Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-12
TELEGRAPHIC.
CONGRESSIONAL.
First se.sion-44th Congress
SENATE.

First Session n-44th Congress
! SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 5.
The order providing for the ap.
lpointment of q committee to invite
Chief Justice Waite to attend in the
Senate at one O'Clock and administer
the oath required in the Impeachment
of Belknap was agreed to.
At one o'clock Chief Justice Waite
appeared in the Senate with Senators
Edmunds and Thurman and took a
seat at the right of the President pro
TEN.
The following oath was administer
ed first to Mr.. Ferry and then to the
Senators who were called in by the
Secretary in alphabetical order in
groups Of six.
"Yhu do solemnly swear that in all
things appertaining to the trial of inn
parchment of w, w, nelknap, late
Secretary of War, now pending, you
will be impartial and Just according
to the Constitution and the Law"
After the oath was administered the
Chief Justice retired.
| Frelinghuysen submitted an order
linstructlng the Senate to notify the
House of Representatives that the
Senate Is now organized for the trial
of impeachment of w. w. Belknap,
late Secretary of War, and ready to
receive the managers Of impeachment
on the part of the Honse of Represen-
tatives. Agreed to.
HOUSE,
Randall offered resolution direct
Ing the Secretary of the Treasury to
furnish the House with an itemized
account of the expenditures under
the item of 5000, 900 appropriation for
light and fuel for the fiscal year, end
ing June 60 1870. Adopted.
Cox from the Banking Committee
reported bill for winding up the
National hanks. The object was to
facilitate the liquidation and speedily
close insolvent banks in the interest
of the pnhlic. Passed.
A message was received that the
Senate was organized for the trial and
impeachment of Relknap and was
ready to receive the impeachment
managers.
Hubbell from the Currency Com
mittee reported adversely on the bill
fixing the legal rate of Interest on
natioAal money throughout the U. s.
at not exceeding percent. Pending
action the morning hour expired.
! Tho impeachment managers stated
that they had proceeded to the bar OF
4 the Senate, and the Senate had fixed
i Monday, the l7th inst, as the day on
which they would make the process
returnable against w. w. Belknap
late Secretary of War.
The House then went into Commit
tep Of the Whole, Blackburn in the
Chair, OH the bill to transfer the In.
dian Bureau from the Interior to tht
War Department,
SENATE.
4 WAsHINGToN, April 6. - Senator
Thurman, from the Committee OF
, Judiciary, reported with amendments
the House bill to correct the error il
the revised statutes in regard to war
rants of arrests in eXtradition cases
The amendments were agreed to ant
, the bill passed.
Wright, ffam the Committee Oh
Judiciary, reported adversely on tn
Senate bill to abolish capital punish
ment, and it was indefinitely post
poned.
After the morning hour the Posta
, bill came up.
, Harvey offered substitute admit
. ting fonr-pomnd packages in tn
mails at the rate of one cent for tW'
ounces, aud addressed the Senate il
favor of his substitute.
HOUSE.
The Printing Bureau dcficiepc
: bin for the issue of silver coin instea
I of fractional currency is amended b
the Senate Finance Committee, pre-
4 viding in place of the third sectio
It for the coinage of a new silver dolla
S of AZ and $40 grains of standar
I silver, the new coin to be legal tendt
I to the amount of twenty dollars
!, one payment, except for customs an
interest on public debt; these E,
g changable for an equal amount Of |
4 s. notes to be thereby retired; ais
d exchangable for silver bullion at ii
:, market value. U. S. notes and cul
e rency redeemed under this act sha
e be held as part of the sinking fun,
n Another amendment provides tn,
the trade dollar shall not hereafter
IL legal tender for any amount.
Ballou, from the Printing Commi
A. tee reported an appropriation +,
If - dollars for the purchase of Il
g entire property of the Congression
Globe. Referred.
!g Holman, from the Appropriate
in Committee, reported back the Scna
e. bill fixing the Presidents salary, aft
to March 4th, 1877, at $4,000. Pass
lc without discussion.
OF The motion to refer to the Comm
ut tee of the Whole the bill reported a
z. versely from the Currency Commit
lg yesterday, fixing the rate of inter'
at throughout the country in natior
money at 6 per cent, was rcjectt
ks yeas rs, nays l35. The bin "
se tabled.