CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION.
[akar, o YESTERDAY% PROCEEDINGS.]
SENATE.—Mr. Sherman (Ohio) called. up
'the bill recently reported by him to aid iu
the construction of telegraph lines, and to
secure to the Government the use of the
same' for postal, military, and other par
poses.
lir. Sherman in explaining the bill said
the committee to whom the subjeothad been
referred, hod (tome to the conclusion that n
would be impracticable for the Government
to operate the telegraph as 'a part of tne
postal system. They had thought -it best
simply to report this bill to authorizethe
National Telegraph Company to cross navi
gable streams and operate over the public
domain.
After discussion by Messrs. Sherman and
Morrill, the bill was postponed till to-mor
row.
Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Mili
tary Affairs, reported the bill for continu
ing in force.the "Bureau 'for the Relief of
Freedmen and. Refugees," with amend
ments striking out the fifth and sixth sec
tions, and inserting in lieu thereof seven
new sections providing for the allotment of
certain:lands sold for taxes to the freednien.
The first section sets forth; in a preamble,
that the direct tax commissioners for Schuh
Carolina, who were instructed by President
Lincoln to sell certain lands in the parishes
of St. Helena and St. Luke at tax sales, and
the tithe for 'redemption having expired,
and the said lands having been sold in, par
cels of twenty acreo, and portions set ow for
"school-farms," being thirty-eight thousand
acres, more or less, the aforesaid sales :are
hereby confirmed and established, and all
leases issued by the tax commissioners
shall be. changed into certificates of sale,
end-all other lands similarly designated to
bidisposed of according to said instrac.
titons:.
The next section provides that all other
lands bid iii by the United States, now in
the hands of the tax commissioner, in St.
Helena and St. Luke's parishes, except the
"school farms," the land-necessary for wilt,
tary and naval purposes at Hilton. Head,
Pray Point and Land's End, and also the
city of Port Royal, on St. Helena island;
and the town of Beaufort, shall be disposed
of, in lots of twenty acres, at one dollar and
fifty cents per acre, to such persons only as
have acquired lands under General Sher
man's field order, and the remainder, if any,
to such as have acquired lands uuder the
same order, and of which they have been
dispossessed by the restoration ofsaid lands
toformer owners; but the said lands, when
sold, shall not be alienated by their purcha
sers within six years from the passage of
this act.
The third section gives the commission
power to seize, hold, use, lease or sell all
buildings, tenements and lands formerly
owned by or claimed as the property orheld
in trust for the so-called Confederate States,
and to use the proceeds or appropriate the
same for the education of the freedmen; and
when the bureau is withdrawn,States which
have made provision for the education of
their citizens, without distinction of color,
shall receive the balance, if any, remaining
unexpended, to be distributed among said
States for educational purposes, in propor- ,
tion to population.
The fourth section provides that the
"school farms" subject to any leases shall
be sold at public auction on or :be
fore Jan. 1,1867, for not less than ten dol
lars per acre; and the lots in the city of Port
Royal, and the lots and houses in the town
of Beaufort shall be sold in like manner,
and the proceeds invested, in United States
bonds; the interest of which is to be appro
priated by the commissioner to the support
of schools, without distinction of color or
race, on .the islands in the parishes of St.
Helena and St. Luke.
The fifth section authorizes and requires
the assistant commissioners of South. Car
olina and Georgia to determine the validity
of all titles to said lands, claimed under Gen.
Sherman's special field order, and and to give
each person having a valid chino, or to the
heirs of such persons, a warrant for twenty
acres of land for six years, which land may
be purchased by said persons within that
time for one dollar and tifty cents per acre,
and on paying said sum shall be entitled to
a certificate of sale of said land; but said
warrant shall not be valid for more than
two years after the issue Ofthe same.
The sixth section provides that, after the
said lands have been disposed of, as herein
before provided, the President shall have
power to restore to former owners thelands
now occupied under General Sherman's or
der, except such as may have been sold for
taxes, and not till after the present year's
crops have been gathered, nor until a fair
compensaton has been made the present
occupants for improvements or betterments,
and after due notice being given by the as
sistant commissioner of the barean.
The seventh section authorizes and re
quires the direct tax commissioners for
South Carolina, at the earliest day possible,
to survey the said lands into lots or twenty
acres, convenient in form, properly laid out
with metes and bounds, with an average of
fertility and woodland; the expenses of said
surveys to be paid from the proceeds of
sales, orif sooner required,out of the moneys
received by the tax commissioner for sales
of lands for taxes.
The bill as amended was ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Henderson (Mo.) introduced a bill to
authorize the establishment of a repertory
in Germany, to illustrate the physical, politi
cal, social and economic condition and the
natural resources of the several States of the
American Union, which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture. It provides :
Sacmiox 1. That the President of the
:United States be and he is hereby authorized
'to take measures to secure in the free city of
Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Germany, an, ap
propriate locality to serve as a repertory of
publications and specimens to illustrate
the physical geography, natural history,
status, industry and resources of the several
States and territories of the United States of
America.
