Co • : , erA OF YESTERDAY'S PROOMIDiN , SENATE.—The bill to authorize' the con struction of a bridge across the , Mississippi, at Quincy, 111., was resumed. ••, c • • - Mr: - Henderson offered 'an amendment, whibli was adopted, authorizing the con struellon of a bridge at Hannibal, Mo. The bill, as amended, was thenpa.ssed. , The -bill making appropriations for the surifiert of the Post. Office Department for the ensuing year was called Up- • - Mr. Trumbull (Ill.) offered the following as anamendment to the bill : "No person exercising or performing the duties of any .` ' .., officials which by law isrequired to be filled — by the advice and consent of the Senate ball,-before confirmation by the Senate, re caiv& any salary or compensation • for his leatvices, unless he be commissioned by the Rfeardent to fill up a vacancy •which has drnin a y io the recess of the Senate , and since its bet ' urnment,happened by death, resig- Matt= or expiration of the term. • - - • Mr. Johnson (Md.) opposcidthe - above as en infringement upon the appointingpower Of tin) President. , Mr. Trumbull did not think the right of , the power of removing from office was un derstood in his amendment. According-to a statute of 1883, it was competent for Con gress to provide that officers appointed by and with the advice' and consent of the Sen ate should be removed only by and with the adviiinand consent Of the. Senate: - This was provided hi the law creating the office of ComPlatller of Currency; The President 4 said ,Mr. Trumbull, haft no authority over the Treasut :Cif ' the country. ,. He cannot dravf his own salary without the consent of. Congress. There is, therefore no constitu tional question involved in this. ' The inten tion of , the amendment is , to prevent any one being put out of office, and another put in his place so as tb receive his pay, and if the President thinks proper to undertake to remove officers, the successor shall receive no pay,-if this provision becomes a law, un til he is confirmed. by the Senate. '7. ; Mr. Johnson said that, admitting the ' „power, of Congress to refuse to pay an officer, timaa questionable whether there was any • antral right to do so. The precedent about tube established might be a bad one, and sight return to plague the inventor. It . •rnAght happen that those now in the minori tit/ Should obtain a majority In COngress, while the other party had a President elect ' . ed. Congress might then refume to pay the -v - Agesident's appointees. Mr. Johnson said „, ha would read a letter from Mr. Madison on this subject, written at a time when there as a more hitter war between Congress ........, - i the President than now exists, admit •i g there is a war at present. is r. Clark—There is no war. [Laughter.] Mr. Johnson—l say, admitting there is a r--. ar. [Laughter.] lam sure there is no ' • ar; but I say, admitting there is. [Laugh - ter.] Mr. Sumner—A mere hypothesis. [Laugh ter.] Mr. Trumbull—A mistaken hypothesis. [Laughter.] Mr. Johnson—Thia has a little squinting that way, but unfortunately, perhaps, the honorable member from Illinois does not • • see it. [Laughter.] Mr. Johnson continued his remarks on the pending amendment. Mr. Trumbull had admitted the power of the President to remove - during the session -of the Senate, but denied his right to appoint. Suppose the President, who is a man of firmness and nerve, should be'of the opinion that it is the purpose of Congress to war upon him by taking from him the power to remove, what will bs do? He will remove, and not appoint, and • the wheels of government will stop. If the President is impeached for it, he can defend himself Wand appeal to the people. What is to be accomplished by carrying on apparent war, doing what never has been done in relation to any of the predecessors of the President? What is the condition of the country? The war is over, and the Union still practically dis solved. What are the signs of the times? If the instructions given by the Secretary of State to our Minister to Austria are car . ried out, the result will be war between this country and Austria. We may defeat the few soldiers she may send against us, but she will fill the seas with privateers to destroy our commerce. With eleven States excluded from the Union, we are not in a condition to go to war; and if the report of the Committee on Reconstruction is adopted the States will be kept out till after the ~ twat Presidential election. • Mr. Sumner (Mass.) said he would like to simplify the question before the Senate, which it seemed to him Mr. Johnson had done more to perplex than to explain. It was said that the fox when pursued can ningly contrives to throw his pursuers off the scent, and it seemed to him (Mr. Sum ner) that Mr. Johnson had been trying to throw the Senate off the scent. Mr. John ;bon had spoken of the possibility of war with Austria. He shared the solicitude of ,; ; that Senator with reference to the question '. , ,1tt0 which he had referred, but he begged to 7 - remind the Senate that it could have noth ing to do with this question. The. question 6 cowpending was so simple as hardly to ;lushly argument. ilk Mr. Trumbull said Mr. Johnson was mis -,...,.