Q .. . READ & ac FRAZIER, EDITORS. Toet /Yon. the Binghamton Repuilfcca THE BUTTERFLY. The Butterfly was a gentleman • Orno very good repute, Be-roved in sunshine all day long, With his scarlet and purple suit; He left his lady-wife at home, In bee own secluded bower, While he,'lthe d bachelor, flirted about, With a kisi for every flower. Ah, the Butterfly! ;Now bikladS•wife was a, poor glow-worm, And seldom from home she'd stir, • iTet she loved him better than all the world, Though Wl* he cared for her ; • Unheeded she passed the day—she knew Ber lord was , a rover then; - - But when nighi,came on she lighted her lamp, To guide him' over the glen. 4 %. • Ah, the Btitteffly I One night tithe wanderer homeward date, Be saw not the glow-worm's ray, For some wild bird had seen the negleet'sd one, And flew with her far away. So beware, ye Butterflies all, beware, If to you such a time should come, - Forsaken by wandering lights, ,yOu'll wish . You had cherished the latnp-at' home. . Ah, the Butterfly! Spia. For the independeret, Reyna/it-an. Extract from a Letter of Rev..J. L. Lyons.l S=itar, January 9th, 1867. DUIII natant—l tame to Beirut, from Tripoli, on' the 6th inst., in company with Br.: Aiken and our friend i -Yarini. Contrary to our espectations, we I found Dr. Smith sit alive. We all went ,in to see him. 0 how sad the change that had come upon him since I last saw him. rale, emaciated, wasted away to a mereskelettes;his eyes sunken in their sockets,i their blamer**, be Seems to be :in the embrace of; death.. Tile Spats& 'brought tons into my eyea. There he lay helpless upon his bed, the oldest of our missionary band, the learned scholar, the faithfUl missionaryohe devoted christian, in all probability Moon to depart and be with Christ, his Saviour. But though so feeble, his mind was clear and his voice quite strong. lie took me by the hand, as I approach ed his bedside, and said, "0 brother 'Lyons, I am glad,vertgbul to see you, Yon have come down from Tripoli ?n-purpose to see me,-I suppose." .1 told him , I had; to which be !plied, "You are very kind, very kind." Then having spoken to Br. Aiken and Ten ni, he said, "Sit down by my bed, where - I can See . your laces." Ilse inquired, about our circle ii, TriPo: li, mid he should have been glad to have ; sont ,Mrs. L. and Henry. I told him about the sneitaimof our school, and that tbe Moslems were. siniling their children toti to be taught. "0," Lm glad to hear that before I die."/ I told him that the Arab girl in 'our family was indidginin'hope; and he exclaimed, " Indeed, indeed, that kgood news; - and why should she not hope! Yes.,...tikAtitt..tnv- hoot ;" twist, for. I hope in'hini, and I have been a great er sinner than she. • I have had more light thartshe, poor girl; but God's mercy is infinite; I shall at:ion be with Him. If ii had been His will that should complete my wear," (the translation of the scriptures) "1 woultgladly, retrain, but He has otherwise or dered." -And "0" be continued, how blessed to be with that throng in heaven. The Saviour is there ; all the redeemed are there; I have many beloved friendi there ;" and then he asked, " Bro. Lyons, hay'. tit rim some friendi _there t" I replied that Thad five little brothetsluid Sisters there, who died in infancy. And then turning to brother Aiken, be said, " Bro. Aiken, you have sdear wife there. — I shall pongee her. Have you any word to send' her!" He con versed thus'witb us for.some tie, while we tried in vain to restrain:the Lauri that flowed down our cheCks. He alio talked to Yanni, and then derfired us to sing. Re sang "Therein a land of pure delight." , Jlftei we bad finished, he said "Sing something in praise of the Saviour." We sing "Rock of .Ages," He attentpted . to join in the ainging, and sang with a cleir voice the two lines , my hand no pricer bring ; • In to thy cross I cling." He then requested ns to sing a hymn in Arable, m that Timid might join accordingly we sang in,'Ara bin the hymn— - "My. faith looks up to thee, Thou lamb Of Calvary." • We then sang at Ids request u Vital spark of heavenly flame." • After which we bade him farewell. I never ex pect to see him again, until, if God in his grace per mit, I shall meet -Lim in our . glorious home above, where. death comes 'not, and we shall go no more out forever.- But few go in to see Dr. Smith now, • as conversa tion ivories him.. It was. a special privilege which wisttjqed and ffor which I thank God. It was a sad, mournful interview; but 0 bow it strengthens one's faith to see 107 calmly the cbristian can look death in the face, peacefully waiting fcir the messen ger to come and call him home. Jamaas 10th. Dr. Siiith tar lingers. Have just rand at ids house. He fequested to see Me ; I tfmnei ithe more languid thin' before . He seeY part. lag messages to Katie, and Henry, -and to our -Arab leacher, lte &leant. He then;ive..me eome last !mile and commending each oth to our covenant. ireepiig God, we parted. W i ry affectionately, with much love to all, Your eon, u WIFAT's A Nails r'---Everytbing. "Cbarles, Lamb 4 anderstood this matter when - "PenhiM of giving children ugly Christian 1'., 1 1 13 *. eald--" Don't Nicsxlemus a man stitomotbing." A boy's name bas more to do with-his happiness and Prosperity than we . are ept to imagine.. A diminutive,4l iohnd c.ognonten .bas - kept many a poor fellow in the Wir gronnd all hiS days. And an un lock)? niekname, applied.tp the wearer by the caprice or malice of his fellows, not. unfre 'retail' weenie' his 'pesos! and respectability throttgb life; We once knew a man whose real l !tilt* Ina . "Staftle'. Sickle." He was atllad "'Spur Pickle," for short. Well--- ' 'what of his I Nothing. He was etobody," of *lse, and bit, whole history "nix." -Baader! ifiroi are young (as we hope you married, (as you ought to be,) sad should have 4 f epos and daughters; " .