Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-12
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side of the Blackberry which it ia honad vii! be found more feasible.
 CONGRESS.
 WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4th.-In the Senate considerable debate was elicited by the in. trOduction by MT. Drake of joint rosolu. ton declaring that the President had. in his message, transcsnded his preroQs. tives by declaring that the Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress were unconstitu- tional &c. MT. Edmund's bill pled9in0 payment of the Government indebtedness in coin was debated at length, but without coming to vote the Senate went into ex. ecutive session
 In the House resolution was adopted directing the secretary of the treasury to report the amount of funds which remain ed on deposit in the National Banks on the first of each month, from the 3Oth June. 1866, to the 31st Oct. 1887. The bill abol- lshlng the internal revenue tax on cotton grown after the year 1867 was, after a1 lengthy debate agreed to.
 THURSDAY, Dec. 5.-In the Senate res olution was adopted requiring tho Secreta- ry of War to furnish the number of color ed and white voters in the South who had registered their names, the number of those who were incapacitsted from voting, and the number of those who failed to ap- ply for registration. Mr. Sumner then
 called mp his bill, passed at the last ses-
 sion, bat not signed by the President, giv-
 ing further security to the black race in the District of Columbia. The bill was debated by Messrs. Johnson, Pomeroy,
 Wilson and others, and finally passed by 8 ! vote of 30 to g.
 In tho House, M=. Schenck, from the l Committee on Ways and Means. reported
 bill repeating the authority of the Secre- tary of the Treasury to make any reduc- tion in the currency by retiring or cancel ling United States notes. It was read ration of the morning hour, the Speaker majority report of the Judiciary Commit tees, recommending that the President be impeached. He also announced that if any demonstrations of applause or dissent were made by spectators during the debate, he should order the galleries to be cleared, and that if members of the House offend ed, he should present their names to the House, that they might be dealt with for contempt of it's rules. MT. Boutwell, then addressed the House in favor of impeach- ment, having first obtained permission to speak two hours instead of one. He then proceeded to consider the facts in the case, analysed tho charges against the President his acts, his Cabinet advisers, his speech es and messages, his interference to pre- vent the Adoption of the Constitutional Amendment. his surrender of abandoned lands, and his removal of Stanton, Sheridan and Sickles; and concluded by declaring himself in favor of impeachment, and called for tho judgment of the House.
 Without having concluded his remarks,
 MT. Boutwell, gave way to 8 motion to ad- journ, and thereupon the House adjourned.
 FRIDAY, Dec. 6th.-In the Senate, MT. Corbett introduced resolution, which was passed instructing the Committee on Fin ance to inquire into an sxpediency of report. ing bill authorizing loan and issue of bonds redeemable at pleasure of the Gov ernment, after twenty years, and payable in forty years with interest at Ave per ceutum payable with the principal in gold, to be placed in market to redeem the Five Twen- ties.
 In the House the Speaker presented pe- titions after which Mir. Boutwell, resumed his speech in favor of impeaching the Pres idsnt. MT. Boutwell, spoke for upward of an hour, when he was informed. that the time granted him had expired He was granted, however, another hour, and he' continued his remarks Mir. Wilson, of Iowa, Chairman of the Judiciary Commit tee, who prepared the minority report, re- piled at length to MT. Boutwell, In con- cluding his remarks Mr. Wilson moved that the subject be laid on the tsble. This members, and, as the motion was not de- bateable, the friends of impeachment com menced ''6llibustering, in order to gain time. A motion to adjourn was lost by yeas 4 nays 107; motion to adjourn to Monday was also lost-yeas 62, nays 1O5- these votes showing the relative strength of the friends of impeachment and their opponents.
 In the House, Dec: 2, the impeachment resolutions were taken up, the pending question being the motion of Mir. Wilson to lay the subject on the table. After con- siderable fillibustering, vote was taken on the adoption of the resolution impeaching the President, and it was rejected; yeas 67, nays 10S. The bill to suspend the further contraction of the currency was taken up and passed by 127 to 33. The House went into committee of the whole. The resolu- l ton distributing the Presidents message 1 was laid aside to be reported to the House. l Mr. Paine then addressed the committee { on the subject of finance, replying to Mr. 1 Buffers argument of last week, against l paying fve-twenties in gold. Mir. Ross fa- vored greenback currency instead of na- tional bank issues, at the same time oppo- sing the payment of the five-twentiss in gold. 5I |
 MONDAY, Dec, 9th.-In the Senate a lengthy debate was brought on by Mr. calling up his resolution accord ing belligerent rights to Abssynia after which the Senate into Executive session and soon after adjourned. i,
 In the House bill to provide for the re- of specie payment was referred ,o the Committee on Banking and Curren- ". The resolutions on the distribution of 5he Presidents Message, came up, when I Mr. Butler proposed to refer to the com { nittee on Appropriations that part referr- ng to an appropriation for the purchase of Alaska. Messrs. Butler, Washburne, of H. inois, Schenck and others, took the ground hat the tresty was not operative till the House agreed to make the appropriation, 1 while Messrs Banks, Stevens, of Pennsyl- ania, and Robinson argued that the mat CT came properly before the Committee on