Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-27

give the Managers time to prepare an answer to
the plea =. In the House, lengthy debate was
had in the kilbourne case, and a resolution was
finally adopted-165 to 75-directinp the SERGEANT
alarms to make return to the writ of habeqs cor
20us, and to produce Kilbourne before the court.
resolution was adopted that in the further
proceedings in the impeachment case the House
should appear in the Senate only by it's Man
ayers.
ON the 18th. bills were passed in the Senate
authorizing the sale of the Congressional Record
and other public documents TO members of Con-
gress at cost, with ten per cent. additional the
House Deficiency Appropriation bill, with amend
nents. In the House unanimous report was
made in the Alabama contested election case of
Bromberg as. HARRISON, declaring the sitting
member, (Haralson) entitled TO the seat and the
report was agreed to. In the Florida election
case majority report was made that Walls, the
sitting member. not, and that Finlay, the
contestant was entitled to the seat.
On the 10Th, in the Senate, sitting as Court of
impeachment, the Managers of the House pre-
sented the answer adopted by the House to the
plea of the defense, the answer being to the eff
feet that at the time of the commission of the acts
charged Gen. Belknap was an officer of the United
States, and was such an officer until after the
House had completed an investigation into the
charges against him and were preparing for his
impeachment fact known to him when
he resigned An order was then
agreed TO that the respondent file his answer
to the replication of the House by the 24th, the
Managers their rejoinder by the 25th and that the
trial proceed on the 9th. The Court then ad-
jOurned. The MESSAGE vetoing the bill reducing
the salary of the President was laid before the
Senate. The House bill to define the tax on fer
mented and malt liquors passed. A motion
to reconsider the vote by which the bill in regard
to counting votes for President ana Vice-Presi-
dent was passed was agreed to-31 to 23-and the
bill was placed the calendar ... In the
House, bills were introduced--for refunding the
Understanding bonds of the United States in
United States consols bearing four per cent gold
interest and having forty years to run; to provide
for the coinage Of Centennial coins. The report
in the Florida contested-election case was agceed
to, and j. q. Finlay was sworn in The Ser
geant-at-Arms reported that he had obeyed the
writ of habe0s corpus in the Hallet Kilbourne
case, and that the Judge had ordered Kilbourne
into the custody of the Marshal.
On the Goth, the Senate unanimously passed
a bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to allow Mrs. Minnie Sherman Fitch to
receive, free from duty, the wedding presents
from the Khedive of Egypt. Amendments were
oHered TO the Dill TO amend the laws relating to
the legat-tender of silver coin. Adjourned to the
gath. Bills were introduced in the House-to
grant to Ohio the unsold and unappropriated
public lands in such State; to limit the power of
courts to punish for contempt; to enlarge the
privileges of the writ of hG6eQs cor0us
The Senate amendments to the Consular
and Diplomatic Appropriation bin were
concurred in. Some of the Senate amend
ments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill were
rejected, and others were concurred in. A reso-
luton was adopted reciting the charges made in
newspaper report affecting tie official conduct
of Secretary Bristow in regard to the remission
of a forfeiture in the of the bark Mary Mer-
rift, seized at Milwaukee in 1869 for violation
OF the Custom laws, and instructing the Commit
tee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department
to investigate the matter. The bill to transfer
the Indian Bureau to the War Department was
taken up and amended.