The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1868, Page 8

8 a ASHINGTON Acton of the Reconstruction, Committee on the Impeachment Scheme. THE COMMITTEE'S BY:PORT BJECTED The Case of Se nator Thomas Under , Consider ation in the Senate. THE KEY TUCKY ELECTION CASE, Zohn & oung Brown Declared Ineli- &i’ jle to a Seat in the House - of Representatives. 1, Feb, 13, 1868, Wammmxcron, Fersiotk Pi } truction Committee on Dee Ae op of the Reco he Impeachment Scheme—Ite Final feat. ‘The Reooustraction Committeo of the Houso met this moretug, all thy mombers being present, Mr, Stevens, of Pounsyivania, at the earliest moment offered the fol- Jowirg report aud rezolutions for the action @f the com- metic :— fhe Committee on Reconstruction to whom was re- ferred the -coprespondence of Andrew Jobnson, Fresi- dont of tbe United states, and U. 8, Grant, ‘General commanding ihe armies of the United States, having @oasidexod Lhe samo and ovidonce, do report:— That iv virtue of powers with wuich your committee fave eon invested they have fully examined the evi- ene Porore (em aud are of the opinion that Andrew Jouzvon, president of the United states, is guilty of igh crimes and misdemeanors, and therefore recom- Memiuhe adojgion of the foliowing resolutions :— Resolved, ihut Andrew Johnson, President of the Waited States, be impeached of nigh crimes and misde- mearore. Resolved, That a committee go to the Senate and in ‘tbe. name of the House of Representatives and of. all the “people of “ie United States do impeach Andrew Jobn- won, President of the United States, of high crimes and ‘Miv!cmeaaors, aud acquaint the Seaate that the House of Representatives will in due time exhibit particular articles of impeachment against him and make good the ‘same, Resolved, That the committee do demand that the Senate take order for the appearance of said Audrow Jonnson to answer said appearance, Mr. Stevens supported the ragolutions in a most vig- sovoua style, and was repiied to by Mr, Bingham, who to aduce General Grant to hold the office of Secretary held with greatcogency of reasoving that the President bad noi really violated the Tenure of Ofiice bill by bis efforts of War at his disposal atter the Senate bad reinstated “Mr. Stanton, Nearly all the members discussed the «point with great animation, after which, upon the mo- rtion of Mr, Binglam to lay the report upon tho table, ‘the following vote was had:— |. Yeas—Mesers. Bingham of Obio, Paine of Wisconsin, ~Beamaif ot Michigan, Brooks of Now York, and Beck of Keuiucky. Nave—Mesars. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, , Boutweil of Massachusetts aud Farotworth of Illinois, The result caused a good deal of excitement and some @issatisiaction in certain quarters, Mr, Stevens was par- ¢treularly incensed at the sudden turn of affairs, because “he felt assured that the scheme was tolerably certain of @oing through this time. When the committee ad- -Journed he invited Mr, Boutwell avd Mr, Farnsworth to Join him to devise a new plan of action; but it is gene- rally thought that impeachment has fallen through now forever, The Bill Relative to Taxing National Bank Shares Signed by the President. ‘The I'resident has approved and sigued the bill pro- + viding that the words “place where the bank is located, \4 pot elsewhere,” in section forty-one of the National vCarrency act shall be coustrued and held to mean the “State within which the bank ts located, and the Legis- lature of each State may determine and direct the manner and place of taxing all-shares of national banks located within said S.stes, subject to the restriction that sthe taxation shall not be at a greater rate than ets assessed upon other moneyed capital in the bands “of individual citizens of such States, and provided Always that the shares of any national bank owned by non-residents of any state shall be taxed in the city or town whore said bank is located, and not elsewhore. The New Tax Bill. Dealers and others iuterested in petroleum from Phil- cadelpbia,- Pittsburg and other cities were before the #ommi:teo of Ways and Means to-day. The now Tax ‘Bill will be reported to tho House, jt is thought, in about abreo weeks Wrotection of Naturalized Ci ns Abroad, The rights of naturalized citizens, now under discus- sion in the House of Representatives, says the Telegram, Promises an indefinite exhibition of the yolubility of abe vational lawmakers; every member in tne least so- @citous of the support-cf the foreign population of the country will speak om the subject, In order to give-way toother business of the House now being delayed by this protracted debate, effort.was made to refer to the Gommitice of ihe Whole. This was disagreed to, and Woui!l and amendments were recommitted, It 18 gen- « Way understood thas Mr. Seward bad inuch to do +. Wb. the preparation of the bill, ahd the opposition of tt. Wiouse does not produce the best fecting, it is said, on Gwe part of the Secretary. The points of the dis- agr Went between the House and the Secretary seem to | Wribat the former wishes to make it a 1iw which will, Witube adead letter upon the statute booka The Jatier, | with aiplomatic ingenuity, devises a monsure which, it is thought, will only heap insult upon the mation the indecision manifested in the policy pro- posed ta tine enacted. Organi wation of a New Military Department. An ord @ ‘has just been prepared and will be issued atomorro 6 ut is thought, creating. new military divi- a op, tol w-called the Military. Division of the Auantic. 16 will be §=wmposed of the present Department of the Eas t and t. be Department of Washington, and Lieuten- ‘ante Genera {1Wm, T. Sherman has been \ssigned to ite comm 1and, With Bis.headquarters in Washington. Gev- erat W.