The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-03-10
[From the New Orleans papers,
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Congressional.

; WASHINGTON, March 7.-SENATE.-
The chairmen of committees are as
follows: 8
Foreign Relations, Summer Finance,
Sherman; Commerce, Chandler APP
preparations, Morrill,; Manufactures,
Sprague; Agriculture, Cameron; Mill
tary, Wilson; Naval, Grimes; Judicial
| ny, sTrumbull; Pension, Van Wrinkle;
4 Territories, Yates; Pacific Railroad,
Howard Postal Affairs, Ramsey Pub
lie Lands, Pomeroy; Private Land
Claims, Williams; Indian Affairs, Hen
derson; Claims, Howe; Patents, Wiley.
The following bills were introduced
and referred: Constitutional amend
ment forbidding States from abridging
the rights of citizens on account of
color; to recognize the civil govern
ments of the seeded States.
HoUsE.-John Hogan contests the
seat of Piles, of Missouri.
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, introduced
resolution directing the Judiciary.
Committee to report bill declaring
who shall call a Convention to recog-
nize the Southern States, and to pro-
vide for the registration of voters.
Passed-114sto 80. qa
A resolution directing the Judiciary
Committee to pursue the impeachment
investigation passed.
The bill ceding Alexandria, Va, to
the District of Columbia passed.
Nothing definite has been done in
regard to the adjournment. 1t is not
probable that it will occur on Mon
day.
The resolution instructing the Ju-
dietary Committee to continue the i'm
parchment investigation, calls forth
strong debate.
Ashley was very severe He said
enough had been discovered to give
a cheerful hope that the President will
be impeached. He characterized the
Executive Mansion as den of thieves
and pardon, brokers, and complained
that the President had failed to pro-
tect loyal men in the South.
Spalding, his republican colleague,
was against the whole business He
said the President had been guilty of
no crime, and thatimpeachment would
result in a farce.
Butler maintained that the report of
the last Judiciary Committee made it
obligatory upon this Congress to push
ADMINISTRATION. He has no doubt
but that, when the report comes up, 1
majority Of q full House will vote for /
The great usurpation ,
Of the President was pardoning and
placing rebels in power. He conclu-
ded: 81 say that If any man stands in s
the way of the great march Of the s
TO honor, to glory, to peace, to |
unity, to happiness, to liberty and t
aw, he must be taken out of the way 4
by a constitutional method Here n
Buffers time expired u b
Mr.. Brooks replied to Mr.. Ashley, Z
lenying his statement that five thou 1,
and Union men had been murdered in
he South, and challenged denial Of the
act that no more crime bad been CON-
nitted in the ten States Of the South
han in an equal number of the States A
( the North Of equal population. He d
Orcibly showed that the effect of con- b
Inuing the Impeachment question 81
'Ould be to further unsettle the coun-
y, and that Ashley's movement had G
lready prOfted the bears Of Wall p,
treet to the extent Of a hundred mil SC
ons OF dollars. The Republicans Ii
ere bent on a revolution like that in
rance led BY Robespierre. II the an
resident is to be put out and Wade ",
evated to his place, the sooner the ia
etter. .a-... 49,. hi
Wool thought they ought to have vi
n themselves the dignity Of states dc
en- instead Of devOting themselves to wi
mic and revolutionary agitation, 70