The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is.

Military Affairs.
Mr.. Howard presented the petition OF
citizens of Alexandria, Va, asking for a
| territorial form of government for the
State of Virginia. The petition was re-
| ferred to the committee on Reconstruc-
tion.
MI Lane, of Missouri, called up the
Senate bill to extend the benefit of the
pension law to artifcers of the army
Passed.
Mr.. TrumbuIl called up the bill in re-
lation to the Court of Claims, which was
passed. The bill allows an appeal to
! the Supreme Court from the Court OF
| Claims, and provides that the regular
| session of the Court of Claims shall COM
mence on the first Monday in December,
at one o'clock.
The constitutional amendment was
called up.
Mr.. Hendricks took the floor against
it, Mr.. Hendricks, in the course of his
remarks, alluded to the somewhat cele-
brated so-called blood-letting letter,
written by Mr.. Chandler in 1861
After he concluded, Chandler replied
that he stood by the letter now. 1t sim
ply said to the government of Michigan,
unless you are prepared to shed blood
for the preservation of this great Gov
ernment, the Government is overthrown.
Chandler now spoke of President Blu.
chanan and Cabinet and others in Office
in Washington at that time as demo
cratic traitors, and concluded Now |
am to be arraigned as to be remembered
in history as blood-thirsty, am proud
of the name. May it stand as long as
the Government, when the Senator and
the men W no have co-operated with him
shall have gone down to eternal infamy
Mr.. Yates got the floor,
Adjourned till Monday
HoUsE.-Mr. Blaine, of Maine, from
the Select Committee, reported bill to
reimburse the loyal States for expenses
incurred in suppressing the rebellion 1t
was recommitted.
Mr., Ferry introduced bill, which was
referred to the committee on Ways and
Means, to exempt the Gettysburg Mon
ument Association from duty and ex
else.
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, from the
Joint committee On the Memorial Ser
vices of the 18th, reported that they had
placed in the hands of Hon, Geo. Ban
croft the concurrent resolutions of the
two Houses, expressing the thanks OF
Congress for the appropriate address de-
liyered by him on the Life and Services
of President Lincoln" and requesting
copy thereof for publication.
Mr.. Bancroft, in reply to the commit
tee, said he regarded the action of Con
gress as a very distinguished honor, and
4 IA fl,a hNrf oh
a copy Of his address
The correspondence was laid on the
fable and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Washburne oflered a resolution
that twenty thousand copies Of the ad
dress be printed, which was referred to
the committee on Printing.
Mr.. Rogers asked the gentleman TO
print the Dred Scott decision with the
address, so that both sides may be heard
Mr Washburne said that case had
been finally decided, and there was no
occasion to bring it into the contro-
yersy
Mr Wentworth remarked that the
Dred Scott decision had died with It's au-
thor.
Mr. Latin, of New York, from the com
mittee on Printing, read report on the
resolution of Mr., Stevens, heretofore re-
ferred to- 1t is accompanied by reso-
lutiOn that one thousand copies of the
work entitled The Memorial Record of
the National Tribute to Abraham Lin
colp,' together with the address of Mr..
Bancrofti be published, provided this
shall be in strict conformity with the
Fifth section of the act of August, 1850,
namely, that if any work shall hereafter
be ordered for and received py members
of Congress the price shall be deducted
from their compensation, provided that
this shall not extend to works ordered
to be printed by the Public Printer He
said the object of the resolution was
first, to enable the publisher of the book
to ascertain how many members OF the
House are desirous of obtaining copies
at their own private expense and sec
ond, that the publishers of all books
may be thus publicly informed that
| without repeating an act OF Congress
| passed in 1850, it is not within the pow
er of the House to order books for mem
bers of Congress except at their own pri'
vate expense. The resolution was disa'
greed TO.
MT. 6TONDSl, OI lllluUIS, OueAS9 q ASsO-
luton which was adopted, instructing
the committee on Claims to inquire into
the expediency of providing by law tor
the payment by on.commlssloned oncer
Warlien and private VIM, Land, in the
volunteer cavalry service during the
late war, for horses provided by the
government but lost by the fault OF the
soldiers.
Mr.. Lawrence, OF Ohio, introduced
bill sproviding punishment for throw
ing cars from railroad tracks.
The House proceeded to the considera-
ton of the Pennsylvania contested
election case betweenl nlAlexapder Cotfroth
and Wm. II. Koontz. The majority of the
committee Messrs Upton, Dawson, Bax-
ter, Marshall and Radford in their report
say that neither of the claimants has
any prima faGa right to seat under
the governors proclamation. Messrs.
Shellabarger and Schofeld combat the
views adhered to by the majority, and
say the two certificates of election pur-
porting to have been addressed each by
a district board to the claimants respec-
lively, are probably both regularly. in
form, but neither can support a}prima
| facia clsim to the contested seat for the
| reasons stated by them.
Mr., upson addressed the House in sup
| ,>o-t of tbe majority renOrt and Mr.