Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-17

! t. report what amount Is due McMll- |
| Ian aud Ray, as contestants.
| Morton introduced Joint resolution |
| shat the United States constitute
nation, and that the rights of States |
cannot be enlarged or diminished ex- |
! cept by Constitution amendment. and |
! that secession Is !mpossl BILE.
The same moved that n committee |
of five be appointed to v sit Mississippi, |
| aud Investigate the election.
! Cooper gave notice that he would |
! OH Tuesday next ask the consideration |
. of the resolutions commemorative of |
tho life services OF his late colleague,
Andrew Johnson.
Morton submitted the following reso- |
luton !:
Whereas, Il is alleged that the eiec
ton in Mississippi for Members of
Congress, State officers and members
of the Legislature e, was characteriz ed
by great frauds. violence and intimida
tior. whereby the freedom of the bal
lot was in a great measure destroyed
reign of terror established ballot
boxes stuffed spurious tickets i'm
posed upon voters. 80 that a popular
m iority of more than $4,000 was
overcome. and in it's place Vas given
al apparent, but fraudulent maj Jrlty
of more than 25, 600. and
Whereas. The Legislature thus
chosen will have the election nf a ) H.
ator to represent that State In this body,
aud
Whereas, If these allegations are
true. a great number of the citizsrs of
| the Unit q States have had th-ir II g hts
under the Constitution and laws of the
United States wickedly violated, there
fore
: Resolved, That committee of five
Senators be appoint d by the Char
; to investigate the truth of said ailega-
tons, and the circumstances ate nd
ing said ell ction, with power to visit
} SAID State to make their Investigations;
) t. send for persons aud papers, and TO
use all necessary process III the per-
. formaEce of their duties, and to make
: report to the Senate before the end
t of this session, of their Investigations
and tindings.
At the re quest OF BayArd, of Del,
J the resolution was laid over until to-
9 morrow.
l Morton also submitted the following:
1 Resolved, BY the Senate, the House
8 of Representatives. concurring, that
, the people of the Uplted States cOnsti-
1 tnte nation, and are one people III
q the sense of national unity.
i Resolved. That the Government OF
1 the United States is not compact
: between the States in their munici pal
: aud corporate characters, but was
v formed by the people of the United
2 States i'll their primary capa ,lty 4; tina
i the tights of the States are defined
g and guaranteed by the Constitution,
, aud not by any outside theory of State
d sovereignty, aud .hat the rights of the
z States cannot be enlarged or diminish
t ed except by an amendment to the
: Constitution.
: Resolved. That the rights of the
|, States have the same sanction and
: security in the Constitution. as the
rights aud powers of the Nation Il
Government, and that local and do
n nleStic governments by the States,
e within the limits of the Constitution,
u is ali essential part of our free Repub
e lean system.
y Resolved, That the doctrine, that 81
= State mas the right to secede from the
!, Union, is Inconsistent with the idea of
g nationality is iD conflict with the
e spirit aud structure of the Constitu-
+ ton, and should be regarded as hav-
d ing been forever extiDguished by the
e supp, ession of the rebellion.
II Stevenson, of KY, submitted the
d following:
Resolved That the Secretary of the
e" Treasury, be, and he is hereby re-
l. quested to transmit to the Senate copies
d of ali the letters, kilograms, orders and
It instructions relating to the organiza
a ton and prosecution of the alleged in
1t fractions OF the Internal Revenue laws
e at ST. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee,
d if not deemed incompatible with the
(, public interest.
o After long argument, and much OBJ
It lection from the Republican side, MIR.
Stevenson withdrew it
ii House-Several financial and postal
" bills we're in reduced and referred
Randall intr oduced bill removing
q all the d disabilities impos by the 3rd
n section of the 14th article of amend
= ments to the Constitution.
Set for Tuesday next, after reading
of the Journal.
Is Ra,ney. Of S. c., introduced a bill
10 abolish the Committee of Freed
mans Affairs of the House.
HOLMAN, of Ind, offered the follow
re Ing resolution
n Resolved, That in the Judgment Of
, this House. i'll the present condition
IF the hnan .ial affairs of the Govern
= ment, no subsidies in money, bonds.
n pubic lands, endorsements, or by the
pledge of the public credit, should be
+ granted by Congress to associations or
N corpOratlOus engaged. or proposing 60
- engage IN pubic or private Ell: erprises,
10 aud that all appropriations from the
~ public Treasury ought to- be limited at
w tins time 10 such amounts only a. shall
az be imperatively demanded by the pub
.g lie service.
,f Adopted.
% Springer. of Illinois, offered a reso.
Z. Iutiou declaring that in the opinion Of
A. the House, the precedent established
le by Washington and other Presidents
~ of the United States, in retiring from
y the Presidential Office after their Sec
Is "nd term has become by unl gersal con-
VI currence, part of our Republican
~ system of Government and that any
=. departure from that time -houored Gus
m tom would be unwise. urpatriotic and
\ fraught with evil to our free iustitu-
r lions. Adopted. Yeas 232 nays 49,
l. Among the nays were. HARRISON, OF
n Alabama; Hoge, of South Carolina;
" Lyman, Of North Carolina; Nash, of
IN Louisiana; Smalls. of South Carolina;
"A Walls, of Florida; Wells, of Missis-
sippi, aud White. of Kentucky.
On motion of Blaine, Rainey's reso-
( on Freedmen's Affairs, was agreed to-
The House passed a concurrent reso-
N luton to adjourn over from next Mon
re day till Tuesday, 4th of January. Ad-
"a journed till Friday.
NEW YORK.