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. ‘ ~ SWE : NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 3], 1868—TRIPLE SHEET, 3 +. oe = 8 = M2 F . ee <a Sn ae toon oe a ee allow him to offer an amendment, directing that |. require of him, but that if he was brought before the a8 proving this assert élece i SAtrTaNe. ©: CRD: 0% tint the TORIGSUEh soacndaceey ieeat paeae Tne | Charles W. Wooley be brosene leredtersiy tp the | Howse and the Hows’ neta he would Prealdent devolves upen the wo of Bane To A. GALLATIN LAWRENCE, Esq. ane ¥ i aa that the Manage iy vermnitied tS ead to the him mn , bi matinee the me we at te $7 — CKALBW, (Gere. took the floor in oppo rs ress cl Init matter of abl notoriety, and ast rou ot ie ane prcceaced te indipemnenrens) | Sones rstons ‘Rat the House may decide to | Mr. Bortn_that was entirety outside of the mat- | tat” Kr- Ada mad . me a ee believ: been rinci- oper. before a vi seven States, be qzex es duel near this city. By this step you | to the ‘a of 000 and real estate to Mr. BUTLER ‘declined to allow the amendment to After further discussion Mr. Buren moved the fol- | yet, when the election devolved “he e the act of February | the of what he be offered, ed proceeded to discuss the question as | owing resolution:— louse each State casting ‘‘one vote,” he had thirtens 20, 1839, entitled “An act the or | at , Ry At to how Mr. Wooley had been treated. Resolved, That the, resolutions relating to Charlee w. | States. Mr. ashley further INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS, | accepting within tnis District of Columbia a and calculated to prevent the enforcement of civil | Mr. BLDRIDGR, (dem.) of Wis., inquired whether | Wooley be'so far modified that the Sergeant-at-arme shall | able f present voting by po duel, and for other purposes.” This pro- contracta, of large amounts. It waa a that was relevant to the proposition ? what verbal and written communications shall be glectogs, « its which might on your part ig the more to be regretted and the’ exercise of Which, as in Pennaylvania, | The SPEAKER ruled that it was. mndote the wiinens, ond tet ne semana in writing | how or inability of the more unaccountable as eqperience | Bere $800 is exempt, was beneficial, but here it met |. Mr. ELDRIDGE Inquired whether that would open | oF Py telegraph, except open communications, be delivered 19 } electors'to agsemb) Vote upon the day 4 must have made you with the twenty-fifth baggers and negroes who | the question a8 to how the witness had been | Qtiivered to him through his counsel, by law. The adoption of his amendment would do The Arkansas Bill Still Under Consider- | *7tcle of war watch any officer or soldier | made the constitution, who lad but little property, ? Mr. Poi ) of Vt., questioned whether it | Sway with ail m and, lnseren sending or | accepting» challéage "to gut 's | The prov eae Mr. BUTLER declined to yleld for any remarks, a ECAR BOE alent for the House to | PBR NOW oftengiofeat the will of the people, There duel upon pain of being cashtered, t, | declared anti-republican in form and’ the ad Mr. Woop made the point of order that the Speaker | W88 Wise, Titertere waite the rie ouse © | had been two Présidential elections by the House of ation in the Senate. entertaining the opinion that under | tion of the present military ion til had told the gentleman from Massachusetts | Undertake to interfere (glen cement Tg Representatives, and he trusted the constitu. the circ the offence on your part above re- | Again, they “had the. anomaly of that he would not have authority, even by order of | Witness. He did not see > Propriety or de | tion would be so amended that we shall ferred to against the law renders it uni that | certain men to vote upon the adoption | the House, to do what was required of him. cency in it, ed that he had a note sent | BeVer have another. At such an election, ou shall any longer sopeeaent the United 98 | of the constitution, thereby providing that it should | _ The SPEAKER remarked the gentleman from | , Mr. ELDRIpGE remark: hich the witness viesired | U8der our present rule, the representatives of a mi. {hetr Mintster to Costa Rica, has deemed Waavisable | faxe effect Bebra wan aes e pointed out | New York was, mistaken—ihat ino 8 had from she witeees suas, Wil w es! pority of the people may and as a rule do ‘lect the Senate cceasor stated that a jeem louse even cou lent Jol of resent Continued Debate in the Honse in Reference to | to nominate to the that | other in ties in the election, by which the far. to anything being presented | President. A majority of th fepresentatives of constitution was declared adopted, and alleged that Sirebies Suiberiey to bres kao seal of a letter ad- ressed to witness; and thereupon the gentleman @ number of members of the Commission Were med | fom Massachusetts hea ‘oh ay hia eononien from a witness in contempt. message making the nomination he has set f , 4 forward his reason therefor. If, however, Mr. ELDRipge said it related to what the gentle- I elect . th a ‘ou should deem it advisable to leave Costa Rica be- paoPle, may elect & President, thirty-eight of the the Managers’ Prisoner. two members from those States controlling the of bad character, one of whom had been a cl fore your successor shall arrive, the accompanying | and w; . - | and modified it so as to require that all communtca- | Man from Massachusetts had said yesterday. votes of their States. In an election of this charact sealed letter to the President of that republic an- | Quet and whee totah ee oor tmmOrAl con: | er me the Witness howd, be open communica, | _ Mt. BUTLER persisted in is objection and moved | the new States just admitted, with less population nouncing your recall will enableyou to do so with | gag” pod, "NG, though he had never practised law, | tone the previous question on the resolution, and the pre- | than the county in which he resided, would exercise a t | Bropricty. In that event you will commit the | that election. ‘The registers were nearly ali men in, | Mr. Woop sald he did not so understand the | Vious question was seconded—yeas 52, Bare Oh as much power and influence as New York Another Proposed Amendment | archives or tne texation to the custody ‘of some re- | tuatelection. | The re belng candidates for omge. | Proposition. ine. Nepativer-ostovaey ue Tesotuton on te | or Ohio. hey cannot lose their "votes. by spectable citizen of the United States. Yours, &c. | He then entered into 'an elaborate ox f e SPEAKER remarked—Then that gentleman | table. Negatived—26 to 70, an equal division of their representatives as Subsequently Mr. BLAINE moved and Mr. BUTLER seceptod the following as a substitute for the resola- lon: — WM. H. SEWARD. The letter of Mr. Seward is addressed, under the the larger States may. When six new States are organized and admitted into the Union eleven States will give one hundred and seventy-two elec- amination 0! the question of the adoption of the constitution, claiming that in Pulaski and Jefferson counties suitl- cient frauds had been to the Constitution. had not hoard 1 the proposition of the gentleman from Mr. Woop inquired what the Speaker would do if same date, to the Baron Gerolt, the Russian Minis- 7 J ” tions. He said inistratic ce | the communications came sealed Resolved, That the resolutions relating to Charles W. | toral votes, while the remaining thirty-two will i Sir—It is my painful duty to bring to your atten- | not to be obtained out of this constitution, and that | livered Tess, House, 1 comes thirty-five men in the House of Representa- The President to be Ineligible |, s— Tasty Consens mes Wn tected ehlatirnere ty | toe a eee was that men ‘who take | Mr. BUTLER remarked that if gentlemen would | freeudcessto ihe witneans ” SY Ant Physiclan bave | tives “when composed of two hundred and forty-nine members, can elect a President, should tne election devolve upon the House of Representatives, It would thug be for the interest of political adven- turers to combine and force the election into the House of Representatives, The amendment which he pro- pan prevented the possibility of such a contingency. ‘nder this amendment the people will, of necessity, elect a President at the second election. Experience taught that small bodies of men may be corrupted, but the great body of the people never. The people, if clothed with the power, would never rmit a Fresidential Slection fa aqrolye mm the House of Representatives, Ae ii; prerogative of electing a Preaident he would secure directly to the people. The election of a President by a small mi- nority of the House of Representatives might cause revolution. Minorities cannot long administer a vernment, ‘such as ours is in this country, by believed to be no question, that Baron Henry von Kusserow, the secretary, and Count Loteum, an at- taché of your legation, have been guilty, the former as principal and the latter as second, of violati the act of Con; approved [February 20, 1839, entitled “An act to prohibit the giving or accepting, within the District of Columbia, of a challenge to fight a duel, and for punishment thereof.” Although these ‘ntlemen are protected by the laws of nations from judicial prosecution for a violation of the statute aforesaid, the President nevertheless directs me to re- quest that you, without delay, call the attention of your government to the matter, in order than Baron von Kusserow and Count Lothum may, in a proper manner, be made sensible of its displeasure. I avail myself of this occasion to renew the assu- rance of my highest consideration. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Stir About the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury. Considerable of a stir has been’ occasioned some low principle of action for a temporary'pur- pose always fail in their expectations, and Senators who attempted to use the subject of reconstruction for such purposes would find they were committ! A poule a He congnnen with the remar! § e would vote against the admissi shape under the present co on. in any put H ‘a ria professional and personal honor they ir. HARLAN made a statem ‘Would not do 80. character of Mr. Bowen, Judge elect manent Mr. BLAINE said he referred only to such letters the member of the Constitutional Convention re- | 204 despatches as counsel might deem necessary for ferred to by Mr. Buckalew, saying that he had known | the defence of their client. him since he was a boy, and that he had been ad- Mr. BUTLER said it was very clear that almost mitted to. the bar in the town in which both had | everything could be done by fraud and in detection lived, and that Bowen had been a democratic leader | they could only protect themselves as they could in in the Legislature of Iowa. the usual and ordinary course. ‘The gentleman from Mr. THAYER, (rep.) of Nebraska, said that to his | New York (Mr. Wood) had told the House that there knowledge Bowen, having been summariy dismissed | Were Many things which the House could not do. from the United States service without a bearing or | He 1d with him entirely on that. The House @ trial or investigation by the department com- | had tried, in the gentleman’s own case, to bring him mander, was restored by the War Department after | '0 @ Sense of his duty by censure, but it had failed. a review of his case and brevetted brigadier general | He called attention to the fact that the recusant wit- for meritgrjous service, ness was taking up the time of the country more listen, instead of insisting on tall ing, he thought they would understand something. In reply to the suggestion of Mr. Blaine that it would not be possl- ble to prevent counsel smuggling Jetters or tele- gem 80 the witness, Mr. Butler supposed that on eir being reminded of the order of the House and Mr. Hiasy, (rep.) of Cal., inquired whether that meant in the presence of the Sergeant-at-Arma ? Mr. BLAINE said it did not. It meant free access, in the broadest sense, ‘The resolution being acceptable to the members on both sides, it was adopted without a division. VINNIE REAM AND THE STATUE OF LINCOLN. Mr. MARSHALL, (a) of Ill, offered, as a question of privilege, a resolution reciting that room A, in the Capitol, had been in the occupation of Miss Vinnie Ream as a studio, where she was modelling a statue of Lincoln, under orders of Congress; that the statue was in such a Sopdition that it could not be removed without destruction, and hoping iter addressed by Miss Ream to the Sergeant-at-Arms, When the CLERK had progressed thus far in the rea of the reetaton Mr. Higby objected to the Pee SGT gio aioe sesnininacdcadiiaestanediad ‘aud and intrigue, without violence and blood- Mr. MARSHALL asked to have the resolution printed | Sued. The present system of elections invites cor- in the Glode. . ruption and fraud. ‘The domination of the slave Messrs. BUTLER and CULLoM objected. ie for so many years was a case in point. The for a Second Term. Abolition of the Office of Vice President and the Electoral College. WASHINGTON, May 30, 1868. ‘The Dungeon Being Prepared for Mr. Wooley’s Accommodation. The workmen about the Capitol have been busily engaged al! day in cleaning out the rooms set apart by the resolution of Mr. Bingham as a guardroom | and office for the use of the Capito! police, but more particularly for the accommodation of Mr. Wooley. = = Mr. PoMBROY also, testified * than all that he was worth. . ‘istory of all republics teaches that lib i One of the rooms has for some years | among those who feel that they have not been | aitacterot Howey ss come (0 the ability and | ee Tokar dene) ore y.—That is true. Tae Te EE AT RRO MLATION SIE. oe | iC tha people perinis the smtaniishwnens at Mee epee, been used as a storing place for sur- | sufficiently rewarded for the political services | Mr. DooLITTLE, (f6p.) of Wis., would oppose tho | Mr. BITVEN that js true. an from Massachusetts | #@ of the Whole on the state’ of the Union, Mr, | tle for popular elections of the Executive and. ay plus public documents, and reminds one } they have rendered the country by the fact that on under this constitution onseveral grounds; | , Mr. Woow It is the gent Of the country nan unjust | Blaine in the chair, and resumed the consideration posing power.” Mr ANuay ware (BP fe him little rst, because of the test oath requring a recognition of the Yara equality of any man, without distinc- tion of race or color. A mee of the electors of of New Jersey, Ohio or ichigan could not take that oath conscientiously. ‘They and citi- of the Indian appropriation bill, Considerable debate arose on the last section of the bill, authorizing the issue of five per cent bonds to the amount of $1,832,560 for the Choctaw Indians, the term of offiee of Colonel Edmund Cooper, As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, expires to-day. His nomination, which was sent in last November, —— under our constitution mad: else than a king for the time being. The appoint- ment of forty thousand office holders, with salaries amounting to