The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-14
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, May l3.
SENATE.

Mr.. Stewart, from the Committee on
Pacific Railroads. reported the genera
bill for the incorporation Of railroads IN
the Territories.
Mr.. Sherman, from the Committee on
Finance, reported substitute for the
House bill in regard to the preparation
and issue Of United States notes
Passed.
Mr.. Pratt called up the bill to In
crease twenty per cent the pension o.
soldiers and sailors who lost both eyes
or both hands, or were otherwise totally
disabled, and stated that it would cause
an increased annual expenditure o'
about 100000. Passed.
Mr.. Schurz stated that he was pared
With Mr.. Nye on the amnesty BILL
being detained at home by sickness at
that time. His vote was therefore lost.
as intimated by some Of the Missouri
papers.
The bill to amend the enforcement
act then came up, and Mr. Casserly
advocated his amendment prohibiting
the presence Of troops at the polls Or
any interference with elections by any
civil, military or naval officer. de
then gave detailed account OF the
election at Mare Island Navy Yard last
fall, claiming that the laborers voted
under duress for the Republican ticket
and exhibiting the marked ticket with
which they were supplied and marched
to the polls under the eye OF their lore
man. He pointed to the great increase
in the Republican vote as showing the
frauds which had been committed. All
these things were done under the eye OF
the government officials, and with their
connivance. The tickets were endorsed
on the back in the handwriting OF John
w. Dwnnele, a prominent man well
known to his colleague, Mr. Call. The
tickets, he understood, were printed in
Washington, and were the same as were
used IN the Navy Yard here.
On motion of Mr.. Cole the Committee
on Foreign Relations was! instructed to
inquire into the expediency OF the
United States establishing pro-
tectorate over the Navigator Islands,
in the South Pacific, as the inhabitants
desire it.
Mr.. Scott called up the bill granting
the right of way to the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad Passed.
The Senate then went into executive
session, when the correspondence be.
tween the United States and Great
Britain on the Alabama claims was
submitted. The injunction of the Sec
retary was not removed.
When the doors were reopened the
consideration Of the bill to amend the
enforcement act was resumed.
Mr.. Casserlys amendments prohlb-
iting the presence Of troops at election
polls and prohibiting any marked or
distinctive ballots, were both rejected.
Mr.. Trumbull offered as an amend
ment the House amnesty bill, recently
voted down by the Senate.
ON motion, Mr.. Morton's amendment
excluding the members OF the Ku-Klux
from amnesty, was adopted.
Mr.. Sumner indicated his intention to
renew the civil rights amendment.
Mr.. Wilson said that both the am
nesty and civil rights amendments
were unnecessary, as the House had
passed to-day another amnesty bill and
civil rights bill, which would be sent
over at once.
Mr.. Cole then, as a question OF priv
ilege, submitted the Conference report
on the deficiency appropriation bill,
pe1ding the discussion on which the
Senate took a recess until 1870 P. NJ.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session was devoted to
the consideration Of bills reported from
the Committee on Naval Affairs, a
large number of which were passed.