The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-10

territory. Referred to the Commit
tee on Judiciary.
j Judd offered a resolution directing
the Secretary of State to furnish
copies Of correspondence, negOtia-
tons and treaties, with any OF the
German States since the 1st of Janu-
ary last, relating to the rights Of
naturalized citizens
Burr offered resolution declaring
that sound financial policy requires
the Withdrawals of the interest bearing
bonds and the substitution of green
backs. e3
Spaldinga moved to lay it on the
table Negatived-Yeas 5e, nays 65,
as follows. viz: Yeas-Ames, Ar
nell, Ashley, of Ohio; Beaman,
| Blaine, Blair, Chandler, ChuEchill,
Dawes, Dixon, briggs, Eckley, Eliot.
Farnsworth, Field, Garfield, Gris-
void, Highly, Hooper, Hopkins, Hub
bard, of West Virginia; Hubbard, Of
New York !. Hunter, Jencks, johnson,
/ Kelly, Kelsey, Latin, Lincoln, Lynch,
Marvin, Mccarthy, Miller, Myers,
| O'Neill, Reshom, Peters, Pile, Po-
| land, Price, Robertson, SaWyeFs,
Smith, Spalding, Starkweather, Ia
/ Dor, Thomas, Twitchell, Epson, Van
Arenam, VanWick, Ward, Wash
burne, of Wisconsin; Washburne, of
Massachusetts; Williams, of Pennsyl-
vania: WoOd-55.
Nays = Adams, Allison, Archer,
Axtell, Baker, Barnes, Barnum,
Beatty, Beck, Boyer. Brownell, Burr,
/ Coke, Clarke, Cobb, Cook, Cullom,
Eggleston, Eldridge, Ferris, Ferry,
/ Galladay, Grovel Y, Grover, Haight,
! Harding, Hawkins, Holman, Hotch-
/ kiss, Ingersoll, Judd, Julian, Kee,
\ Knott, Koontz, Lawrence, of Penn
\ sylvania; Lawrence, of Ohio; Loan,
/ Longheridge, Mallory, Marshall, May
nard, McClurg, Mccormick, Morgan,
I Mangen, .NeWcomb, Niblack, OFth,
! Payne, Pike, Raum, Ross, Schenck,
/ Scbo6eld, Sitgroves, Stone, Toff, Trim
bic, Of Kentucky; YanTrump, We'll
| ker. Williams, Of Indiana; Wilson,
I of Iowa; WoodWard-63.
The House refused to second the
previous question; then, on motion Of
Allison, the resolution was referred
/ to the Committee on Ways and
] Beaman, from the Committee on
/ Reconstruction, reported q resolution
! directingthe General commanding the
armies, to report the number of votes
| cast under the Reconstruction laws up
/ to thelpTesent time, for or against the
| Alabama Constitution. a.yrlI .s1
The House proceeded to the busi-
ness on the Speakers tableag uo.t la
/ The Senate's. disagree ment to- the
amendment Of the House to the Sem
4 ate bill for the relief of Mrs General
+ Anders0A. was taken up DFeha hir1
On motion of Holman, the House
insisted on4its amendments, aud asked
i a Committee of Conference. aH asfg
The Senate,s substitute forthe jOiHt
Il resolution of the House, directing GER
4 tain moneys now. in the hands of the
i Uniteda States Treasurer, as special
/ agent of the Treasury department,
Il be covered by warrant into the United
Y States TIeasury.43 an adf .sb
II Washburne, of Wisconsin, moved
that the Senate substitute be concur
red in. The matter gave rise to con
bsiderable debate; Washburne speei-
flying the cotton easeaof Shepperd and
pot, ParkinsoR Bro9ks2 q OoAs cases
4 where gross fraud had been peTpstFa-
l,ted, and Logan declaring he had acted
as attorney for these parties, and the
bclaim was perfectly honest and just
bone. While Logan was speaking
fChandler put some questions to him,
i and, after some cross firing, Logan re-
marked that, there was no necessity
Hfor the gentleman from New Y erk
/ getting excited. Chandler, rising to
y a personal explanation, said the gen
I tleman from Illinois had entirely
misunderstood distinctive In putting
obthe questions to him, and had, there-
j fore, of course, IN his remarks, made
+ use Of expressions which he was sure
he would .oR understanding his
(Chandlers) motives, withdraw.
Logan said he had supposed from
the gentleman 5 manner that his ques-
4 tons were put to harrass him, but on
4 the gentlemap's explanatlon he would
4 wIthdraW anything offensive be had
Z said liz the course Of dlssusslOn. s
4 Logan alluded to a fact, which ere
ated a considerable stir. He said that
1 Recently the Superintendent of the
y Treasury Printing Bureau CLARK
u had obtained the, certificate OF three
Il other officials of The Treasury to the
q destruction IN their presence of can
celled bonds to the amount OF SlS,
$4,000, while In fact and IN truth no
4 such bonds had been destroyed, and
4 while what was supposed to be such
Il bonds was nothing mofe. than blank
paper This ne had been told by Mr..
] Clark himself. lie had not believed
] the statement, aud had to 20 to see
d the Treasurer. General Spinner had
. told him it was wrong, and that there
ought to be some explanations made Of
Il It, He (Spinner) did not know how
! it was. and supposed it must have