£ derman wil! still command tho Department of we Kast: wd General Emory wall remain in command of thie. depar Vaent. The miiitary force comprising the garrison of WV ‘sehington is to be largely increased. This order wi, | be saeued ‘by Gonera) Grant by order of the it. \ Soaaasa nef YWar Depart: ‘ New York. “qhe joint, resol ¥iom reported by Mr. Ketcham from the Commit @ On Miltary Affairs and passed in the House, direct ‘6 the Secretary of War to take imme. diate measure, $ fF she reduction of the expenses ‘of the War Dep: “ment at and in the city of New York, contemplates thy lease of » cingle building at an expense ot exceeding $2 000 per annum, in which all the off. ‘bors of the army a ‘MI be Socated; emf also a suitable Duiiding or propert, ‘ith the harbor ot New York to ho used for the stora % Of all government property, the cost net to exceot $5) '000 annually, This is not, how- @ver, to interfore with, be we of permaneat, government eats Custon % Recetote. Following are the recei, “\* from cuttoms from the Lat of February to the Sth 'Pelusive at the following it Expenses in Boston. .... Row York Philadeiph! Baltimore Ban Francisco, from Janiary dte 1M... Total...... sa seeeee Amount of ands to the’ The following is a statemont of the funds in the vauite Of the United Stator Treasury befor ¢ the commence. mont of buvinéss this worning:— Gold and MW. ee Currency, ...+++ The Fi rthootieg Reports of Pardo ned torfetters, Forgerm &c. The reports of the’ number of counterfeitm ®, forgera sud persons condemne * for perjury and embeza!ement, called for by the Genafe and Bouse of Represomtatives 43 the boginning of the pr Wen! wendion, has boon almort wompleted by vir, FU, Sti. ‘ty the Pardon Clerk of the Attorney General's office, Wd the reports will most probably be tr tod to Co wrese om Monday next will farnish very ++ $102, 675,000 28,038, Couns Tt i aia that these repori.® Witle evidence agsinst the P.Waidemt dhnt can be ‘used by the jtapeacher 17 «establish =the charge of abuse of the pardonin,’ Powel The number of counterfeiters and persons comvicied of pax ing couuserfost money that bare been Perdoned JF NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1868, about one hundred, The Of per of individuals con- Vieted of forgery 18 about “,wenty.five, while but oe or two appoar in the ist 0% pardons that were convicted of forgery and perjury, ‘The reports show that the number of such crimtnelg who have received Executive clomen- ey does mot exceed one hundred and thirty. None of these bav’g been pardoned by the President without hav- ing bee-4 recommended by the Judge or jury that tried them or the District Attorney who prosecuted, and in most cases by the Senators and Representatives from ‘ae State in which the criminal resided at tho time of trial, Since the time the first of these pardons was granted by the President upwards of three thousand persens have been convicted of the crimes included in the reports; and the proportion of the number pardoned to those not pardoned is about ‘one to twenty-four, A majority of those who have ro- ceived Executive clomoncy had served nearly three full terms of imprisonment when pardoned, and & large number of them had served out their entire sentence, The Election in Alnbama. ‘The following telogram was read in the Senate to-day ‘by Senator Patterson :— Montcomsny, Ala, Feb. 18, 1868, Hon. D, T. Parrenson, Senator from Tennessese:— Ratification of tho constitution is defeated by dver Otteen poe mane 4 Led Lan : peeenees for tho passage erman’s bill reepectin, D. D. DALTON, Govern ‘Secretary. Nominations by the President—Promotion of Lieutenant General Sherm: ‘The President to-day nominated to the Ser Lieuten- ant General W. f. Sherman to be General by brevevin the army of the United States for distingwished courage, skill and ability displayed during the war of the rebel- lion; also Charles N, Tuttle to be Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-fourth district of New York, in place of Joseph W, Gates, to be removed, and Horace G. Storms, Aesessor of Internal Revenue of the First district of Obio, to fill a vacancy existing since the close of the second session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, The Legislative, and Executive Appropria- tion Bill, The Tlegram states that considerable comment has been caused here by the fect that no appropriations are made in Mr, Washburn’s bill for the Department of Edu- cation and the Bureau of Statistics, It is argued from this that these branches of the government are to be abolished, Tho same bill reduces the number of clerks in the Surgeon General’s office from avout two hundred to eight nearly the samo forcefemployed in that bureau at the beginwing of the war, The passage of this clause will suspend the work on the medical and surgical his- tory of the war now being prepared by Surgeon General Barnes, Tho Diplomatic and Consular Service. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, re- ported on the 10th inst, differs from the one originally introduced, It restores the appropriation for the salary of the Minister to Portugal, and provides Commissioners ‘and Consul General ¢o Hayti and Liberia instead of Min- istorg, The bill contains no appropriations for Ministers to Greece and Rome. It reduces the contingent fund of the State Departinent from $65,000 to $30,000, omits the selary of the Second Assistant Sécretary of State, and fails to appropriate money for the following objects, namely :—For Examiner of Claims; rent ot State Ve partment building; Superintendent of Statistics; do- spatches by cable. and Boundary Commission of Wash- ington Territory, The bill contains a provision that no consul genorals, consuls, consular agents or commercial agents shall be paid except those specified in the act; and all