The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-28
HOUSE.

Mr.. Batter asked leave TO oHer res
olution calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for information as to the ef-
fects of a repeal OF the reciprocity
treaty on the trade of the United States
with Canada and other British Ameri-
can provinces.
Mr.. Mccarthy objected.
The House resumed the consideration
of Mr.. Lynch's bill to provide for the
resumption of specie payment.
Mr.. Schofeld addressed the House.
On motion of Mr.. Schenck it was
agreed to hold the evening sessions in
committee of the Whole for general de-
bate.
Mr.. Washburne urged the House to
come to some understanding relative to
the public business, saying the indica-
tions ofyesterday were not disposed to
touch the appropriation bills at all.
The Speaker recapitulated the bust
ness that was pressing on the attention
of the House.
After some discussion, a motion to
reconsider the vote referring the re-
sumption of specie payment bill to the
committee on Banking, was tabled, and
the bill remains committed
The Constitutional amendment and
bill relating to suffrage were post
poned until after the morning hour,
with the substitutes offered therefore by
Messrs. Bingham, Shellabarger and
Ward.
Mr.. Bingham's substitute is as fol-
lows: No State shall make or enforce
ally law which shall abridge or deny to
any citizen of the United States, of sound
mind and 81 years of age, the equal ex-
ercise of the elective franchise at al
elections in the State wherein he shall
have actually resided for period of one
year next preceding such election; except
such of said citizens as shall hereafter
engage in rebellion or instruction, or
who may have been or shall be duly
convicted of treason or other CRIME OF
the grade of felony in common law.
| The substitute of Mr.. Shellabarger Is
nearly in similar terms as that of Mr..
Bingham, except that Mr.. Shellabarger
permits the disfranchisement of those
who have engaged in rebellion, while
Mr.. Bingham only permits the distran-
chisement of those who may here
after engage in rebellion.
The substitute of Mr.. Ward, like that
of Mr.. Shellabarger, applies to those
who have been engaged ia rebellion,
and restricts the States from fixing the
term of residence required of voters at
longer than one year.
The House then took up the business
of the morning-the bill reported yes
terday relating to the operations OF the
pension law. 800 -,
The second section of the bill, which
directs the withdra val Of the pensions
of female pensioners who are living a
life of prostitution or Concubinage, re-
ceived much opposition.
Mr.. Ingersoll moved to strike it out,
and Mr.. Schenck characterized it as the
most monstrovs and disgraceful propo-
sition he had ever seen in any bill, mas
much as it proposed to make the Court
of Pensions the judge of the morals and
virtues of the widows of soldiers of the
and required them to prove a
negative.
Mr.. Iugersoll took a like view of the
section, which he declared would be
disgrace to the statute book and an
outrage to the widows of soldiers.
After further discussion, Mr.. Arnett
moved to lay the bill and amendment
on the table. Rejected.
Mr.. Perham moved the previous ques-
ton, which the House refused to sec
Ond.
The morning hour having expired, the
bill went over till the next morning
hour.
The House then took up the consttu-
tiOnal amendment and bill in relation
to suffrage reported by Mr.. Boutwell,
from the committee on the Judiciary,
and was addressed by Mr.. Eldridge in
opposition to them.
The House then went into committee
of the Whole, Mr.. Schenck in the chair,
and resumed the consideration of the
legislative appropriation bill, and at .
o'clock took recess until7:3O,