Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-12
RY TELEGRAPH.
special dispatches to the Saze''e'
Congress
SENATE.

Congress
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, January IL. lS77.-ln the
Senate, TO day, among the Gu ,lness OF Tux
morning hour
Mr., johnson, OF Va, called up resolution
for the relicfof VIM. Ii. Ward. of New jersey
reported from the Committee 90 Patents
Direction was made.
MIR, Johnson said he would prepare reSo!u
ton calling upon lhe olduabce department lol
full renart on the subject Of MIR. Wards pat
ent
The subject was then laid aside.
A bill for tue reorganization OF the GlenWood
Cemetery Company was then taken up and
discussed, and then laid aside at the close OF
the morning hour.
MIR. Elmuod's resolutions were then taken
up.
MIR. Booth, Of CAL. addressed the Senate at
leur!h.
HOUSE OF REPRE- SENTATIVEs.
La the House Of Representatives,
Mr. Tartox presented memorial from c'tl-
zens of Lagrcnc., Mass, praying satisfactory
adjustment Of The Presidential contess, and 3
fair count of the electoral vote.
Mr.. Knott, from the judiciary Committee
made report on the case otthe recusant Now
Orleans telegraph operator aud Mr. Orion, 10
which the COMMITTED holds that the answer OF
the witness does not purge him Of contempt OF
the Hou.c, and that he shall be brought to the
bar Of tho House, aod unless he agrees to pro.
duae the kilograms demanded by the Commit
tee, at New Orleans, he shall be put 10 cootinc-
mcpt, and closed with resolutions to this effect.
The resolutions we're adopted and the wit
ness Barnes produced at the bar OF the house.
10 reply to the question by the Speaker the
wtocss stated that he was not 10 control OF any
messages in the New Orleans Office, but that II
he again took charge OF that office and II the
telegrams came again into his possession and
among them were the kilograms referred TO, he
would willingly comply with the request of the
committee and produce thepl.
The Speaker said that the witness was 10
charge of tho Sergeant-at.Arms, upon which
there was discussion as to tho authority OF
the Speaker to remand the witness to the Gus.
tody of the Sergeant.
A resolution that the answer Of Barnes was
not sufficient and that he be remanded to the
custody Of the Sergeant at Arms was introduced
by Mr.. Knott, when the witness further an
swcred that ho would produce the kilograms if
he could, which he subsequently said he would
modify by striking out 'if can" hut did not,
and after debate resolution 10 remand MIN was
adopted-ayos ISL, noes Il
Two additional members were appointed on
the Committee on the Powers and Duties OF the
House on Counting the Electoral Qotes
The majority of the same committee reported
that the President Of the Senate has no power to
count the electoral vote, his only functions be-
ing ministerial that the Senate aud House have
power to ascertain and count the vote, and the
House has equal powers with tho Senate in the
count, but no vote cen DO counted against the
protest of the House.
The report WAS made the order Of the day for
Wednesday DaIL
The House then adjourned Till Monday.
The President sent TO the House to-day
communication 10 reply to an inquiry OF the
Houses as to why he had withheld certain ap.
preparations made 10 the River and liarbor
bill. The committee quotes a letter from the
Secretary Of War, in which the Secretary
claims that he did not consider it obligatory
upon him to cxpeud all the money they had
appropriated, especially in the depleted condi-
ton Of the Treasury, for works not OF strictly
national character or Tor unnecessary new