Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-09
NASHVILLE TENN. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1876.

Gus alike for the liberties Of the people and
/ the free institutions Of the country.
The motion was lost, ayes 81, noes 102
| All who voted tor it with the exception d
Smith, Of North Carolina, were DemOeI ats
and all against it Republicans.
Mr.. Dawes moved to suspend the rules
to make it in order to offer TO an appropria-
ton bill an amendment for the mOdifca-
ton, suspension or repeal Of section 25 Of
the revised statutes, regulating the time for
holding elections for Representatives in
Congress. He stated that in order to make
the time uniform, as the law required, sew
eral State constitutions would have to be
changed between now and 1876. Motion
was agreed to, yeas 161, nays o..
Mr.. Dawes also offered a resolution re-
citing that VIM. S King, Of Minnesota
temporarily residing in Washington, had
ned into the Dominion Of Canada in order
to eVade the service Of a summons duly
Issued by the Speaker Of the House, com
manding him to appear as a witness before
the Committee Of Ways and Means in the
Pacific Mail investigation; that he was
served with such summons on the I'd Of
February, 1875, in Compton, Canada, and
that he has neglected to appear before such
committee pursuant to the summons, and
directing the Speaker to issue his warrant
commanding the Sergeant-at-Arms to take
him into bis custody wherever found and
bring him before the bar Of the House to
answer for contempt Of its authority.
Several members called attention to the
broad character Of the proposed warrant,
and Mr.. Dawes said that it Of course only
meant to apply to the United States. He
modified the resolution accordingly.
Mr.. Butler, Of Massachusetts,, asked how
a man could be pronounced in contempt Of
the House when not duly and legally sum-
moned, and he could not be so summoned
outside Of the jurisdiction Of the United
States.
Mr. Randall reminded Nr. Butler that in
Andrew JohnsOn's impeachment case Wit
nesses had been supoened in Canada.
Mr.. Butler said that they had not been
subpRnaed, but had been requested 70 at
tend.
Mr.. Dawes said that the Committee Of
Ways and Means had expressed no Opin-
ion On the question, but simply brought
the matter TO the attention Of the House.
Mr.. Eass0n explained that the subpoena
had been sent over a week ago to Malone,
y. Y, where King was temporarily resid-
ing, but, on learning the fact, he escaped to
Canada. TIE question, therefore, was,
whether such an attempt successfully
made to evade the service Of the Speakers /
summons was not contempt Of the House?
he said that the proof was positive that
King had run away to eyade the process Of
the House.
After some further discussion, Mr..
Dawes withdrew the resolution.
Mr.. SaylOr, Of Indiana, from the Com
mittee on Patents, made an adverse report /
on the application for the extension Of the
Wilson Sewing Machine patents. The re-
port shows that the patents have been in
twenty-One years; that cOmbina-
tiOns Of sewing machine companies which
own the patents have received $1,000, 900
from them, and that the public has, there
fore, paid heavily for the invention. The
report vas laid on the table.
Adjourned.