The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-17
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FORrY-EIRsr TERM : THIRD SESSION,


Senate.
The Vice-President presented the credentials OF
Hi salisbury as Senator from Delaware for SIX
years from March next which were read and LAID
Mr Nye from the Committee on Territories, re-
ported back the House bills for the apportl0nment
Of members Of the Territorial Councils OF wyoming
Also, from the same committee, adversely the
House bill relating to the organization Of the Ter
Mr. Cole, from the Committee on Appropriations.
reported, with amendments, the Naval Appropria-
On motion Of Mr.. williams the House bill allow
ing credits IN the settlement OF the accounts OF JOAN
mer Collector Of Baltimore for moneys embezzed.
House Of Representatives.
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, presented the petition
OF jute, hemp, and max, now damaged or thrown out
OF work by the new tariff, which discrimnates
against them in making them pay s5 per ceut. on
the raw material, when the foreign manufactured
material comes in at 30 per cent
whole on the Army Appropriation biz, Mr.. Garfield
in the chair the general debate being limited to half
MT. Niplack addressed the House in an argument
against the interference OF the military In the State
elections use OF the srmy Which in his Judgment,
Mr., Brooks, Of New York, said that he was going
10 do what he had never done before-oppose the
whole army bill. He would do it now because the
army was perverted by the President OF the United
States. The army which had hitherto acquired its
hoDors and Rlories at Yorktown and Saratoga, at
Chapultepec, in the wilderness, or on the noun
taiDs OF Tennessee, was used, and mainly used,
in the Northern States Of the Union So long as the
army was used, or could be used, for any such
purpose never, so help him God, never under any
circumstances, would he vote a dollar for it's sup
port The purpose for which West Point officers
were now used was no longer as officers OF the army
but as inspectors and supervisors OF elections; no
longer to maintain the honor OF the dag but to stand
around the bsllot-oox and carry elections In behalf
Of the President OF the United States and his
party.
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MIA and President johnson for the use of the military
to carry the last Presidential election In California
for Seymour and Blair, aud said that 1t would
hardly be believed that the same Governor Haight
had recently published letter announcing himself
a candidate for reelection. and that one OF his
planks was opposition to military interference In
the elections.
Mr: Edridge asked Mr.. Sargent whether he was
Mr. Sargent said he was in favor OF It under such
circumstances existed in the Sixth ward Of New
York, but, even II he were not, the Democratic
party had shown In the illustrous instance he had
The discussion on this point was continued in a
noisy and excited manner by Messrs. Brooks, Sar-
gent, Randall, Niblack, Morgan, and sehumaker, in
the course OF which Mr.. Schumaker said that more
fraud had been perpetrated and mere votes bought
and sold in St Lawrence county, New York, than
In all the wards of New York city, and that It
usual for Republican Governors from Seward to
Fentop to pardon convicts about election time.
Mr.. Beck Inquired OF Mr.. Hickey, who had charge
OF the bill whether the OF last year. regulating
the psy OF army oficers had not actually increased
their pay also, what had become of the fifteen
millions received for the sale OF and munitions
| during the last nine months: and aso to how
much had been paid to men sent all over the country
Mr.. Lickey replied that as to the first inquiry the
money received from the sale OF arms could not be
the treasury after the Both OF June next and that,
as to the bill regulating the payment of army
officers he understood that under 1t the pay OF all
the subaern officers up to the rank OF lieutenant
colonel had been Increased, and all over that rank
Mr.. Logan contradcted the assertiont hat the pay
OF the amy officers had been increased under the act
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