The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-23

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: | House.
: BY Julian, to confer a claim tc
: Yosemite Valley, Cal firm "A. Also, 10
amend the naturalization laws.
| The total number of bills introduced and
3 referred under the call OF States exceeded
BY Paine, to suspend the rules for the
Introduction and passage OF a bill prOvid-
ing that ia any election for member or
delegates to Congress, al votes cast for
any person ineligible to Office under the
|. Fourteenth Amendment OF the Constitu-
. I tiOH, hall be null and VOID, and that the
person having he highest number of votes
cast Tor persons eilg bic 10 Office shall be
the Representative. He stated that the
Dill had the approval of the Committee on
EldrIdge asked Paine whether he in
tended to force that bill through the
House without discussion.
Paine said that under the motion he was
not NJ liberty 90 discuss it,
~urr, of The Committee on Elections,
asked whether he could not have an op.
portunity OF stating the views OF the mi
Monty.
/ Pal said he would te glad to have the
bill discussed, but under motion to sus-
pend the rules ne had no control or the
su oject.
Burr suggested that he could withhold
Eidridge moved that the House adjourn.
! Negatived-yeas %, nays H.
! AT the suggestion of Burr, the bill was
introduced and made the special order for
| "Wednesday.
Welker, from the Conference Committee.
| on the concurrent resolution to create
| Committee on RetTenchment. reported n
/ favor OF making the Committee con ist of
/ four Senators and nye Representatives..
/ fhe report was agreed to.
/ Hill moved To suspend the rules for the
/ introducLion and passage of "A Joint resO-
| iutlon eXtendluS the one year aeL OF the
/ x7th of Juiy, 1865, prov idiuZ for an Amefi-
/ can iiiie OF mau and immigrant steam
! ships 70 Europe. Rules We're noJ sus-
| pended.
Logan, fir m the Committee on Military
! Affairs, reported a bill TO abolish the office
OF Chief OF STAFF OF the General of the
Army: He said 1t was The unan nous re-
pert of the Com mmittea and had the con-
sent of the General. The bill passed.
Logan also reported q biil providing
that no retired officer OF tie army shajl
hereafter be assisnsd TO duty of any kind,
or be entitled to receive other pay and
allowance than IS provided for Dy law for
retired officers OF his grade, ana that all |
such assignments heretofore made shall |
tvrmins te within thirty days after the pass |
age OF this act; Alter an explanation by |
Lozan, the bill ass d.
Logan also reported joint resolution /
providing that the vacancies existing in /
the Adjutant Generals Department at the /
time OF the pas age OF the last army appro- /
priatiOn bill shall be exem tied from he /
provisions OF tue act in relation to grades /
of officers. After discussion by Logan and /
Garfield the resolution assed.
lynch moved 10 suspend the rules for
the Offering and adoption of "A resolution
creating a select committee Of nine to in
qu1re into and report at the next session,
the causes of the great reduction OF Amer
lean tonnage engaged in foreign conn
merce, and the great depression in the
navigation interests of tue country: also
10 report what measures are neceS airy To
Increase our ocean tonnage, recover our
navigation interests and regain for our /
country the relative position which il once {
held great maritime power. Rules
suspended and resolution offered and
ado pied.
Lawrence introduced bill to limit pub
lie expenditures.
u Dawes, nom the Committee on Appro-
priationS, reported "a resolution calling on
the secretary of the Treasury 10 comInu-
nfcate Information As to the extra paY of
employees in that Department. Adopted.
Also 1esolutton lnStIuctlng the Judiciary
Committee to inquire whether any legisla-
tion is necessary To secure the Government
ernploye es uniformity Of cOmpensaal ION un-
der the eight hour law, and an admIuis-
tatton of5ae same according TO its true
intent.
