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CON G R ESS I ON A L
HRATE.
Washington, D. C., Dec. H.—The
Senate, in the morning hour, took up
the resolution Jo print extra copies
of the President’s message and ac
companying documents in regard to
the late election in Louisiana.
Mr. Thurman moved to amend so
as to have printed with the message
and documents the memorial of
Messrs. Bogy, Stevenson and Mo-
Dowell, embracing the report of the
Democratic committee which wit
nessed the count in New Orleans.
A lengthy discussion followed.
The committees on privileges and
elections postponed consideration of
the New Jersey case for lack of wit
nesses. They informally discussed
the law as bearing upon this, the Or
egon and Vermont cases.
Sherman called up his resolution
to print one thousand copies of the
President’s message with accompa
nying documents.
The amendment to print and bind
the Democratic report with it was
agreed to, and the resolution was
adopted.
Sherman made a very bitter speech
and the debate throughout was an
gry and inflammatory.
The resolution regarding Oregon
comes up to-morrow ns unfinished
business.
Senate adjourned.
nut'r.
The House passed Hun ton’a caucus
bill resolution appointing a commit
tee of seven to enquire into the pow
ers of the House, etc., respecting the
counting of the Electoral vote.
A resolution reported by Mr.
Knott, from the Judiciary Commit
tee, was adopted without discussion
or division, for the appointment of a
committee of seven to act in con
junction with any similar committee
appointed by the Senate, to prepare
and report without delay such a
measure, either legislative or consti
tutional, as may be best calculated
to establish a proper mode of count
ing the Electoral votes for President
and Vice President, and determining
questions that may ariso as to the
legality and validity of returns made
of such votes by the several .States;
also, for the appointment of a com
mittee of seven members of the
House to ascertain and report what
are the privileges, powers and duties
of the House in counting the Electo
ral* votes.
Amendments to the Post Boute
bill of last session, re-establishing
fast mail s’ervices and franking privi
leges were rejeotd.
The Postofflce appropriation bill
was considered, without uction.
Adjourned.
The Ice-Bound Steamers.
St. Louts, Dec. 16. —The Lake Su
perior is afloat, but leaking badly.
The War Eagle is afloat with a bole
in the bottom. The Alex Mitchell is
apparently held up by the ice; the
Andy Johnson badly hemmed; Da
venport sunk to the boiler deck.
The Redwing, Minnopolis, Bob Roy
and Northwestern are safely moored
below the gorge. The Golden Eagle
is safe.
Fire In Angtixta. Maine.
Augusta, Me. Dec. 14.—A fire this
morning destroyed the establish
ments of J. S. Hendee photographer;
Mrs. V. T. Blackwell, milliner; Geo.
W. Jones, auctioneer; Vickery &
Rogers, printers; Johnson, druggist;
Geo. W. Quimby, Gospel Banner of
fice; and Fuller & Cos., Pen SewiDg
Machine agents, Los# $40,000.
Foreign Wew*.
London, December 14.—A dispatch
from Constantinople to Reuter’s Tel
egram Company says:
“It is not true that the Marquis of
Salisbury and Gen. Ignatieff are not
agreed concerning the occupation of
Bulgaria. This question has not even
been discussed.”
Berlin, Dec. 14.— Parliament, by a
vote of 206 to 116, has rejected the
motion to postpone the abolition of
import duties on iron until Ist Janu
ary, 1879.
The security Life, Btrlarfd Insolvent.
New York, Dec. 14.— The President
of the Security Life Insurance Cos.,
appeared before Judge Brady this
evening, on an order to show cause
why a receiver of the company should
not be appointed and acknowledged
its insolvency. _
Weather To-Day.
Washington, Dec. 14.—For South
Atlanticl and Gulf States, colder,
northerly to westerly winds, rising
barometer, partly cloudy weather,
and local rains In the southwest.
THE DISPUTED PRESIDENCY
Manifesto of the Secretary of War.
