The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1868, Page 8

ASHIMGTON CLOSING SCENES IN CONGRESS, K eroneennnenennenas Adjournme nt of Both Houses Until the Th.ird Monday of September. et Campletion of the Fund- ing Bill. Mr. Butler’s Reply to Senator Henderson. Alexander Com.mings Rejected as Commis- sioner ot Internal Reveaue. WASHINGTON, July 27, 1565. The Lest ‘Houre of Congres-Scenes in the Senwre—Amxiery of OMice Seekers. After eight months of legislation Congress finally suepended it labers at noon to-day until next Sep- ter . ‘here never, perhaps, was a tamer, duller ‘and lessspfrived winding up, #0 far, at least, as the House ®as goncerned. The galleries of the House were only about half full, and the seats of members were 1n meeh the same condition; but about the Senare there a greater throng and more interest. Barly in the day there was an effort made to extend the {ime Of >reaking up until later in the afternoon, b et with so little favor that it was soon aban- doped as hopeless. Only a very few wild Johnson tearing whi hating persons, like Sumner, believed ‘n sweating here any longer in the hope that the Presidev' might do something really impeachable, and hence when the hour of noon arrived both bo nses™vere rapped into recess by the Wadean and Coliaxien gavels. fe ‘Theenate, after @ protracted secret session until two eb lock this morning, resumed the consideration of utive business again at half-past nine o'clock to-lay. ‘The great interest felt in the proceedings of the closing session of the Senate was evident from the large crowd of lobbyists and office seekers tirenging the corridors, The anxiety felt by many who w Waiting the action of the poiitical execu- tioners witlin was visible on many countenances, and each rumor of conilrmations or rejections gave rise to considerable agitation, The case of Cum- mings, for Commissioner of Internal Revenue, came ups e hour of adjourument approached. There were various speculations as to the result, and the most inte: feeling was exhibited. A score of rumors of new combinations, selling eut and the like, were freely circulated; every Senator venturing into the crowd was immediately surrounded and cross-examined. A few minutes before twelve hay- ing arrived, and still no confirmation, there was some talk of a call for an extra session of the Senate for cutive business solely. As the hour hand of the old Independence clock standing in the corridor touched the hour of meridian the Senate doors were thrown opeu and the body was announced in recess, The crowd in the lobbies now rushed into amber in @ perfect mass. In a few moments i) was crowded; Senators were busily engaged ring their desks, and the friends of those seek- ‘ng confirmation could be seen popping from one Seuator to another asking the resuit of their action, but received little satisfaction. It was, however, discovered that the case of Cummings was up when the gavel fell, a motion to lay the nomination on the table having been lost by a vote of nine yeas to vwenty-one nays. The unfinished condition of Cum- mings’ case produced many biue faces. Closing Scenes in the House. When the House was called to order this morning, at nine o’clock, there were not over thirty members dn the hall, and it was thought that there was nota quorum in the city. Very soon a call of the House was Ordered, and @ quorum answered to their names. The noise and confusion were 80 great that the Speaxer was kept busy hammering with his gavel upon the desk, occasionally reminding mem- bers that he would be compelled to call them by name. It became known that General, Butler had prepared a reply to Senator Henderson’s speech of Jast night, and that he would try to deliver it in the House to-day. General Banks, who has not forgot- ten Butler'e opposition to the Alaska bill, was determined to pay the latter back, and, if Ppossibie, prevent him from getting in his speech to- day. Mr. Schenck reported a bill from the Ways and Mcaus Committee, imposing a small tariff on copper, Those opposed to the measure, with Banks for a leader, commenced to filibuster, and were entirely successful in preventing a vote, Mr. Schenck then submitted the conference report on the Funding bill, and succeeded in getting it agreed to. While it was pending the mmority under Banks raised all sorts of questions and resorted to every parliamentary expe- dient to kill time. Two or three appeals were taken from the decisions of the Speaker, but each time he Was sustained by a majority of the House. Colfax has not been so puzzled on points of order and par+ lianentary ruling sigce the present session began as he was to-day by Banks, The latter was constantly on the floor, aud, though he had only enough followers to | dewand the yeas and nays, he kept the majority in constant check, and of course kept Butler from geiiing the door to deliver his speech. Butler is very ‘\ much disappointed, and is in a fearfai rage at Banks, He says the latter has not heard the last of this day’s 1 vork, and intimates that he will have to answer for 4 at home, At five minutes to twelve o'clock the ft ‘ends of the Copper Tariff bill succeeded in getting th © yeas and nays upon its passage. As Mr. Barbour, tm * reading clerk, reached the name of Jam Ha ughpy, “a carpet bagger,” from Alabama, the Spe Ws gavel fll, and the House was adjourned, The members received the anuouncement with clap plang of hands, and, gathering their papers and hats i} arush for the doors, as if glad that the fess On 1. tent in the Capitol. ‘The | President and wembers of the Cabinet came to the Capiioi this morning and tn the President's roow ransacted business in connection with Con- gressic nal mat and now{nations to ofiee. All the bUL + Whick passed boih Mouses and were present- ed to th @ President received wis signature, with the excopuc wof te F bill, Itia held, however, that bec @Nn sign it any time daring to-day, Ne Exo cutive Session of the Senate wo Be Cntled. Secretar\ ¥ Seward informed a Senator tha: there would be & 6 called executive aesaion, Ne, tinations Sent to the Sennte. folle Wing nozolnations were sent tw the Senate thie 1 o0rnin Willian Al‘ken, to be Collector of Customs for Charicston, A.C. Charies B, Haywood, Collector of Interaal Reve- nue for the Third «is of Missourh George ol. Parker, of Lowa, to be Migister Resident to Ectador. Nominations Confirried by the Senate, The Jollowiyg nommatious were comfirmed this morning = Willian T. 1. De to be ete. Minister to Mexico, Attorney General. Charles & © be Treasorer at tee Bran Mint, San Rrancaey, Cal, Enos D. eioge, 10 be Associate Justice of t Supreme ¢ tof Clab* Churies J h ey wood, Collector Internal Revenv Third disirict, 4 Mssourl i Lewis Wolfley, Asseevor internal Revenue, First district, Loulsiam- a dames T. Shelley, Indian Agent, New Mexico. Charles M. Alexa Oder, Postmaster, Waslington, Fletcher P. Cuppy, h’egister of Deeds, Washington, The following pomina ‘ions, in addition to those published in the Hera: this morning, were con- firmed by the Senate