Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-16
HOUSE.

Adjourned.
HOUSE.
lmmediately,,after reading of the Jour
nal the Speaker called the Committees
/ for reports. The only report submitted
! was from the Committee on Accounts,
relative to Committee Clerks which
was adopted and consideration was
resumed Ot the Senate bill for the
purchase OF construction of a refrigerat-
ing ship for disinfectiOn Of vessels and
/ CargOes.
The bill passed with tritling amend
meut.
Mr.. Chalmers rose 10 a personal ex-
planatiOn in regard TO the statements
made in the Cincinnati GdzettS connect
ing him with the battle at Fort Pillow,
and CritlCising his action at that place,
and also in regard TO a speech made in
Cincinnati by Benz. Butterworth, He
offered a resolution for the appointment
OF committee TO be composed of ex-
Union soldiers, and majority OF whom
shall not be Democrats, TO investigate
into and report upon the charges After
debate, the resolution was laid over for
the present.
TThe House then went into COM
mittee Of the whole on the. legislative
bill.
The pending question being on Mr..
Braggs' motion TO insert the clause re-
peallng the law creating Southern
claims commission, and the substitute
therefor lOtfered by Mr.. Young, of Ten
nessee, abOlishing the commission, but
transferring all claims now pending be-
fore IL 10 the Court of Claims, Mr..
Braggs spoke in favor ofthe proposition.
Mr.. Springer moved to amend Mr..
Young's substitute by adding the pro-
viso, that cases thus transferred to the
court of claims, shall be subjet to the
same defense by the Government as
that could have been made il the
cases were pending before the commits
sion.
Mr. Springers amendment was re-
jectcd, only thirty-fye members voting
Tor il.
Mr.. Young's amendment in the ma
ture of a substitute for Mr.. Bragg's
amendment, was rejected. Yeas, 53;
nays, lO7.
The question then required on Bragg's
amendment, and it was rejected-yeas,
%; NAYS, ll2.
Mr.. Springer offered an amendment
abOlishing the Southern Claims
Commission, and providing that any
person who may have claims
against the United States, in which the
Court OF Claims wOuld not now
have jurisdiction, but founded on equity
and Justice, and not barred by limitation,
may lille his plea in the Court OF Claims.
Il further provides that the court shall !
report its finding to Congress, and Con-
gress shall not allow or authorize the |
payment OF any private claim not paya-
bic under the existing law until the
claims have been investigated by the !
Court of Claims.
Without dispOsing OF the peniing
amendments the committee rose and
the House directed that all debate on
amendments shall close in ten minutes,
after which the House again went into
committee.
Adjourned.
The Spofford-Kellogg Case.
WASHINGTON, April l5.-The Senate !
Committee on Privileges and Elections, |
i'm the case of Judge SpoifOrd, OF Lou !
isiana, claiming the seat now occupied !
bv Gov. kellogg, decided to notify them
t6 appear in person or by counsel to-
morrow, and present argument to the |
committee on the question whether this
case is not rSadiudicdtG.
Contested Seats.
WASHINGTON, April l5.-The follow
ing list of Representatives, OF the present !
Congress, whose seats are 10 be con-
tested, together with the names oi the |
contestants. was furnished the House !
to-day by Clerk Adams and submitted |
by Speaker Randall Immediately before |
adiournment: From the Sixth MasSa- |
chusetts District, Benton against Loring;
from the Twentieth Pennsylvania Dis |
trict. Curtin against GOcum; from the !
First North Carolina District,
Yeates against Martin; from
the Second North Carolina District,
O'Hara against Kitchen; from the
Second South Carolina District, Mackey
against O'CunnOr; from the Fourth Ala
hama District. Harrison against Shelley;
from the Third Louisiana District, Her
bert against Acklen; from the Third /
Louisiana District, Merchant against
AckIin: from the Second Arkansas Dis
trict. Bradley against SlemOns; from the /
second Florida District, Bisbee against
Uull: from the Third Minnesota Dis
trict. Donuelly against Washburne; from
the State of Oregon, Mcdowell against
Whitaker.
Pleuro-Penumonia.
WAsHrxGroS, April l5.-The House
Committee on Agriculture referred the |
whole subject OF pleuro-pneumonla, IN
Cattle 10 a subcommittee consisting !
ol Dibreu. Mctiowan, Hatch, Forsythe,
Valentine and Lefevre, With nStruc-
tions To ascertain all facts possible IN
connection with the disease and report
the result of the INQUIRIES Thursday
next il possible. -,
The House Committee on epidemic
diseases agreed to report hvorably the
hin of Representative Young, OF Tenn,
for the prevention and recurrence oi
yellow fever and other epiiemic diseas,
e. This bill also gives the Natlonal
Board of Health the power to investigate
the cattle disease.
Bills by Petition.
WASHINGTON, April l5.-The follow
inc petitions were filed in the House,
TODAY:
By Messrs. Stephens, ,SPeerand u'toh;
Of Georgia-Praying that the system 0i
internal revenue may be either aoSi-
ished absolutely or so modified as to be
less oppressive to the people:
By MIR. DE Ia Matyr-A bill prepared
by him providing for the substitution OF
United States legal tender paper money
for National bank notes
COngrstulatinE the Gar.
WASHINGTON, April Is. - Secretary
Evarts has telegraphed the Onl'eu
states Minister to Russia To convey 70
,bs Gar President HAYES congratula-
tons upon his escape trom assassihat'on'
Fire ct scott's Landing. Ohio
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