American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-29
FoRTY-FoURTH CONGRESS.

routine business had been disposed OF, at IL 80
p m. the impeachment proceedings in the case
of VIM. w. Belknap were taken up. After a
formal proclamation by the Sergeant al. Arms,
| the oath was administered by the Chief Justice
! to such Senators as were absent when the body
Of Senators were sworn in few days previously
that the senate was ready to proceed with the
rial, and that seats had been provided for the
and siair. entered and proceeded 70
O'Clock the managers of the impeachment and
members of the House appeared and took the
minutes. etc Mr. Carpenter read and had filed
plea denying the Jurisdiction of the Senate to
try Belknap on the articles Of Impeachment, as
time such articles were found and presented to
the Senate. that he has not since been, nor is he
$s' t1s private and citizen .s ss
Managers asked that t%e Be Showed shem una
the 18th inst. to consider what replication shall
be made to the plea Of Beknap, and it was SO
cused having. in reply to a question of the
President pro tempore, said that they
n sss as Court to Of hs
adjourned until the 18th. and resumed
consideration of legislative business ........
again under consideration. and was the occasion
OF an acrimonious debate between Messrs.
spa he
make return to the writ of habeas corpus issued
by the Court. and to produce Kilbourne before
the Court.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the Deficiency
Appropriation bill was passed. Among the
items embraced in it are s25, coo for the Black
Hills Commission and 70 500 for expenses of the
Government exhibit at the Centennial. The
House took up the report Of the Election Commit
tee on the Alabama contested election case of
Bromberg against Haralson. The report was
unanimous in declaring the sitting member (Har-
alson) entitled to the seat. After statements of
perjury of Witnesses the report agreed to.
The bill for the transfer of the Indian Bureau to
in ,ts III % bv up ana
Hooker and Banning.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the impeach-
ment proceedings against VIM. w. Belknap were
resumed, the galleries being crowded with spec
tators. The only steps taken in the case, how
ever. was the reading Of the answer adopted by
the House to the plea Of Belknap, that his resig
nation barred all impeachment proceedings, the
House taking the ground that his resignation was
committee Of the House and proceedings
order to give time for ' the managers
and counsel in the case to prepare them
selves furthe proceedings were postponed until
ate being resumed, the Chair laid before the Sen
ate MESSAGE from the President, vetoing the
United States At Is 100 per annum. The House
bill to define the tax on fermented and malt
man, the bill in regard to counting the votes for
President, etc., was reconsidered. In the
House, the Sergeant at Arms reported thathe had
obeyed ehe writ Of habeas corpus in the Hallet
Kilbourne case, and that Kilbourne was ordered
by the Judge into custody of the Marshal Mr..
Baker (Ind.) offered a resolution instructing the
Select Committee on Real Estate Pool to investi-
gate whether any members of former Congress
were connected with that pool, and who are r such
tons reported in favor of J. j Finlay, the con-
testant from the Second Florida District, and he
was sworn in.
In the Senate, on the Goth, Mr.. Morrill,
(vt introduced a bill to authorize the Secretary
of the Treasury to allow Mrs. Minnie Sherman
Fitch to receive, free of duty, wedding present
from the Khedive of Egypt. 1t was passed
unanimously After the expiration Of the morn
ing hour the bill to amend the laws relating
ap. and Mr.. Bopv " SPOKE 'j IN favor aAe Of
making silver a legal tender for all amounts
and receivable in payment Of duties at the Gus
Mr.. Cox, from the Committee on Rules, made a
report on the case Of harles Ii: Smith. Journal
the collection Of additional bounty claims. The
report severely criticised the action Of Smith,
mended resolution was adopted inrtructing
The Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury
Department to inquire into the remission of for
fixture in the case of the bark Mary Merritt,
seized in Milwaukee. cribs case has been made
the subject of various charges in the newspa pers
and his Il the
The bill for the transfer OF the Indian Bureau to
the War Department was again taken up, and
various speeches were made for and against the
bill.
The Senate was not in session on the 21st.
.....In the House, the bill for the transfer Of the
Indian Bureau to the War Department was pass
ed-yeas, 1879; nays. 81. 1t provides that after
the LIST Of July next the Secretary of War shall
exercise the supervising and appellate powers
and possess the Jurisdiction now exercised and
possessed by the Secretary of the Interior in re-
lation to Indian affairs.
The Senate was not in session on the 22d.
1.-THE House transacted no business of gen
eral interest.