last nig tt— Alexander N, bom y be Receiver of Pubil Moneys for the dir Ala. ict of Mom, somery, Perey B. Spear to be Cylievtor ! idiernal Revenue for the Seventh disirict of Peansy: Vania Curles @& Wilsou, of Liiinow, to of (he Supreme Cour! of Utah. Stephen Coburn to be Dey P hegan pe Chief Justice of Skow tma st ah ® Bpakiing, of Obie, to be Cousul as ey) W. W. Wilcox to be Deputy Por’.master at Mat- toon, Il, Nominations Rejected by the Senate. The following nominations were rejected by the Senate this morning:— , Solomon P, McCurdy f9"; Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of tied Simon M. Johnson, assistant Secretary of the James 'F. Roberts,/of Indiana, to be Secretary of ‘Wyoming. Pp od S moncr., Asesesor nd Internal Revenue nth distric’, of New York. eS Stanton, ‘Assessor Seventh district of New ork, a = Zona, for Collector of Internal Revenue ird distric¥ of Louisiana. so UhNeS.E, Sewell for Assessor of Internal Revenue r the Third district of Louisiana. William ‘3. Storm, of New York, for United States Consul at Leed Art ed Business of Congress. ‘The following are bills on the Speaker's table that ‘were not reached, and that therefore go over till the W.ctiing in September:— ‘Relating to the ocean mail steamship service be- tween the United States and China. In relation to bridges across the Ohio river. In relation to the library of the Department of ba cgetttcee n relation to coast defence. To amend the charter of the National Capitol In- surance Company, For the relief of Mrs. Emma Wilson, of the State of Indiana. Respecting the provisional governments of Vir- ginia and Texas, To authorize the Secretary of State to adjust the clatm of Gustavus; G. Cushman for office rent while a commissioner uader the Reciprocity treaty. Granting the right of way over public lands to the Denver Pacific Railroad Company. ‘To reguiate the carriage of passengers in steam- ships and other vessels, aoe refer the claims of Joseph Sager to the Court of ms. For the relief of D, M. Macdonald, late Acting Con- sul at Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. Authorizing the Secretary of the ‘treasury to issue an American register to the bark Aug. Guardieu, Extending the Agricultural College bill to States lately in rebeliton, Relative to the recent contract for stationery for the Interior Department, To regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the Northern, northeastern and northwestern frontiers of the United Stat For the relief of William A. Grimn. ‘The Funding Bill Not Signed. The President at ten o’clock to-night had not signed the Funding bill. It is now claimed that he has ten days in which to do soshould he think proper, Hegira of Congressmen. ‘The larger number of the members of Congress left for their homes this afternoon and evening. The Report of the Ways and Means Come mittee on the Question of Trade With the British Provinces. The Committee of Ways and Means had agreed upon a report on the question of trade with the Brit- ish Provinces, which it was intended to have pre- sented to the House to-day but for the consumption of time in filibustering movements upon the copper tariff resolution. ‘The report of the committee states that the question of trade with the Provinces in- cludes also the navigation of the St. Lawrence and the adjustment of the fisheries; that the lat- ter two matters are questions over which the British government and not the provinces exercisea control, and that, therefore, the proper course to pursue is to open negotiations with that government and ascertain what concession Great Britain is willing to offer for a liberalization of trade between Canada and the United States, and which will cover all matters of commerce, navigation and the fisheries. Mr. Seward informed the committee that he would consider this report as ample authority to open ne- gotiations. The report will be supmitted immedi- ately upon the reassembling of Congress. It is stated that it is probable that Mr. Seward may consider the conclusions of the committee as suficient, and will not wait for the formal presentation of their report. Interest on Government Bonds—A List of Creditors Prepared at the Treasury Dee partment. A list has been prepared at the Treasury Depart- ment of parties to whom the government is indebted for interest due on bonds, which will be published in afew days. The list was prepared at the office of General Spinner, United States Treasurer, and em- braces about fifteen hundred names, registered prin- cipally at New York and Philadelphia; and the amounts of indebtedness vary from less than one dollar to nearly five thousand. Many of these creditors of the government are citizens of Europe. Outside parties having by some means become possessed of a knowledge of the amounts owed by the government on its bonds, and having used it to the detriment of parties entitled to pay by charging from twenty to fifty percent for collection, the Secretary of the Treasury has deemed it a matter of right and justice that the persons to whom such amounts are due should be gratuitously informed of the fact, so that they can make their own direct collections. The Alleged Frauds in the Pay Department. ‘The following is the conclusion of the report of the select committee appointed by the House to investi- gate the subject of the alleged frauds in the Pay De- partment:— Your committee have made such investigations as the limited time at their command would allow, and have found that in the payment of bounties to colored troops irregularities exist, and discrepan- cies between the records of the Adjutant General's office and the final settlement of the accounts at the Second Auditor's ofice are found in many cases, Such irregularity has been explained, but your com- mittee recommend that more caution be used ia making the report of the status of such colored troops, in order that duplicate payments be pre- vented in some cases, and the payiment of erroneous amounts in others. While these irregularities are found your committee have found no evidence of fraud against any individual in either department named or yee any agent doing business with the same. As the attention of your committee has been called to certain newspaper articies commentin ‘upon the Lo ape gag and reflecting upon the of- ficial integrity of Mr. E.B. French, Second Auditor, and Mr. C. H. Blackman, @ clerk in the same office, they deem it their duty t add that no evidence has been submitted to them nor have they discovered anything in the course of the investigation to cast any suspicion upon (he lutegrity or capacity of those gentiemen. Mr. Coifex Ol to the Rocky Mowatains, Speaker Colas ef Washington by the two o'clock afternoon train to-day ou his trip to the Rocky Mountains, accompanied by a pleasant family party, of which a niece of Senator Wade and Mr. William D. Todd are members. Carpet-Baggers Sworn In, Three more Representatives from the South were worn in to-day—Messrs, Tifft and Young, from Geor- gia, and Corley, from South Carolina. This