Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-08
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acts and resolutions. Referred.
Also a resolution instructing the Com
mittee on the District of Columbia to repor
bill repeating the charters of Washington
aud Georgetown, and provide system 0
government bringing all that relates to the
| Capital of the country under more direc
control of Congress and the Executive
Adopted.
Disturbed Relics.
Mr.. Kerr, from the Judiciary Committee
matle report relative to Mount Vernon
relics. Recommitted.
~Ficc-Hncomc.
Mr.. Knott asked leave to offer a resolu.
ton for the appointment of Committee
on the Tice Whisky Meter. Objected to.
Mr.. Kellogg, of Connecticut, asked leave
to offer a resolution as to the repeal OF
reduction of income tax. Objection was
made.
GOIladay Seeks TO Withdraw Rcsig.
nation.
Mr.. Stokes rising to privilege question
presented resolution to allow Mr. Cola
day to withdraw his resignation, the
Governor Of Kentucky having refused to
receive it. He desired the resolution re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
He Courts investigation.
The Speaker read letter from Mr. Col
laday stating he had withdrawn his resigna-
ton, and inviting the fullest investigation
into any charges against him in reference
to the sale of cadetships; also a telegram
from Gov. Stevenson to MIR. Goiladay sta
ting that he owed it to himself, to his con-
stituents and State to demand such an in
v6stigation.
GOV. Stevenson Arraigned.
Mr.. Bingham called attention to the ex-
traordinary fact that the Governor of
State assumed to force on the House of
Representatives a member whose seat had
been vacated by his own act.
Mr.. Trimble remarked that the telegram
from Gov. Stevenson did not admit of such
an Interpolation. There was no spirit of
dictation in it.
Mr.. Beck explained that Gov. Steven
son had acted on the assumption that Col
laday had not rendered his resignation to
the House, but simply sent him commu-
nication asking him to accept his resigna-
ton, which Gov. Stevenson for very proper
reasons declined to do.
Mr.. Butler, of Mass, regarded the ques-
ton simply as one whether the Executive
of State had any control, mediate or i'm
mediate, over members of the House, and
as he could not entertain such theory, he
should vote against the reference of the
resolution.
After further discussion between Messrs.
Banks, Schenck and others against, Messrs.
Dawes, Jones, of Ky, and others in favor
of the resolution, the House decided i'll
accordance with the view expressed by the
Speaker, that the resolution involved no
question of privilege, Mr. Golladay being
a stranger to the House and no longer a
The House therefore refused to
entertain the resolution.
The following, offered by Mr.. Davis, of
New York, was adopted:
Whereas, 1t is of grave importance to
the constitution of this House that it
should be determined whether a member
present during the session may resign his
seat without the consent of the House,
thereby evading his duties and RESPONSE
bilities; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee
be instructed to inquire and report what
action or rule should be taken or estab-
lished for the determination of that ques-
ton.
The Georgia Bill. .,
The House at o'clock resumed discus
sion of the Georgia bill
Mr.. Payne offered an amendment that
nothing in the bill should be construed to
prolong or renew the term of Office of the
from Georgia.
Mr.. Beck withdrew his substitute alto
gether, believing that no legis lation was
necessary.
Bingham Exposes Bullock.
Mr.. Bingham addressed the House in
opposition to Mr.. Hill, and offered an
that nothing in the bill should
be construed to vacate any offices now filed
in Georgia, either by election or appoint
ment, nor to extend the official term of any
officer, nor to deprive the people of Georgia
of the right to elect Senators and Repre-
in 1870.
He remarked that the amendment sug-
gested the objections which he had to the
bill except further objection, that there was
no occasion for any legislation whatever
touching the right of Georgia to be re-
presented in Congress. He would count
himself disfranchised man, and breaker
of his oath if he ever recorded his vote in
favor of the bill without the limitation that
he proposed.
Mr.. Butler, of Mass, asked him whether
he would vote for the bill with the amend
ment.
Mr.. Bingham would reserve the priv
iloge of determining that question himself.
Should the gentleman from Massachusetts,
vote against the amendment?
Mr.. Butler-I certainly shall.
Mr.. Brigham-Then it is on the ground
that judicial officers there are to be diScon.
tinued, from the Chief Justice down, and a
new set nominated by Gov Bullock, who
would make good thing of it in putting
in his pocket all the proceeds of the State
railroad, $2,OOO,OO a year. He declared
his conviction that the passage of this bill
would endanger the Fifteenth and Four
teenth Amendments, and for aught he
knew, the Thirteenth Amendment.
Mr. Davis, Of New York, made speech
in advocacy of the bill, in the course of
which he defended the character of Gov.
Bullock.
The bill went over Catil tomorrow.