Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-11
Forty-First Congress Second Session

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 10.
SENATE.
The senate resumed the consideration of Mr.
Trumbulls Joint resolution prohibiting mem
bers of congress from soliciting Office of the
president and heads of departments, to which
he offered an amendment making violation Of
the act a miSdemeanor, for which the penalty
should be five thousand dollars. The San Do
| mingo resolutions were received from the house.
The subject was laid asde-26 to 16-and Mr..
Morton moved that the senate concur in Mr..
Amber'S amendment.
Mr.. Sumner asked for the yeas and nays and
spoke in opposition TO the whole scheme.
The senate agreed thar vote be taken at four
o'clock tomorrow, and adjourned
HOUSE.
Mr.. Garfield of Ohio presented a remonstrance
of three hundred and seven women of Ohio,
against woman suffrage.
The house resumed the consideration of the
joint resolution for the appointment of commits
siOnerS TO Dominica.
Mr.. Willard of Vermont, a member of the
coynmittee on foreign affairs, explained why he
voted yesterday with so few of his republican
colleagues against taking the resolution from
the speakers table. He was opposed to the ac-
QUESTION of Dominica by treaty or the joint
| resolution, and therefore was opposed to taking
any step looking to that acquisition, and was
unwilling to authorize the friends of the acqui-
sition in this machinery in aid of their scheme.
Mr.. Willard also objected that the time in
which the commission expected to complete its
labOrs was entirely too short and inadequate for
any proper examination Of the island and its
conditions.
The discussion was continued till two o'clock
when the amendment was adopted, by the fol
lowing vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Adams, Amber, Archer, Asper
AXtell, Barnum, Beaman, Beatty, Beck Biggs, Bierd
BOOKER Boyd, Brooks of Massachusetts, Brooks of
New 1ork, Burchard, Burr Calkn, Coburn, Conger
conner, Cook, Cox, Crebs Dawes, Dickey, Dickin-
son, Dox Duke, Ella, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Ferris,
Finkenbqrg, Fox, Garfield, Getz, Gibson, Griswold,
Haight, Haldeman, Hale, Hamill, Hawkins, Haw-
ley Hay, Hoar, Holman. Hooper, johnson,
MoTam qeG LW Naming M61o,r
OF Pennsylvania, MorTissey, Mungen, Nibaek
Palmer, Peters, Pomeroy, Potter Randall. Reeves
Rogers, Rice, Sargent, Schumacher, Shanks Sheldon
Of Louisiana, Sherrod, Shober, Socum, Smith of
Ohio, Smith of Oregon, Starkweather Stevens
Stone, Strong, Swami, Sweeney Tanner, Tallman,
Van Trump, Voorhees,, Washburn of Wisconsin
Wells, Willard of Minnesota, Wheeler, Williams
Wilson, Wolf and Wood-1O6
NAYs-Messrs. Armstrong, Arnell, Atwood, Ben
nett Bingham, Bowen, Buck, Bufinton, Burdett,
Butler OF Massachusetts,, Butler Of Tennessee,
Churchill, Clark of Texas, Cobb OF Wisconsin, Cobb
Of North Carolina, Degener, Donley Duval, Fisher,
Fitch, Gilfan, Hamilton, Harris Helm, Hoge,
Jenckes, Jones of North Carolina Kelley, Kellogg
ketcham, Knapp Lafin Lawrence Loughridge,
Maynard, Mccarthy, Mckee Mckenzie, Mercer,
Moore of Illinois, Moore of New Jersey, Morphis,
Myers, Negley, oNeill, Ortiz Packard of Indiana,
Rainey, Sawyer, Scoheld, Sheldon, Smith of Ten
nessee, Stevenson, Stokes, StoughtOn, Taylor,
Twiche Van Horn, Van Wyck, Wallace Whit
more, Winans and Witcher-76.
The joint resolution, as amended, was then
passed-123 to 60. The democrats voted solidly
IN the negative, together with the following re-
pubicanS MesSrs. Beatty, Boyd, Finkeknburg,
Hoar, Peters and Willard.
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, occupied consider
able time in calling the attention of the house
to charges of iobbery and corruption made
against him by Hugh j. Hastings in the Com
mercial Advertiser In support of his state
ments, Mr.. Brooks had read Hastings famous
affidavit, published in the Albany Switch, June,
1S43, retracting libel; finally, in compliance
with Mr.. Brooks request, special committee
OF five was ordered, to investigate the charges
against him. Mr., Dawes and Mr.. voorhees, ex-
pressed the opinion that it was hardly worth
while for the house to spend its time investi-
eating charges made by a man who confessed
himself liar, libeler and malicious slanderer.
Mr. Garfield suggested that there should be
some opportunity of deciding between the hon
orable and dishonOrable journalism of the
country.
Mr.. Drake did not think journalism could be
regulated OF determined by any action of the
house. He believed that before the great tribu-
nal Of public opinion, and there alone honor
able journalism would be maintained, and would
maintain itself and dishonorable Journalism like
that which characterized charges against Mr..
Brooks, would 90 down.
The house then passed the bill TO provide for
celebrating the one hundred anniversary of
American independence, by holding an interna-
tiOnal exhibition of arts and manufactures at
Philadelphia in 1876, having amended it by the
provision that no expenses of the exhibition or
its officers be paid out Of the national treasury.
Adjourned,