millions of dollars, depended direct or indirectly upon the word of the President. e forcibly of a dungeon. The other has been used for gwome time as the studio of Miss Vinhie Ream, the ‘seulptress, It is now proposed that the room occu- persecution. Mr. Bur_ER—I did not hear what he said. Mr. Woop—I say it is the gentleman from Massa- chusetts who is taking up the time of the country in led by Miss Ream shall be fitted up for Mr. Wogley. | WaS not confirmed, and he has been holding over an unjust, improper and unconstutional persecution Mr. WASHBURN, (rep.! of I, denounced it as a a ty ta 4 pia is capacigus jn gimepelons bg aa for six months in accordance with the Jaw. Colonel teen eed eons wie nrg Deppoathinn ra lor eaivian, a P a measure of aap by C Be Indian, Hes a) collusion mee fom ar is i get Hpesicent ceilings of brick. The Walls, a8 Well d& e ceilings, | Cooper will lave for Terines#ee to take part in the | people had voted it down. | Could they then none ase betel Aas yc na departments of the government—and with which | Tenure of Once law. | For the aike of place and are much soiled, evidently by the dampneéés | political campaign. It is understand that the Presi- | Cuugrate to erry Kee Ce | gentlemen, more or less, who appear for him, “Now, | "ug Perry Fuller was connetted, = devlera darn anendanedeoeon inn ees which generates in the heavy masses of masonry | dent has not yet fixed upon a successor to Mr. cally op- | J have only to ask the House to protect itself. Tam | 71° seminltlen tne cose ann " ecu. ‘endments of | beople. Let any one read the political history of the ; hesth i ey pe of ae rcols a0 of those in complicity with him to get at e ony; if they could get it before the House ti hone okie be gre Feloletn , 48 other people would square their estimdon’ ith his. The committee did fot ask the Speaker not to let Wooley hays tele or lecteras ut J cajl the attention of the Houge to t fet it ‘ery first fise he made of the cour in- it the House. The uge may sometime or other, the people are insensible as tO permit it, be in the jiands of the gentlemen on the other side, and will they (thejr fathers in the olden times did not) past forty years and hewill find that an Executive, not to a representative of the same political party, is more ent than the wi) of hig constituents. Prac- tically t e demand madé of the great body of the men nominated to important positions ny an Execu- tive ambitious for a re-election is, “Will you elie my policy?” Mr. Ashlie) space of the stupidity of the rotation system of electing representatives. In many districts known to have the system had been adhered to so rigidly that they never re-elected a representative to Congress, no matter how faithful or capable. Let the constituents who have so re- The other point to which Wj posed was the fundamencl aig - stitution shall never be changed. In this particular, he said, Massachusetts had as much power to define the qualification of suffrage for necticut as Con- gress for any State, and no State accepting such re- quirements would be self- werning or republican in form. He closed by ai that even if Congress can impose such conditiong bs alluded to in the case: of the Kriss ri compromise, she cannot compel a violation of the constitution of the United Stat Mr. TRUMBULL, (rep.) of Ill, rej lefly'to th argument of Mr tnd hed inreaska th He ae a Cooper. Carnet-Baggers Returning to Washington. The return of the Senate to the business of le- gitimate legislation has had the effect of bringing hither the usual army of office seekers. The ho- telsare beginning tofill up with fresh arrivals of men who may be found day and night either seek- ing for Senators and Representatives, or waiting at the White House for an opportunity to lay their the Committee of the Whole were agreed to and the pul Was passed, e "> ee" MR NEW TAX BILL. Mr. Sonenck, (rep.) of Ohio, then announced that the Indian Supr ope aon bill being out of the way, he proposed on Monday next, after the morning hour, to move that the House into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union on the Tax bill. He would occupy an hour tn explaining, tn a plain, conversational way, the peculiar features of the bill and the views of the committee, of which they are composed. There are two windows in this room, one looking out upon the area between the main building and the south or House wing of the Capitol, and the other commands a ne view of the furnaces. The floors of both rooms are of brick. Taken all in all, neither of the rooms is of ‘such a character as humanity would dictate for the ac- commodation of a fellow being. The gloom and dark- ‘Rese which pervade them and the uninviting prospect 9 exemptin; nt . | allow louse to be insulted ? Mr. Woop inquired whether it was designed to | peatedly suffered under this stupid system and which greets the vision from without is not encourag: sisima Defars me President. et ane ayaa wale ton soa Solan oe oreroperty from exéon- | 2 BRadKs—We will do exactly with Mr. Wooley, | proceed with the ‘Tax bill continuously uutil dis- n humiliated aud. disgraced ‘by incompetent ng, in view of the comfors or sanitary condition of | Class of carpet-haggers are visiting the President to- } nin) thet the former provision was ir feces | imprisoned, what the democratic party did with | posed of, representation apologize to the nation for sending the prisoner whom it is proposed to confine here, | day. that subsequent contracts will be made in accordance | Ma ‘Lyon, imprisoned under the Alien and Sedt- Mr. SCHENCK said he proposed to allow a day or | such men into her council halls by speedily changing two for general debate, and then to go on from day to day with the business, admitting amen dments and communications on them. PORTS OF DELIVERY. On motion of Mr. PiKg, (rep.) of Me., the Senate amendments to the House bill declaring St. George and Booth Bay, in the State of Maine, and San Anto- nio, Texas, Cela of delivery, and authorizing the establishment of bonded warehouses at Bucksport Naval Order. Rear Admiral Thomas Turner, of this city, has been ordered to the command of the South Pacific squadron, relieving Rear Admiral Dahlgren. asystem which is the nursery of paieee hone He would, at least, suggest to the constituenctes to select a capable man to repaenet. them, though he must “board around” in the several counties of his . district when at home. Thre men who secured office by the rotation system are, as a class, those who, for the past thirty or forty years, have betrayed their constituents at the bidding of the Executive. There ee, ws, and what it did with Andrew Jackson in re} nee to his being fined at New Orleans—repay him back all his expenditures, with compound inte- rest, for the sufferings inflicted upon him, Mr. LAWRENCE, (rep.) of Pa.