Show kry mry iw 12 A lct i I 1 joy By Telegraph rap n 1 ca 1 ai OJ j congressional AGNATE washington 6 sargent submitted a resolution requesting the secretary of the navy to transmit to the senate the narrative of halls halpa second arctic arotin Cr H Expedition compiled from noted note U made by captain hall and ur ich Sch chased ased from hia hla widow agreed agreen to 0 C washington 6 paddock from froni nithe committee on public lands reported favorably the senate bill for the relief of settlers upon the pub lic lands under the preemption pre emption fal laws las passed 0 west from the committee on railroads reported favorably on the v senate bill to amend the act of 10 june esth 1872 granting the right of odway way through the public elands to trie denver and aud rio kio grande rail bail V C cockrell reported favorably on ta oatlie senate benato joint resolution to amend the joint resolution of july 3rd ard 1876 authorizing the secretary y 0 o war to issue arms to certain states and territories so as to issue ammunition not to exceed fifty ball cartridges forbach for nor each arm passed f hamlin ham tin from the conference w B committee 0 on n the disagreeing votes of the two houses housos on the bill establishing lili illi hing certain post routes which involves the question of restoring the fast mail trains and franking privilege privilege lege reported that the committee had been unable to agree he moved that the new conference masked washed for by the house be granted so ordered he said 5 it A the ho house se had io not nut appointed its ala aia afe conference although the bill had bad been sent to the Se senate hato hate and he moved that the abill bill be returned to tho iho house that that body might tip appoint point its mem bema bera first agreed to ingalls said the bill abolishing I 1 the board of metropolitan police commissioners with the presidents ve lying table the committee having recommended that it be passed notwithstanding the objections of the president thereto thesus the tho subject jech lech was discussed at some length and the question being shall the bill pass pasa notwithstanding the objections of the president thereto it was decided in the negative yeas 33 nays 22 two thirds thorda thirds not voting in the affirms I 1 washington 7 61 Ul iS Sherman fierman called ul up the bill au tho the commissioners of the freedmen Freed mens trust company to bu buy huy y and sell certain property and sub emitted an amendment that the sale be at public auction unless the justices of the supreme court shall first approve such sale agreed te to and the bill passed washington 8 S the chair laid before the senate a letter from the secretary of war including the recommendation of the third auditor of the treasury that an hu appropriation pria tion of be made to pay montana war claims and to jay isy ray dakota war claims laid on the table 8 the speaker jn in reference to the prisoners wells and anderson said he had not charge of the witnesses but having charge of the rooms of the capitol he had ordered the prisoners to be transferred erred to the room of the education committee that committee had objected and the sergeant at arms could only return them wood said he did not wish the prison frison prisoners ers erg to appear as inhumanly treated brit thought the ordinary method of bf requiring a doctors certificate as to the health of the sick man should be followed conger any party which would confine a man to a the detriment of his health for re fusing to produce papers not in his h power to produce the american bolind I 1 mind alad would perceive that it was 1 iiii an infamous wrong and suggestive of the thumbscrew and inquisition days clymer said the tho sergeant at arms had done his utmost to make the room comfortable it was well heated lighted and ventilated and the preceding congress had used it for the same arno purpose they were allowed to converse with friends conger denied this thia the speaker eaker edker said the resolution directed that they be kept hept in lit close custody banks called attention to the ab of that construction of the resolution as they had been boen taken before the house muse committee and compelled to testify without any arey ht lof tho 11 house horse oum allowing them them to be brought out oat of custody when witness was testifying before the tho ed h 0 was a free man wood woo d said the tho republican members were endeavoring to mislead the country and put on the democrats the stigma of inhumanity those prisoners might have produced the papers which would have settled the present lamentable condition of the country cox thought the minority were attempting to lionize the returning board under the pretense of humanity he affirmed that the room was a good accommodation and if tha the prisoners friends feared for their health they should advise them to produce the papers and aud not make walking arsenals of themselves he hoped that if the complaint had any foundation the trouble would be remedied the resolution was re referred ferre d to 89 the house went want into committee of the whole on the deficiency bill and foster by a formal amendment corrected the statement of speaker randall bandall r recently that the democrats had reduced the expenditures the last year the actual deduc 1 utona tlona including