Hr Declare, that Haye, t* Elected, and
hi, Birlit, will be Maintained.
Washington, Dec. 14.—A counter
statement, signed by Secretary Chan
dler, furnished to the press at mid
night, concludes:
“Hayes and Wheeler are elected,
aud tho will of the American people
will bo carried out and maintained.’’
Ilaye, Hprak* Attain.
he thinks there will be no trouble.
Dayton, Ohio, December 14.—Gov.
Hayes, responding to a serenade,
said:
“I have too much faith in the
saving common sense of the Ameri
can people to think that they desire
to see in their country a Mexlcanized
government. Whatever may be the
result at which the lawful authorities
shall arrive, you and I will quietly
submit; and I have sufficient respect
and confidence in the great majority
of the Opposition party, to believe
that they will do the same."
The Indiana Deninrrury.
THtt CALL FOR COUNTY MEETINGS AND A
STATE CONVENTION.
Indianapolis, Dec. 14.— The Demo
cratic Committee has issued an ad
dress to the people of Indiana. It
calls upon all people, without re
spect to party, who make our coun
try’s welfare paramount to every
other consideration—all who say that
the vote of the people shall not be
defeated by fraud, and all who stand
by fair play and honesty—to meet at
their county seats on December 23d,
to make an expression of the popu
lar judgment that eanDOt bo disre
garded ; and to appoint men as their
delegates to a State Convention on
January Bth. who will fearlessly and
prudently make said declaration and
take such action as will give our
State her proper position and influ
ence in maintaining constitutional
government and the rights and liber
ties of the people.
MESSAGE PRESIDENT.
An Attempt to Juitll; 11U Sending
Troop* to FeMrsfcurg, Va
Washington, Dec. 14.— T0 the Sen
ate of ike United States ln answer
to the-resolution of the Senate of the
6th inst., requesting information as
to whether troops of the United
States were stationed at the city of
Ptersburg, in the State of Virginia,
on the 7th of November, 1870, and if
so, under what authority and for
what purpose, I submit the enclosed
letter from the Secretary of War, to
whom the resolution was referred,
together with the report of the
Quartermaster-General of the Army
and accompanying papers. These
inclosed will give all the information
called for by the resolution, and 1
confidently believe will justify the
action taken.
It is well understood that tho pres
ence of United States troops at poll
ing places never prevented the free
exercise of the franchise by any citi
zen of whatsoever political faith.
If, then, they have had any effect
whatever upon the ballot cast, it has
been to insure protection to the citi
zens casting in giving it to tho can
didate of his unbiased choice, with
out fear, thus securing the very
essence of liberty.
It pay be the presence of twenty
four United States soldiers under the
command of a captain and lieutenant
quartered in the custom-house at
Petersburg, Va., on the 7th of No
vember, at a considerable distance
from any polling place, without any
interference on their part whatever,
and without going near the polls dur
ing the election, may have secured a
different result from what would have
been obtained if they had not been
there to maintain the peace in case
of riot on the face of the returns; but
if such is the case, it is only proof
that in this one Congressional dis
trict in the State of Virginia the loyal
and constitutional voters have been
able to return as elected the candi
dates of their choice.
U. 8. Grant.
Executive Mansion, Dec. 14, 1876.
Ship New*.
New York, Dec. 14. -Arrived: Ash
land, Algiers.
Arrived out: Augusta, Elsa, Lu
cille, Lillie, J. E. Santberg.eea, Kate
Burrin',' Betty Guttenberg, Saren,
Edward E. Herbert, Preston, Austin
Harald, Vesper, Montana.
Homeward: Ellida, Charleston,
Kabe for Tybee, Harrisburg for
Charleston, 8. C.
Barks Emma and Carl from New
York for Glatting capsized oft Ork
ney Islands, eight drowned.
London, Dec. 14. —Bark Hudder
fold sunk from collissioa with bark
Kelly, off Start Point; fifteen were
drowned. Kelly abandoned leak
ing . .
