The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-07
XLIID CONGRESS.
SENATE.

arisen as to who are electors, and what mea.
ures are necessary to provide for the determin
a1ion .! su i contests and to guard against an
: determine ike contests in future: the commit
tee to have power to send for nersops and pa
| pers and.take testimony, and if necessary an
thorze suitable dsinterested and nm ain,3;ca
. persons not resident In either of said States :
/ take such testimony as is material in the deter
mination of any pending contest growing on
| of elections.
Mr.. West objected to the present considers
ton of the resolution, not to its spirit, but h.
wanted time to discuss it.
The resolution was laid over and Mr.. Sher
man gave notice that he would call it up to
morrow.
Mr. Morton offered resolution directing thu
Committee on Elections to examine and repor
at the next session, upon the best and most
practicable mode of elecGing the President and
Vice President and of providing tribunal tC
adjust and decide all contested questions con-
nected Herewith
The orler was printed and Mr.. Morton an
no1nc7d that he would soon call it up and sub
NIT some remarks
AIR Edwards resolution asking the Secretary
| Ut War to communicate the information in his
| possession as to the expenditures in suppress
| ing IDdian hostilities in Washington territory
| and Oregon, was agreed to.
MIR Scott offered a resolution which was
| adopted, directing the Com mittee on Finance
to inquire whether the Secretary of the Treas
9ry has power undrr the existing law to issue
|
retired and cancelled under the act of 500.
A resolution was adopted directing the Ju-
| diclary Committee to enquire into The prOprie-
! " OF repeating the national baukrup. law ON
anu after January l, 1874, and providing
| for the immediate repeal of SO much of said
act as relates to involuntary bankruptcy.
On motion of Mr.. Stewart, the question pen
dlnsisince the last session, of referring the Goat
Island bill was taken up.
MT Stewart accepted Mr. Coles amendment,
ret6rrtu.y the bill the Com Milituru
Affairs, and it was so referred
Mr. Pratt introduced bill ceiling to the se--
era States within which they resnectively lie the
beds OF surveyed lakes and other bodies of water
Mr. Ferry of Michigan introduced a bill to
set apart portion of the Island of Mackinac
as a national park.
The Georgia disabilities bill came up as un-
finished business, bnt was laid aside, and the
Indian appropriation bill considered The
amount appropriated is S., 434, 16j, which is
S9l7 .0o7 less than last year.
When the item appropriating 5000, 900 for the
Siou Indians was reached, Mr. Harlan read
communication IRON the acting Secretary of
the Interior setting forth the sources of infor-
nation about the Teton Sioux, and stating that
III view OF the recent charges IN the newspapers
that no such Indians existed, an order had
been issued on the 7th ut, prohibiting the aud
iting OF all alleged disbursements for the bene-
tit OF said tribe, till further notice. The COM
municatIon was accompanied by Il statement of
the disbursements for the Teton Sioux during
the past year.
Mr. Thurman said the question was whether
any such tribe now existed.
Mr.. Window said the same tribe of Indians
with whom treaties have been made ON two oc-
casions as the Teton Sioux, aud VINO had been
so described by Messrs Lewis and Clark. by
Irving in his Astoria, and by Schoolcraft, did
still exist, but there might be some question as
to whether that was their proper name
Mr.. Thurman was astonished that there
should be any doubt whatever about the exis-
teuce OF a tribe to whom we were giving mon
ey.
Mr. Window said of the $500, 900 appropriated
for the Teton Sioux, only $685. 900 had been ex-
pended leaving a balance of about $500, 900 I'M
expended, which would hardly have been left
if the appropriation had been fraudulently pro-
cured.
On motion of Mr.. Logan an amendmen4 was
adopted prohibiting the sale of arms or ammu-
milton to Indians in the neghberhood of Fort
Peck, which Mr.. Logan said was not United
States fort at all, but merely private trading
post
The appropriation bill was agreed to, and at
a. Is p. m. the Senate went into executive ses-
sion and soon after adjourned.
