Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-06
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS-.

In the Senate, on the Goth ultimo, the House
resolution for a recess from the 22nd Of De-
cember until the 9TH instant, was agreed to.
Mexican war was made the special order for
January Sth.
In the House, Mr.. Turner, of Kentucky, in
troduced bill to prevent fraud and corrup-
tion in the election of President and Vice
President, Senators and Representatives. 1t
provides that before entering on their duties,
the President and Vice-President elect and all
persons elected to either House of Congress,
shall take an oath that they have not procured
or attempted to procure their election by
bribery or fraud, and that they will not during
their term of Office permit any assessment on
employees Of the United States fo, election or
political purposes. The bill was referred. Mr..
Price, of Iowa, under the direction of the
committee on banking and currency, moved to
suspend the rules, take from the calendar and
pass the bill repeating the check stamp law.
After considerable discussion, the motion to
suspend the rules and pass the bill was reject
ed-yeas, l29; nays, IS; not the necessary
two-thirds in the affirmative.
IN the Senate on the 21st, bills were intro
duced and referred as follows TO authorize
the issue of legal tender notes of the United
States upon deposits of gold to repeal all
laws which impose taxes on capital or deposits
with banks and bankers, and on bank checks :;
for the admission of New Mexico as State :;
for the Improvement of certain rivers in Geor-
gia. The Vice-President submitted commu-
nicatiOn from the commissioner of pensions,
setting forth the necessity for further appro-
priation of $4,000, 900 for the payment of
pensions during the current fiscal year.
In the House, during discussion of the
funding bill, Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, late Green
back candidate for President, made humor-
Gus speech, arraigning the Democratic party
for inconsistency on financial questions and
the discussion soon drifted into Il noisy and
irregular dispute as to which party is response
ble for the demonetization of silver, and which
party should have the credit for it's remoneti-
ation A personal controversy soon sprang
up between Mr.. Sparks, of Illinois, and Mr..
Weaver, as to the latter's veracity. Weaver
declared no one could insult him Intentionally
by ascrbing falsehoOd to him, without feeling
the force of his (Weaver's) right arm. Laugh
ter and uproar. Sparks replied "What l
said is that you were stating what was not
true and that you were wanting in the quail
ties of gentleman" Weaver (now thor
oughly angry and excited): II denounce the
gentleman, personally, as a liar, on the floor of
the House." Sparks, equally excited) "You
are a scoundrel and villain.' Weaver,
thereupon, (amid great uproar), lett the place
where he was standing and advanced, me-
nacingly, towards Sparks, who, in his turn,
moved toward Weaver but both were imme-
diately surrounded by members who prevented
them getting to close quarters and made them
put on their coats, which each was in the act
of pulling off. This, of course, occasioned
the greatest confusion, and disorder prevailed