The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-11
Affairs in Washington.

WASHINGTON, February 1O.-An appllca-
tion was made in the Supreme Court for
writs OF hd6eds corpus, for the Tortugas
prisoners. The Court took no action.
At 1 o'clock the Senators, arm-in-
arm. came to the House. Wade took tho
Chair, and Cc,fax was seated near him.
Senator Conkling and Representatives
Wilson, OF Iowa, and Prim, acting US
tellers. Prim read the Democratic votes;
Conkling and Wilson alternated, reading
the Republican votes All went smoothly
until Louisiana was reached, wheu Will
liams. of Tennessee, objected declaring
no valid election was held. The joint session
separated, and the House voted 12G to 67
to count Louisiana. The Senate, after q
severe struggle to draw in extraneous mat
ters, voted to count Louisiana. Both Houses
again met and proceeded with the count till
Georgia was reached, when Butler objected,
because the Georgia College had not voted
on the proper day, and for other rea-
sons. Much confusion ensued, which
Wade ended by ordering the Senate to its
own chamber. The House then voted $50
to 40 for Georgia not to be counted. The
Senate, after O most perpleXing and laugha-
BILE struggle, declared that in the face of the
concurrent resolution, concerning Georgia,
the objection In the joint session was out of
order. Both Houses again met. when
Wade ordered Georgia to be read as di-
rected by the concurrent resolution. But
Ter objected. Wade would hear no
objection. Butler appealed from Wade's
decision, but Wade would allow no appeal
and ordered the count to proceed. Butler
then moved that the Senate have permission
to retire, and insisted that they should con-
troll their own hall; ruled out of order.
Amid the most intense excitement Wade
ordered the count to proceed. Conklng
commenced reading the result but his voice
drowned Nf
time the noise became deafening, when
Speaker Colfax sprang to the desk proclaim.
ing that the Vice-President must be obeyed
In joint session, and ordered tho Sergeant
alarms to arrest the disorderly persons
Colfax was ordering and appealing probably
two minutes, during which time the Ser
geant-at-Arms had distributed his men all
through the House before, partial order
could be restored. The reading of the re-
suit and the proclamation followed, when
both Houses separated. The Senate i'm
mediately adjourned.
In the House, Butler introduced resolu-
ton that Wade's and the Senatc's action
was a gross invasion on the rights of the
House; which resolution was pending when
the House adjourned
Generals Longstreet and Frank Blair arc
here.
The House, last night, while considering
the revenue, adopted amendments giving
the commissioner authority to exempt dis
tlllers OF apple, peach and grape brandy,
from the provisions of the Act regulating
the manufacture of spirits, at his discretion;
but not to reduce the tax; also placing the
compounders of spirits on q footing with
refiners.
Governor Holden, of North Carolina, on
behalf of himself and other loyalists, tele-
graphs to the North Carolina Senators to
oppose any reduction of the army which
will reduce the Federal garrisons in North
Carolina. Congress did nothing until
o'clock, when the Senate came to the House,
where the count of the electoral votes pro-
crosses. The Capitol is densely packed