Nomination*.
Washington, Dec. 14. —John Sake
was nominated Marshal for the
Southern District of Mississippi, Pit
kin for Lousiana, Kenney for post
master at Austin, Texas.
The Senate confirmed a number of
postmasters.
COLUMBUS, GA., FBI DAY MOKNING, DECEMBER 15, 1876.
HAMPTON INAUGURATED.
NO DISTURBANCE-IMMENSE CROWD
PRESENT.
A Part <>( Hampton', Atltlrr,,.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 14.—The in
auguration of Governor Hampton
took place in front of Columbia Hall
this afternoon. The square in front
of the hall was densely packed with
persons of both races, and the house
tops were covered with spectators.
At 3:30 Hampton was esoorted to
the stand amid demonstrations and
great enthusiasm. Members of the
General Assembly occupied the
space immediately surrounding the
stand with the crowd in the rear.
Gen. Hampton then road his
INAUGURAL ADDRESS,
of which the following is an extract:
Gentlemen of the Senate and Home
of Representatives:
It is with feelings of the profound*
est. solicitude that I assume the
arduous duty and grave responsibili
ty of the high position to which the
people of South Carolina have called
me. It is amid events unprecedented
in this Republic that I take the chair
as Chief Magistrate of this State.
In a time of profound pence, when
no legal officer had been resisted in
the proper discharge of his fund ions,
we have witnessed a spectacle ab
horrent to every patriotic heart, and
fatal ro Republican institutions—
Federal troops used to promote tho
success of a political party. Undis
mayed, though shocked by this gross
violation of the Constitution and of
the courts, our people with a deter
mination that no force could subdue,
no fraud could defeat, kept stead
ily and peacefully in the path of
duty, resolved to assert their
rights as American freeman at
the ballot-box—that great court of
final resort, before which must be
tried the great questions of the su
premacy of the Constitution and the
stability of our constituency aud of
our institutions. That the edict of
the jieople of South Carolina has
been ignored need not be told, as it
has reverberated throughout the
State, aud its echoes come back to us
from every land where liberty is ven
erated, declaring in terms that can
not be mistaken that, standing on
the Constitution of our country, we
propose to obey its laws, to preserve
as far as in us lies its peace and its
honor, and to carry out in good faith
every pledge made by us for reform
and honest government. We inteud
to prove to the world the sincerity of
our declaration that the sole motive
which inspired the grand contest we
have so successfully made, was not
the paltry ambition for party supre
macy, bnt the sacred hope of redeem
ing our State; and it was sought to
wrest the fruits of this victory by a
gigantic fraud and a base conspiracy.
When the members elect of the Gen
eral Assembly repaired to the Capitol
to take their seats,
AHMED SOLDIERS
of the Federal Government confront
ed them, and their certificates of
election were examined and passed
upon by a corporal of the guard. It
was amid these appalling scenes that
the members of the General Assem
bly were called on to assume their
duties as the representatives of a free
State, and that State one of the origi
nal thirteen who won our independ
ence and framed our Constitution.
Debarred the free exercise of their
rights by the presence of an armed
force, a legal quorum of
the lower House, after placing
on record their protest, quietly with
draw from the capitoi and proceed to
organize that branch of the General
Assembly; you have seen a minor
ity of the House usurp the powers of
the whole body; you have seen the
majority expelled from their hall by
threats of force; you have seen per
sons having no shadow of a claim as
members admitted to seats as Repre
sentatives by the votes of men who
themselves were acting in direct
violation of the Constitution, and
you have seen the last crowning act
of infamy by which a candidate for
the office of Governor, defeated by
the popular vote, had himself de
clared elected by his conspirators.
It is due to my position as the Chief
Magistrate of the Commonwealth to
place on record my solemn and
indignant protest
against acts which I consider as sub
versive of civil liberty and destructive
to our form of government.