SEc. 2. That such repertory shall be or
ganized, as it will not only serve, as an ap
propriate place of rendezvous to all Ame
rican citizens traveling or sojourning in
Germany, but also afford to the inhabitants
of Germany, and particularly to such scien
tific men of that country as devote them
selves to the study of American affairs, in a
complete, accessible and convenient form,
the means of authentic, collected informa
tion in regard to the political, social, physi
cal and educational condition of the several
States and Territories of the United States,
their population, their geographical,climati
call geological, mineralogical and topogra
phical characteristics, their commerce,
manufactures, science and art, and their
agricultural and material resources..
So). 3. That each State.or Territory shall
have in said repertory its distinct and sepa
rate apace set apart to which it may contri
bute such public documents, statutes,
charts,- maps, and plats, commercial direc
tories of its principal towns, and other ap
propriate local publications and reports, es
pecially agricultural, as may best exhibit its
condition, natural resources, and the op
portunities it affords for profitable employ
ment of labor and capital.
SEC. 4. That for the execution of the fore
going : pro - visions there shall be appointed
by the President of the United States, with
the advice and consent of the Senate, a su
perintendent of said repertory, at a salary
of $3,500 per annum, with an assistant at
an annual salary of $2,000, and a janitor at
an annual salary of $l,OOO, who shall hold
their respectiveoffices during good behavior
and shall each be proficient in at least three
living languages; and it shall be the duty
of said superintendent to take charge and
direction of said repertory, and of •all col
/actions of books, maps, and natural spool
mens, and _of all contributions that may
from time to time be made to such reper
tory.
SEC. 5. That.for fitting up the apartments
of said repertory to be arranged in separate
diVisiona.or niches . Allowed. to the several
States and Territories of the Union, andlbr
other expenses incidental to its formatiOn,
including the rent of the premises in the
first year of the . establishment, the aura of
$23,000 be and is hereby appropriated out of
any public money in the: TreaSnry not
otherwise appropriated; and further, that
for the continued maintenance of the estab-,
lishment, including the aforesaid salaries,
the rent of the premises and all incidental
ourrent expenses, there shall be annually
appropriated a sum not exceeding $14,000.
tire. 6. That the -superintendent of said
repertory shall annually prepare and trans
mit to Congrese a full report of the condition
of said institution; of the amount and char
acter of the contributions made to the same,
and by whom made; of the number of
American and of foreign visitors who shall
have resorted thereto, and of the expenses
incurred in its management.
SEC. 7. That Ihi3 heads of the several de
partments, annually, or , oftener, from time
to time. through the agency of the Smith
sonian Institution, shall forward to saidre
pertory copies of - all public documents
issued 'by them respectively.
Mr. Wade (Ohio) submitted the following
joint resolution which was referred to'the
Committee.on kilitary, Affairs.
Resolved,'&c., That the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and.is hereby• authorized and
directed to pay to General Benjamin F.
Butler, President of , the. Board of Managers
of the "National Asylum for Disabled Vo
lunteer Soldiers,".out of any moneys in •the
treasury not otherwise • appropriated, !the
sum of sixty thousand dollare,to be applied
by him in aid of the payment of the .Point
Lookout property, in.St Mary's county,
Maryland, for the establishment of one of
the "sites" of the "National Asylum for Dis
abled Volunteer Soldiers" and their fami
lies, so soon as a title to the satisfaction of
the Attorney General of the United States
be made to the asylum, of at least three
hundred acres - of
land, including that on
which said property of the United States is
not built; and when such title shall be so
made, all the said property of the United
-States thereon shall be and become thepro
perty of said National Asylum.
Mr. Cresswell introduced a bill declara
tory of an act to amend the act establishing
the Court of Clainis,which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary. •It provides
that the deputy solicitor shall receive a
salary of three thousand five hundred dol
lars, the same as the solicitor and assistant
solicitor, computing the difference from
the date of the oath of office of said deputy.
Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Mili
tary Affairs, reported the bill to provide for
the publication of the official history of the
rebellion with an amendment as a substi
tute, providing,
First, For a repeal of the resolution of
May 19th, 1864, relative to printing official
reports of the armies of the United States.
Second, For authorizing and requiring
the Secretary of War to appoint a compe
tent person to prepare for publication the
official documents relating to the rebellion
and the operations of the army of the United
States, who shall prepare a plan for said
publication and -estimate the coat and report
to Congress.
Third, That the person appointed shall
receive as compensation for his services not
less than two thousand five hundred dol
lars per annum, to be paid monthly by the
Secretary of the. Treasury; provided that
it shall not be paid for a longer period than
two yearn.
Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the
Pacific Railroad, reptrted an amendment
to the bill to amend the Pacific railroad act
of July, 1864, a second section, as follows:
SEC. 2. The Vnion Pacific Railroad Com
pany, with the consent and approval of the
tiecretary of the Interior, without reference
to the one hundredth meridian of longtitude,
are hereby authorized to continue their
road• westward according to the best and
most practicable route, in a continuous and
unbrohen line, until they shall meet and
connect with the Central Pacific railroad;
and the Central Pacific Railroad Company
are hereby authorized to continue their road
eastward according to the best and moat
practicable route, in a continuous and un
broken line, until they shall meet and con
nect with the Union Pacific railroad ; Pro
vided, That the words "continuous" and
"unbroken line" shall not be held to in
clude necessary bridges and tunnels on the
routes of said roads. v_ .
The act is also amended by inserting at
the end: "Provided that said company shall
be entitled to only the same amount of the
bonds of the United States to aid in the con
struction of their line of railroad and tele
graph as they would have been entitled to if
they had connected their said-line with the
Union Pacific railroad on the one-hundredth
degree of longitude, as required by law;
and provided farther , That said company
shall connect their line of railroad and tele
graph with the Union Pacific railroad, but
not at a point more than fifty miles west.
wardly from the meridian of Denver, in
Colorado.
Mr. Hendricks (Ind.) introduced a bill to
amend the act of July 4th, 1864, entitled "an
act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court
of Claims," which was referred to the Com
mittee on the Judiciary. It amends the se•
cond and third sections of that act so that all
claims of loyal citizens of States not in re
bellion at the date aforesaid for quartermaa
lers' or commissaries' stores, regularly
taken for the use of the United States army,
may, be settled, with proper proofs made at
the offices of the quartermaster or commis
sary general. And it is made the duty of
those officers to examine 'and report such
cases to the Third Auditor for final adjudi
cation.
A bill to quiet land titles in Californiawas
passed.
A communication from the SeZretary of
the Navy, transmitting the report of the
board of visitors to thg Naval Academy,
was received. The report was ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Henderson called up a bill granting
lands to aid in the construction of the
Ransasiand Neosha Valley railroad to Red
river, which was discussed and farther con
sideration postponed until to-morrow. '
The Chair appointed as the special com
mittee to examine and report upon the
condition of the Mississippi levee; Messrs.
Clark, Chandler, Cowan, Henderson and
Johnson.
The Senate, at 4 o'clock, went into execn
five session and soon after adjourned.
Sousa.--Mr. Ancona's Fenian preamble
and resolutions being under consideration,
the House refused to second the demand for
the previous question, and then
Mr. Schenc.k offered the following as a
substitute for the resolution, and demanded
the previous question: •
Besolved, That the President of the United
States, in the opinion of this House, should
reconsider the policy which has been adopted
.by him as between the British Government
and that portion of the Irish people who in
the name of Feniana are struggling for their
independent nationality; and that- he be re
quested to adopt, as nearly as possible, that
exact course of;procedure which was pur
sued by the Government of Great Britain in
the late civil war in this country between
the United States and rebels in revolt,
recognizing both as lawful belligerents, and
observing between them a strict neutrality.
Mr. Harding (Ill.) sent to the Clerk's desk
and had read what he desired to submit as
a substitute for both, declaring
.that the
course of the Government in repressing the
Fenian invasion was ignominious and dis
graceful, but Mr. Schenck declined to allow
it to be offered.
Mr. Banks asked Mr. Schenck to yield to
a motion to refer the resolution and substi
tute to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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promising that if referred the committee
would make a report.
Schenck yielded fOr that purpoie, and
Mr. Banks submitted the motion.
The previous question was then seconded.
Mr: H ale moved to lay the resolution and
substitute on the table, which was negatived
—yeas 8, nays 113.
Mr. Hale desired to offer an amendment
as a sort of compromise, but Mr. Ancona
objected, and the question was taken on the
reference of the original resolution and Mr.
Schenck's substitute. to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs. The motion was agreed
to—yeas 91, nays 34.
Mr. Hale subsequently, as a personal ex
planation, Bent up and had read the resolu
tiortwhich he had wished to offer as a com
promise, as follows:
Besaved, That the honor and good faith
of the United States imperatively demand
a just and vigorous enforcement of the neu
trality laws, and that this house will enter
tain no proposition looking to their repeal,
evasion or violation.
.' Mr. Banks offered a resolution, which was
adopted, requesting the, President-to com
municate to the House any information
which he may have received with reference
to the despatch -of military forces from
Austria for service in Mexico.
Mr. Broomall (Pa.) introduced a bill to
amend the act of 1866, relating to habeas
corpus, and regulating 'judicial proceedings
in certain cases. Read twice and referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Bingham introduced a joint resolu
tion relative to the purchase of a plan for a
„hospital for soldiers. Read twice and re
ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Ms. Raymond called up a motion to re
consider the vote referring to the Committee
on Appropriations the Senate joint resolu
tions, passed April 18th, appropriating $121,-
785 for negotiating- treaties with the Indian
tribes of the Upper Missouri and the Upper
Platte rivers.
