Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
FORTY-F0URTH CONGRESS.

fUhI IsfU n OUN0nEOos
TUESDAY, Dec. 14.-The Attorney Gen.
erals annual report was laid before the Senate.
bill was passed extending the duration of the
court Of the Commissioners of Alabama Claims
six months resolution was passed-S5 TO 25--
calling upon the Secretary Of the Treasury for a
list of unsettled accounts OF Government officers
and defalcalions. After considerable debate the
motion to allow Mr.. Mcmillan to withdraw his
papers claiming seat as Senator from Louisiana
was agreed to-yeas 80, nays % Among the bills
introduced in the House was one by Mr.. Blaine,
proposing an amendment to the Constitution
pr viding that no State shall make any law re-
specting the establishment Of religion or pro-
hibitingt the free exercise thereof; and that no
money raised by taxation in any State for the
support of the public schools, or derived from
any public fdnd thereof, or any. public lands
devoted thereto, shall ever be under the
control of any religious sect; and that no
money or lands donated shall be di-
vided among religious sects or denominations A
bill was also introduced by Mr.. Davis Of North
Carolina, TO repesl the act forbidding the pay
ment of the accounts, claims and demands OF
Southern citizens for Quartermasters stores, ETC.,
and appropriaiing S5O0,00c to pay for the same.
Othrr bills were introduced-to repeal the act for
| the resumption Of specie payments; against sub
sidies and grants of lands 10 railroads. to reduce
postage; to establish a mint in st. Louis fer the
coinage of gold and silver; TO remove political
disabilities from all citizens OF the United States
| to provide for the admission Of Utah as State
| to fund United States legal-tender notes
and to prepare the way for the resump-
| tion of specie payments as soon as practicable
| TO amend the Constitution relative to the
| Presidential term of office. The Senate bill
| extending the duration of the court OF the
Alabama Commission was passed. Resolutions
| were offered and laid over under the rule-re-
! Questing the President to transmit to the House
| all the correspondence in reference to the dis-
missal OF ex-senator John B. Henderson as ono
| of the special counsel of the United States In
the prosecution Of the whisky-fraud cases before
| the United States Court at st. Louis; directing
| the Secretary OF the Treasury TO transmit copies
IOfa aIlla a1 inStTuctinna
| relating to the organization and prosecution oi
| the present movement against the whisky ring at
| st. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee; directing the
Secretary OF War to transmit copies, orders and
instructions under which Quartermaster-Gen
Meiggs is acting fOr the Government during his
absence from the United States.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. IA large number
of memorials were presented in the Senate ask
ing for the appointment of commission to in
quire into the manufacture and sale Of intod
| eating liquors. Mr.. Morton submitted resolu
ton for the appointment Of committee
of five to inquire into the frauds, violence
and intimidation alleged, 70 have been
| practiced at the late election in Mis-
sissppi. Mr. Morton also submitted concurrent
resolutions declaring that the people OF the
United States are one people in the sense OF ma
tional unity; that the National Governments moi
| a compact between the states in their municipal
and corporate characters, but was formed by The
people OF the United States in their primary ca
pacity; that the rights OF the States are dehnet
and guaranteed by the Constitution, and not by
an outside theory of State sovereignty, and tina
the rights Of the States cannot be enlarged o
diminished except by an amendment to the Con
stituuon; that local domestic government by the
States within the limits Of the Constitution, is al
essential Of our free republican system; that the
doctrine that a State has the right TO s0ede IRON
the Union Is inconsistent with the idea of nation
atty Is In conflict with the spirit aud structure
the Constitution, and should be regarded as haV
ing been forever extinguished by the suppression
| Of the rebellion. Considerable debate was haI
on resolution offered by Mr.. Stevenson callinl
| for information relative TO the prosecution OF tn
parties accused of whisky frauds, and the resolu
ton was withdrawn e, Several bills were intro
| duced in the House, among which We're: II
| amend the Postage law relating to p stage OF
third-class mailable matter; for the removal o
all political disabilities imposed by the -Four
| teenth Amendment to the Constitution; re
duclng the salary of the President alte
| March 4, 1877. resolution was ofieTeI
and referred declaring in favor of promp
legislation to render effective the act of Jan. II
1875, providing for the return to specie paymen
| on the LIST of January. 1879. "A resolution declar
ING against the granting by Congress Of subsi
dies to public or private associations or corpora
tons was adopted yeas sss pays SS A. reeolu
tion was also adOpted--232 TO 18- declaring tina
any departure from the time-honOred custom
adopted by Washington and other Presidents II
retiring from office after their second terms woul
| be unwse, unpatrotic and frapght with peril 4
our free Institutions. House adjourned to tn
18th. ER
THURSDAY, Dec. 16.-Bills were intro
duced in the Senate-to provide for the appoint
ment Of a committee on the subject of the alec
holic liquor traffic; TO authorize the appointment
OF special agents to investigate frauds under tn
Pension laws. A resolution adopted by III
House to adjourn on he 9th To Ian. 4was amend
cd by inserting Jan. o, aud adopted Mr.. Spencer
of Alabama, offered a resolution, which wa
adopted instructing the Committee on Priv
leges and Elections to inquire into the manne
Of his election TO the Senate, as TO whether col
rupt means had been used TO secure his election
as had been alleged Mr. horton's resolution