The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-26
CONGRESSIONAL.

mttee on the Whole, the only busines
being general debate On the President
annual message. The attendance boil
ON the floor and in the galleries was yer!
slim. =;
Mr.. Brooks rose to make persona
explanation in reference to the Globe
report of the discussion between himself
and the gentleman.from Ohio, (Mr. Gar
field,) on Thursday last He stated that
remarks purporting to have been made
by Mr.. Garfield, were not heard by him
(Mr. Brooks and were, as he understood
them, incorrectly reported, although ii
was not for him to say how or when the
misreporting occurred. 1t was to him a
matter of comparatively little import
ance, except that he wished to stand
right upon the record. Referring to the
report made by Mr.. Garfield last Con
gress, from the select committee, TO
Investigate the management by the
| Currency Printing Bureau, he found that
| although it was not signed, it com
menced by reciting that Mr.. Garfield,
| from the committee, made the following
report. The minority report was signed
by himself, (Mr. Brooks Messrs. Stew
art, Steele and Dawson He had let
ter read from Mr. Jordan, solicitor to
the Treasury, to Mr. Chase, stating the
result of an investigation made by him
into the charges against j. NJ. Clark {;
an entire conviction that the most ma
teriai of the statement made were true.
Mr.. Garfield said that he was obliged
to the gentleman from New York for the
correction he had made. 1t was the uni.
versal custom for one member, author
lied by committee, to make the report
If he had not been so authorized surely
some one of the four members with him,
Mr.. Davis, Of Maryland, Mr.. Wilson, of
Iowa, Mr. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, and
Mr. Fenton, would have made the correc-
tion at the time. The conclusion of the
report which he had made was in these
words:
Resolved, That the policy OF printing
public currency in the'Treasury has re-
suited in a great saving Of expense to
the government and security against
fraud, and that the affairs of the Print
ing Bureau have been ministered with
marked ability and integrity.
In addition to this there was q report
from Governor Fenton expressly stating
that he concurred with the report of the
committee in everything except rehec
tion on the New York Bank Note Com
pany
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, said that he had
not concurred in the conclusions OF the
committee, and that if the report had
been presented to him for his signature
he would not have signed it
Mr. Garfield stated that this was the
first that he knew that the gentleman
from Iowa dissented from the majority
report The majority had authorized
him [Garfeldl to.make the report, and
hehad made it
Mr. Wilson said that he had been
asked by Mr.. Henry Winter Davis, a
member Of the committee, whether he
was willing to sign tbs report, and had
replied that he was not as he did not
agree with the committee in its cenciu,
sions as set forth in the report, and in
the resolution accompanying it
The matter was dropped. and Mr.
Moulton proceeded TO address the
House.
Mr.. Moulton, of Illinois, in discussing
the question of reconstruction, agreed
that the public faith and security re-
be absolutely protected from the repi-
tition of secession and rebellion, By pro
viding for the punishment OF treason,
second, that the freedmen shall be Sc,
cured al absolute equality with the
white men before the law, and shall be
endowed with every political right nee
essary to maintain that equality third
that representation in Congress shall be
founded on the proportion of the number
entitled to suffrage fourth, that the
rebel debt shall be absolutely repudiatedi
and fifth, that civil rights shall be guar
anteed to all, with the means to improve
them. He held that these rights and
conditions should he secured by proper
amendments to the Constitution,
and that now was the time to
inaugurate these amendments. In rela-
ton to the President, he said lie had the
confidence of the Union party, and that
| no honorable man could have believed
that lie would desert the party which
had defended him against the assaults OF
| traitors, and had elevated him to the po-
sition he held. Ingratitude had always
been regarded as crime of the most
damning character Ibut yet, in his opin-
| ION, AluIGN UOuuSOu ~ w" IL "
posterity not only as the betrayer OF his
party, but as an migrate, infamous in all
time TO come TO all honorable men. All
the instincts of Andrew Johnson, he
said were intensely Southern. He loved
Southern men as intensely as did Davis,
or Tombs, or Beauregard. This the
Southern people knew-hence their con-
| fidence in Mr. Johnson In his (Mr.
Moulton's) opinion it was, to say the
least, unfortunate that any man with in
tense Southern feeling and instincts
should at this time be ut the head Of the
| governmenti
Mr.. Buckland, sf Ohio, next addressed
the House. He said that the people
were becoming very impatient at the
delay in reconstruction, ard did not
understand why Congress had not
adopted some definite plan. He held
that the people of State, finding them
selves from any cause, without a gov
ernment, might organize a government
and exercise its functions without the
assent of Congress, but he did not think
that representation should be admitted
from Tennessee or anyiiof the rebel
States without the concurrent or Joint
action of both branches of Congress
He deprecated the warfare waged agalns
the President The people did not be
lieve that Mr.. johnson was about It
prove recreant to the great trust reposeC
:, hin, ,nd fhav VyOul6 stand hV him