The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-17
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CONGRESS-.
MAR. SIN the Senate, Mr. Cameron,
Of Wisconsin, presented a petition, which
was referred, from 1G, 600 persons, pro
testing against secret societies. The res
olution to admit p. Il. S. Pinchback as
Senator from Louisiana was amended so
as to read ''be not. admitted" and in
this form the resolution was passed by Il
vote of 50 to 20. So Piuchback was not
let into the Senate. In the House, a
committee was appointed TO investigate
the connection of AttOrney-General
Pierrepont with the whisky cases. y. B.
Wolf. the recusant witness before the
Naval Committee, was brought to the
bar OF the House, but, while members
were talking of his case, lie fell down in
a fit and had 70 be removed. Bills to
protect witnesses before the House, and
to punish those who refuse to give evil
dence, were passed. Mr.. Blaine made
some remarks, clearing the President
from conniving at the escape of Caleb
p Marsh. the principal witness in the
Belknap case. The subject of the i'm
parchment of W. W. Belknap, late Sec
retary of War, was recommitted to the
Judiciary Committee, with power to send
for papers and witnesses.
MAR. 9.-In the Senate several private
bills were taken up and passed. a petit
ton in favor of the establishment of an
intermediate Court of Appeals was pre-
sented and referred. A petition from
the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor
of extending the signal service, was re-
ferred. The Committee on Naval At
fairs reported back bill authorizing the
payment of prize money to the officers
of Farragut's fleet, which was referred
to the Committee on Appropriations
Senator Gordon of Georgia, then called
up bis resolution, instructing the Com
mittee ON Finance to ascertain If posi-
ble what amendments were necessary
to the revenue laws to secure economy
and certainty in the collection of the
revenue, He then proceeded to speak
of the revenue frauds, and to advocate
the establishment ofan excise corps. He
finally arraigned the Republican party
and held them to be politically corrupt.
MIR. Morton of Ind, replied, claiming
that the present state of morals in the
country was due to the war, and that
the Senator from Georgia was thus re-
sponsibIe himself. Mr. Sherman CRep.),
of o., and Mr.. Withers DEM, of Va,
and Mr.. Edmunds lRep.), of Vt. con-
tinue<Pdebate until the Senate went
into executive session, after which they
adjourned. In the House the Commit
tee on Indian Affairs were instructed to
inquire into the expedieney of opening
up the Indian Territory for settlement
4 resolution instructing the Committee
on Foreign Affairs to inquire into the
case of Condor, the imprisoned Fenian
Some bills relating to postal affairs were
passed, and the House went into the
Committee of the Whole, and a commit
tee disappointed to investigate the con-
duct of a member of the last Congress,
in the appointment of a cadet TO West
Poi..t, after ii;ch it adjourned.
MAR IO.-In The Senate, number of
important bills and resolutions were in
troduced. which we're referred and laid
upon the table. A change in the time
of holding District Courts in various
parts of the country was considered, ard
two bills to the effect were passed. The
amended bill for the admission of New
Mexico as State was then taken up
and discussed at length, read a third
time, and passed. The bill !lreducing the
salary of the President TO S25, 600 was
taken mp, but before it was considered
the Senate went into executive session,
and soon after adjourned. In the House
a resolution was introduced calling upon
the Committee of the Ways and Means
to examine the books of the Treasury
and, if necessary, the Treas
urer himself, TO find out the cause, if |
possible, of the fiuctuation of gold and |
other ike matters. The Committee on
Patents reported adversely to the extern
sion of Wilson's Sewing Machine patent. |
The House then went into the Commit |
lee on the Whole, when Mr.. Bass, one
Of the Republican members of the Com
nittee of Expenditures in the War De-
proceeded to make personal
explanation as to his connection with
he committee in the recent investiga-
ion. Mr.. Clymer, the Chairman of the
replied, and the debate was
continued by Messrs Blackburn and
)anford, of the same committee. The
House then adjourned
MAR 1.-THE Senate held no session,
iavins adjourned over TO Monday. In
he House, one hundred Thousand III
lrs was appropriated - i,e Sioux I.ldi
rs. The bill to equalize the bounfies
f the soldiers in the late war, was re-
erred to the committee of the Whole,
nd made the special order for next
thursday. A protest from Cincinnati
istiiiers against any charge in the pres
Ut tax OIL whisky, was presented and
sfeTred. Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania.
I'D Mr.. White, of Kentucky, INDUCED !