(and may yon :he bleeped raltb.half a dozen o f each sort,) remember: that:, much degends on naming them properly. Beware of top heavy names, suck es Byfuu, aid Walborn, Shakespeare, which Onli.lerve to belittle the wearer. Bet ter by bak 'them all John and Mary, and then bomber chain, as they' do steamboats in the West. Give them good, plain; manly, spelling book' tide's, and then if any man 6 nitiqUirriT " your child, prosecute him for slander. . . . , . . . ~ : - , , .., • . . . . . - : ' i$ . . ... . . . -• . . . . . . . . _ , . - • , . . . . . . _ _ . ___ .. 7 _.__ _____._ _ -___ ....-__ _ _ . _ . . .. . - • .. • • • - - _ . . - -‘ . . . . 1 ' --....-- --------..... -....--,.. _ .. _. - _ ...._ , _ . . i ' °b , _ . . , .. . . . . 1.. ' ~ . .: , .-. '.., \ . , , 1 1' . ; ; ~. . . . ..t 4' . t • . . , . AiviL . ' . . • . - . . ' ii' 1 , t .. : . . 2: .'' '; C-. 4 . . 1 -' - . ' . ,'''' , 1 " . • , 1,; .: . °1 . . . ct". - :: . . .. . . . . 1 4 .4' .., . . ' : , ..., ...• . , . . . . • ~ i ~, ' ' IP I. 4 . . „., . p . . . ..... . . • -. . . . . . . . . . . _____ . . _______.... .„....._ ........ ,•, , . . . HOW MURDER CAME 0 • • - It is an old saying that " murder will nut," and the following little story series'o illus trate how a trifle will sometimes bet y what the longest and most profound' hives igation will not.. It was told by a homely-fa girl, with a pretty figure, in a railroad ca on its way from London to Liverpool' . , ' he was going to Australia, under engagemen to be married to "her Joseph :"-. -' .- - If I had'been better looking, I migt t i have got a husband, or at least not tie. mon ey to marry him upon, which is the same thing. The unsuitableness of my fiice4o what I may be allowed to call a very toleible fig ure, has been literally the means of estow ing happiness, as I hope, upon Josepi . and of putting £4OO into my own pocket. a nd this was how it all Came about :,'My late -tress; who Vies very, kind to me . and had iiitended, poor thing—for she told me so— . --tol4ave itte comfortably provided kir, took me With her, seven years ago to Paris. She was # : widow lady, fond of gay life and brillianttatnuse.. merits: and• that place suited her 0 well, that she made it her • home, and 1, lint little loath, remained there too. Joseph a I had 'kept company together before that t une, but fie was not so foolish as to wish m . 4."t0 give up my expectations for the'sake of :Vturried marriage. He said that•he - Would , t wait pa: tiently, dear 'folow, although the gat salt sea was to roll between us, and tlielile could be no chance of his getting a letter nt r ke than 0w....e a day. • ilk was a mason's _as4,lstant in London; and very hardly worked, itpeemed , for he was not able to reply near. sooiften. However, of Course I wag not a 64, that I could be in two places•at once; s4l made the best of it, and was.tts happy as a 'Onfiden. tial lady's maid, under such circuntstances, could hope to be.. ..- • • I.k II it. One evening I had been preparinOny mis tress, who was a very splendid driver, for the opera. My only Allow.servaio was on leave of absence-for some days; 4a:except the porter in the courtyard, theredwas no. body, when the carriage had driverfFdir that night, in the whale house save myself ;_ there r fare, haviiin e nothing bytter--:or at last nicer —to do, tend being in my mistress'sb ed-room Amongst her beautitid robes and ornaments, It v.as hardly to he expected, that I Should re sist an opportunity of trying them int. The - room; besides being charmingly Ining with mirrors, bad a delicious full-lengthliwinging liss.Q.,:and before this 1 amused to 'self - fira hod tong While. I beheld haw Ma, einoisel le Elizabeth Martin-that is my pre. aft mince, 'hut ,deardioSefib's is Andrews-110 She look ed in. bare,gl44- in silks and • smislit* for the inorning_l_ind_how lace and sat ii and low Sleeves, witepeliSt• bream her for evening wear. Finally, equipping myself Oa partitt ularly pleasant glace silirwA.iking ipess, with A bonnet and falling veil fit fir 4i. .bride, i could nothelptwisting,round a !ilk to see as much oelmyself as possible; anil contrast ing the effect at the same time ity ph that of Kisilame—lcho was bNiutiful - enouVi, but in differently proportioned—l involiiiitarily re marked aloud : "Well, we may I:i''' plain in . ~ the face, hug we tire certainly•unext.tptonablo behind." -It was an absurd•thini : fo say even . to one's self, and I remember blushing like a beet, as thabgh it were not quite lan. of the question that I could be .overheird. - There were several jewel-drawers--thiuby Upon tny middle fitiger,A ring . belorigmg to my mistress's late lutsband, was in One of them -but I had no.tinie far moreth4i to set off a handsome necklace or two and tifvery Much regret that my ears had not been punched for the accommodation of an espial pair of diainond earrings, before; I lter*, wheels in thu courtyard, and my thistrestme, home and I undressed her and ' S:t w hetlim) bed as usual. She was more than comiiponly kind and gentle in her manner that iiiot,as I hive since thought at -least!' and wbehtthe wished me her bon soir, she added—•• I iin sure we shall both •be tired to-morrowA4lessie, s o call me an hour later, and take atiextra sleep yourself." ' I never was to bear in'y good mis. .tress speak any more. Did I dream that night that - me all ber wardrobe ; and that I I married in the glace . silk ? Di my Sleep, build schemes of what with the money that my dead nii, enrich me with? No; a+•l ho and to meet dear Joeph,' With man's vanity, I had my worn had my woman's heart too, heath warm, and I thought no shadoW told them so in (iourt, where all I againMt me, and they believed in But in that morning, late, whan: shining full-upon the window, a', of the people going about thei was full and clear, I saw a frigh, ghastly horror