XX-lUMni €Pisves.s- 7 Pint Session. [CLOSE OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS SENATE.—A communication . was received freM the Secretary of War; transmitting a report of the evidence upon which the swiqds for the apprehension of Jefferson Davis were' distributed. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Trumbull presented a petition for the enactment of equal and j ust laws for inter state 'insurance ; also, a petition for the establishment of a Bureau of. Insurance, which were referred to the Committee on' Mr. Trumbull also presented the petition 4 , 1 .0 f - one hundred anti forty-six citizens of •Stennton, Ve., representing that the troops ; have recently been withdrawn from that lace, that Union men are being persecuted by rebels, and praying the return of troops for the protection of loyal men. Heferred to this Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Johnson (Md.) read the following .let 10.er from General Wade Hampton, on the 'subject of the burning of Columbia, S. C.: WELD WOODS, Miss. ,April 21, 1868.—T0 the ,Efon.Reverdy johon,United States Sen ate: Stii—A few days ago I saw in the pub lished proceedings of Congress that a peti tion from Benjamin Rawls, of Columbia, S. C., asking compensation for this destruction of his house by the Federal army in Febru, .tiry, 1865, had been presented to the Senate, accompanied by a letter from Major-General Sherman. In this Sherman used,the following language : " They, the citizens of Columbia, set fire to thousands of bales of Cotton, rolled out into the streets and, Which were. biari4ifig before we 'entered ColuMbia. I myself was in the city as early , as nine and I saw these fi res, and. knew that 'efforts were made to'extingtiistr them, but a high and strong wind kept them alive. I gave no order for the burning of your city; bucpn tr t ,6 contrary,:the conflagration re sulted from the great imprudence of cutting the cotton bales, whereby the contents were spread to the wind, so that it became an itn i possibility to arrest the fire. I saw in your . Columbia newspapers the printed order of General Wade Hampton that, on the ap proacliid the Yankee army, all the cotton .613hOuld thus be burned, and from what I saw Itryself, I have no hesitation in saying, that be was,the cause of the destruction of your city., • This same charge made against -me by Geberal Sherman having been brought ,barore the Senate of the United p States, I am naturally most solicitious t) vindicate rayselfteibre the , same tribunal. But my state has no - representative in that body. • Those who should be her constitutional re presentatives and exponents there are de barred the right of entrance in those hails, there are none who have the right to speak for the South, none :to participate in the legialation which governs her, none to im pose the taxes she is called on to pay, and none to defend her or to vindicate her sons from misrepresentation, injustice or slander. Under these circumstances, I appeal to you in the confident hope that you will use every effort to see that justice is done in this matter. I deny emphatically that any eottorr was fired in Columbia by my order. I deny that the citizens "set fire to thou. sands of bales rolled out into the streets." I deny_ that any cotton was on fire when the,rederal troops entered the city, and I most respectfully ask of Congress to appoint a committee charged with the duty of as certaining and reporting all the facts con nected with the destruction of Columbia, and thus fixing upon the proper author of - that enormous crime the infamy he richly . tieseryes. lam willing to submit the case to any honest tribunal, and before any such pledge myself to prove that I gave posi -dye orders, by direction of Gen. Beautre -gard, that no cotton should be fired, that not onebale was on fire when Sherman's troops took possession of the city, that he promised protection to the city, and that, in spite of, his solemn promise, his soldiers burned the city to the ground, deliberately, systematically and atrociously. I there fore most earnestly : request that- Congress may take prompt and efficient measures to 4 . investigate this matter fully. Not only is this due to theinselves, and to the reputa tion of the United States army, but also to justice and to truth. . Trusting that you will pardon me for :troubling you, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant. WADE HAMPTON. 0. Mr. Sherman said he could not allow this charge of this most impudent rebel against the whole army to be entered upon the re cords without some answer. The charge of General Sherman in relation to the burning of Columbia was M an official report, and was fully sustained by reports of other offi cers. Gen. Sherman did not charge that Hampton gave an explicit order on the-sub ject, but simply that his previous order in relation to the burning of cotton, &a., led to that result. Mr. Sherman read from various official reports to confirm the charge against Gen. Hampton., • Mr. Fessenden objected to the practice of taking up the time of the Senate in reading letters addressed, not to the Senate, but t individual Senators, and especially in:Mat ters pertaining to private controversies be ,tween persons not members of the Senate. Mr.-Johnson moved the reference of Gen. Hampton's letter to the Committee on Mili tary Affairs, or he was willing to have it lie • ,on the table. • Mr. sFessenden hoped it would not be re . ferred or ordered to lie on the table, but that the Senate would refuse to receive it. Mr. Conners said a - man who would attempt-to destroy the Government of the United States would certainly not hesitate to burn a city. He hoped the letter of Wade Hampton would not be received or con sidered at all by the Senate. %Mr. Johnson - then withdrew the letter of General Hampton. Mr. Willey introduced a bill to repeal the thirty-fourth section of the Declaration of Rights of the State of Maryland, so far as the same has been recognized or adopted in (the District of Columbia. Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. On motion of Mr. Wade, the Senate took up a bill to authorize the New York and )Montana Iron Mining Company to pur chase certain public lands not now in mar ket, which was passed. Mr. Wilson called up the resolution to grant the use of the Senate Chamber to Jas. E. Murdoeb, to give a reading in aid of the .. * Soldiera and- Sailors' Orphan Asylum, fo Thursday evening next. Mx. 'Riddle spoke against the use of the . Senate Chamber for theatrical purposes. Mr. Contiess offered as a substitute for the resolution that the use of the Chamber shall not be granted.for lecturing or other such purposes. Mr. Sherman favored the resolution. He would'nt grant the Chamber to Mr. Mur doch or any other individual, but he could not deny it to such a cause as Mr. Murdoch *asked it for. Mr. Howe did not think the Senate ,Chamber was any too sacred to be used in .aid of the soldiers' orphan. It was just the uplace of all others for that purpose. Mr. Conness withdrew his substitute and the resolution was adopted. Mr. Howard, from the Pacific Railroad Committee, reported a joint resolution to extend the time' for completing the first one hundred miles of the Eastern Divisors of the Union Pacific Railroad to the 27th of June, 1866, which was passed. • The special order, which was the Post- Office Appropriation bill,was then taken up. The pending question was upon the amendment of Mr. Trumbull,.that no per son exercising or performing the duties of "any office which by law is required to be filled'by'and witkthe . advice and consent of Senate shall, before confirmation by the Senate, receive any salary or compensation for his services unless he be commissioned byte • -Ms en . ill a vacancy which has . luring the recess of the Senate and since r is last adjournment - happened by death, esigration or expiration of the term. The i cause and caseof removal tci be reported to the Senate at its next session. Mr. Henderson took thefioor in continua tion of a speech begun yesterday, contend ing for the constitutional right of Congress to adopt the . above amendment. In con illusion, he said he knew Very well that the amendment would be attacked all over the country as' an unconstitutional curb upon the - President. He believed that if offices were to be given out as rewards for political. purposes, the practice wonld end in the dis ruption of the government. He was not afraid of the proposition returning to , plague the inventors. He had no appointments to ask of the President, and was satisfied that if be did ask any he would not receive them.. Judging from the character of some recently made, he believed the policy of the President was well calculated to blast the hopes of the Union men of this country. He did not, hilieve the President intended to revive the old rebel party, :but that`mas the inevitable tendency of his policy. If the President attempted to carry out the advice given him by Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, and certain Democratic - newspapers of the West, it would inevitably, lead to war, and the result would be'the same as of that between Charles and the English. Parliament. ,The real controversy was on the' rights of the freed • negroea, the President contending that they had merights and Congress con tending that they had'. If. the President would persist in, this policy, he would feel himself justified in restraining his power in every constitutional manner. Mr. Johnson said if he underatond the !policy of the Presidantit was 'that of his predecessor (Mr. Lincoln), but that had nothing to do with the question before the Senate. They ought to ascertain what was constitutionally right in the matter, and standby it. He contended that the proposed amendment struck a vital blow at the pre rogatives of the President, and was clearly unconstitutional. Mr. Clark, from the Committee of Confe rence on the disagreeing votes of the , bill in relation to the ha.beascorpus,made a report, which was agreed to. ; The bill now goes to the President. The consideration of the Appropriation bill was renewed. Mr. Fessenden objected to the last clause of Mr. Trumbu.ll's amendment requiring the President to report the cause of removal to the Senate, at the next succeeding ses sion. He was in favor of the amendment as it was without this. Pending the consideration of this subject the Senate went into executive session at 4 o'clock, and soon after adjourned. HOUSE.—Mr. Kelley (Pa.) offered the fol lowing resolution, which was adopted: Whereas, It is reported by citizens of Ala- , hams, in a formal memorial to the two Houses of Congress, that many of the people of the mountain districts of that State are suffering from want of adequate supplies of food,and that considerable numbers of them have died of actual starvation; therefore .Resolved, That the President be requested to instruct the prLper officer or officers of the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen to inquire into the condition of said districts, and other districts of the insurgent States in which such suffering may be said to exist, and to relieve the people thereof, and pro -1 vide them with corn and other seed for planting a crop sufficient for an annual sup ply of each family requiring such relief. Mr. Ross introduced a bill to construct a ship canal for the passage of armed and na val vessels from the Mississippi river to Lake Michigan. