The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-18
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FORTY-FIRsT TERM-SECOND SESSION.
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Senate.
WAsHINGToN, March 18.-Mr. Conkling, from
the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were
referred the credentials of General Ames re-
ported the same back, with resolution, that
the gentleman is not eligible to q seat in the
Senate of the United States, to which he had
been elected from Mississippi.
MIR. Rice, as q member of the committee, said
he did not concur in the report.
MIR. Kellogg introduced a bill to restore to
New Orleans the Branch Mint property i'll that
city
f'r. Sumner proposed the following amend
ment to the Senate bill No. G5S:-
Section 4. And be IL further enacted, That the
fractional currency in the Treasury at the re-
spective dates hereinafter recited shall there
after be forthwith cancelled and DESTROYED; that
is to say, on and after July d. 1870, all currency
of the denominations of 10 and Is cents; on and
after September 4, 1870 of the denomination of
25 cents and on and after November 4, 1870 of
the denomination of so cents; and thereafter no
payments from the treasury in fractional parts
of dollar shall be in other than the coin of the
United States
Mr.. Fenton presented the following Joint reso.
lutiOn:-
Whereas The commerce of the world and
more especially that of the western hemisphere
renders it important that II ship canal should be
constructed across the American Isthmus; and
whereas, the Government of the Republic of
Mexico has conceded to an American company
the privilege of opening lnteroceanic commu-
nication by means of railway across the 18TH
mus of Tehuantepec, and now proposes to add
thereto concession Tor ship canal: there
fore be it
Resolued, That if the President of the United
States shall obtain the assent of the Government
of Mexico, then the Secretary of War is hereby
authorized to detail corps of engineers to
make a survey of the summit of the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec, to ascertain if there be
sufficient water at the summit of said Isthmus
for ship canal, and if 1t should be found on
examination that there is sufficient water then
complete survey of the Isthmus tor a ship
canal shall be made from the Gulf Of Mexico to
the Pacific Ocean, together with complete plans,
profiles, and estimates for the same, and under
such regulations and such provisions as the
Committee on Foreign Affairs shall recommend.
The Senate passed the bill incorporating the
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church of this city,
and the bill to legalize the apportionment of
members of the Legislative Assembly of Arizona.
Mr.. Abbott addressed the Senate in favor of
the bill making an appropriation of $100, 900 for
the improvement of the navigation of Cape Fear
river, North Carolina.
Mr. Morton Qnd) suggested that the report
the of Committee on the Judiciary against the ad-
mission of General Ames rs a Senator from Mis-
sissippi be taken up tomorrow afternoon as a
special order.
Mr.. Conkling replied that the Senator over
looked the fact that this was not only ques-
tion of privilege, but of high privilege, and over
rode all special orders and everything else.
Mr.. Wilson offered the following as an amend
ment he intends to offer to the Georgia bill-
That in consequence of the illegal ulsor-
ganizng, and the revolutionary proceedings of
the General Assembly of Georgia, it be and
hereby is declared that the term of service of
the said General Assembly shall date from the
Goth of January 1870, and shall continue until
the first Monday of November 1872,
as members of the General Assem-
bly, of said State, are qualified; pro-
vided, that the last clause OF the second
III. 4l,4 G.at Aft thn frI
article of the constitution of Georgia in the
following words, 'The General Assembly may
| by law change the time of election, and the
| members shall hold until their successors are
| elected and qualified" shall never be by any
Legislature exercised so as tolextend the term OF
| any Office beyond the regular period named in
| the said constitution, and the said General As
sembly shall by joint resolution consent to this
| fundamental condition before this act shall take
! effect
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
| Georgia bill.
Mr. Pomeroy argued that all the governments
in Georgia thus far have been provisional, and
that there was nothing to show when Mr.. Bull
locks term expires, because there was nothing
to show when his term began.
| House.
| Mr.. Brooks On. Y. presented resolution OF
the American Society of Civil Engineers against
| committing the patronage and influence of the
| Government to any route for canal between
| the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans until the route
| of the lsthmus or Iehuantepec mas Deen fully
surveyed.
Petitions were presented as follows:-
BY Mr.. Garfield, of the citizens of Ohio ask
D, ine a donation of $50 600 of the allowance made
by Congress for the education of the freedmen
of the South in behalf of the Wilberforce Uni
versty near Xenia, Ohio.
BY Mr.. O'Neil, of Philadelphia bookbinders,
for specific duty OF at least twenty-five cents
per pound ON imported books.
By Mr.. Bowen, of merchants and underwriters
of Charleston, South Carolina, against the abo-
liton of pilotage fees.
The House then resumed the consideration of
the bill reported last Friday from the Commit
tee on Patents, allowing an application for
further extension of the patent OF Robert Burns
Goodyear, originally granted March 13, 1S49,
for inventions in power-looms.
Mr.. Dawes (Mass.) opposed the whole system
of selecting certain inventions and having them
extended an undue length of time aud hoped
the House would cease giving encouragement to
combinations and monopolies. The bill was
defended by Mr.. Jenckes, chairman of the Com