Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings I'm the Senate.

proceedings In the Senhte.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The bill for
bridge over the Ohio river at Paducal
passed.
Mr.. Sumner presented the memoria
of Joseph w. Casano, citizen Of tn
United States, setting forth the indigni
ties put on himself and brother at tn
hands of the Spanish government in Gu
ba, and asking the interposition of thu
United States government in their be-
Laf Referred 10 Committee on For,
eign Affairs.
Mr.. Hamlin, from the Committee OF
Political Disabilities, offered joint reso
luton requesting persons petitioning fol
the removal Of their political disabilities
to accompany their petitions with sworn
statements, over their own signatures, Of
the grounds on which they ask relief
Passed.
Mr.. Sumner, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported and recon-
mended the passage of bill to facili>
tate telegraph communication between
Europe and the United States.
Mr.. Grimes, fnom the Committee on
Naval Affairs, reported, with amend
ments, the bill to establish the office of
Solicitor of Naval Judge Advocate Gems
eral.
Mr.. Warner from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported joint resolution
to revive the grants of lands for the coH-
structiOn of a railroad from Selma to
Gadsden, Alabama, and to confirm the
40 hn Gol.1,n nal4
Railroad. Passed.
Mr.. Rice introduced a bill to extend
the time for the completion of the first
section of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad. Referred to the Cons
mittee on the Pacific Railroad.
The expiration of the morning hour
brought up unfinished business, Indian
Appropriation bill.
Mr.. Harlan, from Committee on In
dian Affairs, offered series of amends
ments, some of which were agreed to
and others rejected.
The bill was still under consideration
at O'Clock, when the Senate went into
executive session, and some time after
adjourned.
Proceedings in the House.
Mr.. ScEenck, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported resolution
instructing that committee, or sub
committee thereof, to make an examina-
ton and revision of the tariff laws and
rules regulating customhOuses and
bonded warehouses, with authority to
examine witnesses, take testimony, and
sit during vacation at such times and
places as may be deemed advisable,
which was adopted.
The House resumed the consideration
of the bill to provide for the organiza-
ton Of provisional government for Miss
sissippi.
Messrs. Ward, Maynard, Whittemore
and Lawrence advocated the bill, when |
MIR. Butler moved the previous question
which was seconded.
Mr.. Butler, who was entitled to the
floor to close the debate, yielded part of |
the time to Me. Stevenson, who spoke in
favor of the bill
Mr.. Butler resumed the floor and pros
ceeded to criticise the course of his col |
league (Dawes,) its effect being to keep |
the loyal people of Mississippi out of the |
Union.
Mr.. Dawes desired to ask question,
but Mr.. Butler refused to yield, and con-
tinued with his argument.
He warned the Republican members
that if Mississippi and Georgia were not
with loyal Legislatures
the fifteenth amendment could not be
passed, and they would lose half dozen
States. Every man on the other side of
the house knew that well, and laughed
in his sleeve at these Republicans
whom they got to do their work.
They knew right we'll what they
were about He knew them Of
old, and he used to be one of them.
Laughter They used the Wings in
the Olden days as the monkey used the
cats paw to pull the chestnuts out of the
fire. Referring TO the remarks of Mr.
Farnsworth yesterday us to taking up
the cudgel for the black man years ago
when men who were now Republicans
were voting with the shareholders party,
he said some persons thought more of
Judas than of Paul because Judas was
the older apostle of the two. Mr. But
Ter would wait to give the vote TO. the
white man of the South until it would be
safe for every Union man in the South to
sleep In his cabin with the latch string
out Then he would go with Farnsworth
for the white man, and not till then, 80
help him God, not till then.
The House proceeded to vote on Mr..
motion to postpone the
bill till the first Monday in December
next, and the bill was postponed-yeas
103, nays e.
Mr. Maynard introduced a bill to in.
crease the revenue from duties on i'm,
ports and tend to equalize exports and |
imports, being the bill prepared last ses-
sion by q subcommittee Of ways and |
means. Referred to Committee on
Ways and Means
Mr.. Cessna called up the election case |
Of CovOde and Foster, from the twenty.
first district Of Pennsylvania, and argued
in support of Coyode's prima facie right
to the seat