Jaws and parts of laws providing for the payment of any other consular officers than those !n this act specified are hereby repealed, and gil moneys received for fees at avy vice consulate or consular agency of the United States, beyond the sum of one ‘thousand dojlars in any one year, shan be accounted for and paid “Into the Treasury in the same manner aa other moneys received by consular officers of the United States, The number specified in the act is about one hundred and sixty, leaving upwards of four-hundred consuls and commercial agents to be no longer paid, The total sum appropriated by this bill is $1,268,934 Probable Re: tion ef Secretary McUCul- loch, The Telegram \earns to-day, from a reliable source, vhat Secretary McCulloch really does entertain serious intentions of resigning his office at no very distant day, provided certain matters now in process of adjustment turn out satis(actorily, One of these contingencies is said to be the pending Loan bill. If this bill should be- come a Jaw and other arrangomonts depending upon its passage should result successfully, Mr. McCulloch wil! resign, it iseaid, and accept the position of fimancial agent of Jay Cooke & Co, at Londun. There seems to be some trouble in the way of selecting for the office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury a man who will come sufficiently near to suiling all parties tO%nsure his confirmation. It is understood that the Secretary favors a New York aspirant, while the strongest pressure of influence, both.in and out ef Congress, is said to be in favor of a gentieman who pow bolds a position in the Treasury. Sonn C. Breckinrl His Travels. A letter received bere from an American citizen at Beyrout, Syria, dated January 2, says Jobn C. Breckin- ridge was thereon the Ist of that montb, making in- quiries with regard to travelling through Syria, He denied all claim to the privileges of a citizen of the United States, and appeared much affected while con- Versiog upon affairs in his country, When asked if he intended to return to America he said he had no wish to become a martyr,.and should not return until be could do so in personal safety ; but that no other country could be his home, He also said, with roference to affairs hore, that as the war was over and the appeal to the sword bad been decided against those with whom he bad been associted, be was now willing to shoulder bis gun like any other¢an in defence of bis country. He, however, spoke of matters bere in the tone of a foreigner. The same lotter states that Jacob Thompson and other leading parties of the South during the late Warggore wandering about Turkey. Payment of Bonds of 1847. The United States bonds of 1847 which matured on the Sist of Decomber will, it is understood, be paid on presentation at the Treasury Department or at the office of the Assistant Treasurer in New York, interest boing allowed only to the Ist.of January last, The Mail Service Between the United States and B jon Ayres. The Minister.of the Argentine Republic has addressed a loiter to Secretary Sewardjrelative to a subsidy author- ized by his government to @ line of steamsbips to be established between the peris of New York and Buenos Ayres, ‘The Minister says that sundry merchants at Buemoe Ayres have resoived to present a petition to the | Congress of the United States soliciting ite assistance te carry out the extension to Buenos Ayres of the line which docs service between New York and Rio Janeiro, The Minister urges the line of steamships because it will be (be means of extending and increasing the commercial Feiations between the two countries, and says it is to be Wondered at that there does not exist a singlo line of direct communication between the United States and theriver de la Plata, while the fact is that Europe finds advantage in Increasing more re more the lines of it, steamers which connect ber with Report on the C rops of 1867. The monthly report of agriculture for January con- tains (ables of the average yield per acre of the principal farm crops of 1867, The fatter show, with average home prices at the present time about the same range as ip January, 1867, in New England, a slight reduction in the Wert end a decrease in.the ith, except In Mig sissippl, Louisiana and Texas, A merked reduction = #hown to Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia in wheat and in the Carolinas as to corm, The rango of potatoes is higher in ali the Atlantic States and generally in the West, oxcepting Kansas and Nebraska, the grogtest ‘Western inereaso Leitig noted in Jiinola, where the average yield was but sixty bushels per acro and the avorage price is $120 per bushel, Tha reports concerning acreage of winter -wheat indicate no material change as compared with last year, In Now York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana there appears to be @ #light Cocrease, and an increase in Michigan and in some of tho Southern States, amounting in North Carolina to forty per cont, At the beginning of winter the appearance of the crops was not generally quite #0 favorable a8 usual, A promibent feature of the report ig an article presenting special statistics of farm re- sources and products for the Kastern and Middle States, giving & comparison with 1860 in prices of farms and of wild nuda, Gnd interesting facts as to resources in timber aaa minerals, special crops, the cost of pas turage, &e, * ry Civeular to Collectors of Customm. retary Of the Troasury bas addrossed tho fol- sowing ciroular td Collectors of customs :— ‘The cirowlar issued by the Toternal Revenue office on Soptombor 19, 1867, eontaining regulations concerning the asseeanent and collection of the tax on cotton r quires that won cotton ig exported the permit and ifoaie of payment shall i £ ANT Bui : to insure permits hefore their delivery to the assessor. The Metrical System of Weights, Mensures and Coins. ‘The petition of the American Statistical Association, recently presented in both houses of Congress, respect- fully asks attention to the following nine propositions, ‘and requests that the principles involved in them may be incorporated in any law that may fe adopted im ro- spect to the metrical system of weights, measures and coins:— First—That the American Statistical Association ear- nestly favors the speedy practical adoption by the peo- ple of the Unit States of the metrical system of briny rectens measures, the system of which the meter, the litre and the gramme are lvely the units Jongth, of capacity and of weight, and the use of which, ‘by act of the last (the thirty-ninth) Congress, has been rendered permissibie in the United in the making of contracts, and has been necesaitated by the require- ments of several branches of industry. Second—Tat our coinage should haye simple relations -as to weight, with the unit of weight of the metrical | system—the gramme, Third—Vhat the standard as to fineness of our coin- age, whether of gold or of silver, should continue as now, nine-tenths of fine metal to one-tenth of alloy. Fouwth—That in the opinion of this association no widely extended and permanent uniformity as to coinage can be secured through the adoption by our government of any system which is in conflict with the principles above mentioned, Fifii—Thut the weight in grammes and the fineness of tho coing hereafier to be used should be legibly stamped thereon prior to issue. Sixth—That the changes required for converting our oxisting coinage into a motrical coinage are so slight that the recoinage of the existing coins of tho United States would be unnecessary; that the difference bejweon the existing coinage and that pro- pored, es] ! regards gold coins of less denomi- nation than ig very considerably less than 0, the deviation now allowed to the Mint, which is ono- fourth of a grain for the gold dollar and the quarter eagle, and one-balf of a grain for-the half eagio, the eagle and the double cagio, Ne That in pursuance of the foregoing, the gold dollar should contain one and one-half grammes of fine gold or its equivalent, one and two-thirds grammes of standard gold (nine-tenths fine), aud that other gold goins should be in proportion. s Highth—That the silver balf dollar and the smaller sliver coil wreafter to be issued should contain of fine silver at the rate of twenty two and one-half grammes to the doliar or its equivalent, twenty-five grammes of silver (gine-tenths fine) to the doilar. Ninth—That tho gold coinage, as above doscribed, should be made legal tender in payment of sums of all amounts, and that the sliver coimage shouid be snb- sidiary and a@mitted as legal tender to ah amoyut not exceeding $10 in any one payment. Not: on Proposition Seventh.—The weight of the exist- ing gold dollar when new is slightly (ouly ubout tnree- tenths of one per cent) in excess of the proposed | dollar, containing of fine gold 1.505 grammes— me coutains 1.5438 grains Troy, nearly, or of standard gold (ni ramme, or eight one-hundredths of a grain, ird of doviation allowed to the unit, Note on Proposition Bighth,—The existing legal tender silver five franc picco of France contaius twenty-live grammes of standard silver (nine-tenths fine), or twen- ty-two and one-half grammes of fine silver, the same as herein proposed. Our existing fractional and subsidiary silver coins are somewhat smaller than above, about one-half of one per cent, containing of standard metal at the rate of 2483 grammes to the dollar, instead of twenty-five grammes, the difference being mconsider- able, Note on Proposition Ninth,—It will be observed that the proposed silver coinage has precisely fifteen times the weight of the proposed oe coinage of tho same denomination, ‘The market equivalont is ‘and for the pest sixty years has comsiantly been greater than thi, the value of gold relativoly to silver having averaged for the past fourteen years about tifteen and three-eighths times that of silver, Hence, by the above proportions silver is-overvalued, as, according to the experience of all commercial nations it ahould be. But to prevent the silver from driving the gold from circulation it is necessary, as proposed, that the silver should be legal tender only in payment of sums of smail amount. The limitin the United States is now $5, in England 403. (about $10). ‘The Quarantine at Mal Our Consul at Malaga wries that by the 14th of January last quapantine on vessels irom delivered to and taken up by Joma Boston, New York, Phitadelphia, Baltimore atid Charles- ton bas been reduced from ten to threedays. This three days observation may be performed at Cadiz, Carthagena and Barcelona, United States Si Court.- The following cases were disposed of in the United States Supreme Court to-day:— No, 102—United States, plaintiff, va, Cook. No. #4—Atna Insurance Company, Plant in error, vs. Webster. No, 86—Williamson, plaintiff in orror, vs, Suydam. ‘The above cases were argued. THE FORTIETH CONGRESS, Second Senslo: SENATE. Wasninaton, Feb, 13, 1868. PETITIONS, Memorials were presented by the Chair and appro- priately referred from the New England Manufacturing Company of Massachusetts, asking ap entire revision of the Revenue jaws and more economy in the Revenue Department ; from certain citizens setting forth a reason why the constitution should be changed’ s0 as to acknowledge God and religion; from the convention of manufacturers at Cleveland, Ohio, praying that greater economy be exercised in the administration of the gov- ernment. PROTEST AGAINST BEGNO RULE IN ALABAMA, Mr. Doourtis, (rop.) of Wis, presented a mo- morial, signed