The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-19
XLIst OONGRESS---Second Session.
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, March IL. - MIR. CouklIng
from the Committee on the Judiciary, to
whom were referred the credentials of Gen.
Ames, reported the same back with resolu-
ton that that gentleman was not eligible to a
seat in the Senate of the United States from
Mississippi
Mr. Rice, as a member of the committee,
said he did not concur in the report.
Mr.. Sumner proposed the following amend
ment to:Senate bill No. 65S sec. A.
"And be it further enacted, That the frac-
tional currency in the Treasury at the respec-
tive dates hereinafter mentioned be forthwith
cancelled and destroyed; that is to say, on and
after the 4th of July next all currency of the
denomination of 10 and Is cents; on and after
the 4th September next of the denomination
of rs cents; on and after the 4th of November
next o! the denomination of 80 cents; and
thereafter no payment from the Treasury in
fractional parts of a dollar shall be in other
than the coin of the United States.''
Mr.. Wilson offered the following as an
amendment, which he intended to offer to the
Georgia bill:-
"That in consequence OF the illegal, dis
organizing, and revolutionary proceedings OF
the General Assembly of Georgia, it shall be
and hereby is declared that the term of service
the 10Th of Jan. 1870 and shall continue till
the persons to be chosen on the Tuesday after
the first Monday of November 1872 as members
of the General Assembly of the said State are
Qddilueu DIS pTOVlu6u III CQ0 laSC clause OF LD0
second :sub-division of the first section of the
third article of the constitution of Georgia.
A memorial was presented from the chiefs
of bureaus in the Navy Department. asking
that hereafter they receive the pay and allow
ances OF commodore on sea duty. The petition
is favorably endorsed by Secretary Robson
and President Grant.
Mr.. Wilson presented q remOnstrance of the
Choctaw Indians against their consolidation
with other tribes, and the organization of a
territorial government.
Then Senate resumed the consideration OF
the Georgia bill.
After debate the Senate agreed to Mr.. Nor
tons amendment deprecating so much of the
Army Act of 1867 as prohibits governors of
Southern States from organizing and calling
out the militia, and proceeded to discuss the
amendment offered by Mr.. Drake in the form
of additional sections, allowing the President
to send troops to Southern States at the re-
quest of governors or legislatures. Com
proclaim martial law, suspend the Habeas. Cor
pus, and collect transportation and other
States stores.
Mr.. Thayer and Mr.. Sherman supported the
amendment, the latter saying that there were
two or three clauses for which he could not
vote. He was opposed to authorizing every
petty captain or sergeant to levy on whole
communities without control, nor was he will
ling to confer on the President authority to
suspend at pleasure the Habeas Corpus. That
cuouiu NO IcSuldIcu NY OOuSEcSS I1o WOulu
make every city or town responsible for acts of
violence in its jurisdiction. He would revise
the old English law in securing the peace of
/ the neigheorhod so as to suppress tho Ku
Klux Khan numbering, disguise, and commit
ting acts of violence in the night.
Mr.. Carpenter opposed the amendment,
though he did not think the present laws were
adequate, and hoped they would be revised.
Mr.. Hamlin make few remarks suggesting
that it would be better to have q separate act
tJSn ctNr
an amendment in this bill without action.
The Senate then adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
After several petitions had been referred the
bill allowing the application for the further
extension of the patent of r. B. Goodyear,
originally granted on power looms was taken
up, discussed, and laid on the table.
Mr.. Dawes Of Massachusetts, opposed the
whole system OF selecting certain inventions
and having them extended to an undue length
of time, and hoped the House would cease
giving encouragement to combinations and
monOpolies.
The bill was defended by Mr. Jencks
Several bills allowing applications for extern
sons OF patents were pissed.
The House then went into committee of the
whole on the tariff BILL and was addressed by
Mr.. Stevenson of Ohio in continuation of his
speech commenced last night in favor of a re-
ductiOn of the tax and against protective
tariff.
Mr.. Stevenson of Ohio said that in two years
the surplus revenue would reach SIS 100000 q
year, and urged that the people be relieved Of
the burden of taxation and tariff. He wanted
coal, salt, sugar, tea and coffee free of duty.
The Committee rose and the House passed
a number OF bills relating to the(Distrct o.
Columbia, including one establishing 10 pei
cent. as the maximum rate of interest, and {
per cent. when not otherwise stipulated.
The bill incorporating the Washington and
Boston Steamboat Company was passed.
A bill was introduced and referred, for the
relief of the families of the men lost on the
steam-tug Maria, lately run down by the mon
itor MiantonOmOh.
Mr.. Morgan of Ohio offered resolution in.
structing the Judiciary Committee to inquire
whether under the rule forbidding members te
vote on questions in which they are directly
interested, those members who are officers OF
stockholders of National Banks can vote or
the Funding bill; but Mr. Maynard of Ten.
nessee objected.
The House then adjourned.