Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-02-22
FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.


SENATE. Mr.. Patterson, from Committee on
Retrenchment, reported a bill to abolish the
Freedmcn's Bureau and provide for Bureau
of Education; the duties properly being the
business of the Freedmens Bureau except
those relating to education to be transferred
to the officers of the war department to be
selected by the President.
The House resolutions for the Rock Island,
Ill. bridge, and for monument of captured
cannon at West Point were reported from the
Military Committee without amendment.
A bill was introduced to establish terrific
rial government in Alaska.
Mr.. Anthony was deputed to preside in the
Senate during the absence OF the Vice Presi-
dent, for one week from to-day.
The bill to rcorganizc the Marine Hospital
service was passed 1t authorizes the
retention of 40 cents per month from the
wages of each seaman in United States YES
sells. The fund thus raised to be expended by
the Secretary of the Treasury.
The report of the Committee of Confer
cnce fixing the deficiency appropriation bill
at 81, 900, 600 was concured in.
Mr.. Sumner announced that he had re
ceived for presentation to the Senate beau
tful volume, containing the Lords prayer in
one hundred different languages. He moved
that it be received and deposited in the Con-
gressional library. Agreed to.
Mr.. Wilson introduced a joint resolution
directing that no speech, not actually deliv-
cred in Congress, be printed in the Globe,
which was Immediately passed.
Mr.. Anthony remarking that the practice of
printing speeches not delivered never pre-
vailed in the Senate.
Pending the consideration of the New
York & Washington Air Line r. X. bill, the
Senate went into executive session and soon
after adjourned.
House. Bills were introduced reducing
the income tax to 8 per cent, and exempting
50 600; increasing the tax on distilled spirits
to one per cent. per gallon; incorporating the
southern trans continental railway and for
granting land.
Bills were presented by Mr.. Butler, of
Mass, abolishing the Office of Pension Agent
and providing for payment of pensions by
Post Masters; and to provide means of re-
ceiving judgment in Z. S. Circuit and District
Court criminal case.
| Mr.. Loughbridges resolution, directing the
Banking Committee to report as soon as pos
| sible the bill increasing the currency to $780,
! 000, 900, was adopted, II to IL.
| A joint resolution to relieve from the man.
ufacturers tax, pork packers, lard renders,
and persons engaged sn smoking hams and
curing meat, was offered but went over.
The Senate bill removing political disabili-
ties from 400 to 500 persons in the varions
Southern States, who had applied for pardon,
was discussed by MessrS Butler of Mass,
Brooks, Cox, Voorhees,, Farnsw0rth and sew
eral others. Messrs. Brooks of New York,
and Eldridge of Wisconsin, opposed the bill;
they wanting general amnesty.
Mr.. Butler said this bill should be passed,
after which he would report no more personal
disability until Congress had passed on the
general amnesty measure. After long de-
bate the bill was passed by a two-thirds major
ity.
Mr.. Logan, from Committee on Military
Affairs, reported that they had taken the tes-
timony in the case of B. +. Whittemore, a
member of Congress, from the first district OF
South Carolina, which testimony together
with statement made to the Committee by
! Mr. Whittemore in the eXculpation of him
self had been submitted to the House, and
the Committee had come to the conclusion
that in making the appointment to the Mill
tary and Naval Academies from the district
represented by him, he (B. F. Whittemore)
! had been influenced by improper considera-
tions, and submitted the following resolution ;
Resolved, That b. +. Whittemore, Repre-
sentative in Congress, from the first Congress
sional district of South Carolina be hereby
expelled from his seat as a member of the
House of Representatives in the 4lst Con-
gress.
The Clerk then read the testimony of
Messrs. Cathart, Bailey and Kelgler of New
York; Gen. Schofield of Washington, and a
newspaper correspondent, and the statement
made by Mr.. Whittemore. The report is
signed by Messrs. Logan, Cobb, Packard,
Stoughton, Asper, Wither, Morgan, Slocum
and Hoag. Adjourned.