that the dity bt make more hideous and unnatur tress Murdered in her bed ! when I - knocked; again no . answe',l thins it the bedside close drawn;!, the open sbutteis a flery flood'! red upon the',earput and eurtni on the corner of the %now white LonExzo. red also, It *was blood ! I thou •en a rain of blood ; upon t he drawers; upon the' tuilei dressing ease, upon the towels;;; —everywhere where the mnrd had been after their deadly welch bee—l, dared trot look, in the 1 that great swing-gloat, where I d but a few hours ago, I saw it at mirror in the room was 'pictur sight—there lay the . corpse, t woman with her gaping throat.i They, thought ,;it fret that 1 wa; too, lying so stiff and cold in thi .1 ber. •I answered nothing to their 91, - nei. tiler in the house-nor in the prig n. I knew nothing, nor could, I have told them had '1 known, until Joseph came. It emed to me then quite natural that he shout' bb with me -j i -nothing praise worthy, notbin (This dear little engaged young t person's, jas began to gCt redder ishUut e ritnsreminis. 43ner. and her story to a4sautne <di incoherent as well as a choking character.) I did not understand bow much I Owed WM; how, not hitt' ling heard from me for smite- time, and reading in the paper that an E n glish lady's. maid had been taken up to Pails for a mur. der in the Rue St. Honore ' bui-that *he re fneed to speak, and even had peihaps - ittieal. it s lost her soma, he started ciiist once giv tiseellqqeotis. THE PLAIN GIRL'S STORY. } 7REEDOITA - AHD 2110 Mir nianiMiesir @Law, -22,v, I '. 4 ing up his employ, and borrowing and beg ging what he could, and knowing nu word of French but the name of that one street; he hurried to me; so that my mind came back again, and fonuld tell them what I knew.— All he did, he said, was leas than he ought to have done, because he had behaved ill to mu of old, (which, I am sure dear -Joseph never had, nor thought of doing.) He stood by me in court—in the prisoners' place, along with me he stood and shared my shame.. I told about the jewels, and orthy trying them on ; how everything was spte, and the- doors locked, and the chamber-window too . high to be climbed up -to. though a man might have let himself down from it into the j'ard. -And then I learned for the first time that all'that afternoon and night the murderer had lain hidden under my - .mistress's bed ; that he Must have been there all that timethink of it!—that I wits trying on the dresses and the ornaments; that there Was. Murder waiting in that chamber all the while; it made me shudder even then, amidst that crowded court. with Joseph by me. They thought it very strange, they said, that since there was -so much time before him between toy .mistress's, departure and return, that he had Lot mur dered me instead. Ile had carried offal! the jewels—those in the drawers as well as those which my poor mistress had worn that iery evening; but from the moment he had dropped into the courtyard, the. police could find no trace of him. , A mere suspicion fell upon the brother of the gate-porter; but it was so vague that he was not put upon his A great sum was offered in reward for the - apprehension of the_ murderer, making up; with what was offered by my bite mjstress's family,. nearly .£400.. She died without a will, poor lady, and they were not, disposed to give the anything beyond the wages due tome, Atter my acquittal, a col lection for mine and. Joseph's benefit was made by some good people; but the 'mone;' only sufficed to bring us back to England.-- Joseph had to work cut a heavy debt, in curred upon my account, and I-went into ser-• vice agsin at once i resolving .to do my best to help him.. At the end of two years, poor fellow, except that he had discharged his ob ligation, he was but little. better'off than at their begitining; and despairing of - ever get ting a living for us both in the old: country, he sailed twelve. months ago-for Sidney.— Whichever . oftis first,got rich, itNirtvi arrang ed, should cross the seas after the other ; and until very lately, it seemed that we might . each stop %%here: we were, engaged young per sons till we died. nevert I was nursery-maid in" my new - place, and was taking the youngest child across . Hyde Park one afternoon, when I was followed by an impertinent -man. I- had •ny "ugly" on, for the sun was hot, so that my.lice might hive' been like Venus, for all he knew to the 'orintrary ; and otherwise, I flatter myself I was rof -di .A.l+ the wretch, who kept close behima. me.' He was an abominable person,.with a foreign appearance---:-.whieb I had reason , enon+ , h eyes that looked MA-mt ways, but neither of them nice ways. so that I was glad enough to get in.sig,ht,Of the policemen about the, marble arch. He saw that there was no time to be .lost, if he, meant to get a good look at me at all; sa he pa 4--d ine . on a sudden very quickly, turned round, and looked up into my fair. I gave him a very tolerable stare, too, because I knew it would disappoint him, after his great expectations ;.and it did so; and not only that, for it made him give a sort of villainous grin, which I hope 1 may never see again, and he broke out, as if . he could not help -it for the life of .him, with-+" Well, we may be plain in the face, but we are unexceptionable behind." I cried out " Murder!" and " Pu. lice!" as loud -as I could, and the man was secured at once. No human being except the one who had been under the bed, her Mur derer, could have known these words-which I had spoken alone, Lefi+re madame's toilet glass. He denied everything, of course, and said it was an unjust detention; but in little more than half an huur,.a t-legraphic message from the Paris authorities set his mind at ease in this respect, and demanded his presence in that city.. , He was the elder brother of the gate-porter, whom Iha never before seen ; and what. .1. had to tell, in addition to the previous suspiaions . against him, procured his conviction. He was sent to the galleys. for life. This ruby- ring:which' he wore upon his little finger, I iudeutified as baying been in the jewel,drawer that very night; It was bestowed upon me, after the trial by the hair at-law, and-1 had obtained besides the'.