by over one thousand citizens of Alabama, protest against negro rule, and pray- ing for the contineance of the military govern. ment over the State. It sets forth many alleged grievances and misrepresentations, and conciudes as foliows:—"Continue over us, if you will do so, your own rule by the swgrd; send. down among us honorable and upright men of your own people, of the race to whieh you and we belong; and, ungracious, contrary to wise policy and the institutions of the country, and tyr- annous as it will be, no hand will be raised among us to Tesist by force their authority, But do mot, we implore you, abdicate your own rule over us by transferring us to the Dbiighting, brutalizing and unnatural dominion of an alien and Inferior race—a race which hag never shown administrati the yn the tribes |waye been Dative seats, and which im all ages has Slaves for oli the races of the earth,” ‘THE TERRITORY OF WYOMING. Mr. Yates, (rep.) of Iii,, introduced @ bill and ee a tem; 'Y government ior the yf of yoming, whic! by ey ote Jyiag west of the 104in meridian, distinguishing Provieos of the bill aro those guarding the rights of per- fon and property now possessed ‘ike Indians so long as they remaia unextinguishod by treaty, and those Poy mony the right of suffrage to all citizens of United ve the age of twenty-one who have Not borne arms against the United states in late re- bellion. Refer to the Committes on Terri@ries, FILING VACANCIES IN THE MXECURVE DRPARTMENTS, TRUMBULL, (rep.) of Ill, from the Judiciary Com- mittee, reported a bili to authorize the temporary sup- plying of vacancies in tue ative departinents, which was passed to @ second reading. It provides that in case of death,. resignation, absence by sickness of the head of any exccutive department, or of any officer in exther of ther whose appointment is not im the head thereof, the Prosident may authorize the head of any othor executive department or other officer in either of said departments whose appointment ts vested in hi with the congent of the Senate, to perform the d vot said respective offices until ccessor be apt or the disability cease, provided no vacancy shall be sup- Pied in this maoner for a longer term than thirty days. WAKXINGS TO VRIMBLS, Op motion of Mr, Moncay, (rop.) of N, Yi, the joint regolution authorizing the Lignt, ttonse to place Warmings over obstructions at the @utrance of baysand in the fair ways of cuanoels was taken up and passed, SUUSISTENCE STORRS YOR INDIANS, BTC. Mr, Witson, (rep.) of Mase,, oftered resolutions (which Were adopted) asking information from the Secretary of War in regard to thy atnount of subsistence stores pure Chased under orde#®f the War Department for Indiaus under the charge of the Indian Bureau for which pay- ent has Not yo been madealso the amount aby tin? United States to the Ui Pacific Ratiroad, Eaatera division, and the Chicago Northwestern Railroad Com pan) for the tronsportation of troops and stores, RAILROAD PRIDORS DECLARED POST ROUTES, On jvotion of Mr. Ramsey, (rep,) of Ming, the bill to establi Wi and dectare tne bridges and railroads of the New © ear Mol routes wi taken up WALIBY OF GoVreNMENT cowrnacTors, Mr, Gniw 8s, (rep.) of Iowa, called up a pill for the relief of cort'4j2 government contractors, He explained that the matte® bad beon referred to a committee of the House, whioh ha instructed the Secretary of the Navy to inquire Into it, PbO then referred st to a commodore fnd other officers, Thowe officers had reported that there ie justly due th* sum mentioned in the bill—about 000—the balance oF oxpouse resulting from changes ona in sron-clads, and 15d Conmuaitieg oo Naval Affaiva Je aud Chattanooga Railroads post ond passed, as defined by the existing law. Mr. Sounen, (rep of s., said that the Joyaity in tho rebél States had beon set aside decision of @ question of loyalty in thia cham! Tead the declaration of Congress ui Senators and Ropresontatives, and if that was not enforced, i z 3 iit oF. Beges, three-fourths was, fore, Jap npoe all ag a part of Whe letter aa nisl se of Aue etme ‘the constitution, The original text of the constitution was sufficient, in his opinion, without this It allowed each house to define the qualidcations of its Members, and did not limit them ia that regard. It clearly required loyalty, Where an oath was declared necessary, a false oat, taken with would compromise tho Senate itself, which could not divest itself of reaponsibility by referring the matter to individual judgment. He quoted Lord "8 opinion that an infidel cannot be allowed to take an oath, and 1 infide) should not be allowed to do so, to the course of Mr. Thomas during the war and his arsociations with rebel ving “a man is known by the company he keeps,”’ well as by his act in furnishing bis son with meana of joining rebels; and he quoted trom Lord Hale and other eminent English authorities on the question of misprision of treason, and also from the statute on crimes adopted in 1790, which imposed a punishment not exceeding seven years or & fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, He sad it was pro| now, instead of seven years’ imprisonment, to reward misprision of treason with six years in the councils of the nation, Mr, Sumner also quoted from xallust the act of a Senator, who, when his son engaged in a con: spiracy, ordered him to be slain, Thongh Mr, Thomas should not have slain his son, he should at least have [ae him up to justice, Mr, Sumner then appealed to ators to give tho country @ lesson of loyalty that would swell the hearts of (hose who were now awaiting their action, and conciuded bis address by quoting the following lises:— 1 bear a lion in the lobby roar; Say, Mr. Spoaker, shall we shut the door? Or shall we open it and Jet hin in, and sev if