The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-27
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senate.
Continued from me Third Edinon
Mr. Conklng thought the time had come 10 put au
end 10 many ports or entry and delivery which he
believed were only servlcesble in the saiarv and
emoluments attached to them, and pernicous in
various respects.
MIR; Kellogg read from the law on the subject the
provision auLh0rizng the Secretary of the Treasury
TO abolish all such ports whore the receipts do not
exceed SO 900 per annum The bill was then passed
The Vice-President announced to the Senate the
fact that the President had signed the Virginia bin
MIR. Foreman said one OF the Senators elect from
Virginia .ig tJohn = Lewis was present, aud moved
The credentials OF John T. Lewis and John w
Johnson, Senators-elect from virginia, were then
Mr.. Lewis then appeared before the Sneakers
desk, when the usual oath OF ofice was admins
Mr.. Wilson ofered resolution for a rearrange-
ment OF the seats OF Senators, and for additional
was referred to the Committees on Public suiIdnps
the currency blu was then taken up, and MIR.
Howe reviewed the various propositions of the
Senators who had spoken In the discussion.
House.
Continued from the THIRD Edition.
Mr.. Paine moved that such of the Virginia
mtmt ers as to whose right to seats there was no
objection, should now be sworn in.
Messrs. Platt, Ridgway, ahd Mines thereupon
came forward and took the oath of Office
Mr. wood objected to the oath being admin
istered to Mr.. Porter, and read as the ground of
his objection the charges and specifications on
which he (Porter) had been tried and convicted
to six months imprisonment, which sentence
had been approved by Major-General Benjamin
r. Butler. Porter was convicted of declaring
publicly in tavern in Norfolk that the Govern,
ment was - humbug from beginning to
end, and that Abraham Lincoln was doing eyerv-
thing he could for his reelection, and that he
would rather live under the jeff: Davis govern
ment than under this, and that this was rotten,
bogus, and corrupt Government from beginning
to end. sa1t tr.rs, e..r T'I ~ o %
Mr.. Paine, in answer to Mr.. Wood, sent to the
Clerks desk and had read telegram from Mr.
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IL. Porter. In heated discussion, had used
words which, being repeated to him, he was
obliged to notice. He had, however, remittod
all the onerous portion of the Judgment of the
commission because the case and his previous
acts showed that Porter had not in fact been
disloyal.
Mr.. Roots remarked that gentlemen on the
other side of the House were frequently making
such imputations and that il men were to be
ruled out for such expressions, the members on
the other side would rule themselves out
Mr.. Eldridge asked Mr.. Paine whether Mr.
Porter had ever taken back the expressions
charged against him. I 10
Mr.. Paine said he did not know; he had never
conferred with him ON the subject. "A e-.-t F,
Mr.: Sargent asked Mr.. Wood whether he was pre-
20 ss ouss %
Nr Wood said he had no dIflculty iu answering
that question. He did not believe that anybody was
at TO cit in the House who considered the Govern
ment or the United States a humbug, or who de-
Mr. Sargent remarked that he had simply wanted
to get that profession OF faith
Mr.. Whittemore asked Mr.. Wood sareastcaly
whether he did not think 1t better TO treat that class
OF people with conoliation and kindness. laugh
ter,)
MIR. Wood-Yes but not to give them front seats
MIR. Bldridge-Not to put them alongside the gem
teman from south Carolina, Q.aughter) wish
the gentleman from California 20 tell me what he
thinks OF such sentiments.
Mr. Sargent, In reply to Mr. Eldridge, said that he
would hazard che opinion that II gentlemen 70
be excluded from the House who could be proved to
have used such language the seats on his left-the
Democratic side-would be pretty generally vacant.
Mr. woodward declared with some excitement,
that the assertions OF the gentleman from California
Mr. Paine resumed tho moor and insisted on the
previous question.
lhe previous question having been seconded, and
the main question ordered Mr. Holman moved to
reconsider the vote ordering the main question,
which motion gave him the right to the noor for an
hour which time he divided out to members on both
sides. fnUf
An exciting discussion ensued, participated ia by
Messrs. Holman, Smith Of oregon, Beck, Voorhees,,
Sargent, Cox, Mayhew Woodward Butler OF Mas
sachusette, Wood and Eldridge.
Mr.. Holman reminded the House OF the exclusion
OF MesSrs Young and Brown, members elect from
Kentucky, on the pretense OF their having used ex
pressions that were regarded as disloyal. ri
Mr.. voorhees, remarked that the only good effect
OF the objection to Porter that 1t would involve
the members on the opposite side in contradictions
the case presented no difficulty to him. There was
reason against Porter being sworn In, he held
that the House had no power TO make the INJURY
into his record II his constituents sent him here
Mr. Sargent recalled the fact that 10 the last Con-
gress MI. Wood had been censured by the House
sths most lniamous Bill Of most infamous Con-
gress and asserted that the Democratic party had
from the beginning OF the Rebellion, thrown It's in
M Mr.. COY so ID declared that that statement was not
true He was In Congress at the breaking out OF the