Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-22
The Swain Inquiry Ended.
Forty Eighth COngress---First Session.
WAsH1NaroN. May 21

WASHINGTON May Z1.
 SENATE-The chair appointed Msssrs Sherman, Merrill, Allison, Baysrd and Lamar as members on the part of the Senate of the commission to supervise the dedication cere- monies in connection with the Washington monument. The chair also appointed Mir. PIatt to be one of the visitors to the naval academy at Annapolis in the place of Senator Miller, of California, who had been obliged to decline.
 number of petitions were presented and appropriately referred protesting against any government assumption of the telegraph ser- vice or the increase in the number of govern ment employees and the destruction of private interests which such assumption involves. The petitioners say that free competition is best for that as for other business. Mir. liar rison presented counter petition setting forth that the Western Union company en- ployes are engaged in getting signatures to petitions in opposition to postal telegraph, and insisting that such petitions are not in the interest of the people
 On motion of Mir. Call the Senate proceed ed to the consideration of bills on the calen- dar providing for the erection of public buildings.
 Bills were also passed giving authority to the Kansas City, Topeka and Western rail road to construct bridge over the Missouri at Sibley, Mo, and for the construction of bridges across the same river at White Cloud, Doniphan county, Kansas, and within five miles of Rula, Richardson county, Nebraska.
 Authorizing the construction of bridges across the Missouri between it's mouth and the mouth of the Dakota or James river and Natchez, Miss, and across the Illinois river between it's mouth and Peoria, H.
 At 3:15 the Senate went into executive ses- sion and at 5:20 p. m. adjourned.
 The greater part of the time of the execu- tive session was devoted to consideration of the nomination of Vim. H. Wheeler, of Winston, North Carolina, appointed during the recess of the Senate to be collector of in ternal revenue for the Fifth district of North Carolina. Senator Beck and several others opposed MT. Wheeler's confirmation, but the nomination was finally confirmed.
 HOUSE Immediately after the reading of the journal the House resumed the consider ation of the English-Peele contested elec- tion case, and Mir. Browne, of Indiana, sub mitted an argument in support of the right of the contestee to retain his seat.
 Speeches were then made by MT. Black burn, of Kentucky, for English; by Mir. Valentine. of Nebraska for Peele, and by MT. Elliott, of Pennsylvania. for English. Mir. Lowe, of Delaware, a Democratic mem Der, advocated the passage of the minority report in favor of Peele. He discarded as unworthy of consideration all the matter brought forward except the change of votes discovered in the recount of votes for the sheriff of Marion county by 8 MT. Brown. With no other evidence than that of per sonaI friend acting without calling in his col leagues he could vote to seat Mir. English.
 Mir. Long, of Massachusetts, made an earnest appeal for non-partisan judgment of the case.
 MT. Peele occupied the remaining twenty minutes of his hour in defense of his claim to the seat.
 After yielding ten minutes to MT. Hurd, MT. Converse took the floor for the closing argument, during which MT. English, the contestant, and his father occupied seats on the floor.
 At the conclusion of his remarks MT. Con verse demanded the previous question. The previous question was ordered; yeas 243, nays O.
 The vote was then taken on the minority resolution declaring Mir. Peele entitled to his seat The vote stood: 120 yeas, 117 nays. Mir. Sumner, of Wisconsin, asked leave to vote, declaring that he had been in his seat and had not heard his name called.
 MT. Peele hoped no one would object and the gentleman recorded his vote in the mega tive.
 MT. Springer, of Illinois, changed his vote from nay to yea in order to move for recon sideration and the result was announced: Yeas 121, nays 117.
 MT. Springer then moved to reconsider the vote and number of Republicans moved to lay the motion on the table.
 Pending vote MT. Springer moved to ad- journ, on which motion the yeas and nays were ordered. The motion prevailed, 119 to 118, and the House at 5:2O adjourned. The Democrats who voted against unseating MT. Peele were Messrs. Aiken of South Carolina, Beach of New York, Boyle of Pennsylvania, Budd of California, Connolly of PenRsylVa- nia, Dorgan of South Carolina, Findlay ot Maryland, Greenleaf of New York, Harde- man of Georgia, Herbert of Alabama, Hew- itt of Alabama, Hunt of Louisiana, Jones of Wisconsin, Lore of Delaware, Mills of Texas, Morgan of Missouri, Neece of Illinois, Peele of Arkansas, Potter Of New York, Stevens of New York, Sumner of Colorado, Throckmorton of Texas, TilIman of South Carolina, Twiner of Georgia, Woodward of Wisconsin, Warrington of Illinois and Yale of Michigan-27. singular feature of the vote was that the twenty-seven Democratic negative votes came from fifteen different States There are six or seven Democrats who were absent without pairs to-day. Some of them it is said may be brought in to- morrow and the vote reversed.