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Mr. Schenck, from the Committee on Mili tary Affairs, reported back the Senate joint resolution passed by that body February 27, expressive of the gratitude of the nation .to the officers, soldiers and seamen of the United States, by whose valor and endu ranee on land and sea the rebellion has been crushed, and its pride and power have been humbled; by whose fealty to the cause of freedom the government of the people has been preserved and maintained, and by whose orderly return from the fire and blood of civil war to the peaceful pursuits of pri vate life, the exalting and ennobling free institutions of the nation bad been mani fested to the world. The joint resolution was passed. Mr. Moorhead (Pa.) asked leave to report from the Committae of Ways and Means a joint resolution exempting certain qualities of paraffins oil from internal tax or duty. Mr. Kuykendall (Ill.) objected. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, Mr. Don nelly (Minn.) in the chair. On the special order, which was the bill making appropriations for the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 1866, [the details of the bill were telegraphed yeaterdoy]. After a short time the commit tee rose and reported the bill to the House without amendment. Mr. Blaine inquired as to the item of three millions for sites for school-houses and asylums. Mr. Stevens replied that the words "and buildings" had been accidentally omitted. He moved to amend it by making it read "for sites and buildings for school-houses and asylums." . The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Stevens also moved to amend by re ducing the amount to two millions. This amendment gave rise to considera ble debate, Mr. Eliot, Chairman of the Committee of Freedmen, explaining at con siderable length the circumstances under which the appropriation became necessary. Mr. Ross moved to lay the bill on the table, which was negatived by a vote of 27 yeas to 91 nays. Mr. Morrill (Vt.) suggested that the bill should go over for a day or two, in order that it might be better understood by the House. Mr. Stevens (Pa.) replied that he had sup posed every gentleman who felt any inte rest in the thing knew all about it. Mr. Kasson (Iowa) gave it as his impres skin that the bill was based upon facts dif ferent from those that now existed. Mr. Washburne (MO suggested its re ference to the Committee on Freedmen. Mr. Niblack inquired how the titles to the school-houses were to betaken. - Mr. Eliot replied that they were to be taken, in the name of the United States. Mr. Niblack inquired whether this was to be a permanent or temporary affair. Mr. Eliot (Mass.) replied that it must necessarily be temporary. The school houses heretofore used for colored children had been buildings taken from the rebels—de serted . school houses and buildings that could be made available. as such. These buildings, were being taken back from the possession of the Bureau and returned to the owners The time had come when 125,- 000 children, white and black, would be turned out of these school buildings unless the government interposed. Mr. Chanler demanded of Mr. Eliot what authority he could show for having white children in the South educated by the Freedmen's Bureau. Mr. Eliot (Mass.) replied that in conduct ing the affairs of the Bureau, education had been given to the children of refugees as well as to the children of freedmen. Mr. Eldridge inquired, then, whether it was a fact that white and colored children were now being educated together under the Freedmen's Bureau. Mr. Eliot said he did not know, but that he supposed theshades of color ran together, so that sometimes they could not distinguish between white and colored. The gentleman must inquire of his Vemooratio friends how this happened to be so. Mr. Eldridge said -he understood the gen tleman from Massachusetts to be the father of the Freedmen's Bureau bill, if he was not THE DAILY EVENING BULLETI : lIIIILADELIIIIA, WEDNESDA V: 'MAY 1866: , also.fathcir te eny of their co l 9 F e 4 dfe.,. 11 -' [Laughter,] , ': ' Mr. Eliot regarded the irreedmen's Bureati as a very, good 'child, and was not ashamedrof the offspring. - Mr. Chan lerunderstood Mr. JEliot to have said that school houses had been taken from while 'children for the 'educationef colored children. - ' Mr. Eliot denied stating it in that way. Mr. Chanler—No, sir, not in that way, but that is the fact. That is the whole of the position, as I understand it, taking away the verbiage in which the statement was clothed. Mr; Met—Then the gentleman does not understand it at all. Mr. Chanler—Of course not. It is impos sible to understand a system by which white people are robbed alike of their pro perty and of their system of education and are to be taxed besides to sustain the Freed men's Bureau, raised for the purpose of holding the South in subjugation to a poli tical party. It is impossinle to understand a system so linked ,together with infamy, under the pretext'of philanthropy. Mr. Ross inquired of Mr. Stevens under what part of the Constitution Congress de rived the , power to build school-houses, and to educate people in the South, taxing Messrs. Stevens' and t 3 Rpee' constituents for it. _ _ Mr. Stevens replied 'that he derived the Power under the law of nations, which is a part of the Conetitution, and.which enabled Congress_ to govern conquered provinces.- [Laughter.] He modified his amendment Isly - reducing -the appropriation for school houses to $500,000. The amendnient was agreed to, and the bill , was passed by a vote of 79 yeas to 41 nays. Mr. Bailin, from the Committee on Print ing, reported a 'resolution, which was adopt ed, to print of the President's message and accompanying documents on the subject of Mexico, _under date 23d April, the same number as - now provided by law for the printing of - the general diplomatic corre spondence. , The Speaker piesented_a message from the President, in answer to House resolu tion of the 25th ult., requesting information as to the rebel debt known as the cotton loan, with a report from the Secretary of State. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Dawes (Mass.) presented the resolu tions of the Commonwealth of Massachu setts on the state of the Union and the du ties of Government to the freedmem Laid on the table. Mr. Darling (N. Y.) presented a petition for reimbursement of expenditures in the colonization experiment at Hayti, West In dies. Referred to the Committee on Maims. The Speaker announced that he had ap pointed Messrs. Shellabarger, Windom, Boyer, Cook and Warner, the special com mittee ordered yesterday, on the manage ment of the Provost Marshal's Bureau. Mr. Darling offered the following pream ble and resolution : Whereas, Reports are freely circulated and charges made that recruits were by fraudulent practices induced to enlist in the army of the United States, in the city of New York'and elsewhere, by officers of the Government, and other persons employed by such officers to aid in such fraudulent practices. And Whereas, It is alleged that such re " cruits, when enlisted, were deprived of their bounty, and incarcerated in prison, and this bounty divided and shared be tween such officers and the persons em' ployed by them, and also that persons en gaged in the business of recruiting for the army in the city of New York and else where were also defrauded by such officers 'and other persons acting in concert with them, and large amounts of money de manded and extorted from them, and that they were imprisoned until such demands were complied with, and were then imme diately released, And Whereas, It is important that the truth of these grave charges should be speedily ascertained, therefore, .Resolved That the Select Committee of Five, appointed under resolution of the 30th ult., be directed to investigate such charges, and that they have full power to send for persons and papers, and report the results of such investigation to this House as soon as practicable. The House then resumed the considera tion of the bill to incorporate the Niagara Ship Canal Company. Mr. J. M. Humphrey opposed the passage of the bill, arguing that, although a com pany for the construction of a Niagara ship canal was incorporated in - 1798, and three other acts in extension of it were subse quently passed by the State of New York, the scheme could never, present merit enough to induce capitalists to invest money in it even to organize a company. Mr. Wilson spoke in advocacy of the bill. The peopleof the Western States would not be satisfied, he said, with this measure alone, but would demand of Congress ap propriations to enliarge the great -natural communication flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, which is the, natural outlet for the products of the West, whether for shipment abroad or to Ne* York, or to the New Un gland States. Mr. Ingersoll followed on the same side. The building of this canal, he said, would be a step takes in the right direction; the sec ond step would follow, and that was the passage of the bill for enlarging the and Michigan Canal; thus, without em barrassing this.bill, they would secure the passage of the other bill, and those two great national works would thus receive the aid of the national legislature. He re ferred to the canal systems of China France, Holland, England and the United States to show .the immense importance of those artificial modes of water communication. Mr. Cook also spoke in support of the bill. He regarded this as a practical measure. The report of Captain Williams, of the United States Engineers, which was printed in the documents of the Twenty-fourth Con gress, demonstrated the practibility of the measure. The cost was small. It had been estimated then at from $3,500,000 to $4,- 700,000, depending upon the route selected, three routes having been surveyed. As to the constitutionality of the measure he had no' doubt one hundred and fifty millions had been expended on shore defences on the At lantic coast. The construction of this canal was the beat defence that could be secured for the three thousand miles of lake coast, studded withlowns and cities, with a trade eniploying four thousand sail, an- interest greater than any other to be defended from a foreign enemy. Any enemy that had the naval supremacy of the lakes would have all, the interest at its command. The United States was limited to one small war vessel on the lakes, while Greatßritain bad the power to bring, throagh the Welland canal, into the lakes a fleet of vessels that would give her naval supremaoy there at the outbreak of hostilities, if Congress had the constitutional power to defend the sea coast by means of shore defences, it had also the power to construct a ship canal as a form of defence. As a commercial measure it would be a work of immense importance in 'cheapening the transportation of produce from the west to the east. Mr. Dawes offered an amendment ; which was agreed to, providing that subscription boOks for the stock of the Company shall be kept open at least three days. Mr. Vanhorn moved the previous ques tion. Mr. Ward asked him to yield for an amendment to be offered, striking out see lions 19, 20 and 21, being sections appropria ting money. " Mr. Vanhorn declined to yield for that purpose. Mr. Ward said - that he.could not vote - .for the billwith Mese sections in it. The previous question was seconded, and the main question ordered, when Mr. Vanborn (N. Y.) who reported.; the bill, made the closing speech in its support, yielding part of his time to 'Messrs. Ross, Driggs, Harding (Ill.) Stevens,. Raymond. and Dsdge,'who spoke on' the same side of the question. Mr. Stevens said be would'go for the bill as a constitutional measure, not under the war power particularly, but under the power in the Constitution to regulate com n3erce