—Whether he is guilty or not? Mr. BUTLER—Will the gentleman also pay back the $16,000 whicl? Wooley elther sent to Cincinnati ox ‘The parties having the improvements in charge say they will fit up the rooms in the highest style of art, ‘and say the rooms will then be as comfortable as any in the building. Proceedings of the Senate in Confirming the Nomination of General Schofield. witht the constitntion, and that at the ramne of the election the excess of the vote in certain counties over the registration is accounted for by the fact that the law of Congress allowing persons regis- tered anywhere in the State to vote in @ given county had been just received by them. Replying to Mr. Doolittie he said the test oath im by stitution was imposed by the people of Arkan- Oe which he placed in Sheridan Shook’s hands, or which are few Congressional districts in which a President. Fame Senate to-day removed the injunction of Sane the sonata not. ae aig Lot EHOW | Nespent in his own private business? And on the | and Vinalhaven, Me., was taken from the ‘Speak- | of character and good standing th Wis party tay st . Beerecy on the proceedings in executive session yes- Second Session. prohibited it. 1a~ a So ee man ‘witness's testimony will they ever find out what he | er’s table and concurred in. The bill now goes to yy the full use of his vast power and patronage de- terday in regard to the nomination of General Scho- _—_— mental condition, he thought it value < as per did with it, for he has sworn all three ways? the President for his signature. fat any Congressional aspirant of his party who TE. imperative, u ‘aveareal, ‘as fwelites TH one Mr. Boyer, (dem.) of Pa.—Will the gentleman THE NAVAL FORCE AT HAYTI. may be obnoxious to him. As the nation grows and ie SENA’ could change its constitution according to the pital allow me to make a suggestion? The SPEAKER presented a message from the Presi- | increases in wealth and papas the vast, ‘ Mr. Edmunds submitted the following:— WASHINGTON, May 30, 1868, of its people. That provision peing practically im- Mr. gis I cannot yield, and as it is | dent relative to a naval force at Hayti, Referred | uncontrolled and uncontrollable ower in- w the Committee on Foreign Affa! creases and becomes more dangero™s. As to The House then went into Committee of the Whole ‘laimed on the other side that I take up too much time P the remedy of impeachment, Mr. Ashley quoted the ‘Whereas, on the 23d day of April, 1868, the Presi- to admit Arkansas under the | ¢init I move the previous question. MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS. peeve he would vo! War, in place OF RaW Me ataaton Remecreae tier | - Mr. WiLgox, (rep.) of Mass., presented a memortal | Pill a8 pe Aa li Wwoopwanp— task the gentleman from Mas- | on he state of the Union, ME. Maynard In tho chalr. | language of JeMerson, tat the cause of ine consis A - jusets to let me offer my amendment POBED ae 01 peac! Thereus, n the opinion of the Senate, the said Btan- | from a number of mereantile firms of Boston remon Bae pepe Mr. BUTLER—I cannot permit that you may have PREMDENCY AND VICE PRESIDENCY. more than @ “scarecrow.” To-day we all know that ‘ton has not been legally removed from his office, but. Mr. Edmunds’ amendment was rejected without a strating against the passage of the proposed amend- Mr. ASHLEY, (rep.) of Ohio, introduced @ joint | it was a dead letter. The late melancholy failure or e for discussion. nanmuch as the said Stanton ‘hap relinquished hi editi'to tee BeuReAgtey aL adivision and that of Mr. Ferry by the following | iy tie for discnseon. sot want to disuss it. yetoluuion proposing an amendinent to the consti: | refusal of the High Court vo convict and depose an notice to the President, therefore Mr. PoMEROY, (rep.) of Kansas, presented a memo- # Mr. ELDRIDGE asked Mr. Butler to yield to him. tion of the Un! tea providing that a President | admitted crimi and usurper, who was without a ved, That the Senate advises and consents i if emsrepere cg Buckalew, Cattell, Conkling, Cor- Mr. BuTLER—How long does the gentleman want? } shall not be eligible for a re-election; that the office | party and powerless to y order of the tribu- tothea pintment of John M. Schofield to be Secr sin! largely signed) by; she, henkers of Mow. xcrkion Hadeo: Hondricke: Mt Croary, pasar ang eel loon Mr. ELpRID@z—Only a few minutes, of Vice President shall be ‘abolished, and for a | nal, practically lie sr ‘that question for all time tary of War. Pr eek ‘% | the same subject protesting against the provision | of Ten, ‘Trumbull, Var Winkie Vnwee, Wis eae | ME BUTLE NOW MOY. an, tworough revision of the mode of electiig the Fresl- | to éome, “All this lt done under the sanction of a f . Nams—20, ¥ z—Well, nm mira jent cial oat ant are After debate the question was taken on the adop- | fF the extension of time. iN Avre~Mesers, Cameron, Chandler, Cole, Cragin, Edmucids, | a, eee ee a ee ey en aan Upon introducing the measure, Mr. Asnuxy stated | {hey “must ‘not go behfad” that to’ duestion tion of the preamble, and it was adopted, 28 to 13, Mesers. MORGAN, (rep.) of N. Y., and MORRILL, | Harlan, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Me., Morrill of Vi, Pome! Mr. ELDRIDGE said that, to his mind, the proceed- | that he had been a member of Congress for ten years, | the judicial verdict. The vilest enormities ever in- Messrs, Fowler, Henderson, Ross, Trambull and Van |, (TeP-) of Me., presented Temonstrayces of the same yee wek Yi +) nD pga Stewart, Sumper, it Wooley were an unmitigated persecu- | during which time he had submitted several propo- | ficted on mankina had been committed under the # e import by the merchants and bankers of New York, =e ~ ge le had endeavored to argue yesterday, in the | sitions of this character, but, without ai ent, | solemnities of a judicial oath. To him the only pope Winkle voting with eight democrates in the which were referred to the Judiciary Cammittee. ” ‘The question recurred on Mr. Drake’s amendment, ten minutes allowed him, that the only question of | they had gone to the committees, under the rule, | of the nation was in the power which can make negative. Messrs. Fessenden and Grimes ab-| Mr. Con bell ae Ear {dmission pod | contempt with which he Was charged by the commit. } and there “slept the sleep that knows no waking.” | Presidents and Senators. his proposed amend- On this occasion, however, he would ask the indul- | ment should be adopted the necessity of securing the na of (West marines tax eiee nee tee was in not answering the question aa to the tele- went. Mr. Frelinghuysen offered to amend | Of the citiztns of tern New York ing for the | ment to the fundamental condition. Hi - fe relat le now, ence of the House while he submitted to his col- | elective franchise to every citizen, Without distinc- the resolution by adding, “in the place of | Ported tor Americas snllio’ whieh Woe eee ee iit; | _ Mr. HENDERSON, (rep.) of Mo., gave notice that he | Sram, !n, relation to the 90.00, He seserted now, es and countrymen some of the considerations | tion’ of race oF color, whether native or Hawin M. Stauton, who has relinquished ‘hat omce,” | Bommittee on Finance. would offer when in order an amendment forbidding | tee: tbat there was Hooter charge, and he asked the | which, lmpelied him to tenew be jropostion for an foreign born, would be conceded by all “which was not agreed to by a vote of 15 to22. Mr. J. ROSS BROWNE'S REPORT. diacriminesion. color, race, or d ‘0 | gentleman from Massachusetts to say if there was in | amendment of the constitution in this - | who desired (the unity and stability of our | Mr. ANTHONY, (rep.) of R. 1. from the Committee | ®2Y Clase the of participation in the ts fie report of the committee any other of con- | lar, He: thought the pro; to aboligh the ernment. This was the third or fourth time ‘Henderson offered a resolutiog that the Senate ad- | op Printing, reported a resolution to print J. Ross | °%, funds raised for educati urposes. tempt than that of refusing to answer with refer- | office of Vice ident would favorably eommend fe had presented a proposition substantially like vise and consent to the nomination of General Scho- | Browne's report