New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-14
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CONGRESS.
Senate.
WAsHMGror, January l3.-The Judiciary
Committee were instructed to inquire
whether act No. 90. concerning the sue
cession to the presidency, requires amend
ment, and If 80, to report the bill.
Mr.. Dorsey presented . petition from the
Patrons Of Huebandry, of Arkansas, for an
appropriation for the improvement Of the
Mi-sissippi and its delta.
Mr.. Davis, OF West Virginia, spoke ON
his resolution. He said in examining the
finance reports of the Secretary of the
Treasury made for previous years he was
astonished to find changes and alterations
of figures in many of them involving large
amounts, causing them to differ widely from
each other - to transactions of the Treasury
Department IN the same years. These
changes am prepared to show from the re-
ports increase the expenditures and public
debt after the amounts thereof have been
ascertained, officially reported, and have
partment 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 ia in.
creased over the came years in the
report of 1870 in the aggregate
$248, ,96O, ,352 "a, and that in the single year
of 1870 the report of 1871 increases the pub
lie debt over the report of 1870, for the year
over $4 600 600, and for the year 1869 over
$99, ,0O0, 900, and for the wear 1864 the in
crease is more than 975 900 900, aud the year
1863 more than $2l 100000. My position,
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 Congress and
published to the country, and repeated year
after year-reports upon which Congress-,
the people and the public creditors relied
and acted, should years afterward be
changed in the manner have shoMn.
Mr. Boutwell, said an accurate knowledge
ment would dissipate the difficulties under
which Mr.. Davis labored. There was meth.
ing in what the Senator presented showing
that the books had been tampered with.
Mr.. Boutwell, entered into long explana-
ton, before the conclusion of which the ex
ecutive session began, and an adjournment
to Monday took place.
Mr.. West introduced . bill to amend
chapter VII of Revised Statutes, concerning
actions and suits for foreclosure Of mortgages
in certain cases. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee. Also, bill for relief Of Miss
Lizzie Dixon, Administrative of A. g..
Palmer. Referred to the Claims Com
mittee.
Among the bills introduced in the House
and referred was one by Mr.. Hancock, OF
Texas, to transfer the control of the Indian
affairs to the War Department.
By Mr.. Throckmsrton, of Texas: A me-
mortal of the constitutional convention in
regard)to frontier troubles.
Mr.. White, of Kentucky, has introduced
bill reducing the salaries of all govern
ment officers twenty per cent.
early completion OF tho Texas Pacific rail-
road.
Mr.. Parsons offered . resolution instruct
ing the committee on expenses of the De-
partment of Justice to inquire in the ap-
p0intments of special counsel by the gov
ernment. Adopted.
Amnesty bill resumed.
Mr.. Blaine commenced by disclaimiDg
any intention or idea yesterday, in the dis.
cussion on the point of order, that the
Speaker desired to deprive him of his right
side. He said that from the tone of the de-
bate one would imagine that the Republican
party. a. represented in Congress, was try
ing to inflct some new punishment or to
add some other stigma to the name of JEFF
ferson Davis. It might, therefore, not be
Inappropriate to recall the attention of the
House to the precise question at issue. The
gentleman from Pennsylvania Randall) had
Introduced bill to confer special honor on
Jefferson Davis, for what honor could be
higher than the full panoplied citizenship
of the United States3 Jefferson Davis
had lost it bv his crimes, and the gentle
man from Pennsylvania proposes in hot
haste, without debate, without amend
mente, to drag every gentleman in the
House to say "yea" or may" on bill de-
clsring jefferson DAVIS to be enti-
tied, now and henceforth, to all the
rights of American eitizenship: that
sented. They we're not seeking to throw
any other element of an in6ammable ch ar
acter into the politics of the day. What
ever of that kind had flown into this dls-
cussiou lay at the door of the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, and of those who stood
with him. 1t was no proposition to punish,
but it was . proposition to honor; and
while he (Blaine) xrd those around him
disclaimed any intention of desiring to pun
ish Jefferson Davis. they resisted the prop
OsitiOn to honor him.
A long discussion of Northern prisons fol
lowed.
MI. Blaine eaid-l do not care, Of course,
to conduct this case AZ If it were in court,
and to call anv more witnessed, but if did
there are Q cloud of witnesses. There are
honorable gentlemen on that side of tho
House, whom will not indelicately men
ton by name, who know that personally
their relations and mine are most kindly
and most friendly, who have been in Union
prisons in the North. and who, unless they
contradict me, I shall assume by their
silence assent to the statement that
made.
Mr.. Jones, of Kentucky, rose.
Mr.. Blaine, addressing him-Was the
gentleman one OF themf
Mr. Jones-I was, and I am friend of
the gentleman from Maine. now ask his
courtesy for . f-w moments.
Mr.. Blaine-W.ll, cir, will hear you.
Mr.. Jones-l was one Of those gentle
men, Mr.. Speaker, who had the honor of
being . prisoner Of the republic.
Mr.. Blaine-In what fortl
Mr.. Jones-I will tell you if You will al
low me time.
Mr.. Blaine-Tell me in what fort you
werei
Mr.. Jones-I was not prisoner of war.
Mr.. Blaine, contemptuously-Oh Laugh
Mr. Jones, continuipg-But civil. pris-
0ner taken to Camp Chase.
Mr.. Blaine-I am not dealing with that
class. loud laughter on the Republican
Mr.. Jones, persisting-You were asking
for the facts Of history, and want
Mr.. Blaine, interrupting-No,s cir, am
not dealing with that class of prisoners at
Mr.. Jones, stiill persisting-I deprecate
this nnfOrfu n fa dahato hnt vheu fha oer.