The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.


from the committee on Appropriations, re
ported favorably on the house bill appropri
ating $4,000 to defray the expenses of the
select committee appointed to investigate
Federal offices in Louisiana. Passed. Mr.
Wright, from the committee on Claims, re
ported adversely on the bill to amend the
deficiency appropriation bill of May, 1872
and to extend the time for the presentation
OF claims for cotton seized after 30th of June
1860, and 1t was indefinitely postponed. The
senate went into secret session to deliberate
on the question of jurisdiction as to Bel
knap's Impeachment When the doors were
opened, the senate, sitting as a court of i'm
peachment, adjourned until tomorrow. Leg
| lslatlve business was then resumed and the
senate soon ad djOurned.
In the senate, on the 10th, Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, spoke at length on the
evils of Chinese immigration. Senator Ed
munds reported with amendments the sen.
ate bill to amend the second, fourth and
fifth sections of the act TO enforce the rights
of citizens of the United States in the several
| states OF the union, which was placed on the
| calendar. The consideration of the articles
| of impeachment was resumed, and, on mo-
| ton of Senator Edmunds, the galleries were
| cleared and the doors closed. Before a de-
cision was reached, the doors were re-opened,
| anu
In the senate, on the 18th, before the
secret session, Mr.. Cooper called up the
house bill to further provide for building a
custOmhOuse, pOstOffice, cOurtrooms, etc, in
the city of Memphis Passed. AT 1920 con-
sideration of articles of impeachment was re-
| sumed and doors were closed. Before reach
! ing any desisiOn the senate, sitting as a court
| of Impeachment, adjourned until tomorrow.
| 4 cinrf fix-ac l,o1I A.
| senate adjourned.
In the senate on the 18th, Mr.. Nor
ton submitted a resolution instructing the
| special committee recently appointed to in
| quire into the late election in Mississippi to
! inquire also into the recent alleged killing of
| colored people and outrages committed near
the Mississippi and Louisiana line, at Bayou
Tunica. He read a dispatch received by
| Gov. Kellogg, now in this city, from II. c.
! Clark, his private secretary, dated New Or
| leans, May 18th, stating that fugitiVes from
| the scene of trouble had arrived, and the de-
| tails were horrible; that six white men were
killed and sixty negroes killed and hanged,
| and asking that special commission CT the
| senate be authorized to investigate the mat
| ter. The resolution was agreed to. Mr.. Wright
| called up the house bill making appropria-
| tiOns for the payment of claims reported to
| congress under section two of the act of June
! 16, 1874, by the secretary of the treasury.
Passed. The house bill authorizing the APP
| pOintment OF receivers of national banks
and tor other purposes, passed. A one
O'Clock legislative business was suspended
and consideration of articles of impeach-
ment resumed with closed doors. Before
reaching any decision the doors were re-
opened, and the chair laid before the senate
a communication from the commissioners of
the District of Columbia, in answer 10 the
senate resolution of April 10, 1876. Ordered
to be printed and lie on the table. Adj
jOurned.
In the senate on the 10Th, after the in
PRODUCTION and reference OF several bills and
the presentation of a number of petitions,
legislative business was suspended, and the
senate resumed consideration of articles of
impeachment against Belknap, with closed
doors. At 4:45 the doors were reopened, and
legislative business was resumed. The chair
laiC before the senate a communication from
the secretary of the treasury, inclosing a re-
port of the director of the mint, IN answer to
a senate resolution, showing the annual pro-
duct of gold and silver in the United States
from 1915 to 1879 inclusive, and an estimate
of the product of other countries, Ordered
to be printed, and to lie on the table. After
a brief executive session, the senate ad-
iourned.
In the senate on the Goth, senator
Morton, from the committee on privileges
and elections, submitted a report in the case
of senator Spencer, which was ordered
printed. Mr.. Mitchell called up senate bill
for the relief of C. B. Tyler and E. H. Luck
EFT, with a veto message of the president
The bill authorizes the secretary of the treas
Ury to pay the persons named Sl64, wrong
fully collected in the second district of Ken
lucky, as tax for keeping bonded warehouse.
Passed, notwithstanding the objections of
the president. Yeas, 46; nays, none. The
senate then went into secret session on the
question of jurisdiction on the impeachment
matter, and Mr.. Boutwell, spoke in oppos-
ton. Without reaching a decision, the doors
opened, and the senate adjourned.
In the senate, on the 22d, the chair
laid before the senate communication from
the secretary of war, inclosIng a cOmmunica-
ton from the chief of the engineer corps
suggesting that the appropriation fol the
new snagboat for the western rivers be in
creased from one hundred and twenty-five
thousand to one hundred and tifty-ive thou
sand dollars. The senate then went into
executive session. At half past one o'clock |
the ooOrs were reopened, but were immedi-
ately closed again, and the senate resumed
the consideration of the articles of impeach- |
ment against Belknap. At half past four the |
senate again went into executive session, |
and after a short time the doors were re-
opened. Senator Wright, from the commit !
tee on Judiciary, reported adversely on the |
resolution inStrUcting the committee to in
qure into the eIpediency of establishing
penitentiary at Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the
confinement of United States prisoners. The
committee was discharged from further con-
sideration. Adjourned.
ROUSE.
In the house on the 18th, several reso-