we can got him out again? Mr. Trumuuie followed in favor of the admission of Mr. Thomas, denying that there was any evidence of disloyalty on his part before the Senate, and claiming that if ho was to bo excluded it should be because he did not possess the qualifications required by the constitu. tion or laws, » ‘The Senate, he said, was not passing upon an appointment, but upon the selection of a senator by one of the States of the Union, He then took up the various allegations of disloyalty against Mr. ‘Thomas just preceding the war and discussed them at length, and in regard to the act of furnishing his son with the ono hundred doliars he asserted ag his conviction that it was dictated solely by paternal affection, Mr. Trumbull then said that tbe Senators here were quite as guilty of misprision of trea- son when they sat here at and after the outbreak of the war while the Senators from the Southern States rose from their seats and left this chamber, ono after tne other, declaring their intention to defy the constitution and the Jaws, without bringing them to justice; and he cited the case of John C. Breckinridge, who ‘sat here until after the battle of Bull: Run. ir, Trambuli read the oft quoved “Stokes letter,” saying to Senators “they should not make fish of one and flesh of another,” Several subdued manifestations of sympathy were made in tho galicry during Mr Trumbull’s remarks, but they wore prompily suppressed. Mr, Epuunps, (rep.) 0. Vt., noxt addressed ' he Senate at length, taking the ground warmly that the statue was notasham, and that they evould fearlessly fulfil the duty it imposed upon them, reviewing again the whole field of argument heretofore traversed. Mr. Yates followed, holding i to be their sacred duty to keep these halis pure an@ undefiled from the stains of disloyalty, Mr, SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, could not vote for the amendment, as he did not consider the giving of the $100 sufficient ground for the exclusion of Mr. Thomas, but opposed his admission mainly because of the con- duct of Mr, Toomas in the trying times of the winter of 1860 aud 1861, when, be said, alter delaying occur- rences, men took their sides, he (Mr, Thomas) then done acts better calculated to overthrow the Union those of the soldier in arms against it. He read Mr. Yhomas’ letter of resignation, and said if ita doctrines were true the South was right and thoy wore wrong. No one could doubt that dir. Lhomas was then a secessionist and an enemy of his country, and had talcen rank with le@iing rebels, He had never since, by word or deed, shown Joyalty to the Union, but his neighbors had te:tified that his moral supp: had been given to tne rebellion. Did any one doubt that if Maryland had secoded Thomas wi nave been in the Maryland Legisiature, and would have advised his son to go into. the rebel army? He disowned party motives and party policy im giving his vote, but said if they admitted Mr. Thomas they might as well throw wide open their doors to red-handed rebel: Mr. Bucka.ew, (dem.) of Pa., rose ak at half-past four, but gave way to @ motion to adjourn, which pre- vailed and the Senate accordingly adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasuinatoy, Feb, 13, 1868, Resolutions of the Maine Legislature were presented by Mr. Price, RIGHTS OF AMBRICAN CITIZENS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, The House then proceeded, as the business of the morning hour, to the consideration of the bill concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign States, Mr, Jencks, (rep.) of R, 1, addressed the House in advocacy of the substitute proposed by him, Mr. Wisow, (rep.) of Iowa, moved that the dill and pending amendments shoald be referred to the Com- mittee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Mr, Banks, (rep.) of Maas., stated that the Committee ‘on Foreign Afairs bad had a regular meeting this morning, and desired to have the bill recommitted with all the amendments, and he asked the gentleman from Towa to subsuitute that motion for his, Mr. Witson be would allow the motion to be ofiered as an amendment, so that the sense of the House might be taken upon it, Mr. Brooxs, dem.) of N. Y., asked as a Parliamen- tary question whether the effect of reforring a bill to the Committee of the Whote on the State ot the Union would not be to delay action upon it, and would not be oquivaient to kiiling the bill, ‘Mr. Witson said it would not, and said there was no such purpose. He did not suppose that any member bey Ee obstacle in the way of the advancement 6 Mr. Banxs said it would be very dificult for the House —— if % were reterred to the Com- on the State of the Union. Every House knew that. Mr, Huapy, (rep.) of val., suggested ing sessions for the discussion of tho question, ret ig that toe House might aa well begin the evening sessions at once. Mr. Witson paid ho did not care what ar as made, provided the bill was left open to dmveenon and amendments, He would therefore modify bis mo- tion so as to make the bill a special order for Tuesday evening. Mr. Joon, (rep.) of Til, asked Mr, Banks, as chairman of the Committice on Foreiga Affairs, at what time that boon the rules, report back the bill that he would ask the House for Jeave to report at any time. | Mr, Wasunonrne, (rep.) of Iil,, said he would object to that. Mr. Wrgon remarked that his object was to hasten the of the bill und to get it im a shape that would effect the object which the ja view, He be- Neved that by adopting the course which he earlier action would be had than by any other course, pe 5 (dem.) of Va. suggested nee sa sufficient importance to be discussed e ordinary business hours of the House, Wrson again modified his motion that the bill referred to the Committe of the