Forty-fourth Congress
Tuesday, May 9. - Both housea met, bnt, without transacting auy Iiukíucsb, adjourned over till Friday, the 12th. Nearly all the ínembcrs lcft iiumediately, on a special train, for Philattelpuia. Fbiday, May 12.- Señale.- Thert being but few Senators present, an adjourunicnt was votèd till Monday, without traosactintc any business. Umie.- Cox w.-is elcettd Kjieakor jiro tem. (liiring the contimied absence of Kerr. Tbc Home went into committco of the wuole on tho Postofflce Appronriation blll, tho question being in regard to abolishing the letter-carrier lystem in citics of loss thau 4O,0()0 populaünn. Tho proposition was aefealid- IÏB to 29.... Vanee, Chairnian of the Printing Coumiittee, made a report on tho subject of Uie Qovernment printiiig-oflloo. The roport state tliat tho committco found cviilences of waste, extravagance, mismaiiaKOllient and ineftlciency, and rocommoDds tho removal of Clapp and tho iuangnration of tho contractystem to take tho place of tho presont mode f dolng business. Thn rnmniitteo also recommend that 01ai)l) bo turned over to the District court for indiclment aud prosccutioii, and that the oittco be abolished. Satürday, May 18.- Senate. - Not in sesBion. Ilmtse.- The caso of Fitzhugh, Doorkeepcr of tho House, consnnied most of the sossion. GIoto offered a resolutiou dcclaring "that it is the spnso of tbc House tbnt S. H. Fitzhugb is not a proper person to bold tbo honorable and rcfipoiiKible position of Doorlteoper of tbc House, and tbat eaid FitzliUKb, as Doorki'cpfr, lo and is bereby ilisiiiistsrd forthwitb from that ulVuc." Aftcr a long (liscusiou tbo rcsolution was rcierrod to tbc Coinniittcc on Eiües. Minday, May 15. - Señale.- During tho morning bour a number of reports, of an uniniportant character, were mado from varioua comjnittet'S, and the Sonate tben went iuto secret nasinu, to delitwrato on the quebtion of lts juriediction as Ui the Mclkuap impoacbnieut. House.- Bills wcre iutroduced by Duraud, to ostablish a new boundary line between the States of Missouri and Kansas, south of the Missouri rivcr ; by Jones, (Ky.), cbartering a passenger and iroigbt railroad from tbc Southeast Atlantic seaboard to Lnko Michigan ; by White, (Ky.), to alHiortion Federal amjoíntmonts among tbe eral Congrcssional distriets ; by Willis, to provide for the rcpcal of all laxes on bank capital and deposits. . . , Hcveral reaolutions wero adopted calling for rej)ort8 and correepondenco as t tho whisky ring prosecutions aud tbc dismissal of Jobn lí. Honderson as special counsel for tbc Govornniout ; tbo propriety of turuing over tbo dutios iu the Internal Itevenuc burean to tbo Commissioner of Custouiw, and for a list of the Government defaulters siucc Maren, 1805 Morrison moved to Buspend tbc rules and pasa the Sonate bill to allow Mrs. Miunio Öbennan lflitch to receivo, freo of dutics, a wedding present from tho Khedivo of Egypt. Tbc motion was agrecd to without tUo yeas and nays. . ..Payncs bill to authorizc the lssuo of uilvcr coin to thc amoimtof $10,000,000, iu oxchuDge lor logal-tendor, was lOBt, lees tb au two-tbirds votiug in the atlirmativo. The vote was: Ycas, 133; nayB,33.
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