The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-25
CONGREssIONAL.
xLth CONGRESS- THIRD, SESSION. .
SENATE. " Asn1kerox. Febrr

SFNATEW w AsaINGroN. February "a.
TrumbuH. from the Committee on judi
| ciaTy. reported, and th6 acoInmutee was
| discharged from the further consfte eraIion
/ of the petition asking legislation to meet
| the existing state OF affairs In Georgia, the
| bill TO provide a more Ell cIent govern.
| ment for AIississi ppf, and he ADiA fsupple-
| meutary to the act TO abolish the system
/ Of peOnage in New Mexico and other parts
| of the United States, and q memorial
| against change in the bankrupt laws.
Trumbuil, from the same committee, re-
ported advs rSe y to the bill to denae felo-
Eies and misdemeanors and regular per-
emptory challenges in Uni ed states case ),
on the ground that the objects of the bill
are already provided for In the statutes
also adversely to the bnlst to preserve the
purity of elections in territories, n the
ground that there IS not sufficient time at
this session 10 entertain it.
williams, from the Com mittee on Pri-
vate Land Claims, made an adverse re-
port, signed by him and Terry, on the
claim OF VIM. McCfarrahan. He said the
Senator from louisiana (Kellogg) and the
Senator fiom south Ca olina (Sawyer)
would make a favorable report upon the
claim. and that as the Senator from Della
ware (B tyard) declined to have anything
u do with the matter, tn committee were
unable TO arrive at any decision, aud must.
therefore, leave it wholly TO the action OF
Sherman called up a bill TO admit, free
of duty, philosophical apparatus, books
aud charts, imported in good faith for the
use of instruction. ssaf. .-a.i .tfff see .I-1ii
ConkIing moved to add san chimes OF
DeAAS OF kl1flS nOt Il1fiG bnAS
Grimes opposed the amendment, and the
bill, alter brief discussion, was laid over.
Fhe bill to authorize tine selection of a
site for IA Territorial Prison In Idaho wa@
A message from the President of the
United 5tates was reeeiyed and read. relset-
ing to he copper tariff bill The Dill was
then passed by me following vote:
Yeas-Abbott, Anthony. Cameron, Cat
tell, Ch2rndlsr. Can, Conkilng, C9rbett,
Drake, FteiingnnSsf in, Ha Ian. Harris.
Howard, Horne, keiiogg, Mcdonald, Nor
gan, Morrin. OF Verin. Mt; Norton, Nye,
Osborne, Patterson, OF Tennessee; POme-
roy, Pool, Ramsey, Rice, Ross, sawyer,
sherman, spencer, stewart, Thayer, Tip
ton, Wade. warner, WtleA,a MtfieSs aahd
Nays Davis. Dixon, Ferry,
Fessenden, GRIMES. sAlce'reery, a. Summer, \
TIrumbull, Van Winkies Yickers, aud
Tn Senate then proceeded to consider 4
the joint r, so.uLions reportel BY the Joint
Committee on Printing. aud provide. for,
reporting and printing the debates OF the I,
next Congress.
White said, as a member of the Commit
tee on Printing, he had Investigated the
subject, and was satisfied that the best
course Congress could take would be to
direct the Joint Committee on Printing to
make I ew cont ract with iilyes y HALEY,
the present publishers OF the Globe, and he
Offer ed an amendment directing tie Com
mittee TO make contract win RiYes ~
Eaaley at the rats named in their BID. Tie
choice, in his Judgment, lay between them
cause it seemed to hiIn idle 10 consider
the proposition of Mr. CroweI. Living IN
a distant city, and having neither Within |
the city an establishment in which to do
the work, nor time to create one. As be- !
tween rtives IL Bailey and the Congress
Ing the former, because they had ALREADY
their ability to do work /
well, and because he thought the estima Q !
SOME OF the Hens. partienIaTIv bindiny
being estimated at an absurd low figure !
After considerable discussion, his amend
gHsal
n joint resolution, authoriziiig theHeiOnl- |
mittee on Public Printing t0reonctude sssl
factory contract with RiVes 6 t1ley
Tor reporting and publishing the debates /
for the next two years,