Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
sENATE-ExTRA A SESSION.

On the 9th, after a long discussion, L. Q.
G. Lamar was admitted TO his seat as Senator
from Mississippi. On the question of ad-
mltting W. P. Kellogg, Of Louisiana, Blaine
(Me.), in lengthy speech, maintained that,
the Electoral Commission having settled the
question Of the competency and legality Of
the Louisiana Returning Board, the claim Of
Kellogg to the senatorship resting upon the
same foundation as the Presidential elect, re-,
there could be no doubt of his legal election.
The Packard Government, he said, received
about 1000 more votes than the Hayes elect
ors, and, IL Packard is not the legal Gov
ernor, then Hayes has no title TO the Presi-
dency. The Senate adjourned without reach
ing vote.
Discussion on the admission Of new SEN
ators occupied almost the entire session on
the 7th. Objection was made to the swear
ing in of Lafayette Grover, Senator-elect
from Oregon, and his credentials were laid
on the table. After speeches by Bayard (Del),
Blaine (Me.), and Morton Qnd.), the Senate
voted-35 to 29-to refer Kellogg's ease TO
the Committee on Privileges and Elections,
when appointed. The same reference was
made of the credentials Of Butler and Cor
bin, each claiming a seat as Senator from
South Carolina. An executive session was
held and the Senate adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 9th, the standing
committees were announced, the Chairman.
ships Of which are:
Finance, Morrill,; Appropriations, Window
Elections, Morton; Foreign Affairs, Cameron,
of Pennsylvania; Commerce, Conkling; Man.
ufactures, Booth; Agriculture, Paddock; Mil
itary, Spencer; Naval, Sargent; J judiciary, Ed
munds; Postoffice, Hamlin; Public Lands,
Oglesby; Private Land Claims, Thurman; In
dian, Allison; Pension, Ingalls; Revolutions
~ Claims, johnson; Claims, Mcmillan; Dis
trict OF Columbia, Dorsey; Patents, Wad-
leigh; Territories, Patterson Railroads, Mitch
ell; Mines, Sharon; Education, Burnside;
Accounts Of the Senate, Jones; Rules, Ferry;
Printing, Anthony; Library, Howe; Public
Grounds, Mcmillan; Civil Service, Blaine;
Revision of Laws, Christiancy; Engrossed
Bills, Bayard; Enrolled Bills, Conover; Mis-
sissippi Levees, Bruce; Transportation Routes
to the Seaboard, Cameron (Wis); To Exam
Inc the Several Branches Of the Civil Service,
Chaffee.
The credentials Of ]. B. Eustis, claiming
seat from Louisiana, were referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
Grover (Ore.) submitted resolution that the
memorials charging that he procured his seat
by bribery, corruption, etc ; that he cor
ruptly and frsudulently issued a certif-
cate of election as Presidential elector to
Cronin, and that he bore false witness
when testifying before the Senate committee
in regard to the same, be referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
Agreed to without division. In executive
session the Cabinet nominations were re
ferrcd-that Of Schurz to the Finance Com
mittee; Devens to the Judiciary Committee;
McCrary to the Military Affairs Committee;
Thompson to the Naval Committee, and Key
to the Postoffice Committee Adjourned.
On the 10th the various Cabinet nomina-
tions were in turn reported back to the SEN
ate from the committees, in each case ac-
companied with an unanimous recommends
ton for confirmation. The vote upon the
question of confirming the nominations re-
sulted-in the case Of Keys, yeas A, nays 5;
In the case of Schurz, "A yeas to nays;
Evarts about the same; the nominations of
McCrary Thompson and Devens were con-
firmed without a roll-call. A number Of
Senators on both sides refrained from vot-
ing, and the negative votes were cast by DEM
ocrats. Conkling IN. ~ did not vote on
Evarts' nomination. Adjourned.