The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
Congress.

MONDAY, JAN. 25-Mr. Edmunds from
the committee on Reuenchment. Reported
the bill repeating the Tenure of Office bill.
with an amendment leaving the heads of
Departments, the Cabinet, subject to remoy-
al at the will of the President during recess
OF the Senate, and authorizing him to sus
pencsall other civil officers during such re
cess, without having specific evidence to
Justify he suspension. For dOinO This
which would be right in Gen. Grant, Presi-
dent johnson was impeached by the House
and came near being convicted and deDosed
of his office By the Senate.
IN House, Mr.. Paine proposed to mt the
Stale of Georgia out of the Union again. be
cause the Legislature of THAI State elected
negroes, claiming to be members. from
their seats. Objection being made, MIR
Paine had to Withdraw his resolution.
TUESDAY. Jan. %. - SENATE A Joint
resolution was adopted providing for the ap-
puintmcnt of a committee of three Senators
and five Representatives to sit during the
recess of the Furty-trst Congress, for the
purpose of examining into the expediencv
of recognizing the civil service in the De
partments, and reporting thereon. The bal
ance of the day was consumed in the dis
cussion of the bill relating to the Central
Branch of the Eastern Pacific Railroad.
HoUsE-The petition of Mrs. Lincoln for
a pension was presented and referred, after
which a number of bills were introduced,
and q good deal of miscellaneous speaking
indulged in. A resolution authorizing the
Committee on Roads and Highways to a
testimony on the subject of bridging the
Ohio River was passed,
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 2Z.-SENArE-At the
expiration of the morning hour, Senator
Sherman's bill relating to the public debt
and currency, was taken up, and after
speeches thereon, by the author and Sena-
tor McCreery, was postponed for the bill
granting subsidies to the Central Branch of
the Union Pacific Railroad, which was put
upon its passage and lost by a vote of 25 to
II.
HoUsE-The morning hour was occupied
IN discussing the bill to amend the Pension
Laws so as to exclude the widows of sol
dlers living in concubinage or by prostltu-
ton from the benefits of those laws. which
Ingersoll and Schenck denounced as n of
the most monstrous propositions ever pre-
sented In Congress insulting and unjust to
the widows of the soldiers of the Republic,
making tee Pension Office the Judge of their
morals, and requiring them to prove that
they were not co9cubines and prostitutes
before they could be entitled to the pittance
E&AN y NCNNAAAAAGAAL III IGCO8IllLlC0 OIL. Inc
services of their dead husbands The House
refused to lay the bill upon the table bv a
vote of = to 81, and further discussion
thereon was cut off by the expiration of the
morning hour, when the Constitutional
Amendment and the bill to enforce negro
suffrage in all the States was taken up. and
Eadrldge addressed the House in opposition.
The subject went OVe without action. The
House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the Legislative Approximation Bill
IN the course of the debate on which Wash
burne (Radica) stated tina he. believed that
if the people knew the extravagance of their
re~yresentativ es in Congresshey would come
TO Washington and throw them into the Pc
tomac.
THURSDAY, Jan. 2S.-SENArE-A nun
Der Of bills were introduced, and two or
three important ones passed, the special or
der for the day, was tae Constitutional
Amendment, originally introduced by Hen
derson, to enforce negro Suffrage on all the
States. During the discussion, in which
Davis, of Kentucky, offered an amendment
proposing the submission OF this and all
constitutional amendments to the people.
but Withdrew it after the debate that ensued
thereon had exposed the unwillingness of
the Radical Senators to permit any express
sion of the people at all upon the subject.
HoUsEEThe Army Appropriation Bill
was reported, and made the special order
for Monday next. II appropriates / .I99-
OO0. A resolution was adopted under the
gag of the previous question. setting forth
by way of preamble the usual stories of the
Radical press about misgoYernment in Geor
gia and concluding with an order to the
Reconstruction Committee TO inquire wheth-
er or not any action ought to be taken by
the present Congress with regard to the rep
resenlation of ihat State in the House. AT
the expiration of the morning hour the
House went into Committee of the Whole
on the Indian Appropriation Bill. An at
tempt was made to. take up the Tariff bill in
Committee, but it was. negatived by a vote
of Sc nays to II yeas, which may be regard
ed as a deceive test against further legisla-
ton on that subject the present session. 81.
FRIDAY, Jan. 29.--SRNATE-Harlan in
reduced q bill to construct a railroad from
the Mississippi River TO the Pacific Ocean
through Texas The Constitutional Amend
ment, relating 10 negro suffrage in the States
was discussed At length, after which the bill
for the reduction of the army was taken up
and passed. The Chairman of the Commit
tee on Pensions reported against granting q
pension to Mrs. Li~ncoln.IliH 5VEI 1a4 i-
Il House 4 bill to close the land offices in
States where tie public lands do not exceed
five thousand acres was passed. Discus
sion on BOutwell's Constitutional Amend
ment, relative to negro suffrage, was resum-i
ed and occupied the balance of the day. $40