Connecticut western news., 1876-12-15

UNITED STATES CONGRESS,
Senate.

Senate.
 On the opening of the session the certificates of Ietion of Jerome B. Chaffee and Henry | M. Teller, United States Senators from the State of Colorado, were presented. In drawing for terms, Mir. Ohaffee drew for the long and Mir. Teller for the short term. Mir. Davis (Dem.), of West Virginia, pre-. sented the credentials of Samuel Price, ap- pointed United States Senator from West Vlr- gipis, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. A. T. Oaperton.
 The new Senators, together with Mir. Blaine, or Maine, whose appointments were laid be- fore the Senate last summer, advanced to the desk of the presiding officer and were sworn in by him, Mir. Price taking the modified oath Mir. Edmunds (Rep.) ), of Vermont, submit be printed and lie on the table. It provides that the committee on privileges and elections when appointed be and it ia hereby instructed to inquire and report as soon as may be-frst, whether in any of the electicus named in the second section of the'Fourteenth amendment iN the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi the years of 1875 or 1876, the right of any portion of such inhabitants and citZeus to vote has been in any wise denied or abridged secOLd, to what extent such deniel or abridge- ment has been c.rried by what means such deniel or abrdSer ent has been accomplished d and by whom.
 The resolution also provides for inquiry as O seventh of November last.
 MT. Ingalls, Rep.) of Kansas, introduced.a .a joint resolution, which was ordered to be printed and lie on the table, recommending 8 convention to revise and amend the Constitu- ton of the Uni ed States.
 Mir. Morton (Rep), of Indiana, submitted a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States so as to provide for the election of President and Vice. President of the United States by the direct AL ordered that it lie on the table until the ap- pointment of committees, snd then be re- ferred to the committee on privileges and cleo ions.
 MT. Edmunds (Rep.), of Vermont. moved to take up for consideration the resolution eub- mitted by him. ordering an inquiry into the late election in South Carolina, Florida, Louisi- ana, Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama. The resolution, after much discussion and several amendments, was adopted.
 MT. Withers (De p.), of Virginia, submitted 8 resolution requesting the President to in form the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, under what authority and for what purpose troops of the United States occu- pied Petersburg, Va, on the seventh of No vember, 1876, the day of the election. Obi C. tion was made by MT. Edmunds, and the reso- lution was laid over.
 bill providing that the revised statutes shall be amended so that the election for President and Vice. President shall be held in
 
 meet in the January following, was referred.
 House.
 In the Houee Samuel J. Randall (Dem. ), of Pennsylvania, was elected Speaker in place of M. Q. Kerr, deceased, receiving 161 votes to eighty-two for James A. Garfield. The new Speaker in taking his seat paid high compl- mont to bis predecess or, saying that he was 8 good and great man. In concluding hls re- marks he eald:
 ''The people look confidently to your moder- ation, to. your patient, calm, firm judgment and wisdom, st this time frsught with so many uperils. Let us not, beseeoh of you, disap- point their just expectation and their keen sense of right, but by vigilance prevent even thSelightest departure from the Constitution and laws, forgetting in the moment of difficulty that VI @ are the adherents of party, and only remembering that we are American citizens, with 8 country to gave, which will be lost if unauthorizeu and unconstitutional acts on the part of executive officers be noL frcwned down at once with relentlessness and unspsring con- demnation."
 The following new members, elected to fill vacancies, were sworn in MT. Warner, of Connecticut Mir. Frye, of Maine; MT. Hum- phrey and Mir. Carr, of Indiana, and Mir. Stan ton, of Pennsylvania.
 Objection was made to the swearing in of MT. Buttz, of South Carolina, and MT. Belford, of Colorado. In relation to the latter, MT. Springer CDem ), of Illinois, offered 8 reso!u- tion lnstructing the Judiciary committee to in- quire and report at as early day as possible, whether Colorado is State in the Union, and directing that until such report is received no person claiming to be Representative from Colorado shall be sworn in as member. The question was referred to the Judiciary com- mittee.
 Mir. Hewett (Dem) of New York, presented 8 resolution providing for the appointment of three select committees, one of fifteen mem- bers to proceed to Louisiana, one of six mem- bers to proceed to Florida, and one of nine members to proceed to South Carolina, to investigate the actionsof the returning or can vaesing boards as to the recent elections in those States, and to report all the facts essen- tisl to an honest return of the votes for elec- tors of President and Vice-P resident, and to a fair understanding thereof by the people, ard whether the electoral votes of those States should be counted. The committees are to have power to send for persons and papers, to take testimony, to appoint subcommittee with like powers and to employ stenographers, clerks and messengers. This was adopted by 8 vote of 156 to 78.
 The Speaker announced the appointment of the South Carolina committee, as follows Messrs. Sayler, of Ohio Abbott, of Massa- chusetts; Stenger, of Pennsylvania Eden. of souri; Banks, of Massachusetts Lapaam, of New York, and Lawrence, of Ohio.
 On the States of the Union, the Speaker an nounced the following select committees
 On Louisiana, Mir. Morrison. Ill.,; MT. Jenks, Pa; Mr. McMahon, Ohio; MT. Lynde, Wis; Mir. Blackburn, Ky. Mir. Meade, N. Y; MT. House, Tenn; Me. Phelps, Conn; MT. New, Ind; MT. Ross, N. J.; MT. Townsend, Pa Mir. Dsnford, Ohio; MT. Hurlbut, H.; Mir. Crapo. Mass, and Mr. Joyce. Vt
 On Florida, Messrs. Thompson, Mass.; De- bolt, Mo-; W. O. Hopkins, Pa. Garfield, Ohio, and Donnel Miss.
 On the South Carolina committee, the name of Mir. Oochrane Pa was submitted for that of Mir. Stenger, Pa excused on account of ill., ness in his family.