Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-19
Brooks, of New York, On POland's
Report for His Expul-
SiOn--Judgment
Deferred.
In the Senate-The Bankrupt
Amendment Bill and the
Asiatic Cable Tele-
graph Bill.
COlfaX Again Vindicates Him.
self-A Most Pitiable Case
General Items Of
Interest.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
IN THE HOUSE.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-The bill
directing contract to be made with
Muertagh, of the Washington Repu6li-
can, for reporting and printing the de-
bates of Congress, was taken up. The
previous question was not seconded, by
vote of siXty-four to seventy-two, and
Mr.. Beatty, the manager of the hill,
having thus lost control of it, the House
went into Committee of the Whole on
the sundry civil appropriation bill.
On motion of Mr.. Sergeant ten thou
sand dollars were appropriated for a
statue of the late Senator Baker, of Cali
fornia, for the national Capitol
Propositions were made to strike out
the items in regard to the reports on fish
cries and on the French discoveries in
the Northwest, and in relation to the OBJ
servation of the transit of Venus on De-
cember 18th, but after much discussion
the items were retained in the bill.
After progressing with the bill as far
as page sixteen, the Committee rose, and
the Speaker having resumed the Chair,
Mr.. Poland rose to make the report of
the select Committee on Credit MObelier
Investigation. He presented the report
which the Clerk proceeded to read.
All the members implicated ty the re-
port were in their seats, Ames occupy
ing front seat and Brooks occupying
his own seat. The Speaker took seat
on the floor of the House, the Chair be-
ing occupied by Mr.. Cox New York,
Speaker pro TEN. The galleries We're
crowded with spectators, and more in
tense interest was manifested in the
proceedings.
The reading of the report having been
completed, Mr.. Poland rose and said
that the committee did not expect any
action to be taken on the report until it
was printed, and until each member had
had an opportunity of examining it.
nor did the committee propose to have a
day fixed for its discussion until then.
Mr.. Brooks rose and said that he de-
sired to submit to the Hogse in reply to
what seemed to him a most partial, un.
just and prosecuting report, two docu-
ments which had not been noticed at dli
by the committee. The first of these
documents was the verbal process of the
action instituted by McComb in the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania against
the Credit MObilier, in December, 1867,
containing list of the stockholders as
long ago as 1867.
Mr.. Poland said a list was printed at
length in the testimony.
MIR. Brooks: But it is not alluded to
in the report.
Mr.. Poland: We had no occasion to
allude to it in the report. If it has any
bearing on the case it will be before the
house because it is part of the testi-
mony. l do not design to be led into
discussion now.
The list was read, the point of it be-
ing that Mr.. Brooks's name did not
appear as a stockholder at that time of
the Credit Mobilier, and that Chas. n.
Nelson's name did appear as stock
holder of hundred and fifty shares,
and that this was before Mr.. Brooks was
appointed government director.
Mr.. Brooks also presented a verbal
process of another suit in Pennsylvania
between the same parties, showing the
same state of facts in respect to Nelson
holding stock, aud as to Brooks not
holding any.
Mr.. Poland remarked that as
these papers had been present
ed he would merely say that
although the suit was entitled
as of certain term, all the evidence
was that the suit was not actually COM
menced till the fall of 1865, and although
a paper attached TO some OF the pro-
eeedings in that suit gave date Deem
Ter u, 1867, as the date of the share
holders list, there was no question at all
that one hundred shares were given on
the twenty-sixth of December and fifty
shares on the twenty-nintb of February
thereafter.
Mr.. Brooks remarked that a man may
be the owner of stock long before his
ownership becomes matter of record.
He called attention to the fact that on
several occasions he had either voted
against the interest of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, or had refrained
from voting.
Mr.. Butler suggested that the discus
sion of the subject should be fixed for
Tuesday next.
Mr.. Poland had no objection to that;
as to the question of rate of ownership of
stock, it was not contended at all that
it stood in Mr.. Nelson's name, until
the dates of the certificates. AS to Mr..
BroOks's votes in Congress, he Poland
would merely remark that at one time
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
and the Credit Mobilier were divided in
interest, and that Mr.. Brooks's action
and votes had been on the side repre-
sented by Mr.. Durant, from whom he
had received stock.
On motion of Mr.. Poland further pro-
ceedings under the report Were post
pOned until Tuesday next.
After reading the journal the House
again went into Committee of the
Whole, Mr.. Tyner in the Chair, and re-
sumed consideration of the sundry civil
appropriation bill. Without finishing
the bill the Committee rose and the
House adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-The
House bill declaring that the exemptions
allowed by the bankrupt law shall be
the amounts allowed by the constitution
and laws of each State in 1871, and that
such exemptions shall be valid against
debts contracted before the adoption of
such State constitutions, as well as to |
those contracted afterward, and against
liens by judgment or decree of any State
court, was taken up and passed.
Senator Sawyer, from the Committee on |
Education and Labor, reported with the
amendments to the Lewis Bill for the |
promotion of education in the Southern |
States as amended. The bill provides |
for distributing two million dollars to |
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West |
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Kentucky, Tennessee and the Dis
trict of Columbia, in ratio to their popula- |
tion for the education of children from
six to sixteen years old, irrespective of
color or condition.
The following bills on the calendar
were passed: House bill reported to-
day to encourage and promote tele-
graphic communication between Ameri- |
ca, Asia and Europe. House bill for
the relief of settlers on the Sioux In
dian Reservation IN Minnesota.
Mr.. Thurman moved to postpone the
ealander for the purpose of considering |
the two per cent. bin. Lost.
The consideration Of the calander WAS |
and the following bills !