JCSXJESth [CONGKESS—Second Session.
f#LOBE OF YEBtBBDAY’S FBOCEEDINSS.I
Senate.— Mr. Boss (Kansas) introduced
the following joint resolution, which was
«rdered to lie on the table and be printed:
Whereas, Theomendn?entto the Constitution of tne
United States, proposed at the fixtt session ox the
Thirty ninth Congress, known as article 14th, ana
submitted to the severalStatea for their acceptance or
xeiectoin, nothaviag been accepted by a consutu*
tional majority of the States, ana certain sections oz
the country lately in rebellion, being deemed thereby
In danger of falling into a state of anarchy by reason
of their having no sjstematic civil government, there*
By the Senate and House of Bepresenta
lives of the United States in Congress assembled. That
tbejoint Committee on Beconstruction be directed to
inquire into the expediency of establishing euchre*,
gulatlonsfor the government of such districts lately
in rebellion against the United Sea tea as shall have
refused, or may hereafter refuse, to adopt the said
proposed amendment, as maybe found necessary for
the preservation of the peace and the protection of
society and Interests of the government in these dis*
** Mr. Williams (Oregon) introduced a bUI
granting lands to tlie State of Oregon to aid
in the construction of a military road mid
telegraph line through the Coast mountains
from Portland to Astoria, which authorizes
the transfer to Baid State of the unoccupied
sections of the public lands designated by
odd numbers, and the unoccupied parts of
sections so designated which may be wholly
or in part within five miles of the proposed
road, the patents therefor to be issued for
twenty sections for each five miles complet
ed, and the sum of $20,000 is appropriated
for the survey of the lands, under the direc
tion of the President. Referred to the Com
mittee on Public Lands.
Mr. Williams introduced a similar bill,
granting lands tothe State of Oregon to aid
in the construction of military and post
roads through the Coast mountains,from As
toria to Sillamook, which was referred to the
Committed on Public Lands.
Mr. Sumner (Mass.) offered the following
resolution, which was agreed to:
Besolved, That the Secretary of State Is hereby re
quested to communicate to the Senate such informa
tion ashe may possess in respect to the progress made
In collecting the products, and also the weights,
measures and coins of the United States for exhibition
at the universal Exposition at Paris in April next.
Mr. Pomeroy (Kansas) introduced a bill
to equalize the currency of the United States
as follows:
Whereas, The existence of the two circulating medi
ums oi similar character composing. the currency of
the United States, both based upon the same ultimate
security with the credit of the government, has been
productive of much commercial inconvenience;
therefore
Be it enacted, <fce., That the notes of all national
hanking associations established under the act ap
proved February 25. 1863, to provide a national cur
rency, secored by apledgeof United States stocks and
to provide for the circulation and redemption
thereof, the redemption of whose issues
have been secured by the deposit of United
States bonds with the Treasurer of the United States,
shall be a legal tender for all purposes for which Trea
sury notes are so made by the act approved February
25,1862, making United States notes a legal tender.
Section 2. And be -it further enacted. That the Sec
retary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to redeem
and cancel Treasury notes issued by the authority of
the government to an extent not exceeding one million
ol dollars per month during the year 1867, and to an
extent not exceeding two millions of dollars per month
Auring the year 1868.
Sec. s. And be it further enacted , That section 1 ol
the act approved April; 12, 1866, to amend an act en
titled “ An act to provide ways and means to support
the government/’approved March 3, 1865,bv which
thelreasmer was authorized to redeem and cancel
icnr millions per month of the Treasury notes afore-
Bald, is hereby repealed,
Beferred to the Committee on Finance.
The Senate bill authorizing the appoint
ment of pension agents by the President, by
and with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate, amended by the house to limit the num
ber of agencies of them for each State or
territory, and providing that no additional
agency shall be established in any State
where the pensions paid do not exceed $500,-
800 for the preceding year, and that the term
of all agents appointed since January 1,1866,
shall expire within thirty days after the
passage of the act, and the President be re
quested to nominate their successors with
ninety-five days from the same date, was
reported from the Judiciary Committee,
with amendments, substituting October 1,
1865, for January 1,1866, and striking oat
all thereafter and inserting a provision that
the terms of all other pension agents shall
expire when successors shall be duly ap
pointed.
Mr. Williams (Oregon) presented a resolu
tion directing the Committee on Foreign Ke
lations to inquire into the expediency of re
gulating and restricting the immigration and
importation of the Chinese into the United
States. Mr. Williams said he offered this
resolution at this time with a view to call
the attention of Congress and the country to
the subject to which it refers. Sinoe the
first: discovery of gold in California, the
Chinese in considerable numbers have em
igrated to the Pacific coast. They came there
not to be citizens, not to learn to speak our
language, or profess our religion, or adopt
our customs, manners or habits, but to be a
people unto themselves, and to maintain
their attachment to the government in
which they were born.
The resolution was adopted.
The bill to admit Nebraska came up as
the unfinished business.
Mi. Howard (Mich.) took the floor in ad
vocacy of the bill add opposition to the
amendments of Mr. Brown, that this act
ah all take effect only npon the fundamental
condition that there shall be no denial of the
elective franchise on account of color in Ne
braska. Mr. Howard did not agree with the
Senator from Massachusetts, that it was a
violation of the Declaration of Independence
to deny the franchise to colored persons. He
did not regard the right to vote as a natural
right, but as a conventional right. In the
previous history of legislation no such con
ditions as were now proposed were attached
to a bill for the admission of a new State.
Nebraska and Colorado had complied with
all conditions imposed on them in the en
abling act. It was a departure from the good
faith which should regulate the conduct of
Congress toward the territories to exact such
conditions. It was competent for Congress to
prescribe conditions lor the admission of a
new State,but they must be conditions prece
dent,to be complied with before theadmission
of the State,and not after it. After a territory
had come into the Union and been vested
-with the powers of a State, it would be com
petent for its people to set aside or repeal
such a condition as was embraced in Mr.