After debate participated in by Messrs.
Raymond, Burleigh (Dakota) and Hubbard
(Iowa), the joint resolution was passed.
Mr. Kerr introduced a joint resolution to
prevent the further enforcement of the joiat
resolution of July 4, 1864, against officers
and soldiers of the United States who have
been honorably discharged. Read twice
and referred to the Committee on Military
Affairs.
Mr. Kerr offered a resolution. which was
adopted, instructing the Committee on
Military Affairs to report a bill, so as to
admit to the Government Hospital for the
Insane such parsons as have been soldiers
or sailors, and whose insanity is developed
after their discharge, but arising oat of
causes produced by their servile in the army
or navy.
Mr. Williams, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, reported an act for the regulation
of appointments and removals from office.
Read twice, recommitted and ordered , to be
printed.
The bill provides as follows:
Be it enacted, &c., That no officer of the
United States, appointed on the nomination
of the President by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall be removable ex
cept by the same agencies which concarred in
his appointment; Provided, however, That in
Case of disability or misconduct in office oc
curring during the recess of the Senate where
the interestsof the public May make it neces
sary to displace the incumbent until the ad
vice and consent of that body can be dilly had
and obtained thereon, it shall be lawful for
the President, on the recommendation of the
Attorney General to suspend the disabled or
defaulting officer, and to commission another
person to perform the duties of the place
until the Senate shall have an opportunity
of acting thereupon; and it shall be the duty
of the President, within ten days after the
next assemblage of that body, to report to it
the fact of such suspension, along with the
reasons therefor and the name Of the person
so temporarily commissioned by him, or
such other person as he may think proper
to nominate for the place, and in case of the
refusal of the Senate to concur in the remo
val, either by a direct vote thexeon, or by
advising and consenting to the appointment
of the person so nominated, the officer who
has been thus suspended shall thereupon
assume the exercise of his official function,
as though the same had not been interrupt
ed ; but in no case shall the person so re
stored be entitled to any salary or compen
sation for the interval of time during which
his functions may have been suspended as
aforesaid.
Sxc. 2. That in case of the refusal of the
Senate to advise and consent to the renomi
nation of any officer whose term of service
may have expired by its limitation, the
place filled by the person so renominated
shall be regarded, and is hereby declared to
be, vacant from the time of such refusal,
but should the Senate adjourn without ac
tion on such renomination, either in the
way of consent or disapproval, the same
shall be held, and is hereby declared to be,
vacant immediately after such adjourn
ment. And in no case shall any person
who has been nominated by the President
for any office and rejected by the Senate, or
on whose nomination that body has failed
or declined to act in the way of consent or
refusal, be appointed or commissioned by
him after the asi onrnment and during the
recess of that y to hold the same office for
which he had been p reviously nominated.
',SEC. 3. That no; office shall be considered
asinferior, within the meaning 'of the Con
stitution,the salary or emoluments whereof
exceed in amount the sum of one thousand
dollars per annum; and in all such cases the
appointments - thereto shall hereafter be
made in nomination by the President by
and with the advice and consent of the Se
nate, subject to the same conditions and li
mitations as to removals and renomina
tions as are prescribed in the foregoing sec
tions of this act.
Mr. Boutwell asked consent to offer the
following preamble and resolution:
Whereas, It is notorious that Jefferson
Davis was the leader of the late rebellion,
and is guilty of treason under the laws of
the United States; and whereas, by the pro
clamation of the 'President, of May, 1865,
said Davis was charged with complicity in
the assassination of President Lincoln, and
said proclamation not having been revoked
nor annulled, therefore, be it
Resolved, As the opinion of the House of
Representatives, that said Davis RUA' be
held in custody as , a prisoner,andsubjected
to a trial according to the laws of the land.
Mr. Rogers (N. J.) objected to the resolu
tion being offered.
Mr. Boutwell movedto suspend the rules,
so as to enable him to offer it.
Mr. Rogers desired to ask a question, but
the Speaker informed him that debate was
not in order. -
Mr. Rogers persisted in putting his ques
tion to Mr. Boutwell, which was, as far as it
could be heard above the knocking of the
Speaker's hammer, whether he believed that
Mr. Davis had any complicity , in the assas
sination of President Lincoln, and whether
every unprejudiced mind was not convinced
to the contrary ?
The Speaker called Mr. Rogers to order,
and notified him that he must obey the vales
of the House and take his seat
Mr. O'Neill (Pa.) asked the Speaker
whether matter that was ruled out of order
would appear in the Congressional Globe?
The Speaker replied in the affirmative,
adding that a resolution was adopted in
the last. Congress, forbidding the repotters
to insert what was out of order, but that no
such resolution was adopted at this session.
