The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-13
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SPEAKER KEh.a s 7 INDICATION.
4 Complete and Salts. factory Report
from the investigating
Committee.
A HANDSOME EULoGY FR0A a RE-
PUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE.
FAREWELL ADDRESS OF GENERAL MAHgaE.
The A. NE &c o. Railroad Receivers ON
a Tour of Inspection.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
Suspension Of Manufacturing Estsb-
sashments In Massachusetts
nna New Jersey.
A CRUEL ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, &c.
FAREWELL ADDRESS OF GENERAL HAHgsB
The A. NE &c o. Railroad Receivers on
a Tour of Inspection.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
Suspension sf 3ianufaefurfns Estab.
Hshments In massachusetts
nna New Jersey.
A CRUEL ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, &c.
. F0REIGS AFFAIRS
Idle Steamships at Liverpoo!lLos s Of a
Guatemalan Gunboat,. &c.

Idle steamships at Liverpoo4lLoss Of a |
Guatemalan Gunboat,. &c.
XLIVTH CONGRESS--Firss Session.
WASHINGTON, June e. 1876.
SENATE.
A motion to adjourn over tilfThursday |
next on account OF the CincinnatS Conven- !
ton was dsieated-ayes- IS; noes 90.
4 message was communicated from the |
President yetoing the bill for tho. relief OF
NJ. w. Brock, late priyase in Company D,
Tenth Tennessee volunteers.
Mr.. Merrimon presented the petition OF
d. II. Hill, Of North Carolina. for che re-
moval OF his disabilities.
y quorum was obtained with difficulty
when the Senate adjourned to Thursday.
HOCsEoF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House was very thin, the Republican
benches being nearly all vacant.
Mr.. Clymer, OF Pennsylvania from the
Committee on Expenditures in. the War
Department, made a report in the case OF
the charge against Speaker Kerr. The re-
port states that after full inquiry into the
fact, and after thorough examination OF
Lawrence Harvey, the only witness making
the charge, also Of Augustus B.. Green and
divers other witnesses, it appeared that in
1866. while 4 member OF the House OF Rep
resentatives OF the Thirty-ninth Congress,
Mr.. Kerr did, in the exercise OF his right or
privilege, nominate Green for in appoint
ment in the regular army. 'rhe committee,
however, had found no difficulty in reach
ing the conclusion that the charge rs to the
payment Of money to Mr.. Kerr was I'M
qraitiedly false, and that Mr.. Kerr stood
fully eXonerated from all implication affect
ing his personal honor or official integrity.
The committee had found nothing in the
whole progress OF the investigation to inn
pair or detract from the weu-established
reputation OF Mr.. Kerr for unQuestioned
personal integrity and unsullied purity.
Mr.. Clyincr remarked that the conclusion
reached was the unanimous Judgment not
ONLY OF the committee, but OF the House and
the country.
Mr.. Danford, OF Ohio "a Republican
member OF the committee, said that it
afforded him real pleasure to be able to sub
scribe to the report, not because OF the I'M
fortunate illness OF Mr.. Kerr, but because
it was an act OF simple Justice to that gen.
tleman. He spoke OF the unfortunate cir
cumstance which presented itself at the
threshold OF the inquiry, is to Mr.. Kerr, u
Democrat from Indiana, giving the nomina-
ton to Green, u Republican from New
York, and said that had 1t not been for that
circumstance the committee would not have
deemed it worth while to even enter upon
the investigation, lie was happy to say,
however, that he had no idea that, so far as
the corruption OF Mr.. Kerr was concerned,
there was scintila OF truth in Harncy's
testimony. 1t was falsehoOd, taken advan-
taee OF by a bad man for the pur-
pose OF attempting to blacken the rcpu-
tation OF Il good man. [Applause.] He
spoke OF these Investigations, used by bad
men like Harvey, us being the very worst
instruments that can be used in a country
like this. The testimony OF Harvey was
but the natural outgrowth of these inyesti-
cations. Committees OF the House had
been seen this session housing around, and
dragging the public and private correspond
ence OF citizens into pubicity-publishing
even the bank accounts OF officials without
charges and without specifications.
Mr.. Danford continued ut great length,
and concluded: 81 am glad here to be able
from the heart to say whatever shadow this
momentary imputation might have cast on
the days OF the distinguished gentleman
(the Speaker OF this Houseedays which,
some Of Us fear, are numbered already-lt
is the unanimous verdict OF the people,
through their representatives, that pgis Of
q long aud honorable life has protected him
from the enyenomed shaft OF malice; that
the cloud is removed, and that if his sun
goes down it shall 20 down in full honor.
and in the esteem OF all honorable men OF
whatever party. Applause on both sides
OF the Housed
MI Garfield, OF Ohio, suggested that the
vote on the report should be taken by the
members rising.
The suggestion was adopted, and all the
members-one hundred and ten in num-
ber--rose in the affirmative, with none in
the negative.
1t the request OF Mr.. Garfield the Speak
CT pro tenn directed the clerk to enter it on
the record rs the unanimous vote OF the
House.
On motion OF Dir. Leavcnworth, OF Ohio,
the clerk was instructed to furnish to Mr..
Kerr in the most formal manner certified
copy OF the proceedings on this occasion.
The army appropriations bill was reported.
1t appropriates $23,000,D00, which is Sl0,-
0O0. 900 less than the estimates.
The joint resolution proposing to modify
the treaty with China, giving each Govern
ment reciprocally the control Of immigra-
ton, except for commercial pursuits, was
passed.
adjourned.