Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1878, Page 1

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Bamplog ohuorthll&pagnt on application by lettor. 121 & 123 STATE-ST.---Branch, Michigan-av. and Twenty-second-st. MINERAL WATEIS. W. TE GOODY. FOREIGN WHITE GOODS! We wish to call attention to the following GreatBargains! Striped Lawns, I5c. Checked Lawns, 15e, GREAT REDUCTIONS Just made in the price of WHITE CONTUME CLOTIIS. APOLLINARIS NATURAL HINERAL WATER, The Queen of Table Waters, HIGHELY EFFERVESCENT. . 4. MILNER FOTIERGIL] R A tn by WA it e ANKEVN, K. Genrge's 1T S o et Wi esomies {ely pures superlor to.l) others.” DR, 12, O DEN DOREMUS, ‘and whaiesames sunerior to it from ail tiio olections u tncinlly serated wal o Atsotutely pir rged sgsinst Crotonand ar+ dent of the Herts, Jperior 10 Vichy & B.. Chemist to tha - Companion 1o e rlt Kickucas, Dyspepsta, and Lot of Appe] ‘somo sod Hefreshini UEKMAN \lv;'zr‘s;;n. B Se Foe T i, 1 and of the respiratory orgsns; FRED'K DE BARY & 00., 41 & 43 Warron.at.,, Now York, Gole Agents for United Statesand Canades. IR, X nn‘lif‘ldlu (.n..l)l“](l(llfi'fl!. Every genulne bottle bears the YELLOW label. FIROPOSALS, Sealed Proposals. The ioard of Fducatio will recelve sealedproposals rulns of the old achoal bul completion of & uew b ared froin the ol pu n b Plane and spectficatior FOR SALE IA\' rict No. 8, Dundee, 6_romoval of tho. aing and the erectlon and All miaterial which cap bo njured h i b seon at the ofice of ilock, on snd After M .l 1. of thie 251N fnat. e right o refect any and alj bids. HEURGE GIDDIN Clerk 0SALS FOR GRAVEL st will ba recefved & acluck noon of Monday the J0t tBedslivery of the mlu’mln irectors rescrye llll Iield, Leiter & Co. WABASH-AV. t the ofce of the arho un to 12 M : more or less, for usa on ds o ba acconipanled by smple. e Sl Yard or Hock lsland Rallroad “awitch sa ro- he Col ht ec! biane Commission reserve the "’u, ) red os Eecretary Board of Routh Park Covunisigners. Hafidiog and operating tele bl{ 'fl(?’g:flll II‘KRIC'IIIIC - Al Batd miiterial to be RED )5 ] 183 Washiogton-st., Chica 4 'O RENT. TO RENT Double Store, 38 & 40 LaSallesst,, d lght basement. anis. Entirc of will be dl- WAL, C. DUW, FINANCIAL, Subscriptions Received 9t ¢ per cent Government Tonds: 5 and 8 teraument bonds for sale; Fureign Blchlflll'l:if asle: ity aad Cfllllll onlers R2KRY Goneral - Department Store NOW OPEN! 122 & 124 STATE ST., Just North of Madisun, §ECTIE PULL fi‘fi“(;ffifl NKRUPT STOCK OF BOOKS AND STATIONERY, HADLEY BROS. & C0.’S, THIS WBBK, EXTRAORDINARY WILL BE OFFERED TO BUYERS. ___OFTICIAN, DIANANKE, OPTIC VERMAN'S Uaok, ClLamber of Commerce. SFORTING GOODS. o A OEANG GOOIAL Bplendld tmeat Pows, faws. Tarests, ras, Uldest houss |u Price-List of Azchery at KE! ‘s B. B. asd Cutlery L ARy ki FRESUURY & HILDRETE, Proprictor WILL OPEN JUNE 20, 1878, INDUOBMENTS e L L S, Imported CANARSES, Ta arrots, and other Fauty Blrda. Goldfish & Aquariums. FRED KAEMPFEL, 127 Clark-at, ‘gni_dermlm’ Materials, &¢. OTOGIAPILY, /"y Photo fectacict tutted to pers aud Fleld Glaseca Teicacopes, achuci, Baruiielers, T CAUTIUN =W ‘e employ no peddlers o agents. BIRDS: Ut SAL&, lee! lce! lce! ¥or sale, 40010 500 tons of ice, cheap, i lots of 100 taa, oF the whole amgu grapher 75 HAI%IE(.)&ST-. Cebloets, $67 Cau For partichiars address 1210 30 Alwater-st.. Dotrol CHICAGO, THE TILDEN TRAP The Machine Trotted Out in the House Yes= terday ; But It Didn't Work to the Satisfaction of Its. Managers. Potter, of New York, Undertook the Management of the Concern ; And Did His Best to Set Iis Several Joints in Mo- tion. The Republicans, However, Disliked 1ts One-Sided Appoarance; And Made Every Effort to Enlarge its Capacity and Useful- ness. Falling in Which, Thoy Decided to Lot tho Domocrats Run It Alone 3 Which Resulted in the Experiment Being Postponed for the Day. Death of Prof. Henry, the Well- Known Sclentist. THE MALCONTENTS, THEY ATTEMPT TO BPRING THEIR BLECTORAL TRAY IN THE NOUBSE. Bpecial Ditpateh to The Tysdunte, Wasmnaron, D.C., May 18.—The rovolu- tlonists have succeeded {n obtaining the control of the Democratic party In the House of Repreaentatives, and those of that political faith who sgreed Lut a few months since that the decislon of the Electoral Commission shonld be potential and final, have to-day taken part fn an Inflammatory meassure calculated to arouss the partisan passions of the people In other lands, Liberty has been “crented by arms to-duy and crushed by arms to-morrow.” But it baa becn our boast that the will of the people, as lawfully expressed, has been alwa) acquiesced in. Statesmanshipand prudence have prompted the scqulescence by the defeated fn the result, and it has been reserved for Samuel J. Tilden to bave {insugurated measures calculated to ' TLUNGE THE COUNTRY INTO WILD DISORDER, and to unchain the wicked passions of civil strife. Mr. Hale aod Gen, Garfield resisted the Introduction of the resolution stanchly, on the ground that it was not a question of privilege, a Btate having no right to demand a hearjug except through {ts Reprcsentatives on tho floor. Gen. Garfield, {n concluding his eloquent protest, sald that, if the mover of the resolu- tion would sav that {t was to pave the way to impcachment, then it was a question of privi- tege. 1f, however, it was Intended merely to get st the validity of the President's title, it was NOT A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGR, Because the title had been scttled by the action of both Houses, and was out of the rcach of elther House. Looking at the Democratic side, and stating that bo reserved all further ques- tlons of order on the resolution, he sald: “ You have thrown off your damnable faces. Let the play go an." Mr, Mills, a Democrat from Texas, took strong grounds that this was no ques- Han of privilege, e sald that whatever power was vested fo Congress In the matter of the election of President Haycs was