The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-11
HOUSE.

Bills and resolutions were introduced
in aid of the UnioL Pacific Railroad,
Eastern Branch; to provide for a COM
mission to investigate claims ana &C
counts of Indian depredations; to al
low respondentsin criminal proceedings
TO testify to United States courts held
in States where the same is allowed by
tatute; to provide for the expor-
tation of distilled spirits In
bond; to provide for the gradual
return to specie payments by the pur
chase of legal tenders on sliding scale
for gold, commencing on the first OF
December, and that on and after the
first of June, 1871, the United States
shall pay all legal tenders, dollar for
dollar, in gold; to equalize contracts
hereafter made for the payment of gold
for retiring United States notes and q
free national banking system: ex-
tending the provisions of the act
for the legal protection of the
revenue officers; to all civil and militia
nv officers tor acts done during the re-
bellioa under the authority of the Ex-
ecutive Government of the United
States; to abolish specific aIvalorem
duties on lumber, &c; authorizing rules
and regulations by the Secretary of the
Treasury for the registration OF certain
vessels on western and northern Lakes
on payment of internal revenue taxes;
in reference to the continuance OF the
Freedmen's Bureau in Tennessee, to
grant relief to Indiana volunteers OF Oh;
relative to additional bounty; relative
to the payment of pensions of drafted
men; for use and and inspection on
steamboat boilers made OF material
other than vertical plates of wrought
iron; relative to amendment OF the
bankrupt law to the effect that a ma
iority of the creditors must petition be-
fore a debtor can be compelled into an
involuntary bankruptcy; requesting the
committee on Reconstruction 10 report
whether further legislation is necessary
to insure the more speedy restoration OF
the late rebel States TO full political
rights with sufficient guarantees; declar-
ing it inexpedient to have any change
or reduction of the banking system.
Mr. Paine offered a resolution deciar-
inp that the seat of government ought
to he removed to the valley OF the
Mississippi. Rejected.
The Speaker presented several Exec
ntive documents, including an extract
from the proceedings of the Mississippi
Convention relative TO the cotton tax
being applied to the relief of the poor
and resolutions of the Georgia Conven-
tion asking loan of thirty millions to
Southern plaaters.
The House next drew for seats, after
which the Speaker presented message
from the President in reference to the
trial and conviction of American cltl-
zens in Great Britain and Ireland, with
partial report, and on other subjects,
which was appropriately referred.
| Mr.. Stevens Pa.) asked leave to offer
resolution that the evidence taken
on impeachment by the Judiciary COM
mittee have leave to report at any time.
Adopted.
The House went into committee of the
Whole OH the State of the Union, MIR.
Wilson, of Iowa, in the chair, and re-
sumed the consideration of the Legisla-
tive, Executive and Judicial appropria-
| tiOn bill.
The Speaker presented a cOmmUnica'
| ton from the secretary OF Tue Navy
transmitting papers in the court mar
tial case of Second Engineer Sawyer
tri d nj Portsmouth Navy Yard fol
speaking disrcspectfully of the Presi'
dent of the United States, ana suspend
. ed for one year.
Mr.. Schenck, while admitting that
disrespect to superior officer should be
punished, characterized the informer III
| the case as poor, mean, dirty, pimping
/ business.
I Some debate ensued, during which
/ Mr.. Schenck added that it was con.
temptiblc for the Secretary of the
Navy to keep a spy at the Plymouth
hayward to watch over the cOnversa'
ton OF the officers. Testimony would
show the witness in the case had spoken
disrespectfully of Congress, as MI
! SAWYER had done of the President, and
therefore he wanted it printed.
Mr.. Ella said he was Informed that
employees at the Portsmouth Yard had
been discharged for expressing
Republican sentiments, and he hoped
that all appropriations for detective:
and spies would be struck out.
After further debate, the papers were
referred to the Naval committee,
House adjourned.