The Van Buren press., 1868-06-19


Agreed 10 snd the bill passed ayes 81.
nays j--viz Bsyard, Buckalew, McCrce.
~, Patterson, of Tennessee, and Vickers
Salisbury was paired off with Wiley, and
Davis with Morton, snd Hendricks with
Van Winkle, Morton being sick,
..tI. -I WasiiISGroS, June III.
The Impeachment Managers were en-
gagged in the examination Of Wooley this
afternoon.
Butler and Brooks were to-day exam.
ined by Special Committee heretofore
appointed 70 inquire into Brooks charges
against Butler, relative to certain gold
transactions IL tl.1"I'tf.l
House-Marshal sent to the Clerks
desk and had read letter from Mr. Mer-
rick, the counsel of Mr. Wooley, the re-
cusant witness, referring to the statements
made the other day by Butler, to the ef-
feet that he (Butler) was in possession of
telegram after telegram passing between
Mr.. Merrick, Wooley, and Warden, the
Presidents short hand writer. Merrick
denies in positive terms of any such tele-
graphic correspondence taking place.
The House went into Committee of
the Whole on the Tax bill AT 3 10 the
committee rose temporarily to allow But
Ter to offer the following resolution:
Resolred, That C. W. Wooley, having
appeared before the Committee of Inves-
tigation and answered to all the questions
put to him by the committee, and having
thus purged himself of his contempt of
the House in that regard, that he be dis,
charged from arrest and held only to ap-
pear and make further answers, if requir-
ed, according to the summons.
Butler added that the witness had an
swered fully and distinctly every question
that had been put TO him, and there SEEM
ed in the judgment of the committee no
further reason for keeping him in arrest,
and his further attendance would be un-
der summons Resolution was adop-
| ted.
Special Dispatch to 81. Louis Republican.
WASHINGTON, June IL.
SENATOR YATES DENouNCEs CHICAGO PLAT
| fUhM.
Senator Yates addressed the Senate for
an hour and half on the reconstruction
question, during which he very bitterly
opposed the suffrage plank in the Chca-
90 platform. He argued in favor of the
right of Congress to impose conditions
of admission on the States, and of the
perfect control of that body over the ques-
ton of suffrage in all the States He con
tended that Senators who vote for the
Omnibus bill and who voted for the Col
orado bill. had committed themselves to
this principle,
Ifthey had the right to control suffrage
in the States of the South, they had the
right to control it in the States of the
North, and there was no possible escape
from this point. Congress had the right
to enforce by law republican form Of
government in every State of the Union,
whether admitted or to be admitted. This
power is vested in Congress, he said, by
the Constition, which requires Congress,
by laws necessary and proper, to carry
into execution that power.
These views excited considerable re-
mark, following as they did on the heels
of the speech of the same puport, made
by Mr.. Summer during last nights ses-
sion of the Senate
THE ARKANSAS ADMISSION BILL.
The President will probably hold the
Arkansas Admission bill under advise
ment until next week. Meantime the
Democratic members of Congress propose
to get up a protest against the recogni-
ton of the Constitution of that State and
the admission of the members of Con
gress elected at the recent election.
MONTGOMERY, June II,
On the 9Th inst. the Advertiser con
tanned the following paragraph:
ave are requested by the soldiers on
duty at this place to state that at the mig
ger, rpet-bag, scallawag meeting, held
at the capitol on Saturday night, the sol
diers gave three groans for Grant, three
cheers for Mcclellan and three cheers for
Andrew Johnson, They were given by
the soldiers with will, and rolled from
the capitol to the artesian basin. We eare
also requested by those soldiers to state
that any assertion contrary to this is
base falsehood. The soldiers say they
are white men and have no love for car
pet baggers and scallawags.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., June g.
Hon. VIM. Sprague was day reclect
cd to the United States Senate without OPP
position in either branch Of the Legisla
ture.