Brown’s amendment. In doing this they
would only be exercising the right or States
to regulate the franchise. He (Mr. Howard)
expected to liveto see the day, and not be a
very old man, either, when every State in
Ihe Union would grant the right of suffrage
to colored men. He saw no remedy but
universal suffrage for the condition of affairs
that now existed in the South, yet he was
careful, as a member of the Committee on
Hecoastructlon, in presenting the pending
constitutional amendment to Congress, to
leave the regulation of suffrage to the
States.
Mr. Brown asked Mr. Heward whether
in affirming that the States have an exclu
sive control Over the whole question of the
right of suffrage, he took the position thatif
any State in the Union, by its limitation
npon the franchise, shall destroy the repub
licB.ll form of the government, that the
United States has no right to interpose to
protect the guarantee of a republican form
of government.-
Mr. Howard said that when It should be
made manifest to him, as a member of this
*pay, that there was in any State in this
union a form of government which had not
a republican form of government, he should
w r t ? ady to the remedy guaranteed
»JJr e .. Constltntlon ' But he must, at the
Bay Senator from Missouri
believe that that clause of
a law^^ ion au . thonzed Congress to pass
tivELTo toany Btate in tfcisU&on
n^ la * ok P?pple of that State the
P° lls - In other words,
ftS ti B * ■ tlle exclusion of the
ri ght,to vote was such a
departure from a republican government as
woffid authoriM Congress to interfere, To
ward the conclusion of i,i H
marks Mr. Howard dwelt upon
the ■ Bubject of reconstruction The
Senator worn Ohio {Mr, Sherman) had said
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that Congress had agreed that if rebel
States would ratify the pending oonstitn
tional amendment they would be readmitted
into the Union, and permitted to ’participate
in legislation in the two houses 'af Congress.
Doubtless the honorable Senat or from Ohio
(Mr. Sherman) said what he r sally believed
to be true. The same stateraent had often
been made, not very frequently in Congress,
but very frequently during the last congres
sional canvass, ana in the various journals
of the country. He (Mr. Howard) would
take this occasion,so far as he was concerned,
to contradict the fact. Congress has never
proposed to the insnrgent States that if they
would adopt the present pending amend
ment of the Constitution, or any other
amendment to the Constitution, they should
be readmitted an States of the Union, and
allowed to participate in the legislation of
Congress. Congress, at the last session,
after the most mature deliberation, saw fit
to propose an additional article to the Con
stitution of the United States, which, upon
being ratified by three-fourths’ of the States
—of course, said Mr. Howard, I mean three
fourths of the States in the Union and not
out of the natioD—
Mr. Sumner—Yes, not including the rebel
States.
Mr. Howard—Yes, that then it should be
a part of the Constitution. But neither of
the committee of fifteen, nor either House
of Congress, so far as my memory serves
me, has ever made such a proposition as
that the rebel States shall be readmitted
upon the ratification by them of this amend
ment. .
Mr. Norton (Minn.)—l would like to in
quire of the Senator from Michigan if he did
not, in the city of St. Paul, urge and argue
in a speeoh that by the adoption of the
amendment the rebel States would obtain
representation, and that such action by
them wonld be the settlement of the whole
question?
Mr. Howard—l understand the question
of the Hon. Senator from Minnesota. I
know not what report of my speechhe may
have seen, but I am ready to say now that I
did not then and there make any snch state
ment. If I was so understood I was most
grossly misunderstood.
Mr. Norton—l would state to the (senator
that he was so reported, and that the speech
he made was cited in opposition to an asser
tion made by one of the opposite character.
Mr. Howard—Of course lam entirely ig
norant of the report which may have been
made of my speech, and also of the sense in
which.lt may have been understood by the
pnblio or by the audience who listened. I
know very well what my objects were, and
what my language, so far as the substance
is concerned, was. I never made any such
statement, and I shall never agree, let me
say to the Senator from Minnesota, and to
others, to any such thing. I will not agree
that the State of South Carolina, in adopting
that amendment of the Constitution, shall
instantly be readmitted into Congress,
nor will I agree that Alabama, or Missis
sippi or Georgia, and last of all Texas, shall
be admitted to their seats in Congress on
going through with what would certainly
be, in their case, the mere farce of ratifying
that amendment to the Constitution. I
think we have not been so blind, Mr. Pres
dent, as to offer snch a proposition to the
rebel States. We have not agreed that they
might come back here to resume their seats
simply because they should ratify that
amendment,leaving the question undecided
and uncertain as to the final ratification of
that amendment by all the States.
Mr. Howard then explained, as he said,
how the mistake he referred to gained cur
rency. What the Committee on Becon
struction did propose at the last session was,
that upon the ratification of the amendment
by the States of the South, and its adoption
as a part of the Constitution, they should be
admitted. This bill was not passed. It was
laid on the table in the House. In conclu
sion, Mr. Howard referred to what had been
Baid by gentlemen on the opposite side, that
it was the principal object of the friends of
this bill to increase the power of the Rapub
lican party in the Senate. He was very
willing to admit that he did desire to
strengthen the Bepnblican party here. He
believed the good of the country demanded
it.
Mr. Johnson had declared in St. Louis his
intention to veto all the bills passed by the
present Congress. If the President was sin
cere in that declaration, then he (Howard)
would ask his friends here, whether it was
not high time that the Thirty-ninth Con
gress shiuld fortify itself and so act through
their numerical strength in these two bodies
that the interests of the country shall not
suffer by this threatened promiscuous and
wanton use of the veto power by President
Johnson. He threatens to veto ail our legis
lation. If this shall be his purpose, sir, if it
is his determination to treat this Congress
as a usurping body, as being an unconsti
tutional body not to be trusted with the
business of legislature for the reason that
they have not seen fit to adopt his policy for
the readmission of the rebel States, then it
is perfectly obvious that no legislation can
be gone through by Congress unless we can
carry it over his veto by a voteof two-thirds
of each of the two bodies.
