The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-23
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ASSOCIATED PaEss REPORT.
70 TIE DAILY BrK1LIsESoER
GENERAL NEWS.
The Popo's End a Question Of
Dayo Only.
AMsxloan Conspiracy on tho Texan
Border.
Mr.. Ewing Discusses Tho Rssump.
ton Actin tho House.
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.
WAsH1RoToN, November q.

tary ot the Treasury TO pay 10 owners the
value Of all cotton seized BY Treasury off,
cials since May 80, 1865; also for the pay.
ment ot all debts contracted by the gov
ernment in certain States sinee the Close
Of the war.
By Mr. Franklin: For the organisation
Of the Territory Of 0klAhama.
By Mr.. Davis: To exempt steam plough
machines from payment ol duty.
By Mr.. Stone, Of Iowa; Creating pos.
tai savings banks.
Mr. Crittendep- asked leave 10 ofer .
resolution calling upon the President for
information as 70 the failure Of the Union
Pacific Railroad to operate its road and
branches agreeably to the provisions Of
the several Pacific Railroad acts. objec.
ted to.
Mr. Hale, As question vf privilege, Of.
Tered = resolution disehsrging the Com
mittee on Elections from further consid.
Grafton Of the contested election Of Bel
ford Vs. Patterson, OF the State Of Color.
ado. He stated that the case had
occupied the attention Of the House ten
days and then had been referred to
COMMITTEES, that had been done q days ago
and nothing had been heard from that
committee, and as far ~ he could learn
there WaS no indication Of any majority
report coming from the committee.
Mr.. Taylor made point OF order that
this was not privileged question.
The Speaker overruled the point OF
order.
Mr.. r.Stephens, of Georgia, concurred in
all that the Gentlemen from Maine
Hale had said. This was 4 question
of very high privilege. He thought that
the committee should report at very
early date, but suggested that the resoll.
tion be amended so as to direct the COM
mittee TO report by Saturday next or they
should be discharged from consideration
of the subject.
Mr.. Harris said the committee expect
ed to report the frat day Of the regular
session.
Mr.. Coz, Of Ohio, said II the House
should take this case from the Election
Committee, as il had perfect right to
do, he could not see how the committee,
having lost the confidence Of the House,
could further act in any case. [Applause
on the Democratic side.l He thought It
due 10 the Democratic members Of the
committee to make \ short explanation
of what had occurred in the committee.
A Republican member Of the committee
(Hitchcock), who bad been absent from
the committee and whose mind was in
doubt about some matters connected with
the case, had suggested to him (Cox) to
request the COMMITTEES 10 delay immedi.
ate action, and consequently II there had
been any delay the Republican members
OF the committee Were responsible for It.
Applause on the Democratic side.
Theresolulion having been amended Is
suggested BY Mr.. Stephens, MIR. Sayler
moved to lay it on the table, Agreed to;
yeas l55. nays 94.
Mr. Wood stated that be had intended
10 call up to-day the resolution reported
BY the Committee on Ways and Means
for 6ual adjournment Of this session,
but as the Senate had adjourned till Mon.
day he would not call itup.
The House then resumed the considers.
ton Of the deficiency bill, the question
being on reconsidering, the vote OF yeeter.
day rejecting the amendment Of Mr.. Wad.
dell, appropriating $7o0,00 for steam
service In carrying mails. The motion
to reconsider was laid on the table; yeas,
l44; nays, III. The bill was then passed.
The Speaker stated that the special
order, the bill to repeal the resump-
tion act, would now come up, and the gen.
tlemAn from Ohio Ewing was entitled
TO an hour to close the debate.
Proportions TO allow the members who
had offered amendments to occupy the
same time IN explaining them was made
and objected to, and the regular order in.
sisted on.
Mr.. Patterson aIked Mr.. Ewing to
yield the aoor TO him to offer and explain
his amendment No objection being made,
he proceeded with some preliminary
remarks, which were soon interrupted BY
objections. Finally be was allowed three
minutes BY Mr. Ewing, and he went on
to say his smendment II accepted BY Mr.
Ewing, would make the bill satisfactory
to his aide Of the House and (as he hoped)
to the other aide. His amendment was
to strike ont the frat and second lines Of
the bill. The euacttpg clause, with that
triaing amendment, be would be content.
Mr.. Garfield asked consent that the
time Of his colleague Ewing be extended
as long as he desired to speak. He
thought that was 4 eourtssy due his col.
league. Objection was made.
Mr.. Ewing then began his speech. he
said It WGs characteristic Of popular
governments that the people gave their
exclusive thought to one leading subject.
Thus heiore the war slavery was the con.
trolling question; during the war Il was
how TO maintain the government; since
then it was how TO govern the Southern
States, and now It L 4 question Of debt
and currency. Il would have been hap
py for the people II they had considered
these questions earlier. They would have
been saved, among other things, the pass-
age Of the act OF repudiation and extor.
ton OF 1869, by which contraction six.
teen hundred millions OF the public debt
was made, and was changed TO the detri-
ment Of the people and to the advantage
Of the holders Of public securities with.
out consideration 70 4 sum Of not less
than Eve hundred millions; and they
would have been saved that stealthy and
rascally act for the demonstration Of sill.
yer, and the GROWING scheme Of the
money power for the oppression OF the
people, the resumption Law. he argued
that when the resumption Law was passed
the volume OF currency in circulation Was
only $7SS 000, 900, and that was only
$3.50 per capita more than was in eircu.
lation in 1850, which Garfield had held up
to admiration as the year Of sound bust.
ness and sound money. That act had put
in the hands Of capitalists the control Of
the industries Of thegoyernment. Proceed.
| ing TO diseuss Secretary Sherman's con-
struction Of the Law on the subject Of re-
issuing legal tenders be said: That gem
tleman Eas very apt 70 change his views,
because In 1858 he told The people Of
Ohio thai the payment OF United States
bonds In coin, while on their face they
were 10 Be paid in lawful money, would
b repudiaiien and extortion, and Jet
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