The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
xlIss C0NGgESs-sEC0yB SESSION.

I
SENATE......... W AsHINGToN, Jan. q.
Patterson. from the Committee on Re
| trenchrnent, reported favorably the House
! Joint r resolution prohibiting assessments
/ upon ore or collecting from subordinate
| officers to make presents to Jne1r superior
/ officers. Passed.
Resolution relating to the recent seizure
OF distilled spirits IN san san FrancIseo was
! A bill TO establish a port OF delivery at
/ Omaha, Nebraska, was discussed ana
Ross from the Committee on Indian At
| fairs, reported, with amendments. a joint
| resolution providing for the sale OF certain
The Vice President communicated to
| the Senate the fact that the President mad
/ signed the Virginia bill
/ Virginia, John F. Lewis, was present, ana
i moved that he beQualided. III E.ft
- Tho credentials OF John + Lewis and
W. johnson, Senators elect. were then
| evils appeared and the usual oath of
office was admin nistesed by the Chair.
Wilson offered a resolution for The rear
rangements of seats OF the Senators, ana
for additional seats, If necessary. Re1efred
TO the Committee on Public Buildings.
II The Currency bill was taken up, and
4 Howe reviewed the various propositions
suggested by the Senators who had spoken
in the discussion. The SeaRtor from Ohio
! (Shermap) believed S45 100000 of an incres Sc
10 ne sufficient The senator from Indt-
ana (Morton) thought SG5,cOO,OO0 would be
skenough, and the Senator from .Massachu.
sets (SuTnner) believed 600, ,UOO,OO3- would
| be about right. He might pertinentIy ask
| each Of the Senators why did they stop at
/ these amounts; how did they know these
/ would be all that were necessary; why not
| take eff all restriction, and let the people
1 waste all the money that they wanted 70
| invest in banking. Our currency would
| not be endangered II clre Was taken
| that one class OF paper should be retired
as fast as another came into use, and
| hAaO based
supposltlon that the people would pre-
fer national notes to bank notes.
tue good sense Of all people would give
| their preference to the best circulation
and that would be the one most readily
convertible into coin II this object could
| not at once be accomplished, Congress
should at least start out on the road that
would reach 70 IL. AS Western man, he
asked that the West should have the
of which they were deprived by the pres
sawyer said re would favor the bill as
proposed TO be amended by Morton,
beVond That proposed by the Com
mittee. He advised prudence and caution
SO that the business interests might not
u "Morrfii, SsS Of Vermont, favored the propo-
| sition of the Finance Committee, and ex-
planned the circumstances under which
the present system of distribution had
i been adopteds claiming that1t had been
pat IA operator as q war measure, ana ana
itself of 1t, while the South, in conse-
qnence of the rebellion, could not he
I thought the banks Of the loyal states
should not suffer because OF their support
Morton advocated that the bill as pro-
posed be modified, TO auth oTtze sixty
Two millions additional and the taking of
thirteen millions. when necessary. rom
the excess OF the North and East. he OPP
posed the provision in regard to coin
| notes. believing that If the banks were es-
tablished ON the basis proposed. they
| would be used for gold gambling purposes.
| Morton quoted from statistics, To show the
| disparity IN national circulation, estab-
fishing the fact that the Western cities,
| with united population of12, ,000, 900, have
but SlS,S22,000 altogether, while the East
| nave sl30, $4,000, showing that the great
| States of the West needed to have mere
than double their present CIRCULATION:
Referring further to the Pacific States,
| he said, financially. that they had not
been friends to the credit OF the United
States, having uniformly rejected our cur
rency. and preferred TO adhere to gold
"Casseriy explained that the Constitution
4 of Caliior MIA before the war prohibited
/ paper currency, and said this was not in
Consequence OF any unfriendly feeling TO
Patterson said that New England had
been made scapegoat of IN the present
discussion, but the National Bauk ciIcula-
ton had been forced upon her, and she
had done her duty TO the government un-
der compulsion, and gentlemen from the
South and West now ought not to COM
plain, because, though New England had
the Hons share of capital. she took It un-
Cameron moved to adjourn.
After Intellectual efforts by Drake and
Sherman to secure an understand ng that
the vote would be taken tomorrow the
motion was agreed TO, and at 4:I2 P. NJ. the
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.........W WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.
Bills were introduced ana referred as
follows:
BY SchofeId, authorizing the indemnity
| fund paid by China and Japan tOrbe car
By Wasnburne, OF wisconsin. to estab-
lish steamship lines.
BY GilfIlan, requiring National Banks
going into liquidation to deposit lawful
money in place of their circuis ting notes,
and to take up their bonds.
BtllS were reported and recommitted as
follows:
BY Julian, from the COMMITTEES on Pub
nc LANDS, TO prevent the further sale OF
public lands except as provided for in the
pre-empt1on and homestead laws, and
laws for dispOsing OF town sites and min
BY Ingersoli, from the Committee on
Railroads and Canals, to authorize the
construction of q railroad and telegra pm
line from Washington City to cleveland
or Erie, Pa, by the nearest direct route.
Davis called up the bill introduced by
ham yesterday, to amend the Virginia Bill
by constraing the word "oath " TO include
frmation. Passed.
Resolutions sol; L ms Of inquiry were offered and
BY Moore ol New Jersey, as to why,
nHIDOT master ices, health Oft1c6f ices, an q
state hospital fees are allowed to be col
lected at the New York custom house, not
Withstend1ng a decision of the supreme
Court mat such fees are unlawful.
By Wilson, of Minnesota, relative to
the improvement of navigation on the
MISS ssippl River, at or near the falls of st.
By Burdett, as to building for the post
once, courts &c, at Jederson city, Mo.
II 1ne speaker annOun ICED the following as
seiect committee on the Postal Tele-
graph Btn: Washburne. of Wisconsin 4:
3 lawrence, Dawes, Davis, Palmer, Wood
Payne novel that such Of the Virginia
members as TO whose right TO seats there
, Messrs- PIatt, Rtdgeway and Milnes there
upon came forward and took the oath OF
Wood objected to the oath being admin
1stereo 70 Porter, and read, as the ground
Pm oI ms objections, charges and speclfca-
LIONS upon which Porter had been con-
Vlcteo and sentenced to six months I'M
prlSonment, which sentence was approved
"a Victe 81 fehsral BigtieTi tnat @ Porter E waS
at NorfoIk, that this Government was a
Cd d-d humbug from beginning to end
that A Lincoln was doing everything he
could Tor his own election, and that this
was a rotten bogus, corrupt Government
Ir0m beginning TO end.
Paine, In answer, sent TO the Clerks
desk and had read a telegram from Butler
, dated May 5, 1868, stating that Charles H
words which, being reported to him, he
, was obliged to notice. He had, however,
omitted all Inc OHOrOuS part of the 1udg-
ment of the Commission; because the case
of his previous acts showed that Porter
had NOT, in fact, been disloyaI.
Root remarked that the gentlemen on
the other side of the house frequently
made such imputattons, and If they were
to be ruled out for such expressions, the
? members from his side would rule them
selves out.
Eidridge asked Paine whether Porter
had ever taken bact. the expression eharg-
Paine said he did rot know. lie had
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