New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-06
BY LEGRAPH.
CONGRESS.

Senate.
WASHINGTON, December 5-No session
to-day.
The nomination of Judge Williams as
Chief Justice was referred to the Judiciary
Committee. This is contrary to the usual
custom OF the Senate with regard to Sem
atOrs and Senators, whose nominations
escape the committee on Investigations
The Senate have elected the Rev. Mr..
Sunderland as chaplain.
House.
A number of bills were presented to-day
one abolishing the tax on tobacco, snuff
and cigars; one to provide letter carriers for
cities OF 10000 inhabitants, and one to COM
plete the James River and Kanawha canal
by Mr.. Loughbridge, OF Iowa
The bill which passed the Senate redeem
ing the loan OF 1858, after quite sharp dis,
cusslon whether it should be paid in gold
or legal acknowledgements arguing for
legal tenders-was referred to the Commit
tees on Ways and Means. 1t Was put on it's
passage by MIR. Dawes, who argued that it
should be paid in the currency of the world.
Rainey (cOlored), of South Carolina,
offered a resolution abOlishing the Commit
tee on Freedmen's Affairs. Referred to the
Committee on Rules.
The following shows the chairmen of the
House committees, and the Southern mem
DeTS thereon.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. telegraphed.
Ways and Means-Dawes, Sheldon, Breek.
Observation-Disclosures, Swami, Han
cock.
Banking and Currency-Maynard, Miles.
Pacific Railroad-Sawyer, Sypher
Claims-Hawley, Num-, Howe.
Commerce-Wheeler, Bromb berg Willie.
Public Lands-Townsend MOrey, Here.
ford.
War Claims Lawrence, Harris
PostOtfice-Packer. Stowell. Cobb, At
kins.
ufacturing-Farwell, Rainey, Wad-
dell, Bowen, BIount.
Agricnlture-Hays, of Alabama, Cain,
Davis, Molcar.
Enthusiastically, Butler, Rainey, Adams,
Giddings.
Military Atfairs-Butler, Snyder, Elliott,
Sloss, Hereford, Cook.
District of Columb mbia-Pelham, Leach.
Judiciary, full committee - Butler, of
Massachusetts, Wilson. OF Indiana, Pol
lard, Tremaine, Freye, Cessna, White, of
Alabama, Ward, Eldridge. Potter. Jewell.
Public Experimentation, Smith, of
North Carolina, Hines, Robbins.
Private Land Claims-Myers, Freeman,
Bright.
Naval Affairs-Scofeld, Hays, Platt,
Poorman, Archer, Whitthouse.
Foreign, full cOmnittee-Orth, Myers,
Willard, OF Vermont, E. r. Hoar. Clark,
Ward, Albert, Williams, of Wisconsin, Rob
inson, of Illinois, Cox, Banning.
Observation-Disclosures, of Mississippi, Hynes,
Brown, Mills.
Revolutionary Pensions - Shoemaker,
Smith, Crutchftld, Caldwell, Vance, Rawls
Railroads and Canals full committee)-
McCleery, G. n. Hoar, Hurtsut, Bass, Sher
wood, Lewis, Taylor, Smith, OF Virginia,
Arthur, Woolf Stone.
Freedmen's Afairs-Cobb. of North
Carolina; Mum, Rainey, Moley, Senor,
Adams.
Education and Labor-Monroe, Elliott,
Darrell, Rapier, Whitehead.
Patents - Conger. Crutchfeld Smith,
OF North Carolina, SlOss.
Public Buildings and Grounds-Platt, of
Virginia, Lowndes and Milliken.
Several committees, including that on
Mississippi Levees, are not named.
Mr. Sheldon, of Louisiana. rising to per-
sonal explanation, said that he had had some
agency in seating his colleague, Mr.. Smith,
from the fourth district of Louisiana, and
if any wrong had been down in the matter
he considered himself personally RESPONSE
Bile. Some newspapers had charged that
the certificate read to the House had been
executed prior to the receipt and canvass
OF the returns in New Orleans.
He was informed, on reliable authority,
that the returns had arrived and had been
properly canvassed on the twenty aghth
and twenty ninth Of November. prior to the
execution of the certificate. 1t was not &
matter of physical impossibility. as had
been said, for man could 90 in three days
from any part of the district to New Or
leans.
He assured the House that the statements
to the contrary were lntrue. 1t was also a
mistake to say that that was Democratic
district No Democrat ever had been or
ever could be elected from it,