between the States. Although the proposed canal would be all in ' one State the commerce which it would promote was commerce between a great number of dis jointed States. He felt, therefore, no diffi culty in overcoming his scruples about internal improyement, especiallyy, when he found the gentleman from Illinois '(Mr. Rosa) surrendering his own prejudices and , dislikes, and constitutional objections. [Laughter.] The measure only proposefito loan a week's receipts of thegovernment for a great object. It would take some time to construct this canal, and he believed that before it was completed hundreds of millions of. acres would be settled and cultivated along the, line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for he knew that that bill world pass before many days.. He besought the gentleman from the Galena district (Mr. Washburne) and the gentleman from the beautiful 'Lake City (Kr.'Spaulding) to give the Northern'Paci fic Railroad bill their support when it came up again.. Hewes glad to see that his stern friend from= Illinois • (Mr. Harding) had yielded to the -arguments of his colleague (Mr. Roes), and had forgotten the principles he announced the other day in his , speech against the Northern Pacific Railroad bill. Be hoped he would never remernbeithem any more. [Laughter.] He thought he might also persuade his friend from Pitts burgh (Mr. Moorhead), and other'friends' near him, to vote for that measure now: [Voices—"So they will!"] He- was sure now that the day of the Millenium was coming. Blind eyes were being opened, and deaf ears unstopped. [Laughter.] He knew the gentleman from the Galena district would like to see it passed, but his record was such that It was impossible for him' to do anything else than !flake a short speech against it. [Laughter.] If so, it would in a voice of thunder show the terri ble extravagance under which the govern ment was suffering, merely to improve the country for the present and future ages. He trusted the bill would pass, for he be lieved it a gretft and good work, and he should grieve for its failure, if for no other cause, on account of the noble man who had it in charge, and who never failed to act liberally. Mr. Raymond (N. Y.) congratulated him, self on the fact that he and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Stevens) should vote together on this bill. He believed they were the only two members of whom it could be said that they bad no prejudices. [Laughter.] It was the interest of the citi zens of New York, in common with the people of the North Atlantic seaboard, to procure cheap food, and as time rolled on that would become more and more the great interest of the eastern and northeast ern States, while it would become more and more the interest of the grain producing west to obtain access to market. This work was part of a grand scheme of works on which Congress must some dayor other enter, to facilitate communication be tween the grain-producing and grain-con suming portions of the country. He should, therefore, favor it and every project for the -ame purpose which he should consider as constitutional. The easternportion of the country was drifting rapidly , into the condi tion in which England fantail herself before ,he repeal of the corn laws, when her whole protective policy disappeared before the great paramount necessity of obtaining cheap rood for the people. That necessity broke down her policy, broke down her prejudices, and led to an entire change of her whole course of legislation. The same thing must, sooner or later, prove true in the eastern portion of this continent. Facil ities of communication between the . two eections tended to re-establish and consoli date, not. reconstruct, but consolidate, the Union of the States, and to make the Union perpetual, because it made the States one in interest, as they were in destiny. He had not examined the bill in its details with any accuracy, but he had great confi dence in the committeei which had had it in charge, and in his colleague, (Mr. Van Horn,) who had it under his particular su pervision. Mr. Delano asked him whether he knew the amount which the bill would take out of the treasury. Mr. Raymond replied that it proposed to lend the credit of the government to the amount of six millions of dollars, which he would consider the best appropriated six millions voted by this Congress. Mr. Delano expressed his belief that the gentleman from New York did not un derstand the details of this monstrous mea sure at all. Mr. Raymond congratulated Mr. Delano on his skepticism as to the extent of his ,Mr. Raymond's) knowledge,. but he had I be impression that he was quite as well in tormed as he (Mr. Delano) seemed to be in regard to the general scope and bearing of the measure on the prosperity of the country, and on that general conviction he (Mr. Raymond) was willing to act. He would vote most cheerfully for the passage of the bill. Mr. Dodge (N. Y.) desired to say that as a New York man, and interested in , the prosperity of the city and State of New York, he would, notwithstanding the fears of the Canal Commissioners, vote most cheerfully for the bill. Hebelieved that the prosperity of the State of New York was identical with the prosperity of the west, and that just in proportion as the people of the west were able to get a profit on their products, so would they be able to traffic with the city of New York, and; give her canals and railroads that business which would make them permanently pros perous. Mr. Delano moved an adjournment in view of the importance of the question and the thinness of the House. The motion was lost. • The substitute was agreed to. Mr. De lano then moved to lay the bill on the table. The vote was taken, and resulted yeas 32, nays 85.. So'the House refused to lay the bill on the table. The following is