A great task is before the Conserva
tive party of this State. They intend
in this contest with a platform so
broad, so strong, so liberal that every
honest citizen could stand upon it.
They recognized and accepted the
amendment of the Constitution in
good faith, they pledged themselves
to work reform, and to establish good
government;they promised to keep
up an efficient system of public edu
cation, and they declared solemnly
that all citizens of South Carolina, of
both races and of both parties, should
be recognized as equals in the eye of
the law—all to be fully protected in
the enjoyment of every political
right now possessed by them.
To theffaithful observance of these
pledges we stand committed, and I,
as the representative of the Conser
vative party, hold myself bound by
every dictate of good faith, to use
every effort to have the pledges re
deemed lully and honestly. Let
us show to all of them, that the true
Interest of both races can best bo se
cured by cultivating peace and pro
moting prosperityj among all clas
ses of our fellow citizens.
I rely confidently on the support
of the members of tho General As-
I sembly in my efforts to attain these
laudable ends, and I trust that all
branches of the government will
unite cordially in this patriotic
work. If so united, and working
with resolution aud an earnest de
termination, we may hope soon to
see the dawn of a brighter day for
our State. God in his infinite mercy
grant that it may oome speedily, and
may He shower the richest blessings
of peace and happiness on our
whole people.
At the close of tho address the
oath of office was administered by
trial Justice Murshal|to Hampton as
Governor, and to U. D. Simpson as
Lieutenant Governor. The crowd
standing uncovered while the cere
mony was being performed.
The chair in which Gen. Hampton
was seated was theu wrapped in the
national colors, and ho was borne on
tho shoulders of a dozen men to his
hotel and escorted by the entire
crowd.
Several prominent gentleman ad
dressed the multitude from the front
of tho hotel, the Congressional Com
mittee occupying a prominent posi
tion on one of the balconies. After
the speaking the crowd quietly dis
persed.
FROM WASHINGTON ON TIT EMBAY.
MILITARY TELEGRAPH TO THE CAPITOL.
jßpeelal to Cinciuuati Commercial.]
The military are constructing a
field telegraph lino from the barracks
to the Capitol. This has given a mo
mentary spurt to the fast dying ex
citement in Washington.
THE LATEST TALK OF THE DEMOCRACY
is that the Illinois Legislature will
elect Grant to be United States Sena
tor, so that he can take his seat on
the 4th of March, and be at once
elected Yico President pro tempore ,
in order that in case Hayes’ inaugu
ration is postpostponed, and until
ho is inaugurated. Grant may hold
the office of President.
GRANT EAGER FOR WAR.
Special to the Loaiaville Courier-Journal.)
The publication by Grant, pretend
ing to give an account of his inter
view with Messrs. Hewitt and Ran
dolph, is well known to be essential
ly false. He is as eager and rampant
for war as Boutwell. Military pre
parations have been going on for
months. Some time before the elec
tion, Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylva
nia, whose co-operation is deemed
specially important,.was summoned
here to consult in reference to the
military preparations for the coup
d'etat. He went home to organize
Pennsylvania. He now reports to
the President that he has sixty
four thousand infantry well armed
and a proportionate force of cavalry
and artillery. It is given out that
all this preparation is to inaugurate
Hayes, no matter what the House
may say or do; out there are some
indications that ho may strike a
blow for himself. It has transpired
already that there is a considerable
secret organization in this city of
persons who think the opportunity
favorable for a third term, and
Republicans are being sounded by
the leaders of the plot to ascertain if
they are willing to go into it.
TII.DEN UNTERRIFIED.
At last night’s caucus a speech was
made by Speaker Randall, unusually
spirited and manly in tone. Mr.
Randall’s visit to Mr. Tilden impart
ed a special interest to his remarks,
and naturally created the impression
that he spoke the sentiments of the
President-elect. There is no ques
tion of the fact that this is a correct
conclusion. Mr. Tilden, In this try
ing emergency,proves himself worthy
of the support given him by his
countrymen. He is no coward or
trimmer. Having been called by the
Eeople to this position of high trust.
e is ready to go ftp the front. He
says he has not long to live, and is
willing to accept the personal risks
of defending the course of the peo
ple, and that if they are stricken
down by a military despotism it shall
not be his fault.
