The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-23

ed up and the member from Iowa, Mr..
Grinnell, and himself perhaps, punished
| for disrespect TO the House.
Mr.. Boutwell, made point of order
that the House had already passed on
| the remarks of the gentleman from Iowa
and it was not in order for the gentle
man from Kentucky to criticize the char
acter Of those remarks - go, -.
The Speaker sustained the, point Of
order .,-.. -. :,
Mr.. Rousseau went on to say that he
had felt aggrieved by the abuse he had
received, and that he had waited for the
House to take action in the matter. He
had been informed the day after the
occurrence that the gentleman from
Iowa would tender him written apollo,
gy. That caused the delay. He waited
from Monday tillThursday, and no t mem
Der had taken any steps to assert the
/ Fdignity of the House. He thought that
he had but one remedy He was smart
ing under grievous wrong and could not
get over it without some action on the
part of himself or somebody else. He
Thought the only remedy he had was in
his own hands, aud he resOrted to it; but
it was the last of his thought to offer
indignity to the House, and as an eyi-
dence of his respect for it and for the
law of the land, in submitting to the
abuse heaped upon him. Words had
been spoken of him here to which he
could reply in no other way than he had
done. He did not believe there was
member on the floor who would have
submitted to what he did; he did not
believe that a member had sacred con-
stitutional privileges to denounce and
defame and SANDER brother member on
the floer of the House. In conclusion, he
said he was willing to submit to the pun
ishment which the House had chosen to
infict OIL him, but he was unwilling that
his constituents should be in his person
humiliated in that way; he had, there
fore, sent to the Governor Of Kentucky
his resignation, a copy of which he sent
to the Clerks desk and had read. ri
The resignation having having been
read, Mr. Spaulding moved that Mr..
Bousseau having resigned his position as
a member, he be discharged from the
custody of the Sergeant.at-Arms. This
gave rise to quite lengthy discussion,
participated in by great many mem
bers, as To the effect of the resignation
of Mr.. Rousseau. q
Mr. Allison called for the execution of
the order of the house. .
Mr. Rousseau was called to the bar of
the House by the Speaker. He took a
position in the open space in front of the
Speakers chair, when he was addressed
by the Speaker as follows: .., 4
General Rosseau, the House of Rep
resentatives has declared you guilty of
viola ion of the rights aud privileges in
a personal assault upon member for
words spoken in debate The condem-
nation they have placed on their Jour
nal, and have ordered, that you shall be
publicly reprimanded by the Speaker at
the bar of the House No words. of mine
can add to the force Of this order to
which 1 now pronounce the reprimand."
Mr.. Rousseau bowed, and retired.
Mr.. Ketchum introduced a resolution
requesting the Secretary of War to
transfer from the War Department to the
Executives of the several States the rebel
flags captured by voiun'oo. iok 'nontS
dnp;no tho Iato war; sending to each
State the colors captured by the regi-
ments of such State. Read three times
and passed. Adjourned.