Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-21
Ist CoNGREss---2d sEssloH.


! The House went into q Committee
Of the Whole on the Legislative Ap-
! preparation bill, and the amendment
appropriating S9l, 900 for a branch
| mint at Carson City was agreed to,
Mr.. Dawes remarking that he would
| call the yeas and nays in the House.
Mr.. O'Neil moved an appropriation
of 500, 900 for Bureau of Education,
and pending action thereon the COM
mittee rose.
Mr.. McCreary introduced bill to
provide a stay of execution in certain
eases. Referred.
This bill is intended to afford some
relief against the operations of the le-
gal tender decision. 1t gives a stay
Of execution on all judgments founded
on debts contracted prior TO the 18th
of July, 1862, the date of the passage
of the lirst legal tender act, for from
one 10 four years, according to the
amount. But it provides that If, after
a suit aud Judgment, the creditor will
receive his pay in currency, there shall
be no stay, and whenever specie pay
ments are resumed all stays under
this act shall terminate.
a petition was presented from the
citizens and business men of Cincin-
matt for a repeal Of the tax on sales.
Mr.. Garfield, from the Committee
on Rules, reported the following rule:
The Committee on Elections, for the
ALIst Congress, shall consist of fifteen
members, and each contested case
may be assigned by the Chairman to
special committee of three members
thereof, for their exclusive cOnsidera-
ton, and such special committee shall
report its decision directly TO the
House" lie made some re-
marks IN support OF the
proposed rule, and said it was under
stood, although it could not be so sta
ted in the rule, that the Speaker
would appoint i've members to repre-
sent the Democrats, and ten members
to represent the Republicans, and the
subcommittee of three would con-
sist Of two Republicans and one DEM
Ocrat.
The rule proposed by Mr.. Paine,
frOm>the Election Committee, Weuld
be too much a matter of choice, and
the Committee on Rules was not viii
ling to report it. He spoke the senu-
ments OF the Committee when he said
the whole practice Of settling contest
ed election cases was one that all must
deplOre. 1t was a sad state of affairs
to have judicial question decided on
strict party lines.
Further remarks were made by
AIe5ors. Cox and Brooks, from the
same Committee, who assented to the
report although they did not entirely
approve OF ii, but because the system
proposed was better than the existing
one.
Mr.. Stevenson also spoke in support
of the rule, which was then adopted,
and the House again went into a Com
mittee of the Whole for general de-
bate, and speeches were made, or per-
nitIed to be printed, by Messrs.
Stevenson, Cox, Johnson, Munger,
Fdlman and Mccormick, after which
the committee rose and the House ad-
jouTned.
SeRute.-The Vice-President submit
ted the resolutions of the Virginia
Legislature for the removal of pOliti-
cal disabilities incurred by the people
Of Virginia by the late war. Tabled.
A joint resolution for the return of
certain private papers of Thomas Jei-
teTsOn to his executors, was passed.
The House bill to defray the ex-
pe8ses OF witnesses in the investiga-
tiOn concerning the sale of cadetships
was passed.
Mr.. Morrill,, Of Vermont, introduced
q bill tnGt the balances Of uneXpended
appropriation shall be carried into
the treasury at the end of two years
from the time they were originally
made, and that at the beginning of
each fiscal year such portions or uneX-
pended balances shall be carried into
the treasury as the respective heads of
shall certify are not re-
quUed for use during said year.
Mr.. Sherman offered a resolution
calling upon the President for infOr-
nation as TO whether any officer, con-
trary to the treaty with the Cherokee
Nation, had collected taxes upon the
products or manufactures therein, and
sold within the Indian Territory.
Adopted.
The Post Route annual bill was
MIR. Spencer "a located the claims OF
the labOTiGg classes in the Govern
ment employ, and urged the passage |
Of the pending bill upon the subject, |
without amendments.
Mr.. Upton referred to the reading |
Of the telegram to Sumner, from the |
Governor OF Nebraska yesterday, an |
nOuuCiug the ratification Of the XVIII /
Amendment, and said he believed /
that parliamentary courtesy required /
thaS such intelligence should be COM /
by one of the Senators rep /
resentiug the State. lie would ask 4
his colleague whether ne had received /
official information on the subject.
Mr.. Thayer said he had received |
from the Governor a dispatch similar I
to the one read at the Suggestion Of
Mr.. Sumner, and the Governor had |
desired the reading of any telegram I.
from him. He (Thayer) thought the /
Senator from Nebraska would be the I
one preferred to make the request.
Mr.. Williams called up the bill |
granting lands TO aid in the constrGc- |
ton Of telegraph and railroad line
fcOm Portland to Astoria and McMim-
Vile, in the State Of Oregon.
Mr.. Thurman spoke against the land /
grants contained in the bill, which /
was variously amended and provi-
sion adopted prohibidug,Ihe taking np
Of aIy lands containing iron or gold, /
and passed.
a message was read from the Presi- /
dent relative to the recent conflict be- |
tween Colonel Baker and the Indians,
'titeF "AN'"h the Senate adjourned.