The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-10
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tials of Senator Beck OF Kentucky, were
introduced The House committee ap
peared and presented the formal i'm
parchment Of the late Secretary of War
VIM. w. Belknap, TO which the Presi-
dent pro. ten. replied that the Senate
would take order in the premises. Bills
were introduced to restore the fra1king
privilege and to fix the rates OF postage
on third class mail matter in accordance
with the distance sent. The bill rela
tive to the counting OF votes for Presi-
dent and Vice President was favorabIy
reported. The bill moking the birthday
of Washington a legal holiday, was re-
ported with an amendment making Lin
coins birthday also a national holiday.
A committee consisting of Messrs. Ed
munds, Conklin, Frelinghuysen, Thur
man and Stevenson, was appointed to
consider the impeachment resolutions.
The Pinchback question was argued at
some length, but no action taken. In
the House, the Committee on Emma
Mine was authorized to have the testi-
mony printed as taken. Leave was ask
ed to instruct the Ways and Means Com
mittee to inquire whether the whisky
fraud investigation had been sufficiently
thorough. Objection being made, the
proposition was withdrawn. The bill
granting pensions TO the soldiers of 1912
was favorably reported. The Impeach-
ment Committee reported that their du-
ty at the bar of the Senate had been per-
formed. A bill was passed on leave of
absence of army officers. 1t grants
leave of sixty days once in two years
without loss of pay; three months
once in three years, and four months
once in four years. A large number of
private bills and sixty-day grants of pen
sions were passed. Resolutions calling
for the correspondence relating to the
Babcock Court of Inquiry were passed.
The session on Saturday is to be for de-
bate on the Hawaiian Treaty.
MARCH 4-The House met for debate,
and took up the Hawaiian treaty.
Speeches were also made ON the bill
granting bounties to heirs of soldiers
who enlisted for less period than one
year, and who were killed or who died
by reason of such service.
MARCH Elm the Senate, extended
speeches upon the financial question
were made by Messrs. Sherman, of Ohio
and Bogy, of Missouri, the former argu-
ing for the retention, and the latter for
the repeal of the Resumption Act, as it
stands. Resolutions were adopted, call
ing for direct information in regard to
the management of the Indian Bureau
and the straw-bid abuse in the awarding
of mail contracts In the House, a large
number of private bills and bills for pub
lie works were introduced under the call
of States. The bill to carry into effect
the Hawaiian treaty was discussed at
some length, but no action was taken
upon it. Resolutions were adopted di-
recting investigations into the admins
tration of justice in the District of Co
lumbia, and into the charges against At
torney-General Pierrepont of securing
evidence in the Babcock case and using
it in the interest of the defense.
MARCH I'm the Senate. bill was
introduced instructing the COMMITTEE
of Finance to ascertain what amend
ments to the revenue laws were necessa-
ry to secure economy in the collection
of the internal revenue. The bill for
the protection of agriculture against in
furious insects was called and debated at
length. After several amendments had
been agreed to, the bill was passed The
bill for the admission of New Mexico as
a State was recommitted to the |
committee on Territories. A bill
relating to the appointment of post
traders by the General in command |
of the post instead of the Secretary of |
War was referred. The resolution for |
the admission of Pinchback was then |
taken up and debated at length, and |
with much warmth. The Senate then |
proceeded to the consideration of exec |
utive business and soon after adjourned. |
In the House, bill was introduced TO |
provide for the purchase of materials, |
and for the continuance of work on the |
st. Louis Custom House; also bill to |
prevent the exorbitant charges by sut |
lers at military posts; and also bill 10 |
protect witnesses, in the trial ofimpeach !
ment cases, both of which were referred |
A resolution from the Cincinnati Cham |
Der of Commerce, adverse TO any law re |
quiring draw on every bridge hereafter
built across the Ohio, was presented and |
referred. A bill amending the home
stead act, relating to the form of pro-
ceedure in the occupation of public lands,
was passed. The Chairman of the Com
mittee on the Expenditures of the War
Department arose to question of priv
ilege, stating that he had been sum
moned to appear before the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, and
to bring with him papers, checks. etc
and to testify in regard to charges pend
ing in that Court against w. w. Bel
KNAPP. He felt it his duty to bring the
matter to the attention of the House.
A spirited debate then followed, in which
Blaine was the most prominent on the
Republican side of the House, and
Messrs. Clymer and Beebee on the Dem
ocratic side. A witness who had refused
to answer questions addressed to him
by committee, was ordered to be
brought to the bar of the House to an
swer for contempt.
THE Americep Senate is the abldest-
headed body of men on earth-or in the
heavens above or in the waters beneath,
for that matter. Abaft the eyes of each
Senator rises vast expanse of unculti
waited area-sterile and bare Senator
John Gordon's brown head is the one
grateful oasis in the weary desert of
white skulls-LetteT IN Atlantic Cour-
Ter.
MCCREERY, of Kentucky, is the Eli
sba of the flock. His head is surrounded |
for three-fourths of its circumference
with a fringe three inches in depth. of
fine glossy black hair, and the apex com