The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-05
m. crossing Hour of Congress.

son of debate and theoretical specuIa-
ton. Among the most important bills,
other, than the Military government
bill and the Tenure of Office bill, is
the one increasing the duty on the best
grades of wool to twelve cents per
pound, and on coarse wool to ten cents,
with ten per cent. ad VGLoreH. This 10
the bill got up by Hon. John A. Blns-
ham, and that passed the House last
session. The Bankrupt BILL CONSIDER
ably modified, also passed both houses.
The cSmpouud interest note bill was
changed very materially. As it passed
II merely allows the issue of fifty mill
lions of loan certificates, bearing three
ner cent. interest, to be used in the re-
demptiou of the compound interest
notes already existing, at the discretion
of the Secretary. The Internal tax bill
was also passed but in what shape ex-
actly we are not informed.
In regard to impeachment the Judi
ciary Committee of the House at last
made a report. 1t recites the preamble
and resolutions under which the inves-
tigation was ordered. The Committee
say that soon after the adoption of the
IL
NJ. Ashley communicated to the Com
mittee, in support OF his charge against
/ the President Ofthe United States, such
facts as were in his possession. and the
investigation was proceeded with and
| has been continued almost without
days interruption. Alarge number of
! witnesses have been examined and
many documents collected, and every
thing done which could be done, to
reach a conclusion in the case, but the
| investigation covers broad field and
embraces many novel, interesting and
important questions, and involves
| multitude of facts, while more wit
nesses are distant from the capital, ow-
ing to which, the Committee, in view
of the magnitude of the interests in
| vOlved in its action, has not been able
to conclude its labors, and it Is not
therefore prepared to submit definite
and final report of the investigation
Had it even approached completeness,
the Committee would not feel author
lied to present the result to the House
at this late period OF the session, unless
the charges had been SO entirely mega
lived as to admit of no discussion,
which, in the opinion of the Commit
tee, is not the case. Certainly no
affirmative report could be properly
considered in the expiring hours ofthis
Congress. The Committee not having
freely Investigated all the charges
against the President of the United
States, it is deemed inexpedient to sub
nit to any conclusion beyond the state -
ment that sufficient testimony has been
brought to its notice to justify and de-
mand further the prosecution of the
investigation. The testimony which
the Committee has taken will pass into
the custody of the Clerk of the House,
and the case go into the hands OF such
Committee as may be charged with
the duty of bringing this investigation
TO close; so that the labor expended
upon it may not have been in vain The
Committe regrets its inability definitely
| tOdispOse ofthe important subject COM
united to its charge, and present this
report for its own justification and for
the additional purpose of notifying the
succeeding Congress of the incomplete
ness of its labors, and that they should
be completed. The report is signed by
all the Committee except Mr.. Rogers.
In minority report Mr.. Rogers says
there is not one particle of evidence be-
fore the Committee to sustain any of
the charges which the House charged
the Committee to investigate, and that
the case is wholly without particle of
evidence upon which impeachment
could be founded. He Furthermore re-
} ports that most OF the evidence taken is
OF a secondary character and such as
would not be admitted in u court ofjus-
tice, and he can see no good in contin-
uing the investigation.
AT ten o'clock the House proceeded to
business on the Speakers table, and
soon after took n recess till nine O'Clock
on Monday morning.
THE Augusta Chronicle grows indig-
nant over the insults 10 which the
grossly injured" South is subjected by
the Radicals. 1t says that
"Northern fanaticism and rage are
continually making advances in their
oppressive requirements, and the iniur-
ed South is becoming all the while
more and more holly Impatient of the
condition which is her present doom. -
And unless the Radicals speedily
change their course, of which we think
the Chronicle can see little prospect, 1t
informs us that EVERY Southern father
VIII swear his son at the altar OF God
AS Hannibal's father swore him, never
to be at peace with the peoples foes and
oppreSSorS." They have sworn that
oath a good many times, and we will
do them the justice to say that they
have kept 1t much better than they have
kept their oath to support the Constitu-
ton of the United States. The Chroni-
Gle adds, 1T is n sad thing that the Rad
tcals know so little-almost nothing
of the nature of the Southern people.
about whom they write and talk So
Radicals have learned about the South
eru people; and that is how to fight
them and to conquer them. The pleas
ant tradition that one Southern man
could fog two Yankees has not so
many believers as it had few wears
ago. We do not fall into the other ex-
treme OF the folly, and deny the conr-
age and fortitude of the Southern peo-
pie There is no lack of bravery in
either section it would be better If
there was greater lack of pretensions
and insolence in one of them. The ex-
treme demands of the Radicals now
are moderate, compared to what the
South would willingly have accepted, at
the close ofthe war. before she had be-
come encouraged and excited to fresh
port and of Democratic successes,
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THE Mobile Tunes finds few occa-
sions nowadays for indulging in
rhetoric, and it makes the most Of those
which offer. The following is part of
its washington's birthday article on
the character of the Father of his Conn
try:
! He was born, he lived, he died n
STAKEHOLDER, and Il is because he ica.s a
shareholder that his life was purer. his
/ mind more free, his soul more aspiring
than ever was known in any other great
man. We now witness the day held so
sacred to all the nations OF the earth.
lost in oblivion those who were intend
eH to be the direct inheritors of the
,TnleSslngs II secured, and the memory of
sne nero and the memory of his sajnted
t uto'ner dragged into the mire of bias
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