The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-23

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Ward moved to reconsider the vote, and
To lay that motion on the table. Agreed to.
Price offered the following resosuti0n:
Resolved, That the Com mittee on "A p
prlatlons &c Instructed to inquire into the
expediency of approprlating 5000 600 TO
take up the nAtared and maturing In
debtedness of the United states, which is
payable IN currency as the same become
due, said amount to be tak en- from. coin j a
the Treasury, to be sold for. thai purp0se,
aud providing by law that no new indebt-
states by the sale or issue of its bon s, or
notes, or other securi ties, until the coin in
reserve IN the Treasury is reduced to &2j,-
O0O,0O. said Committee to report by oil
or otherwise.
llisOn asked Price to modify the resolu-
ton Sc as 10 instruct the Committee to
Price declined, thinking the resolution
better it was.
Ingerso3l moved to lay the resolution on
the table, which was negatived. =. a.
Spauldlng moved to amend by striking
out Committee on Appropriations" and
Means which was agree,t to.
the resolution SO amended was agreed to.
The morning hour having expired, the
the report of the Conference COmmittes on
the bill removing political disabilities
from several hundred persons in the
Southern State the question: being on
OF Friday last, rejecting the report.
The vote was recOnsidered. and the re-
port adopted Dy a IWO-IllrltS VOt6-So 10 A.
Yeas Allison, Ames. Anderson, Arnen,
Ashley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Ban ks,
Beaman. Beatty, Benjamin, Benton, Btng-
nam, Blame. Blair, Boutwell,. BroomaIi,
Buckland, Butler, Churchill, Clarke OF
OHIO, Cook, Cornell, Delane, D XOn, Don-
nelly, briggs, Eckiey, Eggieston, Ella.
Elliott, Farnsworth, Ferry, Ferris Field,
Garfield. GrlswOid, Harding, Hull, Hooper,
Hubbard, Hurlbut, Jencks. Judd, Kelsey,
ketehaIn, koontz, Lawrence, Lincoln, Lo-
gan, LoughrIdge, Lynch, Aa1ory, Marvin,
Mccarthy, Mercer, Moore, MOorhead, Nor
rill, Myers, Newcomb, O'Neil, Paine. Pc
ters, Pie, Plants, Poland. FALSELY Ponce
roy, kaum, Robertson, sawyer. ScheneK,
SchOfield. Selege, Shanks, smith, Spald-
ing, Stevens of Penn, Stewart, Stokes,
Taylor, Thomas, Twitehell, Upson, WASH
burne OF Wisconsin,, Wash burne of Iii
nois, Washburn OF Indiana, Washburne
OF Mass, Welker, Wiz of Iowa, Wilson
of Ohio. Windom, Woodbridge, Wood
ward and NJ. Speaker.
Nays = Adams, Asher, Barnes, Beck,
Boyer, BROOKS, Cary, Clarke, of Kansas;
Cobb, Coburn ,Covode, EIdrIdge, Fox, Getz,
Gsossor=nner, Golloday. Grover, Haight,
HaWEins, Higbee, Holman, Humphrey,
Ingersoll, johnson, Jones, Jullan. Kerr,
Knott. Loan, Mccormick. Mangen, Nib
lack, OTth. Fruyn. Robinson, Snellabar-
ger, Sugreaves, stevens, OF New Hamp-
shire; Taber, Trimble, OF Kentusky; Van
trump, Ward, Williams, OF Pennsylva-
MIA, and W iliamS, OF Indiana.
The reporter Is requested a 10 stale thai
the Democrats in voti ng against the con-
ference reportS did soebeeau % IL sfruck ouL
Jones. of Tennessee, otherwise most OF
them would have voted aye.
The Kentucky contested election case
was Agafn taken up, and debated by b cz
and Poland ag inst The report of the COM
mittee, and By Upson in support OF 1t.
Kerr, from The minority OF the Commit
tee on Etectfous moved, as a substitute "a
resolution declaring that John ID Young
was entitled 10 the seat aud snould be
sworn in. The substitute was rejected
yeas 30. nays 96.
The several resolutions reported by the
Committee were then adopted without a
Mckee appeared and took the oath and
seat as Rep. esenta tive
On motion of Paine, the Secretary of
War was directed to furnish statement
of The aggregate number of additional
bounties paid from the respective states
The joint resolnt on directing the sale of
unservicable arms, ordnance and ordnance
The Senate bill extending the time for
the completion railroad from the Central
Pacific ROAD in California to Portland,
Oregon, passed.
Woodbrldge introduced a bill for the re.
lief OF Rear Admiral Wilkes. Referred TO
the Judiciary Committee.
On motion of Ward, the Secretary of the
Treasury was asked for the vouchers for
the expenditures by the Indian Peace
Commission.
calling on the Secretary of War for in
formation respecting persons held at the
Dry Tortagas and Atlanta as prisoners.
otherwise.
Schofieid objected.
Price asked to take from the Speakers
table the senate bill extending the time
for the completion of the Northern Pacific
Stevens, of PenusyIvania, objected.
Archer introduced joint resolution ten
sIering the thanks of Congress TO Captain
d. McDongal. Referred 20 the Committee
Schtn Their moved to go into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Special Tax
Bill.
The Speaker reminded the House OF the
terms of the order, tnat no other business
except reports of Committees on Enrolled
Bills would be in order, till the Tax Bill
was dis posed. The order, however, would
not exclude the reception of m assages
fro n the President or the Senate, the ac-
ton Of the House on the veto message,
or the right of member to be sworn in.
EldriGge suggested the case of another
i'm peachment resolution.
The Speaker said he wou rule up the
question If IL came.
EIdridge added that he did not know but
that il might come up from the committee
now having the matter under considera-
ton.
Garfield inquired whether the business
could not be done by unanimous co 9senJ
The speaker replied: Certainly 1t could
on motion Of scaenex, the first reading
of thelDil was dispensed with.
RobinSo inquired whether II would be
IN order for him to offer a substitute for
the bill, which substitute he held in his
hand, and which,eovered all the. grounds
that the 4 ouse wished 10 ac5 on
the Speaker said Il woul1 be in order 20
do so IN Com n1ittseso the Whole.
The House then, at 4 O'Clock, went into
| COmmittee of the Whole Blaine in The
cnair, and proceeded TO the eonsIderati9n N
Of the Tax Bill, the general debat beiug
limited to one hour.
Scheuck addressed the committee in ex,
planatfon OF the BILL. .%<ta.aE ~
Without actiOn~the. Committee arose
and on motion of Schenek, II was ordered
that thesCoHnnitteeg on the Whole. ia ka re-
cess daily from half-past four to hair past
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A message from the senate AnnoUneed
the passage of tue Arkansas bill over the
/ Presidents Veto. q
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