The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March |.

Credentials of Senators elect Freling-
huysen of New Jersey, Kelly Of Oregon,
and Wright of Iowa, were presented,
received and ordered filed.
On motion of Mr.. Hamilton the Sen
ate took up the resolution to continue
investigation by special committee, OF
Ku-Klux outrages in South Carolina
during the first session OF the Forty-sec-
ond Congress.
Mr.. Casserly moved to require the
proceedings OF the committee to be pub
iished. His object was to prevent
false impressions upon the public by
one-sided newspaper statements OF the
testimony Ater debate Mr.. Casserlys
amendment was rejected and the reso-
luton adopted.
The Senate then took up the army
appropriation bill, the question being
on Mr.. McDonald's amendment TO pay
for quartermasters' and commissary
stores furnished the army by loyal citi-
zens South. After various moditica-
tions the amendment was adopted, yeas
"a, nays %, in the following form:
And be ii further enacted, That the
provisions Of the act Of July "a, 1864,
entitled an act to limit the jurisdic-
ton of the Court OF Claims, &c,
are hereby extended to loyal citi-
zens who remained loyal during
the late war and who in no way
voluntarily gave aid and comfort to the
rebellion provided, that service in the
United States army during the late
rebellion, as commissioned officer or
enlisted man, shall be held to be prima
facie evidence Of loyalty, unless some
act of disloyalty shall be proven to
have been committed after said service,
and the benefits of this proviso shall be
extended to citizens OF the State OF Ten
nessee, and all such parts Of said act
as make discrimination between loyal
claimants because of residence, are
hereby repealed. The regular order OF
business was temporarily suspended.
Mr.. Cole, from committee on Con
ference on the Indian appropriation
bill, submitted a report which was read,
and after considerable discussion con
Cured in.
A bill repeating the duty on coal was
received from The House and read for
the first time. !
Mr.. Vickers objected to its second
reading.
The army appropriation bill was
again taken up and passed, and the
naval appropriation bill was taken up
as in committee Of the Whole.
After disposing Of 20 pages OF the
bill the Senate at 43O went into execu'
tive session, and soon after took recess
till evening.
b A motion to correct the Journal, 30
as to show that the action OF the House
in non-concurring in the Senate amend
ments to the Postoffice Appropriation
bill, and sending them to the committee
of conference was made final 10y a vote
to reconsider and lay il on the table,
the Journal not showing that fact. The
motion was resisted by Messrs. Garfield,
Stevenson, and other Ohio members,
whose object was to have the Senate
amendment in regard to the Cincinnati
and Newport bridge concurred in. After
some excitement and confusion the
Journal was ordered to be corrected.
The report OF the conference com
mittee on the Indian Appropriation
bill was taken up.
Mr.. Sargent explained the report.
lie called attention to the fact that the
contest which had been going on for
the last five or six weeks on the question
whether the Senate had a right, or
should continue to exercise the power
of making treaties with scattered bands
of Indians within the territory OF the
United States, was ended. That point
had been yielded bv the Senate and a
provision had been incorporated by the
conference committee in the bill that
hereafter no Indian nation or tribe
within the territory of the United States
shall be acknowledged or recognized as
ar independent nation, tribe or power,
with which the United States can con-
tract by treaty, but that nothing in that
proviso shall invaiidate or impair the
obligation Of any treaty heretofore law
fully made or ratified with any such
Indian nation or tribe.
He said that this provision was sub
stantially the same as had been drawn
by the gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Mr. Armstrong; and submitted to the
House. He also called attention to the
fact that the amendments provided in
the conference report guarded against
allowing commissions for services to
agents, and also required that vouchers
for Indian goods be submitted to the
Indian Commissioner. The conference
report was agreed to.
The House went to the business on
the Speakers table, and after disPosng
of large number Of bills, adjourned.