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Show LATEST TELEG11AMS. FORTY -FIFTH CONGRESS. . fitMTE, : i Washington, 1. McCreery, from tho joint committee appointed to inquire in-quire into the expediency of transferring trans-ferring tbe Indian bureau from the-interior the-interior to tho war department, submitted sub-mitted a report signed by four members mem-bers of the committee in favor of tho transfer. Ordered printed. Hoar, from committee on privileges and elections, presented the minority report in favor of a Sixteenth Amend-miut Amend-miut to the Constitution prohibiting states from disfranchising persons on account of eex. Ordered printed, 1 The report is signed by Hoar, : Cameron ( VViscooBin) and Mitchell. ! Edmunds called up tho senate bill to provide for ascertaining and settling set-tling private land claims in New Mexico, Wysming, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Tbo object ia to settle the titles to lands derived from the Spanish aud Mexican governments-The governments-The bill waa discussed and finally laid aside. Consideration was then returned of the resolutions ol Edmunds declaring tbe validity of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Four-teenth, Fittecuth Amendments to the CoiiHlitntion. and Morcan continued bia argument in lavor of tbe subati tuto presented by him. Coko submit tal amendments tc the senate bill providing for tha construction construc-tion of a railroad from Galveston, Texas, to a point on tbe Rio Grande opposite Camargo, Mexico. Ordered printed and relerred. Bayard then took tbe floor, but, yielded to Ransom lor a motion Ion executive session. i Burnside introduced a bill making an appropriation of $10,000 for military mili-tary roads in Idaho. Referred. Tbe senate tben went into executive session, and when the doors were ro-opencd ro-opencd adjourned until Monday, HOUSE. The debate threatened for tbe past few d&ys hue begun. Chalmers, in tho Opening speech, suggested that the tendency to euepect others as exhibited ex-hibited iu the ppeecb of Bragg, indicated generally a tendency to corruption in one's Belf. He hoped the south would he solid fur the democratic demo-cratic party, but for that portion of it which bad the courage and manliness to treat the peoplo ol the sutb aa equals, not as inferiors in the Union. Uo said he cared nothing for tbe payment pay-ment of local southern claim-', because be-cause loyalty to the Union during war meant disltaby to everything he held dear. That many men in tho snuth had been loyal to the Union was nevertheless true, and he did not envy the cheap political capital a Uuiou soldier could make by telling such mea. He bad no more coofidaoce in their honesty than a mouse bad in astuQed catakin. The gentleman Irom Wisconsin (Bragg), taking advantage of well known opposition everywhere, sought to blend war claims with claims ior southern improvements and endeavored endeav-ored to throw the odor of bis dead cat over them. Ke'diursa to suspect sus-pect corruption in others sometimes indicates an innate tendency to corruption cor-ruption in one's self and he should therefore not charge corruption ou any one. The iiciies of war were ceiuiniy dead with him. lie had but one political Itilh to preserve inviolate local sel.'-guven meut; but ono political hope to build up the waste places iu the south destroyed by tne war. When the w.et had bteu loitered by the south the Mississippi democrats itood side by side with those from Michigan 10 tbe work ol western improvements. He had warned the nortnern demo- crats last session that a re-1 fusal to recognize the just demands of the south might result in tiio dtsleat of southern dtmocrata, and that they would return representatives representa-tives who would l:rm alliance with other parties. Tuts ripid growth of independent cand.cUtf s in the eDUtb had already busUintd his declaration. declara-tion. Ilfl hoped a dulid south might lutill be solid for the democratic p.'