Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-29
F0RTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
This Afternoons Proceedings
TUESDAY, March %.

| Referred TO Committee on Claims
| Ar. Chandler, from Committee on Commerco
| reported bill supplementary TO the bilI IN I'm,
ther secure the lives and property vi passenger
on steam vessels.
| Mr.. sherman, from Committee on Finance
reported an amendment 60 the House Joint res,
luticn relative TO the income tax. There wa
pressing necessity, he said. for early action on
| this resolution, and he should call il up Al IN,
| first opportunity.
Mr.. Anthony asked permission 10 can atten
tfon to the effect OF the Resolution of Congress
| which continued on the active list certain Off
GERS Of the navy who have received the thank,
| OF Congress ten years longer, or ffty-fye wear,
instead of forty-iiye year,. This, he said. wa
at the expense OF the Junior officers OF the navy
and was not calculated to stimulate their ambi-
/ tlon The honor of receiving the thanks of Con
gress was sufficient, without carrying with /,
this corresponding advantage OF pay. In con
EectloG with this subject Mr.. A. reported iOi nj
resolution from the Committee on Naval A flsirs
Mr. ConklIng introduced bill to prevent an,
punish election frauds. Referred 10 Judiciar,
Committee.
The concurrent resolution To provide for the
appointment OF joint committee on India an
affairs was announced by the Vice President a.
hrst I'm order.
MIR. sherman moved that il be passed over
and stated that he wished this TO be a test vote
IS II his motion WAS adopted he should move 10
take up the Texas bill.
The motion resulted at follows:-Ayes o.
NAYS % The Vice President then voted in the
Affirmative, and the concurrent resolution Was
accordingly passed over.
Several other resolutions which came up in
ihe next subject reached on the calender was
the resolution OF Mr. Thurman calling for in
formation relative TO the Yerger case.
Mr.. Thurman called for the reading OF the
resolution, and was proceeding to make some
remarks, when
Mr.. sherman moved that this resolution be
also passed over.
Mr.. Thurman inquired whether his collearue
could take the floor from him.
The Vice President stated that under the new
rule the motion made BY Mr.. Sherman was in
the nature OF question OF order, and OF course
could be made at any time.
Mr.. Thurman appealed from the decision of
the Chair, and asked ii the appeal was de-
The Vice President stated that the appeal
being on a question which was not debatable, il
also was not debatable.
Mr.. Trumbull asked leave to make a sugpes-
ton, and said no such decision had ever before
been made in the Senate.
Mr.. sherman called Mr.. Trumbull to order
The Vice President stated debate was not in
order.
The question being taken on the appeal from
the decision OF the Chair, the Chair was sus-
tanned by ayes A. nays u.
unfinished business, being the case of General
Ames, came up in order.
Mr.. Sherman moved to postpone this subject
in order to take up the Texas bill.
Mr.. Trumbull could see no necessity for this
The Georgia bill and the case of Gen. Ames
had both been under discussion for several
days, and should be disposed of He did not see
why the Senator from ohio wished TO take the
Texas bill from the hands of the Judiciary.
Mr. Sherman was not to be deferred from his
duty by any mere feeling of etiquette. There
were important reasons, both political and na-
tional, Why Texas should be admitted at once,
SO that the isth amendment should be officially
be removed from our midst. He %ss surprised
that the Senator from Illinois should seek TO OBJ
struct the viii of the majority of the Senate,
am, ana that majority was anxious that the Texas
bill should be taken up.
Mr.. Trumbull would like TO know by what
authority the Senator from Ohio assumed to
peak for the majority OF this body. Never
since he (Mr. IT, had been in the Senate
had such an act of gross discourtesy been perpe-
rated towards any committee of this body as
that perpetrated by the Senator from Ohio yes
terday. After he (Mr. IT, had assured Mr..
Drake and the Senate yesterday that the COM
nlttee would report upon the Texas bill as soon
as the Senate vas ready TO consider il. The
majority of the Senate last week had a consul
!ation and the Texas matter had been spoken of,
3RE he5f Is dssfsrae the 1desrT a,. c ,o %
the consideration Of the bill. Has the Senator
from Ohio been around and counted the Senate
that he is justihed in assuming that a
majority want to take up the Texas bill?
The Senator from Ohio wants to have the FIJI
teenth Amendment proclaimed. If that Sena-
tor had stood by me and sat out the Georgia
claimed several DAYS ago.
MIR. Sherman said his honorable friend could
not draw him into a personal controversy IN
seemed 70 be the bent Of his mind to get ex-
cited and make personal remarks upon simple
questions OF order. He (Ar. So denied that he
lad offered any indignity to the Judiciary
Committee, and he would not surrender his
eight, no matter what the Senator might saw:
and he wished him to understand this although
ne certainly would not wrangle about IL. The
wish OF the majority Of the Senate was as clearly
apparent TO the Senator as to him, and he must
say the course Of the Senator and OF the COM
mittee in resisting the desire of the majority
was most extraordinary. When he remembered
that four millions Of people were to be invested
with the privileges of citizenship, he could not
stop for any petty feeling Of etiquette
AFTER some further desultory discussion Mr.
Ames and all other prior orders was carried. by
a vote Of AZ to Is. =
The question then was taken on the molten of
Mr.. Sherman to discharge the Judiciary Com
mittee from the further consideration Of the
Texas bill, resulting-ayes 80, nays Is.
HOUSE-Mr. Paine, wis. } from Committee
on Elections, made a report in the case of Mr..
Joseph Segar, claiming to be a Representative
at large from the State Of Virginia. IL was laid
upon the table, to be called up at some future
time.
Mr.. Cessna, pa from the same committee,
made report in the case of Taylor ys. Read
ing, awarding the seat to Mr.. Taylor the con-
testant. The report was made the separate or
der for Tuesday next. =
order heretofore made in relation to the bin for
the payment OF invalid pensions, in order TO
bring the matter before the House. Mr.. Benia-
min urged the importance Of the bill, and said
Ae wanted IL acted on before the House cot nm
Ter way with the details of the Tarin bin.
Mr.. Schenck (Ohio) hoped the bill would not
iow be taken up. 1t was his purpose, he said
o move to close general debate ON the Tariff
ill one hour after the House went into Com
.nittee of the Whole, tomorrow; and he would
hen move to postpone the details Of the bill for
some time, 70 give members chance 10 prepare
heir fye-minute speeches.
Mr.. Schenck therefore r,ored TO postpone the
further consideration Of the pension bill for two
weeks, and the motion was agreed 10.
Mr.. Logan, tnl.) rising 10 personal expiana-
ZION, sent to the Clerks desk and had read Gen.
Sherman's letter, recently pubifshed. upon hu /
1 Gen. Logan's) army bill.
Mr. I,oSsn said he regretted that he felt bound /
to reply 70 eome statements that we're personal
10 himself contained in that remafkaole euer
rom General Sherman. Who the gentlemen |
wsre At those request the letter was written he
M Ioean) couid not say. One report was that
sshs ,etfer was written at the request o. certain
ms mbers Of the House OF REPRESENTATIVES. he \
n al hoped that members were capable OF making
,hs;r own speeches, and did not need 70 call i
,,,on sny general of the army % Do IL for them \
~ that was the case they had better return TO 1
heir copstituentr. 1t had also been stated that |
senator Wilson inyited the letter. This the Sen
sfor Yesterday stated to him (Hr. Logan) was
NOT So Ii was also stated that Senator Wilson
mad written to General Sherman thanking him
FOR the letter. This statement was also denied
H. g.