Mr. Johnson (Md.) took the floor at the
conclusion ol Mr. Howard’s speech, in oppo
sition to the bill and to Mr. Brown’s
amendment. There was great danger,
he said, to he apprehended from the
admission of too many new States.
There was reason to fear, it had been feared,
wheß the constitution was formed, that in
this way the whole legislature of the coun
try would be influenced by those new States.
He argued against giving to Nebraska the
same power in the Senate over a question of
tariff that belonged to the Eastern States.
The question of reconstruction had nothing
to do with it. It should be decided on its
merits, without reference to other political
issues. .He was opposed to the amendment
of Mr. Brown, because It involved condi
tions that Congress had no right to impose.
Mr. Wilson (Mass.) moved to amend Mr.
Brown’s amendment by providing for the
ratification of the fundamental conditions
of no exclusion from political right 9 on ac
count of color by the Legislature of. Ne
braska,instead of,as in Mr. Brown’s amend
ment, by the people of the territory.
Mr. Wilson explained his position in of
fering the above. At the last session of
Congress he was in favor of the admission
of Colorado, and was willing to see it done
without any conditions, but the necessity
that controlled his vote in that question had
passed away: The Senate was assured of
a two-thirds Republican vote, and after the
fourth of March it would be still stronger.
He hoped Mr. Brown would accept his
amendment, and that Mr. Wade would let
the bill he amended and passed.
Mr. Doolittle (Wis.) desired to inquire of
Mr. Wilson whether it was his understand
ing that the faith of Congress was pledged,
in case the constitutional amendment was
adopted by the States of the South, they
would be entitled to representation. He
understood the Senator from Ohio to say
that he (Mr. Wade) regarded Congress as
pledged to admit the States on the ratifica
tion of the amendment,
Mr. Wade said he was misunderstood on
what he had said. He did not state, or in
tend to be understood, that when these
States adopted the constitutional amend
ment they were entitled to come in here at
all hazards. The proposition to which he
(Mr. Wade) adhered was that when the con
stitutional amendment was adopted bythree
fourths of the States, and adopted by the
seceded States, their relations to the general
government were such that if they applied
for admission in a loyal form, all other
things being equal, they ought to be admit
ted, if represented by loyal men.
;. Mr. Wilßon (Mass.) denied Mr. Doolittle’s
right to ask the question propounded by Mr.
Doolittle. He (Mr. .Wilson) had voted for
the admission of Tennessee because she had
adopted the amendment, and might have
felt bound to admit other States if they had
come-at that, time in the same way. But 1
since then the people had expressed them-.
selves.. There was no law pledging Con
gress: to admit the rebel States on the adop
tion of the amendment, and he didnot .in
tend to vote for the admission of the rebel
States now until they had secored full civil
and political' rights to colored persons. He
intended to go to the farthest limit of con
stitutional power.
Mr. Doolittle replied to Mr. Wilson, argu
ing against the theory that the Southern
States were States for the pnrpose of acting
upon a constitutional amendment, but were
not States for the right of representation in
Congress.
Mr. Fessenden (Maine) said the men pre
tending to act upon constitutional amend
ments were not the legislature, unless Con
gress saw fit to recognize them as such.
This view was set forth in the report of the
Beconstruction Committee. For himßelf he
did not know what he shonld do in a specific
case. His understanding was that he had
a right to inquire whether the amendment
was adopted by a loyal legislature which he
was bound to recognize. This was a ques
tion he had a right to examine. He was
free to say if from the government of a State
he saw it had a constitution under which it
shonld be safe to admit, he wonld be willing
to admit it; with regard to the new forma
tion of these States he held that he had a
right to inquire what kind of constitution
they had. It might be a questioh prelimi
nary with him after these States had adopted
the amendment whether they had a govern
ment which gave them the right to adopt it.
He would not yield one iota of the guaran
tees insisted upon, and snch further gua
rantees as might jbe needed. He did not
know that any other wonld be necessary.
Mr. Doolittle resumed the floor, contend
ing that the Committee on Reconstruction,
by reporting a bill to admit any of the rebel
States that might ratify the amendment, had
committed itself on this subjeot to the doc
trine that the State governments of the South
were valid.
Mr. Brown, at 4.45, moved that the Senate
adjourn. Lost. Yeas 14, nays 25.
Mr. Davis (Ky.) would like to know of
Mr. Fessenden whether, if the State of Ten
nessee had not ratified tne amendment, bat
had adopted the Constitution she now has,
he (Mr. Fessenden) wonld have voted for
the readmission of that State.
Mr. Hendricks find.) addressed the Senate
in opposition to Mr. Brown’s amendment.
Mr. Sumner again urged an adjournment.
Mr. Hendricks asked that there bean
agreement to vote on the pending bill to
morrow at four o’clock.
Hr. Wade said he wonld be willing to
agree to that if it were certain that there
would be a quorum here to vote to-morrow.
The Senate then, at 5 P. M., again refused
to adjourn.
The question was then taken on the
amendment offered by Mr. Cowan yester
day, that the people of Nebraska shall owe
a paramount allegiance to the United States,
Ac. Disagreed to.
The nextquestioß was upon Mr. Wilson’s
amendment to Mr. Brown’s amendment.
At 5.25 Mr. Henderson moved to adjonrn.
Mr, Wade (Ohio) called for the yeas and
nays.
Disagreed to—Yeas 15, nays 20.
Mr. Sumner (Mass.) moved that the pend
ing amendment be printed, for the use of
the Benate. Disagreed to.
Mr. Sumner said there was a time when
Mr. Wade conld see importance in a ques
tion involving human rights. Mr. Wade was
now trying to pass through the Senate a bill
in direct violation of human rights.
At the conclusion of his remarks he again
moved an adjournment, which was again
defeated—yeas 13, nays 19.
Mr. Wade took the floor in reply to Mr.
Sumner.
Mr. Hendricks moved to postpone the fur
ther consideration of the bill until the 7th of
January.
Mr. Kirkwood (Iowa) said he could not
hear Mr. Sumner characterize the constitu
tion of Nebraska as odious without entering
his protest against it. The- constitution of
Nebraska was in this respect precisely the
same as the constitution of lowa.