on minerals west of the Rock. Shortly before five o'clock Mr. ence to the m. matt shee, the office eed upemiuous one, | the one fast Presented to the House. a, id 80 field'as Secretary for the Department of War, which | Mountains, withwmendments authorizing the print- | MO., Look the Noor with a prepared Mr. BUTLen—Yes, alr; there is the charge of send. | with few duties or responsibilities, wad being iin, | again because ie pelioved the questions of tizenship ro 7 : ‘of ten thousand copies instead of m thou- | declared to be short, but = to a motéon of | ing a certificate that he was sick in the morning and | portant mainly from its contingency in case of a va- | and suffrage ought to be met and setiled now. True ‘was rejected. Mr. Stewart offered the following Dee Mr. Fessenden to adjourn, whi h, however, to | then running away to New York at night, and there cance ace in the Presidency. He thought the | democracy pleads for the equal rights of all men be- Mr. Drake was proceeding to commence his | concealing evidence which would have been within | Senate could elect its presiding officer with as much | fore the iaw. It demands the baiiot for every man, resolution:—That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of General Schofield in place of Edwin M. Stanton, who has been forced to retire from the discharge of the duties of said office Dy reason of the illegal and unconstitutional acts of ‘the President of the United States, which was re- jected by 19 to 21, as follows:— Yeas—Messrs. Cameron, Cattell,*Cole, Conkling, @onness, Cragin, Drake, Morrill of Vé., Patterson of N. H., Pomeroy, Ramsey, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Messrs. COLE, (rep.) of Cal., and WILLIAMS. (ree. of Oregon, opposed the amendment, speakii ‘ighly of the value of the work. The latter remark that the work is worth more than ail the other works on the Pact ice ever published in this country. Both of the gent n urged the advisability of en- deavoring to satisfy the probable great demand. Mr. ANTHONY 81 ed that, if such. a great de- mand existed some Western publisher would doubt- leas find it profitable. They would be furnished to anybody under the law at the cost of paper and print- ing. . fin, HARLAN, (rep.) of Iowa, thought it good cause pass. address in the face of a manifest desire for an ad- journment, and at five minute past five o'clock he in yielded to a motion of his colleague (Mr. lenderson) to adjourn, which prevailed and the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, May 30, 1863, THE MANAGERS AND THEIR PRISONER, Immediately after the reading of the journal the Propriety as the House could ite Speaker. try haa upon several occasions been dist Vide Presid, it, road th ty Ta00, daring i emacs ice len’ ly in 1800, during the cont between Burr and Jefferson. Had there been no such office we would have been the perfidy of Tyler, the betrayal of Fillmore and the ess and infamy of Johnson. Part terest often blindly selects candidates for Vice }- dent unfit for the Up tegee their chief merit being the locality in which they lived ; but the country re- joiced with him that no such consideration ‘con- because the ballot is the poor man’s weapon of pro- tection and defence. It gives him dignity and power. It makes the government his agent instead of his master. Pass this amendment, and we shall cow- form to our new constitution. As a nation we shall then place in the hands of each citizen a new power for the nation’s preservation. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CHARGED WITH BEING RE- SPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE EVILS THAT CURSE THE LAND. Mr. MorGAN, (dem.) of Ohio, addressed the Com- mittee on general political matters. He declared our reach had he not run away. . Mr. ELpr+pGs—If that be the ground on which the ntleman bases his proceeding, then he is proceed- fig outside of the record, for this House has acted on no such proposition. It has originated in some- thing of which the House is not informed; some hostility of feeling, some anger, some passion, some resentment, some mortification which it feels in re- ference to something which has transpired, and for that reason the committee proposed to visit the ven- eance of the House on the witness Wooley. This Eouse has never determined the propriety or im- mn, Wade, Williams, Wilson and Yates. SPEAKER asked for the instructions of the House led act rese! icago Re} sf jean pai all th 6 . | to refuse to print any if the work Was 80 Valuable. as ropriety of questions to Wooley. It was for | trolled the action of the nt Chi ublican | that the’republi rty was responsible for all the jaY8—Messrs. Anthony, Buckalew, Corbett, Doo- Knybody that Geared it would be willing to pay a | to the construction tobe given to the order made rer House to. determine, in the first mgd Convention in placing Mr. Speaker Ositax kn nomi- | evils that curse the land; that half of the national en Frelinghuysen, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Morgan, Morton, Norton, Patterson of Tenn., Rosa, Sprague, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers and Willey. ; * The question was then taken on the original motion of Mr. Edmunds and it was agreed to. nation. Locality was against him, yet he received the nomination for his faithful public services, his fidelity to republican principles and for his per- sonal worth, and for this redson is he placed upon the ticket with the most extraordinary man of this or any age. The candidate for Vice President, a8 a rule, represents a faction of the party in opposition to the President, debt was the result of robbery and pecu that the aggregate debt of the countr, $6,500, - 000,000—nearly One-half of the estimated property of the country. Mr. LAWRENCE, (rep.) of Ohio, inquired how his colleague made that out. Mr. Morgan replied that the ascertained liquidat What questions Wooley should answer, and he refused to answer them: he would have been in contempt of the House. But Wooley came here and told the House that he was prep: at moment to answer any and al’ qnestions which the House decided he should answer, and he stands ready now, as 1 am informed, to answer proper questions which dealer for it. The amendment was agreed to on a division—22 to the distribution 7 Edmunds, Fowler, ven x] , yesterday in reference to the recusant witness (Wooley) as to allowing communications, in writing or personal, with the witness. The witness had sent him a message stat that he desired the attendance of three lawyers a8 his counsel, and the Speaker had accordingly ordered that they should have access to 6. Another amendment in re; by the Secretaty of State and the Secretary of the Treasury of ane thousand capies each was agreed to, and the resolution was adopted. ‘Nominations by the President. . THE WAREHOUSING SYSTEM—REGISTRY OF VESSELS, | lim. The witness had also desired, in addition | this House ‘of Representatives, com} as it is ed debt of the country was $2,500,000,000, and that ‘The following nominations were sent to the Senate Mr. MORKILL, of Me., introduced a bill to repeal | to the presence of his wife, that his child | largely of those opposed to him, shall decide that | and usually receives his nomination as a comp! the floating debt amounted #4,000,000,000. His to-day, but not acted upon:— section one of the ‘act to extend the warehousing | and nurse should have access to him, and | he oughttoanswer. Here isa committee confessedly | between an istic ideas. Such was the case with | colleague would not deny that. Ha Beckwith, to be Superintendent of the | System by establishing private bonded warenouses,” | the Speaker had so directed. The Speaker | raised for another and different yore than | Harrison and Tyler, lor and Fillmore and Lincoln Mr. LAWRENCE inguired whether the value of the Branch Mint ‘at San Francisco. 