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Show LATEST DISPATCHES, GENERAL. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Washington, 15. The senate is not in session. HOUSE. trime, ui -ivencucKy, sent to tile ch-rk's desk and had read an article from the Concord, X. H., Monitor, c -utaining a circular signed by Chas. U. Smith, journal clerk of the bouse, offering to act in the prosecution of additional bounty claims, for a commission com-mission of 25 per cent. The article also speaks of Smith being a confidential confiden-tial clerk of Representative Jones of X. H.j and describes the proposition as a nicely laid scheme to make fees and perquisites by an ambitiousyoung man.who holds an office disqualifying him from openly acting as an attorney attor-ney before the departments. He also offered a resolution instructing the judiciary committee to inquire into tbe matter. Smith handed an explanatory ex-planatory letter to the speaker, which was read to the house, in which he states that being at home in New Hampshire at the recent . election there, he saw in the telegraphic dispatches dis-patches that an additional bounty bill was before the house, and that he then made up his mind if the bill should pass to resign his official position posi-tion and follow his profession as an attorney, and in that view he had prepared and ijsued tbe circular referred re-ferred to. Morrison offered an amendment to White's resolution, referring Smith's communication to the committee on rules, with instructions to ascertain whether Smith had violated any law or done any act inconsistent with his position as an employ 6 of the house. A Iter disxussion tiie question was re ferrcd to the committee on rules. Knott, chairman of the judiciary committee, reported back tho senate bill to provide for tho administerini: of oatiis in impeachment trials. Pitssed. Singleton, from the committee on appropriations, reported back the senate amendments to the consular and dinlnmntin snnmnrinlinn hill moved that they bo now carried ii; gross. Field remonstrated against that course as being unusual at, this stag I of the session. The house should hate I jan opportunity of voting on the amendments iu detail. Singleton did not insist on the mo-1 mo-1 tion, and the amendments were ordered or-dered to be printed and recommitted. Hard, from the judiciary commit tee, reported a resolution iu the habeas Corpus case of Kilbouruo, directing tho ncrgeant-at-arms to mako carelul return to tho writ, setting out the charges of the detention deten-tion of Kilbourne and retain the custody of his body, and not to produce pro-duce it before the judge or court without further order from the house. He proceeded to an argument in support sup-port of the resolution. Hard stated that he had just been informed by the Bergeant-at-arms that ho had appeared ap-peared before tho judge at 10 o'clock this morning, and that tho hearing of the case had been postponed till next Tuesday morning. Jie therefore there-fore gave notice that he would call the previous question 0:1 Monday at 0" o'clock. Adjourned. |