The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-11
HOUSE

HOUSE
Mr.. Knapp offered a resolution di-
recting the Secretary OF the Treasury -
report the amount Of certified checks
for clearing house certificates OF deposit
issued to redemption; what banks are
still doing busluess that have suspend
ed payment to their deposItors and the
banks that are still in suspension. Re-
ferred.
Mr.. Bradley asked to have put upon
ils passage the bill extending TO April
1876, the time for the completion OF the
Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan ship canal. Objection was
raised and the bill was referred to the
Committee OF the whole.
Mr.. Packer, fr"H ti.r P0,;otlice Com.
mit,ee. repg.i .. b'l amendatory Of
the postoiiice Jaw 10y prescribing an
oath of office to be taken by post
masters. Passed.
Mr.. Stowell from the same ,!ornmlt-
tee made an adverse report or the bill
to provide for the public advertisement
of mail lettings in newspapers
published in the Congressional district
where the routes are located, having the
largest circulation in tie dis
trict. He sad 1t would increase the
present annual cost OF advertising from
Sl32, 900 to s350,00O. Laid on the ta-
Bile.
Mr.. Slowell, also from the same COM
mittee, reported a bill providing that
on mail matter of the third class the
name and address OF the sender may be
written, and also the number and kind
of the article enclosed and there may
also be written in any book or pamph-
let sent through the mail, the form OF
presentation, without extra postage
being charged.
On motion OF Mr.. G. S. Hoar, the
bill was made to apply to matter here
to!ore sent, aud then passed.
Mr. Butler, OF Massachusetts, rose
to a personal explanation. 1t had
been represented that the Judiciary
Committe had taken certain action with
certain improper view. 1t had also
been represented that the Committee on
Ways and Means had been approached
through him by the Secretary OF the
Treasury, on questions affecting, more
or less, the propriety Of the adminisJa
tons action. He sent to the the C lerk,
and had read, a Washington dispatch
to New York paPe' Of Satur'
day last to the effect that
the Judiciary Committee OF the
House had agreed to report a bill ol
Mr.. Morey, OF Louisiana, for the estab-
| shment OF two United States Courts in
Louisiana, in lieu OF Judge Durrelrs
present court, and that Mr. Butler was
anxious to push the Morey bill before
any action should be had on the Dur.
relI impeachment articles. Now,
said Mr.. Butler. there ia not in that
paragraph one word of truth
Now, as to the Committe on
Ways and Means, l desire to have
another newspaper paragraph read
Here the clerk read an extract from the
New York Herald, stating that Mr..
Butler was hard at work to save bic
friends in Brooklyn, whose heads were
in danger in consequence OF the Sanborn
case that he had been before the Com
mittee on WAYS and Means and had
made. an argument in favor OF
resembling the resolution calling On the
Secretary OF the Treasury for inorma-
tion about the iniquitous contract under
which Mr.. Sanborn had been receiving
50 per cent. oil the dues collected, &c.
Mr.. Butler declared this paragraph un-
true, aud continued. 81 have ;elt il was
my duty, not for myself, because | am
ironclad to these attacks, but as due to
the House, the country, and the new8-
paper press, to make this explanation.
II newspaper publishers have any sense
of honor or propriety they should know
the lies they pay io.. Pardon me, |
will take that back. The stories that
they pay to have put upon wires every
night, l assume that they do not know
and therefore they publish them un>
knowingly. We shall know whether
they desire TO disseminate true or false
intelligence about Congress. ! have
no words OF characterization OF these
studied false reports in the great
metropolitan journals. l am afraid
that il l should designate them as !
think they ought to be designated, !
should exceed the bounds OF psrlismen-
tsry p-opriety, and then should be
; accused OF blackguardism in the House.
l suppose it is parliamentary for me tc
use these words which our instructors
of the press have told US are proper
: lsngus ge to characterize a statement
= which was used by one whom they at
E tempted to make President and whom
{ they caunonized for his good qualitie:
? when be replied to the statement mad,
! BY Lieutenant Governor Raymond il
! the New York Times, you lie you
: william, you lie!" Lsugbtsr.
: The House then went into the Com
{ mittee of the Whole, Mr.. Kellogg il
4 the chair, on the navy appropriation
bill