The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-13
HOUSE.

Mr.. Finkelnburg from the Committee
on Ways and Means, reported a bill for
the relief Of the collectors of the Fourth
Internal Revenue district of Chicago,
for stamps, ETC., lost by fire. Passed.
The House then resumed considera,
ton OF the bill granting half OF Yerba
Buena Island to the Central Pacific
railroad
Mr.. Wheeler withdrew his demand
for the previous question and yielded TO
Mr.. Sargent, who supported the bill.
Messrs. Banks and Kerr followed in
opposition.
Mr.. Wheeler said he was instructed
by the Committee on the Pacific Rail,
roads to move to recommit the bill
with instructions to amend by provid-
ing for three commissioners to be ap'
pointed by the President within one
month, who shall examine Yerba
Buena Island fix on the compensation
to be paid by the Central Pacific rail-
road, and report within three months.
Messrs. Banks and Kerr each asked
Mr.. Wheeler to withdraw his motion
until they could read certain proceedings
in the San Francisco Chamber OF Com
merce, together with certain dispatches
they had received on the subject
Mr.. Wheeler refused, whereupon
Mr.. Kerr moved to lay the bill on the
table. Lost-73 to 81.
The main question was then ordered
bv a vote of 81 to 67, and the till was
recommitted.
The Speaker called attention to the
fact that yesterday under an invitation
to the members to send up the names
of person; to be included in the amnes,
ty bill, the name OF Zebulon B Vance,
OF North Carolina, had been sent up.
There had been an implied obligation
that no persons should be included
who came within the category Of ex-
ceptional cases in the general bill here
tofore passed by the House, namely
Members Of Congress or officers Of the
army and navy who had resigned and
given aid to the rebellion. He was
glad that he did not know who had sent
up the name OF Vance, nor from which
side of the House it had come The
question OF that gentleman's relief from
disability had been a matter of con-
sideration and discussion elsewhere,
and the chairman regarded the inser.
ton Of his name as being in violation
OF good faith. He believed that it had
been done in ignorance OF the under,
standing OF the House.
Mr.. Shober remarked that Mr.. Vance
did not come within the category OF
the excepted cases to which the Speaker
had referred. He had not resigned his
seat as member of Congress.
The Speaker said be must have been
misinformed on that point.
Mr. Brooks, OF New York, remarked
that in consenting to general shuttle
if that was a proper word, he supposed
that it included everybody and every.
thing
The Speaker could not see how Mr..
Brooks could so understand it, after
the House voting twice not to include
everybody.
Mr.. Brooks suggested that the House
was frequently more charitable at one
time than another.
Mr.. Potter asked whether the House
had received instructions from the Ju
dietary Committee to bring in an Am
nesty bill including the names OF all
those who had applied to Congress for
relief
The Speaker said it did not follow
that the House would pass such a bill.
Mr.. Farnsworth remarked that the
disabilities of several men who had been
Members Of Congress had been re.
lieved.
The Speaker said that all he had
desired to do was to call the attention
Of the House to the matter. He had
refrained from making the slightest