New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-30
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staa-Nominatians Con ffrmt d-Pensio n
JS,i Postpon.G-John AI0or Eoits'
Heirs Ask COnpessation-Kcdn dnction
Of Income Tax After ls5O-Texns
HiiI in ,he Sennle-Kts Passage with an
Misunderstanding Discussion on
the Texas Ksili-dud2 w aCrous to ke-
sign with u Life Salary.
WASHINGTON, March 2s-Internal revenue
receipts to-day S2S eco.
A delegation representing the national
i,Canks were before the Ways and Means
Committee to day. They protested against
the seventh article OF the funding bill.
which makes change Of bonds compulsory.
There were 10 Southern nominations
made to day.
The following nominations were con
frmed to day: Allen Rutherford, Third Au-
ditor; Mr.. Purman, Internal Revenue As
SCISSOR, Florida, vice Wilson; john Hoy, of
vice Horatio J. Perry, suspended; James NJ.
Mason (colored), Of Arkansas, Consul Gen
eral to Liberia, and Mr.. Ralph, IS Inspector
OF Steamboats, for the Eighth District
House-The Election Committee reported
adversely to Mr.. Segar, as q Representative
from Virginia at large. Action in his case
has been indefinitely postponed.
The pension bill has been postponed for
two weeks at the request of Mr. Schenck,
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Mr.. Logan made long personal explana-
ton regarding General Sherman's letter on
the army bill, which was recantly passed
through the House.
The tariff bill was resumed and discussed.
The House is in session tonight for dis
cussion only.
Sendte.-The heirs of the late John Minor
Botts. Of Virginia, ask compensation for
property taken during the war.
tod l,oI In
income tax De continued during 1870, but
reduced to three per cent thereafter.
bill was introduced to prevent the pun
ishing of any person for election frauds.
The preliminary business to the admission
of Texas was passed over by vote Of
twenty-nine to twenty-nine, Flce~President
Coifax voting afirmatiyely.
The csse Of General Anes, Senator elect
from Mississippi, was postponed in favor of
the Texas bill.
The Judiciary Committee have been dis
charged from any further consideration on
Texas The Texas bill then came before the
Senate, and passed with all amendment
striking out the clause regarding the terms
of the original admission of the State. The
bill goes back to the House for concurrence
by a strict party vote.
There was an executive session on the
San Domingo treaty, but no vote was taken.
The Senate adjourned until to morrow.
The proceedings in the Senate today on
the admission of Texas were ve-y interest
ing. During the discussion Messrs. Trum.
bull and Sherman became quite angry.
The following is the latest report obtain
able to night: Everything on the calendar
was made to give way, on the motion OF Mr..
Sherman, to Texas, and the Texas matter
was taken from the Judiciary Committee.
Mr Trumbull could see no necessity for
"a lnanrpia 0f
General Ames had both been under discus.
sion for several days, and should be dis
posed Of. Hs did not see why the Senator
from Chic wished to take the Texas bill from
the hands of the Judiciary Committee.
+ Mr.. Sherman replied that .he was not
to be deferred from his duty by any mere
feeling of etiquette; there were important
reaons, both political and national, why
Texas should be admitted at once, SO that
the fifteenth amendment should be officially
proclaimed, and this disturbing element
should be removed from our midst. He was
surprised that the Senator from Illinois
should seek to obstruct the will of the ma
jority of the Senate, and that majority was
anxious that the Texas bill should be taken
up.
Mr.. Trumbull said he would like to know
by what authority the Senator from Ohio
assumed to speak for the majority of this
body. That never, since he (rrumbulD had
been in the Senate, had such an act of gross
discourtesy been perpetrated tOw9rd any
committee of this body as that which was
perpetrated by the Senator from Ohio yes
terday after he (TrumbulD had assured Mr..
Drake and the Senate yesterday, that the
committee would report upon the Texas bill
as soon as the Senate was ready to consider
it. The majority of the Senate last week
had 9 consultation and the Texas matter had
been spoken of, but there was no
indication then that they desired TO dis
charge the Judiciary Committee from the
consideration of the Bill. Has the Senator
from Ohio been around and counted the
Senate, that he is justified in assuming that
a majority want to take up the Texas bill?
The Senator from Ohio wants to have the
Fifteenth Amendment proclaimed! If that
Senator had stood by me and sat out the
Georgia bill, we would have had that
amendment proclaimed several days ago.
Mr.. Sherman said his honorable friend
could not draw him into personal contro-
yersy. 1t seemed to be the bent OF his
mind to get excited aud make personal re.
marks upon simple question of order.
He denied that he had offered any in dignity
to the Judiciary Committee, and he would
not surrender his right, no matter what the
Senator might say, and he wished him to I'M
derstand this, although he certainly would
not Wrangle about 1t.
The wish of the majority of the Senate
was as clearly apparent TO the Senator as it
was to him, and he must say that the course
of the Senator and of the committee, in re-
sisting the desire Of the majority, was most
extraordinary. When he remembered that
four millions of people were to be invested
with the privileges of citizenship, he could
notsstop for any petty feeling of etiquette.
After some further desultery discussion,
Mr. shermsn's motion to postpone the case
of General Ames and all other prior orders,
was carried by 40 to 49,
A vote was then taken on the motion OF
Mr.. Sherman to discharge the Judiciary
Committee from rurther consideration Of the
Texas bill, resulting, yeas 80, nays Is.
Aftes executive session, the Senate passed