The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-03-17

He also submitted the following as q
report OF the committee on the subject:
Reo'red, That the proceedings and de-
bates should be printed in the Record as
actually delivered.
Mr.. Window introduced bill for es-
tablishing the Territory OF Pembina. Re.
fcrred.
GOLD AND SILVER.
Mr.. Boutwell, introduced the follow:
ing:
Rcsolted, That the Secretary OF the
Treasury be requested TO furnish, for the
information Of the Senate, the annual
product Of gold and silver in the United
States from 1915 to 1875 inclusive; also
the amount Of gold and silver in other
parts OF the world for the same years,
and an estimate Of the gold and silver in
the United States at the present time.
Adopted.
NEWSPAPER ISLANDERS.
Mr.. Cameron (of Pennsylvania) sent up
slip from the newspapers charging that
several Senators kept private Secretaries
who were paid as clerks. As one Of the
Senators mentioned, he denied the truth
OF the article.
Senator Logan, whose name was in the
article, denounced it as untrue, as an un-
mitigated falschood.
Mr.. Edmunds read from the Baltimore
Gazette dispatch stating that the Judi
ciary Committee was holding back the
House witness bill, while Senators
Conkling and Logan were looking
up the authorities for defeating it,
to shield their friends who were mixed up
in the whisky frauds. He said, as MEM
beI OF the committee, he felt authorized TO
say that not one particle Of influence from
any person or source whatever had been
brought to bear on the committee in rela-
ton 10 this bill.
Mr.. Thurman, as a member OF the same
committee, said the bill had been taken
up out Of its turn.
Mr.. Conkling said that there was not
an iota OF truth in the statement. The
time was passing, il it had not already
gone by, when the people can be gulled
and deceived by such abusive articles. The
time will come when such abusive arti-
cles Of Misrepresentation will be justly
considered as conspiracy and defama'
ton against our institutions Themselves
and the question would arise what coun'
try would next try the experiment Of q
government Of the people, for the people
and by the people9 n
Mr.. Logan said he did not know that
such bill had reached the Senate, when
he did and should see it he would advo.
cate II or oppose itas he thought best. II
was charged that he was afraid that
some OF his friends in the whisky ring
would get hurt He had no friends in
the whisky ring. He had never trafticked
in a gallon Of whisky in his life; never
visited distillery; never owned dol
lars worth OF stock in one, never had one
Of his friends in the frauds, never knew
Of them till he saw it In the papers; never
had one OF his friends indicted in the
whisky frauds. One man whom he had
recommended for position had been in:
dicted, and many man has friend
whom he has recommended turn out bad
". In short, he pronounced all state
ments concerning him as infamous lies,
and no man dare stand up before him and
charge him with these things to his face
and only towards .skulked behind corpo.
rations and newspapers-men never did.
on COUNTING TIE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE,
The morning hour having expired the
Senate resumed the consideration Of
the Senate bill to provide for and
regulate the counting Of votes for Presi-
dent and Vice President.
The bill was discussed by MeWrs.
Thurman, Christiancy, Frelinghuysen,
Jonston and Morton.
The latter said that II it was necessary
to have an umpire at all the safest and
best way was to refer the disagreeing vote
to the Supreme Court of the United States
He submitted a plan for calling them in
rs follows: That the Supreme Court shall
be assembled at the same time and In case
the two Houses cannot agree the question
shall be submitted to the Judges, who
shall proceed at once to decide which are
the valid returns. ~ ,-t.
After Executive session the Senate ad.
journed until Monday.