The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-13
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WASHINGTON, June II, 1870.
Pat Woods before the House OF Re.
prescntatives-He liz Handed Over
to the SergeaRi-at-Arms for Safe.
keeptng-An Early Release Elk.
pected.
Pat Woods arrived here this morning in
custody, and was delivered to the Sergeant
alarms of the House. He brcakfasted at
the Seaton House, and was afterwards taken
to the Capitol and placed in a room under
the rotunda-thc same in which Mr.. Wooley
was incarcerated about two years ago for
refusing to answer Buffers questions rela-
tive to brides in the impeachment trial.
Shortly after the House convened the
Speaker caused to be read 4 communication
from the Sergeant-at-Arms to the effect that
he had arrested Pat Woods, and held him
subject to the order of the House.
The House ordered that Woods be
brought in, and in a few minutes he ap-
peared in custody of the officer, and was
taken near to and in front Of the Speakers
desk. The usual course in cases of arraign-
| ment at the bar of the House is, in the first
instance, for the Speaker to inform the per-
son so arraigncd the cause of his arrest, and
to ask him what he has to say, or ii he wishes
to be heard by counsel. But that little cere-
mony was omitted to-day.
AS soon rs Woods had taken his seat, MIR.
Allison, of Iowa, offered a resolution that
the matter be referred to the Judiciary
Committee, and that Woods, be mean time,
remanded to the custody Of the Sergeant
alarms. The first part of the resolution
was agreed to without dissent, but the lat
ter part, remanding him to custody, was
objected to by the Democrats on the ground
that this was 4 question of the highest
privilege-the liberty Of citizen Of the
| United States, whose trial should not be
postponed for any other business, and who
should not be kept in prison whilst COM
mittee was leisurely hearing his case er
parte, that Woods was entitled to an imme-
| date hearing.
| The yeas and nays were taken, and re-
suited : 1l9 yeas, 80 nays-thc Democrats
all voting against the resolution.
While the names were being called on the
vote, Messrs. Randall, Woodward, Mines,
| Holman, and others, of the Democratic
side, gathered around Woods, and in low
tones Intercepted him rs to the facts of his
c;se, whether he had counsel, etc. Woods
bo Inn NO fp
| one.
Roots, of Arkansas, small-potato men,
| Der who seeks notoriety without much re-
gard for the manner Of obtaining it, made
the point of order that members Of the
House had no right to converse with Woods
while he was in custody. Strangely enough
the Speaker sustained the point, and the
members scattered and took their seats.
| Porter, who had caused the arrest of
Woods, chuckled over this, and thanked
Roots for his interference. The Sergeant
alarms then conducted Woods out of the
House, and again imprisoned him in the
room under the rotunda, where he now
remains-his meals being brought from a
restaurant near by.
The judiciary Committee shortly after
wards retired to their committce-room, and
determined that Porter should be required
to appear before them on Monday and
make detailed statement of his case and
the complaint against Woods that Woods
should be heard through counsel, and
should be permitted to interrogate Porter.
Mean time, dispatch had arrived here
from citizens of Richmond requesting Il. j.
Merrick, Esq, to appear as counsel for
| Woods.
Just after the committee had adjourned,
Mr.. Merrick, accompanied by Judge Pas.
cal, of Texas, arrived at the Capitol to re-
Spond for the prisoner. These gentlemen
propose to make strong effort to show the
utter illegality of this whole proceeding,
which has been from the start in keeping
with the Radical disregard of personal
liberty and the Constitution.
1t appears Woods was arrested upon
telegram sent hence to Richmond, and that
there was no legal paper in the shane ut
warrant presented to him until nc was de-
liyered to the Sergeant-at-Arms this morn-
ing: and it is said that the officer who ar
rested Woods yesterday in Richmond re-
fused to obey writ of habeas corpus issued
by Judge in that city.
Some of the Republican members are
tonight of the opinion that when all the
facts shall be stated to the Judiciary Com
mittee, they will report in favor of the i'll
slant release of Woods. They object to
turning Congress into police court to try
cases of assault and battery but these Ju-
dicious members are hopclcssly in the NIL
noritv, it is feared, and therefore we must
expect the Radical House to assume Jurls-
diction.
Miscellaneous.
Supervisor Presbrey has gone to New
York to examine the stamps, etc., on The
tobacco sent from Richmond.
James E. Fuller was to-day appointed
rauser and A. B. Nichols assistant assessor
in the second Virginia district (Norfolk).
To-day Commissioner Delano was con-
fined to his bed with neuralgia.
The President, Secretaries OF the Irea-
s,,rv and War, Attorney General uoar,
yice-Admiral Porter, and several other
high officials, being absent from The Guy,
the executive departments are very quiet.
The President is expected to return on
| Tuesday, unless he goes to West Point, Ill
which case he will be absent until saturday
next. The Secretary of War and Vice-Ad-
miral Porter will return on Thursday, and