The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-13
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

TUESDAY, April 4.-Sendte. The special COM
mittee to investigate the Mississippi troubles was
announced, as follows: Messrs. Boutwell,. Cameron
(Wis.), Oglesby, Bayard and Mcdonald (Indl....
The managers on the part of the House appeared III
the Senate and presented the articles of 1mpeach-
ment against william Worth Belknap, late Secrets-
ry of War. The managers were received and as
signed to seats within the bar of the Senate, and
when the Sergeant-at-Arms had proclaimed
silence, Lord read the articles at length.
The reading of the articles Of Impeachment having
been concluded, Ferry, the President pro tempore
of the Senate, announced that the Senate would
take the proper order on the subject OF the lnpeach
ment, of which due notice would be given. The
House managers then retired. The Senate SUISSE
quently adopted order to print the articles Of
impeachment. The Senate, in executive session,
rejected the nomination of Richard III. Dana, Jr,
to be Minister to England. The vote stood: Yeas,
II; nays, &c.
House. "A message was received from the Senate
announcing that the Senate ready to receive the
BeIknap impeachment articles. Knott. the chair
man of the Judiciary Committee, reported bill to
amend section 044 of the revised statutes SO as to
provide that "no person shall be prosecuted, tried
or punished for any offense, except against the
internal revenue, unless indicted within three
years after such offense has been or may be
committed" After discussion, the bill passed.
Blackburn offered a resolution inQHiring under
what law and by whose orders, Gems Upton and
Forsythe and Maj Sawyer, of the army, are absent
in foreign countries. Adopted. :. Schleicher in
troduced resolution providing for the protection
of the Texas frontier on the lower Rio Grande.
The House held an evening session. which was de-
voted exclusively, in Committee of the Whole, to
the consideration of the Legislative Appropriation
bill.
WEDNESDAY, April 5.--Sendte The Senate
at 10 O'Clock. organized as a court Of impeachment
Chief Justice Waite appeared and administered
the following oath to six Senators at time /:
'Yol do solemnly swear that in all things apper-
tanning to the trial of the impeachment of w. w.
ing, you will be impartial AID Just, according
| to the Constitution and of the law" After
the oath had been administered the Chef-just
retired, and the Senate adopted an order instruct
ing the Secretary of the Senate to notify the House
OF Representatives that the Senate is now organ
lied for the trial of the impeachment of W. w Bel
KNAPP. late Secretary of War, and ready to receive
the managers of the impeachment on the
part OF thesHouse of Representatives" In short
time the House managers appeared in the Senate
chamber and requested tnat Belknap be summoned
TO appear and answer. 1t was ordered that Belknap
be summoned to appear on Monday, April IL, at
o'clock. The managers then withdrew, and the
court adjourned until the 18th. "A bill passed
authorzlng the sale OF the Pawnee Indian reserva-
ton The Senate INDUCED in long discussion of
the Postal bill witho reaching vote.
Ho,tse-Randall offered resolution directing the
Secretary of the Treasury furnish the House with
an itemized account of the amount expended under
the item of $500 900 appropriated for light and fuel
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1876. Adonted
-. Cox, from the Committee Banking and Cur
rency, reported bill to regulate the winding no Of
National banks He explained that the object of the
bill was to facilitate hquidation and that insoyent
banks may be perfectly and speedily closed up in
the interest of the public. Passed. Hubbell from
the Committee on Banking and Currency reported
back adversely, the bill fixing the legal rate of in
terest on national money throughout the limited
States at not exceeding six per cent. per annum
Ihe House devoted some time, in Committee Of tho
Whole, to the consideration of the bill transferr;n
the Indian bureau to the W2r department rbee
evening session was devoted exclusively to the Ieo
islative Appropriation BILL
THURSDAY, April 6.-Se,aate Sherman from
the Finance Committee, reported the Housa s;Ivor-
coin bill as amended by the committee One Of
the amendments provides for the recoinaoa - t,,o
old American dollar, and making it IagsI taS ~
to the amount of $40, instead of $50 as fTed ~ th
House. Another amendment provides tbat ~ Az Az
trade dollar shall not hereafter be a legal ferSaS
for any amount whatever. Wright froTo tta
Committee on the Judiciary reported adars s,1v
ishment, and it indefinitely postn oo, pull
boufweH introduced a bill making an annronriat;o
70 oe1ray the expenses of the COMMITTEES aTno;r+ed
70 lnvestlgate the Mississippi election TIE Postal
pll was again up for consideration and Harvav
onered substitute, allowing four-pound naciares
70 go through the mails at the rate Of one Gent For