com- pletes the delegations from these two States in the House, Those sworn in to-day were engaged in the rebellion, and, besides having their disabilities re- moved, were compelled to take the modified oath, Young and Tim are natives of Georgia and Coriey is « native of Bouth Carolina. JHE FORTIETH CONGRESS, Second Session. SENATE. WASHINGTON, July 27, 1868, The Senate met at balf-past nine o'clock, and after holding wo executive session for about five ininutes resumed legisiative business, GOVERNMENT OF TERRITORIES. Mr. Ramsey, rep.) of Minm, called up the House biL for the more economical administration of the government in the several Territories of the United S.ates, and for other pur es, providing for vien- nial sessions of Te rriterial ee hos Mr. DRAKR, irep.) of Mo, called ition to the fact that the bil would prevent the Governors of Territories from calling D none agg a T, WILLIAMS, (rep,) of O1 mn, repli jat the; Mr. BeckaLew, (dem.) of Pas, While he did not kvow the private objects of ttus bili, Was of opition thal it was one of Uiat claas whieh always come up myeteriousiy wt Lhe end of the session, Mi SITERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, took the game view. He rem)aced the senate Liat @ change of administra. tion Wii probably take piace im Mie fall that will naior Was gitogether too at tories is the action of jimieulty th the Terri- tures im committing the people to con rac ranting charteTs, &¢., 80 that it is imposaibie for the succeeding State? legisla tutes to legis the ‘uterests of tue peuple. Mr. Sart J out that tie result wit, be to tak rot at et ior two years io de- the tabie, wh wed to lay the bifs oo NEW DiAS TREATY, Mr. RaMeRY liered a tee A directing the Committee on f ons to Inquire tate the axel ny oF nia A treaty Detween Canada and M NY M s {that Canada Wy AO! o soveremit ower, aud tial tue Fesvitttion be NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY .28, 1863, ————————————_— mosited by tmeerting Great Britain inst.ad of Ca- na Mr. Ramsey accepted the amendy,ent and the resolution was adopted. GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA, MISSI8S’,pPr AND TEXAS. Mr. WILSON, (rep.) of Mass., ceed ‘up the House bill to provide for a more efficient government for the States of Misslasipyt Texas ‘and inia. Mr. Davis, (dem.) 0! Ky., 89'id that this was too tmportant a bill to be passed ‘in the ‘ing hours of ‘the session without examin‘stion, moved to lay it on the table, The motion was reject/.a & vote of 30 to 35— Messrs, Cameron, BUC alow? Davis, Doolittle, Mc- Creery, Patterson of Te nn. and White voting aye. Mr, BUCKALEW calle d attention to the extraordi- Mary provisions Of ‘ne second section—that ordt- | Mances passed her/after by conventions in those States shall be entv ,rced by the provisional authort- ties until Ly Ae of be known, estab- lishing, he ) fan entirely new precedent. The re- sult aimed at ‘was that constitutional conventions should regulate, and control State elections as well as the Preside’ tial elections in the said States. Mr. WiLSoY. said the bill prohibited the States from voting for Pr esident. Mr, BUCK aLew was continuing, when he yielded to Mr. Doowirrie, (dem.) of Wis., who presented & report frora the committee of conference on the bill, making &n appropriation for the purchase of Alaska, which was concurred in, Mr. B.ccKALEW resumed his ment, referring pais vo the power conferred on the Conventions. He asked which, in case of conflict between them and the military commanders, was to be obeyed by the subject people? The only gemblance of a fair election in Arkansas had been the result of the in- terference of the military authorities, who overruled @ passionate and ill-advised ordi the Con- veation prohibiting a large number of the people from voting on the new constitution, Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) of N. ¥., asked Mr. Buckalew to yield to a motion for an executive session, saying ‘that it was evidently impossible to pass this biil now, but at this point— PERSONAL EXPLANATION BY MR. FOWLER. Mr. FOWLER, (rep.) of Tenn,, rose to @ personal explanation, ‘He would not now occupy their time but that the whole power of the govern- ment had been put the hands of one bad man to be used against him. Mr. Fowler was proceeding to read a prepared address, when, at thirty minutes past ten o’clgck, Mr. Conkling and others approached him, and after a moment's conference Mr. CONKLING asked the Senator to yield to a motion to go into executive session, saying that hardly time remained to trans- act the necessary business; that the Senator could print his remarks, Mr. FowLER assented, and at thirty-five minutes past ten o’clock the Senate went into executive ses- sion. The doors were opened at twelve o'clock, when the President pro tem. announced that, in accord- ance with the concurrent resolution of both houses of Congress, the Senate would now take a recess until the third Monday of September next, and the Senate took a recess accordingly. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, July 27, 1308. ‘The House met at nine o'clock, with a very thin attendance. STATIONERY CONTRACT. Mr. WASHBURNE, (rep.) Of Ill., asked to have taken from the Speaker's table the Senate joint resolution to cancel the stationery contract of the Interior De- partinent with Dempsey & O'Toole. Mr. VAN Trump, (dem.) of Ohio, objected. Mr. WASHBURNE inquired the reason of the objec- tion; the bill would save the government $20,000 a year out of which it would be *‘choused” by the con- tract. Mr. VAN TRUMP sald there was a difference of opin- ton about that KS ON IMPORTED COPPER. Mr. ScHE! trom the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill regarding the duties on im- ported copper and copper ore, and asked to have tt considered in the House. Mr. Ross, (dem.) of Ill., objected, unless he should first be allowed to offer a resolution for the benefit ot any employé of the Mouse, That privilege having been granted, Mr. Ross with- drew his objection, but on condition that nothing else should be added to the bill. The SrgAKER declared that the objection being withdrawn the bill was before the House. It im- } the following duties on copper imported in the form of ores:—Three cents upon each pound of fine copper; on ulus of copper and on black and coarse copper, four cents; on old copper, fit only for remanufacture, four cents per pound; and on ail copper in plates, bars, ingots, pigs and other forms not manufactured or named in the bill, five cents per ound. M6 Mr. BANKS, (rep.) of Mass., made the point of order that the bill musi be first confidered Committee of the Whole, ‘The SrEaKeR overruled the point of order on the ground that it was maile too late. Mr, BANKS asserted that he had not loat his right to object, a8 he Gould uot do 80 until he had heard the bul read. ‘The SPEAKER stated that the bill had been read by its title, and that this having been the third or fourth attermpt to pass it its contents must have been known to the members. Mr. SCHENCK