Wilmington journal., 1876-01-21


Gates certain consular and diplomatic
consultations proposed by the com
mittee.
Tue Sepate committee on Patents
will on Monday hear protests and ar
guments against renewal of paper col
lar Patent. Three million capital are
employed in their manufacture.
In the House White of Kentucky has
introduced D1ll reducing the salaries
of all government officers 90 per cent.
The Washington Republican this
morning advises Blaine to let his am
nesty amendment drop. Tho galleries
are crowded to hear his defence.
COMMUNICATIONS, Collector of
Customs at Chicago; McFeely, Com
,rissary- General.
NomInations-E. s. Wheat, Marshal
Of East Tennessee.
SENATE The Judiciary Committee
is Instructed to enquire whether act 90
concerning sucasSion to the Presidency
requires an amendment and if SO, re-
port the bill.
Dorsey presented a petition OF the
Patrons oil Husbandry of Arkansas
for an appropriation for the improve
ment OF the Mississippi and it's delta
his resolutions. He said: In examin
ing the finance reports of the Secreta
ry Of the Treasury made for the p. G.
vious years,h he was astonished to. ..fnd
changes and alterations of figures III
many of them making large amounts
and causing them to differ widely from
each other as to the TRANSACTIONS of
the Treasury Department in the same
years. These changes, am prepared
20 show from the reports, increase the
expenditures aud public debt, after the
amounts thereof have been ascertained
it is officially reported and stood upon
the books of the Treasury Depart
ment for years in the aggregate of
many millions of dollars from 1862 to
1870 inclusive. In the report of 1871
the public debt for the years named is
increased over the same years III the
report of 1870 in the aggregate Of
S24S, $50, ,352 81, and that in the
single year of 1870 the report
of 1871 increases the public
debt over the report of 1870 for that
year over 1914, 900, ,O06, and for the year
1869 over $99, 900, 600, and for the year
1864 the increase Is more than S75, =
600, 900, and the year 1868, more than
S21, 1,000,0 900. My proposition reduced
down and expressed more clearly is
this : that there can be no satisfactory
way in which to explain or answer
why solemn official reports, made to
confess and published to the country,
and repeated year after year, reports
upon which Congress, the people and
our public creditors have relied and
acted, should years afterward be
changed in the manner I have shown
to be true.
Mr.. Boutwell, said that an accurate
knowlege of the business of the Treas
nry department would dissipate the
difficulties under which Senator Davis
labored. There was nothing in what
the Senator had presented that would
show that the books of the department
had been tampered with.
Mr.. Boutwell, then entered into a
long explanation, before the conclu
sion of which the Senate adjourned to
Monday.
House e-Llttrell introduced bill to
authorize the early completion CT the
Texas Pacific Railroad, which Was
referred.
Parsons introduced resolution in
structing the Committee on Expenses
Of the Department of Justice to in
quire into the appointment of special
agents and counsel by the Govern
ment. Adopted.
Yesterdays debate was then taken
up.
Blaine commenced by declaring his
real intention yesterday in the debate
Oh the point of order, was not to con-
vey the idea that the Speaker intended
to deprive him of his right to reply to
the speeches made upon the other
side.
Randall-Well, we are waiting for
you.
Blaine went on to say that one would
imag CINE from the tone the debate had
taken that the Re publican party in
Congress was trying to infiict a new
punishment or add another stigma on
Jefferson Davis. 1t might not be in
appropriate, therefore, to recall the
attention of the House to the precise
question.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania,
RaBdall, had introduced bill to
confer special Honor on Jefferson
Davis for what Honor could be higher
than the full panoplied citizenship of
the United States, as Jefferson Davis
had lost it by his crimes. And the
gentleman from Pennsylvania proposed
in hot haste. without debate or amend
ment, to drag many gentlemen in the
House to say aye or nay on. a bill de
claring Jefferson Davis 10 be entitled
now and henceforth, to all the rights
of Union citizenship, to that, he
Blaine, and those with him dissented
They were not seeking TO throw any
other element of an inhamable charac-
ter into the politics of the dav what
ever Of that kind had flown into this
di' cussion, it lay at the door of the gen
tlcman from Pennsylvania, and of
those who stood with him. It was no
proposition to punish, but it was g
propc sltion to Honor. and while he
Blaine, and those with him disclosed
any intention of desiring to punish
Jefferson Davis, they resisted the
proposition to honor him. A long
discussion of northern prisons follow.
ed, somewhat calloeqial in character.
Blaine said, do not care of course. to
conduct this cage as if it was in court.
as to call any more witnesses, but if J.
did, there are a cloud of witnesses.
there are honorable gentlemen on that
side of the House, whom will not in
delicately mention by name, who
know that personally, their relations
and mine, are most kind and most
friendly, who have been in Union
prisons in the north, and who, unless
they contradict me, shall assume by
their silence assent to the statement
that made. Jones of Kentucky, rose.
Blaine Addressing him. Was
the gentleman one of them2
Jones.-I was, and I am afraid of
the gentleman from Maine, and now
ask his courtesy for few MON ents.
Blaine.--Wen sir, will hear you,
Jones-I was one of those Rentle-