The letters that came here from
tho North are numerous, and all
breathe the firmest spirit of resis
tance to the counting-out fraud.
One of these is from Gov. Blair, of
Michigan, who says the people of
that State will not allow themselves
to be cheated.
Citant Completely Under Control of the*
Extremists.
Washington special to the Chicago Times.]
The reversal of position In which
the Oregon business places the con
spirators has Intensified the solici
tude of the Hayes people, and it is
now utterly impossible to soe the
President save in the presence of a
watchful emissary of the ring. Mean
while the line of Republican argu
ment has been readjusted to meet
the new situation. It it now conce
ded that the Constitution contem
plates an intelligent supervisory
function as an essential part of the
House and Senate, and tnat is by the
exercise of this duty alone that the
true will of the people can bo ascer
tained. The Democrats make no ar
guments. They merely claim that
Gov. Grover, as a law-abiding magis
trate, had no recourse but the com
missioning of Cronin; that if it is
wrong in principle Congress may
take the point into consideration,
and so decide the matter.
The non-committal attitude of the
Democrats and their temperate ex
pressions surprise and perplex the
Republican schemers in their South
ern programme. They have been
counting on bloodshed and outbreaks
to cover over and justify their lawless
disregard of the people and the Con
stitution, and in Congress they have
been confident of such unruliness
and recklessness as would go far to
ward reconciling the Northern mind
to the completion of the great wrong
begun in South Carolina and intend
ed to end in the theft of the Prest-
dency. But the controlling spirit
among the Demoorats just now is
moderation. They mean to koop
themselves very far inside the laws
In all that is done. They are so not
ing as to force tho oonspirators to
emphasize their treasonable plotting,
ana when the proper time comes lay
tho strong arm of power upon every
one engaged in the attempt and re
sponsible for tho excesses thus far
comitted, Tne impulse to impeach
Grant, urged by telegrams and press
all over the country, has given way
to more conservative and shrewder
counsels. It is recognized by every
member of the majority, it not by the
minority, that Grant Ims committed
the uttermost violation of the Con
stitution, but it is argued that the at
tempt to proceed against him by tho
House would be seized upon by the
schemers to arouse the hatred which
Blaine enkindled last session. It
would bo claimed that the seventy
Confederate Brigadiers in Congress
who laid down their arms to Grant
in 1865 were seeking revenge by an
attempt to disgrace and ruin him
while they have the power, so the
final conclusion is, that the history
of the recent invasions of tho three
States shall be recited in an address
to the country and a vote of oensure
spread upon the records, embalming
the memory of the lawless magistrate
in the repulsive character he has
himself chosen to assume.
Till the committees return there
will, therefore, be but little done
here. The session will be merely
perfunctory. The Democrats require
time to perfect the organization con
templated, and until that is done the
public acts will be unimportant.
When the plans are perfected and
the result recognized, the country
will no longer be in doubt as to the
peaceful inauguration of Tilden, the
lawfully elected chief magistrate,
uorof the power of the Representa
tives to deal swiftly aud sternly with
a conspiring Cabinet and a traitorous
President.
The Republican leaders are very
much gratified at the apparent de
termination of the President to carry
things with a high hand in South
Carolina. They gleefully tell of the
rough mannorin which they say he
received Messrs. Hewitt and Ran
dolph last Wednesday evening.
Among other expressions of Grant’s
which they quote with muchjgush is
one in regard to the Supreme Court
of South Carolina. Senator Ran
dolph, after making known the con
tents of the message he had reoeived
from Wade Hamilton, spoke of the
fact that the highest legal tribunal
of South Carolina had declared that
Mackey, Speaker of Chamberlain’s
Rump Legislature, was only a pri
vate person, and therefore had
no right to retain the election re
turns for Governor. At this point
Grant, with great emphasis, say the
Republican gossips, exclaimed, “I
don’tcarea damn for tho Supreme
Court!”