the vote in detail: Tnes—Mesars. Ancona, Benjamin, Bergen. Boyer, Buckland, Muller, Dawson, Delano, Deming, Denni son, Eldridge, Pinck, Glossbrenner, Grider. Aaron Harding (Ky.) Chester D. Hubbard (W. Va ) James R. Hubbell (Ohio) James ht Humphrey (N. Y.) Latham, Marvin, Niblack, Orth, Samuel Randall (Pa.) Wil liam H. Randall (Ky.) Ritter,_Shanklin. Stronse Tay lor; 'Francis Thomas (Md.) Ward Williame, Stephen F.,Wilson (Pa.) Total= NAYB—Messrs Alley, Allison, Ames, James M.A.sh ley ,(Ohlo), Baker, Bank, Baxter, Bearnan, Bidwell, Bingbam, Blaine Boutwell, Brandegee. Bromwell, Sidney Clarke ( Kansas ), Cobb, Conklin& Cullom, Darling, Dawes, Defrees, Dodge, Donnelly, Driggs, El'ot, Parnaworth, Perry, Garfield, Grinnell, Gee, wold,Y Abner C. Harding - Henderson, Rigby, Holmes, Hotchkiss, A. W. Hubbard, (Iowa). John H. Hubbard (Conn.), Hulburd, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Kamen, - Kelly, Kollin, Nuykendall, Lanin, Lawrence (Ohio), Loan, .Longyear, Lynch, Marshall. McClurg, McKee, Mcßuer, Moobead, Nor- Morris, Moulton, O'Neill, Paine, Patterson, Per ham, Raymond, Alex. H. Blue (Mass.) John H. Rice (me.), Rollins, Ross. Sawyer, Shellaintrrr, amitb, Spalding, Stnvens, Stillwell , Thornton. rowbri4e, tip:+r m, Van Aernam, Burt Van Horn (N. Y.), Warner (Ind.), W. D. Washburn (Mass.), - James F. wnson (Iowa). Williams, Windom, Woodbridge Total, 85. • The question recurring on the passage of the - bill, as amended, Mr. Delano (Ohio) called for the yeas and nays, but the House refused to order them, and the bill was passed without' a division. [An abstract of the bill as originally re ported on will be , found in the House pro ceedings of the 19th of April.] • The important change made in the origi nal bill is the striking out of that part which contemplates the organization of a company under a State' charter, and inserting the fol lowing sections: ScE 8. And be it further. enacted, That in order to accomplish the completion Of Bold canal foipilitaryand commercial purposes, i and to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the States ,borde rng. on the'Northeni frontier, and to reguilats mu= inerce among the several States, as well as to relieve the Treasury as far as 'may 'be practicable from a large expenditure, of money by availing itself of private' enter prise William J. Boardman, Charles' Dewe (Ohio); William Gooding, 'Benjamin R. Sheldon (EL); Platt Smith, Lyman COok (Iowa); Hyland Hall, Paul Dillingham (Vt.); Abel A. Low, 'Reuben E: Fenton (N. Y.); Alexander H. Bullock, John S. Farlow (Mass.); William A. Buckingham, Calvin Day (Conn.); Frederick Smith, cJoseph Walker (N. H.); Alexander Mitchell, C. C. Sholes (Wis.); Samuel Cony, Samuel F. Hersey (Me.); James B. Niles, Thomas H. Bringhurst (Ind.); Eber B. Ward, E. 0. Grosvenor . (Mich'.); William S. Slater, Ezra D. Fogg (R. I.); Thomas C. Fletcher, Ed ward Bates (Mo.); D. Blakeley, Thomas H. Armstrong (Minn.); John H. Walker, Jo seph Scranton (Pa.), and such other persons as shall hereafter become subscribers to the capital stock of the corporation hereby created, and their successors shall be and are hereby, created and elected into a body tolitie, and - corporate in deed and in law, by the Mime and style of "The Niagara Ship Canal. Company." ' SEC. 9. And be it faxther enacted, That the capital stock of the said corporation shall be six millions of dollars, with the fight to' increase the same to an amount equal to the actual cost' of constructing said canal s and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and which, shall be subscribed' for and held in not leas than one share or more than two hundred shares by any one person. SEC. 10. Al* , be it further enacted, That John C. Dore, ofIllinois; Philo Chamberlin, of Ohio; Eldridge G. Merrick, of. Michigan; David DOWB, Abraham P. Grant, James D. Cooper, of New York; James Little, of Massachusetts, and Edward H. Brodhead,of Wisconsin, shall be commissioners to open books for subscription to the stock of said corporation, on .which shall be paid at the time of subscription ten per cent. thereof, and they shall open such books on or be - - fore the first day of August next, at such places as they may' appoint, having first given notice of the time and place of meet ing for that purpose by publishing the same once at least in each-week for four weeks successively in a public newspaper printed and published in the city of New York, Chicago, in the State of Illinois; Detroit,in the State of Michigan; Milwaukie, in the State of Wisconsin; Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, and Boston, in the State of Massa chusetts. The aforesaid subscription books shall be kept open at the places designated in the aforesaid notice for at least three days. A majority of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the trans action of business, and they may adjourn from time to time, and after the first three days to such places as they may think fit, until the requisite number ofshares shall be subscribed for,andin eases surplus ofshares be subscribed for they may apportion them among the subscribers in such a manner as they shall think best for the interest of said corporation. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That whenever five hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock of the said corporation shall have been subscribed for, and the sub scribers shall have paid ten per cent, upon the stock subscribed for by them respect ively, the said corporation shall be deemed to be duly organized. Mr. Raymond (N. Y.) presented the joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of New - York, in favor of the passage of a bill to equalize bounties - paid to soluiera. Re ferred to the Committee on Military Af fairs. Mr. J. M. Humphrey ;N. Y.) introduced a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary ox the Treasury to grant American registers to certain vessels. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Also, bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury , to refund money . paid by A. Sherwood and others for duties improperly collected. Read twice and referred to theCommitteeonWays and Means. Mr. Rice (Mass.) introduced a j2tn't reso lution to carry into immedielfect the bill to provide for the better organization of the Pay Department of the Navy, which was considered and passed. It authorizes the President to waive the examination of such officers of the Pay Department as are on duty abroad, and who cannot be exam ined, as required by law. Provided, That their examination is to take place on their return to the 'United States. The Rouse, at 5 P. M., adjourned. The following are the important sections of the bill passed to-day in regard to emi grant vessels: SEcriox I. That no person, except the of ficers of the customs, the sanitary officers, and emigration agents appointed by the laws of the respective States, shall go on board of any vessel arriving with emigrant passengers on board, at the ports where a United States emigrant office is established and shall have intercourse with such pas sengers before they shall have been landed, except by the written permission of the su perintendents of emigration at such ports. SEc. 3. That in every passenger ship, car rying passengers to or from the United States, all the male passengers of the age of twelve years and upwards. who shall not occupy berths with their wives, shall be berthed in the fore part of the ship, in com partments divided off from the space ap pointed to the other passengers, by a sub stantial and well secured bulkhead, with out opening- into or commtmicating with the aforesaid adjoining space. Any captain or master of any ship or vessel violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction, punished by a fine of not less than one hundred or more than five hun dred dollars, or imprisoned for a term not less than six months, nor more than one year. SEc. 11. And be it further enacted, That the master or captain of any ship or vessel arriving from a foreign country who shall bring any person, either as passenger or hand into any port, city harbor or place whirl the 'United States, with intent to land or:permit to land such passenger or hand, which passenger or hand he shall or might, with proper precaution, have known at the time of taking him on board to have been or to be a foreign convict of any offence which, if committed in any of the 'United States, would be punished therein as a felony, shall be considered for such an of fence, guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not less than five hundred nor more a thousand dol lars, or by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, or both, at the .discretion of the Court wherein the trial may be held. SEc. 12. And be it further enacted, That each and every ship - or vessel owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States which may carry passengers to this country or from this country to foreign countries,shall be provided with an amount of 'chloride of lime, or other disinfectants not liablejo the dangers of ignition, suffi cient for frequent disinfection of such ship or vessel incase of necessity,and that during .any process of disinfection of any such ship or vessel all the passen,gers at the time of the disinfection on board of said ship or ves sel, who shall be able to do so, shall be re quired, if the weather permit, to be and to remain on deck of such ship or vessel for one hour, following the application of the said disinfectant. Any captain or master of any such ship or vessel who shall be found not have or not to have bad on board of his ship or vessel such sufficient amount of the aforesaid diSinfectant, for the voyage then to begin or Just accomplished, or who shall make use of any disinfecting agent, or of any process of disinfection by which the life or health of the passengers may in any way be affected, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $l,OOO nor more than„ $10,000:, term not ' less than six months nor more than five years, or both, at the `disbretion of the court is 'Which the tiial _ SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the naval surveyors at the various ports to survey ships and ves sels engaged in the carrying'of paasengers under the laws ofihe United States, and to certify under their hand and seal to the Commissioner of 'Emigration the spaces in each such ship 'or vtissel on the various decks, and how many -passengers the said ship or vessel may be entitled to carry under , the laws of the United States, whereupon the said Commissioner of Emigration may issue a license to said ship or vessel autho rizing the number to be carried; and it shalt be lawful for the Commissioner of Emigra tion to order a resurvey of any such ship or vessel at any time when he may deem it ne ce lacessary; but that such resurvey must take p upon every change of owners or new registry; any surveyor rendering a fraudu lent return of such' survey shall be punished with a fine not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars; or impri sonment for a term not less than' three nor more than six montlisTandif there shall be on board of any ship, at -or after the time of clearance, a greater number of passen gers except by birth at sea, than authorized in t he license of thif Ccinarnissioner of Emi gration, the captain or. master of such ship , or vessel shall be liable to a fi ne not to ex ceed $5O for each passenger constituting such excess; provided, however, that such certi ficates from the surveyor shall be prima fuels evidence of the capacity of a ship or vessel- tocarry the number of passengers therein specified and that