* . aken in suppoding that this was a measure doheistile to the Executive. It was simply an amendment to carry out a clear constitu • 'tonal power of Congress to prevent a pray,- . tice which had grown up of making appoint anents to office without consulting the Senate. He did not believe the_ adoption of ' his atiiendment would affect the qaestion of war with Autitria. -[Laughter]. - , Mr. Sherman (Ohio) said he believed Con gress had the right to limit tho.power of the President to _appoint. • 'lt . exercised- that power in 1863, in , the bill creating the office of Comptroller of theTurrency., The,tiend beg proposition was, - however, very harsh, :sand he would hesitate before giving his as- __ sent to it. If the Ohairman of the Judiciary Committee would report • a bill to regulate the subjebf of removals and appointments, • he would I"stipPort_ . 11 - ,_ifit_was.jnaleialiy • . ' framed.. :There was=; a jealiSusy,.,he r .woplii. hot say ; a, mar, between ~ Congrese aud diet -, President; and he knew of no tiate-better • than the pregent for- regulating the subject . . removal and appOintatents, by - passing; a' 4 just-law on the subject, ,It ought, i s a to rno lb n e d p n r en ee to bi th a e n a , p hi pr f o o p rm ria a t l i nzan bi n i tr h as e *did notlielieve, it would be wise to declare *bat an officer legally appointed should re ceive no pay, unless his appointment was agreed to by the Senate. - - Mr. Henderson (Mo.) saidhe had partially prepared a bill of the nature referred to by Mr. Sherman. He had come to the conclu sion that the President had no constitutional power to remove any one from office. Speak ing of the practice of executive removals, he said Washington, in eight years, removed but four from office, Adams but ten, Jeffer - son but eight, Madison but eight, Monroe but nine, John Adams but four, General 'Jackson removed two hundred and thirty during the first year, and'after that some four or five thousand. Since Jackson's time the habit of removing had been much more frequent than before. He did notknow that President Johnson would undertake to re-- move from office to any great extent; but if he (Mr. „Henderson) was in his place and the same difference existed between' him and Congress that exists between Congress and Mr. Johnson, he would use all the ' mower he had. He believed that unless it vtas taken away from l him, Mr. Johnson AVAI ; 'Would be justified in tieing his _appointing later power I to carry , out what he. calls "my , ....whey." -, 4 -.lir. Henderson,was referring to the fact that a western - newspaper laid 'advised the - *'"Rresident to march troops into the Capitol wand drive the Senate but. Mr. Davis (Ky.) tad said that if the Soutnern Senators came here and joined the minority in the Sena te, ,* t would be for the President to say whi'" was the legal Senate. • Mr. Davis-I will :what I did-say, And what I beliefe. it - ittuna.tie the duty of he President to communicate to. Congress from time to time, and recommend for its consideration, such measures as he shall deem proper. The position that I assumed was this, that before the President could ethat office he would have to ascer min what bodies of men constituted the Congress. If there were four bodies of men two of them concluding that they were the. Senate, and the other two concluding that they were the House, then the President must necessarily decide which body consti tuted the House and which the Senate; that it was a necessity, and that it was his plain constitutional prerogative and right to de termine, under such a state of the case as that, which was the true Senate and which was the true House. I furthermore stated that f the Southern members were to get together with a number of their members of the two Houses, and they, in the aggre gate, constituted a majority of the two Houses, that the Presideltt had the consti- tutional function and right to decide whether they were the Congress or not, and if he chose to recognize them as the two Hous'es of Congresi, they constittued the regular legal constitutional Congress. That is still my opinion. Mr. Howard (Mich.)— Then the Con gress depends upon the will of the President? Mr. Davis—l furthermore stated that it Was the province of the two Houses to judge exclusiTely, each for itself, of the elections, qualifications and returns of its own mem bers; that over these issues the President bad no control or jurisdiction; but at the same time, if the members contesting for seats were to get together in such bodies as constituted a majority of the two Houses, that the President had the right to recegnize them in the. Congress. I say so still. That is my opinion—my belief. Mr. Howard—WilltheSenator from Ken tucky allow me to ask him from what part of the Constitution of - the United States he derives this power? Mr. Davis answered by quoting the con stitutional provision requiring the Presi-, sident to communicate with Congress. Mr. Anthony (R. I.) said the Senator from Kentucky not long since made a speech which at the time excited the surprise of the Senate. He had looked for it in the Globe, but it was not there; and he desiredto know whose fault it was—whether it was the fault of the reporters or publishers of the Globe that this omission occurred. Mr. Davis—lt is my fault. Mr. Anthony said that this practice of making speeches and then either suppress ing them oeso altering them as to make re plies to them appear ridiculous ought to be stDpped. He believed the reporter of the Globe ought to be held responsible for the publication of everything said in the Senate. He for one should oppose