£4oo reward.. If I had been pretty, you see, there -would not have been any occasion for me to have remarked upon it that , and I might have.remained, my whole an engaged young person.. .-0 had left Ishould be I, even in would do fess might '''or heaven, 11 my. wo i -s vanity, I i t g true acd i !f evil. I ~ ked black Oven there. be sun was • ii the noise if ally work cul spirit, a served to —my mis-, o answer i . The cur et through qt light-fell —aye, and ?unterpane,, It there had handles 'of A'Goon o:M.—Not many mointbs ag6 ,'it happened at Benicia, California,' the bead quarters of the Unite States troops, Captain Jones of the U. 5. A.., a Virginian 'by birth, was ordered to that point, whither, he went' accompanied by a faithful body . servant, named Joe. The captain was startled not loni,after by the-news of Joe's 'having shot. another , negro. As soon as he was brought into his mast Pr's 'pre,.ence, he sternly asked him bow he dared ; to act jn ,the manner he' bad done. Joe seemed at first east 'down, but rallying himself, and looking the' captain full in the face, replied—" De fact is, massa, dat ar nigger was one of dem New York tree riggers. He 'suited me, and. I had to take .high Suddron around wid er, on the • the basin "er'a har.di and in the 1 ;- ; but in ked myself F' and every ,g the same - murdered • • • A jolly fellow had an office next to a doctor's. One day an elderly gentleman of the old fogy school, blundered into the wrong sh " Dr. X-in murdered, 114euth-chum. "Don't *live here," eays P , who was in full.scribble over some important papers, without looking up. a 0 hhought this was hirofftce." " Next - " Pray. sir. cantyou tell me, has the doctor many patients?" - " Not living," • . • • The (Ad gentleman was again crier beard of in the vicinity, but the story was that_ Dr, 2C-tbreatened to sue P-for libel. However, he came to think better of it. far At a late public ,trieeting, the folloWing "dry" toast was given. The autism will get " battered" when he reaches home : The Press—The Pulpit--and Petticoats ; the three ruling powers ot the dsy. The first spreads knowledge, thesecood spiatwis mor ale, the hist spreads-Lc' onsiderably. MONTROSE, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1857. REMARKS !. or THE HON, GALUSHA A. GROW. Of Pennsylvania, - • • In the -louse of Reprecentativel,Feb Aim 857, • .on the special Report of -the eelectiCommit. tee appointed. to IniestigUte the charge of the. Etixtenceof corrupt Conibinfrtione a • mong Members of Cong rest, in. ifre_case of the Hon. Win: A. Gilbert, of Niie York. Mr. GROW said . Mr. SPEAKER—I will now proceed.to show ' the parliamentary law which controls this case and susta the point of order I have made. Then fill: refer to some of the auth orities which I was prevented front reading to the House when I was upon theilloor be, fore. In Jefferson's Manual, on page 66, is the following rule: . . " Whenb cdmmittee is charged with an inquiry, if a member prove to be involved, they cannot proceed against hini, hitt must make a special report to the House; where upon the member is heard in his plate, or at the bar, or a special authority is given to the committee to inquire epncerning him."' Now, I take it that the gentleman from Smith Carelina does not mean to assert that when this man Sweeney testified to this trans action, the committee gave nottee:.',to Mr. Gilbert to appear and ~confront that Witness in his examination in chief. The'gentleinan stated that he was notified. boeS the' gent le man from South Carolina mean to Say that Mr. Gilbert was notified when Mr. SWeeney named hisnathe before the committee as a party to a corrupt transaction, and that the . examination was - suspended until Mr. Gil bert contd• come before them . to answer t The gentleman stated he was notified 'and re fused to set. I undertake ,to state; 'on the authority of the member from HNeW York . [Mr. Gilbertl himself, thathe was noiltqfied. 1 .Mr. ORR,. • I do not exactly compreliNtd the gentleman's statement. ' 1 . Mr. GROW. The. question ',I - propound to the gentleman from Smith Carolina is this: Did the committee,w hen Sikeney was before them and gave the name of a member of this House as implicated in a dishonorable trans action; suspend, hislextunittation and' notify thi. , member of that fact, - and that , he could aOpear. to confront (hie witness? ,! : • 'Mr. ORR. The report which has just. been read ought•to relieve the gentlematile mind upon that subject • but with: a vieu.ef en lightening him fully upon the poir.t, I propose to say this: The committee were charged by the. Mese with a certain investigation, an in vestigation' looking to combinations - .of cer tain of its members., In the prbgress of that investigation . witnesses were i called ; and when one of them, Mr. Swe iy, implicated one of „the 'members of t Rise, the corn. ' - ;•ol l 4 4 l . iliat . I o f slie 4 utter %Litt...aces-As - Joe - • 1 the examination or otherwise, s Mat - cm itne understanding of the entire, e. When that wti.4"dune, the committee • .41 a complete. copy of every portion of the testimony that was taken affecting any member, of the (louse, to be-made out by 'the clerk ofthe commit. tee, to be carried by the clerk to him 'with.a notification that the party could eross-exam ing the witnesses and offer' explanatory or contradictory testimonv. • That Was done in Mr. Gilberts case. Ile declined to have us mall Sweeney and Triplett for the Pei-pose of cross-examination, but