tested in tho Forty-fourth Congress, and when It spoke and declared the present incumbent elected TUAT WAS TIE END OF IT. Anything that the Forty-fourth Congress did fn,the matter which the Forty-fifth Congress attempts to sct asido {s nothing siort of usurpa: tlon of power, Other Representatives spoke, but at last the S8peaker had%o give his decislou, and be claborately ruled that a grievance from a sovereign State was the highest privilege that ha could concelve of, This brought down the Democratic side of the House and thelrclaquers {n the gsllerics. After some mancuvering, Mr. Conger appealed from the decisiou of the Chalr, and THE ROLL WAS CALLED, The appeal was lald on the tableby 128 yeas against 108 nays, Tho vote was astrict party voto except that Gen, Butler and Represeuta- tiva Fort, Republicaus, voted with the Dem- ocrats to lay on the table, and Milts, of Texas, and Buckner, of Missouri, voted with the Ke. publicaus to set aside the Speaker's ruling, A general debate cnsued on the resolution, Awmong other objectious ralsed, Gen. Garficld inslsted that the majority of tho House could pot authorize a Committco to sit durlng its recess, because when the House adjourned it CARUIED IT4 COMMITTERS WITH 1T, and the Committeo could ouly bo sliowed to sit duriug o reccss by the suspension of tho rulcs of the Ilouse, Mr. Hayler had read several prec- edeuts to show that [requently committecs had been suthorized to alt during the recess by the Yotu of a najority of the House, Mr. $Garficld—That ts truc,but there was no polat of drder made aealnst it Bpeaker Raudall ruled on the poiut of allow- {ng the Chalriman of the S8ub-Comimnittees to ad- minister oaths, that it belongs with the Com- mittee ftsclf, and not with the House, Mr, Butler cited a precedent in the Andrew Johnson Impeachment trial, whereln the Chairman of the Bub-Committee on the Judiviary administered oaths, and NO QUASTION WAB RAISED as to the right. Mr. Potter asserted, “with & smile that was chilaliko and bland,” that sll e and Lls assoclates deslred was tho truth, Mr. Qarticld retorted: * That was sought by the eminent aod experienced members of tho Electoral Comrmlssion, and its dectsions wera ap- parently accepted by men of all parties, aud be- longing to a'f sections, as of suprome aud bind- iug force. Now, just ascoufidence and pros- perity have beguo to dawn upon the country, thicy are to be blichtcd by tho clamors of A New York attoruey waotiug s rovival of those excit- ing scencs that TUREATENED THS NATION} but when Mr. Halo proposed to the searcher after truth that there be an invostigation which woula unfold *the whole trutb,’ the New York memberdocdined. Ho knew well that SBouthern States were carried for Tilden by force and (n- tunidatfon practiced by tbe Democrats on the colored vote, while tn Oregon thers was a reck- lcss use of wooey for the purcbase of the one vote needed. DMr. Potter didn’t want these truths. Ohumo! Heonly wsuted what would TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1878, be the first serfes of meshes fo o net tobe thrown over the Adminiatration FOR T3 DRSTRUCTION, 9, Not that ho and his pertisan friends have any reaton for complaining of Mr. lages, but be. cause they are determined to make Tilden President i they cap, cven if they paralyze every industey and blight every interest, and degrade vur country to the rank of revolutlon. ary Mexico [v the eyes of the civilized world." Mr. Iale and the Republicans in the Houso stood like s rock In uppusition to this fagitious attempt at usurpation of power, and when It camao to & vote they reused to ald In such one. sided legislation. The vote was firsta rising one, and the Demucrats, springing to their feet, stood and were counted. ‘Then the contrary minded were asked to stand upand . NOT A REPURLICAN ROSF. “Teilers,” shouted the [Jemocrats, and when the gentlcmen desiguated to act in that eapncity had taken their stands; the Democrats filed be- tieen them and were counted, but when those otherwise minded were fnvited togo between the tellers and be counted, ot a man started from his scat. ** Will the gentlemen pass be- tween the tellers?? sald the 8peaker in o per- sunsive tone of volce, **Yes,' responded a Re- publican, *‘we pase.” Tho reault, as .an- nounced, showed that only the friends of the resolutiona had voted. Then it was that Mr, Hale, stepplog inte the afsle, announced that there was KO QUORUM VOTING, and ncall of the House waa ordercd, pages wero sent to the Committee rooms, and there was & general mustering of the ocratic claps, but it was of no avail, One hundred and forty-scven votes conatitute a quorum of the House, and only 120 Democrats could be nus- tered. This gave the Republicans the whip hand in some flibustering, and Mr. Hale en- glueered them adinirably. Potter, who was much chagrinod, did his level beat, but it was OF NO AVAIL. e was twenty-aeven votes shart, and he finally morved an adjournineat, In the hopo that by to- morrow he nay secure them. I he does, he will pass his resolution unameaded. [I he does not, he must reccive Hale's amendment, or abandon tho Tiiden bantlivg, DEMOCHATIO FLAN. Late to-night the Democrats state that it has been decided to allow a vots to-morrow on 1lale’s amendment, and then unite to defeat it, HUNTING UP THE AUSENTERS, After the sdjournment of the MHouse, aeveral promivent Democrats procured from the Clerk a lst of the absentecs of thelr own party, to securo thelr attondance to-morrow. THE PROCEEDINGS. RESOLUTIONS. To the TWestern Ansociated Press. Wasnixorox, D, C., May 13.—In the House this morning, Mr, Potter, as a question of privilege, presented the followinz preamble and resolution: WaEREAs, The Stato of Maryland hae. by {ts Legisisture, formally deciared that due effect was not given to the Elecloral vote cast by the state on the 6th day of Decomber, 1870, by reason of fruudulent réturns in Electoral votes from the States of Florida and Loulstana; snd Wiuenras, An afhidavit by Samuel B, McLin, Chalrman of the Boari of Btate Canvassers of ‘the Btate of Florida faran election held in that State in Nayember. 