the deficiency was I 1 randall compared the appropriations pr lations of the and con gress show showing inc ing that the former appropriated the latter r had already appropriated 11 and would add about more making a saving of and but for the senates senators resistance of retrenchment it would have been washington 9 tho the chair appointed harvey on public buildings committee oice vice e paddock excused and paddock on the a agricultural committee vice I 1 harvey excused f WASHINGTON 10 the sena senn senators on returning from the house hward head fields objection read after further debate the chairman submitted the following Be resolved solved that tho the decision of the commission upon the electoral votes of the state of florida stand as the judgment of the senate the objections e chions made contrary thereto notwithstanding A long debate as to the form of the question sustaining or overruling fields objection was in order it was submitted by whyte that the senate non coleur in the commissions commission decision but that the votes cast by the democratic electors of florida are the true and lawful votes and should be counted as the electoral vote of that state I 1 and was defeated by a strict party vote the senate then agreed to the order by hamlin that the vote of florida should be counted for hayes and wheeler as determined by the electoral commission the vote standing 43 to 25 strictly partisan on motion of sargent the secretary was whis directed to notify the house that the senate hadu had reached a decision and was ready to meet the house for the purpose of proceeding with tho the count A motion of stevenson to adjourn till monday was rejected yeas 26 nys nays 44 a strictly party vote at 3 the senate took a recess until 10 on monday morning 12 at the clerk of the tho house appeared at the bar of the senate and announced the decision of the house that the counting the vote of florida shall not proceed in con with the decision of the electoral commission and also noti fied the senate that the house was now ready to meet the tho senate in joint meeting the senate then proceeded to the hall of the house HOUSE 1 washington WASHING ton TOx 7 knott chairman of the committee on leges re reported arted the testimony taken up to february ath together witla with the resolution for its printing which was adopted waldron from the deficiency appropriation committee lepof reported ted back the senate bill appropriating for the government printing deficiency for the present fiscal year vance offered an amendment prohibiting after the current year the payment of a greater price by government overn ment for labor than is paid f m n new now york philadelphia and baltimore he said eaid he had aa as chairman of the printing commit tee written a note jointly with the chairman of the senate committee to the public printer recommending in h him im to ilo adopt buch such a rule had bg he eado adopted this thia advice there 3 would not have be enone dollar 0 of f 1 a deficiency now R s conger opposed the amendment which was adopted to ana and the bill passed the house Hou then went into committee odthe whole holo hole on the deficiency appropriation bill washington 8 soon after the business was begun in the house of representatives today to day hale rose to a privileged question and read a letter addressed to him from J madison wells wella and thos 0 anderson stating that they were confined in a dam damp d ark dark dungeon of bf the cellar collar of thac the capitol P to and that yesterday by order of the Speak speaker ery erl they had been transferred to a much better room and that they had been brought back to the cells by order of the sergeant at arms and that on account of the bad air I 1 in the cell one of them gov wells was now on his hig sick bed hale said bald his hia attention had been called by this letter to the matter he eie had gone to the cell in which the prisoners were confined and had found it a damp dark room into which a glearn gleam of sunlight could n never sev er penetrate and to which the hall had to be illuminated by gas the air was poisonous and one of the prise prisoners nerg an old man over 70 years yeara old lay jay on his bed of sickness it rt was inhuman to keep them in such a room and he therefore offered a resolution directing the sergeant at arms to remove the prisoners to a well dw lighted and well ventilated room where their thoin health rn may y not endangered be cox baid said I 1 in d this sanio sanso same cell that the tho republican congress i gaess had incarcerated S stewart and irwin the par prisoners boners were con eon confined fin e d and awid in t ape 6 custody of the sergeant at ai matilt ma but hut they could release themselves ives by simply purging themselves s ve a of the contempt of th eHouse and answering the questions thoy they iad refused tp answer mccrary inquired what questions ihl they ey had refused to answer s cox cux they had refused to pro ro rot t certain papers mccrary they are confined for not producing what was vas was not in 14 their possession ay WAsHiNG washington ton Tox 9 the bill passed to promote telegraphic communication ni between america and E eu ut rope the bill for the distribution of awards under the convention between the united states and mexico pa passed ased blackburn from the