the appropriation for the Globe, if it was to be optional with men to print or suppress speeches made in the Senate. Mr. Davis, in reply, said it was a common practice for speeches to be withheld for pub lication in the appendix of the Globe. He intended to print in the appendix the speeches to which Mr. Anthony referred. Mr. Howard (Mich.) said he held in his band the original report of the remarks which Mr. Davis had just explained, as taken by the reporters at the tinie,and writ ten out from his desk. He asked that it be read. The Secretary read it accordingly. [ Sir. Davis says in it that the President is, by the Constitution, made the Judge of what -is the Congress. The excluded Senatnrs, with the minority in this body, constitute a ma jority of all the Senators of all the States. These two could get together in a conclave and it would be the constitutional obliga- I ion of the President to choose between the two Senates then existing. It is his power, and I would advise him to use it. He has the right, and, by the Eternal, be ought to exercise that right. If I were he I would do it to-morrow, and recognize the Sonthern members, with the minority here, as the constitutional body.] Mr. Davis, at the conclusion of the read ing, rose and said: Mr. President, that is my principle still; I maintain that that is the true principle of the Constitution. Mr.Howard—The honorable Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Davis) says that is his prin ciple still. I regret very much to hear him make such an announcement. I pronounce z hat principle to be revolutionary, unconsti tutional and treasonable. I move that the Senate adjourn. Mr. Davis—l wholly dissent from the po sition of the honorable Senator. It is neither revolutionary, unconstitutional, nor treas- onable. The Senate, at 5 o'clock P. M., without taking action on the pending bill or amend ment, adjourned. HousE.—Mr.Stevens (Pa.) from the Com mittee on Appropriations, reported a bill making appropriations for the use of the Bureau of Refugees,Freedmen and Aban doned Lands for he year commencing January , let, 1866. which was read twice and referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State the of Union;and made the special order for to-morrow. The bill makes the following appropria tions—Salaries of Assistant and sub-Assis tant Commissioners, $47,500; salaries of clerks, $82,800; stationery and printing, $63,000; quarters and fuel, $15,900; clothing for distribution $1,750,000; commissary stores, $4,106,2.40; medical department, $500,000; transportion, $1,980,000; school •superintendents, $21,000; sites for school houses and asylums, $3,00040; telegraph ing, $lB,OOO. Total, $11,584,450. Mr. Stevens offered a substitute for the bill introduced by him on December 20th, and referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, to doublit the pen sions of those who were made pensioners by the casualties of the date war, to pay the damages done to loyal men by the late rebel government and rebel raiders, and to enforce the confiscation of the property of the enemy, which was orderedto be printed, The substitute forfeits to, the- United States all the public lands belonging to the eleven ,Stratep that formed the governmentof the so called "Confederate States of -America," directs the President to cause the seizure "forthwith of such property belonging to We belligerent enemy as is deemed forfeited by, the act of 17th of July, 1652 ; to hold and appropriate the same as enemy's property, and to proceed to condemnation with' that already seized; that the President shall ap point two commissioners or more, to consist of three persons each, to adjudicate and condemn such property, which shall there upon,become vested in the United States. tThe lands thus confiscated shall be distri buted to the slaves liberated by the opera tions of the war and the amendments to the Constitution, at' the rate of forty acres to each adult male person, and to each widow who is the head of a family, to be held by them in fee simple, but to be inalienable for ten years, after which time the absolute title to them shall be conveyed. The rest of the confiscated property is to be applied to the following purpcises, viz: Giving $lOO for the erection of buildings on each homeste $200,000,000 to be invested in United States securities, and the interest added to the pen sions ,of pensioners; $100,000,000 to go to wards equalizing the bounties of soldiers, and $200,000,000 to go -towards paying da mages done to loyal citizens by the civil or military onerations of the` - government' oallea -"The Confederate States of America." No pemon's property is to be seized whose, whole estate on the 4th of March, 1865, was not worth more than- $lO - unless he had voluntarily become an officer or employe in the military 'or civil service of the Confederate States, and in en forcing all confiscations the:value of $lO,OOO in real or personal property is to be left to the delinquent. THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN : PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY. MAY 1.166. Mr. Eliot. addressed the House at con siderable length, advocating the principle of internal I nnprovement and explaining the provisions of the bill, and then moved the previous question. Mr. Rcss asked Mr. Eliot to admit an amendment appropriating $200,000 for the improvement of the Illinois