Whole Mr. Banxe suggested that that reference would be the death of the bill. . ‘Tho question was taken on Mr. Wilson’s motion and it ‘was rejected, The question was taken Mr. Banks’ motion and it was agreed to. So the bill and all the amen: npr nt were recommitted to the Committee on rs. is asked leave for the committee to report at me. Wasnsvane of Ii). anks said he would move to suspend the rules day for that purpose. PENSIONS POR SOLDIRRA OF THE WAR oF 1812, Mr. MaLLaK, (rep.) of Pa, from the Committee on Revolutionary #, Teported a Dill giving $8 per month pension to every surviving officer and ealistea military service of tt ited States who poche” oa months in the war of 1812 and who were hor iy discoarged, aod who, duriig the.late rebel- lion, had not adhered io the cause of the enemies of the government, who can take the test oath, and who ere in circumstances which render them dependent on others for support. r During the consideration of the bill the morniog hour expired, aod the biil went over till the morning hour on Tuo Bay next. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH STAIN. Tho Srraxen presented a lotter from the Secretary of the Treasury with the dratt of a bill relative to the com- morcial relations of the United States with Spain and her colonies, Referred to the Committee on Commerce, MILITARY EXPENSES IN NEW YORK, Mr. Kuzonas, (rep.) of N. Y., from the Committee on Military Affairs, asked leave to report @ joimt resolution directing the Secrotary ot War to take immediate meas- ures for the reduction of the army expenses at and in the vicinity of York city by concentrating the business of the various bureaus im that city and by hiring @ suitable building for the accommodation of ail Gt a cost of $25,000 a year, aud hiring a suitable piece of property within the harbor of New York for the ro- criviag and storing of army material and stares at an annual cost not exceeding $50,000, Mr. Woon, (dem.) of N, ¥., objected, KENTOCKY BLEOTION CAST The House then, at three o'clock P. M., proceeded to the consideration of the election case from the Second Oovgressional district of Kentucky, the repors of the ottmmittee being that Jown Y, Krown, the member elont, 18 not eatitied (0 take bis seat by reason of his having given countenance and encouragement to the rebels; that the contestant, Samuel KE, Smith, is not en- titled to it, becanse ‘he did not id Votes enough, and that the “weaker shall notify tue Governor of Kentucky on the Btate of 2 E j e Hh i ‘expressed the idea that any Kentuckian lores Lincoln ought and, as he be- time woul jg ie a wrality. wtag where. the State ceapetere act Some Semmens £4 07 the United tates—if were to bo the judgment of the Houso—he would be sustained by the happy con- solousness that it was afoul wrong done him and an his rights, though it might not be go in- Mr. ‘Dawns, (rep.) of Mass., closed the debate by summing up the arguments in pasnort of the positions assumed by the Commiitee on Elections and by answer- ing the ee inade against them. ‘The comumitice, he said, feit conscious of the importanco of the case, and had endeavored to so conduct it that there should mot lie at its door avy just accusa- tion of an attempt to arrive at a couclu- sion without the fullest and most perfect discussion of the case, and without hearing in full ail parties affected by it. He referred to the intimatious made by Mr ‘Trimble, of Keatucky, and by Mr. Kerr, that if Mr. Brown had belonged to a differont political organ ization no such report would have beea made, aud he expressed bis surprise that the latter gentioman, who was a member of the Committee on Eloctions, and who Was aware that no cago before the commitice had been decided on political grounds, and that in this very case the voto in the cominittec was a refutation of any such idea, should have indulged in such remarks, Mr. Dawes read copious extracts from the testimony taken by the Commitee on Elections in Kentucky to show the difference between the neutraity professed by Messra, Crittenden, Guthrie, Speed and Rousseau and that professed and practised by Mr. Brown, and to show that no subsequent act of Mr. Brown rendered his tet- ter capable ot being interpreted in any other than ina disloyal sense, He ridiculed the idea put forward by some of those who had argued against the report of the committee that while the House had a right by a two-thirds vote to expel a member for treason it had no right to refuse him bis seat when he presented himself to be sworn as a member. He said that on that point tho homely verse of Colonel Titus two hundred Years ago, whon Charies II. undertook to batter down the doors of the House of Commons and place bis feet on the liberties of the nation, was a better commentary than anything ho could say :-- € LT hear a lion in the lobby roar, Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door? Or shall we open it and let him in, To try if we can turn him out again? He also quoted remarks made in the Senate by Mr. Johnson, the present Executive, and Senator Dixon, of Kentucky, on the proposition to expel Senator Bright for holding traitorous corréspondence with the Presi- dent of the Southern Confederacy in justification of the report of the Committee on Election. It was no new policy, he said; the President himself, in his first message to Congress, bad set fort tho same proposition in these words:—“‘When a Senator or Representative prosents bis credentials, his certificate of election, he may at once be admitted or rejected; or should tere be any questions as to his eligibility, bis credentials should be referred tor investigation to an appropriate commitice, If admitted to his seat it will be on evidence satisfactory to the house of which he thus becomes a member, that he possesses the requisite constitutional and legal qualitications, It refused ad- mission as a member for want of due allegiance to the government and returned to his constituents, they aro admonished that none but persons loyal to the United repealed. i cities ‘York and ia"ciee respenivory sual hareahar ba WAV GAZETTE, Wasuinaton, Feb, 18, - Paymaster Wm. R. Winslow pny a ‘anac and ordered to settle his accounte, Sur E, P. 