he , tlid submit some 'testitnotlY with reference to SWeeney'S. char acter. Nothing was done with' reference to Mr. Gilbert that he was not notified 'of, and that he did not have a full opportunity to meet.. • Mr. GROW. It was to clear tLway the , doubt and ambiguity, not only of the 'gentle man's answer to the.interrogatory c of the gentleman from. Ohio, but the ambiguity, of the report itself, that I put the' question dis tinctly to the gentleman from , South' Caroli na. the gentleman from Sputh Carolina now answers that the evidence of these wit. nesses was taken - before the party- accused was notified. The witnesses stabbed the rep utation of a member by giVing tfieir evi dence in their own way, , . without being con fronted with the person accuipd," l Then the committee notified the acensetr, ' , after • they bad blackened his character, ilia he might appear before them and ero-S*Xtireirie the witnesses, who had given the ;'evidence in secret:- The evidence of Sweeney was taken on the 16th of January, andlii. Gilbert was notified on the 29th ofJanuarif!, len. Now I charge upon this comrriitteithit they ex ceeded their authority, and hive violated the privileges of the House, and the constitution al rights of its members. '4'ey hart tram- Sled down the parliamentsey law by this tar Chamber profte3ing,il to blacken and blast the character of some !of their peers.— The rule in Jefferson's llitvival, just cited, .and which is a part .of the itiles by which we are governed, and which, islthe law by which the action of this committ4Should have been governed, reads thus: , " When a committee iiiitharged with an inquiry if a membee ptO r e to be involved, they cannot proceed itgairOt Vale but must make a special report to the Heim; where upon the Member is hear4;l'in his place or at the bar, or a special authority ie given to the committee to inquire concerning him:" - Have they authority td inquire in refer ence to William 'A.' Gilbert or any member upon'this flo . orl Their authority watt to in quire in reference to Cothbinatioim 1 wilt _road'the resolution which'?-confers' suti brit)? upon them 4 , for whati merge is, that this - committee hai exceeded its authority,. violet .ed the privileges of this House, and the con stitittienal rights, of ha; Member*: And I charge that in • their pr4peding they' haVe trampled down all the gintrantees secu rities if personal liberty I stand here not to talk • in behalf of arty . individuSl -mart, whether implicated or not ; I speak not of the camPor 'an individgish .member; but I - plelui in behalf of the privileges of the House. The privileges of the HOuse cannot be waived by_ one of Its members, arid if he waives them - he is liable to . Censu're,j; The privileges of ntensbers of this - House pre the privileges of their constituents, giverf:to them by the . or-. .ganic and highest law the land, not as a personal favor, but as a protection . and safe guard: to diem as legiel*ra, and for,the, se curity of those they represent. The commit tee were tharged with ithis atithority..and nothing else—whiCh appearS in The following resolution apieirang ,tlO T. . . certain. stetetne e n bay' beim I Made chargingthst .mnAirbera of this Haase }Ara 'entered into lorrukt mnbinatimis'r,:r • the purperle - of _passing and preventing the pump of certain measures during the prey ent Congress,.and whereas" a member of this House has stated that the artieli referred to 'is not Wanting in truth :' Therefore, Resolved, :That a committee, consisting of five members, be. appointed . by.the Speak er, with power to send for persons and pa pers; to investigate said charges ;' mid that said committee 'report the evidence taken, and what action, in judgment, is nee, essary but the part of the Rouse, without ati.y unnecessary delay .'4„. . T4is is the authority given to that eom. rolttee.. It; in their inquiries whether. there be such combinations, it should appear that an individual member is involved, what. does the parliamentary law require] They can not proceed, when the name of an individual member is brought betbre them / without coming into this House and obtaining . its authority to proceed investigating * the transactions of that member. A Star Cham ber sits under your Capitol,with closed doors; and summons profligates from the streets to blacken the character of your members, NM trampling down the safeguards and _protect ion': that.dre given to the meanest criminal at the bilr of a criminal court—the privilege of being confronted With the witnessesagainst him; and meeting his accusers. face to f:tce.— This Star Chamber, with it• closed doors, af ter it has summoned its profligates to black en the character of members, then. forsooth, gives a copy of the testimony to any mem ber implicated, and offers to permit him to call the witnesses hack to re-examine them. NoW, we deny that this man Sweeney,turned out by your Doorkeepers because of his prof ligacy, is 'entitled to credit anywhere, arid the testimony of his neighbors is that they would not believe him under oath. Still this corn- I mittee were ready to take the evidence of 1 this profligate against the sworn statement of one of vour members.' It. is a proceeding unheard;f and unknown in this Republic.