Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
Congress.

In the Senate, on the 21st, a resolution
was adopted providing for adjournment from
Friday, ed. to Tuesday, 26th, with the general
understanding among the Senators that the SEN
ate would adjourn from Tuesday to Friday, and
from Friday 10 Tuesday, January 2. 1871, with
out transacting any business. The Chair ap-
pointed as the special committee authorized by
the recent resolution of Mr.. Edmunds to devise
means to the proper count of the vote for Presi.
dent and Vice-President. in connection with a
similar ommitte of the House: Messrs.
Thurman, Bayard and Ransom. Resolutions
of respect and appropriate addresses were made
in eulogy of the late Senator Caperton, and as a
further mark OF respect the Senate adjourned.
......In the House, Mr.. Plat offered a resolu-
ton for the appointment of a select ommitt to
investigate the charges made yesterday by Mr..
the New York Post office. In connection with it
Mr.. Plat sent to the Clerks desk and had read
a telegram from Postmaster James, pronounc-
ing the accusation utterly and absolutely false,
Mr.. Hewitt, in explanation, said that q large
number of the letters received by him through
the Few York Post Office bore unmistaka0le
marks of having been opened and resealed by
somebody, and, although he was satisfied that
Postmaster James knew nothing about it, he had
York Post office. Mr.. Hale, to whom Mr..
Hewitt had shown a number of the apparently
re-sealed letters, agreed that they had every
appearance of having been tempered with,
and advised him to bring the matter before
the House. 1t was finally referred to the COM
mitte e now investigating the elections in New
" ItbJs II SsOIubIOu Wd OutT6uJ Iidb b3T0eS,
manager of the Western Union Telegraph in
New Orleans, be arrested and brought before the
House for contempt. Debate was cut off, and
the Republicans attempted to prevent action by
parliamentary devices. but finally it was agreed
that an hours discussion should be allowed,
when the resolution was adopted without di-
vision.
In the Senate, on the 22d, a resolution
was passed for a committee to investigate the
case of the disputed Presidential Elector in Ore
pon- Adiourpad till Tueadav Tho Snaakar
of the House announced the appointment of the
following committees: To ascertain and report
what are the privileges. powers and duties of
the House of Representatives in counting the
votes for President and Vice, President: Messrs,
Knott, Sparks, Tucker, Marsh, Burchard wis. }.
Seelye. Monroe. On counting the electoral
votes: Messrs. Payne, Hunton, Hewitt, Spring
er, McCrary, Hoar and Willard.
The only business transacted by the Sem
ate, on the Goth, was the appointment, at the
request of Mr.. Morton, chairman, of an addi-
tional member to the Committee of Privileges
and Elections, the great body of the committee
having gone South to conduct the investiga-
tons. The Cnalr appointed Mr. Mitchell of
oregon as the new member. Adjourned till Fri
day 900. House not in session.
The Senate was not in session IN the 9th.
1.-THE Speaker laid before the House a mes
sage from the President in regard to obtaining
certain concessions from the Sioux Indians.
Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Also, d mcssdSc iIom lhe AIe5luehG In reSdfu
to the extradition treaty with Great Britain,
reciting the conduct of Great Britain in
the cases of Winslow and Brent and
announcing that since Great Britain had volun-
tarily handed over Brent to the Government, he
would continue to regard that treaty as still in
operation, but he hoped that a new treaty would
be soon entered into. Referred to the lOmmit-
tee on Foreign Affairs. The speaker laid before
the House a petition from certain citizens of
Cincinnati in regard to the counting of the Elec-
toral votes. A discussion arose as to whether
the petition should be read and therefore
printed, and the whole question of Southern
outrages" and Returning Board frauds" was
thereby opened up and debated FOR some hours.
Finally, the petition was read and referred to
the committee appointed to examine into the
subject. 1t contains a resolution declaring that
the President of the Senate has not the power
alone to count and declare the result of the
Electoral vote.