1676, for Electors for President aud Vice-President.thas _been made public, alleging falso ond fraudulent returns for the ‘votes for such election in that State, choice of the people of that 8 nulled and reversed, and that the actlon of the Board of Btate Canvasrers making such returns was Infiuenced by the conduct and promises of the Hou, Edward F, Noyes, now Minister o tho Goy- ernment of France: an Wirzness, 1t In alleed that & conepiracy exiatad 1n the Btats'of Loulsana, whereby tho Republican vole in all the preciucts of the Farish of East Feliciana at tbe general election in November, 1870, was purposely withheld from the polls to afford nruml for the exciusion by the Retarning Lioard of that State of the vote cast in these pre- cincta for Electors of Presidertand Vico-President, and that James E, Anderson, Suncrvisor of Itcg- {atration of East Feliciana, and D. A, Weber, 8u- ervitor of Reglatration in the Pariah of Weat Feli- clana, in that State, in furtherance of that canspir- ely proteated that the election insuch pre- cincte had not beon falr and frec,and that theState Teturning Board thereuvon falsely and fraudulent- 1y excluded tho votes of said precincts, snd by mesns thercof and of other false and fraudulent action of "said Returning Loara, tho choice of the People of that State was annulled and reversed, and hat such action of sald Weber and Anderson was Induced, or encouraged, by the assurances of the 1lon. Joln Bherman, Secretary of the Treasury of tha United Siates; and ‘Wizngas, Tho gravity of {hese charges, nature of tue evidence upon which they sro reporied to be bared, and tho oficlal dignity and position of the persons named in conoection with said frauds, muke it prever that the sams should bo Inquired into, tothe end that the bonor of the nation may vindicated and the truth made known; thurofore, be it Resoived, That o Belect Committee, consistingof eleven members of this Hoase, be appointed to in« 3uln into the aforeanid allegation to the con. uct of the peraona in office aforesald, in reupect of said electlon, and inta the alleged falee and fraud. ulent canv, and the retarn of voteaby the State, county, parlah, and precluct ofticers in safd Statew of Loulsiana and Florids, and {nto ail facte whick In the judgment of said Committee are connected with or pertinent thereto; and that sald Committee, il rosoltion, shail nd for persons and papers, to sd- nin and to take teatimony, and in thele discretion to detail sub-committees with like full authority of asid Committee in every porticular, and with power to st in Florida and Loulsiana, which sub-committees ahall bs Committecs of t llouse, and the Chairman thereof shaill be suthor- ized to adminleter oathe; that said Commitice and as to such elections proceed In THE DEBATE ‘The preamble and resolntion baving been read, Mr. Conger said they did not present a queetion of rivilege, that the resolutlon could not bo vote, but would reyutre awers proposed i tho ven by & mere mojority epention of the tules, Lotter sald one would ‘suppose that if there was 80y subject which should be cutitled to pref. erence {nthis llouso in respect of order of busi. ness, It was the subject brought toits notlce by the memorial of & sovetelgn Stato touching the ‘oMcial conduct of hixh oMcers of the Uovernment, and relatingto fraug alleged to bave occurred, changing the result of the electionof the highest ofticers of tnis Government, My, Conger—ias tho inemorial of the Siate of Maryland beep commitied to tho gentleman from New York, so o hae any posscesion of it n which 1o offer such revolution¥ Mr. Potter—1 am now speaking only to o question of order. Later on, If { bave an op tunity to ssy anything. | ahall be able 10 make sn. swer 10 the Inquiry which the yeutlvman has just 1ome, Now, s lo tho question of order, It seenis W me that to state this case ia to srgpe it, 1t, for reasons that appear on tho face of this reso- lution, this inquliry is not privileged, then nothing can by its nature bo privileged. 10 the llouse onght 10 glvo profercnce to the consideration of anywubject, s aubject of 1he megnitude of this one, to which the resclution rolstes, wught cortajuly TO UAVE SUCH PREFPERENCE, Mr. Hale argued from the rulcs and manual that the resolution dld not present a question of priv- tlege, 1t tho resolution proposed of was lntended 1o subvert the acceptod result fn the Presidential election, then thero might be some clalm (bat it dld present s question of J"fl'“fl{"- but as a mere 0a of opiniun it did Bot preseut any such question. Mr. Garficld aleo orgued agalnst the resolution belng & privileged one, e said: The gentiewan from Now York bases his claim that it is brivileged question on the fact that tho men u ery ign place think that which It recites is a memorial the genllvman (rom New Y unfortunate in lantiug bia caso oo that ddea, The Statvs of this nion are represeated by Indlvidual mewbers, who are sent here Lo speak aud vote for thelr States, and i no other way whatover can & State of this Unlon be heanl on this foor excent under the rule (which 1aa recent wmodification) that vn Monday moruings the call of joint resolutions of State aud ‘Territurtal L€§“l“ul!l may be istroduccd for oferonce. ker—Would the gentleman fram Ohlo deay to a the cight of petition as given In tue Conathtution MNr. Garfeld—0b, a Fiste bas, of course, TUR RIQUT OF PETITION. The bpesker.