river, but Mr. Eliot declined, saying that gentlemen all around were pressing ter amendment% There was not an appropriation recom mended in the bill which did not-rest upon careful estimates made at the War Depart ment, and upon recommendations coming from there. There was not one point con cerning which petitions had not come up from the people, and which had not been carefully. examined. :He ',believed that in every instance where the people had desired the action of Coneress. and where it had been possible to obtain from the department such estimates as enabled the committee to determine with any accuracy what was wanted, had been duly- considered, and would be reported upon. It world not do, he said, to. open the bill -to amendments which would be loose andutereigness work. Mr. Donnelly (Minn.) asked Mr. Eliot to yield for an amendment to the section au thorizing surveys to be made. Mr. Eliot had no objection to that, and the following points were, on motions of Messrs. Donnelly, Van Horn (N. Y.), and Pik", added to the section authorizing sur veys to be made, viz: _ • ' The Sombro river and the Cannon river, Minnesota; the lake and mouth of Eighteen mile creek, Oleo% New- :York, and the St; Croix river, above the ledge. Mi. Spaulding (Ohio) asked Mr. Eliot to . yield for an amendment providing that the Secretary of War ihall at all times be au thorized to- place th,e public works of the United States mentioned in the act in charge of Custom-house officers or other agents of, the government living near the works, who shall protect the same from unwarrantable obstructions or injuries of any kind, with out additional charge for their service; but Mr, Eliot declined to yield for that purpose. The previous question was seconded and the amendments, agreed to, and the bill passed. Mr. Blaine rose to a personal question, and asked to have read a letter from Gen eral Fry, which he sent to the Clerk's desk. Mr. Conkling stipulated that he should have an opportunity of replying to it. ' Mr. Blame stated that he wished to have this letter read for the double purpose of vindicating, himself from the charge of having made an untruthful statement in the Rouse some days since, and in giving, in the broad American sense of fair play, an opportunity to a worthy officer to be heard in the forum where he has been Assailed. wish further to state that if, on investiga tion, I bad found that I was in error in the statement I made in debate; touching the difficulties between the member from the' Utica district and the Provost Marshal- General, I would have felt bound, hu miliating as it would have been, to apolo gize - to the-labuse, and to make the correc tion. Whether I was in error I will leave to be judged by the Souse, after it shall' have heard the letter of the Provost Marshal General read. .• • The Clerk then read the letter of General Fry; of which the .following are extracts: WAR DEPARTMENT, PROVOST MARBRAL 4;ilaigrairis Bwmuu, WhamiziaToN, April . The last section ia ' • That so much of thejointresolirtion passed, on the 17th day of July, 1862, entitled "a re solution explanatory of and to suppresa the insurrection,', to punish , treason and rebel lion, to confiscate the property of rebels,and for other purposefr, •' as providearthat no - pro= ceedings under it shall be construed as to work a forfeiture of the'real - estate - heyond his life, shall be repealed, so, far as it refers to the seizure and forfeiture ofenemy's pro- Perty. Mr. Stevens asked leave to offer aresolu tion reciting the fact that the President had not answered the resolution of the House, of March sth, inquiring as to thee number of pardons granted, and the amount of forfeit ed , property restored to rebel owners, and requesting him to communicate such infor mation at his earliest convenience, it being needed for purposes of legislation, Mr. Ross objected. Mr. Hitchcock (Nebraska) introduced a bill appropriating part of tholproceeds of in ternal revenue in the territriry of Nebraska for the purpose of erecting a penitentiary and completing the Capitol of that territory. Read twice and referred to Committee on the Territories. Also, a bill to provide for the construction of a wagon road. from Columbus, Nebraska to Virginia City, 'Montana territory, whicki was referred to the same committee. Mr. Ashley, of Nevada territory,presented resolutions of the Legislature of. Nevada, in reference to building a United States Branch Mint at Carson City,and to mail service and to mining districts in the ea3tern portion of Ne'vada, which were appropriatelyreferred. Mr. Whaley introduced a bill in reference to claims for horses turned over to the gov ernment. Read twice and referred to the. Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Bidwell offered a resolut ion, which was adopted, requesting the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the propri ety of providing by law that whenever any person subject to the rules and articles of war shall be tried by a court martial for any alleged offence, and the finding of the court shall be that he is not guilty, the President and Judge Advocate shall give a written lertificate of acquittal to the-accused, who shall then bereleased from arrest and con finement, Mr. Rigby (Cal.) offered a resolution, which was adopted, reciting the allegations in responsible publicjournals and elsewhere that in the enforcement of the revenue laws at Boston and New York, frauds had been committed on the United States, and also that frauds had been committed in the en forcement of the internal revenue laws, in the adjustment of claims for the violation. thereof in those cities, and instructing the Committee on Public Expenditures 'to in quire into all such alleged frauda,and to sit curing the recess of Congress, at such place as may be deemed most convenient, and by such number, not exceeding, three, of such committee as may be deemed advisable. Mr. Drigga (Mich.) offered a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the Secretary of State to furnish the House with a list of the claims of citizens of the United States now pending in the U. S. Legation at Cara cas against the government of Venezuela, and to state what measures are required to bring such claims to a speedy settlement. Mr. Loan introduced a bill declaring St. Joseph, Missouri, a port of delivery. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Blow introduced a bill to allow the extension of the wharf at St. Louis. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. • Messrs. Darling and Ward presented re solutions of the State of New York in favor of equalizing bounties. Mr. Van Horn (N. Y.) presented a peti tion signed by 63 citizens of Elba, Genesee county, N. g an increase of duty on wool. Mr. Conkling presented a petition of Mrs. Butts and. 65 other women of Hopedale. Mass., asking an amendment of the Consti tution prohibiting the States from disfran chising citizens on the ground of sex. Re ferred to the Judiciary Committee. Messrs. Price (Iowa) and Randall (Pa.) were excused from serving on the Confer ence Committee in reference to the sale of liquors in the Capitol, and Messrs. Grinnell and Dawson were appointed in.their planes. On motion of Mr. Eliot, the Committee of the Whole on the State of the 'Onion: was discharged from furthernonsideration of the River and Harbor Improvement bill,and the bill came 'before the House for reconsidera tion. 27 th, - ' lB 66.—Son:'James'Blaine, Esv-- I have to thank you for repelling a,- you did, in the HOuse of Repmentatives, on the 26c1 inst, the "very extraordinary assault uponnte by the Hop. Roscoe ,Conkling, New :York. It was a defenpe of me in a forcun where I had no' opportunity to be personally heard, and Ii 'am enabled to say that your assertions touching •Mr. Conk ' ling's difficulties• with this Bureau are amply and completely justified by:the facts which this letter will disielose. My official intercourse with:,Representa tives in Congress, during th past three years, has ' been constant; and -in many cases intimate, and with the solitary excep tion of Mr. Conkling, it has been marked, so far at I remember, by mutual• honor and fair dealing. Mr..Conkling being thus an exception, it is my purpose to' give a brief t.unguary of his connection and intercourse with this Bateau. In the summer .of 1863 Mr. Conkling made a case for himself by pslegraphing to the War Department that the provost marshal of his district required legal advice, which he was thereupon em powered to give. In April, 1865, Mr. Charles A. Dana, then Assistant Secretary of War, without notify ing me, had Mr. Conkling appointed to in vestigate all frauds - in enlistments in West ern New York, with the stipulation that he sheuld be commissioned judge advocate for the prosecutiort of any+ . cases brought to trial, and he was so appointed to prosecute, before a ,general court-martial, Major J. A. Haddock. Mr. Dana vested him by several orders lasted in the name of the Secretary of War,wßhout the sanction of Mr. Stanton, with the most extraordinary power. Among those was the right to, examine the des patehes in all telegraph offices in the western division of New York, which enabled a violation of the sanctity of personal and business correspondence. For his services in this connection, Mr; Conkling received, on the 9th of November last, from the United States, the mcidest fee of $3,000. Whether he received, ice it has been re ported, from his district $5,000 more for the same service, and whether he received additional fees from ' guilty parties, for opposing proceedings atNitica, I am unable to say; but, as hereafter shown, he was as zealous' in preventing prosecutions at Utica as he was in making them at Elmira, and the main ground of difficulty between Mr. Conkling and myself has been that I wanted exposure at lxith places while he wanted concealment at one. I suppose there can be no doubt among high-minded men as to the character of Mr. Conkling's course in this matter. Whether his action is exercising . the functions of judge advocate, and receiving pay therefor from the United States Ito the amount of three thousand dollars, -while receiving his compensation as a member of Congress, was a violation of the I letter or spirit, or both, of Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitu tion, I leave others to decide. As to the animus of Mr. ConklAng's calumnious assault upon me,:it is true, not his assertion that he had no personal quarrels with me, that the differ ences between him and !myself were alto gether from my unwillingness to gratify him in certain matters in which he • had a • trong personal interest. llt is true, also, that ee was foiled in ;his efforts to obtain undue concessions from my Bureau, and to dis credit me in the eyes of my superiors. The letter