The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-24
FOURTH EDITION
VERY LATEST NEWS.
CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, March 2
House OF Representative.


Tho House met as in Committee of the Whole
on the state OF the Union. The only business in
order being general debate on the Presidents
Annual Message the attendance both on the
door and in the galleries was very slim.
Mr.. Brooks IN. " rose to q personal expla-
nation in reference to the Globe report OF the
discussion between himself and the gentleman
from Ohio OR. Gardeld)y on Thursday last. He
stated that the remarks pnrporting to have been
made by Mr.. Garfield we're not heard by
him (Mr. Blooks), and were as he under.
stood them, incorrectly reported, although 1t
was not for him to say how or when the
matter OF comparatively little importance
except that he wished to stand right
upon the record. Referring to the reports
made 10y Mr. Garfield last Congress from che
Select Committee to Investigate into the man.
agement of the Currency Printing Bureau, he
found that although it was not signed 1t COM
menced by reciting that "Mr. Garfield, from the
Select Committee, etc., made the following re-
port.n The minority report was. signed by him
self (Blr Brooks) aud Messrs. Stewart, Steel,
and Dawson. He had letter read from Mr..
Jordan, Solicitor to the Treasury to Mr. Chase,
stating as the result of an invests cation made by
him into the charge against s. NJ Clark, he had
received an entire conviction that the most ma
terial part OF the statements were true.
Mr.. Garfield l0hio) said that he was obliged
to the gentleman from New York for the correc.
ton he had made 1t was the universal custom
for one member authorized by Committee to
make the report, and that had been done in this
case. He had been authorized by a majority OF
the Committee 10 make the report. Ii he had
not been so authorized surely some one of the
four members associated with him (Messrs,
Davis, OF Maryland; Wilson, of Iowa; Jenckes
of Rhode Island; and Fenton, of New York;
would have made a,correcton. The conclusion
OF the report which he had made was in these
words:-
Resolved, That tho policy of printing public
money in the Treasury has resulted in great saving
OF expense to the Government and security against
frauds, ana that the affairs of the printing bureau
have been administered with marked ability and
integrity
In addition to this there was report from
Governor FentOn expressly stating that he cou-
CURED with the report OF the Committee in
everything, except a reelection on the New York
Bank Note Company.
Mr. Wilson (Iowa) said that he had not con-
CURED in the conclusions OF the Com mmlttee, and
that if the report had been presented to him Tor
his signature he would not have signed it,
Mr.. Garfield (0hio) Stated that tins was the
first time he knew that the gentleman from
Iowa dissented from the report of the majority
The majority had authorized him (Mr. Garheld)
toEmake it and he had made it.
Mr.. Wilson Qowa) said that he had been
asked by MIR. Henry Winter Davis, member
OF the committee, whether he was willing TO
sign the report and had replied that he was not
as he did not agree with the committee in its
conclusions as set forth in the report, and in the
resolution accompanying it.
Here tie matter dropped, and Mr.. Moulton
addressed the House.