The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-19
CONGRESSIONAL PROOMEDINGs,
The following are the Congressional proceed =
ings OF yesterday, continued from our Fourth
Edition =


WASHINGTON, February ls.
Senate.
The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was re-
Seiveo from the House, and referred to the Com
Mr.. FESSENDEN moved to take up the Mill
tary Academy Appropriation bill.
ur' GUNNER moved TO take mp the Louisiana
Dill. There was distinct understanding that it
NS 70 pe proceeded with as soon as the Military
Several Senators rose and discaimed any such
understanding.
Mr.. WADE said if he ever had such an under
standing, IT was before there was anything looking
like reconstruction in the Military bill.
Mr. SUMNER did not agree that the amendment
70 the bill passed on Sunday made the necessity for
the Louisiana bill any the less. He thought it i'm
creased IL.
The Senate resumed the consideration of Mr.
Harris bill, laid aside short time since.
Mr.. HARRIS offered an amendment, that the
provisions of the bill shall not apply to any case
In which the time limited by law had expired he.
fore the rebellion. As thus amended the bill was
passed, and goes to the House
Tbs bill making appropriations for the support
OF the Military Academy for the year ending June
30, 1868, was then taken up. II contains proviso
the pay or subsistence Of any cadet from any State
lately in rebellion until that State shall have been
readmitted, and that no money shall be expended
under it in violation of the law prescribing an
oath OF Office &c The committee recommended
the striking out of this pro viso
Mr.. FESSENDEN said the proyso was unne-
cessary, and was embodied in existing laws. 1t
was stricken out.
Mr.. WILSON moved an amendment relieving
the Chaplain OF the Academy from academic du-
ties, that he may devote his whole time TO the
moral and religious education of the cadets
The amendment was agreed TO and the bill was
passed, and goes TO the House for concurrence in
amendments
On motion of Mr.. FESSENDEN the Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation bill was taken up.
Among the items is sl7 600 for the suppression OF
the African slave trade.
The COMMITTEE on Finance recommended the
restoration of the Portugal mission.
Mr.. SUMNER opposed this endment.
Mr.. GRIMES said he believed Mr. Harvey had
been paid out OF the contingent fund of the State
department. which, by the last years Appropria-
ton bill, was S6OOOO, although five years ago it
was only $120O0 year.
MIR. SUMNER said il would be remembered that
it was provided by law that money should be
paid to Mr. Harvey out of any fund whatever.
Mr.. GRIMES said he understood the Secretary
OF State had way of using his contingent fund
so that Minister who was his friend might get
$4,000 for travelling expenses, and another whom
Mr. FESSEN DEN said the amendment of the
committee provided only for the payment OF Min
lister to Portugal. 1t could not be applied to Mr.
Harvey, because the law of last session provided
that no money should be paid for any future
repealed, Mr.. Harvey could not be paid.
Mr.. DIXON defended Mr.. Harvey, and ex-
pressed the belief that he would yet be paid what
was due him for his services. He did not know
now this would be done, but he believed II would
be done at some future time.
Mr.. FOGG, of New Hampshire, condemned the
conduct OF the State Department in keeping Mr.
Harvey in his position after Congress had declared
him an unfit represent tative OF the nation.
Mr. DAVIS contrasted the conduct of Mr.. Har-
vey with the conduct OF Mr. Motley, and con-
tended that the offence Of the latter was the great
est, though he thought Congress ought not to take
official notice of either.
Mr.. FESSENDEN asserted the right of Con-
gress to withhold appropriations to pay men who
had proven themselves unworthy Of public conf
dence He had nothing to say as to Mr.. Harvey's
of Mr. Dixon that because the CONSTITUTION or laws
made an office, Congress was therefore compelled
to appropriate money to pay whomsoever was ap-
pointed. This was saVish doctrine to which the
country would never consent
Mr.. SUMNER regretted that the Finance Com
rnftf had Ind 10 oraan ndVnnn Hn
should be compelled to vote against it, as he pre-
ferred the bill as it came from the House Dlplo-
matte appointment, he might say, stood upon two
legs; the first was the act creating the mission,
which in the case of Portugal was passed In 1855,
and the second was the annual appropriation bill.
BY repeating the first failing to provide for the
mission in the second, Congress had an undoubted
right to practically abolish mission:
After further debate the question was taken on
agreeing to the amendment " insert an appropria-
tion for the Portugal mission, and It was agreed to.
Fessenden, HoRdTioss, yChnson,s KirExoSd. MoI9u:
%nkfS waas %iSy %Sms snd van
Nays-M Messrs. Brown, Chandler, Oonness. Cragi1,
HS%s. Morriil; Sumner, TrgnsuiI and Mii:qaSisso
600 for Atlantic cable dispatches.
Euentng Session.
Mr.. GRIMES, OF Iowa, moved TO reconsider
the vote passing the Diplomatic Appropriation
bill, for the purpose of amending it by reducing
the appropriation for the contingent fund OF the
State Department from 100000 to $50, OOC;
Mr.. Grimes said that before the war the amount
appropriated for this purpose was only s2s Esz-@t
was always paid in gold, and could 80 CneIeGore
be increased on the plea OF deprecated currency.
He willing to increase it 5Oper cent over what
IL was before the war
Mr.. SUMNER opposed the amendment.
Mr.. DAVIS, of Kentucky, opposed IL, and spoke
in eulogistic terms of the Secretary of State who
had, he said, during the past few years, shown
himself a statesman OF wise experience and an
ardent lover and supporter of the Constitution.
The resolution of Mr.. Grimes was agreed to by
the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Brown. Chandler, Oonness, oress-
well, Fogg Grimes howarS, howe Jane, moTEllI, Wi,
son-l6. ., D,, ~, nj,
Dooiittle, Fessenden, Hendricks, Johnson, sumner,
Van Winkle, Wieg and Williams-l6.
The bill was then passed.
Mr.. SUMNER moved TO take up the Louisiana
Mr. WILSON favored the motion. He was for
considering it before the bill that passed on Sunday
was taken up. The great wrong OF the President
was in giving the control of the 10
the hands of the rebels. He had done as great
wrong in this respect as General Grant would
have done had he surrendered TO Gen. Lee after
having defeated him. He (Mr. Wilson) had Just
received a letter from the editor of the savannah
Republican, who had been arrested, tried and sent
10 iail for year, and fined SlO0O for saying that
man who used to be Postmaster in Savannah was
a defaulter. 1t known that the government
Was now prosecuting this ex-Postmaster as a de-
faulter but for maintaining this fact the editor
nudge and rebel jury. He (Mr. Wilson) believed
fhat the Louisiana bill modified so as 10 extend
suffrage TO the blacks and made 10 apply TO the
other States, would be good basis OF reconstruc-
Without acting on the motion, the Senate at
10 p. NJ. adjourned.
House OF Representatives,
By Mr.. HOOPER, OF Utah, memorial Of the
Utah Legislature praying for the repeal of the act
to punish polygamy in the territories Same refer
By Mr.. JULIAN, joint resolution on the SUBJECT
of Republican governments for the States OF the
TTnion Rafarred 10 the Committee on the Ju-