80 a8 to authorize the retary of the Treasury to | had also directed that the witness should have an | that of investigating the conduct of members of | and Johnson. In each of these instances the Vice | slaves emancipated in the Southern States entered to be Melter ‘and Refiner in the } #!low free merchandise of American production in- | Opportunity to converse with his counsel and his | the House or of the Senate, raised for a partisan | President, upon coming into the Presidential office, | into his colleague's estimate? C. G. Davis, tended for export to foreign countries to be | family without belng overheard by the oMcef in at- | purpose, raixed for the parpose of impeachment, | attempted to build up a party to secure his election Mr. MonGaN said it did not embrace the value of a Branch Mint at Denvers, Colorado, o ‘4 stored in bonded yards or sheds, designated | tendance. Yesterday a despatch had been gubmitted | nominated in a political caucus, and their | to tl ¢ Presidency, hesitating at no corrupt measures | single slave, but that the outstanding claims against istrict of Now York. haePrs opis hertbaad acy as class four by Tareiele 421, Treasury” heg- to the Speaker in a sealed envelope, duitected to | names resented to this House con- | to forward this purpose. “the weakest and most | the government constituting the floating debi John 0. Fortson, to be Assessor of Internal Reve. | Ulations of 1857, upon application for that purpose, | Charles W. Wooley, with a superscription unusual | firmed bylgthe House by a political majority, two | dangerous part of our executive system for | amounted to $4,000,000,000. To prove what he sald, nue for the Fifth district of California. made by the proprietors of such yards or sheds when | in its character and exterior, and, in the opinion of | of them from one State—an unprecedented commit- | the personal poet of the President is a | he had read from the’ Congressional Globe a state- Colby Knapp, to be Collector of Internal Revenue | ‘he same is recommended by the Collector of Cus- | the Chair, not only not respectful to the House, but | tee. This witness comes before that committee, com- | defect in the constitution itself, in the clause | ment made in the Thirty-ninth Congress by Mr. De- for the Eighth district of Illinois. toms where they are located. Also a bill to repeal | intended to be insulting to the House. The Speaker ed as it 18, created as it was, and complains that | securing the Presiden to the Vice Presi- | lano, of Ohio, Chairman of the Committee on Claims. J K. Plant, to be Justice of the Peace for | S¢ction five of the act of December 31, 1792, concern- | had hesitated as to whether the despateh should be | its members are inspired by hostile and angry feel- | dent the event of death or incapacity Mr. LAWRENCE inquired whether it would pay for ‘of ¥ as or removal of the President. Tewptation is property destroyed in the Southern States during the involved, and the life of one man stands between Wwar—the property of rebels as well as loyal men? Mr. Moran said he would give the same answer delivered, but on reflection, as the witness could not be respousibie for a despatch sent to him, the Speak- er had ordered it to be delivered. The Speaker now ings towards him, and that he is not fairly treated by them, He claims that the ED which they put to him are improper. 1 say that the House ing the registering or recording of ships or vessels. Both bills were referred to the Committee on Com- merce, the county of Washington, D. C. William L. Howard, of Alabama, to be Receiver of Public Moneys for the district of lands subject to sale at Mobile, Ala. Suspension of Basiness in the Various Depart- ments. Business in the several departments of the govern- ment was to-day generally suspended. The doors of the Treasury were closed at twelve o'clock, and business was only carried on in the loan branch of that department, whe re it is necessary that the work shall be carried on with but little interruption. In the War Department there was no business trans- ‘acted, and most of the clerks and other employés were absent during the entire day. General Town- send still continues in charge of the office, and has received no intimation as to when General Schofield ‘will arrive in this city. Decision of Judge Cartter on the Alleged Ille- gal Registration of Soldiers. Judge Cartter, of the Supreme Court of this Dis- trict, to-day rendered a decision inthe mandamus Case, a writ of which was applied for by one of the Registers of this District, petitioning to have stricken from the registration roll ali soldiers excepting those ‘who have resided here for a certain time and who have families with them. The Judge stated that he felt constrained to dismiss the petition for the issu- ance of the writ, because on the case made it did not appear that there wa® sufficient grounds for the court to interfere by writ. ‘here was no evidence of fraud or corruption on the part of the Board, He thinks that while the registration of the soldiers is illegal he is constrained under the rights of the case to dismiss the petition. ‘The Soldicrs Registered in Washington—Gene- ral Grant Requested to Restrain Them from Voting. The entire number of soldiers registered in this city is 279, ‘The parties who applied for the writ of Mandamus on the judges of election, to show cause why their names should not be stricken from the liste Of registered voters of this city, which applica- tion wae to-day refused by the court im General Term, have sent a copy of the decision to Generai Grant, with an application for the issuing of an order by him to restrain all soldiers in this city from leaving their barracks on Monday while the elec. tion i in progress, Mr. Seward’s Lerter on the Recent Duel Between General Lawrence and Count Kusecrow. Accompanying the nomination of Thaddeus P. Mott as Minister Resident to Costa Rica are two let ters of the Secretary of State, expianatory of the Feapona for tte recall of A. 4. Lawrence, The frst THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. The joint resolution to extend the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad was taken up, and on motion of Mr. RAMSEY, (rep.) of Minn., Was amended and passed. BXECUTIVE SESSION, At five minutes past one o'clock the Senate, on motion of Mr. ANTHONY, went into executiye ses- sion, the understanding being that it should be short. Before five minutes had elapsed the doors were again opened. THE ARKANSAS BILL. ‘The Arkansas bili was before the Senate. Mr. WILSON took the floor in favor of the'bill. He rectted the influences that have been in operation in opposition to reconstruction, in despite of which seven States have adopted the new loyal constitu- tion with an aggregate majority of one hundred thousand. Four days’ debate had now been had on this By the admission of this and the other six States a popular majority of one hundred thousand would be added to the friends of the recon- struction specification, as well as a largely increased majority in Congress. He recounted the proscrip- tion and outrages Va ogg upon the friends of reconstruction in the South. All of the constitu- tions