The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Mr. Merrimon. of
| North Carolina closed his six hours speech
at 8 o'clock this morning.
| Edmunds, at $50 this morning, offered the
following amendment. To strike out the reso-
luton seating Pinchback and insert thai the
Committee on Privileges and Elections be
and it is hereby instructed to report forthwith
bill declaring that no Constitutional gov
eminent exists in Louisiana, and providing
for the election of the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, members of the General Assembly
for Louisiana, and all other State officers
which are by the Constitution of that State
electable by the people of that State
Mr.. Ransom, OF North Carolina, then took
the floor, and spoke at some length on the de-
sire to restore peace between the Moth and
South.
Mr.. Thurman said the question before the
Senate was not question tor Congress, but
question for the Senate alone If there is to
be an extra session this resolution could be
considered then, and it seemed to be admit
ted on all hands, that an extra session of the
Senate would be convened on the 4th of
March. He believed that it was the first
duty of the Senate to provide means to carry
on the government, and would therefore vote
for taking up the Appropri alton bills.
Mr.. Morrill,, Of Maine, said he was disposed
to regard this resolution entirely as an order
of business, and with the view to getting the
Indian Appropriation bill before the Senate
he moved to lay the resolution on the table.
Upon this question the yeas and nays were
ordered, and the resolution was tabled. Yeas,
80; nays, %; as follows
Conkling, Cooper, Davis, Dennis, Eaton, Ed
munds, Fenton, Frelinghuysen, Goldthwaite,
Gordon, Hager, Hamilton Of Maryland, Hamil-
ton of Texas, ingalls,, johnson, Kelly.
McCreery Merrimon, Morrill, of Maine, Nor
rill Of Vermont, Norwood, Ransom, Robert
son, Salisbury, Schurz, Scott Sprague,
Stevenson, Stockton, Thurman, Upton, Wad-
leigh, Washburne, Window and Wright-39.
Nays-Boreman, Cameron, Chandler, Clay
ton, Couover, Craein, Ferry of Michigan,
Flanagan, Hamlin, Harvey. Howe, Jones, Lo-
gan, Morton, Oglesby, Patterson, Pratt, RAM
sey Sargent, Spencer, Stewart and West-22
Ferry, Of Connecticut, who would have
voted in the affirmative was paired off with
Boutwell,, who would have voted in the mega.
tive.
Mr. West moved the Senate adjourn. Re-
jected-yeas 6, nays 81.
Mr. Window, of Minnesota moved that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of the
Indian Appropriation bill. Agreed to.
The Indian Appropriation bill was then
taken up, and the Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
The House spent three hours on the Tariff
bill. All amendments offered by the oppo-
nents of the measure were voted down but
an amendment was dopted, on motion of Mr.
Dawes, increasing the tax on domestic cigars
from SIS to Sc thousand, and on cigarettes
from 50 so to 50 IS.
Having got through with the first two sec
tons of the biA-the whisky and tobacco Sec
L.
took up as special order the bill reported by
Mr.. Stanard, of Missouri, from the Commit
tee on Commerce, for the improvement of the
mouth of the Mississippi River on the Eads
ietty system. The House passed the Eads
bill without division.
The House then resumed the Tariff bill.
The third section, abolishing the tax on