Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-03
CONGRESS IN BRIEF.
sENArE-ExrRA SESSION.

WEDNESDAY, March 19.-The Senate refused
to take up the resolution proposing that the pre-
vious question may be demanded by a majority vote,
etc. =. The Caldwell case was discussed by Conkline
against the resolutions declaring the election void.
THURSDAY, March 2O.-The Senate was en-
gagged the most of the day in consideration of the
Caldwell case. The feature of the debate was a
sharp wordy encounter between Conkling and
Schurz. The former alluded to to a Senator deliver
ing political speeches at $500 a night. Schurz con-
acterized it as false; that he had not during the
campaign received the sum named or any other
the pay he had received for earlier campaign SER
vices. Schurz repeated his explanation that that
Conkling said he did not allude to Schurz in his first
remark The sparring was very sharp, and while in
progress caused considerable excitement.
FRIDAY, March 21.-A resolution was offered
and referred to the Committee ON Printing, provid-
ing that two bound copies of the Congressional Rec
ord for the session be furnished each Senator....A
resolution vas presented and ordered printed di-
measures can be adopted to give the country a cur
rency convertible into gold. Ferry (Ct.) offered
an amendment to the resolutions reported by the
Committee on Elections in the Caldwell case, so as
to expel Caldwell instead of simply declaring his
glecoon Hoia.;:. : was q ne y S SIC ~ "a
Collector of New Orleans.
SATURDAY, March 22.-The Senate was en-
gagged all day in debating the Caldwell case, without
coming to any conclusion.
MONDAY, March 24-The Vice-President laid
before the Senate Caldwell's formal notice of his
resignation of his seat as Senator from Kansas.
The Clayton case was then taken up by a vote of So
to IA, and the report of the committee was read.
A resolution was offered instructing the committee
on transportation routes to the seaboard to inquire
and report at the next session as to the nature and
extent of the obligations of the railway companies
as to the postal service, and what additional legisla-
ton is necessary to guard against interruption of
the postal service. -. A resolution was adopted con-
graduating Spain on the abolition of slavery in Porto
Rico. IA resolution was adopted ordering ten
copies of the Congressional Record for this Vice-Presi-
dent and each Senator, five for each member of the
House, and 800 copies to be sold at cost.
TUESDAY, March 25.-The resolution con-
graduating Spain on the passage of the Porto Rico
Emancipation bill was passed unanimously. On
the memorial of thirty-seven members of the Mis-
souri, Legislature, charging that the election of
Bogy to the Senate was effected by corrupt means,
the on Elections reported that the facts
stated were insufficient to Justify the Investigation.
~. The resolution declaring that the charges against
Clayton were not sustained was agreed to by SO
yeas to 6 nays. The case of ex-senator Patterson
was brought before the Senate, in the shape of a
resolution permitting him to file a statement to be
published in the Congressional Record. After 0 long
debate the subject went over.