The rules were suspended—yeas 97, nays
20—and the resolution was offered and was
adopted by a vote of yeas 105, nays 19.
The preamble was agreed to without a di
vision.
The fallowing is the vote on the adoption
of the resolution :
YEAS—Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ashley (Ohio), Baker,
Bald Will, Banks. Baxter, Beaman, Bidwell. Bingham,
Blaine, Bootwell Broomall, Bockland, Bandy. Clarke
SOU* Clarke (Ham), Cobb, Cookling, Cook, Conom,
Darling. Davis, Dawes, Deireee, Donnelly, Eckley,
Blllot,FarnaWorth, f r arquharlißerry, Qaraeld, Wirt
,
nell, Grbrwold. Hale, 'Harding (Ill.). Hart. Hayes,
B enderson, Rigby, Ham es; ooper, Hotchkiss, Ho
?lard (W. Va.), Hubbard (Conn ), Hubbell (Ohio), Ju
lian, Kelso; lig etcham, Knykendall, Loftin, Latham,
Lawrence (re.), .Lawrenoe (Ohio), Loan7Long , ear,
1 ynch; arabrulAilarvin, McClurg, Mcßee, Mcßuer,
M.ercur. Miller, Moorhead. Morrill, Morris, Moulton,
My era, Or.b. Paine, Serharn,' Phelps, Pike,
Plants, Pomeroy, Pi ice,Bandall (ti y.).Barmond, Bice
(Biass.).• Sawyer. Schenck. SchofieLk, Shellabarger,
Sloan, Smith, Spalding, Thayer, Thomas, Jr,, J. L..
'Thornton, Trowbridge, Upson, Van aernam. Ward,
'warner, Washburne (lud.), Welker, Whaley,
Williams, NV Ili on (Iowa); Wilson (Pa.) Windom,Win
held, Wt. oobridge—ies.
NAra—Mesers Ancona, Boyar, Coffroth. Eldridge,
Pinck Gloesbrenner Grider, Barris, Hogan, .11blimon,
Mc(milough. Iciblwk. Randall (Pa.) . Bitter; Rogers,
bitgreaves, Strome, Taber, Trimble, Wright—M. -
. On motion of Mr. Spalding, the Senate bill
to reorganize the clerical force of the Depart-.
went of the Interior was taken from tne
Speaker's table, read twice and referred to
the Committee on Appropriations.
Mr. Coffroth (Pa.), from the Committee on
Invalid Pensioni, reported a bill granting
pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the
war of 1812, and those engaged in the Indian
war during that period. Read twice and
recommitted.
Mr. Ancona (Pa.) offered a resolution,
which was adopted, eel ling on:the Secretary
of War for information as to persons drafted
in the Eighth Congressional District' of
Pennsylvania, from February, 1865, who
had been previously drafted and paid com
mutation or furnished substitutes.
Mr. Sloan, from the Committee on Claims,
reported a bill for the payment of Ambrose
Morrison, for-property taken from him; on
which to build a fort, at Nashville, Tenn.
Read twice and recommitted.
Mr. Raymond offered a resolution. which
was adopted. requesting the President of
the United States to communicate to this
House a statement of the provisions of the
laws and ordinances of the late insurgent
States on the subject of the rebel debt, so
called.
Mr. Johnson'offered a resolution. which
was adopted, instructing the Committee of
Ways and Means to inquire into the expe
diency of providing for the erection of a
fire-proof building in the principal city or
town of each Congressional. District, to be
used fer a post office and for the offices of
the collectors and assessors of internal
revenue.
Mr. Schenck introduced a bill to prevent
officers of the navy from being deprived of
their regular promotion on account of
wounds received In battle. Read twice
and referred to the Committee on Na!sv
Affairs.
Mr. Sitgreaves offered a resolution, which
was adopted, for the appointment of a com
mittee of one member from each State re
presented in the House to join such com
mittee as may be appointed on the part of
the Senate, to consider and report upon the
propriety of an address before Congress,
commemorative of the life, character and
services, of Lieutenant General Scott.
The House proceeded to the consideration
of the bill reported from the Reconstruction
Committee to provide for restoring to the
States lately in insurrection their full politi
cal rights.
Mr. Kelley offered the following substi
tute for the loin.
Whereas, The eleven States which lately
formed the so-called Confederate States of
America are without theirpractical relations
to the Union, and cannot be fully restored
or reinstated the same without the action
of Congresa; therefore,
Be it enacted, &c., SEcrimi L That the
eleven States lately in rebellion may form
valid State Governments in the following
manner:
SEC. 2. The State Governments now ex
isting, though formed in the midst of mar
tial law, and though in many States their
Constitutions were adopted under duress,
and not submitted to the people for ratlike
tion,are hereby acknowled as valid Govern
ments for municipal purposes.
