The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE
In the senate on the 18th, Mr.. West,
from the committee on Appropriations. re-
ported favorably on the house bill appropri-
ating $4,000 TO defray the expenses of the
select committee appointed to investigate
Federal Offices in Louisiana. Passed. Mr..
Wright from the committee on Claims, re-
| ported adversely on the bill to amend the
deficiency appropriation bill of May 1872
and to extend the time for the presentation
OF claims for cotton seized after 5Oth of June,
1865, and it was indefinitely postponed The
senate went into secret session to deliberate
on the question of jurisdiction as to Bel
knaps impeachment. When the doors were
opened, the senate, sitting a court of i'm
peachment, adjourned until tD-,norrOw. Leg
islative business was then resumed and the
senate soon adjourned.
j In the senate, ON the 10th, Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, spoke at length on the
eyilAbf Chinese immigration Senator Ed
Innnds reported with amendments the SEN
ate bin to amend the second, fourth and
fifth sections Of the act TO enforce the rights
'.ef citizens Of thesSaited States in the several
- IS OF the union, which Was placed on the
E5. .eniiAr The consideration OF the articles
slsssllesial gsp45rres ami 81 were s'1,
! srfcds and the floors closed. Before a de-
Aslon was reached, the doors were re-opened
and 1he senate adjourned.
he senate, on the 18th, before the
seert 8ession, Mr.. Cooper called up the
houses TO further provide for building
custorNat se,postoffice, courtrooms, etc, in
the city 6 Memphis. Passed. At lO:3O con
Esideration of articles of impeachment was re-
sumed and doors were closed. Before reach
ing any desision the senate, sitting as a court
or impeachment, adjourned until Tomorrow
A short executive session was held and the
senate adjourned.
In the senate on the 18th, Mr.. Nor
ton submitted resolution instructing the
special committee recently appointed to in
quire into the late election in Mississippi to
inquire also into the recent alleged killing of |
colored people and outrages committed near
the Mississippi and Louisiana line, at Bayou |
Iunlca He read a dispatch received bv /
Gov. kellogg, now in this city, from H. {. |
Clark, his private secretary, dated New Or /
leans May lTth StatEg that fugitives from
the scene of trouble had arrived, and the de- |
tails were horrible; that six white men were /
killed and sixty negroes killed and hanged. |
ana asking that special commission of the /
senate be authorized to investigate the mat /
ter The resolution was agreed to. Mr. Wright /
called up the house bill making appropria- |
tions for the payment OF claims reported 10 |
congress under section two ef the act of June /
is, 1874, by the secretary of the treasury. /
Passed, The house bill authorizing the APP |
polptment OF receivers of national banks |
and for ether purposes, passed. At enc
O'Clock legislative business was suspended |
and consideration cf articles of impeach-
ment resumed with closed doors. Before
reaching any decision the doors were re-
op p1ned, and the chair laid before the senate
q communication from the commissioners of /
the District of Columbia, in answer to the
senate resolution of April TO- 1876. Ordered
to be printed and lie on the table. Adj
journed
In the senate on the 10Th, after the in
PRODUCTION and reference OF several bills and
the presentation Of a number of petitions.
Legislative business was suspended, and the
senate resumed consideration of articles of
impeachment against Belknap, with closed
doors. At AS the doors were recpcne ed. and
legislative business was resumed. The chair
laiC before the senate a communication from
the secretary of the treasury, inclOsing a re-
port OF the director OF the mint IN answer 70
n senate resolution, showing the annual pro-
duct OF gold and silver ih the United States
from $50 to 1875 Inclusive, and an estimate
of the product of other countries. Ordered
% he printed, and to lie on the table After
a brief executive session, the senate al,
journed.
In the senate on the Goth, senator
Morton, from the committee ou privileges
and elections, submitted a report In the case
Of senator Spencer, which was ordered
printed. Mr. Mitchell called up senate bill
for the relief of G. B. Tyler and f. H. Luck
EFT, with veto message of the president.
The bill authorizes the secretary of the treas
ury TO pay the persons named $I64, wrong
fully collected in the second district OF Ken
lucky, as tax for keeping bonded warehouse.
Passed, Notwithstanding the objections OF
the president. Yeas, IS; nays, none. The
senate then went into secret session on the
question OF jurisdiction on the impeachment
matter, and Mr.. Boutwell, spoke in opposi-
ton. Without reaching decision, the doors
opened, and the senate adjourned.
In the senate, on the 22d, the chair
laid before the senate a communication from
the secretary of war, incloSing rommunica-
ton from the chief of the engineer corps
suggesting that the appropriation fol the
new snag-boat for the western rivers be in
creased from one hundred and twenty-five l
to one hundred and ffty-five thou
sand dollars. The senate then went into |
session. At half past one o'clock i
the doors were reOpened, but were immedi- ]
ateiy closed again, and the senate resumed I
the consideration of the articles of impeach- | /
ment against Belknap. at half past four the I
senate again went into executive session.
and after a short time the doors were re-
opened. Senator Wright, from the commit
tee on judiciary, reported adversely on the I
resolution instrUcting the committee to in ]
9ulre into the eXpediency of establishing Il | =
penitentiary at Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the :
confinement of United States prisoners. The !
committee was discharged from furtker con-
'ideration. Adjourned.
HOUSE. Il