The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-15
XXXIXth CONGRESS, I'D SESSION
SENATE.

for the erection of peuitentiaries.
Mr.. Lane called up the bill to change
the mode OF appointing pension agents,
providing that they are hereafter APP
pointed by the President, with the ad-
wise and consent of the Senate. Mr..
Summers amendment, requiring that
all officers and agents of the Govern
ment, whose salaries or fees exceed one
thousand dollars, must be confirmed by
the Senate, was opposed by Mr.. Lane,
who said he would prefer it as an indie
pendent proposition. 1t was rejected:
yeas y, nays p.
The morning hour expired and the
unfinished business of Friday, the bill
to regulate the tenure of office, came
up.
Mr.. Hendricks, amendment to strike
out the provision that no vacancies be
filled except with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate; the duties of such
offices to be exercised without salaries,
fees or other emoluments, by such other
officers as may by law exercise such
powers, was debated by Hendricks,
Williams and Frelinghuyseu.
MIR. Sherman said the bill contempla
ted nothing unconstitutional or revolu-
tionary. OF the 1000 removals made
by the President since last summer,
not 100 have been reported to the Sen
ate. If he believed the President
would try to harmonic with the Senate
and send in the other names, alter his
nominees had been rejected, he would
be willing to let him ill vacancies du-
ring recess, but the President had
manifested no such disposition.
AT Mr.. Buckalew's suggestion, Mr..
hendricks withdrew the amendment
for the present to let the debate pro-
coed on the general merits of the bill.
Mr.. Howe moved to strike out the
words "eNpiration of term or other
GRnSaS from tho fret nIo rNFf
section, which reads as follows: "That
the President shall have power to fill
all vacancies which may happen du-
ring the recess of the Senate by reason
of death, resignation, expiration of
term of office or other lawful cause, by
granting commissions which shall ex-
pire at the end of the next session
thereafter" The amendment was
agreed to.
Mr.. Williams then spoke, generally
in favor of the bill, and the Executive
session adjourned.
HOUSE.
Bills and resolutions were introduced
that the President cause written or
printed discharges 10 be given all vol
unteer commissioned officers that have
been honorably discharged from the
army or navy; declaring forfeiture of
certain privileges of citizenship for acts
of rebellion against the United States,
and providing for the restoration of
these privileges in certain cases for
the payment of the bounty to represent
tatlVes of soldiers killed or died in the
military service of the United States,
whose term OF enlistment was less than
one year; to re-establiSh civil govern
ment in the States lately in rebellion,
excepting Tennessee. All referred.
Mr. Loans resolution, offered last
Monday, looking to the impeachment
of the President Mr. Kal=n
having Withdrawn his motion for the
previous question.
Mr.. Loan read n speech arrnigning
the President for acts of his admins
tration, and suggested that he was
Privy to the assassination of President
Lincoln.
Mr.. Hale rose to a question of order,
and said he understood the gentleman
to charge the President of the United
States with completely i'll the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln, and wished
to know if such language was in order
y page of Mr.. Loans bill was sent to
the Clerks desk and read, as follows:
The crime (meaning the assassination
of Mr.. Lincoln) was committed, the
way was made clear for the succession;
the assassin's bullet was welded and
directed by rebel hands, and paid for
by rebel gold, which made Andrew
Johnson President of the United States.
promotion, was treachery to the repub-
lie, and fidelity to the party of treason
and rebellion.
Mr.. Hale claimed that other sem
fences to the same general effect had
been pronounced by MIR. Loan.
Mr.. Loan denied that he had pro-
ceeded further than the sentence read,
and asked Mr.. Hale to state what he
supposed had been read.
Mr.. Hale replied that that was the
very thing he desired read.
Mr.. Loan said he was not under any
obligations to- furnish any more of
the manuscript than he had read,
The Speaker remarked that the
speech being read from manuscript, had
not been taken down by the reporters,
Mr.. Hale stated that the words which
he referred to the same effect, substan-
TALLY, as those read, carrying the direct
idea that the now President of the
United States was party to the assas-
sination of Abraham Lincoln, and that
he contracted to pay and did pay the
price for that assassination.
Mr.. Loan submitted that as Mr.. Hale
could not give the words excepted to,
his point of order failed.
The Speaker decided that the remarks
were in order, the resolution being one
declaring it the imperative duty of
Congress to impeach the President.
This being the case, n member has a
right to do SO, and the chair cannot
restrain him.
Mr.: Hale declined to appeal from the
decision.
The Speaker asked as a personal
favor that an appeal be taken, and Mr..
Washburne, of Ind, complied with the
request. The appeal was tabled by a
vote of 1O1 to S.
Mr.. Loan continued his speech to
conclusion.
Mr.. Hale challenged him to specify
the first particle of proof of his charges,
body and the nation that he should do
so before taking his seat.
Mr.. Loan declined to do so. The
morning hour here expired, and the
bill went over till tomorrow.
On motion of Mr.. Washburne, of
Illinois, the Secretary of War was asked
for the report of General Wright and
subordinates, on the condition of
affairs in Texas, and the Attorney
B. Moore, indicted in the local courts at
Nicksburg, with his opinion thrown in.
On motion ofMr. Price, the Secretary
of War was directed to furnish state
ment of the number of small arms fur
nished by the Springfield Mandatory,
and the number furnished from other
places in the United States, with the
cost.
Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, asked leave to
offer resolution against any greater
curtailment of the national circulation
than four millions per month, during
1867, and that no compound interest
notes be authorized to be withdrawn in
excess that the amount of legal tender
notes, without intera st, ought to be
substituted. The House refused to sus-
pend the rules. The resolution was