The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-15
F0RTY-F0URTH CONGRESS.
WAsHINToN, August IA.
SENATE.


resolution providing for the appoint
ment of joint committee TO consist o.
three Senators and three members of the
House, 70 prepare . suitable iormof gov
ernment for the District of Columbia, u
report at the next session of Congress. II
also authorizes the committee to sit dur.
ing the recess. Passed.
Mr Harvey called up the House bill
for the sale Of the saline lands. Several
amendments were agreed to and the bill
passed. a g. -5Et
Mr.. Edmunds moved to lake up the
proposed Constitutional amendment pro-
hibiting appropriations of money for the
support oil secLarlan schools. Agreed to;
yeas 23, nsys.l8 o..
A discussion then took place, which
lasted until the expiration OF the morn
ing hour, when the matter was laid over,
and the Senate proceeded TO consider the
unfinished business, it being the bill to
carry the Hawaiian treaty into effect.
Mr.. Norwood continued his remarks
in opposition TO the bill.
Mr. Edmunds called up the concurrent
resolution of the House proposing to sus.
pend the 10th and 18th JOINT rules for
the remainder of the session, which pro-
vided that no bill which shall have passed
one House, shall be presented for concur.
renee to the other on either of the last
three days of the session, and that no bill
or resolution that shall have passed the
House of Representatives and Senate
shall be presented to the President of the
United States fSr his appreciation on the
last day of the session. He submitted an
order that the resolution be respectfully
returned to the House of Representatives,
with the statement that, rs the House OF
Representatives had not notified the SEN
ate of the adoption of the joint rules for
this present session, as adopted by the
Senate on the 10th Of January last, and
transmitted to the House of Representa-
tlves on the 22d day OF the same month,
there are no joint rules in force. Agreed
to.
Mr.. Window submitted the report OF
the Conference Committee on the Indian
Appropriation bill, which was laid over.
After long debate, the Senate, by Il
vote of 70 yeas to u nays, passed the bill
to carry into effect the Hawaiian treaty.
Ii passed without amendment.
Mr.. Logan called up the report of The
conference committee on the bill " regu
late the issue OF artificial limbs TO SOL
ders and sailors who were disabled in the
late war for the Union.
The report of the conference commit.
Toe. after discussion by Messrs Logan
and ingalls,, was agreed TO.
Mr.. Spencer submitted the folio wing
resolution and asked for its present con-
sideration, but objection was made by
several Senators on the Democratic side
and it went over:
WHEREAS, 1t is alleged that the late
election held on August Z, 1876, in the
state of Alabama, for state officers apd
members ofthe legislature, was charac-
terized by great frauds, violence and in
timidation, whereby the freedom of the
ballot, in great measure, was destroyed,
a reign of terror established, and ballot
boxes stuffed; that the precincts where
large Republican majorities existed, Were
not opened for voting, and OBJ
stacles were interposed to prevent
registration SO that n popular
majority, more than ten thousand were
overcome and its place has given an ap-
parent, but fraudulent majority of more
than forty thousand; and
WHEREAS, A Legislature thus chosen
will have the election of Senator to rep
resent that state in this body; and where
As If these allegations are true great
number of the citizens of the United
States have had their rights under the
Constitution and laws of the United
States wickedly violated; therefore
Resolced, That committee of
five Senators be appointed by
the Chair to investigate
the truth of said allegations, and the cir
cumstances attending said election, with
power to sit during the recess, to visit
said state to make their Investigations, to
send for persons and papers, and TO use
all necessary process in the performance
of their duty, and TO report to the Senate
during the next session their investiga'
tions and fir dings; and that said commit
tee be authorized to employ a clerk and
n stenographer.
A recess was then taken until s p II.
EVENING SESSION.
Mr.. Edmunds moved TO take up House
Joint resolution, proposing an amendment
TO the Constitution of the United States
prohibiting the appropriation of money
for the support of sectarian schools.
After long debate, the Senate at 10
o'clock voted or the proposed contitu-
tional amendment, and it was rejected.
Yeas IS; nays l6; not two-thirds voting
in the Affirmative II was defeated by II
strict party vote. s
Adjosrhed.
IIOuISE.