At another period of the interview
Senator Randolph referred the Pres
ident to the Constitution of the State
of South Carolina, which says no less
than a majority of the members of
the lower house shall constitute a
quorum, and that without a quorum
no business can be transacted. At
this point Don Cameron put in aD
oar. Ho said that he could conceive
of cases where less than a majority
would constitute a quorum, the con
stitution of the State to the contrary
notwithstanding. To this the Presi
dent heartily responded. These sto
ries of the interview between Messrs.
Hewitt, Randolph and the’President,
come from Republicans, and are
given on the authority of Cameron.
They are told everywhere, and the
Republicans seem to enjoy them very
mneh. “The old man.” said one
prominent Republican, ‘‘has got his
back up now and means business. He
don,t care a damn for the Supreme
Court or the constitution of South
Carolina, and before long he
will make it lively for Wade Hamp
ton and his rifle clubs.”
The saddest part of all this is the
evident relish with which these things
are told by men who claim to be
statesmen and patriotic also. There
is not a word of disapproval, not even
regret, implied in the tone of voice
with which they|talk about the Pres
ident’s half drunken declamations.
ARE THE JOINT RULES IN FOHCE T
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN
TATIVES ON TUESDAY.
Mr. Bland demanded the resump
tion of business under tho 21st joint
rule, which requires that the second
session of Congress the unfinished
business of the preceding session
shall be taken up in regular order.
The Speaker caused the rule to be
read and decided that inasmuch as
that rule was imperative, the unfin
ished business of the last morning
hour of tho last session must have
been the preference.
Mr. Burchard suggested that, while
ho had no objection to the resump
tion of the business of the last morn
ing hour of the last session, it should
be resumed under rule 136 of the
House.
The Speaker remarked that both
rules were to tho same effect, except
that joint rule 21 was imperative, us
ing the word “sfiall.”
Mr. Garfield said that ho had no
objection to the ruling of the Chair
under the 13Gth rule of the House,
but that if that ruling implied that
the 21st joint rule was in existence
and binding upon the House, he
should respectfully appeal from the
decision. ,
The Speaker—Tho Chair so de
cides.
Mr. Burchard—lt is unnecessary to
appeal from the decision of the Chair
so far as the 12Ctb rule is concerned.
Mr. Garfield—l don’t take that ap
peal. , ,
Mr. Garfield said that he agreed
perfectly with the ruling of the chair
under the 136th rule, but he wanted
to call the attention of the chair to
the fact that the very joint rule
which had been referred to, and
which was printed in the House
volume of rules or digest, was not
printed as a rule of the present Con
gress, but as a joint rule. They were
headed joint rules and orders of the
two Houses as they existed at the
close of the Forty-third Congress.
||The Speaker—That was put in
there without the authority of any
one who had the right to authorize it.
Mr. Garfield continued, quoting
from the Digest, to the effect that the
omission was explained by the reso
lution of the Senate of the 22d of Jan
uary, 1876, setting out iu full that
the resolution asked the concurrence
of the House, and it had been referred
to the Committee on Rules, but had
never been acted 00. This same
question had arisen last week in the
Senate, and it was then determined,
with but four votes dissenting, that
there are no joint rules in force.
Mr. McCrary sent to the clerk’s
desk and had read an extract from
the House proceedings of last ses
sion, to show that, on a question
which then arose, Speaker Kerr ruled
that the Constitution gave each
House the right to adopt its rules,
and that the right could not be sup
pressed.
The Speaker remarked that the ex
tract first read, confirmed in a re
markable manner his present judg
ment, inasmuch in that discussion
the word “point” was not used, but
tho whole discussion had reference
only to the House rules, properly im
plying that the joint rules were to be
reached in some otner way than by
the simple action of the House.