proceeded to hes why the bill was reporied, The Committee of Ways and Means had felt great reluctance to do 80 on account of .the failure of the general Tariff bill, but on looking over the whole grouad again and again the committee had come to the conclusion that Uf there was any one interest which had a claim to some legislation that would relieve it from suffering it was the copperin- terest. This was a very large interest, especially ia the Lake Superior region. It had once been so promising and gets that it scorned to ask rotection. Since then, however, protection had Been extended to the copper interest to the extent of from five to seven per cent ad valorem, and it had only that protection now, while lead and iron and every other corresponding interest had thirty, forty, fifty'and sixty per cent protection, The bill now reported would Foes to the copper interest to the amount of thirty per cent, not bringing it up to the average rate of protection. Under the exist- ing laws the prostration of the interest was so great that operatives at the mines were starving or going to the poorhouse by hunareds, or were receiving the aid of charity to get away from the mining region, while the steamboats on the lakes were being re- duced from daily to weekly trips. Mr. SCHENOK insisted on the previous question. On a division of the House there appeured to be but seventy members present. A call of the House hay- ing been ordered, one hundred and eleven members (just a quorum) answered to their names. Mr. Banks deiuauded the yeas and nays on order- ing the main question. The main question was or- dered—yeas 87, nays 24. Mr. BOUTWELL, (rep.) Of Mass., asked Mr. Schenck whether he was not ready to report on tife Funding bill, and whether he was not endangering the pas- sage of that important measure by insisting on this copper bill, Which was of no general interest or im- portance. Mr. SCHENCK Was understood to say that the con- ference report on that subject had mot yet come from the Senate, Mr. BANKs objected to debate. ean mies (rep.) of Md., moved to lay the bill on e table. The SPEAKER at this point (ten o'clock) intimated to Mr. Schenck Usst if he desired to make the confer- ence report on (he Funding bill it should be done at once. Mr. SCHENCK made no response, LS CONCER The proceedings on the cop in order to concur with an ameadment of the Senate to a till for the relief of the widow of Brigadier Gen- ! Bidwell and adding to it the name of the widow neral Hackleman; also, to place on the Speak- Coble the Senate Dill to reguiate the foreign and cous ing trade On the northern, northeastern and noruiwesver Hers of the United States ; and to a lopla new rule creating a standing committee on tue 4! of the laws and abolishing the committee on revi ud unfinished business, On & coutlic! of opinion between the Speaker and Mr. Banks rekitive count on ordel the yeas and pays, Mr. Banks appealed from the decision of Chair, and the decision was sustaimed—yeas 121, L motion to lay on the table was rejected, THE FUNDING BILL, Mr. SCHENCK at a quarter past ten moved to make @conierence report on the Funaing bill, remarking that the faction against the copper bili Was #0 manl- fest that he Would not press it tiis session. ‘The conference report was read. Mr. RANDALL, (dem.) of Pa., demanded as a ques- tion of order that the bill be read, The SPEAKER informed him that it was not the right of a member to demand the reading of a bill in fuil on @ conference report. oui: RANDALL appealed from the decision of the air. The SPEAKER declined to entertain the appeal, imagenes the question was settied as parliamentary aw. Mr. SOMENCK said that the bill was now reduced to a little bill of three sections and had been pub- lished in the papers this morning, If there was & general desire on the part of the House to have the Dill read exactly a8 agreed upon, instead of an ex- ion from him, he would let that course be en. REPLY OF MR. BUTLER TO SENATOR HENDERSON. Mr. BUTLER, (rep.) of Mass, asked and obtained leave to have printed tue following remarks in reply to the attack made upon bim last mgt in the senate by Hender last ex- i Senator sou:—From what has heppened in this eity evening it becomes Lecessary to make ® pletion, ae weil for the Coinmittee of ers of mpeachment as for iajseif, A delicate and thank- jess duty was by the order of the louse imposed upon its committee to investigate into the alleged corru; Mons connected with the lave impeachment trial As the inquiry must almost necessarily involve mem- berg of a co-ordinate branch of Cougress, your com- mittee were careful in nothing to overstep the limite of that parliamentary propriety which is due to the Very eariy in iueir examination they found both oral and written evideace which appeared to involve the Senator from missouri, the chairman of the Committee on Indian Aituirs, Mr, sienderson, ig anxious that the Senator should have the yes! Opportunity of expiaining these oak facts testified to against hin, your comimitvee ad- dressed a note in the most courteous form of lan- guage Wuey could command, in witich he was re- cwested tO come belore t.cu aud by giving teste m 9ny Of Buch facts as ie wie Kaw to lastruct the couMMittee ip their juves.caon, ‘This tie Senavor from Missour! refused to do, but om the contrary mide ievous compte ty tiat voty that your court ees Hote of inv fiwait to the bouy to w'Nch be belonged das a oveecu of ste prvir leges. In that, however, the Senate differed from him. It may be observed: here that upon a like re- quest of your committee poth Senators from Massa- chusetts and the senior ‘senator from ng eldest of t'1@ Senate—came before your the vel yl without 0? ject and made answer and explanation of ever’ thing them, asjmight ra have been expected of men, conscious their integrity. Sonwntheending auch refusal of the Senator from Mirssourt to aid committee search for the truth of the ¢l of corruption the determing'tion of the trial of the President, your commityee, as was their bounden Gaag. hecnene of the resets they owed fo te | Senate, Tel r pined in their report from expressing any judgment ir own upon ‘the 8: mieant and pertinent facts testified to touchivig the judicial conscience of that Senator in the triak, Feeling the delicacy of their position, your Qommittee die not deem it duty to judicate according to the evidence given ‘them, but, in scrupulous - to the rival of the Senate, contented themselves with reciting with @ judicial severity of SOORTACY. the testimony sworn to before them, grieving continually that without the expiana- tions of the Senator from Missouri, of which he of his own will deprived the commitiee, the evidence seemed to bear so hardly and conclusively upon hi and the more so as the refusal of the Senate to al the committee in their pursuit of the truth in con- nection with such cogent evideuce was liable to be taken as a confession of guilt, particularly in the strong contrast with the conduct in the regard of the admittedly innocent and honorable Senators before