then goes into considerable de rail about the issues bet Ween the writer and Mr. Conkling, and concludes as follows : the general management of business has received the approval oil all dispassionate parties who have had an opportunity to edge of it, including the late President, and hat superior officer to whom I have been directly responsible, whoise vigor and whose •apacity and opportunity to judge are be yond dispute; and it will not be forgotten • bat complaints and text:mations have been spread with great industry before the'high fficials last referred to. II have been at all rimes amenable to the seyereat form of law, the military axle, liable at any moment to summary arrest, court martial, and extreme punishment in case of any dereliction of official duty. No one knows the fact better than Mr. Conkling himself; and if while acting as Judge Advocate, under the extra. ordinary inquisitorial powers bestowed upon him by his friend Mr. Dana, he came into the possession of any fact impugning or impeaching my integrity as a public offi cer, he was guilty of grave public wrong and unfaithfulness if he did not instantly fife his formal charges against me with the Secre tary of War. He can, therefore, only! escape the charge of deliberate and malignant falsehood, as a member of Congress, by confesging an un pardonable breach of duty as Judge Advo cate. He held both offices, and took pay for both, and at the same time. He has cer tainly been false to honcir in one, and per haps, as the sequel may show, in both. Copies of the official documents substantiat ing statements herein made are subjoined. [Signed] AtillES 13. Fay, • Provost Marshal General. Mr. Blaine said he did not desire to have the documents read, but Would ask to have them printed in connection with Gen. Fry's letter. Mr. Conkling expressed the hope that all the documents would be read. Mr. Ross inquired of the Speaker whether a motion to print ten thousand extra copies CI correspondence was in order. The Speaker replied in the affirmative ; and Mr. Ross thereupon made that motion, which was referred, under the rule, to the Committee on Printing. The accompanying documents, rather vo luminouff were read by the clerk. They con tained nothing of public interest. Mr. Conkling (N. Y.), although appreciat ing the indifference. which the House must have felt- at an issue personal and in dividual in its character, desired to address the House briefly. He could assure - the . House, with the utmost sincerity, that far everything in the extraordinary communi cation just read, which savored of impute tions on him, he was doubly 'consoled by the fact that he had becoine the instrumen tality of initiating. an investigation which would be good for the people and whole some for the public ends. [Before taking his seat' he would ask some member to move for & committee to investigate the subject, which hadceased to be private, and had be beconie public. It would not be proper for himself to move it, but he trusted an im partial committee would be appointed to bring to the public knowledge some matters whereof he should briefly speak. The in sinuation that he had telegraphed to the Secretary of War to make ,a case for his own professional employmen4 Mr. Cankling cleared up by a simple statement of the cir cumstances connected with the matter. It was the case of an arrestand detention of a deserter, for whose discharge from arrest a writ 'of habeas corpus had been served on ,the provost marshal at Utica and where there was great danger of Collision between the civil and military authorities, and in reference to _which he (Mr. Conkling) tele graphed to the Secretary of War to give in struction to the officer. The Secretary of War telegraphed to him (Mr. Conkling) in reply that the officer must hold his prisonerat all events, and request ing him to appear as counsel and argue the questions arising betwee& the military au thorities and the judicial authorities of New York. He , did attend and argue the case, and the decision was in favor of the Govern ment. An appeal was taken to.the court in bane. He was again directed by.the Secre tary of War to appearthere and act as coun sel for the Government, which he did, when the 'decision was affirmed.. That waEl whole connection with that transaction, on which the head of the Bureau (General Fry) had dared to send aletter, under pre tence of defending himself; but with no. other pUrpose than to stab the reputation of, another. :As to his appointment by Mr. Dana to act`as Judge Advocate, he alsogave a lull and complete explanation. He had received, while attending . professional ,bnainees at.. Syracuse, an urgent ;despatch from the Secretary of, War, requesting.