-rly, , hut fur that portion ol it that 'hud tte course and uiau'inea , to treat the ptoplo ol tlm south ivi equals and not :ia inleriois in tne Union. Tne g-'Ulle-mau Unui Wihc.Mis:i! had imind a bloodier shirt than h.i ever wvtd from the b.iltleinerits of a republtcau pjrly, aud ho waa btrtlcning hi leg in a Irantio effort to clunb up tit me republican platform und rob it of its laet; bJiiuor. He had remiodt-d the south of a war debl and of tbe blrod ol Union auldieie, for which the south was responsible. Ho (Chalnie;s) would remind tbe gentleman thai the war debt wai not yet pid, and tbe cotton and tobacco stales wuru paying far more of that debt than VVifcoLaiu. Ho (Chalmere) would reply to tbe gen-tlemau's gen-tlemau's dismissal ol a certain olasiof southern democrats, thai if there wero any soreheads or disappointed disap-pointed republicans in tlie north who could not get into congress without putting on the lion's bkm of democracy, democ-racy, they should be very carelul not to open their mcuths too wide when they get tbcro. (Laughter.) Alter several speeche, the most part by Missippi members, the debate terminated with the morning hour. Tbe bouso then retustd, 77 to 112, to consider the army reurganizitiou , bill, and went into committee 0:1 timj appropriation till. Hewitt, New York, haviui; chnrgo of tho bill, explained its provisions. It appropriated $20,247,300 as luaiuat the ettimate ol $2S,08-l,oOO and tne appropriation last year ol $25,778,187. The reduction in the army appropria-! tions for the last three years amounted . to $8,000,000. They had been reduced re-duced to minimums aud il any saving was to be ellecied hereafter it must be by the proceeB of reorganization and reconstruction, and rsorgauizHibn could be made so as to not impair the efficiency of the army. With an annual saving of $3,400,000 two great questions had boeu presented to tho Forty-fourth congress. Tho first bad been when lho house had agreed to the settlement ol the presidential difficulty and had loyally held to its engagement. The second great question had been i i regard to the army appropriation bill, in which the clause kuown aa the posse comUatus clauao had been inserted. in-serted. That bill had failed of pa-Bing pa-Bing because the house had refused to yield. To have done so would have been a baBe surrender of the right of the people to the government of tho army. To give the president complete com-plete control of the army would he (0 turn tho government into a centralized central-ized despotism. During the extra aeasion be had thought it would be a mistake to attempt any reorganisation reorganisa-tion or reduction, and tbe bill, bad been brought into the house without any reduction or without with-out any assertion of the right of the president to control the army. I That bad been done purposely and the bill passed, and with it had passed forever, be trusted, the wreck which had surrounded the late presidential campaign. In the second aeasion of tbe Forty-fiflb congress the bill had come from the appropriation com-j miltee without the posse comitutus', clauhe, the committee preferring make tbe fight on the ground of economy, but the question of money and of reorganization were ot utter igsignificance as compared with the provision oflered by the gentleman from Kentucky (Knoti), and adopted by the bouse forbidding the interference inter-ference of the army in elections. Should that provision be repealed ? Never; no vote would ever be cast on either side of the house for the repeal of that momentous clause for liberty. McCcok. I will vote for it with pleasure. Hewitt, New York, hoped the gentleman would livo lung to devote himself to tho study of the underlying principles of which the fabric of constitutional law had been built. Repeal the provision? Never. Define, yes. The provision might be too bread; it might imply the proper action of tho government and it might become unueceswy t-j define it. In couciusioo, Hewitt stated his intention of offering an amendment repealing that section ol lho law of 1800 which ollowi tho army to preserve pcaco at tho polls, and he hoped both sides of the bume would agree in expunging it from tho statute books. Banning spoke iu Uvot cf the army reorganization bill. He would efl'er that bill as an a mend meut lo tbe appropriation bil1. Tho army, today, was a ridioulous orgnn'zitiou. Most of the companies ol infantry did not contain more than a corporal's jiu-ird. I The hill was approved by Line officers) and by many ol the alatl officers. Ho sent up to the clerk's desk aud had read a number ot Ittteis from officers of tbe army favcring the passage of tbo bi 1 Wbyte denied that those who favored the bill wera unfriendly to the army or hostile to those men who had lought to save the Union. Dibrell Bpoke in favor of the re organization bill which was then read by sections, but before any action was taken the committee rose. Burdick submitted a resolution directing the committcs on ways and meaus to icquire what legislation is necessary to enable the treasury to collect the amount of direct taxes remaining unpaid and due from rhe various states. Referred. Adjourned till Monday. |