Show CONGRESS SESSION by W to clr HOUSE washington D C mar 28 springer presented alie memorial of J J wilson claiming to be elected from the ath congressional district of iowa on the ath november and offered a resolution to refer the memorial to the committed on elections when appointed all the sitting members from iowa were elected on the day claimed on the other side not the day legally fixed for the election the resolution was adopted by a pirty vote young road an extract from the report of alie grand jury on the election in hamilton county ohio to prove that his colleague butterworth and himself were not consid cred very bad persons the house then wont into committee of the aholo on the army appropriation bill tucker offered an amendment repealing the law which prohibits any person who has served in the military naval or civil service of the confederate states from being appointed to a position in tha army of the united states the point of order made and withdrawn by conger was renewed by sparks and sustained by alie chair alio consideration of the bill having been concluded with the exception of section six repealing the statutes allowing the military to preserve peace at the polls that section was read conger raised A point of order that the changed the existing law and did not retrench it could not bo held seriously that striking out the words keep peace at tho polls re trenched expenditures tures sparks admitted that the changed the existing law but argued that it re trenched expenditures frye argued that the section did not retrench expenditures it dis not the of the army because tho president was commander in and could transport trompa whenever he ale wed and there was no power in tho house to aay ho should transport troops here and not there carlisle thought the inoue and country would long time before accepting tho doctrine laid down by frye that the president aa commander in chief of the army can transport troops whenever ho nd USA them for whatever purpose ho pleases with or without tho consent of congress A long ensued stephen obtained tha floor hut stated ho was to proceed t present and at bis suggestion the committee roto and the house adjourned jour ned the question of reestablishing capital punishment n switzerland must be referred to the popular vote in the of commons th under secretary for india said the government would the borrowing powers asked as possible and would endeavor to pay off whatever sum i raised when circum aro more favorable for remitting to england |