The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-03-21
XLth CONGREsS---second Session.
WASHINGTON, March 20.

1 The Chair submitted a memorial asking an
appropriation for repairing the levees on the
| Mississippi river Referred to the Committee
on Commerce.
Mr. Summer presented petitions Of the col
| ored men from various parts of Delaware
asking to be secured in their rights. After
some debte between Messrs. Salisbury and
sumner, the Judiciary Committee was, on
motion of the latter, instructed to inquire in.
to the authenticity of the petitions
Mr.. Edmunds moved to take up the bill
regulating the Presentation bill to the Presi
dent, and return the same. Lost.
Mr. Drake desired to have q new rule in
the mater of impeachment taken up and dis
posed of before Monday. He read il. as fol-
lows: When the Senate is sitting upon the
| trial of an impeachment the presiding officer
| shall be addressed as "Mr. President and
all papers submitted by either party, which
I in their nature should be addressed in terms
| to the tribunal. shall be addressed to it as to
the Senate Wen, over under objections.
| Mr.. Fessenden introduced a bill to allow
| drawbacks ON articles used in the construction
of vessels. LAID on the the table.
Mr.. Howard, from the Committee on the
| Pacific Railroad, introduced bill to regulate
| the flirg Of the records OF railroad compa-
MES. Laid over.
Mr.. Williams offered resolution inquiring
of the Secretary of the Treasury how many
clerks or employees have been removed since
January, 1857 ; the form of letters or circu-
lars addressed to the heads Of bureaus for that
purpose; how many have been appointed
since, and by whom: how many heretofore
removed have been reappointed from xhat
States, and by whose recommendation. Went
over under objection by Mr.. Buckslew.
Mr. Henderson, bill was taken up, author
zing the Peace Commission to conclude
treaty with the Navajoe Indians, and an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for their removal
After long debate, the bill passed without
the amendment.
The Senate went into Executive Session,
and soon afterward adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Boutwell, from the Impeachment Man
ayers, reported the following resolution:
Resoired, That on days when the Senate
shall set for the trial of the President. on the
articles OF Impeachment exhibited by the
House of Representatives, the House, in
Committee Of the Whole. will attend, with
the managers, at the Bar of the Senate, a. the
bour named for the commencement OF the
proceedings.
Mr. Wood asked whether the resolution
was to be understood as meaning that the
House should remain in the Senate chamber
during the trial2
Mr. Boutwell, said be did not understand
that there was any compulsion, except what
rested or each member by his own sense Of
propriety.
Mr. Wood said there will be no session Of
TIE House during the trial. The Speaker
then will not be under this resolution while
the trial is pending.
Mr. Pike. from the same Committee, re-
ported bill to amend certain acts in relation |
TO the navy and marine corps. Ordered PRINT,
ed and recommitted.
Dir. Donnelly introduced bill additional /
to the act granting lands TO aid in the con-
strucsion Of railroad and telegraph lines from |
Lake Superior to Pugets Sound, by the NORTH
ern route. Referred to the Committee on
Pacific Railroads.
Mr. Phelps introduced bill to allow GER !
tain drawbacks on copper in pigs; bars or in
gots exported from the e. s. Referred TO
the Comnitte on Mays and Means.
Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa. introduced bin to I
provide for relief for the loss or destruction
Of judgments. records, &c, appertaining to
proceedings in the U. s. Court. Referred to /
the Judiciary Committee.
The House voted an additional allowance
Of $ 400 TO Jas. C. Sloo, late Postmaster at
Cairo, Illinois.
the suudry appropriation bill increasing the /
appropriation 10 $685. .oeo for the construction
Of Court House at Des Moines, Iowa.
Agreed To 81 TO "a.
The amendment increasing the approptia-
ton for Court House 3. Madison, Wis |
eonsi, from S25, 900 To $4,000: at Spring, |
field, Illinois, from Slb, ,oe0 to S25,oo0, and
appropriating S49, 600 for the Postofiice and
Coastom House at Cairo. Illinois, were
adopted.
The amendment striking out The items Of
100000 for repairing and furnishing The
work Of the caritol extension, and $4,000 |
for new dome, were. on motion Of Mr. |
Washburne, disagreed to, and the items re
storing the amendment increasing the 40
preparation for the survey OF public lands in /
Territories, as agreed 10.
The amendment appropriaiing $4,000 for
the National Arsenal at Columbus, Ohio, |
was rejected.
This disposed OF all the amendments, and
the hill passed.
The Senate bill directing the entry of
credit of IS $50 to the account Of Major A.
8. Brewer, late army Pa, master. who lost
bis life BY the explosion Of o steamer on the |
Mississippi River, was passed.
The House joint resolutions TO regulate the
tariff for freight and passengers ON the Union
and Central Pacific Railroads and their
branches, appointing the Secretary of War,
the Secretary OF the Interior and Attorney |
General Board OF Commissioners to estab |
lisb annually a tariff of freight and passen- |
gers on those roads, not exceeding double |
the rates between the Atlantic aud Mississip- |
pi river. North Of ST. Louis, vas taken up.
Mr. Washhure, of Wisconsin. spoke in IA
vor of the resolution. complaining that the
resources Of the government were diverted 10
purely local enterprises; that the government
bonds had been made second instead Of the
Grst lien on the road that the passage Of tha
bill Of 1864 was procured hY the expenditure
of half million of dollars in Washington,
by the Vice President of the road. and of the
immense rates charged by the Union Pacific
road.
Mr.. Price obtained the door to reply, but
yielded to motion to adjourn.
Mr. Wood offered an amendment to the hill
relative to the rights of naturalized citizens
abroad. Referred.
The House, with the understanding thatto-
morrow should be devoted TO general debate,
adjourned