The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1869-12-25
Congressional Proceedings.

COJtUTCSStOuCCG ITOCSSttCftOSs
THURSDAY, Dec. 16.
In the Senate Mr.. Cragin offered a resolution,
which was adopted, authorizing the settlement
of the accounts of Mr.. Forney, The late Secreta-
ry of the Senate. Mr.. Cameron took occasion
to withdraw the charges that he had made
against Mr.. Forney. Mr.. Thurman offered a
resolution requesting information from the At
torney General whether he had entered into
any agreement to release or in any other man
ner dispose of Yerger, the Mississippi murder
err, in case Congress should remove the jurisdic-
ton of the Supreme Court in the matter, or if
he had entered into any arrangement for the
delay of the hearing of the habeas corpus in the
case. The resolution went over for future &C
ton. Mr.. Morton called up the bill to perfect
the reconstruction Of Georgia, and offered an
amendment providing that the Legislature of
fed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments. Mr.. Carpenter opposed the amendment
on account of it being better that the State
should voluntarily adopt the amendments, and
the debate was continued, at various times,
without any action being had upon the amend
ment. Mr.. Trumbulls bill to prevent the Su
preme Court from Jurisdiction on political ques-
tions was taken up, and Mr.. Trumbull spoke
in favor of the bill, denying that it was intend
ed to encreach upon the proper sphere Of the
judiciary. No vote was reached on the bill.
In the House of Representative the Census
bill was adopted. A resolution was referred to
a committee, appropriating $4,000 for new
statuary at the Capitol. The House went into
Committee of the Whole on the Presidents
Message, and Mr.. Mungen, a Democratic mem
Der from Ohio, spoke in favor of reputation of
the National debt Upon this long and some
what spicy debate took place, in which Messrs.
Brooks, Potter, Randall, Slocum, Kerr and Cox,
all Democrats, denounced reputation with i'm
mense emphasis, and answered for the Demo-
cratic party that it was utterly opposed to it,
A resolution was then offered declaring repudi-
alton unworthy of the nation, and that the
House, without distinction of party, set its seal
of condemnation upon all such propositions.-
The resolution was adopted by a vote of one
hundred and thirty three to one, the only neg
alive being from Mr.. Jones, a Kentucky Demo-
crat. Mr.. Fitch, of Nevada, spoke in favor of
the recognition, of Cuban belligerency, and was
loudly applauded.
Senate.-Mr Spencer introduced bill to
abolish the Office of Naval Officer and impose
its duties upon Collectors of Customs, which
was referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Mr.. Schultz introduced bill to prevent persons
who have been officers or employees in the
Treasury Department from prosecuting claims
which were pending against the Government
during their term of office. Mr.. Sherman call
ed up the Joint resolution providing equal rights
for our Government in all telegraph cables
landed upon our shore, which was laid over,
and the bill for the reconstruction of Georgia
was taken up, the question being on Mr.. Nor
toms amendment-that the Legislature shall
be provisional only until it ratifies the Eff
teenth Amendment. The amendment was de-
bated until the Senate adjourned, to meet again
in the evening. At the evening session debate
upon the Georgia bill was continued, and at
half past one o'clock on Saturday morning the
bill was passed substantially as it came from
the Judiciary Committee, with the addition OF
Senator Mortons amendment requiring the as
sent of the Legislature to the Fifteenth Amend
ment. There were but nine votes against the
measure to forty five in its favor.
House.-Not in session.
SATURDAY, Dec. Is.
Neither House was in session.
MONDAY, Dec. 20.
Neither House was in session.
TUESDAY, Dec. %.
Senate-The bill for the suppression Of
polygamy in Utah Territory was favorably re-
ported. Mr.. Warner introduced bill to in
crease the National bank circulation $40, 000, 900
for distribution in the South and West, and
providing that no further interest shall be paid
on the three per cent. certificates, which was
referred to the Finance Committee. The
Virginia bill was laid aside on the statements
of several Senators that they desired further
time to examine into the matter, and the Census
bill was recommitted TO the Committee on the
Revision of the Laws, resolution being passed
to suspend the present Census law until
February, SO that the pending bill may be
acted upon after the recess. The bill for the
regulation of the landing Of telegraph cables
on the shores of the United States was briefly
discussed. and sent back to the Committee on
Foreign Relations. A bill was passed to reim-
burse the owners of steamboats, and other
vessels in the loyal States, taken by the Govern
| ment during the war;
The House Of Representatives yesterday