| Show by tele tb 0 graph donig congressional RESS IONA lona L SENATE washington 18 booth from the committee on public lands lauds reported back the resolution instructing tho the committee to inquire at what time the several roads which received grants of loans under the pacific railroads act of 1863 1862 were completed and if any adit ional lonal legislation ia is necessary to secure the tho rights of settlers to purchase sueh euch lands as have not been sold within three years of the completion of the road at per acre also reported a bill in relation to the sale of ot lands granted to certain railroad companies and asked that it be printed and re committed to the committee on public lauds so ordered washington 19 10 anthony said among the distinguished distl visitors to the centennial was the marqula marquia rochambeau do grandson of count de do rochambeau he had been called home homo suddenly and had not time to visit the na ional capital the marquis marquia had inherited all the papers of his grandfather and among them were many of or value relating to the american revolution he submitted a resolution instructing the committee on library to luquire inquire u 1 r 0 into the expediency of obtaining the paper papers of count de do Bo chambeau rochambeau bowin pos posses slon of the marquis de rochambeau ambeau relating to our war for independence agreed to WASU washington INGTON 19 the conference committee on the sundry civil appropriation bill today to day reached a final agreement by the house conferees acquiescing in the tho senate amend amendment ment striking out the clause by which the house proposed to repeal the national registration 0 law allison from the conference committee on the army app appropriation ropI bill read a report which was agreed to allison said all the matters relating to the organization of the army were to be submitted to a commission consisting of two members ef of the senate and two members of the house the secretary of war and two army officers the th house had receded from all its amendments relating to the reduction and reorganization and pay of the army the bill as 09 09 it came te the senate from the house of representatives appropriated that amount was increased by the senate the conference committee reduced the amendment of the tho senate leaving the tilo total amount appropriated by the bill if it should be passed or orl ori less 1 ess than the amount appropriated for the army last year tho the consideration of the articles of impeachment was then resumed J S evans was sworn after some discussion as to the clau elau clause e of examination conkling submitted the following order which was agreed to ordered that the managers proceed to examine witness evans E vans in chief or should they decline to do so respondent may proceed to ex amino tho the witness in chief with the right to the managers to cross ex amine like any other carpenter belknap hever requested bested tho the witness to beo seo 11 marsh darab K it was in reply to a statement made by witness as to the amount lie ho had invested at ft sill that belknap said he would seo see 1 larsh marsh who was to be la tho city soon Q tidmarsh did marsh say to you that he had dad h ad to divide with anybody A ho he never breathed anything of the hind kind never beard board auy talk about money being paid to the soc Boc rotary of war until tho the publication of tho the article articie in tho mew yori york tribune in 1872 he never had bad h td any indulgence from tha 6 crr tary of war not common to other post traders never paid the secretary of war a cent for the appointment did not tell the secretary he had made a contract with marsh could have reduced his bis prices for goods had it t not been for the payment of for the position knew nothing of anybody advising the tho secretary of war in regard to t the agreement between marsh and himself the impeachment proceedings were temporarily suspended and the legislative business resumed windom from the conference committee on the sundry civil appropriation bill submitted a report which was read in explanation of the report he said the bill as it originally passed the house appropriated the senate at 0 added and as n now ow reported it appropriated the total amount of reductions made in the bill as it ift passed the senate was the sundry civil bill last year appropriated or more than the present bill he was unable to see any great saving to the government from the reductions made in the confer conference euce committee from the bill as it passed the senate conferees he was not satisfied with the bill aa as agreed upon in conference but he thought it the best bill which could be got under tho the circumstances he then read the items constituting reductions among which were tha the following public printing and binding igl igi general expenses of the district of columbia revenue cutter service courts in utah smithsonian institute elimination of rebel archives mints and assay offices office now state war and navy departments new dew building at st louis S navy yards and station stations SU improvement on the capitol grounds and under the temporary clerks in the treasury department signal office testing iron I 1 ron and steel survey of public lands collecting revenue from t the tho hosalee sales of public lands and he