were excellent in character, that of North Ca- rolina being the most republican of all the consti- tutions in the United States. He would never con- sent to the adjournment of Congresa until these States were admitted. The fourteenth amendment was already adopted by Arkansas, and the other six ‘States would do so immediately on admission. For that reason he desired imme- diate action on this constitution. If they did not get it this session two more Northern States would pro- bably rescind their action upon the amendment and it would be defeated. If the Judiciary Committee did not push forward these constitutions he was for doing it without their help. He hoj Congress would begin now, and never rest until the work is complete. The people in the South would not then require military forces to protect them, but could do it with their local organizations. He was opposed to ny amendment to the House bill, T. FRELINGHUYSEN, (rep.) of N. J., called atten- tion to the fact that the House bill requires of Ar- kansas that she shall never place any restrictions upon suffrage, thus forbidding her from ever estab- lishing an edncational qualification or changing her laws in regard to female suffrage. He could agree to no such theory, nor could he support Senator Drake's amendment. He argued that a State once having ratified the fourteenth amendment be! enters into a contract from which it cannot of itself recede, but in his O gen the fourteenth amendment is already adopted, if not, the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery was not adopted, since it had a majority of but three-fourths of the loyal States. He therefore believed the acts af Ohio and New Jersey withdrawing their assent were void. The pending question was on Mr, Edmunds’ mo- tion to recommit to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to report the bill so amended as to pro- vide for the immediate inauguration of the officers elect and their continued Hayne] by the military, and that the State shall not be admitted until she has adopted the fourteenth amendment. An immediate vote was urged, and the yeas and nays were called. Mr, WitLiams pointed out that the adoption of the wished to submit to the House the question of what counsel should be taken in reference to the letters and telegraph despatches to and from the witness. Mr. BUTLER, (rep.) of Mass., said he desired to sub- mit a motion to the House; but first he wished to Inake a statement in reference to the despatch refer- red to by the Speaker, That despatch, he said, had = enclosed by Mr. Wooley to him in a note as fol- lows: — As the enclosed despatch smacks of disloyalty to the late Managers, I do not, under the resolutions ay, feel that any one but yourself should be itecustodian. With much reapect, C. W. WOOLEY. ‘o Hon. B, F. BUTLER, poe rw YORK, May 29, 1968, To ©. W. WoLRy, citizen and sovereign in prisge ty order of tyrants and cowards in the capita: of America :-Stand firm. Every true man in the land with blood in his veins will stand by you, Itis the Inst feather that breaks the camel's back. GEORGE A. JONES, Metropolitan Hotel. This George A. Jones was a person whom the com- mittee had directed to be summoned for compficity with Wooley. eR remarked that he did not know until now the contents of the despatch, as it was ina sealed envelope. Mr. BuTLeR—I should not have known tt if it had not been sent to me by Mr. Wooley, with his note, evidently for the purpose ot insult. Whether the House will vindicate its dignity, or whether any member shall want to advocate his, is another question. tame SPEAKER asked Mr. Butler to state his propo- sition. Mr. BUTLER—I mean to yg Md that no telegrams or letters are to be sent to Witness after he has con- bn the House except after inspection by the jpeaker. The SPEAKER informed Mr. Butler that he did not deem that he had the right to open anything ina sealed envelope, even by order of the House, Mr. BUTLER—I suppose that the Speaker could do so by order of the House, neve SPEAKER repeated—Not even by order of the louse, Mr. BUTLER—If Mr. Wooley does not choose to re- ceive them in that way they need not be sent to him atall 1 think that the House should have some power to protect itself. If it has not, then our prea ence here is pretty much useless. ‘The SP &R—The Chair understands the gentie- man from Massachusetts now to make a motion that no communications except open ones be transmitted to the witness, Mr. BUTLER—That Is the point. Mr. Woop, (dém.) of N. Y.—With permission of the ntleman from Massachusetts I will remind htm of he fact that there are some things which the House of Reprepresentatives cannot do. It cannot violate the law, it cannot violate the constitution of the United States, Mr. BuTLER—I think T have the floor. Mr. Woop—I want to remind the gentleman from Massachusetts that there is a higher power than the House of Representatives. Mr. BUTLER insisted that he had the floor, and the SPEAKER stated that the gentleman from New York was not in order. Mr. BLAINE, (rep.) of Me., remarked that if counsel had access to witness the House should not bother about a thing which conld not be prevented, Mr. Woupwann, dem.) of Pa, asked My. Butler to, of the Hi reason ti Speaker? It seem been the custom that that was @ duty which de. volved properly on the Serge: thought it was infra dig. to have the Speaker of the House made a (as the (sat termed it) of a witness, even an order of — a duty which did not legitimately belong to him as §) might be devol whether on last Wed not, in addftion to his ans’ thouwh| ought to decide the question itself as between them- seives and the committee. If the House shall decide that the questions shali be answered, and the wit- ness shall then refuse to answer them, I would myself consent to the justice of its judgment, and the country would be satisfied; but if } nad persist in insisting that the witness shall be subject to the ab- solute will of the committee you will not be justified before the country. It is a Wrong unheard of in this country or any other country; not only is it unpar- hamentary, but in my judgment it 1s ‘an outrage on the personal liberty of the citizen which this people cannot long submit toand be . We have appealed to yon in every form to give this witness an opportu- nity of having one man, or two men, er three mea, on the committee who differ with you on the question of impeachment to see whether he is fairly dealt by. The gentieman from Massachussetts told us yester- day that the proceedings of the Judiciary mittee last summer were made public, that was the reason for keeping geutle- men on this side of the House off the committee. I state to the gentleman, as being a member of the Judiciary Cominittee, that there never was a com- mittee of this House so long in session and taking such a large amount of testimony in which so little of what occurred became pubiic, and the chairman, of the committee himself declared that to be the case, There were none but honorable gentlemen on that committee. This was, therefore, an unjust im- putation on the committee, and I hurl it back with scorn and indignation. There is not a man on that committee who will say that the minority did not act honorably, fairly and uprightly during the whole of that examination. That is no rea- son, however, why the committee should not be composed according to parliamentary sage, according to parliamentary law, according to the practice of the House and according to the practice of ajl parliamentary