Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-04
THE DlsGR ACE OF KoDERiCK
R4rrI,Erg rsY TssE HOUSE.


rv,E DIsC:R,cE or RoDERICK
RUrLEIS BY TssE HOUSE.
There has been persistent effort On
The part Of ROderick Buffers friends in |
the first congressional district, to con ceal |
the action of Congress with regard to his
sale of cadetship. We propose to give
the facts as recorded IN the Congression-
al Globe. In the House of Represents
tives, on the l7th of March, 1870, Mr..
of Michigan, submitted the
following report: .sis ..as'-i =
Mr.. Speaker: l am directed by the
Committee on Military Affairs to call up
the report 10 the case of Hon. R. r. But
ler The Committee on Military Affairs,
who were authorized by the resolutions
of the House of Representatives of the
4th day of February, 1870, and March 1 !,
1870, to inquire into the alleged sale of
appointments to the Military and Naval
Academies by members of this Congress,
have in this agreed to certain propositions
which I will state. --.-i
l. That on the 9th of February, 1869,
the said Roderick r. Butler recommended
the appointment of Augustus c. Tyler,
son of Gen. Daniel Tyler, late of tho
United States Army, as a cadet at the
West Point Military Academy.
2. That said Augustus G. Tyler was
not resident of the first congressional
district of Tennessee.
8. That after said appointment was
made, an agent or attorney of Gen. Tyler
gave to Mr.. Butler the sum of 5000, which
said Butler received with the svowed in
tention of using the same for political
purposes in the State of Tennessee.
To these propositions four of the mem
bers of the committee signed their names,
and two who were absent also cpncurred
in them, thus constituting the majority of
the committee.
The following is the nomination OF
young Tyler:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 81, 1861
nominate Augustus c. Tyler, of Taylors-
vile, in the county of johnson and State
Of Tennessee, as suitable person to fill
the cadet vacancy in the first congressional
district of that State. His age is seven
teen years and one month.
Very Respectfully, R. r. BUTLER.
The SECRETARY OF WAR.
Please send all communications for him
relative to this appointment to my care,
House of Representatives.
R. R. BUTLER.
MIR. Stoughton submitted the following
resolution from the majority of the Com
mittee on Military Affairs:
'TResolved, That this House declares its
condemnation of the action of Hon.
Roderick X. Butler, Representative
from the first district of Tennessee, in
nominating Augustus G. Tyler, who was
not an actual resident of his district, as a
cadet at the Military Academy at West
Point, and in subsequently receiving
money from the father of said cadet for
political purposes in Tennessee as an un-
authorized and dangerous practice"
Mr.. Logan, of Illinois, offered the fol-
lowing substitute for Mr.. Stoughton's
resolution:
-''Resolved, That Roderick r. Butler,
a Representative in Congress from the
frs. Congressional district of Tennessee,
be, and he is hereby, expelled from his
seat as member of this House"
Mr.. Logan's resolution, in the nature
of substitute, was agreed 10, by vote
of 1O2 to IS. The question then came
up on the adoption of Mr.. Logan's resO-
luton as the sense of the House of Rep.
resentatives, and the vote resulted as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Messrs. Adams, Allison, Amber,
Ames, Archer, Atwood, Aver, Barnum,
Beatty, Beck, Benjamin, Biggs, Bird,
Blair, Buckley, Burchard, Cleveland,
Cobb, of Wis, CobuIn, Conger, Crebs,
Cullom, Dawes, Dickinson, Donley, box,
DuvaI Eldridge, Ferry, Flnkleberg, Gar
field, Gers, Griswold, Haight, Halde
man, Hale, Hambleton, Hamill, Hamil-
ton, Harris, Hay, Hayes, Hill, Holman,
Ingersoll, Jenckes, Johnson, Judd, KEEL
logg, Kerr, Ketchum, Knapp, Knott,
Latin, Logan, Lynch, Msyham McCor-
mick, Morgan, Morrill,, of Maine, Nib
lack, O'Neill, Orth, Packer, Paine, Pal
mer, Poland, Pomeroy, Potter, Randall,
Readng,- Reeves, Sawyer, Scofeld,
Shanks, SherrOd, Slocum, Smith, of Ohio,
Smith of Vermont, Stevens, Stevenson,
Stiles, Stone, Strader, Strickland, Strong,
Swami, Tanner, Trimble, Tyner, Upsou,
Van Trump, Voorhees,, Warl, Wash
burn, of Wis, Washburn, of Mass,
Welker, Wells, Wheeler, Willard, Will
Iiams. and Wilson, of Minnesota-102.
Nays-Messrs. Armstrong, Asper, Ak
tell, Banks, Beaman, Bennett, Boles,
Booker, Bowen, Boyd, Brooks of Mass,
Brooks of n. Y, Burlington, Burdett,
Cake, Cessna, Churchill, Clarke, Cobb of
n. c., Cook, Covode, Dickey, DOckery,
Ella, Ferris, Fisher, Fitch, Hawkins, Haw
ley, Heaton, Helm, Hoar, Jones of n c.,
Julian, Kelly, Kelsey, Maynard, McCsr-
thy, Mckee, Mckenzie, Mercur, Morphis,
Morrill, of Pa, Myers, Neg;ey, Packard,
Perez, Peters, Phelps, Platt Prosser,
Roots, Sanford, Sargent, Schenck, Shell
don of n. Y, Sheldon of La, Smith of
Tenn, Starkweather, Stokes, Stought-
on, Townsend, Twitchell, Van Horn,
Van Wyck, Wilkinson, Wilson of Ohio,
and Winans-68.
Not voting-Messrs. Arnell, Bailey,
Benton, Bingham, Buck, Burr, Benjamin
F. Butler, Roderiek r. Butler, Calkin,
Cowles, Cox, Davis, Dixon, Dyer, Farms
worth, Fox, Gibson, Gilfillan, Hoge,
Hooper, Hotchkiss, Thomas I. Jones,
Lash, Lawrence, Loughridge, Marshall,
McCrary, McGrew, McNeely, Mines,
Eliakim II. Moore, Jesse H. Moore, VIM.
Moore, Morrissey, Mungen, Porter, Rice,
Ridgway, Rodgers, Schumacher, Joseph
S. Smith, William Smyth, Sweeney, Taffe,
Tillmap, Van Auken, Winchester,
Witcher, Wood, and Woodward-50.
Under the Constitution of the United
States it requires the concurrence of two
thirds of the House of Representatives to
expel a member. So the House failed to
expel, because there was not two-thirds
voting in favor of expulsion, but there
was a majority of thirty>four in favor of
unceremonionsly kicking RoderIck out of