— For the first time in the, history of the Ile public has a Star Chamber attempted to try, by a packed jury, with packed witnesses, .gt compeer ofthe judges. For the first time are legislators here to be stabbed in the dark, a tlit,too,bytheir compeers sitting as a jury, to protect the character of their witnesses. I desire td read a little of this-testimony. Mr. Sweeney is on the stand: It is alleged that a contract is entered into-=about what ? Anything pending befbre - Congress? No, sir. Anything which ever has b.en pending before Congress? No, sir. This committee go outside of their authority, and rake up a menial and a profligate, and bring bun" into their Star Chamber and question him—about -.what? Anything they were authorized la ask about.? They inquire ,about nothing Which is pending before. Congress,. but in ref erence to a book resolution which he swore neve=r, was fitreTed,. and which has never been i‘x tem Here is ime.ques• tuun e p e... 4 to toßttillitld7si'rebt)O one of r th r e t i ll it e ter c it o i m on - of the - House. His evidence and he -tells Your cominitteetlurt if they will put their, question in the right way they Wilt draw something out 9f hum, but unless they do, he will not answer. He goes upon the stand sworn to tell : the truth, and. the Whole truth, and he tells your commit tee, in the face of that tact, that he • will not say anything unless the question. is put in the right way. • Mr.• Warner. questions this witness; thud tells him that it is due to other parties who have testified bef:)re the corn mittee, and therefore he asks the question ; the Star. Chamber corroborating . .witnesses. and protecting *their character, while they as._ mil the' character and the integrity of the. legislative body to which they belong! Now; sir, : l, charged - ,that the, sominittee . exeec4o , authority.. "have shown it from the • rewlution their appointment, and from their quest;Ons to .tbe witnesses.. I charge ,that they have violatedthe 'privileges of this Heuse,by proceeding to inquire, when a meMber is invoked, _before getting .authori: ty.from•the House to .make such inquiries. . Mr..QUITMA.N. I deSire to know of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, as a matter of interest to the House, ;from what source he, procure* the- testimony- to which he ha;s ;referred 1 • Mr.::GROW. I hold itonyhand thecopy of the testimony which was served upon Mr. Gilbert by' this *eiimiitte.e ionie eighteen days slier it was taken. Mr, .RITCHIE. I ,desiks to interrupt the gentleman for a, single moment. .Mr.:GROW. if I yield to one , ,(or :a nko mentf. I must yield toycrybody. Mr. ,RITCHIE. . Only., one moment,-- Does my colleague decline to yield? 1 . want him to: answer that question, , The SPEAKER.,- The , Chair desires to say, that when a member has the, floor upon a question he is entitled to it., without inter ruption ; and it is iroppssiblefor a debate to be carried on in this House. especially up- I on such a subject as this, if every member of the Hotcx feels privileged to interrupt every other member. A member should arise and state a question of order to the House. 'Mr. FLORENCE. , i<would inquire of the Chair whether, when a member thinks another is speaking out of order; he cannot raise a question of order'? The SPEAKER.. lie can rice to - a point of order, most. certainly. .11r. QUITMAN. . ',should- , luippy to know whether : tha: remarks the, Speaker were intended to,apply to' ine The SPEAKER. Not at All. They, ap ply to - the House, and the Chair has repeat edly:made the.r_emark. • MN 4),INTMAN, I wish merely _to make this remark, that it has. been c.ustoriwYeigioe I have had *honor of At seat here, to per. mit gentlemen-to ask questions` et-members 'asking floor- If.i am of order in asking aftsimple question —~: The SPEAKER. The. gentleman from Mississippi was not out of;e4der.• The C h air recognized the gentleman, and the inquirywas made and answered. But, upon an occasion like ibis, it will be apparent to the , geotte ntan.from.MissiiNippi and avail , other geo dean% that, deliate tannot-be carried on un derstirdingly if every .nieffiteir:rises to inter; rapt.. The Chair stated. 14t, Use .oununnoce meat of this Congress,tluit he did not favor the practice of interruption, and that it could only bo allowed by unanimous consent. Mr. GROW._ I have an idea .of consum ing much of the time of :this ftpuse., I did not rise for, any Nngtheneii Aiocus4on,, The State of my health - doea„ not, warrant it. I only rose to sustain the point which I made when the committee proposed to make their 4?-4 ie fl y to the skititorick3 reter _br. . _ , 37: ''' k_—. ~., , H. H. FRAZIER, PUBLISIIER4',-ItOVV.4I O. 10. s , , : , ~ . • on which Lrely: to sustain my I:t.osition- The second point is, 'that . the comMittee Violated tbe privileges of the Wise; tieaord ing.tO the Idenual,'which - is a part of'tbe law of this Heise. In the noted, Cilley duel case the committee reported that the privileges of the House had been .violated. They named the men who had violated the.. privileges of the House, and proposed action in iefereneii to them. The House laid that report On the table, for the - r:ason that the aommittee.inid violated the privileges of the lieuse. That was a case where it was inipoteiible for the investigation to' go , on without involving . members who everybody-knew were engaged in the transaction Jonathan Utley had been • Shot,in a duel The House knew perfectly well Who' were the parties - in it when they Ord- . ered the ini.estig,tititm and inqnby into 'the: cause of the death of Cilley, and whether the privileges of the House had been violated.