Mr. Sumner asked if he (Mr. Kirkwood)
thought that that provision of the constitu
tion of lowa was right.
Mr. Kirkwood—l’ll say to the Senator that
it is none of his business. It is the business
of the people of lowa.
Mr. Sumner resumed the floor. The con
stitution of lowa was not before the Senate.
If it was, he should express his opinion
on it.
Mr' Sumner, at six o’clock, moved an ad
journment. Yeas 11, nays 18.
Mr. Pomeroy (Kansas) took the floor in
opposition to Mr. Brown’s amendment.
Mr. Edmunds rose to address the Senate,
bnt yielded at 6.20 to a motion to adjourn,
which prevailed.
House. —The House then went Into Com
mittee of the Whole on the State of the
Union, Mr. Lawrence (Pa.) in the chair, and
resumed the consideration of the Legisla
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill.
Mr. Grinnell (Iowa) moved to strike out
of the paragraph for clerical assistants in
Executive departments the words “clerk of
pardon.” He did so in view of the improper
use of the pardoning power, and referred
to the fact that the greatest pirate of the
country had received a pardon and had
been elected professor of moral philosophy
in a Southern college.
Mr. Wentworth (HI.) opposed the amend
ment on the ground that the President had
been called upon for information In refer
ence to pardons, and it would be impossible
for the President to rake them all out with
hie own bands. He found that the Florida
Legislature of traitors had been recently vis
iting the Dry Tortugaa and investigating the
claims of persons thereto pardon, and had
taken up the case of Grenfell, the notorious
leader of the conspiracy to bum Chicago.
He thought the President would certainly
require the services of a clerk of pardons.
Mr. Schofield (Pa.) sustained the amend
ment, and said he had learned that all the
pardons sent South by the Adams Express
Company were marked with the letters and
figures “C. O.D. $300,” meaning colleot on
delivery, and that sum was collected on each
of them.
Mr. Ward (N. Y.) suggested that it was
cheap enough. [Laughter.]
Mr. Schofield would not assert that such
was the fact, although he had thought the
authority for the statement was good,
The amendment was agreed to, and the
words “clerk of pardons” were struck from
the bill.
Mr. Benjamin (Mo.) moved to add to the
paragraph appropriating six millions for
collectors and assessors of internal revenue
a proviso that no collectoror assessor should
be entitled to salary until confirmed by the
Senate.
Mr. Chandler (N. Y.) opposed the amend
ment, urging that it would simply amount
to an intimation to those officers that' they
should help themselves. He thought that
there was quite corruption enough in the
Internal Revenue Department, without
holding out au additional incentive to
fraud.
Mr. Bingham (Ohio) suggested a modifi
cation to the amendment, so ,as to except
cases of commissions to fill vacancies that
may have happened, by death or resigna
tion, during the recess of the Senate.
He declared that while the President was
armed by the Constitution .with all execu
tive power, it had never been pretended
that, under pretence of executing the laws,
he could remove men from office, not be
cause of incapacity, not because of infidelity
to duty, hut because of -eminent capaoity,
stern fidelity to duty, and an unwillingness
to be corrupt to their trust,
Mr. Randall (Pa.) inquired whether
President Lincoln! did not, during his
whole term,exercise that power in the same
manner as President Johnson was said to
have done,
Mr. Bingham reminded Mr. Randall
that he spoke of removals for corrupt pur
poses.
Mr. Randall suggested that it was not for
him to examine into the motives of either
President Lincoln or President Johnson in
theexercise of their powers.
Mr. Bingham went bn to explain his idea
on the subject of appointments to and re
movals from office, and said that if they
were made by the President for corrupt pur
poses he was guilty of a high crime and
misdemeanor, and the decision of that ques
tion belonged,in the first place,to the House.
Mr. Randall (Pa.) suggested that the gen
tleman from Ohio (Mr. Bingham) had given
him some sort of notice of what he was go
ing to do with the President. He (Mr,
Randall) doubted hot that the President’s
acts would stand by themselves, and there
fore the sooner he (Mr. Bingham) commenced
his work and cease threatening the better.
Mr. Bingham remarked that he had not
said what he was going to do.
Mr. Benjamin modified bis amendment
so as to make it read, “Provided that no as
sessor or collector not appointed to fill a va
cancy caused by death or resignation, -shall
be entitled to jot paid any portion of the
. salary pertaining to the officer unconfirmed
by the Senate.”
Mr. O’Neill (Pa.) desired to state the dif
ference between Mr. Lincoln’s and Mr.
Johnson’s acts in reference to political ap
pointments, so far as Philadelphia was con
cerned.
Mr. Stevens insisted that the debate
shonld he confined closely to the subject' of
the bill.
Mr. Randall (Fa.)' hoped his colleague
(Mr. O'Neill) wonld be allowed to go on, as
he (Mr. Randall) would like to clean him
out on that issue. [Laughter.]
Mr. O’Neill went on to say that within
the last few months, a Board of Naval Offi
cers sat in the Philadelphia Navy-yard, in
judgment on the political status of the poor
mechanics of the yard, inquiring whether
they belonged to the political organization
opposed to the policy of Andrew Johnson.
Mr. Randall Bald he condemned as much
as his colleague did, the act to which he al
luded, bnt that that board emanated from
the Commodore of the yard, a Republican,
and, so soon as it became known to the
Navy Department, it was countermanded.
Mr. O’Neill said that men were discharged
from the Philadelphia Navy-yard who
dared to say they were in favor of Congress.
Ur. Randall (Pa.) Baid that Mr. Lincoln,
while he was President, had written an au
tograph letter to the workingmen in the
Philadelphia Navy-yard, expressing the
sentiment that he (Mr. Randall), who was
then a candidate for Congress, should be
defeated at all hazards. He felt hnmiliated
that the President should have done such an
act. His colleague was aware that during
the administration of President Lincoln, a
secret committee was organized in Phila
delphia, headed by an ex-sheriff, to inquire
into the politics of every man, woman and
child who was in the employment of the
government. Every woman employed in
the United States Arsenal whose brother
happened to be a Democrat was dismissed.