-A memorial is a pelltion, and s provided for in the Comstitution, wherein it Is elated that Congross shsll make 0o law abridging tha right of the deoplo tu etition the Uoverumrnt fur & redress uf grievances. Mr. Gatficld—~The Speaker's refcrence (o the right of potitivn ls vuflnu‘llnlwunn . That Qquestion was discussed on veiy Maryfand rea- olut 0o, aud everybody bere grauted perfect and ungaestioned right of peti But the rizot of action bero on this floor is quite & different thing, sod the quentlon of whetbet ¢ risce to the dignliy ot 8 privileged question depends on tho right uf actlon which svtacbody can demand of the ouse. This te a question of privilege withont donbt, pro- vided the mover of 1t alleges he purposes to follow it np A mstter of Impeachment. If ha rays | this I8 n proceeding intended to rlu the way to jmpeachmant, then doubtiess, t may be 8 qaestion of privijege, If he saya it in a proposition bythe lonta 1o raite and determing the quesiion of the titie of the President ty the office which he holde, then 1 anewer that the quea- tion has heon determined by the joint voica of the two Houren of Congre m{ it i BEYOND THE REACI OF TIIIS NOUAR. H, scain, the object nf the resalntion i» merely to ormanize 8 committee far camoalgn prrposes (1o make campalzn Iiterature for the fali), theaftha exigencice of the political party have never yet tisen to the dignity of questions of privilege, Furthermore, there 14 In the resolution A vroposl- tion that & committee shall haro the right to sit in the tecens. ~ Neltner of those two propositions can ‘be mdopted by & majority vote. and 1 \hercapon 7 itil an opportunity after the loni thet has been hanzingover the country, ths e pentiemen bave **left off their damnable nd bezun, " and_naw et the play go on. [Applause on the Republican alde. 1 NIt MILLS argaed that the resolution did not present a gues- tion of vrivileze, * Ifa conld find na shelter for it nnder the Constitatlon. unless that power of the Constitation which gave tothe louso the right 1o originate an Imneachmentagsinst the President for high crimes and misdemeanore, Iat In order to make it & auestion of privileve ‘under that co tutional provision, the reeolntion mnst contain a charge against the President of suMclent gravity 1o jostify the ifouse In putting kim on trisl for fmpeachment. All frandn alleged in tha reso- latlon had been once investigated, and s compe: tentbody, under tho Conatitotion. had decisred the present Incumbent of the Presidency to be daoly elected under the Constitution and law, and that was the end of 11, THE POWER KO LONGER EXISTED in the Forty-filth Congress, and any attempt onthe partof the Forty-Afth Congress to exercise such power over the Presidential” election was usurps- tion. Thin Congress had no pawer at oll over that question. Whaleverpower the Constitution vested ineither flouea of Congrers on such subject had Leen exercised by the Forty.fourth Congres there remalned not a atadow of A right on t of this Conuresa to exercise sach power. voly power which this e House had over the Prestdent was the power to impeach him for #ome crime and misdemeanor which he himself had committed, but not for frauds which others hiad committed in bringing him to the P'resldency. 1t thin Ilouro had power to investizats the question 10 hiow llayes had obtained the FPresidency, it had tnc rightto Investizate the means by which James K. Palk had ohtained the Presidency 1n hin time, and it might also GO BACK TO THE DAYS OF WASHINGTOR and bring the facts of his election bhefore the people. Iie repcated that any atiempt on the part af this Tlouse fo_investigate and undo what had been done by the Forty-fonrth Congress in declar- Ing who was President, was nothing short of asus- pation, [Applanse on the Republican wide. ] 3ir. Cox, of New York, read an extract from the decirion of the Electoral Commirsion on the Flor- 1dacase, and charged Mr. (iarfleld (one of the Com- mussloncrs) with having either a convenlent con- eclence or convenient logic. Itscemed to him (Cox) that, whatever stepe might be taken to reach that ?vrfl transaction, the gentleman from Ohio held ihey were ontaide the record alinnde. 8o far &a the guestion of privilegs war concerned, this wan a question of hich privilege: non conslat that it must lead to impeachment. Mr. Potter held that the peivilege asked for was only the privilege of having now considered the resolution presented, —the privilege to which the resulution was entitled from the fact that it had been set4n motion Aret by the public formal actinn of aroverelgn State. and, second, frowm the nature of the subject matter to which it reforred. Gen. tlemen on the other slde had been quick to declare that if he (Potter) would say the purpose of the roolntion was o fmneach ihe Presfdent uf ihe United Ntatex they wonld admit It was tn order; THAT ME DECLINED 7O DECLANE. If the construction given to the rule by thc geatles man from Mulne (Hale) wasrightithat I{elhu tation of privilege tu reference to the election of tha Pres- tdent is an tunuiry in reference to his election he- fore he is scated or with a vlow to unseating him), that was o construction which would forever pro- hibit the fouse from tnquiring into the frauds that had been successfully committed, and waich had come fo knowledge after iheir successtul accom- plishment. If there i nything in the nature of a frand that made [t desirabis to inquhied into, it was when the fraud had been succeasfal, and {f the Ilonse refused to Inquire because the frauds had _succeeds then the commiselon of such fracda would be encouraged, and fatiure to investi- gate so far from secuning would Jeopardizo the Peace and security of the cauntry, TILE SPEAKER RXPLAINS, ‘The Speaker-The tsetiv involved is 5 new one In the history of this conntry, and an exapination of 1ho basis {n which the presmbie and resolution are Introduced i proper. The Legulatare of Mary- land pasecd a joint resolution touching the lnh!tct treated of 1n the preamble ana resolutions just vead. A copy of that reaniution of tho Maryfand Legislature hns been remitted to this House, and has been referred to a committee, and js within tho knowledge of the meinbors of the llouse, In which the following language is necd: **That the full effect hias not been given lo the