— That was their nutlairity. The committee did as the committee-have dune in this' —Save that 'they did not trample down the common law, which gives protection to per sonal liberty. They - notified the members inculpated that they should hold their, inves. gation at a particular time 'and place. clod that they could appear to• meet their witness sea and cross-examine them: Thi& realm was given to . eneh of the parties who 'were implicated in their report. '1 his committee, hoWever, thought itproper to Sit with closed: doors, and to trample down those greit safe guards which American freemen,' and . free men the world over,prize as the bulwarks of their liberty.. No man is to be assailed liya tribunal having authority to injure his char acter, whether the tribunal be legislative or judicial, without being confrowed With his accusers. Under this -rule of the Manual which I . .have read, when a - committee is charged with an inquiry: where a -member's privileges are involved, tiaty cannot proceed against him, but must come into the . House, and. report the 'tact, and then the House gives them authority to inquire as to the matter, or they appoint a select committee -etir that purpose, 'or they hear the member at thebar. Now that great safeguard and privilege which belOngs to this legislative body,which belongs to' the constituencies which it repre; gents— not to them as• individuals—is 'tram plod down by this committee. :11 stand here, sir, to vindicate the constitutional rights of individual members—to vindicate, the • con stitutional rights which the parliamentary law gives to those whom they represent.— And 1 stand here to vindicate the character 'attic public servants against.the foul calum nies of base profligates. The full report •of the testimony which the eoTilinitteee furnished to the these members shows—what 1 That there was some kind of talk between these members and Sweeney about a book reselu tion to beintrodueed into Congress.. It Was neQer ittqwinc4, how ever.,. \ yitne A ; otl the stand swore that he alil not know that Mr. Gilbert was to have one cent. He sWears it distinctly ; but his impressions;are he was to hgvesomething. This ceintraittee press him to,the wall .ta knew: his impres s s.ons requiring, him to give What he hid heard m 'stemi of What he Knew: I charge upon this committee again- that they. have been ready to stab the characters -and- reputations ef members' of this House, While they stetl aaa wall Or fi re.nrOund the character o f the witness. , He Was'alloaved to - Or me in before theM, and COnfront the nesses Ivho 'were to impeach his eharacter.--:- He could sit-thew/a the variotav examina tions and crossexanaine IkPlllen. who assait• ed his re putation, - while meMbers this floor were dpitthat right. Jtlia a pfoceed ing.,Mr. Speaker; unheard of in the-his:limy of this coutitry ; and.;God.grant that tt‘may .be thelast of, the•kindi • Itmen.a..e-to.be fts sailed, let them Le assaikd in- daylight. cOrruiition exists in Our bring it to the public gaie by the 'iules'ishich you , as men-'and 'throwing' around er - eley man the great safeguard of the Constitution. • . I desire to sereen.no man from a fair:seru.- tiny into Ms conduit; but 1 do object ici: this mode of trial. ' 1 voted for all ',the, n. , asures titi ' proposed by 'tbe committee; to istiii • this investigation thOroughly, faidifully,land effic: iontly. ,: .1 did vote, though- with great reluct- Auce,for s. law they ; introdueed-: ,That low trampied . dOwn the great safeguard . Of per- Swint liberty.' 'l voted for - it 'under the ex, igcney ; aria 'when this - ebrornittee Shell', have -hem disposed.Cif, I ,shall,:if I ehance`to:occu, py a seat on this floor, propos-e.toropeal the: parts of that . law ,whieh take.away, from men the securities that courts ofjustice,give them, on the witness-stand.' I voted . for the' Meii§- tire endeithe exigency -of the'ciriinmstiniees; in Order...to give to that corninittee. the. full anti efficient : powers which they demanded of us, to enable them to pursue this invistiga tion, ondferret ont : fraud it it - existed. •But . I tiever .. drearned i 'sir, that they. would ' ever attempt to - ferret 'Out fraud and' corruptionand-wrong, .by trampling on justice -and right and the 'securities:of personal liberty. -,, •..•: • fr,,Slieaker, 1 have.stated that this pro- Ceeding is without precedent; and:l 'desire to make 'one reniark On that point - Cory gress, in all - ita inVestiga . tions; if members were involved at - all, have namcd,in the atith ority. given to. the Pirninitts,:tht.. : natnes i members so implicat4. or !they were, to, hi -quire into a- certain transaction. - 'That was the special- authority tinder which they'Were to act, and under it- they 'have-notified-the ineMbersimplicated,thatthey titightbe prek ent when evidence : was taken . against: them. But hero lie co tn nu ittee,'. wit flout s p eh notice,. haVe undertik . eii .t 6 sustain their report . ' On 1 evidence of a witness contradicted 4 , thi tip timoni - tif a member of: thiit liciusiiin pesiehid :by the open, direct, .and,plaia :dec.: .larsion.pf his neighbers, that he i s . not : tolie believed under, . oath ;- and by 'the_deelara tienof itnan Wiionilie Mimes hero ti,i'd 'pla ty in this' transaction—one of 'them Wing Mr. Chase, of New York:.: He. stands belhre -this ountroittemn. impeached by „all _the testi mony, except ,ns. t, o. thol . fttet. to. which' g r . Triplett" swe.ars. , The "COnitect . Was Are Wu up mihia (iwn'hatid Writing.' .It'utaa; - iiiiide - payable to Sweeney. • The money: was itW•he oaid to Sweeney ;', and S.weettey sweaVs:that 'be doss nor, know-that. Mr. iliiert „yips . ~to have a cont. , BeHe could only give his ;Fires. 'stun. ,Gilhert'inam'ade6i not appeir'iti the contract at all. •--; -- • -•- ' ' • ' ''':-: . • Now, sir, tho.polnt which I made nn, this inert,' is lba peint`thiit .vas Made in f thiiCil 'ley itpetEisitrY . Mr: . itel ite rnien...alniginTa, ' by John' Qiiiiiey Adanik '. - orrifiliusetta, rb y 'Ail I tird.Fil Ini nit.; Of Nete Yiiik." in (1‘ ' ty ta hest of Other etnineittinennr the'Mbntillc. San' qniniiy . ' , ',44 . llAiS deehirea'fifts.'t6Vohni El guilty of a greater violation ol that.whieh *o 4 ;lfitriOl) they im*"toitatve w .o.4ll th it gate their cotiduet.-A44fisdr dared :tbat - thitipOrt oughtpat, and ought not to be printed. caufei he saidv comp: testinlny, taken in. the abteace . a&uied;" because it it 'trYitig criminal -erifeettlie +athest biatisit tunitymf hetiringthe tefitim;inr.. the , tintified he Could isppciia:l . befOii'lsiuityero Mr. ORR. ;Was not-thitt to!'belirintedi..- 1 ;.. .