-hie ' immediate attendance.at.ashington. Ignorant entirely of what was wanted with him, he had come to Washington,- and hail an 'interview. with Mr. Stanton, who detfired him to act as counsel for the Govern ment in the examination and prosecution of pounty frauds. He had declined the offer, but, the Secretary insisted, and he (Mr.. Conkling) at length yielded, and received a letter of retainer, under which he had la bored, day and night, for.three months, two months of which,time was occupied in the actual trial of the case of Major Haddock. The Secretary had asked- him to send in an account of.his charges, which he declined to do, leaving it to the Secretary to make whatever allowance he, chose, and subse quently he received from the Secretary a letter stating that, in his opinion, three thousand dollars would be a very moderat3 sum for the labor performed. He returned an answer that he was entirely satisfied, as he would have been with any other sum that might have been fixed, as he did not consider it an occasion out of which profit was to be made. Mr. Ross (Ill.) inquired whether this sum was for services done during the time he was drawing pay as a• member of Con gress? Mr. conkling replied that the service `commenced in April, 1865 and as Congress commenced in March, the gentleman from Illinois might be able by the rule of three, or some other instrumentality with which he was familiar, to figure oat the matter for himself. He should be sorry to suppose that the gentleman from Illinois, or any other member of the House, or any other human being except the distinguished ma thematician and warrior, Provost Marshal Fry, should have such a low standard of intelligence as to imagine that there was the slightest impropriety in a member of Congress practising his profession, and tto. cepting from the Government of the United States, or from any other client, a retainer to doprofessional business. As to theatatement that some effort had been made by him to haVe concealment of frauds in the Twenty first Congressional District, that was a mere assertion ; there were no circumstances stated, and he pronounced the statement utterly and absolutely groundless. Nothing whatever of truth could be found in it. On the contrary, in the investigation that took place before the court-martial, everything pertaining to the Twenty-first Congressional District had been investigated. Nothing smazed him more than that the Provost Marshal General, or anybody else, would dare to put on record an assertion so utterly baseless. Mr. Ross inquired whether the fee of $3,000 was in addition to his pay as judge advocate ? Mr. Conkling said that nothing gave him greater pleasure than to gratify the lenda ble curiosity of the gentleman from Illinois, and he begged to assure that gentleman that he had never drawn pay as a judge advo cate, and that the $3,000 was the only com pensation be had ever received for his ser vices in that connection. All - gentlemen who had any appreciation whatever, as such, would see that the point of the whole matter was the assertion of the gentleman from Maine, that he (Mr. Conkling) had quarrels with General Fry, and had been worsted in them,the,Secretary of War having taken sides with him. Was there one shadow of foundation, he asked, for such an asser tion, taking the communication of the Pro vost Marshal General as the only evidence in the matter? He had but one single in terview with that officer. When he (Mr. Fry) said that the people of his (Mr. Conk ling's district were made made up of cow ards, drunkards and sneaks, that he did not believe there was an honest man in the dis trict, and that if any such was to be found the others would immediately debauch him, he had been; astounded at hearing such lan guage, but he had been taught to be careful as to those with whom he associated, and more careful still as to those with whom he quarreled; and he knew that a man who had done what General Pry had done, and who was capable of making such a remark, was a man whom he could have no contro versy with. Neither in conversation nor in correspondence, nor in any other way what ever, had he ever had a quarrel, in any defi nition of that term, with the Provost Mar shal General. The House, he hoped, would pardon him for saying so much after the extraordinary incident that had occurred, where the head of a bureau, a clerk in the War Depart ment, sent to be read such a pile of rubbish of personal assault on a member of the House, under pretence of vindicating him self.. That gentleman (General Fry) panted for vindication, not with reference to the in significant things which pertained to him (Mr, Conkling), but with reference to those public affairs that concerned all the people; and he would ask his colleague (Mr. Hut- bard) to offer a resolution under which that opportunity would ,be given to him. If a committee for the purpose were appointed, be (Mr. Conkling) would undertake to make good his assertion that in all the western di vision of New York the Provost Marshal's Bureau, as it was administered, was one carnival of corrupt disorder; and then the public would know whether the head of that Bureau was a man capable of administering it, capable of seeing the difference between honest men and thieves, or whether it was administered by a man who had the capa city to do what but for the want of another quality he would have done, and that was to arrest the enormous flood of corruption that went unchallenged, month after month, all over the western part of the State of New York. Mr. Hulburd (N. Y.) prefacing the resolu tion, with a remark that he wished not to be appointed on the proposed committee, as he was on the Committee of Public Expen ditures, to which a grave investigation had to-day been referred, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That a select committee of five members of this House be appointed to in vestigate the statements and charges made by the Hon. Roscoe Conklin& in his place. last Week, against the Provost Marshal General, in the administration of the duties pertaining to'his bureau, whether