The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-22
STEVENS IN HIS SEAT IN
THE HOUSE.
Brooks Objects to Administering
the Oath to Any of the
Tennessee Delegation.
STATES THAT TENNESSEE HAS NOT
A REPUBLICAN FORM OF
GOVERNMENT.
WASHINGTON. November 21.

noon. prayer Dy the Cnaplaln.
The following Senators were pres
ent: The President, Messrs. Anthony,
Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Conness,
Cole, Corbett, Conkling, Cragin,
Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Drake, Ed
munds, Fessenden, Fowler, Freling-
huzen, Grimes. Harlan, johnson,
Jordan, Morrill,, VT, Morrill,, Me,
Morton, Norton, Nye, Patterson, n.
H. Patterson, Tenn, Pomeroy, Ram
sey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner,
Thayer, Upton, Trumbuil, Van
Winkle, Wiley, Williams, Wilson,
and Yates.
Sumner asked the unanimous con-
sent to introduce bill for the further
security of equal rights in the Dis
trict of Columbia. He stated it was
the exact copy of bill passed at the
last session, but not returned by the
President, and it therefore became
necessary again to pass it. The bill
read as follows:
Be 1T enacted, &c, That the word
white" wherever it occurs in the
laws relating to the District of Co.
lumbia, or in the charter or ordinance
Of the City Of Washington and
Georgetown, and operates as a limita-
ton in said cities to hold any office,
or to be selected and TO serve as ju-
rors, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed; and it shall be unlawful for
any person or officer to enforce, or
attempt to enforce, said limitation
after the passage of this bill.
Davis objecting, the bill was laid
| over.
Williams introduced a joint reso-
luton amendatory of the joint reso-
luton approved June 27, 1866, au-
thorizing the Court of Claims to re
open and examine for adjudication
the claims of Richard ". Mead, de-
ceased. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Edmonds offered the following
joint resolution, which was read, laid
on the table, and ordered printed.
| He would call it up at an early day,
and hoped it would be passed with
entire nnanimity:
WHEREAS, The public. debt of the
United States was, except where spee
cially otherwise provided, contracted
aid incurred upon the faith andi
credit of the United States; and that
the same would be paid or redeemed
| in coin, or its equivalent; therefore,
ResoLued, By the Senate and House
| of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress as
sembled, That the public debt of the
United States, except in the cases
wherein the law authorizing the same
and no other provision was expressly
made, is owing in coin, or its equiva-
lent, and the United States is hereby
| x,la nnIx
Wilson offered the following resolu-
ton, which was agreed to:
ResolUed, That the Secretary of the
Treasury be directed to communicate,
for the further information of the
Senate, any facts or reports in the
possession of the Department relating
to the repeal of the tax on cotton.
Grimes moved that when the Sen
ate adjourn, it be to Monday. Car
ried.
On motion of Mr.. Morgan, it was
ordered that the Senate meet at II NJ.
daily.
On motion of Mr.. Wilson, the bill
for the calling out of volunteers to
suppress hostilities and the bill for
yacating certain municipal offices in
Alexandria, were indefinitely post
| poned.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.-The House assembled at
noon. The attendance of members
unusually large. The galleries were
crowded before IL o'clock; many
ladies were accommodated in the gen.
tlemen's gallery.
Stevens, of Pa, was in his seat, ap-
pearantly in as good physical condi-
tion as last season.
The proceedings were opened By
prayer by Chaplain Boynton.
Messrs. Woodward, of Pa, and
Cary, of Ohio, members elect, took
the oath prescribed by law. The eight
members elect from Tennessee, hav-
ing been called by the Speaker to
take the oath, Mr.. Eldridge objected
to administering the oath to Mr..
Stokes, and moved that his creden-
tials be referred to Committee on
Credentials.
James Brooks, of New York, OBJ
jected to administering the oath to
any of the Tennessee delegates on
the ground 1st, That two, if not more
of them, had been guilty of treason to
the Government, and taken the oath
of allegiance to the Confederate Gov
: ernment and JEFF. Davis; and I'd
! That there does not now exist in the
State of Tennessee a Republican form
t / of Government. Loud laughter or
"A the Republican side, l4---..-