HOUSE.
A large number of bills were introduced and
r. ferred. 3sa
After discussion the House ordered open ses-
sions of the Credit Moblier Committee by
vote of 100 to 7.
Mr.. Lynch of Maine, offered joint resolu-
ton proposing an amendment to the consttu-
ton OF the United States for the election of
President and Vice President directly by the
people. III :~rFrsr- ~
The House refused to suspend the previous
question and the resolution went over until next
Monday.
Mr.. Parker of N. H., offered resolution for
the taxation at one per cent. annually of U. s.
bonds and other securities, not exempt by law
from taxation by the United States.
The House refused to second the previous
question, 81 to II, and the resolution went over
till next Monday.
Mr. Frye of Maine, offered resolution for
public sessions of the Credit Mobilier Commit
tee.
The Speaker then submitted memorial from
John II. Alley, which was read. 1t represents
that great injnstice is being done to members
OF the House, as we'll as witnesses in the case
consequence of the investigation being con-
Quoted with closed doors. 1t states that he was
accosted at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York by an excited individual who had been
been reading what purported to be his (Alleys)
testimony in full, in the New York Sun, and
who threatened him (Alley) with personal vio-
lence for his Statements about him. On the
suggestion, however, that the publication was
not authentic, but an entlre fabrication, the
excited individual made all proper apologies,
and visited his denunciatons upon the editor
of that paper. (Llughter.)
Mr.. Stevenson OF o., asked Mr. Frye to &C
cept as substitute Sresoution that the iuves-
tigation be hereafter conducted in oeen session,
and that the testimony heretofore taken be
forthwith reported t. the House, an rec,n-
mendcd also that the committee inquire into
the origin aud character of the Ore lit MohlIer
Company, and whether any member of Ca
gress or public Off Ger has been interested in
the Credit MoblIer Go.
Mr.. FRYE declined to accept the substitute.
Mr.. Randall of Pa, asked Mr.. Frye to ac-
cept as substitute a resolution reciting the
fact that the U nion Pacific Railroad Co. is a
defaatef to the government in tue sum of So
337, 736 for Interest paid on its bonds, and that
the inability OF the company to pay such inter-
est has been occasoned mainly by the enor-
nous sums paid illegally and frau 1ulently to
the Credit Mobilier Co., and therefore directing
that a suit be brought against the latter and its
individual Stockholders to recover such interest
due the government.
Mr.. Frye declined to accept the substitute.
After remarks by Messrs. Poland, Niblack,
Coblrn, Farnsworth and Cox, the resolution
was adopted-yeas $780, pays Z; the negative
votes being by Messrs Hale, Hoar, Maynard,
Mckee, Pierce, Platt, and Twitchel.
Mr.. Hooper of Mass, Introduced a bill to
provide for the convertibillty of U. S. notes
into coin after the first of May 1874 Referred
to the Committee on Banking and Currency
| and ordered printed
! Mr.. Rand Ill moved the suspension of the
rules on the adoption of his resolution relative
to the Union Pacific Railroad which was
carried and the resolution was passed.
Intimation having been given that similar
| inquiry would be made as to the Central Pacific
road, Mr.. Wilson Of Indiana, offered resolu-
| ton for another select committee of five to in
| quire whether any stockholders of the Credit
Mo Iilitr held bonds of the Union Pacific Rail
Rad, and whether they obtained them for val
liable consideration, &c Adopted.
Mr.. Smith of New York, offered a resolution
| for erecting monument at Washington com
memorative of the Geneva peace arbitration.
Objected to- s.-.
The Senate amendments to the deficiency bill
| were concurred in. 49, -.. Is
A message from the President vetong the
| bill to remit the duties on spirits dertroyel in
Mr. SARGENT of California, offered a resolu-
| ton asking for Information to the suitability
| of the White House for the Pre- sident's official
and family residence. Adjourned.
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