any frauds have been perpetrated in his office in con nection with the recruiting service; and also to examine into the statement made by General Fry, in his communication to the Hon: Mr. Blaine, read in the House this day, with power to send for persons and pa pers., _ Mr, Ross suggested that the committee should also inquire whether the gentleman from New York had received any more pay than he was entitled to. Mr. Conkling remarked that he would like to have that in -Mr. Hulburd's resolu tion, iind said it was embraced in the terms of the resolution. Mi. Blaine (Me.) said that he did not luippen to possess the volubility of the gen tleman from the Utica district, who took thirty minutes the other dayto explain that an alteration of the report in the Grobe was not an alteration at all, of which he hardly convinced the House,and who took an hour to-day to convince the House that there was not the slightest difficulty between himself and General Fry.. The gentleman had attempted to pass off his aPpearance as judge advocate as simply an appearance as counsel for the govern ment, but - he would read again the appoint ruenpunder which he had acted as prosecu tor for- the government. Having read the letter he referred to a - law, in; ErlgttlefE3 , Digeat, enacting that "no person holding. any ;office under the government 'of the United States whose salary or annual coni, w l / 4y pensation should amount to := t nty 7 five: hundred dollars; should receive c 4 mpsnsa tion for diaolunging the duties of othec office." The gentleman could not deny that he, had discharged the duties of judge' advocate, and had been paid for doing ao while drawing pay. as a member of Con -gfess. His distinguished colleague (Mr. Schenck), underlike circumstances, had cut off his - pay for themonth - during which - h.) held both offiees,.and he ,supposed the gen tleman from New Ydrk would, if the com mittee so reported, voluntarily restore to the Treasury the amount he had improperly received. What he (Mr. Blaine) had stated the other day had been fully and emphati cally borne out by the record, and if he had shown that he was incapable - of stating any thing for which he was not responsible, not "here or elsewhere," but responsible - as gentleman and representative, he was con tent.._ _ - Mr. Cobkling desired to state_ that no mission, paper or authority' whatever was' issued to him except Ike letter of retainer which bad been read. IDethe member from Maine had the least idea how profoundly indifferent to him his opinion was on the subject he had 'beta discussing, or on any other subject, he thought he would hardly take • the trouble to express it. • He anolo gized to the House forthelength of tithe he bad occupied in consequence of being drawn into the matter by an interruption which he had before pronounced ungentle manly and impertinent, and having nothing whatever to do with - the matter. Mr. Blaine said he knew that 'this was what they csktied, down east, "running eniptyin gs." The • gentleman from New York could not get off on the technical pre tence that he did not hold a commission. as Judge Advocate." Many an officer had led a brigade, a division or a corps, with no more of a commission than such a one as the gentleman from New York held. As to the gentleman's sarcasm, he (Mr.. Blaine) continued, I hope he will let zale escape. His disdain, his lordly pomposity, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic over powering, • his . turkey gobbler - strutting [laughter], have been so crushing to myself and all the members of the House that I know it . was an act of the grossest temerity, on my part to venture on provoking them, but I knew well who was responsible for it all. I know that for the last five' weeks an extra strut has seized the gentleman. It is not his fault. It is the fault of another. That gifted and satirical man, Theodore. Tilton, of the New York Independent, was over here spending some weeks and writ ing home letters, in which, among serious things, be put in some jocose things—among the cruelest of which was thai the mantie of the late Winter Davis had fallen upon the; member from New • York. He (Mr. Conkling) took it as serious, and has since strutted more than usual. Well, the resem blance is great, is striking—Hyperion to a Satyr; Thersites to Hercules; mad to mar ble; a dung hill to a diamond; a singed cat to a Bengal tiger; a whining -puppy to a roaring cow. Shade of the mighty Davis! forgive the profanation of even that jocose satire. As. Mr. Blaine resumed his seat, the Speaker stated that the usage in the House had been, whenever the House grants con sent for a personal explanation, that if a member transgresses the rules of debate, he should be called to order by some member, not by the Chair. That was the reason why the Chair had not checked the debate. The House having granted consent for personal remarks ' it was for some member, not the Chair, to rise to a question of order, where the limits of debate were transgressed- Mr. Thayer moved to refer the resolution to the Committee on Military Affairs, and though Mr. Schenck and Mr. Blaine asked him to withdraw that motion, he declined to do so. Mr. Henderson moved to lay thei resolu tion on the table. Both motions were voted down. The resolution was adopted, whereupon he House, at a quarter past five, adjourned.. 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