And yet his distinguished colleague had the
effrontery to complain of removals by Pres
ident Johnson. He (Mr. Randall) was only
sorry the President had not carried the war
further into Africa.
Mr. O’Neill was pleased to hear his col
league express his humiliation at the em
ployment of a naval board, at Philadelphia,
to inquire into the politics of employes.
He considered it a high crime and misde
meanor in the Secretary of tM Navy to call
upon officers to perform such miserable
work. Many of the men who were thus dis
ebarged had passed a competitive examina
tion. - -
Mr. Randall (Pa.) “Yes, and some of
them were indicted for stealing.” [Laugh
ter.]
Mr. Stevens made the i>oint of order that
this discussion was entirely foreign to the
matter before the committee.
The Chairman sustained the point of or
der, and declared that snch discussion must
cease.
The qnestion was taken on Mr. Benja
min’s amendment as modified, and it. was
adopted.
Mr. Maynard (Tenn.) moved to amend
the item for temporary Treasury clerks, by
giving the Secretary authority, in his dis
cretion, to employ ladles when their ser
vices can be made equally profitable.
Adopted.
Mr. Farnsworth (111.) moved to strike out
the whole paragraph.
Mr. Le Blond (Ohio) opposed the amend
ment. He remarked that his colleague (Mr.
Bingham; had thrown out tin intimation
tbat removal from office for political rea
sons was corruption.
Mr. Bingham denied that he had said any
thing of the sort. On the contrary, lest there
might be some apology or excuse for suoh
utterings as those of his colleague, he had
qualified his language and excluded any
such conclusion. He had stated that where
the President of the United States made a re
moval from office corruptly and for
ends,he was guilty of a high crime and mis
demean&r,and that the Constitution charged
the members of this House,on their oaths, to
make that Inquiry and decide that qnestion.
Mr.Leßlond—“Does my colleague wish it
understood that a removal frond office for
political reasons is a high crime and misde
meanor?”
Mr. Bingham—‘ ‘I have not made an inti
mation which would justify any such in
quiry. lam free to say ihat where a remo
val is made merely because of personal con
siderations toward the party interested, and
not becanseot personal considerations on the
part of the Executive, that being In accord
ance with the continued practice of the go
vernment from its organization down to
time, would not be a high crime and misde
meanor. Is my colleague informed now?”
Mr.Ohanler desired to ask Mr. Bingham a
question,bnt Mr. Bingham deolined to yield.
He had offered the proviso for the purpose of
preventing what he believed to be a flagrant
violation of the text and spirit of the Consti
tution. He thought the words “by death or
resignation” should be omitted,leaving only
the words used in the Constitution as to va
cancies which “may happen.” Gentlemen
might say that would be nugatory, and he
believed it would unless the House pro
ceeded with the legislation alreay inaugu
rated andldetermined by law the legal efleet
and meaning of the constitutional phrase,
which may happen during the reces3 of the
Senate, but that was not in order to vindicate
his own position and correct the remarks of
his colleague.
Mr. Chanler thought this [ amendment
called up the question he had discussed
Eome months since in reference to patronage
in the distribution of office.
Mr. Farnsworth called the gentleman to
order. The amendment he had offered had
no political bearing.
Mr.Chanler declared he wasnot speaking.
to any political question, but he thought that
the part of political bully, so often played in
the House, was performed with better grace
by the individual (Mr. Farnsworth),- than
any other on that side of the Honse. He
(Mr. Chanler) was for the limitation qf ex
ecutive power, and for the limitation of pa
tronage, and for the distribution of offices
through the representatives of the people.
Tbat was the only wholesome basis on
■which the Demooratid party could exist
[Laughter,] He thanked the gentleman
from Illinois for bringing tne matter before
the House. He could not support the policy
of Abraham Lincoln, even though it were
under the protection of Andrew Johnson,
1 and what was done under the plea of mili
tary necessity, should not, with the aid of
his vote, be done when that plea no longer
existed. He (Mr. Chanler) was not for ex
cluding white men from offices in the Trea
sury for the purpose of letting in black wo
men, and cared nothing for the gentleman’s
(Mr, {Farnsworth’s) love of philanthropv
or love of females, [Laughter.]
Mr. Stevens (Pa.) made some remarks
calculated to bring back the committee to
the question under consideration; He con
demned the action of the Secretary of the
Treasury in the distribution among the
clerks, of the appropriation made for extra
compensation. He found its only justifica
tion in the bible, a book, however, which
was not good authority in this House
[laughter], as it took from those who had
nothing, and gave to those who had much.
The-discretion conferred on the Secretary in
that matter had been used without discre
tion, and with gross partiality for two years
past.
The question was then taken on Mr.Farns
worth’s amendment to strike out the whole
paragraph ior extra compensation, and it
was agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Harding (111.),an amend
ment was adopted directing preference to
be given in the making of appointments to
persons in indigent circumstances and the
dependents of those who had fallen in the
service of the country.
Pending the consideration of the paragraph
appropriating $BO,OOO for seeds to be dis
tributed by the Agricultural Department,
which appropriation Mr. Farnsworth moved
to cut down to $60,000, and Mr. Morrill to
$40,000, the Committee rose.
On motion.of Mr. Deming (Washington
territory) the President was requested to
communicate all correspondence between
our government and that of Great Britain
on the subject of the joint occupancy of the
island of Han Juan, Washington territory.
On motion of Mr. Randall (Ky ), the
President was requested to communicate
any further in formal ion in reference to the
occupation of Mexican territory by United
States trqops that be may have received
since his message of tbe Bth instant on the
same subject. Adjourned.
JgMUSY'g OO!
CHOICE SEATS
To aUplacMof xmoMmaal may as te fa
tfcfook any BTenlng, masw.