said tit would be necessary to pass a large deficiency bill next year As the bill had been agreed to in conference it provided that the public printer should be appointed by the Pre president Adent that officer had before been elected by the senate but lt the house for s everal years had disputed th the right of the binate senate to do so and the senate conferees thought it best to yield the house had receded from its pro provision repealing the election law after long and tedious bill had bad been agreed on ho he hoped the report would be agreed to anthony opposed the reduction in the appropriations for the re venue cutter service he opposed any reduction in the appropriation for mints and and assay offices El munds said he would vote against the report because it struck out nn appropriation of for the examination of rebel rebe I 1 archives the action of the heuse house committee in shrinking out this ampro pria tiou was saying that this evidence should be locked up and be of no use in sifting out the false from the true claims against the government the impeachment proceedings weri were here taken up and evans resumed his testimony he eald eaid he was sent to C P marsh he remembered the letter of marsh asking that his big appointment be made oat out in the name of john F evans treated that letter aa as any other business letter of the department the letter remained in the department about fourbears four years and until the reigna resignation of gen gon belknap carpenter announced that this closed the case for the tho defense E evans vans testified ho he never had bad any conversation with tho the secretary of or war in relation to the tho payments of money marsh had bad no money invested in the business sargent asked if the managers managers did not intend to question the witness it about the conversations between evans and und marsh mcmahon said he hud no objection evans then related in substance tho conversations between himself and barsh bargh it appears marsh wanted a year but evans said eaid he could not pay that and the figure fixed was the next nest morning however he read in the tho newspapers that somo soma of tho troops were removed from tho the post and he told marsh he could not pay the sum agreed upon they finally larrr lej led L un n 1 12 00 00 1 sargent asked if marsh told him what he intended to do with the money witness said he did nt not cross examined by carpenter mcmahon then proceeded to examine evans he recounted the circumstances under which he obtained the appointment he first saw the belknapp Bel knaps in dubuque then in washington he was introduced trod to belknap a second time by gen E W bice rice gen belknap told him the appointment was already promised afterwards Afier afler wards he however made a contract with marah by which he received the appointment in consideration ol 01 paying a year the person to whom gen belknap had promised the appointment was marsh he paid marsh various sums aggregating over manager mcmahon stated that the managers had nothing to offer in rebuttal carpenter asked that some arrangement range ran nan gement menthe he made about summing up the case and announced that three of the counsel for the tho defense desired to be heard beard manager lord suggested that the time for argument be limited he said that only two of the managers desired to bekeart be heard on the question u io n of fact but if there was to ab be eeg argument u as to the effect of the two thirds vote on the question of j jurisdiction uris a third manager desired to be leard heard carpenter said the counsel for the debem e would argue all there was in the case and he regarded that as one of the best points Con conkling kline submitted au an order that three man managers agers agens and three counsel may be heard in such order as they may arrange among themselves edmunds moved to amend to limit the time of the argument to six houm hours for each side rejected yeas yena 16 nay days a 29 the order of conkling son Ion kling was waa agreed to and the as a court of impeachment adjourned until tomorrow to morrow washington 20 20 patterson submitted a resolution requesting the president to communicate to the senate any information he may have in regard to the recent slaughter of american citizens in south carolina agreed to i soon afterwards eam cAm of the articles of impeachment wa was res reb resumed umed blai blat of counsel opened the argument for the defence holding that impeachment should be dis eniss mis ed on the ground that more than one third of the senate voted against it and could not on that account vote on this prosecution unless the managers expected the ziena riena senators tors who voted against jurisdiction would stultify themselves and vote for conviction now robertson thought such langua g towards senators was very harsh hannh blair explained that he d dd d not hot mean muan to be per pe rhonal ronal towards senators he only spoke of the action of the managers as having the tho appearance that they expected the senators would estul stultify themselves by voting on the conviction of or the defendant ho he then rf viewed reviewed the articles of impeachment H HOUSE 0 U 8 E washington 18 cox cos replied to smalls small and quoted from the book written by pike late minister to the hague entitled titled A prostrate state