Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

at IL 10 a. M, amid great confusion and
five minutes before noon lot the 4th1,
and when it was practically impossible to con-
the call, the Speaker interruptedit and rose
and delivered his valedictory, and announced
that the House of the Forty fourth Congress was
adjourned without day.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
All the general appropriation bills be-
came laws, with the exception OF that making
and the River and Harbor bill. The latter was
reported from the Committee on Commerce, but
was not considered. There is, however, a large
surplus of money from last year. and therefore
no Improvement actually needed win suffer ow-
to the Army bill, the former appropriation leaves
end of the present focal year, the ssth of June
When it became known that the bill was lost.
prominent members OF Congress- SAID
of Congress about May 2. Among the
amounts appropriated by the Sundry Civil bill
for continuing work on public buildings, are the
natl, 500. 600 each; Grand Rapids, Mich.
$1,000; Port Huron. Micii:. $1,000; Evans
VILE, Ind. $50 600; Nashville, Tenn. sISs.
Topeka, Kas., $50, coo. The House eoncurred
in the Senate amendment appropriating $780,.
OeG to pay s5to the e,o expenses IS S Se . Sommsss b1 the De
Secretary of the Interior. to report the best prac-
ticable methods of guarding against invasions
Oh ROCKY MOUNTAIN lOCuSt6 dnu &tdESHOppCl6s
A Senate az endment appropriating
S s3''O3 two voluntary paz Continues IN OBJ
Louisiana Returning Board, was retained in the
bill. The provision adopted in different forms
by the House and Senate respectively, tor the
free transmission of public documents through
the mails until the 1st day of next January, WAS
in it's substance finally agreed to by both houses,
and will go into effect as soon as the Post-ofice
Department promulgates the necessary regula-
tons. Amendments granting a subsidy of
So 0, 600 to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
for mail service between San Francisco, china
and Japan, and the same amount for q line of
steamships between Rio de Janeiro; also amend
ments to the Post.route bill, authorizing fast
mail trains, were lost, as the House conterees
would not agree thereto.
Forty fifth Congress-specisI Session of
the Senate.
The Senate of the Forty-ffth Congress
met in extraordinary session, pursuant to the
proclamation of President Grant, at noon on the
9th. The following are the changes in the mem
bership of the Senate: Alabama-J T. Morgan,
Dem. in place of George Goldthwaite, Dem.
Arkansas-A. I'll. Garland, Dem, IN place OF
Powell Clayton, Rep; Georgia-Benj. IL: Hill,
Dem =, in place of Thos. NJ. Norwood, DEM;
Illinois-Dayid Davis, Ind. in place of John
in place OF George g. Wright, Rep; Kansas
Preston B. Plumb, Rep. in place of James
n. RaFEyey' Rep kentu TUCK es
John W. Stevenson. Dem. Massac6usettsc-
George +. Hoar, Rep, in place of George S.
Boutwell, Rep; MisslsslPpi1lh : p: Lamar.
Hampshire-E H. Rollins. Rep. in place of
A. H. Cragin. Rep; Nebraska--A. Saunders,
Rep, in place of z. W. Hitchcock, Rep. New
Jersey-J. r. Mcpherson, Dem, in place of F.
t. Frelinghuysen, Rep. Oregon--L.B Grover,
Dem, in place of James x. Kelly. Dem; South
Carolina-M. c. Butler. DEM, in place of t.
j. Robertson. Rep; Tennessee-J. e. Bailey,
DEM, in place of Henry Cooper, Dem and 1.
G. Harris. Dem, in place Of D.: NJ; Key
NJ. =. Han ilton, Rep. West Yirginia-F. Here
ford. Dem, in place of Samuel Price, Dem.
There is one existing vacancy from Louisiana,
for the term ending in 10, for which James
Lewis has been chosen by the Republican Leg
~islature the other seat from that state lin place
of j. K. West, Rep } is contested by j. Ii. Eus-
vacant seat of Senator Robertson, Rep from
SOUTH Carolina Is contested by NJ. G. Butler,
DEM, and d. 7. Corban, Rep. Emitting the
contested seats from Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, the new Senate is classified politically as
follows: Republicans, 80; Democrats, 80; In
dependent, l; contested 3; total, 70: (rhs Sen
licans, 46; Democrats, %; vacancy, -
The Senate being called to order, on motion of
Mr.. Hamlin. Senator Ferry was chosen Presi-
tors was then called, and they were sworn in.
Objections were made to the credentials of VIM.
p. Kellogg, of L uisiana, John t. Morgan, of
Alabama, and l.. O.. c Lamar, of Mississippi,
and they were laid upon the table. Two sets of
credentials (Corbin and Butler were presented
from SOuLD t3TOlllA. AT. IICFeTs OI OTSKOn
did not respond to the roll call. Vice President
Wheeler then entered the chamber and was sworn
in, when he made a brief address. At the close
he announced that the Senate would proceed to
the center portico of the Capitol, to witness the
inauguration of the President.
In the Senate, on the 9Th, q resolution
that Mr.. Lamar be sworn in was opposed by
Mr.. Spencer of Alabama. who moved that his
credentials be referred to the on
Privileges and Elections. After considerable
a iaonasjnn dnrynu which tho 20 mort If Mr. Rnnt-
wells m on the Mississippi election was
read. Mr.. Spencer's motion was r~ejected-yeas,
l; nays. 5s. The ground taken by Messrs.
Blaine. Morton and some other Republican Sem
ators was, that Mr.. Lamar's credentials being
regular prinsa Jacie, he should be sworn in,
while the report of the commit.
of future action-the same rule to be observed
likewise in the case of Mr.. Pinchback. The
motion that Mr.. Lamar be sworn in was then
carried-only Messrs Spencer and Wadleigh OPP
posing it-snd the oath was administered. Mr..
Blaine then offered a resolution that William Pi t
Kellogg be sworn in. Mr.. Bsyard submitted a
substitute that his credentials be laid On the
table and referred to the Committee on
Privileges and Elections. MIR. Blaine
of Mr. kellogg's admission, in which he said
" 1 believe that ne was elected by the legal Leg
lslatare of Louisiana l believe that he was
elected by and represents the legal Government
of Louisiana. ana / do not see now to day-and
that is the main point / desire to present-h,w
any Senator who voted in this Chamber that the
StS va oAHA % AOkGAA1 nio
pr operly cast for r. B. Hayes aud yourself, Mr..
President, is permitted to doubt that S. B.
Packard is equally of right the Governor of that
Stste......You discredit Packard, and you
discredit Hayes. You hold that Packard is not
the legal Governor of Louisiana. and President
Hayes has no title to his seat. and the honored
Vice President who presides over our delibera-
tions has no title to his chair. i know there has
been a great deal said, here and there, in the
corridors of the Capitol, around and about, in
by places and in high places, of late, that some
arrangement had been made by which Packard
was not to be recognized, and that he was to be
allowed to slide by and Nichols was to be &C
cepted as Governor of Louisiana. want to
know who had authority to make any such ar
rangement. l want to know If any Senator
on this floor win state in his place that any per-
son speaking for the Administration that
was coming in or the one that was going out,
had any right to make any such an arrangement.
| deny it; l deny it wi hout being authorised to
speak for the Administration that now exists
but 1 deny it on the simple, broad ground that ii
is tan impossibility that the Administration of
President Hayes could do it. I deny it on the