TICKET OFFICE, 630 CHESTNUT
BEHEHBSB THE LITTLE OSES,
The Destitute and Orphan Children
COUNTRY’S DEFENDERS.
Grand Charitable Fair and Presenta
tion Festival
In Aid of tbe Home and School for tbe
maintenance and Edacation of tbe
Destitute Children of oar Sol*
dlers and Sailors.
An Appeal to the American People.
We, the Officers and Managers of “The Home and
School,” for the Edacation and Maintenance of the
Destitute Children of oar Soldiers and Sailers, ear*
nestly solicit the sympathy and co-operation in oar
FAIR AND GRAND PRESENTATION FESTIVAL,
of all who desire with ae to see “The Horne ana
School” enabled to receive and care for all needy ones
who seek its at el ter and protection,
Mrs. General ULYi*SEfc> 8. GRANT, President.
Mrs: CHAS. P. DALY, Acting President,
Mrs. MsJ.*Gen. J. C. FREMONT, Ist Vice President,
Mrs. ROBERT FORSTER, 2d Vice President.
Mrs. JOHN 8. VOORHIES, Treasurer.
Mrs. DAVID HOYT, Secretary.
Mrs. WM. B. HILLY EB Cor. Secretaay,
Mrs. HERVEY G. LAW- Manager.
Mrs. J. J. VAN DALSEM. Manager.
Tbe FAIR will open on tbe loth of December and
continue two weeks, at the PUBLIC HALL, corner of
BROADWAY and TWENTY-THIRD Street, N. Y.
To be concluded by the
GRAND PRESENTATION FESTIVAL,
TO BE HELD AT
COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK,
SATURDAY EVENING, December 22d,
Under the Musical direction of THEODORE
THOMAS. Esq. On which occasion a Committee will
be chosen by the audience to award
$lOO,OOO IN PRESENTS,
In such lawful manner as they may determine. For
the Festival there will be Issued
3K>,WO TICKETS AT ONE DOLLAR EACH
AND
200,000 PRESENTS BEING ONE TO EACH TICKET
holder.
LIST OF PRESENTS TO BE AWARDED,
43T1 Present In United States Greenbacks....... siOhOO
1 Splendid Country Reticence In Westches
ter county, near N ew York City 12,000
1 Corner House and Lot, Jamaica, Avenue
E., N. Y ... 4,000
1 House and Lot. adjoining above 3,000
1 M ** *• in Brof.klyn, N. Y..5.t00
1 Carriage, Hones and Harness (Complete) 2.5C0
1 Grand Piano (Stein waj ? s) j^soo
3 Lots in Harlem, City of N. Y., sl*soo each. 4.500
1 Bet of Diamonds (Bing, Ear-Rings, and
Pin).™~.—. 1,000
1 Paid up policy, ot Life Insurance, 5.000
1 “Ellis’s Patent Hot-Water-Apparatus.”
for Heating Dwellings,. _ 1.000
1 011 Painting of Geaeraiu. 8. 250
15 Gents fine Gold Lever Watches, © |20a.... 3,0:0
15 ladles 41 “ 4 44 1,875
1 Elegant Ist Premium 4 ’Empire” Sewing
Machine... „„ 150
20 Silver plated Tea Setts. © 175.... 1 kqo
IGQ Celebrated “Empire” Sewing-Machines
now on exhibition at their warerooms,
616 Broadway... ym
10CO Copies (2Vols.each) beluga complete Il
lustrated History of the War.. . 7000
250 Gold Pens, Pencils, and Sleeve Buttons,
@l6. 1,500
500 Table and Tea Spoons and Napkin Rings,
© $5.-. ~ 2J500
1000 CaU Bells and plated Fruit Knives. 53...... 8,006
The balance to consist of the following articles,
viz: Musical instruments, Parlor and Office
Furmture. Writing Cases Ladies Work Boxes,
Kid Gloves, Photograph Albums»Breast Pins,
Finger Bings. Gents Fob Chains. Ladies Gold
Watch Chains, Opera Glasses, Black Walant
Picture Frames, Gentlemen’s Fashionable
Silk Hats, Ladles Newest Style Dress Hats,
American Emblem Cards for Parlor Amuse
ment, Engravings and Card Photographs of
distinguished Personages, Ladies and Gents
Biding Whips, Buffalo Robes, Ladies Mink
Furs. Gents Fur collars and Gloves. Music
Boxes, <£c., &C., amoontlngnt--—,.,, 24,006
Making in the aggregate 209.000 Presents.
valued at..— —... 4100,000
Orders may be sent direct te uA enclosing the money
from II to f 25, In a registered later at our risk, with
stamp for return postage. Larger amounts should be
sent in drafts or by Express, at the following
CLUB BATES:
5 Tickets to one address....- -..—.....-..44 50
10 44 M 41 - J 9 oo
20 ;; ;; ;; —j7 5o
40 ;; ;; ;; - 45 00
60 44 44 “ . .43 50
100 44 “ 44 ......45 00
A ddress all orders and communications to
THOMAS & CO., Managing Directors: or to
15. H. DAVIS, Agent for the Heme ana School,
616 Broadway, New York.
SPECIAL NOTICE, .
We take.pleasnre in acknowledging, on behalf of the
Home and School, the liberal donation of $3OO, made by
the Empire Sewing Machine Company, of No. 616
Broadway, New York.
Address all orders and communications to
IHOMAB & CO.. Managing Directors; or to
N. 33T. DAVIS, Agent for tue Home and School,
Or to WM. T. WllisON, 630 Chestnut street, Phila
delphia. n030*196*
ATEW CHESTNUT STREET THEATRE.
IX Fourth Night ot
MATILDA HERON.
For Three Nights Only,
Mr, J. Schonberg’s powerful dramatization of Charles
Reade’s Novel,
GRIFFITH GAUNT,
pronounced to be the
BEST DRAMATIZATION
of this popular novel.
The piece will be cast by
THE STRENGTH Ot? THE COMPANY.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, December 22d.
last McDonough matinee,
THE LON G STP IKE,
Christmas Eve,-'
MR. AND MRS, BARNEY VILLIASJ S.