A resolution was adopted calling on the
Secretaries of War and the Navy for a re-
port and number of the location OF hos
pital bui eliugs barracks and trans ports
condemned and unused, ordnance, cloth
ing, medical supplies, &c, within the Dis
trict OF Columbia, or the adjacent counties
of Virginia and Maryland
Lawrence offered resolution to rec III
the et1iaett1e nv efest'tutIoll ol t"JoufhlehG
Whlcn - now pen iEg. lie sti0 the recon-
~tructtOn o Mississippi, Texas and Nir-
gtnta. and some legislation for Georgia
were necessary, ana IL would be impossible
to perfect that legislation If Congress ad-
iourned next Friday.
Butler gave another reason. Supposs
the Senate should pass a resolution 20 sus-
pend the Teuure-Of-Ofnce Act and then /
on Friday before the House could /
4
- the ground between tine two Houses, /
therefore he desired that the House should
have the control of the matter in its own /
hands. The indian Appropriation blll
had not been considered by the Senate, !
and various business required the atten-
tion of Congress.
Farnsworth thought Il far better for
Congress to adjourn after the passage of
the Indian Appropriation bill and the bill
to repeal the Tenure Oi~otIice act, than TO
act upon the many bills already intro
duced at this session.
OnnOSe0 resolution. !
lieved IL the House were to enter upon a
career OF general legislation il would be
was nothing in the way OF adjournIng next
Friday II they We're to address themselves
ceSSary. He had supposed IT anything were
by the House, and by Con- |
: ress, and by the country, II was that we
shonld do very little more than organize ,
this Congress at this time No more untor-
tunate thing, Ia his opinion, could occur ,
TO this Administration at the beginning OF
it than to have This Congress Iegislating at {
he OutstaGt.
BROOKS believed IL for the interest of the l
country to have an early adjournment.
Butler argued that there were three
States in an unrecOnStructed condition;
where a mans life IS not safe; where the
clergyman is shot down he performs :
the marriage sacrament, and where men
We are paid by the year and sh ouid not
60 home now anu leave the country in
that condition.
Dawes inquired whether the offices in :
the unrecOustructed states Were not 10 be :
filled by commanding Generals, and d.
whether it was not just as Well To hold
these states under military rule as To
bring them into repre- ntatIon under the
circumstances that Georgia
had been brought in
Butler agreed in the matter of Georgia. I
Congress mad made haste slowly, but thls
was a question of life and death 10 the
Repu blica us-tD the Union men OF the {
would now say am adjourn
lnent of Congress now would be n tteSer-
ton of them, and a turning of them over
To their enemies. Besides, If Congress
now, the senate would remain
the House turned It's back than Alaska 8
was thrust upon the country. lie thought,
therefore, under the circumstances 10 was
the duty OI the House To remain III ses.
sion.
Dawes-Aud take care of he Senate. I
Butier-Take care OF eVeIyb body taat the =
psople's Interests require TO be taken care
OF - @ man tr19hlens me DY saying take 9
care of he senate. / sire to keep with :
in parliamentary language; therefore. L
say we should take care of ev-TybO Y that
wants taklnz care OF. Laughter The 1
power is put in our hauds We, as repre- :
sen tatives of she Ueo 5ie, are entrus ed with =
r, and we are paid for doing it, and we ;
are false our duty II go away day
Lawr0nce-Eue objection made by the {
gen tleman from Massachusetts (DaweS) i,
Is that if this resolution be adopted, we
Wil embark in general schemes OF leglS-
lation. / uudsrt axe TO say II does not, by 4
any means follow mat If tue concurrent
resolution for adjournment be reconsider s
ed, we will embark IN general legislation. i
II will be competent for the two Houses 1
to determine now soon they wi adjourn, =
and they will be as competent TO deter =
NINE 1T next week or the week after, as
they were competent to dete mine It last
week, but L do not have tnat desire hat
he gentleman from a>sachuse. h seems
to have. His whole argument, as well as
that OF the gentleman from N " YORK p
BrOOks) assumes that congress cannot be :