The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-28
The Radical Defaulters in
Louisiana.
The Militia Organizing to
Protect the People.
Accidents, Fires, Crimes,
Etc, Etc.
Other Items of Interest.
MASHINGTnN. Jan

/ WASHINGTON, Jan. p.
/ The House reaSsembled at 10 O'Clock,
the hour before the regular time of meet
ing being considered part of the legislative
/ day of yesterday, to be divided among
members of the meeting to speak on the
/ expulsion resolutions.
| MIR. Bird favored expulsion.
Mr.. Holman took similar ground and
regarded this as the first great contest be
( tween representative government and the
great corporations.
/ Mr.. Townsend, of New York. declared
himself against the right of expulsion.
The remedy for the decay of morals was
not be found in expulsion
/ Mr.. Wood differed somewhat from either
side on the question of jurisdiction He
thought the committee exceeded its au-
thority and their report did not justify ex-
/ pulsion. Ames was the chosen victim be-
cause he told the truth, turned states evi-
dence. Mr.. Brooks, he argued, could not
be eomprehended within the scope of jur-
isdiction Of the committee He would
vote against expulsion.
Mr.. Potter favored some form Of con-
demnation, but thought expulsion dan
ger0us precedent.
Mr. Speer thought the House could ex-
pei for offences before election He was
for expelling Mr. Brooks. He believed
Messrs Dawes and Scofeld innocent but
thought Messrs Kelly and Garfield guilty.
AT eleven to-day session began. Mr..
Sargent offered an amendment to the res
olutions reciting parliamentary doubts in
the case, and condemning the conduct of
Messrs Ames and Brooks.
Mr. HOar suggested that such an amend
ment created a still worse precedent
Mr. Poland then closed the debate.
he House refused TO lay the expulsion
resolutions upon the table. yeas 50. navs
l64.
The resolution censuring Mr.. Brooks
was adopted, yeas ia, nays b
On the vote to lay the expulsion resolu-
tions on the table Messrs. Ames, Bing-
ham, Brooks, Dawes, Kelley and Scofeld
did not vote
On the vote adopting Mr.. Sargent S
substitute Mr. Voorhees, voted in the
affirmative and Mr. Brooks voted against
the resolution condemning the conduct of
Ames. The language of Mr. Sargent 5
resolution is that the House absolutely
condemns the conduct OF Mcssrs. Ames
and Brooks and then briefly details the
Credit MObilier transactions.
\ resolution discharging the special
committee was rejected, yeas I04, nays
ia
While the House was voting on the res
olution TO lay the whole Credit Mobiher
matter on the table, Mr. Brooks held his
head down, apparently absorbed in read
ing. MIR Ames sat on one of the front
Q 1 1
apparently following the vote attentivelv.
y bouquet stood on the desk before
him. The vote was taken in perfect 81
lence, with solemn stiffness pervadng
the hall so that the responses were dis
tinctly heard. The members seats were
all filled and the galleries packed. Mr..
Sargent first resolution, censuring Oakes
Ames was adopted by yeas lSl, nays SO.
" hen the vote was declared in the
House to-day respecting Mr. Brooks, he
cOnspicuously left his seat and went first
TO Elliot, cOlOred representative from South
! Carolina, and thanked him at length. and
emphatically, for the vote which he had
given, and he then did likewise TO Mr..
Ralney, also from South Carolina. whose
seat was in distant part of the House.
This spectacle attracted great attention
At the evening session the House took
up the resolution offered by Mr.. Speer cen
suring VIM. D. Kelley. The latter asked
the House to give TO a member of the
American Congress those privileges that
are secured to the vagrant charged with
petty larceny or the assassin. The reso-
luton was tabled by III to 75
Mr.. Stevenson offered a resolution con-
demning the conduct of Samuel Hooper
in investing in Credit Mobilier stock. Its
consideration was refused by 75 to los
On motion of Mr.. Sargent the select
committee was then discharged from fur
ther consideration of the Credit Mobiher
matter
The House then went into committee
OF the whole, Dawes in the chair, and re-
sumed consideration of the Senate amend
ments to the legislative, executive and iu-
dietary appropriations
Adjourned at ii o'clock.
SENATE.-Mr. Hill offered a substitute
embodylng his views in favor of forming
the legislature out Of the legally elected
members of both bodies now claiming to
be the legislature of Louisiana, and auth
orizing this new legislature so formed to
count the returns of the last election and
declare who are the legally elected State
officers
Mr. Logan presented the credentials of
X. j. Oglesby, Senator elect from Illinois.
At the instance of Mr.. Carpenter a New
Orleans dispatch was read stating that the
people of the country, like the people in
the city, will never yield obedience to the
Kellogg government. 1t can never collect
the taxes and can only be maintained by
force. That force will have to be United
States troops in every parish. Mr.. Nor
gan argued against the BILL Mr.. Schurz
asked il the people were paying taxes to
the Kellogg government. Mr.. Carpenter
made an elaborate argument in support of
the, majority report. Having described
both Louisiana governments as fraudulent,
Mr.. Morton remarked that the Senator
from Wisconsin tCarpenter) seemed to
prefer Yarmouth fraud to Kellogg fraud.
MIR. Carpenter | do, because it is a
smaller one.
Mr.. West said he thought Mr.. Hills
substitute might be so amended as to meet
the views of the cOntending parties in
Louisiana and he moved to postpone furtb-
for consideration of the bill until the even
ing session. The motion was lost and Mr.
Hill advocated his substitute until recess
was taken.
i MIR. Morrill,, of Maine, submitted the re.
port of the Senate Credit MobiEer com.
mittee accompanied by the following reso
luton:
4 Resotced, That James W. Patterson be
and Is hereby expelled from his seat as ;
member of the Senate.
The debate on the Louisiana bill wa