Mr. Garfield argued that no rules,
either joint or several, can bind the
House except by its consent, and that
the proposition that a joint rule oom
ing from a former Congress had any
more authority in the Forty-Fourth
Congress than a House rule had, was,
if not absurd, certainly untenable.
The Speaker—Has not the gentle
man himself frequently in former
Congresses, moved to suspend the
sixteenth and seventeenth joint rnles
without having been formally adopt
ed by that Congress.
Mr. Garfield—Certainly; I admit
that, and for the reason that whenev
er the two houses of Congress pro
ceed without challenge to act under
the rules, aud they are tkcit'y adop
ted, but the assumption of the
Speaker’s ruling to-day is that the
House can bind the Senate to be gov
erned by rules to which it does not
consent, and of course vice versa.
The Congress that sat ten years ago
could bind all later Congresses for
ever, unless one body chose to re
lease the other from the old obliga
tion of a dead Congress, thus abso
lutely nullifying the constitutional
privileges and prerogatives of the
Senate and of the House. We have
never concurred with the Senate in
the rules which it proposed to adopt.
The last and the present presiding
officer of this House and the pre
siding officer of the Senate, our jour
nal, our body of rules iu the form of
a digest, ail concur in the admission
that there are no joint rules of the
Forty-fourth Congress. There is no
body of rules printed in our books
which profess to be the joint rules of
the Forty-fourth Congress. Still, I
do not wish on an incidental and in
formal point to bring the House to a
vote on this question without time
for consideration. Everybody can
see that there oan be no very great
public question that will turn on
the twenty-first rule, and I prefer
that whenever we come to that dis
cussion we shall come to it on a di
rect issue with full debate. I, there
fore, withdraw my appeal.
Mr. Springer asked Mr. Garfield
whether the joint rules were In exist
ence at the close of the Forty-Third
Congress.
Mr. Garfield declined to answer till
he had examined the question.
Tho Speaker—The Chair does not
wish by any statement pf his to an
ticipate that question, except as here
in connected with matter of fact.
This House, composed of the same
gentlemen who now sit here, did, at
the end of last session, recognize the
fact that the joint rules were in exist
ence by adopting unanimously a res
olution to suspend joint rules 16 and
17.
Mr. Springer—These joint rules
have never been re-adopted by any
subsequent Congress from the foun
dation of the Government to the pres
ent time. The twenty-second joint
rule was acted on in the counting of
Presidential Electors in 1869, and also
in 1873, and yet it was never re-adopt
ed but once, in 1865.
Mr. Hoar asked Mr. Springer
whether the rule of action which bad
been handed down by tacit consent
by Congress to Congress as to the
mode of proceedings by the Houses
was not necessarily abrogated by a
message from one of them to the
other that it considered those joint
rules no longer in force; otherwise
would not the House be bound not
merely by the previous House, as in
the case of its own rules, but by the
act of a previous Senate.
Mr. Springer—lf the doctrine be
maintained, that when a joint rule
is established between the two
houses, one of them can abrogate
that rule at its will, there is no neces
sity for adopting the joint rules, be
cause they uo not bind either party.
The Speaker said that the history
of the two Houses as to the joint rules
showed that whenever any proposi
tion by one House to amend them
failed in the other, the rules continu
ed to be recogDized, accepted and
acted under as if they were in full
force.
Mr. Hasson— That only shows that
the House in proposing the amend
ment, consented that the rules should
go on without amendment.
The Speaker—The Chais thinks
that that which takes two bodies to
do, takes two bodies to undo.
Mr. Springer—The joint rules were
adopted in the form of a resolution
and a concurrent resolution, and a
concurrent resolution cannot be re
pealed by one body without the con
sent of the other.
Mr. Hoar—Does the gentleman say
that a rule adopted by a concurrent
resolution at tne beginning of the
Government binds the successive
Houses of Representatives forever
until tne Senate abandons it?
