his coiieague ~.
with utterng falsehood. me- Gonness saf I sn'
his colleague neither represented the stare OF Cal
fornia politically or morally and that nolnlng pu'
,,rlsiov from the Senate. Mr.. McDougall then COM
named to tell story to illustrate the extent to
which Mr.. CONFESS could be insnted, but it was OF
y character SO revolving to the dignity OF the
Senate, and to the lady spectators IN tne gallery
der. lii. CONFESS then declared that his colleague
would not tell him that he lied outside of the Sem
ate chamber. Whereupon Mr.. Med. yehemently
struck bis desk and said that he would tell him the
same. There the matter ended.
In the House Mr.. Ingersoll, of ILL.,, became very
much excited in the course of speech defending
the veteran reserve corps, and stgmatized Mr.
Eldridge Of Wisconsin as contemptable copper
head and the Democratic side of the House as
followers of JEFF Davis. Amid great excitement in
and required to take his seat. Mr.. Rogers, OF N
j., then arose, and, though loudly celled to order
denounced the radicals on the other side OF tee
House as the only secessionists and traltors III
Congress. Mr.. Eldridge replied that MIR. niger
soil was beneath the contempts OF every one ll
Mr.. Washburne, of ILL.,, was in the char az tn i
time, and promptly called to order ever MEMBER
who used unparliamentary language.
STEWARDS AMENDMENT.
In the way of live business neither house ac-
complished anything to-day of any importance;
The Reconstruction Committee this morning IN nau
q meeting, and heard Senator Stewart, OF Nevhua'
in behalf of his proposed constitutions aLhsnd
ment to settle the question of "n,cn
he presented in the Senate on Thursoay las.. III
amendment prohibits all dlscrlmlna.on ~ Stah
- nnHn
rights or political suffrage, ana Pt9siu.s .ot
pudation of rebel debts. Wnen 1ne anlena ~: ~
is Iauueu " Tue oouth, A. 0rant;n1 Of aanaro,
n .t W Ha aYnn,;t.ae Aid not seem to receive
III fha1 ,aroynos; tnS yerv favorably.
''e = posAsleA -
MR.. DAVIS NOT IMPLICATED.
So far as the declarations of witnesses are con-
cerned in the evidence submitted to the House
Judiciary Committee by the War Department, it
is overwhelming in favor of relieving JEFF. Davis
from the plot to assasinate Lincoln and the Cabi-
net. No witness of any prominence testities to
any such fact.
srppr,,E coITRT VACANCY IN OHIO FILLED.
M 80, of uanr, st,nshnr, 81 Ohio
me noiaason - my ~ Gnlo
~ tne vaeaSt ouprenis ouasesai.p Saussa Hui.e
SUI ~ .ie seaase an III "a
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neu1 AZ W. i - ,srilpp sei -,
We Iresiusnls puiIes, mis ,d 81 m W i
senate Is " n2 neas ta IA ~ was sssi
oas very Se es;dsn+ NV hn ne,;nr hin, ~
Sanafe ,von1d take IN ana mass The hill which ba
already passed the House reorganizing the Su
preme Court so as 10 abolish the district from
which Mr.. Stansbury is appointed, and thus reduce
the number of judges to nine.
There is some feeling among the officers of tn
three months regiments, who so promptly cam
to the capital in 1861, because they have bee
omitted from the roster of volunteers Just pub
Iished at the government printing office. Senate
Anthony introduced a resolution into the Senat
A. H..
INQUIRE into the matter.
.urnep ,rsprRwoop AND THE PEACE PROCLAMATION
FJrd,a Trnndarwooa of VIRGINIA who latelv mad
a decision nnder the Presidents peace proclama
ton. claims that he has been misrepresented b.
statements that he denied the loyalty Of that pro
clamation, He publishes card to-day in which
he says: "In that opinion did not express a doub
was its legality called in question by any one con
nected with the case, nor did express the opinion
that the writ of habeas corpus could not be exc
cuted in one State while the rebellion was not sup
pressed in another, but the very contrary opinion
NV opinion simply was that the late peace procla
nation did not pretend to revoke the previous pro
clamation of President Lincoln suspending in Ger
tain cases the writ in the States lately in insurrec
ton and stated that the peace proclamation die
not include Texas, and that it had not, and was
not, intended to have SO broad and general ar
application as the petitioner supposed, and there
fore refused to grant his prayer.n
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that state IS III inost nouiising eonoilloh .la
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eastern fronter showing tne remains ans are are pound
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