The Portland daily press., 1872-02-24
XLIId CONGRESSIONAL SESSION.
SENATE.

SENATE.
| WASHINGTON, Feb 23-Mr. Sprague present
ed a resolution of the Rhode Island Legislature
against interference with the inhabitants of the
Indian territory
A bill prohibiting individuals or corporations,
except banks, issuing notes or bills as circu-
lating medium was passed 1t is designed to
| suppress the practice of Southern railroads is
suing two, three and four dollar notes.
Bills were reported by Mr.. Hamlm from the
Committee ON Post Offices and Post Roads, au-
thorizing the Postmaster General to contract
with Alexander & Sons to carry mails for ten
years between New York and the ports of Pro-
groesO and Vera Cruz via Havana, in an Amer
lcan built steamship not less than 1900 tons,
there to be departure from New York every
fourteen days. and the compensation fixed at
$oOO0 per round trip.
BY Mr.. Trmbull, from the Judiciary Com
mlttee, to punish stock gambling by public Of
hcers and for other purposes being the bill in
troduced by Mr.. Edmunds, with amendments;
also the House bill to extend the time within
which criminal offences, except capital crimes,
shall be prosecuted
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Commit
tee, reported the following bills adversely and
they were indefinitely postponed: Providing
Tor an additional Justice to the Supreme Court
aapproprlating 100000 to carry out the Civil
service Commission rules; to extend the juris
dlction of the Court of Claims relating to final
process in United States Courts authorizing
the employment of an International Police
force.
bill was introduced by Mr. Morrill,, of Yer
mont for further endowment of agricultural
and mechanical colleges.
The investigation of matters in connection
with the sale of arms came up.
MI Cole moved to take the final vote at 5 P.
Mr.. Harlan objected, but was willing to take
the vote then
Mr.. Cole said several Senators wished to
speak on the question.
Mr. Irumbull said that when any move was
Ihade IN the direction of reform, certain Sena-
TORS saw mt to make assaults upon those bring
ing the measures forward, charging them with
Daa party faith. Mr.. Trumbull criticised the
action OF the majority in the removing of Mr..
sumner from the Foreign craftsmanship, in the
custom House investigation, and in the present
matter; the Senator from Indiana had also de-
nounced the platform of the Liberal Republic
bans as anti-Republican and essentially Demo-
cratic, and he would undertake to show that
the man who held that view did not know the
meaning of Republicanism He then went over
the resolutions in the platform one by one and
insisted that they were all in complete accord
VII With the principles of the Republican party.
They were the principles he had contended for
through all his public life, and God helping
him he would contend for them to the end
Mr.. Morton said Mr.. Trumbull had come into
the Senate with prepared speech containing
two things, an assault upon him (Morton) and
defence of the Missouri Liberal Republican
movement and its platform. He was sorry Mr..
Trumbull had identified himself with it, but as
he had done so others could not do less than
recognize the fact. The people generally un-
derstood that the Senator had stepped out of
the Republican party stopping, however with
in easy returning distance, and was standing
with his back all chalked over, 'Barkis is
within" Iaughter.) If that impression was
wrong this was good opportunity to correct it.
The Senator had reviewed the Liberal Republic
1NJa Il hoI
establishment that he (Morton) called it essen
TALLY Democratic. Speaking of the causes for
suspending the habeas corpus, Mr.. Morton said
that there was still a rebellion existing at the
South, and he had heard it said and believed
that more men were killed and wounded by the
Ku Klux in South Carolina during the last four
years than were killed in the war of 1872
The discussion between Messrs. Morton and
Trumbull was largely of personal character,
and did not touch the point under discussion. /,
Mr.. Rice obtained the floor, but yielded to
motion to go into executive session. after which
the Senate adjourned to Monday.
HOUSE.
The House took up the consular appropria-
ton bill. Mr.. Voorhees, opposed the appropria-
ton for a consul to Cuba. He spoke at length
of the policy of Cuba towrrd Americans, say
ing that some had been shot, and that several
were now in prison for breaking nc law of
Spain. He denounced the policy of the Gov
eminent and said the Cuban revolutionists
should be recognized as belligerents.
Mr.. Garfield, chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations, expressed the hope that the
gentleman from Indiana (Voorhees) would not
antagonize the bill with Cuban affairs He
thought the present time was not the proper
one to increase complications with foreign ma
tions. He thought our relations with Great
Britain were very delicate. He said that the
breaking down of the Washington treaty would
be an unheard of calamity.
Mr.. Banks did not anticipate any difficulty
with England or Spain, but he believed that
the best way to secure peace was by the asser-
ton of our rights and a prepation to defend
them. He said the Committee on Foreign At
fairs would soon give the House an opportunity
to discuss the Spanish matter. He agreed with
Mr.. voorhees,, but thought the appropriation
for the Spanish minister should be struck out
before the consul to Cuba
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, moved to strike out
the enacting clause-9 to ITO. W.
Amendments advancing the Russian mission
to first class and the Japanese mission to a
second class and reducing the Central Ameri-
can mission to one minister at Nicaragua were
severally agreed to, and the bill passed
A large number of private bills were reported
After some unimportant business the House
adjourned.