The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-11
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. z.
SENATE

Petitions were presented for the pas
sage of the House tariff bill, which, with
many other peti ions and memo
rails, were referred to committees.
A bill to refund So, 400, duty on rail
road iron, to Winona and st. Peters
railroad, was passed.
Mr.. Poland called up the House bill
to fix the time for the regular meeting
of Congress.
Mr.. Hendricks thought there was no
necessity for such legislation. If it was
q party measure he had nothing to say,
but if it was claimed to be required by
the interests of the country, he would
like to have it explained. He believed
the country had got along very well with
out continual session heretofore. If 1T
was designed to hold the President i'll
check, the country ought to know 1t; If
it was for strict party purposes the
country ought to know it. He believed
the passage of the bill had been de-
ternined on in caucus, but he thought
the Senator having charge OF the bill
ought to explain it.
Mr.. Edmunds said he had only taken
charge of the bill at the request of the
Senators who were now absent, and of
members of the House. So far as he
knew the reasons that procured the
passage of the bill in the House, the
principal one was to provide an addi-
tional officer for the succession to the
Presidency in the event of the death of
the President.
The bill would give us a permanent
Speaker OF the House, which we would
not have without it. How much politi-
cal significance there might be i'll the
bill he did cot know. He was not pre-
pared to say that the unfortunate differ
ences between the President and Con-
gress had not contributed to the passage
of the bill, though how much he could
not say.
Mr. Hendricks offered an amendment
to second section to add the fol-
lowing words, unless there be a recess
in such division for more than thirty
days, in which case members of the for
mer Congress shall receive mileage"
The amendment was disagreed to and
the bill was then read n third time and
passed-Yeas 26, Nays.
YEAT-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler,
CONFESS, Cragen, Crisswell, Edmunds,
Fessenden, FOgg, Foster, Grimes, Hen
derson, Howard, Howe, Kirkwood,
Lane, Morgan, Morrill,, Poland, Ramsey,
Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Van Win
kle, Wiley, and Williams-26.
NAYs-Messrs. Buckalew, Hendricks,
Johnson, Moran, Patterson, Riddle and
Salisbury.
As passed by the Senate, and sent to
the House for concurrence i'll the
amendment, the bill is as follows:
AN ACT TO FIX THE TINE FOR THE REG
ULAR MEETING OF CONGRESS.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of
Amcricd, IN Congress assembled, That i'll
addition to the regular times ofmeeting
of Congress, there shall be u meeting of
the Fortieth Congress of the United
States, and of each succeeding Congress
thereafter, at II o'clock NJ, on the 4th
day of March, the day on which the
term begins for which the Congress is
elected, except that when the 4th of
March occurs on Sunday, then the meet
ing shall take place at the same time on
the next succeeding day.
SECTION 2. Ind be it further enacted,
That no person who was a member of
the previous Congress shall receive any
compensation rs mileage for going to or
returning from the additional session
provided for by the foregoing section.
Mr.. Chandler presented a resolution
FROM the Buffalo, Detroit and Toledo
Boards of Trade, recommending plan
proposed to the Secretary of War through
the Engineer of the Department, of
making straight canal through the
st. Clair flats, instead of further eX-
penditures of money in dredging the
existing channel, and praying Congress
to make the necessary appropriation
therefor. Referred to Committee on
Commerce.
Wade called up the bill to amend or
ganic acts of territories of the United
States by prohibiting the denial of civil
or political rights on account of color,
and offered the following substitute:
That from and after the passage of
this act there shall be no denial Of the
elective franchise in any of the terrific
ries OF the United States which
are now or may, be hereafter or
ganized, to any citizen thereof,
on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude, and all acts or
parts of acts, either of Congress or of
the legislative assemblies of said terri
tories, inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, are hereby declared null and
void. Adopted as a substitute and
passed-yeas ~: nays g.