The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-02-19
REroETED rIrRrssLr roR rur xonxrxo LEADER
MIG HIT REP OR II.
Ransom Stops Appealing iu
the Halls of the Senate
from Exhaustion.
Extra Session of the Senate.
WaShburn'S Friends have
Withdrawn his Name.
Salt Lake Items.
Another Credit Mobilier
Squelched.
Foreign Intelligence.
John Mitchell aud the Brit
ish Parliament.
The Plnchbeck Resolution
Tabled.
Foreign Intelligence.
John Mitchell and the Brit
iSh Parliament.
The PlnchbeCk Resolution
Tabled.
WASHINGTON.

Washington, Feb. lS.-Senale. At
for II motion to adjourn, which was
rejected, yeas 4, nays SO, and the dis
cussiOn was continued. At $3.50 this
morning Edmunds offered the fol-
lowing amendment:
Strike out the resolution for the
admission of Pinrhbeck and insert
the following: That the committee
on privileges and elections be and is
hereby instructed to report forthwith
Il bill declaring that no constitutional
government exists III louisiana and
providing for the election of Cover
nor, Lieutenant Governor, and mem
hers Of the General Assembly Of the
State of Louisiana, and all other
State officers which by the C0nstitu-
ton Of that State are to be elCcttd d by
vo,e of the people thereof Ran
som then took the floor and spoke at
some length of his desire to rCstO Z
peace and good will between the
North and South. He spoke till
noon, when he was obliged to stop
on account of exhaustion, and asked
the privilege Of being heard hcrcnf-
ter. Boutwell, then took the floor.
House. A number of bills from the
judiciary Committee were reported
and passed. Buffers postal telegraph
bill was reported, when a point of
order was rails ed by Willard and sup
ported by Garfield and Randall, that
it should receive its first consideration
in the committee of the whole. The
Speaker overrulcd the point, and But
Ter proceeded to explain and defend
the bill. He attacked the Associated
Press and the Western Union tcle-
graph company, and said they were
m0nnp0lics that sought TO contro. the
news business Of the country. Pierce,
of Massachusetts, asked his colleague
if it was intended that the seventh
section, fixing penalties for divuIging
telegraphic intelligence, should be re-
troactive, so rs to punish persons who
Intercepted messages sent from Wash
ington, say a year ago. There was
some laughter when Butler replied in
the negative. Merriam, of New York
said that the bill embodied the most
monstrous propositions that had been
presented to the House for many n
day. He thought the title should be
changed to bill to enable rival tel
egraph company to partake Of the
profits Of the Western Union telegra PHI
company without rendering any ser
vice therefor. He sent to the clerk 5
desk and had read long communica-
ton from President Orton, of the
Western Union company, criticising
the details Of the bill and denOuncing
it as stock-jobbing movement. But
Ter moved the previous question,
which the House refused to second, SO
to II, not two-thirds in the affirna-
tive. Potter, of New York, character
lied the bill as the most extraordinary
introduced in Congress within his
experience. The telegraph lines were
not the property o. the United States,
they were neither built nor subsidized
by the government, nor even by the
authority Of the government, yet it is
proposed that Congress should take