The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
WAsHINGroN. March 3.


bill to facilitate the payment of SOL
diers bounties under the act Of 1866,
that authorizes the employment of
additional clerks and additional Office
accommodations, &c. After discus
sion, it was referred to the Committee
on Finance
Howard offered the following order
on behalf Of the select committee Of
seven on the question Of impeach-
ment
Ordered, that the Secretary of the
Senate be directed to inform the
House of Representative that the
Senate IS ready to receive the mana
gers appointed by the House Of Rep
resentatives to carry to the Senate
articles Of Impeachment against An
drew johnson, President of the
United States. Adopted.
On motion of Morrill,, of Vermont,
the Senate took up the bill to fund
the national debt and for the CONVEX
sion of United States notes.
The question was on the subs titute
reported by Sherman, from the Com
mittee on Finance.
Morrill, spoke in opposition to the
bill, and in reply to Sherman's s speech
of last week.
The bill was then postponed until
tomorrow.
A reply was received from the Sec
retary Of War to the resolution of in
quiry whether and what military dis
tricts had been established in the
District of Columbia, with the names,
numbers, ranks, andsduty Of officers,
and expense involved, &c. Referred
to the Military Committee.
The Senate proceeded to the con
sideration 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 at ten minutes past
3 O'Clock, on motion of Grimes, the
Senate went into executive session.
several messages having been received
from the President.
HOUSE.--The following bills and
resolutions we're introduced
For the protection and encourage
ment of industrial interests in the
United States; requiring the impeach-
ment proceedings to be expedited; to
increase by 20 per cent the pres
CuN AhAB BOA1 aANALo OL nAnCG4 EDAAALSs
and manufactures of iron, cotton,
wool, and silk.
Longbridge offered a resolution in
strueting the Judiciary Committee to
inquire whether Congress has power
under the Constitution to regulate the
rates to be charged for freight by
railroads engaged in commerce be
tween the different States of the
Union. Adopted.
Loan offered resolution instruct
ing the judiciary Committee to report
in reference to the political status of
the South. During its consideration
the morning hour expired and the
resolution went over till next Monday.
The House resumed the considera-
ton of the motion of Eldridge, pend
ing yesterday, to suspend the rules so
he might have read and placed on the
journal the protest of Democratic
members. The motion was rejected,
the Speaker voting among the yeas.
Spalding, from the Committee on
Appropriations reported a bill for
apDropriating to the charitable insti-
tutions in the District of Columbia
a sum amounting to $246, 100.
municatiops of an uninpOTtant char
acter, which were referred; also a mes
sage from the Senate informing the
House that the Senate was ready to
receive the managers appointed by
the House to carry to the Senate che
articles of impeachment against the
President. The message was entered
on the journal.
Thel lHouse went into Committee of
the Whole, Ashley, of Ohio, in the
chair, and proceeded to the consider
alton of the Post Office Appropriation
Bill. After considerable discussion,
the committee rose and reported the
bill to the House, and it passed.
Schenck, from the Committee of
Ways and Means, reported back
the bill for the relief of certain ex-
porters of distilled spirits, same as re-
ported by him last Friday. After
discussion the bill passed.
At a quarter past three O'Clock,
Butler rose and reported from the
managers Of the Impeachment an ad
ditienal article, published yesterday
remarking that there was but one
dissenting, voice upon it among the
managers, and 1t had only failed yes
terday on account of want of time.
Eldridge made it a point of order
that the managers had no right to re-
port articles Of impeachment, as the
House had appointed a committee
for that purpose.
The Speaker overruled the point
of order on two grounds, the princi-
pal one being that every member had
a right, as a question of the highest
privilege, TO present articles Of I'M