bodies; but it is not that which the gentlemen wish. They wish to pursue this wit- ness in # t; they wish to procure from him some- thing or other which they do not wish the minority e to understand, There can be no other that. Mr. BLAIne inquired of the Speaker whether here- tofore witnesses who have been in contempt of the House have been placed in the custody of the od to him whatever might have ant-at-Arms, aud he custodian and jatler ‘he SPEAKER intimated that he had other duties wifich occupied ali his time, and that the Sergeant- at-Arms was the officer who had always heretofore had that responsibility. Mr. BLAINE moved that the custody of the witness be devolved on the Sergeant-at-Arms, and that the Speaker be entirely relieved therefrom, Mr. MaYNakp, rep) of Tenn., inquired whether e House could impose upon the er? nol ont that in his opinion this charge on his office. tT. Brox, (dem.) of Ky., inquired of Mr. Butler Inesday morning the witness had iT in iting, stated that + that apawer waa all the Hoven ought to The SPRAK cessor for the remainder of the term. dent should be elected, ceived a majority of ali the votes cast, then in Octo- ber the five candidates receiving the highest votes in April may be voted for, and the one receiving the highest vote in October shall be deciarea elected. He then proceeded to consider the very objectionable system of caucus and convention nominations, tracing it from its origin in ward and precinct meetings to the national convention, and showing its utter worthlessness as indicating the wishes of the people holding to any political party. The dele- gates to the national conventions often vote for and nominate men of whom the: nothing, Johnson at Baltimore. In won he quoted from Benton's “ an creating conventions, beginnin; ward or township caucuses, and’ county, district and State conventions to the national convention, which selects candidates for President and Vice President, He described the various species of oaeek and deception which enter into the mant- pulations o| hations of Lincoln in 1866 marked exceptions to the rule. were men of full accord with the wishes of the people and were accomplished tn and the man); cliques could have defeated the nomination of Abraham Lincoln, #0 none could be made this year of sufficient magni- tude to defeat either the nomination or election of trusted = with the success of be a ambition and the hatred of conspiracy. He then proceeded to show that whether Vice President Johnson had or had not com- licity in the crime of the assassination of Abraham Binccin, the indications are palpable that the rebels, defeated on the field of pop to regain their lost power and rule by the inaton of the Pre- sident and the constituttonal substitation of the Vice dient. According to his proposed amendment to the constitution the occupant of the Pre- sidential office ts forever as effectually guarded against all Bie ny conspiracies which thrive A assassination; for in addition to the presiding oMicers of the two houses of Cor each of the eight members of the Cabinet and the entire Senate stand ready, by seniority, to assume temporarily the office of President until Congress could elect a suc- The adoption of his proposed amendment would, by the abolition of the Electoral College, do away with the mL0- cratic plan of electing @ President by red. tion, and would ultimately do away with nominating conventions, thus Cee | voters from the di t= ism Of party cliques and party caucuses, ‘or yeara he had been Le saya to convention nominations, and he be) lieved that nomi- nations should be made directly by the people, under the forms and protection of law. Hence he bap sa his proposition for two national elections, the first occurring in April in the year in which a and if no candidate re- irty Year's View,” roceeded to describe the modus opera a with the calla for running up through conventions; but he regarded the nomi- &nd of Grant in 1868 as In such cases both lestiny, and their nominations were in ite of chicanery, of demagogues lations rty cliques, As no party found i Taos formidable enough to ral Grant. ie may be safely en- the whole Prmatter of nominatin and electieg ail elective oMcers, and all they aske cou be! cont y Tndefenatbie plan "or el a President bad been Maintained in the interest of slavery, the fon in ‘New York jn 1664, pnd in Maryland in 1824, being in- the — system of rs Presi- 'y know comparatively a8, for instance, the nomination of Andrew er of his proposi- nai of to that whith was given be the republican Chairman of the Committee on Claims in the Thirty-ninth Cou- gress, Mr. Lawrence asked whether the democratic party, if it were in power, would consider the claims of slaveholders for emancipated slaves just and valid claims upon the government ¢ Mr. MorGAN—Undoubtedly not. The policy of the democratic party is at once just, wise and patriotic, and cn ji have nothing.to do with the dead carcass of slavery. It is gone, and we have no desire to see it inspired with life again. The democratic party will cut down the expenditures of the army, abolish your rg regiments, reduce by one-half the expenses the navy, drive from power the thieves and plunderers who are now drinking the — blood of the nation and put honest men in their places. ir. Driges, Usp ached Mich., remarked that if the ntleman could convince him that lis party would 0 all that he would promise to support It. Mr. MORGAN sald that he expected to convert the ntleman to the democratic party if he would give him his attention. The republican party, he de- clared, was about to be driven from power by a plun- dered and outra le, AS to investigat- ing the frauds ‘fa Pbberies committed on the peopl that was impossible so long as that party remained in power, Every far- Mer, merchant and mechanic in the land understood that the existing abuses in the govern- ment could only be corrected by driving the repub- lican party from power. He contrasted the taxation in England and the United States, and showed that whereas in England the aggregate taxes averaged only 90 cents on the $100 of property, they $3 03 in the United States. [n other words, the taxes in the United States were more than four times fa great in proportion to the weaith of the nation as in Great Britain, He referred to the fact that one Congreasional district in New York paid twice as much internal revenue as was paid in the eleven Southern States, and why? Because Congress, in- stead of La tryed for the benefit of industry and commerce, had but one idea in ite brains—that of keeping the republican party in power. Me. jorgan’s hour having expiged, his time was extended, on motion of Mr. HLEY, of Ohio, Mr. MORGAN id he glad to see some return. ing signs of reason in his colleague, because the! was no man ta the country on whom so stern a re- sponsibility rested, The committee rose at half-past five o'clock and the House adjourned, CAPTURE OF A FUGITIVE MURDERER. Fritz Hustedt, who murdered Christian Dreyer im the liquor store at the intersection of North Fourth and Third streets, Brooklyn, B. D., on Sunday night last, who esca} at the time, was yesterday cap- tured tn bey re at Sufferns, Rockland county, by OMcers Thomas Langan and Edmund Brown, of the rty-fifth precinct. The officers have been on the mur- derer's track sMee the night of the murder, but he eluded them in various wi nt uor day, he was fairly run Lyd ry ~ rea to be completely exhausted, He ia now in the fourth street station house. in ona. tody of Cavtain Wastam.