The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-03-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Vic
President having returned to Wash
ington resumed the chair and presente'
q memorial asking that the papers Il
the caee OF the Kansas Senatorial elec
ton be taken from the files and referre'
to the Committee on Privileges an'
Elections.
Subsidies 10 Steamship Lines.
Mr.. Chandler, of Michigan, offered
resolution authorizing the COMMITTEE
on Commerce to set during the recess
for the purpose OF investigating the sub
ject of subsidies to Steamship lines
an wnat lines if any should be subsl
d zed; also into the propriety OF grant
! ing bounties to ship builders; and in th'
discharge OF this duty the Committed
have leave to visit the cities Of Baltl-
more, Philadelphia, New York ant
Boston, with power to send tor persons
and papers, to employ q stenographer
and that the expenses attending such
investigation be paid out OF the contln
gent fund OF the Senate.
Mr.. Cssserly hoped the resolution
would lie over a d be printed, and sug'
gested that it be modified 80 as to in-
clude the Pacific coast where there ls
the finest pine tim Der in the world. The
resolution lies over.
PatiersOn's Case.
Mr.. Anthony, OF R. submitted q
preamble and resolution, which lies
over, setting forth that
WHEREAS, At the late session OF Con
gress a resolution was reported from
the select committee on the subject OF
the Credit Mobilier, that j. W. Patter-
son be expelled, and
WHEREAS, 1t was then manifestly i'm
possible to consider said resolution
without being detrimental to the exer-
cises, it being questionable whether the
Senate can now consider the came, al
ter Mr. Patterson has ceased to be a
member o. the Senate, therefore
Resofued, That the failure OF the Sen :
ate to act upon said resolution OF the
select committee is not to be iuterpre-
ted as an approval or d'sapproval OF
the same, and that Mr.. Patterson have
to make q written statement to be pub.
lishei 10 the Congressional record
AQuesttOn Of order.
Mr.. Howe, of Wisconsin, again
brought up The subject oil receiving
pe itons during the Executive session o.
the Senate, arguing that this could not
be done.
MIR Sherman opposed the presenta-
tion of petitions @hich were addressed
10 Congress seeking legislation. He
had no objection to receiving them
and placing them on the files as was
done in 1871.
Mr.. Author y said that as the prece-
deuls' were not uniform, they had bet
ter take this most liberal construction
and receive the petitions though he
might not ect upon itthem.
Mr.. Howe said there was no
rule against receiving petitions at any
Executive session, and he cited prece.
dents to show that they had hereto
lore been received and referred.
After further debate the Senate de-
eden not to r,ceine the petitions which
Mr.. How desired to preven "a against
3 80.
The Caldwell Case.
The Senate resumed the considera.
ton of the Caldwell case
Mr.. Scott, OF Pennsylvania, after
briefly reviewing the report Of the CON-
mitlee said he could not bring his mind
to the conclusion that its finding If
cause Tor setting aside the election ot
Caldwell. He then gave the grounds
on which he dissented from the conc|u-
sion Of the committee, arguing that the
English parliamentary law is not appli-
cable to any OF our popular elections,
and that it has never been held here
that a single case OF bribery takes away
the right OF the whole contituency to
their representative. The people of a
State are the guardians OF their own
legislative assembly. The Senate could
not inquire into the title by which
member holds his seat in the State
legislature; the people are responsible
for corruption and bribery in their own
legislative assembly. The Senate is
not to sit here as a high court Of ap-
peal blackeAing the character OF mem
bers without a nearing, and saying they
were. .bribed. II the people themselves
do not exercise their power, from the
primary meeting to the election, they
arc the sufferers but have the remedy
in their own hands.
i.Mr. Scott then spske in feeling terme
OF his respect Tor the father oi Mr.. Cald-
well, and Tor that Senator himself, and
expressed his admiration Tor the eDer-
gy ard indu-ery o Caldwell. He stig-
matized Messrs, Cofney and Clarke as
utterly unworthy the respect or conf
dence OF honorable men
WEare panied TO announce the death,
by suicide, of Mr.. John Ellis, an old
and respected citizen of this county, re-
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