New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-06
BY TELEG R APH .
CONGRESS-.
Senate.

WASHINGTON. August 5.-Tne bill for
counting the presidential vote was called
up and laid over informally.
Mr.. Morton moved to take up the resolu-
tion and print ten thousand copies OF the
Presidents Hamburg messa ge and accom-
palylhg documents.
Mr.. Thurman hoped it woald not be taken
up, because it would give rise to very
useless debate. There was more important
business before the Senate than printing
papers as mere electioneering documents.
The usual number of copies OF this message
had already been printed for the use OF the
Senate, and so far as the information was
needed for the purpose of legislation. a
sufficient number OF copies were before the
body. The only OhJec5 III printing these
ten thousand copies was t. circulate them
as electioneering documeD }.
The motion to take up ne resolution was
agreed to; yeas 80, nays IL, strict party
vote.
Mr.. Morton said he agreed with his friend
from Ohio that there was hnt one OH tct IN
having these documents printed, and that
was to circulate them among the people
and convey to them intoi nation upon this
subject.
During the debate, which lasted all day,
Mr.. Thurman said all the cticers OF South
Carolina were Republicans.
Mr.. Patterson said he ished the Senator
and say the jurors OF the State were also
Republicans.
Mr.. Thurman said when any man said
that becanse juror was not Republican
he could not render an honest judgment,
he libelled his State.
Mr.. Patterson denied thas any person had
ever been punished in South Carolina tor
political murder.
Mr.. Thurman said probably the case had
never been made out to warrant q Judg-
ment Of guilty.
Mr.. Patterson replied tLey had been 30
made out frequently.
Mr.. Thurman-That is the Senators as
sertion against the jurors oath. prefer to
take the Jurors oath.
The DEBATE lasted all day.
After q short executive session the Senate
adjourned.
The silver bill went over with the expira-
ton of the morning hour.
The reports of the committees on the eX-
penditures of the War Department and the
Department of Justice were made and Or
| dered printed.
Mr.. Cox, chairman of the Committee on
| Banking and Currency, reported bill re-
| pealing the resumption act. He would al
| low an hour and half for debate, but de-
| clined to allow amendments. He opened
| by saying that fixing day for resumption
| was hopeless menace to prosperity; 1t dld
! no good, and that it was utterly useless Tor
| all practical purposes.
| In the vote on seconding tie previous
| question most of the Republicans abstained
| from voting, thus leaving the House ap-
! parently without a quorum and preventing
action on the bill. After some time wasted
| in the call of the House, Mr.. Cox allowed
| Mr.. Hewitt's proposition to be offered as q
substitute, and then the previous question
io1 nhyaofIOn VHfA
was then taken on Mr.. Hewitts substitute,
| which provides for commission OF three
| Senators, three members of the House and
| three experts, to be selected BY and ass0-
| ciated with the Senators and members, to
| consider what measures are necessary and
| practicable IN order to bring about the re-
sumption of specie payments at the earliest
possible time consistent with due regard
| to the interests of the country, and to re-
| port bill embodying the results Of its in-
! vestigation on or before the fifteenth OF De-
| cember 1876.
Mr. Fort, of Illinois, wanted to know
whether Mr.. Hewett offered his substitute
as chairman of the National Democratic
| Committee, but his question was only
| answ cred BY loud calls to order ami great
noise and confusion, in which the Speakers
| gavel took leading part. As the vote
! progressed great interest was manifested
in the result Mr.. Stone, of Missouri, had
| chair in the area, near the Clerks desk,
and kept tally of the vote, and a group
| of members gathered around him to watch
| how 1t was going. Other members were
making inquiries at the Clerks desk, and
finally the Speaker pro tenn. had to insist
| on members taking their seats and not in
terfering with the Clerks duties. Finally
the vote was announced as yeas 92 nays
| l04, so the substitute was rejected
The vote was then taken on the bill re-
1 l. r. >t1o( (Nrv,,v ktnrr
Banking and Currency, and it was passed.
Yeas JOG, nays S3.
The following is the vote on the repeating
of the resumption act:
Yeas-Messrs. Ainsworth, Anderson, At
kins, Banning, Bland, Boone, Bradford,
Bright, Brown of New York, Brown of
Kentucky, Cabell, Caldwell of Alabama.
Caldwell of Tennessee, Campbell, Cannon,
Casson. Cate. Caultield, Clark of Kentucky
Clark of Missouri, Clymer, Cockrane, Col
Inns, Cook, Cox, Dibrel. Douglas, Dur
ham, Eden,:: Evans, Faulkner, FELTON,,
Finley, Forney, Fort. Franklin. Cause,
Goode, Goodwin, Gunter, Harrison,
Hartzell, Raymond, Henke. Hereford,
Holman, Hooker, House, Hubbell, Hunton,
Indiana, Lane, Lawrence, Lewis, Lynde,
Mackey, Marsh, Mcfarland, McMahon,
Milliken, Mills, Morgan. Mulchler, Neal,
New, Payne, Phelps, POpelton, Randall,
Rea, Reagan, John Riley, Rice, Riddell,
Robinson, Savage, Sheakley, Singleton,
Slemons, Smith of Georgia, Southard.
Springer, Stenger, Stevenson, Stone, Teese,
Thomas, ThrOckmortOn, Tucker, Turney,
Van Voorhees,, Vance of Ohio, Waddell,
Walker of Virginia, Walsh, Wells, Whit
thorne, Williams of Indiana, Williams of
Alabama, Wiltshire. Wilson of West Vir-
ginia, Yeates and YouDg-l06.
Nsys-Abbot, Adams, Bagley of Geor-
gia, Bagley, j. H. Bsgley, Baker, Ballon,
Banks, Bell, Blair. Burchard, of Illinois.
Caswell, Chittenden, Conger. Counz,
Cutler, Danford, Davy, Durand, Ely,
Eams, Freeland, Frye, Gibson, Hale,
Hancock, Hardenburg, Harris of Mas
sachusetts, Henderson, Hewett OF New
York, Hoar, Hodge, Lyman, Joyce, Kas-
son, Kehr, kimball, Lamar, Lapham,
Levy, Lynch, McDougal, McCrary,
Meade, Metcalf, Miller, Monroe, Morri-
son, Nash, Norton, O'Brieu, Odell,
O'Neil, Packer, Page, Pierce, Piper, Platt,
Potter, Powell, Pratt, Rainey, Ross, Rusk,
Smith of Pennsylvania, Strait, .Slowell,
Thomson, Thornburg, Townsend of Penn
sylvania, Tufts, Wait, Walker of New
York, Ward, Warren, Wells of Wisconsin,
White, Whiting, A. S. Williams OF Michi-
gan, Willis, Wilson of Iowa, Woodburn-S6
Mr.. Cox then reported q bill for a COM
mission of three Senators, three Represe MT
atives and three experts to inquire.
First-Int0 the change that has taken
place in the relative value of gold and
silver. The causes thereof whether perma
nent or otherwise. The effect thereof on the
trade, commerce, finance and productive
interests of the country, and on the stand
ard of value in this and foreign countries
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