Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-03-31
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! In the Senate on the 24thin obedience
to the previously-expressed wish of the
Radical caucus, TrumbuIl, from the Jud-
iciary Committee, reported a new bill
for therepeal the Tenure-of-Office Act,
Its main features are as follows "The
President is to have power to remove
Cabinet and other civil offers except
Judges of United States Courts during
! the session of the Senate without giving
/ a reason, designating persons to fill the
vacancies, and during the recess of the
Senate may suspend and appoint to Of
flee until the end ofnext session. With
in thirty days of the commencement OF
the session he shall report these suspen-
sions to the Senate, and if that body, by
a direct affirmative vote, shall refuse to
concur in them the suspended officer
shall be reinstated; if the matter be sim
ply passed over, the officer shall not be
reinstated.'' After considerable debate
the bill was finally passed by vote of37
to Is.
In the House a number Of bills were
introduced, the most important among
which were: To regulate the manner of
applying to Congress for the removal of
political disabilities; To punish holding
Office in contravention ofthe Fourteenth
Constitutional Amendment; Establish
ing a Census Bureau in the Interior De-
partment, and providing for the taking
of the ninth and subsequent censuses,
under the direction of said Bureau, and
an assistant to the necessary subordi-
mates in each Congressional District; the
bill also fixes the basis of representation
in the House at tI5O, 600, which is expected
to give about 30 members; To "recon-
struct" Mississippi on the same plan,
substantially, hitherto rejected by the
people Of that State. On the latter bill
considerable debate occurred, which
occupied the House up to the hour OF
adjournment. The point in dispute was
whether or not the President should be
deprived of the power with which he is
now invested according to the general
laws on that subject of appointing the
Provisional Governor, pending the re-
construction, as proposed by the bill.
In the Senate, on the 25th, the bill to
increase the circulation by S5O,O0O, 600,
and apportion the same 70 sections and
States not adequately supplied with
banking facilities, occupied the whole
day, and the Senate went into executive
session pending an amendment, in
creasing the new issue to 800, 100000.
In the House a joint resolution passed
providing for the adjudication of claims
by loyal citizens for steamboats, impress
ed during the war in the Court of Claims.
A bill to reconstruct Georgia over
again was introduced by Butler. The
| bill for the repeal of the Tenure-of office
Law, as it passed the Senate, was taken
up, after a long and acrimonious debate
the whole subject was finally referred to
the Judiciary Committee, which is re-
garded as a virtual defeat Of the Senate
( Bill.
In the Senate on the % after the NOR
ming hour the Senate resumed consideTa-
ton of the bill to provide a National cur
rency, when Kellogg withdrew his
amendment. So that whenever the
total amount of United States and Ma
tional Bank notes shall exceed $3.50, 900,
900 the Secretary of the Treasury shall be
required to fund, in ten-forty bonds,
| United States notes to the extent of such
excess until the amount of notes shall be
reduced to $350,OOO,OOO. The debate on
the bill and amendments occupied the
whole day, and was still pending when
the Senate went into Executive session.
In the House Resolutions of sympathy
with the Cuban insurgents were reported
from the Committee on Foreign Affairs
and ordered to be printed. A joint reso-
luton, transferring $4,000 from the
Treasury to the Government Printing
Office, was passed IN the contested
election case from the Twenty-frst Penn
/ sylvania District, John Covode was adj
mitted to the seat pending the contest.
a long debate occurred on the Senate
amendment to the House bill for the re-
peal of the TenWe-of-ofiice law, ON mo-
ton to reconsider the reference yerterday
to the Judiciary Committee. The mo-
ton to reconsider was finally carried, and
the motion to refer withdrawn. The ques-
ton then being simply upon concurrence,
the House refused to concur by a vote Of
SO nays to 20 yeas, so that the bill goes
back to the Senate in its original form of
unconditional repeal.
; Both Houses adjourned till Monday,