Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-05
CONGRESSIONAL.


SENATE.
| WASHINGTON, March 4.-Mr. Robertson
from the Committee on Disabilities, re
ported favorably the bill recently intro
duced by Mr.. Terry, repeating the test
oath act Of 1862. The bill was read and
placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Sumner withdrew his motion tC
reconsider, made few days ago, the vote
passing the bill to relieve the disabilitie:
of large number of persons.
ReyeIs Plead for Rebels.
Revels presented a resolution from the
Legislature of Mississippi, asking speedy
removal of political disabilities of all citi
zens Of that State Referred to the Com
mittee on Disabilities.
National schools.
Mr. Drake presented a memorial from
! the National Association of State and City
| superintendent of Public instruction,
adopted at their meeting in Washington
| yesterday, asking Congress to take meas
ures to inaugurate system of public
| instruction by national schools similar to
that inaugurated under the Freedmen's
Bureau Referred to the Committee on
| Education and Labor.
Memphis and HI PaSO.
Mr.. Howe offered a resolution calling
upon the President for copies of any cor
respondence between the Department of
State and the United States Minister to
France, relating to the so-called Memphis,
FL Paso and Pacific Railroad Company, and
copies of any letters to the Secretary on
the subject. Adopted.
Doctors, Regardless of Color.
Mr.. Sumner moved to take up the bill
repeating the charter of the Medical Society
of the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Trumbull opposed the motion, be-
cause there was a controversy about the
bill, and it would occupy the entire morn
ing hour to the exclusion of other bust
ness.
Mr.. Sumner denied that there was any
controversy.
Messrs. Thurman, Davis, Conkling, and
Morrill,, of Vt, opposed the taking up of
the bill, because of the absence of Senator
Patterson, who, Mr.. Thurman said, pos
sessed information on the subject important
to the Senate. The motion was rejected
by vote of 81 to 26.
Mr. Stewart moved to take up the bill
to secure TO all persons equal protection
of the laws-lost
Mr.. Pratt was relieved from further ser
vice on the Committee on the District of
Columbia and the Chair authorized to fill
the vacancy.
The Supreme Court
On motion of Mr.. Trumbull the bill
changing the circuit of the United States
Supreme Court was taken up, and Mr.
Trumbull concluded his remarks in ex-
PLANTATION of the authority of Congress to
rrralifr.tinv,u ,f he
President for Supreme Court Judgeship.
He claimed that the Presidents power of
appointment of recently created Circuit
Judgeships was derived from the act of
Congress creating offices.
Mr.. Davis argued that the act of Con-
gress merely regulated the number of
Judges, and that the Office itself existed by
authority of the Constitution
The morning hour having expired, the
bill laid over.
The funding bill was, on motion of Mr.
Hamlin, made the special order for Mon
day
go Pay Loyal Vouchers.
Mr.. Howe called up the bill for the SET
Element Of claims for quartermasters and
commissary stores furnished to, or taken
by the United States within the States in
rebellion during the late war.
The bin was read referring all claims for
commissary supplies and quartermasters
and others furnished by loyal persons to
the army of the United States TO the Com
missary and Quartermaster-G Generals, TO
be decided upon by them as to the sum,
and no claims are to be paid until Congress
appropriates money.
Refugee " ShOddy.
Mr.. Wiley compared the sufTeIings and
privations of the poor loyalists of the
South with that mass in the North known
as Shoddy, who coined money from the
calamities of the nation, and now enjoy
the products of their ill-gathered gains.
He would recommit the bill with instruc-
ton TO the committee TO report an amend
ment providing that all claims over $500
favorably reported by Quartermaster and
Commissary Generals, shall be submitted
to a Court of Claims, with power TO the
Court 10 diminish but not increase the
amount
Mr.. Howard gave notice Of his intention
to reply, as the representative of North
ern community, to the implied sheer and
taunt of shoddy, thrown upon his con-
stituents as well as the North generally, by
the Senatorfrom West Virginia, Mr.. Wiley.
The Senate then, shortly before five
o'clock, adjourned till Monday