Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-04
LATEST 1'ELEGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
senate.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Mr. Howard
offered the following order on behalf of the
select committee on Impeachment; Or
dered that the Secretary Of the Senate be
directed TO inform the House that the Sen
ate is ready TO receive the managers APP
pointed by the House to carry to the SEN
ate articles of impeachment against An
drew johnson, President of the United
States. Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Morrill,, the Senate
took up the bill to fund the national debt,
and for the conversion of United States
notes.
The question was on the substitute re-
ported by Mr.. Sherman from the Commit
tee on Finance.
Mr.. Morrill, spoke in opposition to the
bill, and in reply to Mr.. Sherman's speech
of last week.
The bill wasthen postponed till to-mor-
row.
A reply was received from the Secretary
Of War to a resolution of inquiry as TO
what military districts had been established
in the District of Columbia. Referred to
Military Committee.
The Senate proceeded to the considera-
ton of the report of the select committee
on the standing rules of the Senate.
The Clerk read the rules which were
then laid over for further consideration, and
the Senate then went into executive ses-
sion, several messages having been re-
ceived from the President.
House OF Representatives.
Bills were introduced requiring the i'm
| parchment proceeding to be expedited
| providing for the punishment of offenses
| against the property, etc, of telegraph
companies; to modify the warehouse sys-
tenn to increase by twenty per cent. the
present import duties on wines and spirits,
and manufactures of iron, cotton, wool and
| silk TO aid in the construction of the in
transitional Pacific railroad from Cairo to
the Rio Grande; authorizing the consoli-
dation Of certain Railroad Companies, and
TO provide for homesteads for the lsborers
| for such roads.
Resolutions of the Wisconsin Legislature
in reference to the project of connecting,
| by Manageable channel through Fox and
Wisconsin rivers, the Mississippi with
Lake Michigan; to dissolve the Indian
Peace Commission; TO amend the act for
better security Of passengers by steam yes
sells; 10 regulate the public debt all of
which referred TO the Committee on Wave
and Means
Mr.. Loughbridge offered a resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee TO iu-
quire whether Congress has power under
the constitution to regulate the rates 10 be
charged for freight by the railroads en-
gagged in commerce between the different
places of the Union. Adopted.
Mr.. Loan offered a resolution instruct
ing the Judiciary Committee to report in
reference to the political status of Texas.
The resolution went oyer until next Mon
day.
The House resumed the consideration of
the motion Of Mr.. Eldridge, pending at the
adjournment yesterday, t. suspend the
rules 80 that he might have read and
placed on the Journal, the protect of the
Democratic members. The vote was re-
.iected, by vote of forty-six 10 eighty-four,
the Speaker voting among the yeas.
Mr.. Spalding, from the Committee on
appropriation, reported a bill aiding the
charitable institutions of the District of
Columbia, amounting TO 1916, 100.
The Speaker presented several Execu- |
tive communications of an unimportant
character, which were referred. Also. |
message from the managers appointed by |
the House TO carry to the Senate articles of |
impeachment against the President. The |
message was entered on the journal.
The House went into the Committee of |
the Whole, Mr.. Ashley, of Ohio, in the |
chair, and proceeded to the consideration |
of the Postofice appropriation.
Mr.. Bisin made lengthy explanation,
The bill calls for $l9l SIS, 500 for the I
ordinary service of the Postoffice Depart |
ment for the ensuing fiscal year, and $745,- |
OSO for the foreign mail transportation |
under special contract with certain Steam |
ship Companies. The ordinary receipts of |
the Department for the same period is esti-
mated in gross at $I6,700,000, making a |
deficiency of 100000, against $3.50, 600 |
to be provided from the General Treasury.
OF this S2,000000 are already placed TO |
the credit of the Postoffice in balance Of |
prior appropriations. So Congress is called |
upon in this bill to appropriate, in round |
numbers, 100000, and supply the esti
mated deficit
After considerable discussion the com
mittee rose, reported the bill and the |
House passed it.
Mr.. Schenck from the Committee on /
Ways and Means reported back a certain |
bill relating to exporters Of distilled spirits,
being the same as reported by him on Fri |
day last After some discussion the bill |
passed.
A a quarter past three o'clock Mr.. But |
Ter arose and reported from the managers
of impeachment an additional article,
remarking that there was but one
dissenting voice upon it among the mana
gers, aud that it had only failed yesterday
on account Of the want of time.
Mr.. Eldridge made point of order that
the managers had no right to report arti-
Giles of impeachment, as the House had
appointed committee for that purpose.
The Speaker overruled the point of order
on two grounds, the principal one being
that any member had a right, as the ques-
ton was one of the highest privilege to
present articles of impe achment.
Mr.. Butler spoke in support of the arti-
Gle. The article was opposed by Messrs
Garfield, Woodbridge and Wilson, as tend
ing only to protract the trial.
Mr.. Logan spoke in its favor after which
the previous question was moved and
seconded, and the House proceeded to vote
by yeas and nays, and on adopting the ar
ticle reported as article ten, the articles were
adopted by yeas 81, nays Al.
The only Republicans voting in the mega
tive being Messrs. Ashley of Nevada, Co
burn, Griswold, Latin, Mallory, Marvin,
Pomeroy, Smith, Wilson Of Iowa, Wilson
OF Ohio, Window and Woodbridge
Mr.. Bingham then offered the following |
as an additional article, saying it had re
ceived the unanimous vote Of the mana
gers, and he moved the previous question |
on the adoption of article second:
That Andrew johnson, President of the
United States, did heretofore, to-wit: on the
18th day of August 1866, by public speech,
declare and affirm in substance, that |
the thirty-fourth Congress was not Con-
gress Of the United States, authorized by
the constitution 20 exercise legislative {
power under the same, but on the con I
iraFy, il was a Congress of only part Of +
the States, thereby denying aud intending s
10 deny, that the legislation Of said Con-
gress was valid or obligatory on him (the t
said Andrew Johson) except in so far as
he saw fit 10 approve the same, and also, :
thereby denying aud intending TO {
deny, the power Of said thirty =
Congress 10 propose amendments to
he constitution of the Tnited Slater and | I