Electoral vote cast by the Siate of Marsland oo the 6ih day of No- vember, 1870, by reason of fraudulent returns mady from other States, and allowed to be counted provisionally by the Electoral Commission, aad subject o juditial revision,” 1t farth that the retiirns from Louisiana and Florids, were cast for the present occupant of the Presl- dential chalr, WERE FIAUDULENT AND VOID. Hers laan appeal of a State of this Unton to the Federal legtsiativo power for tho correction of high grievance said to have been committed in tfic States of Florids and Louisians ayainst the rights of the Stato of Maryland in having by fraud in said States of Florida and Lonisiana produced a differ- ent result in the election of President and Vice- President from that actnally decreed by the people themeclves at the polls. * Wnetler these allega- tionas can be austained by proof 1t ls not for the Chialr to conelder. It is enough for the Chair to kuo they come from & pawer which, within lim- its, 18 recopulzed as soverelgu by ths Constitution, and that the issue fuvolved runs to the welfare of the people of all the States, Nor 14 it in the range of propricty for the Chair to express an opinion as to how Tfar such Investigation should go in “order to reach the facts, mor what limits shoald be et nlpcn it A Iufiner privilega thau the one here Involved, and broadly, directly presented as tothe nehtral oc- cupancy of the Chifef Executive Chalr of 1le Goye ernment, and as to tho connection of high Govern- ment ofticials with the frands alleged. the Chairis unable to concelye. The Chair dnds enumerated among the questions of Prlrllccc set down in the manual the followine: °* Electlon of President.” The Chiair thorefore rules that the preamble and resolution embrace questions of privilege OP TUN ILIGUEST CHARACTER, and the Chalr recognizes the rizht of:the gentle- nan from New Yark to answer the same, lause on the Democratic he other poluts are, of co ' C“Ir' Conger appealed from the dectston of the r. Mr. Potter moved 10 Iay the appeal oo the table, and the inotion was agreed to, —yeas, 1393 108, ~a party voto, with the exception of Ml Fort, Mitchell, and Butler, who voted wlth the Democrats, and Buckner snd Mills, who voted with tha Republicans. Mr, Rea desizing to Justify his vote in support of the ter i tated that, whils he sgreed witn ton. his colleague (MIlls) that the retrialof the Vreslden- 11al quostion could not be had by the liouse, the resvlution, in alleging that great frauds bad been ;l:lernumhvd. ratsud & question of the highest prive epe, ANOTHER POINT OF ORDER, Mr. Conger ralsed the polnt of order (hat, as the resoliition gave the Commitice the unususl power 1o 1t during the recess, 0 ropurt atany time, sud for the Chalrmen of ommittees to administer val opted by 8 mere majority reaolution yrovided fur the 18 muat Orst be considered in Comnittee of the Whole. Mr, Sayles sreucd that coiamittees could, by sim- ply & wajority vote, . authorized to st duciog the ucrul- and be quated in suppart of that viewthe precodent in tho case of the famous Gardner in- vestigation, Ie adultted, bowever, that lu thay case the question had ot been ralsed. Mr. Gardeld claimed that his colloague had shown no precedent that haa suy force. e ha never heard it claimed that a proposition tosit dus- lug the recess could b sdopted by A MEUE MAJORITY VOTE. ‘The Speskcr ruled tuat as 10 the right of the Chartien of sub-commitiecs 1o adminlster oaths, that was 3 maiter to be decided by the Cowmities stecll, 17 it was contrary to law, then it did nob slvea by & two. thirds vote or by & wajurity ¥ ter argument as 10 the rul lg]ulyl 'y in which Mesurv. Thowpson, Butl aud Caswell partlcipated, the Speaker the poing of order oa to the power of the Cowmit. tee 1o it duriug the recees. The next voint discussed was the rigat of the Chalrmwen of aub-commitiecs 1o siminister oaths. Mr. Conger waid the stalule prescribed woo bt adutiuteior oaths (hiclading Chairmen of cowmilters), 8l dsclared who should be the Chalrmi wed meu of commitiee, an 24 1 order, and #0 on. ‘The House could not by wple resulution ){ (differently from fulea) that the Chalrman of & -comumitive was C an of & comuwitics. 'I'ne Speaker overculed the polnt of vrder vu the groutd 1hat if the llouse should authonize the ap- polntwent of sub-committes in the mavner pro- vided, the Chalrman of such sob-comuiittees would have powez under tho very words of 1hs statute to adwloieier odths, Mo also vverruled the poiut as (W tko expeuditute of mouey. Mr, tarfeld then mude 8 point of order that it roquired ng A TWO-THIKDS VOTN he committcs power Lo Teport at oy time, Spesker susisined the point. whereupon Mr. Potter struck uul Luat past of tho resolutivn. Alr, Hale sskcd Mr. Petter to yleld to him 1o of- fet an aweadment. Mr, Potter said ho fntroduced the resolution st the requeat of bls pulltizal associates, made this wornisg, xenVlewen whose wish Bs did not feel st liharty to refuse. The rerolntinon contemplates nothing but an Im'ulry 1nto the factn of the Klect- oral votes of Florlda ‘and Loalsians. and Into the participation of the offirera of the (lovernment in connectlon with alleged frands there; what can ba dane after the Inyniry ia completed, what onglit to ‘be done, shouid be determined only after tho in- quiry bas been bad, Mr. Potter then moyed the previons question. raying the Honse could determine BY 1ta” vote an that mation whether the matter shall be further ehated, Mr. Halenstd he hadan smendmont to offer, which was claarly garmain to the resolution, and he submitted that in ail fairness he rbould be r.u' mitted to offer it. Ile hoped the gentieman (Pot. ter) wonld not aeek hers and now to stifie furiher denate. or to prevent the Republican side of tnn house from offering amendments that would make the investization MORE EXHAUSATIVE AND SEANCHING. THe therefore asked the gentleman to yield to him 10 offer his amedment. Mr. Potter—1 will vield to the gentleman to state the nature of his amendment. 