The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-22

! finished, because MI the material facts had
I been agreed upon. He said no member OF
the Committee on Privileges and Elections
| had ever limited or whispered that the mo-
ton would be made to discharge the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections from
the further consideration OF the Butler case,
though it had been said that such motion
| would be made in the Eustis case.
Mr.. Mcmillan, OF Oregon, said that both
Messrs. Eustis and Butler had requested
him, outside OF the committee, to have their
cases considered promptly, aud he replied
lie would do all in his power to have them
acted on without delay.
After long colIoquial debate Mr.. Conk-
ling, OF New York, said the experience OF
this day had been extraordinary. The Sem
ate had listened to alterations between
Senators as to what took place in commit
tee-all OF which was unparliamentary. A
Senator moved to lay the resolution OF the
senator from Ohio on the table, which was
entirely within the usage and propriety OF
the Senate. \ senator moving reso-
luton representing no committee, but
doing so Of his own volitioR, could
not draw unto himself the attributes
OF chairman OF 4 committee entitled
to close the debate on an important
measure. The yeas and nays had been or
dered on the motion to lay the resolution
on the table, and he submitted that the Sem
ator from Massachusetts (Mr. Hoar) had no
right to withdraw that motion now. For
one, he wanted to see the sense OF the Senate
taken as promptly as possible upon what lie
regarded rs the very extraordinary. motion
to discharge the Committee on Privileges
and Elections from the further consideration
of these credentials.
AS the vote upon Mr.. Hoar's motion was
about to be taken Mr.. Thurman moved that
the Senate proceed to the consideration OF
executive business.
Mr.. Conkling and others: Oh, no; let us
have vote on the motion to lay on the table.
The motion for an executive session was
agreed to-yeas, 80; nays, %, as follows:
Yeas.-AIessrs. Bailey, Barnum, Bayard,
Beck, Cooke, Conover. Davis OF Illinois,
Davis OF West Virginia, Dcnnis, Eaton,
Garland, Gordon, Harris. Hereford, Hill,
Johnston, Jones of Florida, Lamar, Nc
Creepy, Mcdonald, Mcpherson, Merrimon,
Morgan, Randolph, Salisbury, Thurman,
voorhees,, Wallace, Whyte, and Withers-
80. ......s.-...------.-.-.--
Nays.-Messrs. Allison, Booth Bruce,
Burnside, Cameron OF Pennsylvania, Chat
fee, Christiancy, Conkling, Dawes, Dorsey,
Hamin, Hoar, Howe, ingalls,, Jones OF Ne
vada, kirl1wood Mcmillan, Matthews,
Mitchell, Morrill,, Oglesby. Paddock, Rol-
Inns, Sargent, Saunders, Spencer Teller.
Wadegh, and Windom-29.
Messrs. Ransom, Armstrong, Grover, ker-
nan, Cockrell, and MaXey, who would have
voted in the Affirmative, were paired with
Messrs. Anthony, Plumb, Blaine, Cameron
Of Wisconsin, Edmmds, and Forey, who
tnI ia, mr.
senator's, in announcing these facts, stated
that although there was motion for m
executive session they regarded such mo-
ton as one OF political significance, and
therefore withheld their votes-
When Mr.. Hamlin announced that
AIessrs. Blaine and Grover were paired nc
said both were absent from the city and
probably would not be here this session.
The only senator's who did not vote or were
not paired were Messrs. Patterson, OF South
Carolina, and Sharon, OF Nevada. While
the doors were being closed DIR. Allison,
from the Committee on Finance, reported
with amendment House bill to authorize the
free coinage OF the standard silver dollar
and to restore its lcgal-tcndcr character.
Placed on the calendar.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The House was occupied all day cOnsid-
ering the deficiency bin, which appropriatcs
about $l,jO0,COO. Thetwo principal items
were to pay judgments OF the Court OF
Claims and the salaries OF postmastcrs.
On motion OF Mr.. Waddell, OF North
Carolina, an amendment was adopted rem.
dering available for the star service of the
Post.O Office, carrying the mails OIL other than
railroad and steamboat routes, 100000
heretofore appropriated but not expended.
The amendment, however, was voted down
in the House. No further action was taken
on the bill. .-.-a