SEC. 3. The President shall direct the
Governors of the said eleven States which
lately formed the so-called Confederate
States of America. to call conventions, on
or beforetbe first day of sTanuary,lB67,for the
formation ofState constitutions; and to en
able the electoral people of the several States
aforesaid to choose delegates to the said
Convention, the Governor or ehief execu
tive officer of each of said States shall order
an election to be held on a day to be fixed
by him, for members of a convention to
frame a constitution for said State. which
said constitution shall be submitted to a
vote of the people of said State, in acoord
ance with the provisions hereinafter con
tained, and if ratified by a majority of the
legal voters, as hereinafter described, shall
be declared to be the constitution of said
State.
SEC. 4. The persons who shall be entitled
to vote at said elections shall be all persons,
irrespective of color, who shall have re
sided in the State six months prior to said
election, are twenty-one years of age, and
can read the Constitution of the 'United
States.
SEc. 5. No constitution from any of said
States shall be presented to or acted on by
Congress which shall deny . to any person,
irrespective of color or previous condition,
equal liberty and rights before the law, in
cluding the rights of suffrage, as heretofore
provided.
SEC. 6. Whenever the foregoing conditions
shall have been complied with, and the
amendments to the Constitution adopted by
Congress since the rebellion of the States
aforesaid shall have been ratified by any of
said States, the Representatives of such
State may present its Constitution to Con
gress, and if the same shall be approved by
Congress, said State shall be declared en
titled to the rights and privileges and im
munities, and be subject to all the obliga
tions and liabilities, of a State within the
Union, and thereupon a general amnesty
shall be declared by the President to all
persona residing in said State who have
offended against the authority, dignity and
peace of the United States in the recent re
bellion.
Mr. Rousseau (Ky.) addressed the House,
arguing that it was the fault of the radical
majority that the insurgent States were not
now reconstructed and the country restored
to peace and prosperity. The majority had
had the matter in the palm of their hands
for the last seven months, but had done
nothing. Before Congress met, the Speaker
had laid down the rale by which the - House
was to be governed, departing from the
policy of restoration laid down by President
Lincoln andrresident Johnson, and was the
first to start the complaint against Presi
dent Johnson' fornot having called Congress
together. •
He argued that if Mi. ' Colfax and the
leading members of the Republican party
had, during last summer, deemed it so de
sirable that Congress should be convened,
he and they should have made that opinion
known to the Presidentot.and the country,
and the Speaker should have remained here
for that purpose, instead of being on a visit
to Brigham Young and his ladies, and gath
ering up materials for his splendid lestutre.
But none of those gentlemen had asked the
President to call Congress together.
The Speaker had recently punlished a let
ter asserting that the day after the murder
of President Lin oln he made such .a sug
gestion, and tha President Johnson told
him the rests:men ilities of the Presidency
had beensosudde y thrown on him that the
had not thought of the matter. That was
the first and last that any one had heard of
a desire on the part of Speaker Colfax to
have Congress'oonvened. He had not: ex
pressed the mildest or most modest sort of
such a desire to the President,, and ,yet the
first thing he(did when he came back was to
complain that the President- had not called
Congress together. -
Mr. Rousseau passed on to, speak of =the
.assault made some weeks since on. the Pre
sident by Mr. Ingersoll, and said that the
language made use of on that occasion was
unworthy to be uttered on the floor of the
House, the President being denounced as a
demagogue and all who supported his policy
as lick-spittles and sycophants. lle hurled
back snob epithets in theleeth of him who
uttrrtii them, and who bad done nothing
during .tho war but stay at home and look
after the Offices., • ' • ' -
Mr. Farnsworth (M.) • called attention' to
the fact that Mr. Ingersoll
,Wll/3 absent.• •
Mr. Rousseau said he Was aware of that,
but that was not his (Mr. Rousseau's') fault.
If he was not here now he ' would be baCk,
and hp (Mr. Rousseati) Was ' notgoing' to
leave. , He'would not say that he would be
reeponsible tdhirn "here or elsewhere." He
did not seek to be held•responsible' outside
of the House,-but if the gentleman (Mr. In
gersoll were here, he (Mr.Roussean) would
use stronger language than he would use in
his absence. • He would say, however, to
begin with, that when the gentleman -stig
matized those who sustained the President's
nolicy as sycophants and lick-spittle.s, who
were seeking for some contemptible office,
that was false, unjust to the President, un
just to his friends, and unjust to the gentle
man from Illinois himself. Granygher
man and Thomas were supporters of the
President, and would the gentleman tell
them that they were lick-spittles ? The cir
cumstances that provoked the pasvion and
the unseemly deportment of the gentleman
from Illinois was the removal of one of his
friends from a contemptible office in Peoria,
the editor of a newspaper there.
