Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-12-18
WASHINGTON, ID. G., Dee. Is, 1876.
CONGRESS,

TEtotIt9N4oS1 ~ w ~ - ~
CONGRESS-.
lu the Senate, TO day, a bill g~rantiog right
| of way 10 the Denver aud Rio Grand Railroad,
was introduced.
A Till was passed for the ~rrlicfof the Fourth
Arkansas regiment.
\ resolution for Il recess from the 22d OF De-
aeuber until the Sd Of January, was introduced
aud laid over.
air. Thurman Indicated that he would OPP
pose it.
Mr.. Edmunds asked to call up his resolution
ior the appointment OF a committee to confer
with the House COMMITTEE to arrange a proper
plan for c%ouatiog the electoral vote for Presi-
deut, and declariog the result.
1t was laid over temporarily.
The Senate then took up the veto message
OF the President disapproviag Of the act of
Congress reducing the salary .! the President
TO So, 900 per aunum
Mr.. Thurman said he was suro that MIR. Til
den could live on $50, 600 a year, and he would
vote for it. Laughter.
Mr.. Edmuuds-Mr. Tilhea will have to live
on !css thar that. 80 lar as thu United States
is concerned. IRencwaa laughter.
Mr. McCreery, Of Ky, supported the bill in
u noble speech, concluding: let US return to
former days. If there is less of ostentatlon
there will be more Of honor" Let Us purify
ambition by.",strikiug down the temptations Of
a~varioa.
The bill WIS supported By Mr.. Conkliug and
opposed by MIR. Hami;a.
Co passing it over the veto the vote WAS %
yeas aud 10 uays.
MIR. Johnson voted yea and Mr.. Withers
nay.
As The affirmative vote is not tWo-ttirds tho
bill! was not passed.
la The House OF Representatives,, lmuledl-
atc!y after the reading OF the Journal, tho
States we're called for the introduction OF bills,
resolutions, Sc., Tor reference, and under the
c;l a uumber CT bills we're introduced and ap'
propriately referred, among them oae
BY Major Douglas, to provide for the
settlement OF tha o!a!as OF The otlccrS OF the
Revolutionary amy.
By Mr.. Knott, Of Ky, u bill providing hr
the counting Of the electoral vote-the Senate
to ioin with the House, ia The hall Of the
House. ia the count, aud in certain c%ontlngen'
cies the President Of the Seoate anu the
Sneaker of the House to act coaJ ,intiyi All
questions Of dispute to be considered by the
ioipt assembly, aud IN case CT 10 agreement 10
the choice the vote is to be taken 10 joint SIS
sioh. per capita.
A resolution requesting the Postmaster Gen
erai ia furnish a statement o! amounts due
mail contractors for carrying the U. ). mails
in the Southern States at the breaking out oil
the war, and which could not be paid Ia con
| sequence of the inability Of sid contractors to
take the required oath, was adopted.
\ bill extending the protection OF tho U. ).
| GoyerDmept to voters. especially IN the south,
introduced uy Mr.. ilaic, went over.
\ resolution to investigate the elections ID
| Mississippi and Alabama was presented BY
Mr.. Frey, bu: did not receive ii sec)nd anu
went over.
A dispatch from MIR. liurlbnr; contrsd'ct'ng
MI. Morrison's New Orlcaus dispatch 10 the
Speaker, was read, and, alter som9 debate mp
on the rules admitting it, was referred.
A resolution. offered by Mr.. Warren, OF
Massachusetts,, looking to an Investigation 10
TO the conduct Of Judge Bond, 10 South Caro-
lioa, was not passed Tor want Of tito requisite
,wo.tbirds yote-the radicals voting IN the ne
gativc.
Mr.. Buuuius again introduced his resolution
to get, officially, tie orders Of Gen. Sheridan
removing Wells from tie GoSerrorshlp 0
Louisiana in 1867, in which Sheridan spok'
most dispalugingiy of Wells, tn: The requisite
tyo-thirds could not 90 o5.aiu"d, tho r,d'cals
rs y upit, voting in thc II ga,!re
y resolution 10 prevent The payment OF dis
loyal claisns bs constitutional; amendment
was adopted.
A~DJoURSMSNT.
1t is not likely tha. there will be a pcotTacte
recess at Christmas-ouly en- ad journment .
three days, and q like adjournment 10: Nc'
Years.
Counting the Vote.