Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-07-11
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CONGRESSIONAL.

gress trgether, asserting that so far as pro
yided for, an adjournment without day
in the absence of a quorum, it was uncon
stitutiOnal. He SAW there was q quorum
present, bSit Gid no. wish the resolution q
be taken as precedent for future guid
ance.
! The rolf was called. and thirty -four Sen
atOrs answered TO their names.
The Secretary was instructed 10 inform
he House of Representatives that quo
rum of the Senate was present.
At 1925 the Clerk OF the House inform
ed the Senate that quorum of the House
was present
Mr.. SUMNER offered two petitions.
Mr.. FESSENDEN objected to the intro
duction or reference OF any business no
directly connected with the subject iol
which il was well known Congress hac
met.
After debate, the petitions were orderct
to lie upon the table for the present.
Mr.. WILSON offered bill in addition
TO the several Reconstruction Acts.
consists cftwo sections. The first vacate.
all civil offices In the Southern States with
in three days, and authorizes the Com
manding Generals to retain the present in
CuuAutlts- ul1ht ucN appointments vi vi
der elections. The second section author
izcs Boards of Registration to refuse to re.
gister persons applying to he registered
when they have just grounds 10 believe
they are seeking to evade the requirements
OF the laws. and Ia strike from the roll
within twenty days, persons registered g nd
afterwards proved disqualified.
The bill was ordered printed and TO lie
on the table,
Mr. SUMNER offered bill for univer-
SAT suffrage, TIE same with slight smeGd-
ments as was offered at the last session.
Mcssrs. DRAKE and EpMC NDS offer
ed bills en- reconstruction which were or
dered upon the table.
Mr.. CHANDLER offered a resolution
asking the President for the correspon-
dence between the State Department and
our Minister TO Mexico.
Mr.. FESSENDEN objecting it went
over.
Mr.. SUMNER offered resolution ask
ing for all correspondence on nie in The
State Degartaseat relating te events in
Mexico. Also went over.
y committee was appointed to wait on
the President and inform him that the Sen
ate was ia readiness for the transaction Of
business
Without waiting for the report of the
committee the Senate adjourned until Fri
day.
HOUSE.
More lhan the usual hubbub and excite
ment marked the re-assembling Of the
House.
The Speaker at noon called the House to
order. The roll of members was called.
DuIing its progress . message was rcceiv-
ed from the Senate announcing that it had
a quorum. 1t VS. loudly applauded.
The SPEAKER stated that l20 mem
bers were present, and directed the Clerk
10 notify the Senate that 4 quorum of the
House was in session.
The Rev. Mr.. BoyntoR, Chaplain, offer
ed prayer.
The SPEAKER stated that The first bu-
Siness in Orler wSs ilic administration ci
the oath of Office to me,nbers elect not
swOTn. The members from Kentucky ha-
wing presented themselves for that purpose,
Mr.. SCIIENCk, ris,ng TO question OF
privilege. objected To the cath being al
ministered to T. u. Ycaag. ac5 presented
the protest of Samuel Mckee, Formerly a
mcn,bcr at the House, taking the ground
generally OF the disleyalty OF Young. The
protest. he said, was accompanied by ano-
ther protest ftom citizens OF the Fourth
Congressional District of Kentucky. sus-
tanned by an affidavit proving the facts al
legged. anu lac asked that the papers lie re-
fcrred To- the Committee on Elections.
Mr. LOGAN offered the following as an
amendment:
WnEREAs, There is good reason TO be-
licve that in the election lately held in the
State of Kentucky for members of the
FOrtieth Congress. the legal and loyal vo-
ters in the several districts of said State
have been overawcd and prevented from
the expression OF their will and choice at
the poles by those who have synipathized
with or actually participated in the late re-
bellion, and such elections were carried by
the votes of such disloyal anG returned
rebels: and,
WHEREAS, II is alleged that several OF
the representatives. from the State of Ken
lucky are disloyal; therefore,
RcsOired, That the credentials OF all
members elect from the State of Kentucky
shall be referred to the Committee on Elec-
tons, 10 report at as early a day as practi-
cable, and that pending the report of said
committee none of the said members he
allowed TO take The oath of Office and bt
admitted TO seats.
Mr. BINGHAM made a point of order
that Mr.. Logan's amendment was not il
order
The SPEAKER overruled the point
Mr.. BROOKS opposed the resolution
and said the gentleman from Illinois has
proclaimed principles in violation Of tht
existing laws, and of the Constitution
Kentucky had ever been loyal to the Uni
on. She has been represented here during
all the war, by members of the yariou:
parties. 1t is only now, when she send,
members all of one party that a movement
ID made TO disfranchise her. This is revO-
luton, and there is feeling among the
North which will not submit TO such revo
luton. No fighting will be done in the
tented field; no transfer from the ballot-bo,
to the bayonet; but here, on the floor o.
the House, the Democracy of the NORTH
will reappear and join with the Democra
cy of the South, and of the West, and vii
be heard when this Congress shall be nc
longer a Rump Parliament, unless it il
made so by the party of the gentleman
from Illinois. If | were to accept th'
charges of disloyalty made against TIT
gentlemen from the various parts of th'
Union, l, as an old Wing in 1850 would b.
ready to charge on the gentleman from ii
linois, Logan, then a Democrat, that Ia
was disloyal, utterly disloyal, to the prin
ciples OF the Government of the country.
Mr.. LOGAN made motion to interrup
Mr. Brooks, but Mr.. Brooks went on L
say:
/ make no charge of disloyalty agains
the gentleman, but take, simply, the re
ports that are made, and he adopts like re
ports as the voice of the people of Ken
lucky.
MIR. LOGAN-I understand the gentle
mans remarks as applied to myself-a
personal. nsr
! Mr.. BROOKS-I was only illustrating
and arguing to show that those charge
against a member on that side OF til
House, OF on this side, ought not TO be &C
cepted in good faith by any member.
influence his action on contested election
Kentucky furnished to the Union arm.
900 troops, and one of the delegate
Ii to lxn vor, III II Az