Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-04-04
Congress.

HS 1IOuNC, O1 a hO.C VI
II2 to "a, passed the vetoed Supreme
Court BILL, which made it law, and the
McArdle case will probably 'sleep the
sleep that knows no waking" The res
istance OF Democrats to its final passage
was very weak, and did not delay TIE
bill an hour, r s.as.,ai i.f
The SPEAKER proclaimed that the bill
had become law, it having passed the
two Houses by the constitutional major
ity, Notwithstanding the Presidents OBJ
jections.. a-n..
The House will probably agree to do
no business for ten dayso or two weeks,
and there is not much probability of
! there being quorum present after to-
morrow, as many members are going
home. because no business can be done
until the impeachment trial is compile
ted, which will take from two to three
weeks. o' @.f
In the Senate Mr.. Wilson offered re-
solution, which was adopted, providing
for sending the bill passed over the Pre-
-sident's veto to the Secretary Of State
tor promulgation, signed by the Secre-
tary of the State Senate and Clerks of the
House ~ Pc .-
Mr. Chandler introduced bill as
substitute for one pending to regulate
the coasting trade. He explained that
vessel clearing from Buffalo is now
obliged to take out manifest at every
port at which she touches. This bill le-
quired but one manifest The bill was
laid over, to be called up tomorrow.
The bill supplementary to the Nation
al Currency act was taken up and Mr..
Cattell spoke in favor of it, defending the
national banking system, and saying
this bill would correct the only defect,
which was plethora of money in the
eastern cities, to the impoverishment of
other places, the latter sending their re-
serves to cities to obtain interest
In the Senate March %. Mr. Edmunds
offered the following resolution, which
was adopted.
Resolued, That the President of the
United States be requested to commun-
cate to the Senate whether he had estab
lished or ordered the establishment of
any new military department since the
first day of August, 1861; and if 80, nnder
what statute of other authority.
The Conf ference Committee on the tax
epeal made report and this consumed
The time until half past twelve o'clock
when Dir. Wade vacated the Chair and
the Chief Justice called the Impeach-
ment Court to order. The Board of
Managers and House of Representatives
then entered. The journal was then
read.
In the House resolution of the Leg
islature of New jersey Withdrawing the
assent of the State to the proposed
amendment to the constitution known
us ''article XIV" was presented.
After some debate, Mr.. Washburne of
fered the following resolution:
ResoIred, That the resolution of the
Legislature of New Jersey, purportine
to withdraw the assent of the said State
TO the constitutional amendment known
as the XIvth article be returned by the
Speaker of the House to gentlemen wlo
presented it, for the reason that the same
is disrespectful to the House, and scand-
alous in character and that its title on
ly shall be referred to i'll the journal and
in the Congressional Globe.
The resolution was adopted-SO to II.
In the impeachment proceedings the
rules were suspended, and resolution
to print 5000 copies of Mr.. Buffers
speech, on motion of Mr.. Schenck, with
accompanying brief, 10000 without the
brief, was offered and referred to the
Committee on Printing.