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Air, Brown, go member elect, addressed the House in fluence uf Congress are thus effectively executed in the interest of the government of the United States and Adelity to the Union.” At tho conclusion of Mr. Dawes’ speech the House proceeded to vote, the first question being on the sub- Btitute offered by Mr. Kerr for the resolutions reporied by the commitiee. The substitute is as follows:— Resolved, That John Y. Brown, not having voluntarily «given aid, countenance, counsel or’ eucouragement to per- sons engaged In armed hostility against the United States, and having received a majority of the votes cast in the Second district of Kentucky for Representative in this House, is eatitied to admission and to take the oath of office aa Kepresentative from said district, The substitute was rejectea by yeas 43, nays 108, The resolution —— by the Committee on Elec- tions, that John Y. Brown, having voiuntarily given aid, countenance, counsel and encouragi engaged in armed hostility to the United 81 entitled to take the oath of office or to hold a seat us Representative, was then adopted without division. The two other resolutions were recommitted to the Committee on Elections. WAR DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK, ‘Mr. Woo baving withdrawn bis objection to the joint resolution to be reported by Mr. Keicham, from the Committee on Military Affairs, in reterence to “buildings for the use of the War Depart: in the city and harbor of New York, that joint resoiution was re- 5 ined by Mr. Ketcham, read toree times PASSAIC RIVER IMPROVEMENT, Mr. Hatary, (rep.) of N. J, presented the resolutions of the Common Council of Newark, N. J., asking Con- gress to make appropriations to improve the navigation of the Passaic rivor. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, RAILROAD LAND GRANTR, Mr, Downexiy, (rep.) of Mip., introduced a bill to regulate the disposai wf the lands that may be hereafter ven to aid in (he construction of railways. Reterred tothe Committee on Public Lands) Tne bill gives ali auch lands to States, to be sold to actual settlers at ‘prices ranging ftom $1 26 to $5 per acre, according to the dia- tance from the railroads, the proceeds to go to the rajl- Toad companies; all even numbered sections not taken ‘up in ten years to be disposed of as other public lands ; the land (0 be sola to settlers on long time, wih a jew to encourage the settlement of the country. The ae the views of the Committee on Public Tne House, at five o'clock, adjourned, NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. SENATE, AtBaxy, Feb, 13, 1868, BILLS REPORTED PAVORABLY, For the better protection sgainst fires of visitors to theatres in New York; to amend the charter of the Ieving Fire Insurance Company; requiring the tax col- lectors in Westchester county to pay over their: collec- tions at stared times; to extend the powers of the French Benevolent Society of New York; to incorpo. rate the New York Elevator Company ; authorizing the erection of piers and wharves in Harlem river, below Second avenve, By Mr. Muarny. amet ding the charter of th . MURPHY, a side ond New York Ferry Cow 7. of ed By Mr. Twssp—To founda Hospital in New York, for which object James Lennox has already donated $350,000 in reo! estate aud mone! 7. By Mr. Txaver—To provide for the transmission of letters and packages of merchandise across the East and North rivers by means of pneumatic tubes. By Mr. BRaDLav—To provide odditional facilities for the interment of the pauper dead in New York; also to authorize an exchange of Panel property on Ward's isiand for public La oy ween the Commissivners of — and Commissioners of Charities and By Mr, Patwrn—For the more effectual prevention of nciend: “Inclendiary fires ene. "Kontos—to peat ~ = for go} ion of an imental a low York and Wenebester counties. vy ae eral Synod, of Fore Missions and the Board ot Education of the Reformed Protestant Dutch arch, By Mr. Gaxzt—Incorporating the Murray Hill Savings mk. a Mr, Mcrruy—Incorporating the East’River Taanol my. mua For the relief of the New Yor! authorizing ht Joan aod st companies to invest moneys io any vil- tage, town or county bonds authorized by the Legisia. ure, PASSED, ‘lin Insurance Company of ipsurance companies aud BILLS ADVANCED TO THIRD READING. Authorizing the completion of the Waliabout improve. Ment, Brookiyn, at am expense of $510,000; author. jaing the Attorney General to aanul certain canal repair x made at the December lettings io Albany in . ASSEMBLY. Aunany, Feb, 13, 1863, The Srmanen presented the il report of the State Koginecer on railroa also the report of the Treasurer of (us Binghamton Inebriate Aeylam, BILLS ADVANCED TO A THIRD READING, o sale of hay; to ond the revised to assessments; amending the charier of the Fire Department, Brooklya, Eastern District, REPOR Ts, Dy Mr. Beavetrert—Giving t0 the Commissioners of the Canai Fund the appointment of Canal Auditor, By Mr. MunvnyTo regaiate the Exciso law in the Metropolitan district, Mr, Bristol made a minority re- port. Mr. Prrre moved to recommit both reports, Lost by 48 to 68, Mr. Jac on tho bill, jo Committee of the Whole Lost by 65 to 62—not two-thirds, Even! Seanion. The House took up the consideration of general orders. 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