The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-05
FORTY-F0URTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April 4.
SENATE,

Mr.. Sherman from the COMMITTEE on
Finances reported without amend
ment House bill to enable the Secre
tary Of the Treasury to pay the judg'
ments of the Court of the Alsbama
! claims, and asked for its immediate con.
sideratlon.
Objection was made by Mr.. Cock.
rell, and it was laid over.
The chair laid before the Senate COM
munication from j. NJ. Langston, chair.
man of the committee having in charge
the dedication of Lincoln's monument
on the l4th of April, inviting the Senate
TO be present At the dedication.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman the invi-
ton was accepted and the cemmunica-
ton referred. .--..
The Chair announced as a special
committee to inquire into the recent
election in Mississippi, under the res
olution adopted last week, Messrs.
Boutwell,, Cameron, Oglesby, Bayard and
Mcdonald.
The Impeachment Managers on the
part of the House appeared IN the Senate
and were escorted to seats on the left OF
the Presiding Officer.
After proclamation by the Sergeant
alarms the articles of impeachment
against w. W. Belknap, late Secretary
of War, were read by Mr.. Ford, Chair
man of the Board of Managers.
After the reading of the articles con-
cluded, Mr.. Ferry, President pro tenn Of
the Senate, announced that the Senate
would take proper order on the subject Of
impeachment, which done, notice would
be given.
The House managers then retired.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Maine, from the Com
mittee on Appropriations, reported with
out amendment the bill making appro-
priations for fortihcations and other
works of defense, for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1877, and recommended
that it be passed as it came from the
House of Representatives. Placed on the
calendar.
The Chair laid before the Senate a
message from the President Of the United
States returning to the Senate without
his approval the bill for the relief of q.
B. TAYLOR and Z. II. ruckett, assignees of
w. T. Chatham.
The bill was for the purpose OF refund
ing to Tylor and Luckett assignees as
aforesaid the money paid for the salary
of store keeper in the distillery in Ken
lucky during December 1869 and Janu-
ary 1870. The message was accompanied
by letter from the Secretary OF the
Treasury stating that the money had not
been wrongly collected and an extract
from the report Of Commissioner Pratt ad-
verse to rounding the moneyand stating
that there is no reason for refunding it,
which will not apply with equal force to
similar payments by all other dlstilLers
who we're operating their distilleries, or
had spirits in the warehouse at that time.
Mr.. McCreery said that the bill, which
had been vetoed by the President had
been carefully Investigated by the two
committees of the Senate, and had twice
passed that body. He thought the veto
was a hasty and ill-advised act. He sent
to the clerks desk and had read letter
from Douglass, when he was Commis
slOner of Internal Revenue, IN favor OF
the claim. Resuming his argument, he said
that Prntt, the present Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue, who reported against
the case, was not familiar with all the facts.
He McCreery] hoped the bill would be
passed by two-thirds vote over the
veto, and thus vindicate the right and
condemn the wrong.
The message and accompanying papers,
on motion of Mr.. McCreery, were re-
ferred the the Committee on Claims.
The House Committee on Military
Affairs agreed, today, to allow Colonel
Brevet- Major General VIM. II. Emery,
to be retired on full rank of Brigadier-
General, with retired pay OF that rank, in
accordance with his request.
The Senate then went into executive
session, and after two hours session the
doors were reopened and it was ordered
that the articles of impeachment against
Wm. w. Belknap, late Secretary of War,
be printed.
Adjourned.