The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17
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XLIId O0NGREss---First Session.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-M. Robinson NOV.
ed 10 take up the amendment as the order of
business SO as to allow the House amnesty bill
W We considered at the present session.
reply to an affidavit of C. M. Hamilton, menu
per OF the last House of Representatives, ac-
cusing MIN OF having attempted to bribe that
ge5'leman with an offer of $4,000 for his vote
ana M services on the Florida railroad BILL The
a1hdavit also charged him with having intro
duced In the Senate bill to grant lands to
railroad in which he was at the time the larg-
est stockholder. Various afidavits and cores
pondence fwere read by the clerk at Mr.. Os-
wara uo,n s suggestion, to show that the charges
were purelj malicious; that the only fOnuda-
tion LOT that bribery was the overtures of Ham,
liton himself to secure price for his vote. and
that In the capital stock of $4,000 600 Osborne
has never held more than ten shares
Mr.. Conkling remarked that this being Sat-
urday the Senate was very thin, a number of
Senators having left the city with the under
standing that only executive business would be
considered, He hoped that the motion would
be deferred till next week.
Mr.. Robertson reported that he had given
five days previous notice of the motion, and in
sisted upon vote. Mr. Trumbull did not
think the Senate so thin as represented. 1t
was the fullest Senate he had ever known for
Saturday. He hoped that no friend of am
nesty would allow the subject be postponed
in that way. eaa o. s4iH.a-I - - n.
There were fifty Senators present Mr.. Will
son thought the time had come to act upon the
subject and would so vote. '.'
Mr. Chandler moved an executive session.
Lost, l6 o25 Mr.. Morrill, of Vermont SUBJ
mitted proposition Withdrawing objection to
Mr. Robertson motion on condition that the
hnal vote oil the amnesty bill should not be
taken until the Ku-Klux bill had passed both
Houses. n ~ ~ E-1-'----'- = r. - =
Mr.. Robertson acquiesced, but several sena-
ment. =
Messrs. Cameron and Freiinghuysen argued
that the vote be deferred upon the pending mo-
ton. During the further discussion Mr.
Trumbull charged that the efforts of the op-
ponents Of the bill for delay were purposely de-
signed to defeat action on the measure and
warned its friends that it would be impossible
to have it acted upon If they now allowed it to
60 over. = 81 tss. iiaE sl.ai
Mr.. Frelinghuysen then renewed the mo-
ton, upon which Mr.. Thurman demanded the
yeas and nays. Carried, 81 to "a ii1tt Az
After the executive session the Senate ad-
journed. .re = .g"GlfE W ~
The House met at II o'clock and resumed
the deficiency bill. = ---'--
The Senate amendment appropriating $780,
600 for additional buildings at the military de-
pot at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., was rejected.
The Senate amendment to reissue. bank note
currency yesterday amended by requiring
banks to pay the cost of printing their own
notes was rejected, Sc to 81; and q motion to
amend the Senate amendment which repeals
the law for the meeting of each new Congress
on the 4th of March by adding provis6 that
the repeal shall not take effect until after the
4th of March, 1881, also rejected, So to 96. The
amendments having been all disposed of Mr..
Bingham moved to lay the bill on the table.
Mr.. Dawes represented that to lay the bill on
pensions to surviving soldiers of the war Of
1872, to prevent assistant marshals getting
their pay for taking the census, to prevent the
Sisters of Mercy of Charleston, s. c., from
getting means to rebuild their orphan asylum
and to prevent the aged and INDECENT poor Of
Washington from receiving relief Mr.. Bing-
ham remarked that it would do nothing of the
kind as there was nothing to prevent the gen.
tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Dawes) from
bringing in new bill for such purposes. Mr.
Garfield remarked that Mr.. Dawes statement
showed the value of an extra session of Con-
gress. @H@4
The motion to lay the bill on the table was
rejected, 81 to 125 and Committee OF Confer
ence on disagreeing votes was ordered. Mr..
Shellabarger moved to concur in all the Senate
amendments to the Ku Klux bill except the
last two, one in relation to the oath of jurors
and the other what is known as the Sherman
amendment. AS to these he would move non.
concurrence and ask for a conference commit
tee.
7 Mr.. Wood saw no possible objection to the
proposition. He was glad to hear that the
gentleman (Mr Shelabarger) would move to
non concur in these most obnoxious amend.
ments tt4# 3Ef fF 1E@4EF
I Mr.. Sheiabarger moved that the previous
question on the amendments be seconded.
Mr.. Cox remarked that he did not care to dis.
cuss the amendments. They might pass with
the silence of death and the grave. 4tl Yr'
/ Mr.. Eldridge did not believe such amend
ments ought to pass without discussion --
4 The House proceeded to vote on amend
ments. The amendment extending the right
of the President to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus till the end of the regular session of
Congress or until June 1st, 1872, was rejected,
86 to SO. The amendment in relation to the
oath of jurors was rejected without the yeas
and nays. The amendment known as the Sher-
man amendment; assessing damages on locali-
ties was rejected by 45 to 131. All other
amendments were concurred in Messrs. Shell
labarger. Scofield and Kerr were appointed
committee of conference ON disagreeing votas
sef two Houses. The House then adjourned.