mentioned. indeed, so tender were your committee of all that concerned the Senate that, learning an in- vestigation had been ordered by the Senate, this committee did not ask to have the evidence taken by them printed lest its publication might embarrass that inquiry. Thus much I have deemed it my duty to state, in justice to a committee of the House, of which I was one of the humblest members, I take leave to say that the report of your committee was assented to by all the members of the committee in the city. A most unusual occurrence has rendered it necessary I should do so, and ask further indulgence of the House on my own behalf, On the evening of the Lord’s day, yesterday, in the session, a certain de- Dating assembly held in this last ' evening, the Senator from Missouri made a most virulent attack upon myself under guise of @ personal explanation. Of the want of parliamentary propriet y on the occa sion, the manner and matter of the written remarks from the Senator, so far as regards the Senate, I shall not allow myself to comment, lest 1 shall trench upon the same rule of pariiamentary propriety which the Senator violated. If that assembly to which I allude, deem the holy Sabbath well spent in listen- ing to such @ narangue, it is not for any member of the House to complain. Is not that assembly the guardian of its own honor? Indeed, it may well be weil justified by them under the precept that when a man’s sheep or his ass hath fallen into a pit it is lawiul to lift it outon the Sabbath day. I am credi- bly informed that the reason why this particular Lord's day—it was evening—was chosen for an attack on a member of this House by the Senator, as he himself has said, was that General Butler had gone home, 80 there would not be any reply. ‘he maniy bravery of such @ choice of opportunity 1s only equalled by the candor and justice of the per- formance, You will remember, Mr. Speaker, that on Saturday I notified you of my intention, after eight months of service here, to return home, and was only detained by accident, Stripped of adjectives and personalities the grava- men of tle Senator's complaint to the report of your committee seems to be—First, that he is herein charged with having been seen by one Lacy and one Craig; second, that he had some communication with Edinund Cooper, late the President’s private secretary, on the subject of the impeachment, from which unpleasant inferences may be drawn. For these inferences (which he denies), the Senator blames the committee. Now we have made no charges against him. We nave only carefully de- tailed the evidence which came before us. This tends to show “how every man must judge; that at midnight on the 12th of May the Senator from Mis- souri had told his delegation that “he would vote for conviction on the eleventh article or resign;” that he thought Johnson ones to be convicted and removed, aud that he would give his delegation an answer whether he would resign at twelve o’clock noon of the 13th. A witness testified that unless his delegation got the Senator's resigna- tion before twelve o'clock of that day they never would, a8 Craig had gone to see the Senator with carte blanche to fix him. Craig swears he did go to see the Senator at that time, and Lacy started to go with him. In two hours after Cooper, the Presi- dent’s private Secretary, wrote to Andrew Johnson as follows:— May 13, 1968, DRAR MR. PRESIDENT—The Henderson matter ail right. Lacy has been to see him with Craig. All right. So says COOPER. Evarts. Truly, The same day at noon, after twelve o'clock, the Senator refused either to vote for conviction or re- sign, but gave asa reason thatifthe President was acquitted in substance that he would give all the Cabinet oilices to republicans and award the Con- ressiona! plan of reconstruction, How well Presi- Seat gohnesn, has carried this plan of the Senator’s out we all Know from his last veto message. Now, it ta mot denied by the Senator that all this, and much more, was sworn to before the committee; nay, itis not denied that each separate fact is true, Mr. Cooper does not deny he wrote the letter saying “Henderson matter all rigat,” but admits it It 18 the inferences from these facts which seem so to enrage the Senator as to make him call hard names; but the Senator should bear tn mind that calling hard names hurts nobody; if it did he who now addresses you would have been dead long, long » itis not my fault that ple will 80 cou clusively draw inferences so deadly to the Senator's ace of mind. Itis not my fault that the Senator, yy continually expiaining his vote om impeachinent— for the bay is the fourth time in open and secret session he has done so with suca @ show of temper— he will convince the country that his count: accuses him. None of the Senators who vot eed the Senator told the Missouri delegation ought to do, and promised he would do or resign, the night before Craig had seen on that fatal morning, have felt called upon to explain their votes even once. When a fowler shoots at a biackbird or other winged vermin in a thicket he can always tell by the duttering in the bushes whe- ther the shot has told. The Sena| acurious piece of evidence put iy himself asa part of his Sabbath day speech that ig conclusive toa just mind. To make show of a de- fence, that the Senator is pleading specially, he pro- duces and has read a letter from himself to Cooper, asking to be exculpated by among others, the following words:— “Please te falso whether you ever had any convesration with me on the subject of impeachment.’’ Of course Cooper an- swers that the Senator never had any such con- versation. I have examined the original letter to Cooper from the Senator, and I tind it was with the Senator's own hand it was first written, “whether you ever had any communicatioa with me on the subject of impeacament.” That was a little too strong for Cooper's conscience even, and before he answered it (apparently in Cooper's handwriting) the word “communication” was scratched out and “couversation” inserted. The committee did not say there was any evidence of ‘‘conversatiou” be- tween Mr. Cooper and the Senator, but only of “communication.” “Lacy has seen him with Craig” is the — evidence, Cooper — cannot deny he wrote this, so he scratches out “communication” and inserts “conversation,” and then auswers (as he may do truthfully). The letter L have, and also an examined sac simile copy of the Senator's letters, as altered to meet Cooper's con- science for the amusement and instruction of the House, One good result, however, has come from the Senator's attack on the committee, In the course of it he has produced a letter from Mr, Evarts, in which I find @ suggestive explanation of the phrase in Cooper's letter to the President—*“All right; so Says Kvarts"’—which did not before occur to me.” It is this—that the words ‘all right,” as used by Mr, #yarts in this connection, referred to the whoie case of his client 48 being “all right” (an assertion which might be innocent enough) and not to the “ienderson mater.’ Only this expianation seems a reasouuble one, and I am glad it bas been made, and 1 cail at- tention to it in justice to Mr. Evarta. Nor do | think it my fault that the Senator (laving told his delega- tion that a part of the rh ying to How from the President's acquittal was to be that the Senator was to control the federal patronage in Missouri) now procures his father-in-law to be appointed to a high (and for him) lucrative office, thereby showing that the President ts carrying out his side of the bargains and paymg for the ald on hia trial, as ia the cases A. Lacy, E. 0. Perri many others to whom he has since given onice, which is urged as @ very strong fact against the Senator. ‘The country will draw its own conclusions from such acts, and no amount of vitu- peration of the committee or any of ita members will prevent it. In this matter of the explanatiot a8 weil as in the matier of the oMce, the people will believe the Senator has ‘put his foot in it.’ For myself, I have neither expianation nor apology to make. TI have done on the commitiee, and snail treat the Senator making this attack and ali others like it as my uncle Toby did the fly which he caught buzzing about his ears; as it to ihe window, a he let it out of his hand he pityingly said, “Go, poor devil! there is room enough in world for th thee and me." ‘The vote was taken on the conference report on the ad bill, and it was agreed to—yeas 102, Rays 3: The bill now—quarter-past eleven o’clock—goes to the President for his ap ‘oval, Mr. Dawes, (rep.) of Mass., from the Committee on Elections, reported a biil to relieve Nelson Tim, of Georgia, from disabilities, Passed by the requi- site two-thirds vote, SOUTH CAROLINA AND GRORGIA MEMBERS SWORN IN, Mr. Dawes also reported back the credentials of Simeon Corley, member elect irom South Carolina, . M. B. Young, member elect from Georgia, that the oath proscrived for persons whose disdbiliies have been removed be admin- istered to them. ‘The motion was to and Mesers. Corley and Young were sworn in as members, The SPRAKER appointed as directors of the Colum. bia Deaf and Dumb Institute Messrs. Schenck, of Ohio, and Boyden, of North Carolina. ‘The SrBaKER. ppotnted on the Committee of Elec- tone Mr. Heaton, of North Carolina, instead of Mr. Poland, of Vermout, ga accouat of service on two otver committees, MF. GankriKLD asked jeave to introduce @ joint resolason requiring the Secretary of War to alter his order of Saturday \ast for the remowad of clerks in the Quartertuaster's Department by giving the pref- erence fe eficient clerks who have been disabled in the militaty serv Mr. JOUNSOR, (de Mr. GANFIELD ca of Cal., objected. ed attention to the fact that ob- f o-rMUe sides LDREGD TO BR PRINTED, youd tbe Comm tttee on ey Printing, reported in favor of printing five thousand coplevot the impeachment trial, which was agreed to. ANOTHER GEORGIA MEMBER SWORN IN. Mr. Dawgs asked that Nelson Tift, member elect and be sworn in under the oath pre- whose political disablities have ‘Tift was accordingly sworn in. of made an ineffectual effort - vesting the President to Sreceeneral smncety for alt political offences; but "tne bill to increase the duties on copper was again ‘lar Bane demanded the ora soe ne ond they i as and na} were ordered, Lae v8 It was now within @ minute or two of twelve o'clock, aud Mr. SCHENCK rose and said as there Was no time for taking the yeas and nays he was Willing that the copper bill be considered as lost. Mr. WASHBURN, Of IIL, insisted that the yeas and nays be called. Mr, BaANus said that he had yielded to the of the Fencing vil only on the solemn assurance he him by Mr. Scofield (of Pa.) that the copper ill would not be passed, The OLERK proceeded to call the yeas and nays on the passage of the bill, but had not made much pro- gress when the Speaker, knocking once with his mera, announced that the hour of twelve having ar- ri to ved at which both houses of Congress had agreed take a recess until the third Monday in Septem- bee at twelve o’clock, noon, The House now took a Tecesr. There was much clapping of hands at this an- ouncement, and when the Speaker left the chair and minglea with members on the floor very friendly leave-takings and mutual expressions of good wishes were exchanged in between him and members on both sides of the House. ' Before haif an hour the hall was emptied of its usual Ca el members having hurried off to make preparations for depart- ure, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Summing Up of Eight Months’ Labors—Im- peachment and the Time and Money It Has Cost—Contested Elections—Important Mea- sures Deferred—Continuance of the Freed= men’s Bureau and the Cost Thereof—Re- construction Bills—Bill Passed Giving a Rebel General a Sent in CongressAlaska— AppropriationsThe Senate on Confirma- tions. WASHINGTON, July 26, 1868. Congress met on the 2ist of November last, nearly one month prior to the commencement of the regular session. The present assembling bas, therefore, been protracted, without interval, just eight months, The principal portion of this time has been absorbed in the attempt to impeach the President, contested election cases and the consideration of important bills which have not been disposed of. Almost the first business undertaken was the im- peachment of the President, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee. That committee spent three months in the investigation of charges, the examination of testimony and the preparation of its report. The labors of the committee were ineffectual, and would have failed but for the removai of Stanton by the President, when the actual business of im- Ppeachment commenced. First was the passage of the resolution by the House and the appointment of @ committee to Impeach the President at the bar of the Senate; then the Board of Managers was desig- nated to prepare articles and conduct the trial before the High Court. Three weeks were consumed in the preparation of the case; then the trial commenced and occupied nearly three months, during which time all other business was suspended. The Presi- dent was acquitted on three of the articies, and then the court adjourned without day. The cost of im- peachment, as nearly as can be estimated, is put down by members on both sides at something over a million of dollars, and this does not include the expense of subsequent investigations as to the cor- rupting influences assumed by Manager Butler to have been used to procure the votes of the seven radical Senators. Another item outside of legitimate legislation that has absorbed a large proportion of the time of Con- gress is the contested election cases. There have been twenty-five contested seats, a greater number than has been known in the history of the country, involving an enormous expense and the exhibition of the most intense partisan prejudice, Many of these cases are still pending. ‘The history of this session is more conspicuous for the important legislation it has deferred than for what it has consummated. It has