Mr. Rousseau went on to argue that the
adoption by the Republican party of a libe
ral, manly and just policy at the commence
ment of Congress would have given that
party a lease of power for the next thirty
years; and that even now, - so convinced
were the leaders of that party that their
course would not be approved by the people
that they would'not adjourn this session
without admitting Tennessee. They would
have to eat their own words in that particit
lar. He predicted that Mr. Speaker Colfax
would tell them that they dare not go back
to their constituents without doing that
just, proper and legal thing.
Mr. Farquhar (Ind.) interrupted him to
state that ;Speaker Colfax had been, since
the commencement of the session; in favor
of admitting the loyal members from Ten
nessee.
Mr. Rousseau was aware that that was
said by the Speaker and other radical mem
bers. and that was the programme, but still
the loyal members from Tennessee had not
been admitted- Queen Elisabeth had once
asked the Speaker of the English Parlia
ment what that body had passed, and the
reply was: "Seven weeks, your Majesty."
So this Congress, if asked the same ques
tion, would have to answer "seven months,"
for it had done nothing but pass a freed
men's bureau and some such measures.
Mr. Price (Iowa) sent up to the Clerk's
desk and had read a letter from CoL Stokes,
of Tennessee, to his constituents, in which
he took the ground that Congress was right
in not admitting Representatives from Ten
nessee and the other insurgent States. He
said be would place that declaration of one
who knew the feelings of the people of the
South, made, too, in opposition to his own
interests, against the opinions of the mem
ber from Kentucky.
Mr. Grinnell (Iowa) got leave to make a
personal explanation in reference to some
reflections upon him made by Mr. Rous
seau. He said that if he were the President
and such a speech were made in his defence
he would say "God save me from such an
unmanly, incoherent, brainless defender,
equal in virtue in civil life as in military!"
In what volume was the gentleman's mili
tary history to be found? The reputation
that he got in Kentucky was earned by
sending back negroes across the Ohio or the
Mississippi river who had swam the river
for their liberty. Where had the gentleman
been in the great battles of the war? A
hundred and fifty miles away from them.
Lettim ask Gen. Grant or any general
officer his opinion about him. The gentle
man had talked abent his commanding
lowa troops; but a leading officer from that
State had told him it was a common expres
sion among the troops, when there was any
excitement, that it was either "a rabbit or
General Rousseau." He had not lead lowa
troops to the imminent deadly breach. It
wss all pretence—all the merest mockery.
It was the gentleman blowinghis own horn.
The gentleman had traduced him (Mr.
Grinnell) in a speech which he made in New
York at a Fenian meeting: speaking of him
as "a pitiful political demagogue, whose
name, he believed, was Grinnell." And he
bad in the same speech spoken of a distin
guished member of the House (alluding to
Mr. Stevens) as a miscreant for which he
could not express his contempt. "And
there," said Mr. Grinnell, in a most con
temptous manner, "there he stands, six feet
high and over, calling himself a buttoned
up general, officer and gentleman."
Mr. Rousseau, after shifting his position
several times, had by this time got into the
vicinity of Mr. Grinnell, and it might rea
sonably be expected that, smarting under
the taunts and sneers so lavishly directed
at bins, he would take a summary mode of
dealing with the members from Iowa; but
at this time
Mr. Banks (Mass.) rose and made the
point of order, that the gentleman from
lowa bad not, in obtaining leave to make a
personal explanation, obtained any right
to violate the rules of debate, which point
Of *waif the speaker sustained, notifying
Mr; Grinnell that he must prozeed in order.
Mr. Rousseau intimated that if the Speaker
would not protect him he would protect
himself.
Mr. Grinnell remarked that if the gentle
man would deny that he had called a mem
ber of the House a miscreant, he would have
nothing further to say.
Mr. Rousseau denied that he had called
Mr. Stevens a miscreant, but admitted
baying "that a man who would , put him
self between the contending factions of the
country, to keep them apart, was a mis
creant.'
MS. Grinnell remarked, sneeringly, that
a fellow who bad had a quarrel with a
colored barber might try to get oat of it in
that way.
Mr. Rousseau renewed the intimation that
if the Speaker would not protect him that
he would protect himself.
The Speaker informed Mr. Grinnell that
if he would again violate the rulea of debate
he - would call him to order.
Mr. Grinnell concluded by disavowing
any unfriendliness toward the gentleman
from Kentucky or his State. [Laughter.]
Mr. Rousseau obtained the floor and made
a statement to the House in reference to his
position in a former debate on the subject of
an outrage committed by an agent of the
freedmen's bureau on a gentleman in Ken
tucky, bis wife and daughter. He would
not resent anything that the ,gentleman
from lowa might say, because he had un
derstood that gentleman to say thathe could
not ba insulted, and with such a. man ho
could have no quarrel.
Mr. Grinnell [in his seat]. No, sir; I
never said that.
Mr. Roniseau explained the anecdote
about the rabbit by stating that, it was the
custom of the men in the camp, whenever
they started a rabbit, to surround it and
have a great excitement in catching it, and
that on one occasion, when he had returned
to camp after a short absence, the men'
greeted him as he went along, which induced
a wag of a soldier to say, in reference to the
excitement, that "it was either a rabbit or
General Rousseau."
