Show CONGRESS by W V telegraph to abe SENATE feb 28 A communication from david P corbin contestant fora beat from south carolina was read and laid on alie table corbin state that lie ha been before the senate two year asserting ilia rights having been duly elected and the committee on privileges and elections so reported lie refers to alio vote of tuesday by alio senate refused to consider cons ider case and say alie action of certain senators indicates that hie to the boat will not bo acted on at this se eion and it will be useless for him to renew the contest in alie next session ie therefore withdraws from alie contest corbin adds had lie been admitted ho might leavo been able among other duties to have rendered service to alio colored people of south carolina now in need of assistance as istance after pacing a number of private bill on alie bill making an appropriation for alio payment of arrears of pensions wa taken up alio senate non concurred in the house amendments and asked for a committee of conference conkling said u of alie amendments improved alie bill and upon ilia motion it was ordered that alie amendments bo printed further consideration of bill has postponed until tomorrow to morrow alie pending question was on the amendment of ingalls providing for the division of the country into 76 districts and the appointment of a burgeon and demion clerk with a view to preventing on the pension bureau ingalls said his belief was eliat 15 or cent of all pensions were improperly paid alio amendment would prevent frauds it was recommended by alie secretary of alio interior by alio commissioner of pensions and ly alio senate committee on pension he biad received this morning a infamous mou circular gotten up by claim agents alio were opposed to alio amendment there acro some liono rable exceptions but as a general thing elioso agents were alio worst species of vermin infested the body politic they opposed this amendment because it frustrated of robbery gordon said tins was too grave a matter to be considered in th so aliat liat houm of tle session ei objected to the proposed amendment bebau c it created a largo number of federal office li chandler favored alio amendment and said while lio was in charge of llie interior department he sought in every way to search out and pro rent fraudulent pension cases bailey submitted an amendment providing that alio pension surgeons inid pension clerks contemplated by alie amendment of ingala be ap pointe by the president by und with lie advice of alio instead of by alier secretary of tho interior agreed to kirkwood submitted an amendment to provide eliat a shall commence atom the dito of death or richarge di charge of the person on choso whoso account the pension 14 granted where alio application shall be filed prior to the let of july 1880 instead of the ast 1st january as proposed by the committee atter that date lie pension to commence from tiling ap pending the vice president laid before the senate alio house bill to amend alio revised statutes with respect to the interest on surrendered or called bondi but edmunds objected to iti reading today to day and it was laid asido on motion of windom lie senate took a recess HOUSE in the course of a albort debate as to priority chairman and hale member of uio committee on appropriation state mante as to of bubines bubi new to the act eliat only four of tho ap bill had pasted into law there were eight to bo completed of which two alio fortification and army bills were in conference of tho committee then re ported asick alie pout office bill with a recommendation was agreed totham the senate amendments with two exceptions alio llio subsidy and alio cl of mail matter bo non concurred in in gross the committee also recommended that the two amendments be non concurred in alao but desired eliat they bo voted upon separately and bome time allowed for debate which waa then begun i alter a long debate vole WAS taken on concurring in alio amendment and it was rejected tind it was non concurred in without further vote the next question was on alio senate amendment for ro tion of mail matter after an hour discussion everything requiring arg i iteration was on motion of cannon out pending further actions ilia ser coant at arm appeared at alio bar of the honeo having n custody oco P having announced his the addressing seward eaid mr have been presented at alie bur of alio house under alio order of the bouso lor a broach of the of alio home in refusing to answer certain questions propounded to you by of alie house that committee wits authorized zed by the bouso to aita for et anding muto when tendered an oath us a winnow and for failing to produce certain book required by duaei iscum it is my duty now by authority of tho house to whether you are rendy to tako the oath to you by the chair manof tho alio questions propounded to yon and to prodico ho books requested by alie dueth buum seward I leavo prepared alli the of coams ol a state jentof law this question which I beg leave to hand m fully and that U roay bo read diio long lead argument wai road the is that witness is protected by the sacred guarantee of alio constitution article of amendments lie claims the protection of eliat guarantee avowing alio most sincere respect for lie house and llie belief eliat his just as i citizen and will not lie wilfully or willingly infringed he argued that the books called for are not public record and lie there foro submits eliat lie is not in contempt of the house and eliat hi to be discharged from speaker to seward do you desire to bo understood a declining to produce the books you were required to produce and do you decline to take to you seward I stand hero mr speaker for alio right of a citizen and officer so long as pc rons who are my personal enemies are pursuing me before tins committee I ibold all the books and paper eliat I now hold I speak tins with perfect re sped and deference to alie house but I i liall stand for all alie rights guaranteed me by the constitution ilont say to this goibe that whan aver alio committee saya what it lias done with my persecutors it can have my books and alio rury department or state department demands my books it have them but not at alie instance of my enemies springer thereupon submitted a motion seward in contempt of lie house burdy submitted an amendment rc ferring the matter to the judiciary committee to report what action should be taken luttrell eliat is right let it go to alio judiciary committee ane liberty of a citizen at stake springer I liepe alio gentleman from california luttrell ill possess himself is no heathen chinco in the matter although it ie ati case coming from china speaks as if alie committee was used for lie purpose of allowing liis enemies to pursue him alie only wit SACS against him men alio were or are officers of alie government mr meyers wa appointed consul genera at shanghai by preat grant and was confirmed by alie senate and mr G wiley well wae appointed by the ree iU occupant of alio presidential office these are alio two witnesses eliom seward speaks of as lili enemies lie lias been offered every opportunity bo fore alio committee to leavo a fair hearing seward I have not had alie slightest intention of attacking the chairman of alie committee after a scano of great conf and uproar alio house refused to springers motion for the pre question which would have cut off a vote on bundas substitute and then proceeded to yoto on alie it was agreed to nays seward was on motion of butler discharged on his own re cognisance alie remainder of the senate to the post office appropriation pria tion bill non concurred in ordered alio hou o look a alio evening nession waa confined to alie of pension bills and to bill fur alio removal of political disabilities |