The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-14

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, July Is.

/ -ar.H SENATE
WASHINGTON, July Is.
Mr.. Trumbull, from the judiciary
| COMMITTEES, reported bill In relation
to corporations, and bill in relation 10
| finding indictments in the United states
Courts in the late rebel states, anu
| a bill authorizing temporary sup
nlvinp of vacancies in the Executive
HThe House amendments to the tax
bill came over and a Conference was
ordered, consisting of Messrs. Sher-
man, Morrill,, of Maine, ana bucKa-
Tie Senate resumed consideration
of the funding bill.
Mr.. Henderson moved TO amend by
making the interest on twenty year
bonds Az per cent, on thirty year
bonds per cent: on 1oS fo5ty year oonoS
i Mr.. Fessenden moved to amend Dy-
Imaking the authorized bonds redeema-
Bile in ten years and payable atter ~,
The bill was discussed at length by
Messrs. Morton Edmonds, Fessenden
and others. .,
,Iliyered a prepared speech, the burden
slof which was that according to the
statutes the 5-2Os should be paid In cur
/ rency. He, however, favored the Dill.
Mf. COle look LQ9 ShD1o flS"s
Mr.. Fessenden expressed the con-
trary condition, and advocated ad"
herence 20 the Republican platform:
Mr.. Howard coincided with Mr.. Fes-
sender.
subject till after the election.
MIR. Conness thought the Democratic
platform should be met now, IN 1alth'
and the Government vindicated.
Mr.. Fessenden's amendment was re-
Iected without a division.
Mr.. Ramsey moved to strike out the
last section of the committee's amend
ment legaliZing contracts made spe.
cifically paid in coin. Rejected,
Mr. Wilson offered substitute for
the third section, looking to the issue
of fifty year five per cent. bonds, the
bond holders to pay one.half of one
ner cent. taxes, and that certain in
creasing amount OF the public debt
shall be paid every ten years, begin
ming with ten millions at the end of the
first ten years.
About o'clock the Senate went into
Executive session, and soon after adj
journed.l
Messrs, Schenck, Hooper aud Nib
lack were appointed a committee of
conference on the tax Dill.
Bills and joint resolutions were In
troduced to authorize soldiers to select
homes from public lands; to provide
for bringing cases into the courts of the
Il United States against railroad COM
panies having their lines in several
States. s.----.=-=-
luton requesting the President to fur
nish copies of all instr ucttons, records
and correspondence connected with the
commission to negotiate the late treaty
with the Osage Indians, and all propo-
sitions made to the commission by
railroad corporations or individuals.
Adopted. a-i.
luton providing that U. s. Mlnts and
branches shall continue 10 refine gold
and silver bullion, that no contract to
exchange crude or imported bullion
for refined bars shall be made until
authorized by law, and repeating SEQ
and section three OF the act of
February Goth, 1861. He moved the pre-
| yious question, which was seconded,
and the Joint resolution passed.
Mr.. Farnsworth. from the Post oftice
Committee, reported a supplementary
Mr.. Pike presented petition from
the National Board of Trade with refer
ence to the navigation of the Mississippi
River. Referred to Committee on Com
meTce.
duced a bill to amend an act of April
ID. 1902, establishinga uniform rule OF
naturalizinR, Referred to the Judicla-
ry Committee. -.
! Mr.. Butler offered resolution In ref
erence to disposing of property in the
4 United States, in certain Canal and
Navigation Compauy's not paying Div
idends. Referred to the COMMITTEES on
Sessions for debate only were ordered
for every evening this week. -,
The Senate bill relating TO the Freed
mems Bureau, and providing for It's
iiscontinuance, was debated. q.
i Mr.. Adams offered an amendment
providing for the discontinuance Ofthe
i bureau in all States Immediately on
becoming represented In Congress. Re-
ljected.
Mr.. Allison moved to amend the bill
by making the hediscontinuance absolute
II on the first of January next. Adopted
and the bill passed,
Il Mr., Dawes, from the Committee on
Elections reported that the credentials
of Nathaniel Bogden and Oliver ..
Docking, members elect from North
i Carolina. had been examined and found
in due form, but these gentlemen were
unable to take the test oath, Mr.. Bog
den having been a member of the North
Carolina Legislature under the Con-
4 federate Government, and Mr. DOCKING
having served three months In the Com
q federate army in '6I. The political dis
J abilities thus incurred had been re-
lieved by an act of Congress, and the
Committee recommended that the oath
prescribed for persons whose disabili-
lies had been removed should be ad-
J ministered. The motion was agreed to,
and Messrs. Bogden and Docking had
the oath administered and took their
seats as members.
Mr.. Ashley, of Nevada, asked leave
to introduce bill taxing the interest
on q. 8. bonds 10 per cent.
Mr.. Miller objected.
Mr.. Moorhead moved 70 close gene
raj debate on the tariff bill In thirty
minutes.
Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, moved
, to amend by making it two hours.
Agreed to by vote of "a to 81.
The House agreed to go into Commit
, tee of the Whole on the tariff bill. a
, vote regarded as test one indicates
} that some of the tariff bill Will Dc
passed. l
Mr.. Moorhead opened the debate in
favor OF the bill, and In the course OF
his remarks spokeof the Special Agent
of Internal Revenue, Wells as the
lRuartiian of the interests Of the for
leiRn manufactures and foreign agents
In New YORK. t