Mr. Springer—Until both houses
abandon it, Ido certainly. Tbe gen
tleman from Massachusetts himself,
when the Presidential votes of 1873
were being counted, objected to votes
being cast for Horace Greeley be
cause be was dead, and his objection
was based on the twenty-second ioint
rule, which never had beeD re-adopt
ed since its adoption in 1865.
Mr. Hoar—Both bouses were act
ing under the rules by mutual con
sent.
Mr. Springer—lt never had been
readopted and bad no validity at all
except that given to it in 1865.
Mr. Haskins—lf the gentleman
from Illinois holds that these joint
rules cannot be abrogated except by
consent of the two bouses, I would
like to inquire by what law or au
thority, after the Benate has re
pealed and refused to recognize them,
the House or any other body can en
force them.
Mr. Springer—We cannot compel
the Senate to abide by its rule. That
body is a law to itself, but we can on
our part abide by those rules, and we
ohose to do it. (Applause on the
Democratic side.)
Mr. McCrary said that Speaker
Kerr, deciding at tho beginning of
last session, said that each House
has the absolute right to make the
rules which govern its proceedings,
and, therefore, the rules which hod
been adopted in the Forty-Third
Congress were not in force at the be
ginning of the Forty-Fourth. That
decision covered the whole ground In
this controversy, unless the gentle
man would say a joint rule was a rule
for the government of the House of
Representatives.
The Speaker—lt does not follow
that the House is not governed by
the joint rules, especially when the
House is reminded of the fact that the
two bodies, ca farfas a twenty-second
joint rule is concerned, have several
limes operated on In counting the
electoral vote, aud so far as the
Chair is concerned, he is not aware
of any reason why that rule should
not be executed once more. [Ap
plause on the Democratic side.}
Mr. Kasson— Can there be a joint
rule to which both Honses are not at
the time agreed ? Does it not cease
to be ajoint rule the moment that
either House dissents ?
The Speaker-In the judgment of
the Chair the joint rules operate to
bind both bodies until they are va
cated.
Mr Kasson—By one body ?
The Speaker—The Chafr did not
say that.
Mr. Hoar remarked that the prop
osition advanced on the Democratic
side was reductio ad absurdum, and
he was willing to have any collection
of shool boys, or any collection of
statesmen in the country able to un
derstand those principles of parlia
mentary law whioh every American
baby in the cradle was supposed to
instinctively, consider such a propo
sition as that.
Mr. Springer, iu reply to Mr. Hoar’s
suggestion as to babies and school
boys, referred him to to the opinion
of his former colleague (Gen. Butler),
given in an interview, to the effect
that in an instrument says A and B
are to do certain things, as for an ex
ample to make award or to enter a
judgment, A cannot do it without B,
nor can B do it Without A.
The discussion here closed, and un
der the ruling of the Speaker, the
House proceeded to the unfin
ished business of the last morn
ing hour of the last session,
which was the bill reported by Mr.
Bland, from the Committee onMines
and Mining, to utilize the product of
the gold and silver mines.
FRENCH CRISIS FASHED.
THE PRESIDENT SOLVED IT BY THREAT
ENING AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
Paris, Dec. 14.—A solution of the
ministerial crisis has been brought
about by President McMahon plainly
informing the Ministers that he
should not hesitate to issue a mani
festo to the nation to explain hi* de
termination and dissolve the cham
ber of deputies.
TIM California Disputed District.
San Francisco, Dec. 12.—The clerk
of Monterey county, in the Fourth
Congressional district, has forwarded
to the Secretary of State anew set of
election returns, made out in con
formity with the original, erroneous
footings of the supervisors, which
the clerk bad corrected in his first
returns. The new returns give Wig
ginston, Democrat, one majority.
Last night writs were served on the
Secretary of State, at the instance of
Pacheco, the Republican candidate,
prohibiting him from counting any
other than the first returns, and di
recting him to count and certify the
vote in accordance with the flret re
turns.
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