it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Emigration to bane a license thereupon without any un necessary delay, and the clearance of pas seriger ships or vassals shall not' be obtain able unless- upon , presentation of such li cense of the Commissioner of Emigration. SEC. 15. And be it farther enacted, That there shall be established in each of thik cities of Boston, Chicago, New- Orleans, San Francisco,Baltimore and Philadelphia, an office to be known as the United States Emigration Office, and there shall be ap pointed, by and with the advice and con sent of the Senate, an officer for each of the cities of Boston, Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco, and one for the two cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia, to be known as Superintendent of Emigration, at an an nual salary of $2,000, and each superinten dent may employ two clerks, one of the second and one of the first class, and the said superintendents, respectively, shall, under the direction of the Commissioner of Emigration perform all the duties which are now required to be performed by the Superintendent of Emigration at New York, and every such superintendent is hereby vested with all the powers which are now or shall at any future time be con ferred on the Superintendent of Emigra tion at New York; and the Superintendent of Emigration at New York may appoint, with the approval of the Commissioner of Emigration, three officers, and the other superintendents one officer, who shall be denominated inspectors ofpassenger vessels, to be attached to their respective offices, whose duty it shall be to examine each passenger vessel arrivingat their respective. ports, and to report to the superintendent, in writing, whether the requirements of the nassenger acts have been duly complied with in respect to any emigrants arriving from any foreign port in such vessels. Such officers shall receive an annual salary not to exceed that of a clerk of the second class. otv I Df.l two y DI CORN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANE , . I.ItIL.S-DELPHI.4., May Ist, 1866. e Directors have dechired a Dividend of SEVEN PER CENT., clear of tax, and payable on demand. my 1.61. J. W. TORREY, Cashier. - NATIONAL BANK OF GERMANTOWN, L .- ?T'ELLLADELPHLA. —GB amcsrowN, May Ist, The Directors have this day deciwed a Dividend of SEVER PER CENT. out of the earnings of the last Six months, payable, free from Untied States Tax, on and after Thursday, the 3d instant. OR' A S W. OTTO, Cashier. THE CO3I3LERCIAL NATIONAL BANK OF kMsrIiSYLVAISaa., Prm , riELPBIA. .May 18t, 1556. .. The Board of Directors have this day declared a Div de-d of FIVE PER CENT, pa 3 able on demand, clear of National tax. S, C. PALMER, myl-tta • Cashier. - SO yr/IV - 3.RK NATIONAL BANK, Pau.- [U b ADS.LPILLL, May Ist, 1866. '1 he Directors have declared a Dividend of SEVEN PER CENT, payable on demand. EWCITY AIIONAL BANK, PECILADELPRIA, IC Itay isSe. 'The Board of Directors have this day declared a Dividend of SIX PER CENT., payable on demand— clear of taxes. G. ALBERT LEWIS, nayi Ca/ Casnier. EENSENTGTON NATIONAL BaN.K.—Pain- ADNELP.IIIa, May I. LSsa. e Board of Directors have this day declared a div idend of TEN PEN CENT, for the last six months, payable on demand. Clear of tax. WILT , t A V . IfcCONNELL, Cashier. WGLEAM) NATIONAL BANK. ParranEE PHIA, May I, IS&S. e b _Directors have this day declared a dividend of SIN: PER CENT, ont of the profits for the last sir months, payableon demand, free atilt taxes. COMIONWEA_LTH NATIONAL BANS, PHILADELPHIA, May 11 Ist, 1866. ;I:Dir.-Mors have declared a Dividend of FIVE FEB. CENT., clear of Tax, and payable on demand. H. U. YOUNG. Cashier. 07. CENTRA L NATIONAL 'HANK, PEI:MADE:Tr r.rua, May Ist, 1666. Ihe Directors have this day declared a Dividend'of FIV.f.2. PEE CENT., clear of Tax, payable on demand. myl-611 rr.T.r.A.lll H. REAWVN, Cashier. OFSECOND NATIONAL BINROFPHILA DELPHIA, FaaIiMPORD, May I. 1866. directors have this day declared a dividend of FIVE, PER CENT., clear or tar. payable on demand. t.st/ W. R. SIIELMERDINE, Cashier. IifFARMERS'AND MECHANICS' NATIONAL BANR.PHILADELPFELA May I, 1866. T e Board of Directors FIVE bank have this day declared a dividend of PER CENT., also an cal is' dividend of ONE PER CENT.; both payable on errand, free of taxes. myl Eta W. RUSHTON, Ja., Cashier. 11? u, TIER lIAIMPACTIIItERS' NATIONAL BAN.R.—Pranans.umms, May ist, 1866. he Board of Directors have this day declared a Di vidend of SIX PER CENT„ payable on demand, clear of 'United Statee Tax. M. W. WOODWARD, Cashier. n FIRST NATIONAL BANE, OF PHILA. tity DELPRIA-=PmaLsnxisars, May Ist, 1866. A DIVIDEND OF SLX PER CENT. out of the plazedprofits of the last six months, has been this day de , payable on demand, free of taxes. niylßy order. MORTON McMICHAEL. in., St . Cashier. ESECHANICS' NATIONAL BANE—Pm - La- DICFPHIA. May 1,1666. e Board of Directors of this Bank have TEETS DAY declared a Dividend of SIX (6) PER CENT. and en Extra Dividend of FOUR PER CENT., payable= demand. free of Taxes. - myl-at - J. VIELIFAND, Jr., Cashier. 14:THE WESTERN NATIONAL BANK OF Itaxanzr.rine, May 1, We. Directors have this day declared a Dividend of TEN PEE CENT., 'Sayable on demand,elear of taxes. nsyl.Stij C. N. WESGANDT, Cashier. WUNION NATIONAL BANS—Pa**.snaLenra, hiny 1, 1866. e Board of Directors have THIS DAY declared a DiVidend et SIX PEE CENT., on the Capital Stock for the last six months. clear of United States Taxes, and payable on demand. nayl-St • L. • STATIONERY. ENGLISH' NOTE PAPER . —prioms celebrated rough pearl envelopes to matcMAh. Jos SON t dt received CO . .. 907 Chestnut area. UNGLISH NOTE PAPER.—Whatman's celebrated .I cold pressed rougb, with envelopes. Just received. MASON 00. NW Chestnut street. 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