The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-24
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, June %.
SENATE.

soldiers of 1872 be included IN pen
sion rolls, were referred.
Mr.. Sumner, from the committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported, with amend
ments, bill for the protection of the
rights of American citizens abroad.
The amendment reported by Mr.. Sum-
ner strikes out that portion of the third
section which provided for retaliatory
measures, in cases of illegal imprison-
ment of American citizens, and inserts
a new provision to make the section
read, Sand be it further enacted, that
wheneyerit shall.be duly made known
to the President that any citizen has
been arrested and is detained by any for
eign Government in cOntravention OF the
intent and purposes of this article or if
any citizen shall have been arrested
aud detained whose release upon de-
mand shall have been unreasopably de-
layed'or refused; it shall be the duty OF
the President forthwith to report TO
Congress all circumstances Of any such
arrest or detention and any proceedings
for the release of citizens so arrested
that Congress may take prompt action
to secnre to every citizen of the United
States his just right.
Mr.. Edmunds called up the bill to
amend the act to provide for elections
of Senators of the United States, pro-
viding that in case of the death or re-
fusal to serve of Senator elect the
Legislature shall meet the second Tnes'
day thereafter and proceed to an cleo
ton. .s'.a
Some discussion followed. and the
bill passed.
Mr.. Thayer sent to the chair the Gre
dentials of Alexander Mcdonald and
BENJAMIN Il. Rice, Senators elect from
Arkansas, which were read.
Mr.. Thayer moved that they be sworn
in.
Mr.. Davis said he held in his hands
credentials of two other gentlemen
that he asked to have read. Laugh
ter.
The papers were read, being the Gre
dentials of John p. Jones and James III.
Garland as Senators elect from Arkan-
sas, dated November oath, 1866.
Mr.. Howard moved to lay them on
the table. Agreed to.
Mr.. Davis moved the documents OF
both periods be referred to the Judi
ciary committee with Instructions to in
uuire which were constitutionally
elected. After long discussion the
motion was rejected.
The Senators elect from Arkansas
were sworn in.
At a quarter past 2 o'clock Mr.. Con.
ness Withdrew his resolution offered
yesterday to discharge the committee
on Foreign Affairs from the further
consideration of the House bill for the
protection of American citizens abroad,
on the ground that the committee had
made report.
The legislative appropriation bill was
again taken up. The QUESTION was on
Mr.. Summers motion to strike from the
amendment of the committees clause
the act creating the officers
of Second Assistant Secretary of State
and Examiner of Claims in the State
Department.
Mr.. Sumner made some additional re-
marks on the subject.
After debate the amendment was
against Ii.
The next amendment of the commit |
tee was agreed to, increasing in the
Treasury Department the force of clerks
in class from IL to II, in class 2 from
6 to Il, in class from 6 to 10, and in
creasing the annual appropriation ac-
cordingly.
The amendment adding six clerks Of
class for the First Comptroller was
adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman the amend
ment appropriating $4,000 for temporary
clerks for First Comptroller was amend
ed by increasing it to $4,000.
Another amendment was adopted in
creaSing the number of clerks for the
Second Comptroller from 20 is iu GLASS
a, ana II to 20 in class 3, 10 to % in
class =, 6 to II in class l, and adding
IL cOpyists.
Another amendment, by Mr.. Sherman,
adds three clerks for the Commissioner
of Customs. The committee added tor
the same two clerks to class 4. two to
class 3, and two to class 2.
The further amendments of the com
mittee were adopted, striking out the
provision to continue in force so much |
of the act of March Ia, 1864, as author |
ICES upwards of two hundred clerks of
three classes in the office of the Second
Auditor until juno 30, 1869, and no
longer; adding for the Fifth Auditor
nine clerks, one copyist and two labor
ers as temporary force; increasing the
appropriation for detecting and bring
ing to punishment violators of the in
ternal revenue from $4,000 to $500, 900;
increasing the number of clerks of class
one in the land office from twenty to
forty.
At halfpast four, two thirds of the
bill yet remaining to be considered, on
motion of Mr.. Trumbull the Senate
went into executive session and after