neglected to aaopt @ revision of the Internal Revenue bill except in the two items of whiskey and tobacco. An attempt was made to consider the tariff bill by iecemeal, but action was deierred from time to ime and finally it failed aitogether. The River and Harbor bill was passed, and subse- quently it was designed to throw some guards around the expenditure of the liberal ainount appro- riated, but it was not accomplished. All bilis for be protection and development of commerce on the great rivers were defeated or deferred, A bill was passed depriving the Supreme Court of — jurisdiction in cases affecting personal rty. By an existing law the Freedmen’s Bureau was to have been discontinued next month. ‘Ihe last work of Congress was to @ bill continuing the Bureau one year, with all the powers originally conferred. ‘The precise annual cost of this vast establishment cannot be furnished by accurate data. The only oftictal estimate for any one year was furnished by General Howard, the Commissioner of the Bureai for the fiscal year ending January 1, 1867, upon which an approximate estimate can be based. In that calculation he placed the sum total at $11,745,060, Some two and a half millions of this sum he appro- priates for clerk hire, stationery and other purposes not immediately applicable to the feeding, clothing and schooling of the negroes, In the administrative po oe of this Bureau there are employed, as subordinate to the Commissioner, one major genera), seven brigadiers, nine colones, seven lieutenant coloneis, twenty-nine majors, one hundred and fifty- seven captains, one hundred and filty-eight lieuten- ants and seven hundred and seventeen clerks, mes- sengers and other employés, at salaries correspond- ing with those of the various civil departments of the ipurerament. Of the Reconstruction bills one reported by the Reconstruction Committee in January last passed the House, This bill gave the General of the Army and departmeut commanders absolute power over all provisional governments until the States to which it was applicable were admitted to representation ip Congress. This bill did not pass the Senate, ‘The next of this class was the Alabaiaa bill, passed with special reference to the election in that State by which the eonstitution was defeated, and pro- vided for her admission, notwithstanding a majorit; of the registered voters had not voted for the consti- tution, as required by the Reconstruction acts. This bill did not but a substitute, offered by Judge Spalding, of Ohio, authorizing the Legislature of Alabama to resubmit the constitution to the people, received a majority in both houses, was vetoed by the President and became a law, the objections of the Executive to the contrary notwithstanding. Next in the Reconstruction series 1s the act, gen- eral in its application to the reconstructed Stat rovicing that any election authorized by the act ot jarch 25, 1867, shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast, and authorizing any person duly ue tered to vote in the district in which he may offer vote. ‘This act became law. An act for the admission of Arkansas has passed and becamesa law over the President's veto. ‘The Omnibus bill, admitting Nowth and South Caro- lina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, was passed over the veto, A general act was passed removing disabilities, It Modities the oath for the benedlt of persons who par- tcipated in the rebellion, An act introduced on the 10th of July providing for an election in Virginia is now pending tn the Senate. It enfranchises twenty-five thousand white voters, and from the fact that they would, in all pro- bability vote the democratic ticket, ite fate Is sealed, The last of this class is the bill reported by Mr. Bingham, irom the Reconstruction Committee, i by the Hone on Friday. Tt wil be amothered in the Senate by speeches oa Monday if an esfort is made to pass it, A bill was passed last ht removing disabilities from General Young, member of Co: elect from Georgia. General Young is an old brigadier rebel general of cavairy. initted to-morrow. Generals Grant, Meade, Schofield, Emery and Howard recommended tie removal disabilities, and snaet Bingham took a lively interest in managing the bill through both houses, The Qnal passage of Geueral Banks’, bill making appropriation for the purchase of Alaska consum- mates Secretary Seward's land purchase. The pecu- liwr featares of this bill are those reserving the right to determine the re riety of future negotiations of this character and of withholding appropriations. The military bill for furnishing arins to the South- ern States has failed, The reference to the Military Committee carries it over. The appropriation bills have| ie with ‘ial in iuany instances civil departments reference to the public acrutilly. the amounts for the expenses of thi have been placed far beiow the actual necessities, and the dismissal of considerable proportion of the clerical forces in the departments is inevitable. When Steen meets again there will be a heavy deficiency to supply. The dismissal of hundreds of clerks, required. the inadequacy of the money appropriated and tie scanty pay of those remaining in employ, creates a vast deal of discontent @ numordus class of people who have furnished the radical sinews of Congreas by contributions, names to petitions and sympathy to an indefinite amount, Among the other impertant measures adopted b: Congreat was one for the protection of nataralized clizens abroad, which, after mi discussion and considerable amendment, becam strug: gieon tis measure Was peculiar and interesting. beth potitical parties bid high for the Irish vote, which, if east sotid in the Presidential elec- tion, Will be sure to turn the scales ome way or the otner. It wes amusing, therefore, to st the de- vices resorted to by democrats and ublicana to tove down theybill as it ro. came of General Banks, of the douse Foreign Mittee, Without i..curring the hostility of the terribie Fenians, pearly evety man of whom is a voter who understands the k@ck of going it early and very often, Some of the sections were con- sidered extremely dangerous end mischief. — ya in tendency, especially that one provid- RIC, measures. But how wo oppose Sections without alienating the Fenian vote Wasa puzzling With the democrats it robiem, TEE Ample enduah, becuse they have always been intensely anti-Brit But the poor repubileans cone, ‘ahead the measure with all the zeal of an Irish reput eager to propitiate the peoals favor for self-' Policy adopted y most of the republicans in the ous sections of the bill was They pre- tended to base it on the fact too much authority was placed in the hands of the President, who might embroil the country in war it the bil shoud righous, proper cauas form. Fomenden, Howard, Van Wi iy 5 “with all the vitality taken out of it,” the bil finally passed and now only awaits the President's signa- ture to become a law. Since the rejection of General Jeffries as sioner of Internal Keveue it is conceded that the: Senate will refuse to confirm apy nomination President may make for the p' of ret Rollins in office. Sunilar tactics will prevail Teference to other important appointments. Under such circumstances @ special executive session, it called by the Presijent, will ava&K pothiog in the way of iilling existing vacancies, THE LABOR MOVEMENT. Meeting of Master Masons. A meeting of master masons, presided over by J. T. Conover, was held yesterlay at 61 Liberty street and the reports of bosses received, golng to show a slight increase in the number of men who have gone to work under the ten hour rule, Mr. TOSTEVEN made a speech and gave his expert ence of the strike, He contended that more evil than good to the workmen resulted from these suciety organizations. He’uen tioned several instances where those who had cut loose a.together from society ine fluences prospered by 80 duing. One of his men told hum the other day that Lhe was workin for $460 a day, but one-third of 1t Went to the support of those on strike, whereas if he was working for ten hours he could have $5 @ day and no such subscription to make, He believed these bricklayers had stepped into a speculation of which they had not calculated tae consequences, and which they foolishly supposed would last but a few days. It turns out now that ali tie money in the treasury is gone, and if they fail to yet the remittances which: they have sent for to Calijurnia the end of the strike must surely result very soon, He believed If tae men who ‘have families could be called together away from the infucnces of organizatious and rea- soned with, the whole of this strike would be dis- posed of. A motion wag made and carried to adhere to their original resolution tat nove bul ten hour men be anploya by the inaster masons, . Ross said, by being quiet, cautio: a orm the difficulties now existing would soon © ppear. The meeting then adjourned, The Bricklayers’ Strike. A mass meeting of journeymen brickiayers of Unions Nos, 2, 4 and 12 was held last nigit at Masonic Hall. S, R, Gaul, President of Union No, 2 was cailed to the chatr, and stated the object of the meeting was to hear reports concerning the strike and take special action with reference to front brickiayers. He called the attention of the meeting to the statement made at the meeting of boss masons that forty bosses were. employing all the men they required at ten hours and desired that some action be taken in the pre- mises. It was moved that a committee of three be ap- ointea to canvass the city and ascertain where the fobs were upon which tic3se men were working, and endeavor by arguiment to induce them to leave. Thi motion occasioned cousiderable debate, several of the members asferting tat there was no truth in the statement made at the meeting of the boss masons, that the only men te work on ten hour jobs were, with but very few exceptions, wortiless fel- lows, regular ‘‘scabs,’’? and the society was betier without them, while their continuance at work was damaging to the repulation of the bosses. An amendment was proposed that every man now out of emplogment belonging to Unions Nos, 2, 4 and 12, and wing pay, Constitute himself one of a eommittee of the whole to approach the good mechanics working ten hours per day and endeavor to induce tiem to quit work; also that an advertisement be inserted in the daily papers de- claring that all bricklayers working on ten hour jobs after Thursday next wouid be regarded as “scabs? and treated accordingly. A further amendment wag offered that the three unions unite in a proclamation offering amnesty to ail now working ten hours per day who would quit worx and repert ou or before Wednesday night. This drew forth the mquiry from @ member—had not those men who had a to work for ten hours a day after he strike was deciared already forfeited their pights as society men? And the following ‘was thereupon offered as a snbstitute for the whole, that any member of Unions Nos. 2, 4 and 12 knowing of any member of any of these unions working on “scab” jobs be requested to preier charges against such, and that they be expelled, which was carried with enthusiasm. A letter was read from Typographical Union No. 6, enclosing a donation of $500, which was received with thanks. A resolution was presented from the front brick- layers pledging themseives to do no pressed brick work for any boss mason who employs ten hour men after this date, and to use all honest endeavors to procure the enforcement of the eight hour law. motion was made that the meeting recommend to Unions Nos. 2, 4 and 12 that they aliow no men to take contracts except from owners themselves. Speeches were made by several gentiemen expres- sive of cordial sympathy inthe movement and of en- couragement at present results. Among other things it was said that there are 280 uniong in this: State, comprising about 150,000 men, upon’ whom can be levied a tax of twenty-five cents per head to ae this strike, and if that should not be suf- ficient 600,000 men can be reached through the Na- tional Union. Mr. James Hanlon offered to accept the proposition of Mr. Ross, of the boss masons, and put up $500 ta be forfeited to charitable uses if there were not 500 bricklayers to work in this city at eight hours per day’s work. ‘he Chairman announced that a grand mass meeting of ail the trades was designed for an early day, after which the meeting adjourned. Is IT 1x THE Bond ?—Mrs. Francis Lord Bond, who. has long been an applicant for a diplomatic mission abroad, and who earnestly sought the appointment of Minister to England, is now seeking a nomination as Minister to Ecuador, She has received a communi- cation in pencil from the Booey Benjamin Franklin which affords her strong hopes of success in her ene deavor. Died. Younes.—WALLIE, only son of Chasies A. and Adeiia Youngs, aged 4 months and 7 days. ‘The funet will take place this (Tuesday) after. noon, at three o'clock, irom the residence of hig grandfather, Lewis Standbrough, 57 Leroy street, Greenport papers please copy. Hucetws.—On Monday, July 27, Henry A. T, Hvaains, youngest child of A. Z. and C. M. Huggins, aged 5 months and 6 days. His relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the resi¢ence of his parents, No, 9 Duncomb place, 128th street, Hariem, on Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock. (For other Deaths see Seventh Page.) A DALY'S NEW STORY, A FLASH OF LIGHTNING, will be commenced fo the FIRESIDE COMPANION. OUT THURSDAY NEXT. ABSOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED IN DIFFERENS States, Desertion, won-# fe. mutictemt: enti No pobijety. te free. H. MU! No charge antl vorce Isobtained. Advi NNUL, Counsellor, 261 Brondway, room No. 9 BSOLUTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED IN Bi without publicity or exposure; good ever: where; ‘oo fess in advance; consultations free, succes guaran teed. THOMAS DIKEMAN, Counsellor, 75 Nassau street. A CRESTUCKY, STATE LOTTERY, EXtna, cLasd a decided by Missouri! 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