1t may Le that in the form of an amendment he merely wanls 10 get in a sprech. Me, Iiale—The better way ls for the gentlaman to ailnw the amendment to be read. Mr. Potter~The gentleman from Maine is ex- ceedingty famliiar with parliamentaly law, and Is able to state the nsture of hia awmendment, and when he atates ft, then [will allow it to be offered. Mr ~~Then [ will rend the smendment, Mr, Patter—I did ot ask the gentiemsn to do that, 1 seked him to state what the nature of his amendment was. Mr. llale—] think T may be allowed to say this matter har not come up suddenty. It was consid. ered for soclaten, but 1t was never known when It would ba aprung on the Hoase, Feellng that It was becom- ing. of cuuree, 8 party matter, I consulted with the Speaker, snd recelved from him the aaur- ance (and 1sm giad 1o a3y thatin these matters the Epcaker In always ready to give the minority a chance to be heard) that thils side of the Hoiuse should be reprenented tn this maiter, and should have an onportunity of PRESEXTING ITS PROPOSITIONS. All tbat will come from the gentleman's ylelding to my courteous reqnest that my amendimnent muy coms In where there I3 an opportanity tu vote upon it. Tle and his associates may vote it down if they will, snd we will then vole uvon the resolution. He will ses, however, that my amendment ls ger- wain to the resvlution, ls in “the direction investigation, far frum narrowing the 0| or stifling it In the Jeast degree, 1t sanda to thie Se- Iect Committee. aphointed for a purpose. Aubject matters only connected with the siblect matier of the original resolution. and that it departa not one lota from the preat subject matter of ne investiya- tion of alleged fraude ‘sttendant upon toe Presi. denilal election in 1870, 1 msk bim now, as he seeks fnll fovestigation, that he does not here, by the power which he has of managing this resolu. tion, throttle the right of this side of the Hoose 0 ofer sn amendment, The Speaker—Tha Chair desires to say, in cor. robaration of the gentlemsn from Maine, that the Chair did rtate this: ‘That If the gentlemsn from Maine desired to submit an smendment ha would be recognized by the Chair for that purpoee, pro- vided the gentleman who waa in charge of the pro. posed resolution GAVE UIX THE OFPORFUNITY to offer it. Then the gentleman from Maine asked whelber an amendment belne_germain to the eab- fect matter wasnot a8 imnch & question of privilegs #n the original resolution Itaelf, and the Chalr toid himif the amendment was competent as & Gues- tion of privilege, the Cosir would give him the privileze of offering the proposition in hlsown Helt. Mr, Hale—I admit clearly that the responsibility in not with the Chair, but with thc zentleman (Potter) representing the majority on the other side. My amendment {8 here (holding it in uls hard), and I desire to affer it, Mr, “Potter—] accept all the responaibility that belongato o ae totho question of determining whetler the smendment stould come 1n. I do ot yield to allow the smendment to be oftered. The nal responnibliity, however, does not rest on me. bt op the House., which moy refasc to second the previous question. IDul the yentleman made no answer to my requestio state what Lis mont relates to any more thau that he save it re- }Il&'lfllfl the general ‘subject of alleged Presidential rands. Me. Ifale—~Wiil the gentleman let the amend. ment be read, and then he will understand WIIAT IT [8f I will send it to the Cierk's desk.' [Shouts of *+ No, nn, " from the Democratic side. Mr. Potter—Ths gentlesian from Maine ean an- swer \f ho chooses, and If he refuses to anawer, and inslsts on giving me an answer in o quire of foolscap, then 1#ay It Is not such an np‘;eul tomy conriesy ae | ought to yieldto. For anght | know, it may refer,to other States than the biates of Florids and Lonlsana. Nr, Hale—Then the gentleman seems to limit his {pvestigation to the sclected States, and will not allow it to xo outsid=, I« that the reason why he will not admit my amendment? 1 tell the gen« tloman plainly my amendnicut {a not confned to the States of Florida and 1.0 Mr. Polter—Now 1 bave 2ot my Inquizy, andd decline to 01 ment. Iffrauds were sttempted In Flori d Loulsisna, they were carried out successfully anid became operative, If the oblecs of the amend- ment of the centleman from Maine s to show there were frauds ip South Carolina by which the Elect- oral voteof taat State was counted for Hayes when 1t ought t0 have been counted for Tilden, then I ahal) bo prepared o antwer a8 (o an Amend- ment of that sort. Hut the wentleman from Malne will not venture to declaro anytaing of that kind, Mr, ilate—In other word any frands tost apply on a1 1oto Were, and that any fra BY THE GENTLEMAN'S OWN PANRTY are tobe exeinded, s thut it? [Applauss on the Repubjican side. ] Mr. Potier—O ol The world of wrong is very wide. 1t the pentlemsu wishes to fuquire Into matters of general delinquency outsido of Florida and Louisisna, 1 do not ovjeci. Let bim introduce hie resolution for that purposs, and bave himsell putatthe head of a committae, and go_nto tiat nvestigation. {Applause ou the Democratic aide. ] 1seek nothing of the kind. 1 am not alming at Erlnnl. desire to ascertalo If fraud {n the lectoral votc of theso States was really perpe- trated, and, If so, how it was perpetrated. In oraer that auch frauds inay be prevented bereafter, 3r, lale—Aund the gentlemian ds any at. tempt at investigation where there are clearly. shown frauds, the oldest io American hislory, perpetrated by bLis own party in half a dozen other Ntates, ‘e refuses to let that jnvestigation 20 10 his Committee, Mr, Fatter=I will vote for any kind of fnvest|- stion yoa seck. Lt the amendmant you provose ¢ not geninage to this resolution, aud la totended to prevent of sad mend- t ot yleld he EPYECTUAL INVESTIGATION, Ar, Hale—lut the F!nlkmln will not let it ga to