Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-01-31
CONGRESSIONAL PRoCEEDINGs.
SECOND SESSION OF 4lsr CONGRESS.

SENATE Monday, JAM 23rd-The Com
mlttee on the Judiciary submitted report in
reference to the case Of the Georgia Senators
accompanied by resolution declaring that
Joshua Hill is entitled to his seat as Senator
from Georgia. The minority of the committee
s! also made report, accompanied by resolu-
tlon, declaring that Mcssrs. Farrow and White
ly are duly elected as Senators from Georgia,
and are entitled to their seats. The special
committee appointed to investigate the charges
OF outfages In the South, was authorized to
report from time to time, as may suit their con-
venlence. The bill relating to debts contracted
by States during the war was referred to the
Committee on Finance
HoUsE.-A bill to remove the distractions
from Brlttons bay was referred to the Com
mlttee on Commerce. A bill granting lands in
aid OF schools in Virginia. was referred to the
Committee on Education. The credentials of
Hon. VIM w. Payne, Representative elect
from the First Georgia District, were presented
and ne was sworn in and took his seat. The
bill regulating rank in the Navy was taken up
and passed with amendments after long dis
cussion. .
SENATE.-Tuesday, January 24th.-The Gre
dentials of 3. z. Blair, elected as Senator from
Missouri for the term ending March 4, 1873,
we're read and laid on the table The vote on
the passage of the resolution authorizing the
special committee on the South to sit during
the sessions of the Senate, was reconsidered,
and the resolution was laid on the table. The
Committee oD Finance reported adversely on
the bill to repay to the States the interest on
money borrowed to equip troops for service in
the late war, and it was placed on the calendar.
HOUsE.-Mr. Orth, in personal explana-
ton, denied the correctness of the remarks of
Mr.. Cox, of New York, on the 10th of Janu-
ary, charging that there was an addenda to the
San Domingo treaty which had not been pre-
sented with the treaty, &c. Mr.. Cox. in turn.
reiterated his statement, and gave his authority
therefor. A resolution was passed to amend
the resolution in relation to affairs at West
Point, by providing that, instead of sending
tor persons and papers, subcommittee shall
be authorized to visit West Point, and there
make the investigation
Josh Billings.
Ambisbun liz like hunger-it obeys no law
but its own appctight.
There IL no medicine like good joke--it is
a silver-coated pill that frolics and phisicks on
the run
| Beauty il morning dream which the break
| fast bell puts an end to.
| The man who never makes emmy blunders
will never rise in the esteem of the world abuv
the reputashun ov good guideboard.
| | don't want emmy better proof of good
hod-carryer than to hear another hod-carryer
say, He is phool and don't understand his
Dizziness"
Fortune IL like mirror, it don't alter men,,
it only shows them just as they am.
Dandys are hybred, cross between fashion
| plate and a unpaid tailor's bill.
| Debt il trap which man sets and bates
himself and then deliberately gets into.
Diseaze and pills, when they enter a man s
body are like two lawyers when they under
take tew settle hiz affairs, they compromise the
matter by laying out the patient
One good way | know ov to find happiness
iz not by boring hole to fit the plugg.
A lie is like nitro-glycerine, the best Of
judges kant tell when it IL going to bust and
skater confushun.
! Az the flint kontains the spark, unknown
tew itself, which the steel alone can make into
| life, SO adversely often reveals to us hidden
gems which prosperity or negligence would for
ever lay hid
Most people when they cum tew you for ad
vice, cum tew have their own opinyuns strength
ened, not correkted.
Men seem tew me, nowadays, tew be divided
into slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
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