The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-09
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BORTY.FIHsT TERM1sEcONB SESSION.

Hatch, of Connecticut, setting forth that his
father, Davis Hatch, an American citizen, was
Illegally restrained of his liberty by the Domi-
nican Government.
Mr.. Terry said that Mr. Hatch was q mer-
chant In San Domingo, and resident OF a dis
trict over which the present contending forces
had exercised jurisdiction alternately, Last
Auguft MIR. Hatch was arrested on frivolous
charges, brought before military tribunal, and
sentenced to be shot. But tho sentence being
referred to the Dominican Senate, his pardon
was ordered upon condition of bis leaving the
Island, which, upon attempting to do he was
prevented from doing, being restrained by the
Government and returned to prison.
Our consul there made numerous efforts to
secure his release, but these efforts were all
evaded. He knew Mr.. Hatch TO be incapable of
being implicated in any conspiracy and looked
upon his J Imprisonment as an act of arbitrary
opposition. lie moved to refer the petition,
and also the message from the President In re-
sponse to resolution on the subject, to the
Committee on Foreign Re.ations In the hope
that they would take some speedy action.
Mr. Sumner inquired whether the Senator
had any suggestion TO make to the committee.
Mr.. Perry replied that he would suggest to
the President of the United States to demand
peremptoTily the release of Mr.. Hatch and If
that demand was not complied with to enforce
it by our naval force in the neighborhood OF
San Domingo.
Mr. Sumner thought 1t would be preferable to
recommend judicial proceedings by the Domi-
nican Government as to the cause of the deten-
tion of Mr.. Hatch.
Mr. Ferry expressed his belief that the real
cause of the imprisonment of the person referred
to, was that he possessed certain knowledge
concerning an effort to swindle the United
States Government out of large sum of money
In the purchase of that island. Our Consular
agent having been expressly promised that Mr.
Hatch should be released, and that promise
having been Aagrantly disregarded, he thought
| it better for the American Government to en-
| ploy more forcible argument than mere
| words
| The subject was then referred TO the Commit
| tee on Foreign Relations.
Mr.. Williams, from the Committee on Finance,
| reported the House joint resolution extending
The time for withdrawal of spirits from bonded
| warehouses with Recommendation that it do
| not pass.
Mr.. Bayard, on behalf of the minority of the
| Finance Committee, expressed the hope that
| the recommendation of the majority that the
bill should not pass would not be the sense of
| the Senate when the measure came up for action.
| Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee,
| reported the House bill to admit the State OF
Georgia to representation in Congress. He said
the committee had instructed him to report it
back, with statement that the conditions an
nexed to the bill, except the first, were the same
which were annexed to the bills recognizing
Virginia and Mississippi as entitled to represen-
taton and which the Senate had twice adopted,
the committee believing 1t unnecessary to
Insist upon their own views in reference to those
conditions The first proviso was in accordance
with the second report of the committee rela-
tive to the election of State officers
Mr.. Thayer inquired of there was minority
report on the subject?
| Mr.. Trumbull replied there was not.
Mr. Stewart wished to have it understood
that several members of the committee did dis
sent, and the fact would be known at the prope
time.
Subsequently, Mr.. Trumbull made an ineffec
tual effort to take up the Georgia bill, SO as t.
dispose of it at once.
Mr.. Sherman objected, as debate woulc
have the effect of delaying the regular order
| 1,t,1xx tl,1E Is,x.~
Mr.. Morrill, (Maine5 called up the House
bill to supply the deficiencies in appropriation
for the contingent expenses or the House o
Representatives. Passed
House.
Mr.. Dawes (Mass.), from the Committee OF
Appropriations, reported q resolution calling or
the Secretary of the Treasury to report wha
public buildings not yet commenced, for which
estimates had been submitted this session, arr
necessary to be commenced the next fiscal year
and what buildings now In process of construc
tion require the work to be continued. Adopted
Mr.. Dawes asked to report and have put upol
its passage the bill to pay to the family of tn
late Edwin NJ. Stanton one years salary as Jus
tice of the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Van Trump objected.
Mr.. Woodward presented petitions of 113
laboriDg men of his district demonstrating
against any change in the general tariff sug
gested by the Free-trade League, and asking
reduction of the duty on tea, coffee, and othe
necessaries not produced in this country, an
such readjustment of the duty on articles mad
In this country as will sustain home industry
He remarked that those petitions were entitle
to the most respectful consideration, and that h
intended during the debate on the tariff bill t
express his own views on the subject of wage
and labor.
Mr.. Shanks Qnd.) offered resolution callln
on the Secretary of the Interior for in Information
whether there is on file in his office any evidenc
of the organization of the Atlantic and Pacid
Railroad Company under the act of July u
1866, and for various other Information in RI
gard thereto. Adopted.
Mr.. Buckley offered resolution instructin
the Ways and Means Committee to inquire int
the expediency of allowing the free importatio
of machinery for spinning cotton into yarn fc
one year. Adopted.
Mr.. Van Trump presented joint resolutio
, of the Ohio Legislature for pensions to soldier
| of the war of 1912, or their widows.
Mr.. Welker offered resolution calling on th
Secretary of the Treasury for detailed STATE
ment showing the payments on account OF th
public debt, including both principal and il
terest, from 1889 to 1886 inclusive Adopted.
Mr.. Mungen asked leave to offer resolutio
| reciting statements in the public press
mentioning the N. Y Times, Herald, and sun
In reference to the unjustifabe action of I'll
Internal Revenue officials in New York an
: elsewhere, and that public opinion is outrage
by the continued acts of aggression on the righ
of citizens and taxpayers, and calling on I'll
Commissioner of Internal Revenue for stat
ments as to the authority under which his sui
ordinate officers have recently seized upo
private property and private papers IN Ne
York and elsewhere, without atordlng u
,, owners thereof immediate Information as 10 IL