Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-01-10
FORTIETH CONGRESS.
This Afternoons Proceedings.
FRIDAY. .Iannary 4.

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ii, Ms OF citizens OF Worcestor, Mass. asking
measur's lor thu protection of n .tur,lized cit :
~ ns abroad, and inteJ ccsSiOn with Great Brit
ain for the release d parties held as Feni An
la:d'rs. Ref rrCd TO tie Committee on Forei IN
RGlat orr.
Mr.. Howard rose 10 personal expIanat on.
In the New York ErCRing Post and Ehila Tel =
phia uLt tin OF the 9Th he noticed what pur-
ported 10 te an abstract of the report Of the
Committee on Military Affairs relative to th,.
susrt nsion OF Secretary Stanton The II IT.
in the case bad been committed To him 10 pc
pare, and had been stat. in thu n.,yyS,ar, r.
On Monday he had been wilted on by two per-
scns-B. Randolph Keim, OF the Now York
Hro Il, and W. Scott Smith, rep escnting him
self TO b. manae'r af the Evening Pr, - Associ-
aioD. These parties earnestly imuJrtune
him Tor copy of the repo (, which, though
with much IT. ret, be had finally allowed them
10 copy, with the strict Injunction on their
loEor not TO publish II or ia Se it from hi room
until aft II was made public. These persons
mad cir city yiolatf q their pledged faith, al I
lie mentioned their names in o a r that their
employers and the world might know what
kind Of srsons they were.
Mr.. Harlan introduced bill amending the
act changing the organization of tn. Post Ofi 20
n'rarfm' M, and 10 provide for the better
s, ui'm. mt OF the accounts tIs rein. Referred u
Committee on Post Offices.
Mr.. Morrill,, Of Maine, from the Committee
on Appropriations, reporte with amendme l.
the bill TO supply deficienc in the appropria-
ton for tie execution of the reconstruction
acts.
MT. Thayer introduced a bill 10 amend Sec
uon IL, Of the act To inc and ii the military
peace establishment OF tn United States To
Committee on VI ilitary An .irs.
Tr. Harlon called up the hill providing for
the formation of corporations and reg gulating the
came I'm the District of Columbia, which was
read snd then laid over
The House bill to suspend the further con-
4 action of the currency WIS taken up
Mr.. Edmunds offered an amendments that
nothing contained in this or amy other existing
act hall Re 80 construed t. authorize an in
crease of United States noes other lawful
money beyond the amour; now outstanding
exc. pit 10 the amount of tifty millions of the re-.
serve OF the United States N Dtes already author
lied by law, " hicb after ,me debtte. was re-
jet d by n vote Of IL yeas To 20 navs
Mr.. Buckalew moved 10 amend by providing
that the act shall take effect only to the lst of
Jniy next, instead Of during the pleasure of
Congress.
MIR. Norton would sooner the bill should fail
than this amendment passed.
HoUsE.-Mr O'Neill pa offered n resoIu
tiOn directing the Postmaster General 70 ,rm
the House why the mnd uight mail between
New York ana Philadelphia was withdrawn.
ana whether, III lew of the necessity of fire.
qnent intercourse between the two cities the.
mail cannot be restored. Adopted
On motion OF Mr.. Stevens (Pa-D "Wednesday
heht, after the morning hour, was fixed upon
rs the time for the consideration of the bill 10
tstabiSh system OF pu bile schools in the Dis
trict. of Columhir
4ui bulff tliS>. H. but fdlIeu To obtain
iraVe TO ofiera resolution requesting the ) S,,.ra-
tiry oI War TO inform the House of al dis
patches, &c.. that had been received in relation
10 tue ALLEGED suffering from cold by the United
States soldiers IN Alaska.
D. House resumed a. the regular order fb..
bill reported yests rday from the Committe. of
ways and Means in relation 10 whisky meters
The prevlOns question upon which Y,s or
d' red yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Pile MO addressed the House ostensi-
bIy npon the bill, but made a political speech
IN conioi nifty to the line of argument pursued
yestel day
Mr.. Chanl.r IN. Y }. rising TO n point of or
Der, asked whether the question Of whi skey
meters was political one. He insisted upsn
before The HOUSE
Ihe Speaker sustained the point of order
MT Piie-i WAS simply taking the line of
a aIgnlnent pursued yesterday. and which was
The Spsak.r.-That is so, but no point of Or
der was raised. and the Chair did not, there
fore, interfere
Mr.. Chanler laid he was not presen, yesr.r-
uay ana was not aware of the line of argument
permitted, and he would therefore Withdraw
tn q point OF order.
No other member objecting, Mr Pile IT,
sumed, and endeavored to fix the responsibili,y
of national decentralization upon the Demo-
crauc party. All the papers of the country
from Bfick Pomeroy up, that were espousinc
u. mocrauc principles, and all the Democrats
OF the country, from Henry CLAY Deape of
Iowa To Pendlcion, EaIlandigham. and Sey-
mour, We're responsible for the war, the deb,
created by II, and the speculation that was the
result OF the creation of that debt. To talk OF
bringing this putrid party back to power was
preposteronS, ,as the people would never agr.., 70
or submit 10 anything OF the kind In the
course of his remarks, Nr. Pile referred TO two
Delnocfh, IN Illinois. no a3d obtained con-
TRACTS during the war, and whose namas in
connection with these contracts were in bad re-
pute in the West
Mr.. Marshall (Ill.) said he had Yesterday
made npon this subject all the remarks h. in
tended TO make; but he knew TO whom ,h,. ...p
tleInan referred as Democrats who had OBJ
tanned contracts, and he wanted To say NOW
u nat there was no charge OF dishonesty aca,p !
the persons named
Mr.. Pile said h. merely made the general re-
mark with regard u fraud, and II wa. notorious
III The wet as 10 the two gentlemen ne had espr-
cially referred. Ii the m.n who mainly got
contracts during the war were not Democrats
before the war. they were so during it. pro-
gresS, and during that time voted the Drmo-
cratic tche'. and acted upon all questions with
the Democratic party. Mr.. Pile then addressed
himself 10 the consideration Of the business
before the House
MIR. Woodbridge (Et.) said he was sur
plised at The wide latitude that had been gwen
10 debate upon this subject.
Mr.. Schenck m, n spoke upon the question
after which the question was taken and tn
bill was passed.