The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-21
HOUSE.

Bills were. introduced and referred as
follows:
By Mr.. Vance to grant 10 Ohio unsold
and unappropriated public lands in that
State.
By Mr.. Lawrence-To limit the power
of the court to punish for contempt; also
to enlarge the privileges of writ of
habeas corpus. The bill provides that
whenever any person shall be detained
or imprisoned by order of the Senate or
House, he shall be entitled to the privilege
of a writ habeas corpus and the person
having the custody Of the person s. de.
tained or imprisoned shall IN obedience
to the writ produce TO the court or justice
issuing the writ the person detained,
without any order from the House or
Senate any person imprisoned or
detained by any court oil
the United States, or justice or judge
thereof, for contempt, shall be entitled
To apply to any court having appellate
jurisdiction for writ of habeas corpus,
and the same shall be issued, served, obey
ed. proceeded with and determined, as IN
other cases.
Mr.. Singleton, from the Committe on
Appropriations, reported back the Senate
amendments to the consular and dip!o.
matte appropriation bill, and moved that
they be concurred in. Agreed to.
Mr.. Young offered resolution recit-
ing the unsettled condition of the Mexi.
can republic, and the maay outrages
committed or the person and property OF
American citizens living in the neigh
borhcod of the Rio Grande, and request
ing the President ofthe Uuited States TO
order such military force TO rendezvous
at some suitable point on the Rio Grande
~ will be able TO enforce the existing
neutrality laws, to prevent hos
tilities on The border and to pre-
serve peaceful relations between
the two countries, and also requesting
the President to direct the General OF
the army TO proceed in person TO the
scene of the threatened outbreak, and TO
take ssch measures rs may be necessary
10 maintain peace and protect the gnity
of this government. Referred.
Mr. Cox, from the Committee on Rules,
made report in the case of Charles IL.
Smith, journal clerk, who issued circu-
lar seeking business IN the collection OF
additional bounty claims. The report
reprehcnds severely the actisn o. Smith,
but as he had resigned, no action was re-
commended.
Mr.. Wells reported bsck Senate
amendments to the deficiency bill, some
of which were rejected and some concur
red in without beng read TO the House.
Mr.. Cate offered n resolution recitlng
the charges made in . newspaper report
affecting he official conduct OF B. II.
Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury. IN
regard 70 the remission OF a forfeiture in
the case OF the barque Mary Merritt,
seized in Milwaukee m June, 1863, for a
violation of the custom laws, aud iu-
s,ructing the Committee on Expenditures
in the Treasury Department to inquire
into the circumstances and ascertain on
what grounds the judgment Of the for
feitare was rem tied and for what pur-
pose.
Mr.. Hale suggested tha, the charge
should be made more definite and spec;hc.
He knew Bristov coveted N invesilga-
ton on every subject with which his
name was connected, and be Hale be
leived such investigation would bring
him out brighter.
Mr.. Kasson desired Mr.. Cate to insist
on his resolution, with he provision that
the investigation should be conducted
With open doors, bat Mr.. Cate declined
80 to modify it.
The resolution was then adopted.
The bill TO trausfer the Indian Bureau