The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-26
HOUSE.

! Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Under the call of States q large num-
Der of bills and joint resolutions were
introduced and referred, including the
following: To limit the liability of
common carriers between States; for the
muster out all army paymasters, COM
miSsaries and quarter masters not on
duty the past three months; to reopen
the land office of Virginia, Military
District of Ohio; for two local Inspec-
tors of steamboats, at Evansville, 1ndi-
ana; granting bounties to the 18th and
10Th regiments of one year Indiana vol
unters; granting bOunties and land to
soldiers of the late war; providing for
| the reduction of all votes cast for
members of the House for any
person known 10 be ineligible
by persons casting them;relativc to suits
in the L. S. Courts; supplementary to
| the several acts organizing territories;
bills amending the act to establish and
equalizc the grades in the navy; declar-
ling the meaning and clause of the in
| ternal revenue law, taxing chairs, &c,
three judicial districts; to secure the
completion of the PoStoffice and Gus
tom House at Cairo; to authorize home
stead exemptions in Virginia, military
district of Ohio.
At twenty-five minutes before two
o'clock the Speaker called the House TO
order and the doorkeeper announced
the presence at the bar of the House of
the committee which had been appoint
ed to impeacb, at the bar of the Senate,
the President of the United States.
Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, stand
ing in company with his colleague, Mr..
Bingham, then made report as fol.
lows:
Mr.. Speaker: In obedience to the or
der of the House, we have proceeded to
the bar of the Senate and proceeded in
your name and in the name Of this
body, and all the people of the United
States 10 impeach, as We were directed,
Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, of high crimes and INSIDE
meanors in Office, and we demanded that
the Senate shall take order to make
him appear before that body and
answer for the same, and stated that
the House would forthwith or soon, |
did not say which, present articles of
impeachment and make them good, to
which the response was Order shall
be taken"
the resolutions offered by Mr.. Girls
void on the 18th inst, in reference to
the rights Of American citizens abroad,
came up and were referred to the COM
mittee ON FOREIGN Affairs
On melton of Mr.. Ingersoll, the SEN
ate bill appropriating $4,000 for tenn
pOrary relief of the destitute people in
the district Of Columbia was taken up,
and amended by Mr.. Ward by making
the fund disbursable by the Freedmen's
Dureru and Aid Society Jointly, and
passed.
The Speaker presented communica-
ton from the Secretary of War with
rcport from Major General Hancock as
to the riot ut Marshall, Texas, on the
3lst of December. Referred to COM
mittcc GA Reconstruction. Also the
Constitution of the State of Alabama
rs revised and amended by the Conven-
ton ii Montgomery. Same reference.
The Hnasc resumed COnsid, ration of
the naval appropriation bill.
Mr.. Butler, from the same committee,
reported a bill making appropriations for
the expenses OF Indian Department.
Made the special order for to -morrow.
Mr.. Wasnburne, of Illinois, from the
committee on Rules, reported now rule
declaring that pending motion to suS-
pend the rules the Speaker may enter
tain one motion, that the House shall
now adjourn, hui that after the result
thereof is announced, he shall not enter
tain any other d;latOry motion until the
vote is takes on suspension. This is ill.,
tended to prevent iillibustering by Il
minority OF less than one-third on a day
when it is in order to suspend the rules.
Mr.. Ross objected.
Alr, Washburne moved, and the rules
were suspended asd the new rules
adopted.
Mr.. WaShburnc, OF Illinois, asked
leave to offer the following resolution ::
ReSOlred, That the rules be suspended,
and it is hereby ordered, as follows ::
When the committee to prepare the ar
ticlcS of impeachment of the President
of the United States reports said arti-
cles. the House shall Immediately re-
solve itself into Il committee of the
/ Whole thereon, and speeches in the
committee shall be limited to fifteen
minutes each, which debate shall con-
tinue until the next legislative after
repOrt;to the exclusion of all other bust
ness except the reading of the journal;
that at 3 o'clock in the fternOJn of said
second day the fifteen minutes debate
shall cease and the committee shall
then proceed to consider it and
vote upon the amendments that
may be offered, under the
five minute rule of debate, but
no more pro formo amendments
shall be entertained; that at
2. NJ. of said second day the said COM
mittec shall rise and report their action
TO the House, which shall Immediately
and without dilatory motion vote on
the action; that if the articles of i'm
parchment are agreed upon the House
shall then immediately and without
/ diiatory motion elect seven managers
to conduct said impeachment on
| the part of the House, and
that during the tendency of the
resolution i'll the House, relative to said
impeachment, and thereafter, no dila-
tory motion shall be received, except
one motion on each day, that the House
do now adjourn.
Mr.. Wood objected. After various sug-
gestions and the voting down of mo-
/ tion to adjourn, the rules were suspend
ed and the resolution adopted.
Mr.. Boutwell, offered re ,OlutiOn that
committee be appointed to prepare
and report articles of impeachment
against the President, and that the
committee on demonstration be sever
ally authorized to sit during the session
OF the House. Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Washburne, of Illi-
nois, an evening session, for debate on
ly, was ordered.
The House took a recess till o'clock
when they again met and INDUCED in a
general debate FOR several hours.
Adjourned. q
Iowa.
! DIES MONIES, February 25.-The fol-
lowing dispatch was sent TO the SEN
ators and Representative Of Iowa, in