the Committee of which he is the head. 1 do not ask for the sppoiniment of a Comniilice wilha majorily from tois side of the llouse, but 1 ask that the inguiry which ¢ tleman's vesolution raulu be as aweeping country desires it 0 be. Mr, Potter—~Well, let the gentlemsn from Mune aweep the dirt for himaelf. [Laughier oo the Dem- acratie Sr. 1 ‘he gentleman from New York evi- dent!! ot mean 10 aweep. - [Lsughter oo the Itepublican side. | r. Potter— Nu, not with the Incficlent broom yon would like uved, Mr. Garfield took (he floor, but was met with calls 1o onler on tbe Democratic eide. M I {ll‘d to any one of the visiting statesmen. ghier. | Mr, Usrfieil=1 undersiond the gentleman trom New York to say when he was frat ub thst he was nut seeking to” investigate the Presidential sitle, ut 1o investigate the question of fraud iu the Urealdential elecion. Now, i that be so, | cau anly say that thg geutlemas a3t position, thal he witl nof lmunsmnu sllezed fraud In any State unless the vole of that Slate was neccssaty lo put the President i the Presldential chalr, 1o N CONFLICT W1TH TUAT (DEA. 1t seems to me my friend atlerly chauges his posi. tion now to un.o f seekiug tu getat the Presidential wle. I eking $o ket at the yuestion of fraud lo Sh dentisl election, Lien he will fel.. 1 belie: unaniuious vote of Lhis side of ne Iloll‘lc to pass his resolution. provided Lo will tnall ather cascs whero thera e roal tlon aud behief by a lsrge bady of the people of fraud fully as grest as any- tuing be believes to bave exlated in Plorida sad Lo ;fllnlnllun in | But if by taln oy . bich, in cas {416 teue, can aaly cevect (9 the palitical advane 15 of ous political party, and ot to the general advantage of Irath io the Kepubilc, ho will uccupy ihe position which all honvrabie wen give to nar- row, partisan, partial, unjust luvestization, [Ap- plause on tbo Hepublican ud, thesetore, | ask Lim Lo let the smendment be offered. Mr. Polter—The geutleman from Ublu ssys that 1 bave chsnged my ground, sud that | want 1o, tack the Presldential elect! Not st all. ever may happeo a8 Lo the Presiuentisi title ss 8 sesultof thislnquity does nol couceru we' now. 1 bave sald, ndxl repeat, that I bave o purpose of distarbing it. o asayaif [ oa'y wasl to luves- tiyate the election frauds, the olber slde of the 1ouse would be glad to zo Into A GENERAL AND §WEZPING INVESTIOATION.— e 80 general (hat 1t would pever eventu- sny examination avall. But there i botween WO extrenss distincilon, [ o luvestizate oot witha to disturblog tho President, or with any utber view Lo the disturbance of the settled reeult. I seck (o luvestiyate frauds nlich operative, which were uccessfully ried out, which wers effective, and whl brouzht to our nciice by.il aorisl of & suv- ereign State of tbe Unton. Just exactly u: 10 two Btates, snd 0 more; therefore, an inyeati- tion 100k1Dg beyond thuse two States would not E ermane 10 Lhe sesolutipn, sad would ba of no vraclical srect. Mr. Conger tuok the Boor, but was met with shoats of **Order! Order!™” from the Democeatic side. e however rucceeded In saying that, if the other side would not pernit his side Lo take say atlon of ingnlry, the st in framing of SO emocratlc aide o 5 ma ita resolation If it conld, [Applaun f Rtepublican side. Mz, Pottar—T| .5 ¢ re Tottac—TH RS feman trom Miculesn te without hia permission. Tut (¢ he wlil oflar a resolation fo invesuigste say frauds that he may allece, we will be more liberal than be proboses, and it will recelve the votes uf thix nide of the Hanae alno, Mrr-Tisle~1 made my propnsition in gooa faith. ‘Qx’qonuemen an the otber aide have declined it. LET TORM 00 ON BY THEMSELVES. M. Butler—Will the gentieman from New Yorlk' Patleri atlaw me to add to hisresotntion the words, outh Cacnlina? Mr. Garfleld —3inalssippi al Mr. Potter—Nn, Mr, Spea for e simpie reason that no frands in South Cacoling or Minsls- eippt becamo aperative. The distinction le uby)~ out, [ must now insist un the previvus ques- tion, ‘The Repnblican aite of the Honee lerenpon resarted to the parliamentary exvedient of withe holding thelr votes, so {i when the guesiton came Lo be terted by tellera theca weee only 116 54 to 1 nn, —no quoram votlng, Mr. Potter moved a call of tha Houso, which was made, and a!l the epublicans answered o their nsmes, so that no further proceediugs under the Lcall conld be taken, Mr. Potter then saked the Spexker whether if the Tionsa sdjoritned now this quastivn would como up a8 anfintated husiners, The Speaker iuformed bint 16 woold remain be- fore the Housa UNTIL DLIFOSED OF, - Mr. Conger and other Hepublicans ealled upop the Demacratic #ide not to show s1kns of weakness #0 early, The tannt was answered Just ge deflant- 1y, and Jt was intimated that the questivn would remain before the House until there wers enongh Dlemocruts preent to conatitute & yuorum without the aul of the Hepubliean yote, Tiln will require the prenence of at least thirfy mors Demucrats than were In the Jous ay. Mr. lotter moved thst the House adjuurn, and the ¥ole wan taken by yeas and uays., Pending the announcement of the vote, Mr, Hewitt, fram the Commiitce on Auvpropristions, ro- ported the Ariny Approprintion bili, and it waa re. ferred to the Committcs of tha Whole, Mr. Stephens, Chulrman of the Committea on Coulnage, Weipnta, and Messares, reported a bill prohtiting the further coinage of three and fvo cent allver pleces, and declaring the subsidiaty sil. yer caln a leval-tender In amounts not exceading $20. Pawaed, The Speaker—Prior to annvusnclog the reault of the voie, the Chair annuunces with great surrow thin death of Josepn Henre, an American whose eeientific attajuments are world-wide, and who lias devoted & lifetime to the intereats of scionce, e gardiess of personal comfort or emolament. The vote was then antonnced —yens, 118; nays, 10, Adjonrned. NEW BILTS. SCILRICHER™M BOND BILL. Wasnivatox, U, C.. Moy 13.