--: -..,. is. , -....., ~ .f...:•-,.4 . : Mr. GIIQW. _I road from .iltseßmsll,4S.7, lentil . Globe, volume 6, page W.l'; .. I baire not the time nor strength tc..Jawatit.further upon any.of this-testimony, tithing lt,,optia_a lawyer would ,takeit up, and siftipg i t., ~ 1.0.1411 not do that. - But.l. call , the attLmtiop of . the 4 flouse_to this one fact.. Thete i .. j no• eirldetiee itnplicating the member from] Neer ' . Ytitle, ~.. siive the evidence of this , man weeneey' 4 lwhOl iVIVI :discharged - 'by. the Doork yer, of this 'louse for. his, progigacy, arid. t _ e I num Trip ? lett, who was , discharged . from the — Niiiion Offtee tor malfeasenee in 05*, ''TEiiii is'tK 'testimony on-which this 'committee- staitd-;ti. biLst the e.hiracter of . - a .tnember, .of- this House.. Sweeney and - Tripiett r ata*poly - men who have made any reference to Mr. Gilbert at all.' ' The copy -of t ie te.ithistOOY which has been furnishod to his Ansmilites , from New' York contains only i!e_ta44114)123, of these two men. Triplett. _hes ..to,Alsr that he Ithowa Mr. Gilbert Wai • reeehreiona dollar. Sweeney says he doesriCkniiiithiii v i Mr. Gilbert was to receive on dollar: _::>'=:- i Triptett says that,. troth their general:leo* al 'laic of Congress, he., was sat: - oti 1.14 t, amt.', ing could be gotten thrpugh t C is rionsi l iti. : less it was - bought ih 1 rongb: Thiaiiiille: - man whom the Corninittee-toOk'tia•therritcw sem% to blast the reputatien He declares La ths?",wmtnitbas . , is it) corrupt that nothing can Gingres3atnles. it is th doe, not know that Mr. Oil eefve ani-ecaitp - mutation: It pi-ezion that each was thefat But; again, this eontsettwor Triplett and Sweenuy:„ and: ", Gilbert and , any other- man; that' the reasonable JuippOsitio ney himself was to be 'MP ben vontrtiet. - His name wa* in 1 and he must implicate some. from his character as far .as me; I , say, it is a fair supposit to receive the Money from Tr, Mr. Gilbeitiri*V, .4ective" transaction,ml44l ; . aver made , reference• to' the, Otter whatit; came to Tripiett,and rep wanted_ :Zs written t contract:- I witnesses knows or pretends Mr. Gilbert was to receive ease the resolution'pasaed ; • a lution was. ever - offered, in Mr. ELLIO.,TT. to , roan from PcnnsylVinka one is Where Aid 'he 'get i ti's Audi; Clint Mr; Tiiplett iia%'ttirrted malfea.vanee 7 .-. ;, _ Mr.-SHERMAN. . t I give , otice_44durt, mg .this diseu , t,gion 1 alutt okiect tp, -, artx,Ket,..., l i n ruption or questioning 6j , nie 16ers. 11 , 1 i. GROW. The other rtjtif tliiiiiey: ti timo.n.Y. - IPon , ‘F-liitth 4nixiin Pktl' - p , is about_ thaiowa Reilroad. ¶ t)i - t, e i wiz- ness—SWeeney: Whet`dWee' 'elaiit c- ' l l'ha`. Gilbert stoldhim in' the ',Wei+ 'that Wviii ttt . have .stiven 2 squaret'snitptiW ,,- nittfoundionit i i) l'a gzr atonic-for I , oting.for , that.niir ttiz.-.-r•o;$1(r,, who- , believe ! sit '- -- ! 11. :4 114 '5e -1 1 , irtffltkittit - -House who believes it, lie ini More credit: - - 't3i than ' r nsre.'' ) Ttni fAvii lihitiAtiVar. init . :hi.° ict 'lntich'ifailf 'M l&bitinhiitratt with, if they, detarip out in .thetm:ll; I.lloes .any.manfitere SUPPoRIt h4t 9:tml 441111Yg# v c dutpi c ity. 0141..1n the pc/sOsicqtßt atitti,er 4 person information ` thus woe l ir seitehmi Co the penitentiail iniftdatit hii teinititian titt. ever I - Irielika' men 1 'ha Aleetr\iii - r*. practice. in - the 'courtath It ; , ' it.. 41'6' 4 440n very brief-44 0 4 ,11 .k &iPg ,44 eY. I 4P:9 I r, • where' thl, witness declarel,thltnnotherjad r untarily ..told hitt; what woO, ir,yeliettetk . make him intaitiolitOmd 'eine. igiilintikb tifh dungeon fneyeers. ' -. Sir,- datilisityitereuistit 1 pose that al,member,ol COngieSS ; WOVICIffiI. 1 nnteer,infi.gmetiort4hAt woui4, . blital.hip, few `utation 1 But thie witness says. tgat t _gr. Chase was the person with whom Skii - Wi. 1 triet *as made. " Now,itirOS f t: 'Chit isreara I that it was not Made.," - I.• • t ;-(1. „ 74 .1-. i . 'Age. ORR. Mow- does! Ilie .igen*** - lin , ) , A! ; that .1 - , pet. , ,: i ,A .! : .-s[ ~., : ... FYzel lir. 90 . w. I:4l.pliA F ty.,yil* e f ,iate4:tiruf - will . say,'itu4!:kr. artf - if initnined, Me. Chase swear s t initiiiiitalksiii • trues Was Made; and.liball- take itftwitiaii• 'ed -that such was the fact; .untesp sonstkmati) ber of,the ,committee atitea,,ilth,e4,4l4, ) .io ,Ci , Mr.fiß, ttir, Gii beFt"disk: pot. etill . Chise.to contradict it. . 1. l ui ' . Mr. GROIN% 'Thai-Via a - '` tfilullitewiiiii -Appears in this . testimony .lw ithi 4tiilawtote as a little singular. to th e; inlet hlk .41 - AP r''lllittee mb o l4 , .these:„ . rai ottds,„Fikti..did ey ronflue ; their qtiesSismit to tit*. t,iTv rt'adM-,.tbe . -finiFS Wit+o l lo • ,iku4 -11 '0 4 411T roatdA 1-,. There tv,.are.rqpk, i . ~ritiri4„,. imitth . and-. MiS'sis!iippi, whie .W.Or - iiiii,r . . t , .. - .4' lorc.the Xfoue, lad* vil,lY:o4d hßtNtlYatlf*P.... their inquiries .Y:1 the se te,";:, `:' ,N,71:3,2 twee ; of I M i l t ei l c4 4 3lo' , ,P i j 0 % Me:,196 1 ' tkvoii of, t. 14 coull'ilitife - ti l 34,,k!' l 4lo l tri," in„the. optket,illa,4;lloY l i kittißeet!l4l4.l l [heir ,duti , ; first in ,eitete4ln Op siket (Fit); given ilwm -bY4e/ Pit el4o-4 .Y 441 - . ivgAe.priv N l,o.499=Np A w pi lei lowt - theconaututi9p3lFiAtf.lWlFM" • LZGAL TENDZIL - Mealelgolileekhetottlie pitr4 §tetel? f?r, ell;sunrt are le pd tepdar to any:areount OW, •Are also legul . teeler te..apy'extetit'ikihe to State; but the eutlerj:iti the_ act of, 153. 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SlielifeY to (t.: that hit Melt**. of dui to 01113irthat, any money in . , arpatich, rasp._ gess at 44 /' 4 4 1 th .:g9 o :l - guetio,ri ;!S illy- for kak4ao, t.'of OfflbsTittt ~:. tr. „ il:::,;:;,,,,.!: tuir.4.4,a4ra. anktryat Cud. witli isle bad ciao" 4riedickatik: before' Wit, , ibr :0,04 1121kPd Oetiario :
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