The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-03-17
XLIId CONGRESS-,
SENATE.
WAsnINoToN, March 10.
FIRST SESSION.

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The House bill granting permission fol
the erection Of q monument to Professor
Morse, on the corner Of Seventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue was passed.
Tho House resolution for final adj
Ijourment came up, but, on motion Of Mr.
SHERMAN, it was temporarily laid on the
table. w. -a5.a r9sy.
Mr.. SHERMAN offered the following res.
olution: ...
Rsotra, That as organized bands ol
desperate and 1awIess men, mainly com.
posed OF soldiers in the late rebel army,
armed, disciplined, disguised, and bound
by oaths Of secret organizations. have by
force subvertcd all civil authority in the
late insurrectionary States, thus over
throwing the safety Of persons and prop
erty and oil those rights which arc the
primary basis and object Of ,all civil gov
ernment, and Gs the Courts arc rendered
powerless, by organized perjury, to punish
the crimes, therefore the Judiciary Com.
mittec is instructed TO report q bill or bills
that will enable tho President and Courts
OF tho United States TO execute the laws
and punish such organized violence, and
secure toalI citizens the rights Sc, guaran=
teed them. III ~ CfETnrg lETf,
Mr.. SHERMAN asked Athe immediate
consideration Of the resolution, for which
unanimous consent was asked.
Mr.. BLAIR objected, and the resolution
was laid over, and, on the request Of Mr.
SUMNER, ordered printed.
The following bills were introduced
and referred to committees:
BY Mr.. Misunderstanding the net
fixing the times for the regular meetings
Of Congress, approved January 22'' 1867.
BY alr. WILsON-For the protection Of
persons resident within the United States
from unlawful combinations and C0nspira.
cies. Judiciary, ,... ... .,...
It provides for the punishment for
unlawful acts of members OF the Ku.
KluX organization by the United States
Court as ielOns, and authorizes the Pres.
idcnt to employ land and naval forces of
the United States, and to call forth the
militia in any State in which unlawful
combinations exist, in order, to bring the
offenders to trial; and requires grand and
petit jurors to swear that they never
counsGlled, advised or aided such com.
binations or COnsptracies. "a lW /
Mr.. DAVIS introduced joint resolution
proposing an amCnCment to the Constitu.
lion of the United States, establishing u
constitutional tribunal, consisting Of ono
member from each State, with power to
decide all questions Of conflict and juris.
diCtion between the United States and the
several States, and the COnstitutiOnality OF
bills passed by Congress or any govern.
mont officer, and 10 open and count the
electoral votes for President and Vice
President The proceedings before tho
tribunal may he on petition and appeal
from all Courts of the United States and
the States. A majority Of the members
OF tho tribunal shall decide all questions
brought before them.
Upon the expiration Os tho morning
hour, the House bill, making an 0ppro
prlation for the payment of Nn additional
clerk and messenger in tho pension office,
and for other PURPOSES, was taken up.
Pending action on the bill, the Senate, at
lilo, went into executive session and soon
after adjourned
HOUSE. . .
There was All exciting scene in the
House to-day just after the reading Of the
journal, arising out OF q letter addressed
by MI. BUTLER 10 his Republican col.
leagues on the floor of the House, explain.
ing his reasons for not serving on the
special committee to investigate Southern
OutrageS.
Judge KELLEY denied the truth of the
letter, which charges that the high tariff
men were united with the Democrats to
pass the resolution,
Mr.. BUTLER said he did not in his let.
ter refer to Mr.. KELLEY, because he Mr..
KELLEY had always stood with his
party and attended caucus, and felt him.
self bound By caucus decision, but refer
red to other Republicans who were tariff
men, aud who had fought all bills intend.
ed to suppress the Ku Klux. @
III the meantime, while Mr.. BUTLER
was speaking, Speaker BLAINE called Mr..
WHEELER, OF New York, to the chair,
and came down himself to the floor, and
as soon US Mr. BUTLER finished, Speaker
BLAINE was recognized by the Speaker
pro tcgl., md proceeded TO deliver one Of
the most scathing speeches heard in the
House for many years. against Mr. But
LEl. He denounced the letter Of Mr..
BUTLER US false in its statements and
mean in its insinuations and infercnces.
Mr., BUTLER, he said, had spoken Of
tricks. The whole country knewthat the
gentleman from Massachusetts was the
embodiment Of trickery. AT this remark,
the Democratic side Of the House started
to applaud, and it was sometime before
the Speaker pro TEN. could restore order.
Mr.. BLAINE became more and more ex-
cited. He charged Mr.. BUTLER with in
sincerity as party man, and init
mated that If It should further
his personal ambition he (BUTLEI) would
go over to the Democratic side and lead
them US gallantly as he did ut the the
Charleston Convention when he voted
tiIty.six times for jeff Davis for President.
The Republicans who did not like Bur
LER started the applause which commenc.
ed in the gallaries, and for some time the
House was scene Of uproar and conlu-
sion. Mr.. BLAINE, resuming, said that
Mr.. BUTLER was chairman orthG Recon-
struCtion Committee, and had refused to
report when he should have reported,
otherwise we might have had q bill pass
cd for the relief OF the South long ago.
MIR BUTLER got the floor to reply. He
said he wns not responsible for the dis |
graceful spectacle which the House Wit |
messed to-day. He had used his right US
a citizen and member to give his reasons
for not serving on Committee of the
House, and for this the Speaker of the
House saw fit to leavetGe Chair and come |
upon the floor and pour torrent q per.
sOnal abuse upon him. He had felt both
in the last Congress and in this that the
Speaker did not regard him with very |
friendly eye. Mr.. BUTLER then said that |
he still regarded the introduction, Of Mr.. |