south carolina under tinder a negro s and in which members of the legislature are characterized as highwaymen professional legislative robbers and arid pickpockets pick pockets who under the law rob poor and rich alike he spoke of the book as a revelation of darkness in robbery and rascality smalls asked cox whether he had hail got a book of the history of the city of now york laughter on the republican side cox cos replied that lie tie be belonged lODged to that portion of the tiie democratic party which had bad driven out the rascals from now Yorki york and nud asked asbed why thay had not done the same in south carolina applause OB on the democratic side townsend admit admitted ironically cally eaily that the city of new now york a was a land ot puro imro delight where saluta immortal dwen dwell and compared the tho population and debt of south carolina and of the city of new york giving the former as with a debt of and tho latter as with a debt ofa ile lie spoke of win tweed as the ruler ofner of new york city for mord more thaha twelve sears years during 0 that at when tammany hall was in its power and glory under tweed the gel gen tieman from ohio cox brought his little carpet bag into the city of or new now york set it down in tarn many hall and looked up smiling ly for the approbation of win IL tweed laughter on the republican side he alluded to tiie the other lights of tammany hali hall richard B connolly peter K P sweeney J garvey In gersell fields genet etc he spoke 0 various sums which each had hal stolen the governor had not jei yei found time to investigate the oak oat rage ragn of letting tweed escape adi anu the sheriff still held his office aex replied to townsend alo ant reminded him film that it was becala of gov Til dens denb eminent service in driving out tweed that hewal he wa now dow a democratic candidate tor for th tn resl resi residency deney dency one fact however howe vel vei could not be got get around it wo wai too soggy to burn and too tough tl split and d that was that whereas in new york the authorities democratic and republican alike wili will gov tilden at their bead pun ishel isbel their rascals while south carolou and the federal rascals still stil went into courts tweet tweel was a rascal but he had the aid 1 a republican legislature As to hi cox taking hh bli carpet bag frog fron ohio he had always maintain ef the right of locomotion and he bg hit a right to go back to new now york yorm t sight of his grandfathers old co con gressional greba gresa ional district he did not cai where a man was born so long as h was good and just the savior ha been born in bethlehem and the thi all worshipped wor shipped him although b was a foreigner in that they did not however necess necessary arg worship the tittle african that came from congo and thi th was his col ool colleagues leagueR Town hem teW only devotion laughter garfield alluded to cox as aryn to laugh murder out of the cm cla he wished to anaw whether t tl if hamburg amburg case was a sporadic ca cm or a symptomatic case indicate Indi catli catig a general feeling that the biad blai men shall not be allowed all tl 0 rights and privileges of amariet mii Ati citizens zens lamar of the hamam affair as disgraceful and but denied its circumstances we a legitimate a te topic in in the house Is t the de debate a j e there were one or tu fact facts that gleamed out indica auly ably one of thebe these wa was WA at body of white men lud hud put U death without authority of jav jar i j num Dum number berot berof of colored citizens alle bile prisoners not prisoners phia pria onera in aega lyp lep sense inasmuch as these white ma mel had no right to deprive them their personal liberty he wish to say ray here that no excuse or pali pal tion lion could possibly be found t that outrage and barbarism A on the republican sided sida sidn south had bad its lawless class as t I 1 north had with this different that in the houth south they in different localities and wern fined to short periods of time wl herein heroin here in the north some coul count were sometimes held in tc tends rr 6 months and the state a authony uth defied denied in the southern sif bit S where disorders occurred ab were govero gove ments of peculiars peculiar peculia rt acter and type they were S republican but it wah waa a republicanism ican lean ism which had no not noa pathy with the purposes an andi ings of the great national re ree rep can party it was these stat stai J ern ments which had bail une eue enciu ou 1 I these orders and the these 0 o murdel murde their inefficiency their iu ina iua a and their cowardice HI ply to inquiry whether the hamburg car cas sporadic or symptomatic b mared dared that there was wai no corn 60 nily in the south s uth jtb which been struck with horror a aj occurrence occurrences he deemed I 1 lt a der that society under the au a of governments which allow c lawlessness to stalk abbod d land did not go to pieces B oared dared the use of the ar never produced a good e effig such cases the troops gt there arteche arter after the occurreD p gg use of the militar mill military tar pd pohja ineffective cumbersome jf A almost useless and in s sp good faith of the army old had been converted info S engine of political opp 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