Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-07-23

personal assault upon a member for words
spoken in debate. This condemnation they
placed on their journal, and have ordered that
You shall be publicly reprinanded by the
speaker Of the House. No words Of mine can
add 20 the force Of this order, in obedience TO
which now pronounce you its reprimand.
Mr.. Rousseau then returned 10 his seat, and
lew moments afterward retired from the
halLl
Mr.. Conkling. Of New York. then renewed
his concurrent resolution, providing that when
Congress adjourn, II adjourn 10 NEE. on Tues
day. the I'd OF october; and N both houses shall
then order an adjournment on that day, IL
shall be until the first Monday in December
The resolution was agreed to-yeas 50, nays
-
Mr.. Rogers. Of New Jersey, rose to a privi-
legged question, and proceeded 10 say that in
member, there was a difference relative 70 the
proceedings on the Investigation Of the COM
plicity Of Jen. Davis and others in the assassi-
nation plot. He had seen in the New York
Herald that one member OF the committee Mr.
Boutwel) was preparing a majority report on
The case. He h3d desired 10 see the written
form a correct judgment of the case, and per-
haps TO submit the views Of the minority This
privilege had been denied him on yesterday.
when. with p stenographer, hn was about 10
make notes OF the evidence. He believed thar
there were facts in the case that would not be
presented by the minority report
Mr.. Boutwell,, OF Mass, said the gentleman
from New Jersey probably referred 10 him.
He therefore would state the facts in the case
Ii happened on two occasions that important
papers IN the Davis case had found their way
10 the public before the committee had exam
med them, and IL was necessary for the inter-
ests OF the Government that this should be
prevented. The committee had charged him.
against his wishes, with making mn a report
of the case, though the committee had csme 10
no conclusion thereon. He had carefully ar
ranged the mass Of papers for examination.
and be should have treated any other member
IN refusing 10 have them disturbed, the same
as he bad Treated the gentleman from New Jer-
sey. He believed the House would see the
propriety, for the time being, Of keeping these
papers within his control. On Yesterday he
Went 10 the Judiciary Committee room. and
there found the gentleman from New Jersey
with reporter. whose name he believed was
CazauraD, looking over the evidence and taking
notes. He did not know this man. He said he
was not an officer of the House, nor had he
been sworn. He seized the papers in a heated
manner, be woulo admit, because of the appa-
rent mproprlety Of the proceedings going on,
and locked the documents up. He had since
been inioi med-and If enormously informed he
would promptly make the correction here
that this man (CaZauran) had edited q rebel
sheet in Memphis during the war had been
under sixty days sentence by the United
States authorities at Norfolk, Virginia, for
some crime, and was a very improper person
for the trust proposed to be placed in him.
Mr. Rogers said he knew nothing of this
whatever He had employ yed him to assist in
collecting the vast amount Of evidence taken
by the committee. He was willing TO employ,
at his own expense, any stenographer whom
the House might designate to assist, and 10
have him sworn
The Speaker decided that when the papers
were referred to a subcommittee they had full
control OF them, and no other member Of the
full committee could interfere with them
Wnen the SUBJ committee reported 10 the full
committee. they were accessible 70 every MEM
Der of that committee.
The House then took mp from the Speakers
table the following House bills, with Senate
amendments, and coucurred ia them:
An act amending the charter of the WASH
ington and Alexandria Railroad Company
An act to establish reform school for bsys
in the District on Columbia.
An act 10 amend an act repeating the saith
section of the bill OF rights OF the State of
Maryland, so far as il applies TO the District of
Columbia
Mr. Schenck, of Ohio, introduced a bill 10
provide transportation 10 discharged soldiers
who have lost limbs during the war to and from
their homes 20 the place where artificial limbs
are furnshed by the Governments; which was
passed.