He thanked God that his name bad been
honorable linked with those who had taken
up arms in defence of their country. He
expressed the hope that this would be the
last,cOnnection he would have with the
gentleman from lowa, and that he would
not have occasion to. recur to the matter.
Whatever honor that gentleman [Mr. Grin
nell,] might take to himself out of the mat
ter he was welcome to. _
The. Speaker laid beforethe House a mes
sage from the President in answer to the
House resolution of the 10th of May. rela
tiVe to the Oaths of vitizem of tUe Glrtitcd
States against the - Republic -of Venezuela,
transmitting a report from the. Secretary of
State. Laid on the table and ordered to be
printed.
- Also, a message from the President trans
mitting a report from the Secretaryof the
Interior communicating the information re
quired by resolution of the 21st of May, re
lative to the removal of the Sioux Indians,
of Minneseta, and to provision made for
their accommodation -in the Territory of
Nebraska. Referred to the Committee on
Indian Affairs
At five o'clock the House adjourned.
IitrECLA:LI XOTICIM.
CITESSPEAKE AND DELAWARE C ANAL
COMPANY. DIVIDEND NOTICE. 8.0 8,
general mettwg of the Stca:k and Loanholders of this
Company. held on the 4th inst.. a Dividend of TELE=
PER CENT. (f,6 00 per share) on the Capital Stock of
the Ccmpany was declared, clear of United -.lutes Tax,
payarle on demand. H. V. LESLEY.
je.9.6t1 Secretary.
WoIUNITED tit' a CBS TREASURY, PHICADNG
PECIA, June 8, 1866.
ders of twenty coupons, and upwards, of United
States Seven-thirty lcans,due 15th inst., are hereby no
tified that they may
-present them for examination and
count, at this Office, on and after the 9th inst.
N. B. BROWNE,
Assistant Treasurer United States.
PHILALELPHIA._ AND GRAY'S PERRY
PASSENGER HALLWAY CO., TWENTY-
St,COND STREEZbeIowSPRIICE.—PIECLADELPECIA.
INICTICE TO BONDHOLDEBS.—This Company
Is now prepared to redeem a portion of their Bends.
The Bonds must be presented at this office on or before
the 12th inst., and will be redeemed at par in the order
In whichthey axe presented. S. GRUBS FRY.
je2,413 - President
001. Wm. A - DELPHI& JUNE I, 1868.—CAUTirIN
All persons axe forbid negotiating the following
Stock: Nos. 829, 1,199,1 255 and laso, of the CLINTON
COAL AND IxON CuISIPANT; No. 244, of the VE
NA NOO 0 L COMPANY; Nos. sY7.and 743, of the
CONNECTICUT JAIN LNG CO.: Nos. %land 91, of the
SHERIDAN OIL CO. of CHERRY BUN,and a re mipt
for two hundred Shares of the COTTER FABM OIL
CO. Stock, No, 990, in my name, as the same was
stolen front me on' the evening of May 31,1166—re.
issue of the said Stock having been applied for.
je2,150s WILLIAM REIMS.
OFFICE OF THE SCHUYLKILL _RIVER
PASSENGER RAILWAY COUPAN Y,TWEffil-
TY-SECOND Street, below Spruce., PIELLUDELPHIA.
June 8, Me.
At an election held this day the following gentlemen
were duly elected officers ofthe Company:
PRIMIDERT. •
JOHN P McFADDEN,
DIRECTORS. -
S. GROSS FRY. -
A. W. ADOLPH.
W3L. HA. RBI, oN.
WM. M. FARR,
CHAS THOMPSON,
THOS. B. CAHILL.
And at a subsequent; meeting of the Board, 5.G110.33
FRY, Esq., use elected Treasurer, and -
je9-3t.4
A. W. ADOLPH.
Secretary.
NOTICE.—The undersigned dorporators
named in the Act of Assembly, entith d "An Act
to incorporate the Pennsylvania Canal Company," ap
prove d the first nay of May, A.D. 1866. will open books
and receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said
company at the places and times following:
PD ILADELPHIA, at Boom No. 23, Merchants'
Exchange, at 10 o'clock A. lit., on the 26th day of
June, 1806.
HARRISBURG, at the Lochiel House, at 10 o'clock
A. It on the 10th day of July, 1860.
• ttuNTDiGDON. at the Morrison Hone, .at 10
o'clock A. M. on the 19th day of July. 1856.
L. T. Watisen, fAlex. M. Lloyd, John A. Lemon,
David Blair, Geo. B Roberts, James Burns.
F. F. Wireman, W. J. Howard, John Lingafelt,
John Scott, R. B. Wig ton. James (i ar du er,
John N. Swope, J. J. Patterson, !Wm—Davis, Jr.
my tied} '
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