Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-08
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

On the Both nltimo, the Senate passed the sup.
Elementary currency act, having first adopted on
amendment increasing the amount to be with.
drawn from States having an excess Of circulation
to $50, 100000. The bill goes to the House. II
it becomes law, the effect will be to take the
above named amount from the Eastern States, and
the South and West will get it, in proportion to
population.
The House refused to concur in the Senate
amendments to the tenure-ofoficc bin, by q vote
of LOG to 60. A committee of conference was then
appointed to dispose Of the subject. A resolution
to adjourn if the Senate concur, on the 9th, was
passed
On the 3lst the conference committee on the
tenure-ofofice bill reported, and the report was
adopted the vote in the Senate being AZ to 8, and
that in the House log to 81. The Senate debated
the resolution to adjourn on the 9Th, but took no
action thereon
On the lst instant, the Senate passed joint re-
solution requiring all parties, desiring the removal
of political disabilities, TO make application over
their own signatures, with sworn statement CIV
ing the reasons why they ask relief.
In the House, the bill to provide provisional
government for Mississippi came up, and after a
long discussion the whole subject was postponed
until next session: Mr. Butler, the father of the
bill, made strong fight to have it passed, and, as
usual got himself into several personal encounters
Of wit. To do the Falstaff Of the House justice,
be turned the laugh on his adversaries; but his
strategy was in vain, and he came out of the con.
se in
his history.
On the End, the Indian appropriation bill was
passed by the Senate
In the House, the committee on contested elec-
tions reported that in the case of Hoge versus
Reed, from the 3rd Congressional District Of South
Carolina, the contestant, Hoge is entitled to the
seat. The report was made the special order for
Tuesday, the 9th, when it is very likely to be
adopted. The same committee reported that in
the case of Wallace versus Simpson, from the
same State, Mr. Simpson is ineligible. This re-
port was ordered to be printed and laid upon the
table
On the 3rd, the Senate confirmed Iongstreet's S
nomination as Surveyor for the port Of New Or
leans by vote OFFS to 10, after two days discus
sion. Mr.. Sprague made personal explanation,
to the effect that ''his courage and his words do
not rest upon wine or whiskey, but on his knowl-
edge of the danger to the country from legislative
and executive power assumed by the Senate"
Both Houses adopted resolution to adjourn on
the 10th instant.
On the 5th, the Senate judiciary committee re-
ported bill, and recommended that it pass, as
follows: That when any person who is not rem.
dered ineligible to Office by the provisions of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution shall
be elected or appointed to any Office of honor OF
trust under the Government ofthe United States,
and shall not be able, on account of his particpa-
ton in the late rebellion, to take the oath prescrib
ed in the act of Congress, July 2d, 1862 said per-
son shall, in lieu of said oath, take and subscribe
the oath prescribed in the act Of Congress entitled
ian act prescribing an oath of office to be taken by
persons whose legal disabilities shall have been re-
moved, approved July II, 1865.
Summer introduced a bill forbidding district
courts to consider cases involving slave contracts
In the House, the bill carrying into effect the
Convention of '6S between the United States and
Mexico was passed 1t goes to the President The
bill continuing the Freedmcn's hospitals at Rich
mond, Vicksburg and District of Columbia was
passed. It goes to the President.