The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-17
HOUSE.


liams, of Indiana, to pay the balance
honorably mustered out.
By Mr.. Kerr to regulate and limit the
Admiralty Jurisdiction Of the United
States. Court.
By Mr.. Julian to fix the time for the
election of representatives and dele
gates to Congress.
By Mr. Briggs joint resolution of
the Michigan Legislature relative to
customs and excise.
By Mr.. Baldwin TO abolish the bonded
warehouse system.
By Mr.. Hooper, of Massachusetts, to
prevent the depreciation of the curren-
cyl by prohibiting the circulation as
money of anything not authorized by
law.
BY Mr.. Hubbard, of West Virginia
To facilitate the resumption of specie
payments. This bill provides that after
the first Of July, 1868, twenty per cent
of all the duties on imported goods may
be paid in United States notes; after
the first of July, 1869, 40 per cent; after
the LIST of July, 1870, sixty per cent;
after first July, 1871, eighty per cent,
and after first July, 1872, the whole.
BY Mr.. Brooks
In relation to legal tender notes.
This bill provides that the Finance
Committee of the Senate and Committee
on Ways and Means of the House in
quire into the expediency, first, of max
ing legal tender notes redeemable in
part payment of custom duties, say five
,Nft Of b., 4l,a nr To
ten per cent after the first of March,
1868; second, of repeating the legal ten
der act on all contracts made after the
first of March, 1865, or if not repeating
it, enabling the contracts to be made
payable in gold and silver. All appro-
priately referred.
Mr.. Benjamin offered a resolution, re-
citing that the President in his annual
message had saw fit, in utter disregard
of the popular will as expressed in the
election of members of the FOrtieth
Congress, 20 recommend the repeal of
the reconstruction laws, the effect of
which would be TO remit the govern
ment of the late rebelliOus States to
rebel hands, and abandon the entire
loyal elements there TO the will of trail
tors, and that it is eminently proper
that the House should respond in en-
phatic terms to So extraordinary pro-
position, and resolving that the House
will never consent To take 4 retrograde
step from its advanced position in pro-
noting the cause of the equal rights,
nor to deviate from its fixed purpose of
protecting all men as equal before the
law; that there is no reason TO doubt
that the restoration of the rebellious
States is being successfully ACCOMPLISH
ed on a firm and enduring basis, and
that 10 good reason exists why the re-
construction acts should be repealed.
Mr.. Kerr moved to lay the resolution
and preamble on the table. Negatived.
The resolution and preamble were
then adopted by strictly party vote.
Mr.. Butler moved to suspend the rules
to enable him to offer resolution de-
claTinG that, in the judgment of the
House, all Indebtedness of the nation
ought to be paid in exact accordance
with the acts Of Congress creating it,
but not otherwise. That is to say, all
loans enacted to be paid in gold, to be
so paid, and all loans not so enacted to
be payable, ought to be paid in lawful
money Of the United States.
The rules were not suspended, and the
resolution was not received.
The Speaker presented q message
from the President transmitting copies
of papers, relating to the trial of Albert
Rusk, Of Indiana, in New Orleans, and
stating that no action in the case has
yet been taken 10y thSPresident's mes
age. Referred to the Judiciary COM
mittee.
The endorsement on the papers by
the Secretary of War, al interim, is that
the crime was a most fearful and brutal
one; that this was the first trial for mur-
der by a military commission under the |
reconstruction acts and the sentence |
should DO carried into effect.
The House went into Committee of I
the Whole, Mr.. Browueil in the chair, |.
aud considered the deficiency appro-
priation bill which appropriates Slls,-
$50 and after debate was reported back |
to the House which attached to it |
by vote of 73 to 20 an amendment |
giving twenty per cent additional to |
civil employees in Washington whose |
is under $4,000. The bills |
were then tabled.
The deficiency bill was again intro
duced and passed without provision for
additional compensation.
The House refused to suspend the
rules on tho. motion of Mr.. Schenck, in !
order to discharge the Committee on
Banking and Currency from the con-
sideration of NJ. Lynch's bill to pre-
vent the undue expansion and contrac-
ton of currency. Mr.. Schenck's object
was to send it TO the Ways and Means
Committee.
Mr.. Hubbard, Of West Virginia, asked
cave to offer a resolution that The Com
nittee on Retrenchment consider the
of reducing the pay of men,
lerS of CONGRESS To four thnnsand dol