The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-12-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
CONGRESS

AuS S~o"' Al potn houses. The DAY was
stormy and disagreeable, and the attendance
OF visitors unusually small. None of the hotels
OF the city are full, and the Hobbies are nearly
empty. The "third house." however, are on
hand, and there is said to be no end OF the
Jobs they are ready to press upon congress
After organizing and sending the usual COM
mlttees to the President, both houses were kept
waiting nearly two hours before the Presi-
dents message arrived, which was read very
quietly, its reading creating no surprise, as
speculation and gossip had anticipated its
leading points. The proposed further perse-
! cution of Georgia elected ripple OF radical
applause, while the adverse views on Cuban
recognition were received with disgust by the
"Cuban lobby" After the reading, the mess
age was referred to the committee of the whole
in the house, and laid upon the table and Or
dered to be printed in the senate.
BILLS.
Among the bills thus far introduced the fol.
lowing are the most notable:
In the senate: by Mr.. Drake, a bill to pro-
hibit the Supreme Court hereafter from declar-
ing unconstitutional any act or joint resolution
of congress. In fact, the bill proposes to make
congress the supreme power in all cases, and
if that body should abolish the Office of Presi-
dent and set up king, there would be no
remedy but in revolution. This infamous
proposition was appropriately followed by
another from Mr.. Sumner, dcpriving the court
OF the right to grant writs of haoeas corpus
BY Mr.. Morton: A bill for the reconstruc-
ton of Georgia, on the plan Swallowed forth
in the Presidents message
BY Mr.. Trumbull A bill prohibiting men,
bers of congress from signing recommends
lions OF candidates for appointment to Office.
BY Mr.. Warner: A bill to relieve certain
persons therein named Of political disabilities.
An informal debate on this bill in the senate
on Wednesday seemed to leave no doubt that
congress intends to pass bill relieving politi-
cal disabilities generally in the south, and
abolishlng all test oaths.
In the house, about the first bill introduced
was one by Mr.. Butler, to repeal the tenure-of-
office-law. This was Buffers pet at the last
ession, and he seems determined to put it
through"
On the same day bill prepared by the cen
sus committee was introduced, and as the
passage of this bill before the new year is al
most an absolute necessity to enable the next
census to be taken during the year 1870, the
house has spent the greater part of each day
since in its consideration in committee Of the
whole,
A bill TO extend the Hoe Press patent was
killed in the house on Tuesday by being
promptly tabled. This may possibly, howev-
or, be intended only as an invitation to the
Hoe Press company, which is immensely rich
TO shell cut"
THE FINANCES.
Ii is somewhat singular that notwithst.nd-
ing all the talk about the finances, specie pay
ment, and the like, not single finance bill,
properly SO called, has yet been introduced.
There appears to be general hesitaucy on the
part Of congressman to approach the subject,
although in regard to precipitate resumption
ofspecie payment, there is among members al
most universal opposition. This tune, how
ever, may be materially changed when the
bondholders' lobby gets to work.
CAPITAL REMOVAL.
The st. Louis capital removers are on hand
with quite formidable lobby force, while the
people of the District are in CONSERVATION,
particularly in view of the fact, that the Presi-
dent in This message wholly omitted any al
fusion to their affairs. 1t is the first message
in 25 years that failed kindly to commend the
District to congress for liberal appropriations
The citizens of the District count the President
among the removers.
GEORGIA.
The friends Of Georgia are indignant at the
proposed renewal of the political oppression
of that state The Chief Justice who decided
that the negroes we're illegally excluded
from the Georgia Legislature, for which offence
Georgia is now to be punished, was no 9th
er than ex-governor Joe Brown, the very man,
who during the canvas, when that Legislature
was elected, made stump spec hes to prove
that under the constitution of Georgia then to
be voted upon, negroes were not eligible
Young BreBnaman tried at Morris during the
present week for the murder of his father several
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