TUTBS, JOHN DREW’S NEW ARCH STREET
AjA THEATRE. . Begins at o'clock.
STILL TRIUMPHANT—HOUSES FULL.
Last night but two of
MB. F. 8. CHANFRAU.
THIS (Thursday) EVENING, Dec. 20th, 1868,
OUR AMRBUAN COUSIN AT HOME
AND THE DEBUTANTE.
MK. F S. CHANFRAU
IN THREE GREAT CHARACTERS.
. Friday—Farewell Veueflt of F. S. CHANFRAU.
THREE GREAT PIECES.
Monday (Christmas Rve), Dale’s great Play,
4 GRIFFITH GAUNT,”
With new Scenes, Properties, Ac.
MRS. JOHN DREW aa KATE PEYTON.
WALNUT STREET THEATRE. N. E, corner
NINTH and WALNUT Sts. Commence at 7J£.'
MR J. 8. CLARKE.
THIS (Thursday) EVENING, Dec. 20, 1866,
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
Dromio of Syracuse ...... Mr, J. S. frr,
Third night of the successful Drama.
THE MERCHANTS' CLERKS.
Christopher Cockles— —Mr. J, S. CLARKE
Pooled glorious one act Comedietta of
„ TURNING THE TABLES. -
Jack Humphries. —Mr. J. S. CLARKE
General Jocko .... - Mr. J. S. CLARKE
Friday—BENEFIT OF MR. j. s. CLARKE.
NAIAD QUEEN—Christmas Day, at 2.
■JUBW AMERICAN THEATRE.
£% In compliance with, the .
• „ PUBLIC DEMAND,
the grand magical Spectacle of
•. . • THE BLACK CROOK
will be performed one week more, ; del7-6t
GERMANIA ; OBSHESTRA,—PubIic - Rehearsal*
vTevery Saturday afternoon, at the MUSICAL FUND
HALL, commencing at half-past three o’clock.-
Engagements made by addressing GEORGE 1 BAST*
_ERT. agent, 1231 MONTEREY street, between Race
and Vine, nos tf
-A_L HEWS BXCHANOJ
AmJSjEBSEOTS.
NEW CHESTNUT ST. THEATRE.
MR. m M 3, BASNEY WILLIAMS,'
The Great Cornedians and.OrijeinaJi
1 impersonators of
lEISH AND YANKEE LIFE
■ IS AMERICA .USD EUROPE,
Will commence a limited engsgementon
Monday Evening Mext, Dec. 24,1866 i
Ambbioan ACADEMY up music
OWNING CHSiiTMAS AFTERNOON,
WITH A ORAN D MATINEE,
„ THE GREAT
ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT;
-•LOITERINGS ON ESciIANTED GROUND.”
~^_ S in- that immortal production. entitled
Tbe Arab'an Nights,” and embodying with vivid sTid; v
striking grandeur those marvelous aS eimhanti£i :
creations of the imagination which have
CHARMED THE Woßtp FOR NEARLY 200*
YEARS.
• COMPRISING
• FIFTY GORGEOUS TABLEAUX,
which for lofry grandeur and ethereal beauty far snr--
pass all that has yet been produced by man or wit*
cessed by mortal eye.
WHI now be presented in this city as exhibited lit.
all the principal c»Ues of Europe to more than one ,
MILLION of people.
Jt was exhibited in London 380 nights.
It was exhibited in Berlin 190 nights.
It was exhibited in Vienna 100 nights.
It was exhibited in Madrid 200 nights. -
It was exhibited in Florence 120 nights.
The following Crowned Heads visited It* King Fre- •
dear lek, of Denmark, and Koyai Consort; King Maxi
milian IL, of Bavaria, ana-Royal family: Prince*
Leopold. Trace Adalbert and Prince Hortsoe Max, of -
Bavaria; King William 1., of Prussia, and Boyal Con
sort; p ii? oe -r. Ajb T^ bt » Frederick Carl and
Carl, of the Royal Family; Queen Victoria, and others.
It is the only exhibition ot the kind in the world,and s
has gained the unqualified approbation of clergy .press -
and nobility.-
BULWEB, the most classic and refined writer living,
described it thus: “Imagination with Its brilliant Ins--
tres.beautifal conceptions and heavenly tinge of color
ings, hss at length been eclipsed by Reality. While
the subject 1b grsnd, tbe execution is sublimity Itself.
The enchanted caves, dells and castles-which taught -
our youthful Imagination thought-paintings, are here -
produced on a seme of golden grandeur surpassing ex- ’
travagsnt ideal worlds. The effect of such an enter
tainment, where the censes are puzzled and the soul'
delighted, x> ust be good.”
Admission 25cents. Deserved seats 50cents.
Doors open at half-past s o’clock; commence at 8,
Grand Matinee Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday'
Afternoons, at 2 o’clock. Admission to ail parts of the -
house, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents.
Reserved Seats for any evening may be secured two •
days in advance, at Boner's Music Store, UQ2 Chestnut
street.. de2o-3t*
T>ISTORrS BENEFIT AND LAST NIGHT
XV ACADEMY OF MUSIC- Dlrector.....-T..GRATT,
FRIDAY* Dec. 21, BENEFIT OF
MADAME ADELAIDE BISTOBI,
For which occasion has been selected
Marengo’s celebrated Tragedy,
PIA DE TOLOMEI,
Tbe same Tragedy which was produced with enthu
siasm cnMme. BISTORTS BENEFIT in New York
and Boston.
ALFLaIDE BISTOBI as PIA DE TOLOMEI.
In addition. Mme. RIBTORI will give, for the first
time in America,
A RECITATION IN COSTUME.
SCHILLER’S IES ADIEUX D’JEAUNE IVABC*
The FAREWELL of JOAN D’ARC,
_ . Translated by Leguuve. - de2o-2t
The English translation of tbe Recitation will be ob
tained at the office and, in tbe evening, st the door.
