Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1877 — SOUTH CAROLINA. [ARTICLE]

SOUTH CAROLINA.

According to a special telegram, the Democratic House, on the 21st, adopted a resolution instructing and admonishing the taxBi of the State not to pay the taxes by the Republican House, nor obey any act, resolutions or proclamations passed by that body or issued “by the said traitor D. H. Chamberlain, now attempting to usurp the office of Governor of South Carolina” A meetibgof Conservative tax-payers was held at Charleston on the evening of the same day, at which resolutions were adopted recognizing Hampton and Bimpson as lawfully elected, and pledging them moral, financial and material aid. A Columbia dispatch of the 22d says the Democratic House had adjournedsutedw, This action leaves two State Governments acting upon their own responsibility. Chamberlain made a large number of nominations for county officials, which were confirmed by the Senate in executive session. Hampton had assurances of his friends, and waa proceeding also to organize county governments. A Special to the New York Time * says United States District Attorney Corbin appeared before the South Carolina Supreme Court on the 27th, In accordance with the decision of the Court, denting the motion to remove the yuo proceedings against the Hayes Electors from the Supreme to the United Btates Court, and requiring defendants to amend their answer. Mr. Corbin denied ' that be had made any answer. He had made a motion 1o dismiss for want of jurisdiction. A heated disciuaioo followed, daring which Judge Millan stated that the whpfe course of the respondents in ail the cases against the Board of Canvassers had been calculated to bring the Coart aqfl Its decisions into contempt Chief-Justice Moses was quite 11l from congestion of the longs. , .*■

CONGRESSIONAL. Ik the Senate, on the Slat, the Chair appointed Messrs. Edmunds, Morton, Freliughuysen, Logan, Thurman, Bayard ahd Ransom as the special committee, to act in connection with a similar committee on the part of the House, to derise mean* for the proper count of the Presidential Electoral Tote. A resolution was adopted that when the Senate adjourn on the 22d it be to meet on the 36th. With a general understanding among the Senators that ao business would be transacted until the 3d of January. The rep-riot the Conference Committee on’the question of the appropriation te defray expense* of the special investigations *k agreed to, giving each house $36,000. The Senate paid its respect to the memory of the late Senator. Capertou.... In the House, a msolulion was offered tor the appointment of 4 •pedal committee to ln-e-Mgat* a charge made the day before by Mr. Hewitt, that his letters had been tempered with to the New York Postoffice, and a telegram was read from Poetnuetar tones, pronouncing the accusation utterly and absolute lyalse. Mr. Hewitt elated that M bad aboeta myth before received an anonymous letter. the Egress grer ssjr , 3sV’fe,“Tii; wjich he received, and found that a copasSaferva eUtute dm offered and adopted, referring the

■utter to the committee engaged tn laveetiqatlng the alleged election Made In New York eUy. Wile werw introduced and referred-providin'! that the fleet of tee nary la peace, and aatf! ti e jiiih'le apfrty demand- an Wcreaae, shall coa*l«t ofthlrtr saa-gteng veaadtk el war, to bedutrllgted amangtee eeveiar eqaadrea* and divisions; prpyiiing teat no military or itovsl offlaar.er 3usj«sUuxss£33 near the place where »ny g.-neral or special election la held in any Bute, either on tee day of •uch election or for ten daya prior or aubaeqaent thereto, under a penalty ot fa,ooo Sue and Imprieonmeut for a term of not leu than Are year*. Tl>« uirmonai of (he Governor# of Mieeouri and other State*, for action In reference to >be gru--bopper plague, wsa prevented. Eulogies were pronounced and the customary resolution! were adopted tn rnapeet te the memory or the late Senator Capcrton Tug resolution relative to Mr. Gronin’s appointment a* o Presidential Elector in Oregon was taken op In' the Senate, on the t*d, and agreed to without division. It provides that tea question a ball be referred to the Committee on Privilege* and Election*, with Instruction! to infinite imp the eligibility of J. W.Twitite <ou the Republican Electoral tlckeO.and into the facts attending tee appointment of Mid Bkjcto-and pr«t< ndedteectors: end report i he aemaSo the Senate. A Conference Com ml i tee wsa appointed on the •hill to'provide for the eel* of certain Cherokee scrip lands In Kan-aa. Adjourned to tne With ...A resolution waa adopted in the Hours directing the Appropriation Committee to report in tee Deficiency bfll a provision to pay the widow of the latp Speaker Kerr seem eqoai to the pay and mileage of the Speaker from the time of hie d ath until the end ot the present Congress. Messrs. Knott, Sparks, Tneker, Marsh, Ban bird (111.). Seeiye and Monroe were anfionneed by the Speaker as the committee to ascertain and report as to the privileges, powers and duties of the House ill counting the votes for President and Vice President: and on counting the Electoral votes, Messrs. Payne. Hunton, Hewitt, Springer, McCrary, Hoar and Willard. Senate not in session on the 23d.... In the House. Mr. Monree resigned from the Committee on tee Rights, Privileges and Duties of the Honse in regard to the counting of the Electoral vote. A resolution was adopted, requesting of the President copies of all the orders made hjthim, or nnder-his direction, and of the orders mid correspondence of tee War Department, relating to the limitations made by the President of the appropriations for the Improvement of rivers ana harbors, and to specify how the $.’,000,000 ont of the $5,000,000 appropriated by the last Congress have been expended, and also to state nnder what law such limitation was made. Adjourned to the 27th. In the Senate, on the 26th, Air. Mitchell, of Oregon, was added, as a new and additional member, to the Committee on Privileges and Election*. A message was received from the President, inclosing the report of the proceedings of the Sioux Indian Commission. The President also sent In the correspondence between the Uuited States tnd Great Britain on the subject of extradition, the conclusion being that the treaty had been restored to vitality by Hie net es the latter Government receding from its former position, and tee consequent earrender of Brant, the Lonlavllle fqrgtr, to this Government. After an executive session. an adjournment was had to the 29th.... House not in session. No session of the Senate on the 27th. ... .The President's messages relative to the report of the Sionx Indian Commission and the Extradition Treaty with Great Britain were received and referred. A petition from certain citizens es Cincinnati la regard to the counting of the Electoral votes, and containing a resolution declaring that the President of the Senate has not the power alone to count and declare the result of snch votes, was prevented, and, after considerable debate, waa read and referred to the committee appointed to examine into the subject.