The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-11
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The Forty-Fourth Congress.
SENATE.

Inc senate LOOK up the uDnnleneu Dus1-
ness, being the bill to enable the people of
Now Mexico to form constitution and
state government, and for the admission of
said state into the union on an equal foot
ing with the original states. The amend
ments proposed by the committee on terri
tories, providing that the laws of the
United States shall be applicable to the
new state when admitted, that it shall con-
stitute one judicial district, fixing the sala-
ries of the district judge, marshall, attor-
neys, etc, were agreed to.
After lengthy discussion Mr.. Cockerell
submitted an amendment providing that
the governors proclamation ordering an
election for representatives to the consttu-
tional convention shall be published in four
newspapers in the territory at least sixty
days prior to the date of election. Agreed
to.
The bill was then read third time and
passed.
The chair then announced that consider
alton of unobjeoted bills on the calendar
, would be resumed.
The first bill was that of Mr.. Wright,
reducing the salary of the president of the
United States to $25, 900 per annum, but
before it was considered Mr.. Sherman
made a motion for an executive session,
which was agreed to, and when the doors
were reopened, at 4 o'clock, the senate ad-
journed until Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Cox, at the request of his colleague,
Mr.. Hewitt, offered resolution reciting
from the reports Of the secretary of the
treasury that between the 3lst of January
and Gath of February there was an increase
of coin and bullion in the treasury to the
amount OF over $18,000,000, and between
the Gath of February and Goth of February
there was reduction of over $40, DOC, 900,
that these great fluctuations within so
short time require explanation, and in
structing the committee on ways and means
to examine the books of the treasury de-
partment If necessary and the officers
| thereof to ascertain the causes of such fuc-
tuations, and also to ascertain whether the
legal tender notes received for the redemp-
ton of the national bank notes are kept as
a special fund or whether they are held in
common with other money. Referred to
committee on ways and meaus
The house then. at 1.55, went into COM
mittee of the whole, Mr. Cox in the chair
on the legislative and Judicial appropria-
ton bill, and was addressed by Mr.. Phillips
of Kansas and Mesars. Hoskins and Willis
of New York on the general subject of
| finance.
The committee rose without action, and
Mr.. Bass of New York, member of the
committee on expenditures in the war de-
partment, proceeded to make personal
explanation in reference to insinuations
conveyed in two of the speeches of his
colleague of the committee, Blackburn of
Kentucky, that the republican members of
that committee had taken no part in the
| Beknap investigation until the proof was
| all in, signed aud sealed, He showed that
| iO HOtiCC WbdttNGI Hdt Dttu ElVpn 10 the
republican members of the committee until
after the testimony of Marsh had been
taken. He called attention to the fact that
| although the meeting at which Marsh tes-
| titled was held on a Tuesday, the regular
| day of meeting, it contained evidence that
| he had been before the committee the pre-
vious day, Monday. He asked why the
republicans of the committee had not been
advised of that Mondays meeting. He
spoke of DR.. Thomassen whose mission to
Washington had been to fix up the matter,
as having been the messenger between
Marsh and the committee. 1t was after
such proceedings as these that the house
had been dramatically told, not once only,
but several tines, that certain members
of the committee has not crossed the
threshold of the committee room until
proof was all in, signed and sealed. If
they had not tIere was therefore greater
reason why they should have been notified
of this special and important case. The
record of the committee showed that there
had been only two meetings of the COM
mttee up to the time of this investi cation.
Referring to the discharge OF the witness,
Marsh, he Bass, dissented distinctly and
unequivocally TO the statement of Black
bvrn, that the witness had been discharged
with the knowledge of the entire commit
tee. One of the republican members of
the committee, meaning himself, had
strenuoufly opposed the discharge of the
witness and had stated some reason why.
But the witness had been discharged at III
O'Clock the same day, objections had been
made in the presence of the committee
alone after 1 o'clock of that day when the
resignation of Secretary Belknap had been
notified to the committee, the two subjects
had been the matter OF discussion.