T>I*TOR‘ MATINEE—ELIZABETH. : '
XV Farewell Appearance In Philadelphia of
MADAME ADELAIDE BISTORT.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.. DIRECTOR, J. GRAU.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Dec. 22, at 1 o’clock.
Doors open at 12. Admission to all parts of the house*"
fl. Reserved Seats. 50 cents extra ™ *
MADAME ADELAIDE RISTORI
A S ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
Tickets and Seats can ba obtained at the Academy of
Hnsic and at Trumpler’s Music Store.
To avoid tbe great rush at tbe dcor the ladies are re- -
quested to secure their tickets in advance. defio-2t
fl'H-K BCGGLEB GF Ms.—These beautiful UttlaOHi
■1 PAJKTIK6S by RUGGLES. of New York, are
constantly growing In lavof with all lovers of the
artistic and beautiful They constitute a most charm
ing and unique HOLIDAY GIFT. Lovers of art who
wish to purchase something exquisite are politely in
vited to examine this charming collection at DUF
FIELD ASHMBAD’fI (late Ashmead & Evans), 72f
CHESTHDT street, delO-lOtg
F
>juD«iSiOXi.VJLCUA aCJIDEMY OFFQSttABm
TENTH.
Open frem 8 A, 1L to 5 P. M.
Beniamin Weet’s great Picture of iimtiHT nig.
still on exhibiting. Jettf
KEAI ESTATI&
FOR RENT
The Fourth Story Back Boom,
07 THU
HEW BULLETIN BUILDIN®,
With entrance by a spacious Hall on Chestnut streets,
and also an entrance on Jayne street.
For further particulars apply at the
“Sew Bulletin Building,
607 Chestnut Streak.
OC22tf
TO RENT.
The Becoisd Story Beck Room of Jfo>
607 Chestnut Street,
APPLY TO
STANDEES ON & WOBBELL,
HOl9 tl ON THE PBEHIHES.
m FOR SALE,
Elegant Brick and Brown Stone DWELLING, N<k
-2l£o fePBCCE Street. Immediate Possession,
MAULS, BROTHER <£oo.,
2500 SOUTH Street.
de4-]m*
MI OB SALE.
Premifes No. 1015 BAGS street.
“ No. 1625 WALNUT street.
“ No. 3507 SEttUOK street.
w No. 1213 WALNCT street.
" No. 2014 WALNUT stieeL .
C. H. MUIBKKTP,
No. 2C5 South Sixth street.
de 14-lOfc
|fc»i I;uk BaLE A DE&ntABLK COUNTRY"
Hag PLACE, containing 18 acres superior land, ann
ate on the Lancaster road, one mile from Rosemont
station, on the Pennsylvania Central Ballroad, and.
ten miles from the City, t tone house, barn and all
necessary out-bulldiogs; fruit in abundance and a
Btre&mof water running through the place. J. il.
GUWME7 & SONS, 508 Walnut street. , .
MARCH STREET.—FOR sale—The handsome.
fo »r*story brick Residence, 22 feet front, situate on
me norihwest corner of Arch and Twentieth streets*.
Has parlor, library, dining-room, two kitchenß, eight
chamber*, billiard-room, bath-room, <fcc. Ia well built,
f»nrt in perfect order. J, M. GDMMRY <fe SONS, 505'
Walnut street. .
FOB SALE,—The three-stery brick DWELL.
BiiS ING wiih double three-story back
situate No. 227 South Twentieth street. Has every
modern convenience and improvement, and is in good
order. Lot 18 feet front by 88 feet deep. J. if, GUM>
MEY & SONS SOB Walnut street.
FOR RENT—The four story brick RESIDENCE,.
p?«g with three story back buildings and large lot,
situate on the west side of Eleventh ateeet, second
door below Locust An excellent business location. J.
JJ GTJMAIEY <fc SONS, 508 Walnut street. -
• fpi FOR SALE.—The handsome brick Residence,.
B”ti 22 feet front, with. Stable and Carnage house, and
lot 240 feet deeptoa-to feet wide street, situate No. 1509-
Spiuce street;Tiaa every modern convenience. J M,
QCMMSY <te SONS, 508 Walnut street.
Gzs. TO RENT—The fourj-story Dwelling, with
three story back buildings, No. 1727 VINK streets
with cr without the Furniture. Apply to A. FITLER,
No. 51 N. SIXTH street, or on thePremfses. del9-3i*
FOR SALE—A valuable four story brick BESI*
Elk PENCE and LOT, 23 feet ftoat by 90 feet deep,
aituate on the west side of Ninth street, below Walnut.
■T. M,rtrrM mtcy «fe SONS, 5(-8 Walnut street.
4KS ~ TO~'BENT—A' tbfee-story DWELLING, 3I&
Hjtf South Fifteenth street, and a four,-at.ry dwelling
508 South Tenth Btreet. Immediate possession. Apply
to t OPPPCE <£; JORDAN, 433 Walnut street. de!9
» FOR SALE.— The best LOCATION in the city
for a first class Drug Store, or Fine Grocery
particulars address with real name P. Box 858
p. O. ; . ' deis-3t«
'TO BENT.—A four-story DWELLING, No. 1721
Ks Vine street. All modem Imprevements. Imme
diate possession. Apply to COPPUCK & JORDAN,
483 Walnut street. . .. .. ~ ,
a FOR RENT,- STORES Nos . 517 and 519 MINOR
street. Communicating by archways, ; Apply fa
ndStory. .. ,• o delB.tu,th,B,3t* >
.MrUSSOAJLr
A FEW SELECT CAN SECURE TUmOIT
upon the PIANO, whose proficiency as
a performer, and whose ability to lmnartinstructlon. is :
1 testified to by someof the hlghestlmcgauthbrlty. For:,
/ in Interview, address KVSIC, at this omce. nol9,t^rpg
A - CE. ? TAYLOR. TEACHER OF SINGING AND
•PIANO, 12C7 FILBERT street. Singing classes
bow forming. oc2-t$