Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-01
Congressional Intelligence.
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Committee on the question of the removal
of the National Capital. He expressed
his amazement that anybody should cher
ish the belief that Washington was to re-
main ad infnitum the metropolis of this
great nation. lie did not expect the ques-
ton to be settled this decade, but the |
friends of the movement would oppose all
appropriations for the present site, and de-
clared his belief that with the power of the |
empire moving westward, the seat of the |
empire should move with it.
Mr.. Kerr of Indiana made a speech in
dieting the republican party for malad-
ministration.
Mr.. Logan of Illinois advocated the re-
moval of the capital to the West
Mr.. Beck of Kentucky followed in a |
speech urging the passage of laws to Sc
cure economy for the benefit of the people |
by removing burdens from agricultural in
terests
Mr.. Washburn of Wisconsin opposed |
the removal of the capital from its present !
location.
HOUSE.
January %
Among the bills introduced were one to |
pay letter carriers in cities $1,000 yearly |
one for an additional session of congress- |
one to improve the PenObscOt, Union and |
Warraguagus rivers in Maine, and one for |
incorporating the Washington and Boston |
Steamship Company.
a resolution was adopted declaring the
| Committee on Elections judicial body,
and that in deciding contested election ca
ses members should act according to the
rules of law. The vote stood 1873 to %.
large number of petitions for the abo-
lltlon of the franking privilege, &C., were
presented and referred, among them Mr..
Calkins' petition from 5000 merchants, me-
chanics and citizens of New York city,
against allowing American registers to for
eign built ships and in favor of a reduc-
ton of the existing taxes on ship building
and commerce.
Mr.. Mungen of Ohio presented petit
ton Of II. II. Bigelow and l54 others, citi-
zens of Worcester, Mass, for the repudia-
| ton Of the national war debt
/ Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
! the legislative, executive and Judicial APP
preparation bill, which was ordered to be
! printed and made a special order for We'd
nesday next.
Mr.. Dawes stated to the House the fig
ures composing the bill as compared with
the estimates, and that there were several
legislative provisions in the bill rendered
necessary in order to cut off abuses, and he
moved to suspend the rules so that an or
der should be made that the usual point of
order cannot be made against those pro-
visions in Committee Of the Whole.
After considerable discussion the motion
was agreed to-
The House then proceeded to the bust
ness on the Speakers table, as follows -
The reply of the General of the army to
the call for information on the Brooks res
olutiOn As to the authority for certain mil
ltary OH GERS acting as a Committee of
Elections in the Georgia legislature, stat
ing that they are not acting as such COM
mittee, but as a board outside of legislation
to assist Gen. Terry in theexecutiOn of his
most unpleasant Office and the duties i'm
posed on him by the act of Congress.
Mr.. Brooks cOntended that Gen. Terry s
action was an entire assumption of unwar-
ranted power. He hoped he was not mis-
informed in being told that Gen. Sherman
and Gen. Grant were about sending a spec
, ial messenger to Georgia to correct these
9 illegal proceedings.
r Mr.. Morgan Of Ohio protested against
t the accumulated acts of usurpation, not
4 on the part of Congress, but on the part OF
= the Executive.
Mr.. Butler Of Massachusetts defended
the Executive and Gen. Terry. He said
, that Gen. Terry had only done what Gen
y Meade had done on the first organization
. Of the Georgia undertaken tC
= determine what members are eligible. That
! was authorized by all the reconstruction
! acts.
Mr.. Brooks asked Mr.. Butler to point t
the acts giving such authority.
f Mr.. Butler said that he was willing t
it give all that information, on the principle
Z. of the carpenter testifying in a court, wht
j. was asked how far he was from the place
= where the incident occurred, and answered
: that he was four feet two and half inches
n from it, and on being asked how he knew
so accurately, replied that he though tsomt
b fellow would be fool enough to ask hin
that question, and he measured it. Laugh
; ter He referred to section II of the &C
n Of July 10, 1867, giving authority to TIT
. General of the army to act in this recon
E struction matter He knew that there ha,
. come up a report from the Associated
Press of the South-which never reporte,
in favor of loyalty, but always in favor 0
G secession and rebellion, and he hoped t,
e see that monopoly put down-that Genera
o Terry had organized a military commission
- to try members of the Georgia legislator
), for perjury, but that was not so. He hat
Is only appointed a board Of Government OF
ticers to find out who were and who wer
. not Ineligible He spoke whereofhe kney
n when he affirmed that the action of Gener
! al Terry had been and would be sustaine
x by the Administration, and that Georgi
n would be reconstructed in the interest q
", loyalty
After further discussion by Messrs. Bow
en-, Butler, Morgan Voorhees, and other:
l. the papers were referred to the COmmitte
-y on Reconstruction.
o. Mr.. FarnswOrth Of Illinois moved to pas
lg over all the intervening business on tn
e. Speakers table in orderto take up the Vii
IS. ginia bill with the Senate amendment.
The motion was agreed to, the democrat
a voting in the negative.
70 The bill was then taken up and the Ser
d ate substitute was read.
- Mr.. Farnsworth moved to concur in tE
" Senate substitute.
i Mr.. Bingham of Ohio said it would |
"a borne on the journal of the House tn:
ofl more than three to one of the membe
had declared for the admission of Virgin
without conditions that vote would con
* mend itself to the approval of posterity.
lat Mr.. Cox ofNew York suggested that Il
5ro Senate bill was an obnoxious as the bi
I'll reported by the Reconstruction Committe
III and which was voted down by the Hous
er, Mr. Bingham replied that it was n
10 quite so obnoxious. He hoped the Hou
I'm would concur in the Senate's amendmer
His chief purpose was to state to the ge
die tleman on his own side of the House
Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts," Whi
Us side of the House is that?" Laughter.
tn Mr.. Bingham (indignantly-"The ge
= tleman is very wise-wise beyond his yea
flo He cannot read me out of the party wi
which | am associated, nor can he blot 0
Try my record. Nulgarity is not wit, assum
a ton is not power There was no occasi
for inquiring. A wit is a feather, anc
fool is a sod, an honest man is the noble
Sou work of God Laughter and much c
'oI element on the floor.
Vi Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts, took t
'TeC floor, and the interest in the discussi
NC seemed to be on the increase. He So
"n that he would begin where the gentlem
'1 az from Ohio had left off; not with misqu
uIu tation, but simply to say that he had ne,
'"9 threatened to read the gentleman out
the republican party. Nobody could
ut that but himself Whether he had do
I'M that in hurrying the Virginia bill throu
re- the House by snap judgment and with t
wo- aid Of his democratic allies, the count
tep, would judge. Whether the gentleman v
ate to have an ovation when he wentto Virgin
re- he did not know, but he had seen so
to hint of that kind in the papers. He shot
old, like to be present in spirit where he col
e of look on not embodied and see Virgil
toasting the man whom all their pap
49, announced as the murderer of Mrs. Surrs
me Excitement Whata sight The lion a
ige, no, not the lamb, but another animal
Tue Laughter.) He referred to the eulc
oe passed by the gentleman from Ohio on