The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-28
HOUSE.

A bill was introduced and referred
by Mr.. ailfillan, requiring national
banks going into liquidation to deposit
lawful money in place Of their cireu-
lating notes and to take mp their bonds.
A bill was reported and recommitted
by Mr.. Julian, from this committee on
Public Lands, to prevent the further
sale of public lands, except as provided
for in the presumption and homestead
laws and laws for disposing OF town
sites and mineral lands.
Nr. Davis called up the bill intro
duced by him yesterday to amend the
Virginia bill, by constituting an oath to
include affirmation. Passed.
Mr.. Paine moved that such of the Viz
ginia members as to whose right to seats
there was not any objections should
now be sworn in. Messrs. Platt, Ridge
ward and took the oath of office.
Mr.. Wood objected to the oath being
administered to Mr.. Porter, and read as
the ground of his objection the charges
and specifications upon which Mr.. Por-
ter had been convicted aud sentenced
to six months imprisonment, which
sentence was approved by Major Gen.
eral Butler, that Mr.. Porter was con.
victed of declaring publicly, in tavern
at Norfolk, that this Government was a
"God id humbug from beginning to
end; that Abraham Lincoln was doing
everything for his own election, and
that this was o rotten, bogus, corrupt
Government from beginning to end"
M painn SAINT tn thH
Clerks desk and had read telegram
from Mr.. Butler, dated May 5, 1868,
stating that Chas. II. Porter in heated
discussion had used words which being
reported to him he had to notice. lie
had, however, omitted all the onereus
part of the Judgement of the commits
sion because the case and his previous
acts showed that Porter had not in fact
been disloyal.
A discussion followed between Messrs.
Voorhees,, Wood, Eldridge, Sawyer and
others.
Mr. Paine resumed the floor and in
sisted on the previous question.
The 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 right to the floor for
an hour. He divided his time among
members on both sides.
An excited discussion ensued on both
sides by Messrs. Holman, Smith, of Or
egon, Beck, Voorhees,, Sargent, Cox
Mayham, Woodward, Butler, of Massa
chusetts, Wood, Morgan and Eldridge
The motion to reconsider was finally
laid upon the table. Yeas 1873, nays 8
and Mr.. Porter was sworn in as mem
Der from Virginia.
Mr.. Farnsworth reported bill to
abolish the ranking privilege, which
he wished to have made special order;
he yielded, however, to the general ex'
preston of the House to put it on its
passage at once, and after an hours dis
cussion the bill was passed. Ayes ia,
NAYS IA. 1t goes into effect on July LIST.
The House at $3.50 went into commit
tee of the Whole, Mr.. Cessna in the
chair, on the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill.
Mr.. Dawes addressed the committee
in reply to Mr.. Butler. He showed con-
clusively that he spoke not merely for
himself but for all his associates on the
committees; that his former speech was
not O reckless arrsignment of the De-
partments; that the committee spent
the whole of the holiday recess in the
Cabinet; that the President himself was
consulted as to the reduction of the es-
Inmates; that every Head OF Depart
ment but-une had been anxiously con-
suited by some member of the commit
tee; and that he did not visit Mr.. Bel
knap, whose letter Mr.. Butler produced
with such flourish yesterday, because
Mr.. Belknap had only just come into
office; and the President himself said he
was satisfied the estimates of the De.
partments could not be reduced. He
confined himself strictly to the issue he
made in his other speech.
He said he had not drawn any CON-
parisor between the expenses of Mr..
Johnsou's Administration and President
Grants, aud point blank refused to
plead to the new issues so made and
adreitly set up by Messrs. Butler, Forney
and others. lie gave Grant and his
Cabinet credit for the reduction of the
public debt, excepting the rascals from
public service; his faithfulness in col
IeCIlnS INC IoNouuc, anu Vbo OnCitO
honesty of his efforts in administering
the government He proved the neces-
sity of the position taken by the COM
mittee, by showing comparison of the
appropriations made last winter for the
first year of our administration, with
the estimates submitted for the second
year thereof, and indicated an
upward tendency of expenditure
instead of downward, to which the Re-
publican party is pledged, and vindi-
Gated the propriety of his first speech by
showing how the committee had labor
ed with the President and his Cabinet
and how Congress itself is responsible
for every dollar of proper expenditure