The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-05-25
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate on Friday the House
resolution for an adjournment on June Sd
was sent to the Finance Committee. Mr..
Scott called up his bill extending until
March 4th the time in which the President
may suspend the writ of habess corpus in
the late iusurrectionary States, and spoke
in favor OF it AZ being necessary for the
suppression of the Ku-Klux. The West
Point and Indian Appropriation bills were
passed. In the House of Representatives
several amendments to the Tariff bill were
adopted. The important ones were to
admit free of duty material used in the con-
struction of ships, and to take from bonded
warehouses ships, stores under the same
conditions.
In the Senate on Saturday bill was
introduced granting permission to the
Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad
Company to run it's trains within the limits
of Washington. Mr.. Sherman reported
bill, which was afterwards passed, direct
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
new bonds in lieu of bonds destroyed or
defaced. Mr.. Conkling introduced bill
relative to the erection of Custom House
in the Battery at New York. A motion
made by Mr.. Sherman requesting the House
to return the resolution relative to adjourn
ment ELECTED warm debate, and resulted
in the adoption of the motion. Mr.. Morrill,
afterwards submitting resolution rescind-
ing the resolution to adjourn on the Goth,
but objection being made to its immediate
consideration it went over. The Army
Appropriation bill, after having been
materially amended, was passed. In the
House the bill creating St. Paul port of
entry was taken up and passed
The bill appropriating $347, 99S.9O to pay
Southern claims was passed. A report sub
mitted from the committee of circumference on
the Indian Appropriation bill caused Mr..
Beck, of Kentucky, to denounce the pres
ent mode of legislating for the Indians, and
charged that more that one-half of what is
appropriated for the Indians is squandered
OF stolen by the agents. Mr.. Sargent
defended the plan pursued by the Govern
ment. The report was finally agreed to.
In the Senate on Monday Mr.. Hamlin
offered resolution for the expulsion from
the reporters gallery of the Associated
Press employees whom Senator Conkling
recently denounced, and who accuses that
gentleman of making statements that are
absolutely false. The present considera-
ton of the resolution was objected to, and
it lays over until it can come up in the
regular order OF business. Mr.. Blair deliv-
eteo u STUMP speech against the Dill contlh-
ulns .ne Iieslueht power 10 suspend the
VIII =. naosas coTpas IN tne laIe insurlectl9n
s:yy sSa,oe, Gnu III. sieAe,S intiouuIe y, "
Gi. ~ 'ne nalne gnu iooa.ioii ~ .he
u.s. Na s DALI ~ i;, VIC
saos;",, ~ $50 ;.o~. . Ss;.sos ,. 10y
trsnsactod Wr nawas . ~at tho Tor;Th;n
out of the hands of the Committee of
the Whole, and it was passed by a vote of
lat to CO. The Senate resolution to ad-
iourn the session on Nav goth, which the
Senate wanted to have returned so that it
might extend the time, was adopted, so
that both Houses now stand committed
to ending the present Congress ON that day.
The report of the General Buell. court of
inouiry was authorized to rewrite his notes
of the proceedings. the ORIGINAL records of
which have mysteriously disappeared from
the archives of the War DEPARTMENT. Mr..
Rutler desired to introduce a resolution
calling on the President for iuformation
WHETHER Sir Stratford Northcota was Truth
fnI in saving fiat a nror;se had haen made
that the claims for indirect DAMAGES sbonId
not.be nreSented in the arlitration nrovided
for by the Treaty of Wahinotor. INIT the
resolution was objected to and went to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
The Tariff and Tax hill covers an animal
reduction of about forty millions of dollars
fourteen millions of which are stricken
from internal taxation. and the ,ema;ndor
from the customs. The duties on manufac-
tures of cotton. wool. iron. India rubber
gutta percha and straw ara sut down ten
ner cent from the nresent rates
49,,
III .no nen"1o oh uesoay PeIiIioi VI
81.
asking aio 10 emigrate 10 Liberia; A dis,
lax Oil was SHOWN Dy the committee OF
FINANCE oDtalning leave 10 mold continuous
sessions. Inc Dill TO proionS the power OF
the rreslueht 10 suspend the writ oil hdoeas
co'p"s was taheh up, anu hr. Aicofn llniSn-
bstwasn himself and his coiisaona from
M;ssiss;nn; General Ames NJ R,vard
mada a ganer,1 ,roument ar,;nst tho In
In AZ. Honsa IF Psurasn'ta,; ~, 'n0 p ot'
office Annronriation hill was renorted an s
tho Senate arnendnent ;nore, sipSr +La .,,h
IL ~ e. mn non 81, 80 aa,,a,,.nJ =.
n 1T W 500 S,oto'ooo yoa.J was oon'uaeu IN;
80 1870 % "'r'" "e'o ieJoCToo
H Mha S "oni C;, u LIZ; I1nleienoe o.ueleu-
ra.,,rod nd tha on,r n,pp ' "r ero "HN
for Eve ;,,nro,,ar.nt rs H. D.
oft;ce and Tho Custom, House was odontaJ
An,anJr,ants ,nnronr;at;no sose ndO ~
a.rn1, o,,t tha ston,bp,t I,.s - Soon ooo
for n,,hl;o bu;Id;nor i, c;no;nn,t; ''o,OU ue
~ .oI. .'n4iI -:
~;oJ;oaI at.oo,, an t%a ;nto w ,n' 4i,s o
t"naru;s;n% architoot W tha Tsaasr VI M vne
Wp,1at I'D Wassus y" rs on '"Sus' IL W..
retorted that he aIwavs made these cbaroas
at a time When there vas M onnort,,n;tH
fnr orarn;n.t;on into tha,n tpt tl, $50 ~
~ sass;nn of tha Monsa NJ p,.,o eno w,
stronn snaech in favor af Ist.;no -' tha
Treaty. Of WASHINGTON he lost r,thaS III n
that The nation should be I;shnnnred hu
tLa ,v;tbdra,yI ~ tLo ;,,;raot .,, ~
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Inc onlted etates senate continued IN
session an tuesday night and up to ten
CLOCK wednesday morning. Turing this
long slttlns some important business was
transacted ana an Inc prlncipai matters
penoine, except the lariH Dill, ApproPrl-
atlon oiils ana the supplemental treaty,
| were disposed OF. Inc OIL extending until
March 4th the power Oh the PRESIDENT to
suspend tne VIII Oh hd0eas corpus IN the
l E oonleIerate States WAS passed. In IL,
Mr summers absence ms CiVll hlgnts Dill
was auopteo' VIII an alnenomeht STRIKING
OuI dill Lidt pOTLlOu TcldLlIR TO Schools,