Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-04
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGs.


Senate.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-The Senate met
at noon.
Mr.. Sumner asked leave to enter a pro-
test against the resolution calling Congress
together, asserting that, so far as it provided
for an adjournment without day, in the
absence of a quorum, it was unconstitu-
tional. The law was that quorum should
be present, but it was not. Was the reso-
luton TO be taken a. a precedent for the
future?
The roll was called and thirty-four Sena-
tors answered to their names.
The Secretary was instructed to inform
the House of Representatives that quorum
Of Senators were present at 1925.
The Clerk Of the House informed the
Senate that a quorum in the House was
present.
Mr.. Sumner offered two petitions.
Mr.. Fessenden objected to the introduc-
ton or reference to any business not direct
ly connected with the subject for which it
is we'll known Congress had met.
After debate the petitions were ordered
to be laid on the table for the present.
Mr.. Wilson offered bill in addition to
the several reconstruction acts. 1t consists of
two sections. 1t first vaeates all civil offices
in the Southern States within thirty days,
and authorizes the commanding General to
retain represent incumbents; makes new
appointments, and orders elections. The
second authorizes boards Of registration !;
refuses to register persons applying to be
registered when they have just grounds to
believe they are seeking to evade the re-
quirements Of the law, and to strike from
the roll within twenty days all persons re-
gistered and afterwards proved disqualified.
The bill was ordered to be printed and lie
on the table.
Mr.. Sumner introduced bill for univer-
sal suffrage-the same, with slight amend
ments, as that offered last session.
Messrs Drake and Edwards offered bills
on reconstruction, which were ordered upon
the table.
A committee was appointed to wait on
the President, and inform him the Senate
was in readiness to transact any business.
Without waiting for the report of the
committee, the Senate adjourned until
Friday.
More than the usual hubbub and excite
ment marked the reassembling of the
House. The Speaker at noon called the
House to order, and all the members ere
called During the progress a message
was received from the Senate announcing
it hao a quorum, which was loudly APP
plauded. The Speaker stated that one
hundred and twenty members were present,
and directed the clerk TO notify the Senate
that quorum of the House was in ses-
sion.
Rev. Mr.. Boynton, Chaplain, offered a
prayer from the Speakers stand.
The first business in order was the adj
ministration Of the cath of Office to mem
bers elect not sworn.
The members from Kentucky having
presented themselves for that purpose,
Mr.. Schenck, rising to a question of
privilege, objected to the oath being ad-
ministered to @. d. Young, and presented
the protest of Samuel Mckee, formerly a
member of the House, on the ground of
the disloyalty of Young. The protest. he
said, was accompanied by protest of cit
liens of the fourth Congressional district of
Kentucky, maintaining by affidavit the
facts alleged, and asked that the papers
might be referred to the Committee on
Elections.
Mr. Logan offered the following as an
amendment:
Whereas, There is good reason to be-
lieve the elections recently held in the
State of Kentucky for members Of the 10th
Congress, the legal and loyal voters ia
several districts of said State had been
overawed and prevented from an expression
of their will and choice at the polls by
those who have sympathized with, or
actually participated in the late rebellion,
and such elections were carried by votes
of such disloyal and returned Rebels; and,
Whereas, 1t is alleged that several Of
the Representatives from the State of Ken
lucky are disloyal; therefore,
Resolved, That the credentials Of all
members elect from the State of Kentucky,
be referred to the Committee on Elections,
to report at as early day as possible, and
that pending the report of said committee
none of said members be allowed to take
the oath Of Office and admitted to seats.
A message was received from the Senate
announcing the appointment of commit
tee on the part of that body to join a like
committee of the House, to wait on the
President.
On motion Of Mr.. Farnsworth, such
committee was ordered on the part of the
House, and Messrs. Farnsworth, SpaIding
and Wood appointed.
The question of the Kentucky members
was again taken up at Mr.. Brooks request
Mr.. Schenck stated that affidavits were
ex parte.
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order, reminded the Speaker that when he
{ Eldridge) undertook to make some point
against the State of Tennessee, at the close
OF the Thirty-ninth Congress, the Speaker
ruled the proceedings could not be inter-
rupted for any such purpose, and he in
sisted on thes anne ruling now.
The Speaker corrected Mr.. Eldridge,
saying on that occasion he had ruled in ac-
cordance withuniform usage that it was for
the House to determine what action should
be taken when a member presented him.
self, and when objection to his taking the
oath, the Chair had never ruled differently.
If the gentleman from Wisconsin had
offered resolution that States should not
be sworn in, it would certainly have been
in order and it would have been for the
House to determine the question.
Mr.. Eldridge remarked that he had not
risen on that occasion to offer a resolution,
but to make a question of order, and the
chair had ruled that the proceedings could
not be interrupted.
The Speaker said he had distinct re-
collection that the ruling had always been
the same; if the House saw fit it could de-
fer credentials.
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