louisiana election committee reported a resolution for printing its lesti festi testimony mony moDY at a private printing the public printer being unable to do the werk work hale raised a point which the speaker sustained house could have no printing done except at the public printing office the house then went into committee of the whole on the private cale caie calendar uday 9 0 morrison chairman of the louisiana committee submitted a report with a resolution declaring that the democratic electors received the majority the votes dotes in louisiana and that the pretended canvass and lation of the vote by the returning board wab waa without legal authority fraudulent aud and void and that the vote cannot be couil counted ted for haye raye and wheeler without confirming and approving that fraud townsend made a minority report that the republican electors were elected and the election was legally examined and declared in compliance with the federal tulion tullon washington 10 lo at I 1 the senate took its seat in joint session with the house and president terry took the chair the decision of the electoral commission having been read written objections were made by representative field on the part of five senator and twelve representatives ta tives and then the two houses house separated separ separated aged aeed after the senators retired to tuo motion to adjourn till monday was warmly debated the republicans arguing that under the electoral bill tl the house had no power to take a recess but must consider the objections to the decision of the committee for two hours then vote upon it and hold a joint session a again g ain aln th the OS speaker overruled the point of order against the right to take a recess and accordingly the house took a necess recess cess till 10 on mon day dayt i washington 12 at 10 mccrary rose to discuss the electoral decision I 1 clymer objected on the ground that no quorum was present and the debate was postponed till 1030 am when field offered the following ordered that the counting of the electoral vete vote from florida shall not ilot proceed in conformity with the decision of the electoral commission but that the votes totes of call young hilton and bullock be counted as the votes from the state of florida for the president and vice vlee president of the united states hale offered an amendment ordered that the counting of the electoral votes from the state of florida shall proceed in conformity with the decision of the electoral commission knott offered as a resolution an order reciting the language of the electoral act that the commission might inquire into such petitions depositions and other papers as shall by the constitution and now existing law be competent reciting also thelast chatin that in the Florl florida dal dai case the commission had decided and determined that no evidence would be received or co considered la eldered had not been submitted to the two houses in joint convention by the president of the senate that certificate number one that of the hayes electors contained no evid evidence ence enco whatever while certificates numbers two and three of the tilden electors did contain evidence fully and specifically showing that the latter had been duly elected and appointed as electors and nd therefore ordering that the d decision of the commission and grounds thereof be remanded d and re committed to the com commission with the request that the same game be so 30 corrected or explained and that the commission be further requested to farial furnish sh in detail the reasons of the decision so that the house may be enlightened as to the course it ought to pursue in the discharge of its duties and that in the menu meau meantime jime time the votes of the hayes electors elector sf be not goun poun counted ted hale made a point of order that by orde the electoral commission sion law jaw it was the imperative du duty ty of the house at the end of a two hours debate to vote on the main question which wasa was whether the votes should be counted in conformity with the decision and that nothing in the shape of delay in whatever form presented could now arrest the wheels of its decision wil wll Wilson of 01 iowa added to hales point corid of 0 order That the house could refer nothing to the commission that would require at least concurrent action the speaker overruled the point of order made by hale but sustained that made by wilson holding that there was nothing in the electoral commission that authorized the remanding of the question back to the commission and also I 1 ruling that it was not competent for one house to refer a bill on another matter to an outside commas commission the substitute offered by knott knolt was therefore not in order the house thereupon proceeded to discussion AMERICAN NEW york YOEK IO 10 the tho heralds washington special gives the opinions ions lons of congressmen on the elec electoral t decision as follows Town of penn the vote vole is as it should be it is a te vindication of the wisdom of creating the coin coln commission missi orr plaisted how could anyone expect a dil dif different lerent result gibbell it shows conclusively that wo we are arc entitled to build our hopes on justice and rig right bt even wit hIthe approval of the 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