~The bl Inteo- ducea by Mr. Schleicher to aanthorizes tho Secretary of the Treasury to leatie {n suma not ex- ceeding in the avgregate $40,000,000 coupon or registered perpetanl Louds, tedeemable only by purchase in the open market, Interest paysble semi-annoally m coln of {Lo Dreseat standard ¥aine, at the rate of 4 per cent.per annam, theie proceeds tobe applled eolely to tho parposs of erecting pabltc balldings for the nso of the Gove ernment. The blll approprintes fur pubilc butld- ings at Atlants, Gx., $100,000; Chicago, §1, 00, 000; Cincinnatl, 83,250.000; Evanavilie, $20, 00 Grand Raplde, Mich, 850,000; Little lock. 8150, - 0u00; Hemphis, $400,000; Nashville, $250,000; 8t. Louls, §1,000,000; ftate, War, and Navy De- partment bulldin Washlngton, 83,009, 000, ‘The bill also makes pravisiun for the extenslon of the Livtary of Congress. aud an 8porupriativa of 400,000 for u bullding for the Burexu of Lugrave ing and Printing. RAILEOAD BILL. Tepresentative Schicicher alsv Introdaced a bill to aid tn the construction of & military, comme: cial, and postal rall highway from the hesdqua: {ers at San Antonlo to the Rio Grand st Lared the Cumpany to recsive 312.000 per mile of ruad constructed and equipped. TEXAS CATTLE. Representative Morgan Introduced a bill declar. ing the fntroduction of Texas. Mexican, or Indian cattle Intu Missouri, Kaneas, or _lliools, from March 1 to Nov, 1 of ¢éach year, an offense punisha- ble with fino or imprisunment. ' The deaign of the billfa to protect domeatic cattle from what tu known as the Texas faver, NOTES AND NEWS, - =~ INSANE SUPERINTENDENTS. Bpecial Dispalch 15 The Tridune, Wasnixaron, D. C., May 13.—The American Assaciatiun of the Medical Supenintondents of llospitals for the Insane will hold It annual aee- slon here this week, commencing to-morrow morning. Nearly cvery hospital in the United States and the Dominion of Cansda will be repre- sented. GEN. ADAM BADEAU hae furalshed to the War Dcpartment evidenca that his wound at Port Tiudson was of such a na. ture ns fu brivg him under the operation of an act which allows wounded officers to be placed on the retired list, and to alo bold civil offices, 1iia nswe bas consequently been restured to the army e DEATI OF PRoF, HENRY. Prof. flenty djed this afternoon of Rright's dis- ease, | amily and physiciany and one or two immedinte frivnds were proscat st Lis death.bed, 1le leaves o wife and three daugnters, une of whom ison inyalid. Tle will be buried from the Smithe sonlan Instituto. NOLLE I'OSSED. President flayes has given directlons to have the Ku:Klax e n tho dockel st Columba, nolle prossed, and it 1s expected that the K X prisoniers in the Albany Penitentiary will be par. aed. TRECAUTIONARY. 3r. Lapham, of New York, introduced tn the House to-day tie following jolnt resolution: Wiignsas, It ts reported that Sitting Bull. with 8 force of 15, meo well armed and equipped. d and threatens a war of extermiustion during the coming summer, an Wuzzxas, There Is danger of raids Mexican horder and the Cauadian frontier during n Wugszas, Thero s just ground to fear a repe- tiion of the Insurrection of last year In one or wmore of the Biates, which s3d cxperience shows the Slato military authoritics are onadle (o sup. press; tnerefore, he it Resolved, By the sSenate sentalives, That the President shal uthorized, If in his yudgment it shall . dnring the recess of Conz to {ncrease the active furce of the army "I the en. Tistuent of volanteers (o not_ exceeding 75,000, to suporess Indian wi to quell lasarrection, to pres serve the peaco, toald (he civil autborities fothe enfojcement of the laws, and to malnlalo the neus tral obligatione of tle (iovernmeny toward loreign Powers; such incre uf force to be subject to ult lhu{mvlnlmll { the Revised Statutes i relation to !l uor?uu fou of the army, and of tue State militia whep called futo tho service of the United Statee, of Ttepre. be, and he PROPOSED SURSIDIES. The Senata Poat-Qtice Comuliice reported sn amendment to the Post-Oitice Apvropelation bif glelues wah coutract fo the Pucltc Hail Steams ship line at & rate not to excecd $30 per mile poe souuin for & perivd of ten years. The same Cum« outleo alvo sgreed tu report favorable 8 bill grant- fuk @ subaidy 10 a liue of steaniers careylng the Vuited States matfs from Sau Francieco fu lHoug Kong, Chins; ulso s wouthly line from Ban Fran. eisco, Cal., to Siduey. Australis, touching at New Zeal, ‘The bill 1 10 be reported asa o smendment W the Fost-Oftice Aporapriation bill. TIE FOUR PER CRATS To ths IWeatern_Assoclated Presa. Wasuixiron, I, C., 15.—Subacriptions to the 4 per cents tu-day, $2U2 00U EUAL TENDENS, Following 18 a slatement of the outstanding cles culstlun of legal-tender notea sod fractionsy cur- nales, new luue, 18,761,007 31, 0de, 51 nited Biates u United Sialss uotes, series LuTa. Tote) Unlied Bistes notes. Practiousl cusreacy...., ENDD. The Comptrolles of the Currency bas declared a dlvidend of 75 per ceat in favor of the creditors of the Commercisl Natlopal Bauk of Kansas City, aod iapercent in favar of ihg creditors of the Virat Naliooal Bauk of Kaneas City, SUFPLEMENTAL REPORT. The Commuiitiee va Naval Expenditures will make & suvplewestal report recommendiog the withe bolding ol all sparupriations to 3y the debt of L3e Duzeau of Provisious and Clotning. APPOINTMENT, ed Jumes M. Brackeld Wia, for Yostwaster a THE RECORD. SENATE. Wasmixarox, D. (., May 13 ~Mr, Johnstoa fne troducted & bill tu levy, br the Mofatt dell-punch, &taxon tiquors in all plicss in the District of Columbia whete iutoxicating liquors are sold by the dnink. Referred. Mr. Morrill presented Lhe petition of ball a dozen wecbanics of Hoslen favariug tha ropeal o the Elgbi-Hour law. ‘They declare that It 15 unjust to pay workmen empluyed by tho Uorernmeat as much for elght hours' work &s otber workmica fe- ceive for ten biours. Relerred. Mr. Comover. from the Commities on Poete Omices and Poat-Roads, reported an amendmsent 48