Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-12-17
absolute necessity of new post routes.
Adjourned.
Washington, Dec. -.

SESATE-Mr. Trumbull presented a PEE
tition To repeal the law which prevents
Jewish divines from officiating as Chap
lains in the army.
Mr.. Wilson offered resolution that the
Inspector General, Quar;ermaster, and
Commissary General of Subsistence be di
recjed TO inform the Senate what articles
ought to be $. Ia by Suffers to volunteers,
and such as best would secure their etIicien
cy. lie believed the whole system should
be promptly abolished. The resolution was
agreed to.
The joint resolutions from the House,
expressing the feeling Of Congress il regard
to the gallant conduct Of tao late General
Lyon, was referred 10 the Military Com
mirtee.
Mr.. Foot called ~ the resolution to expel
Waldo II johnson, Senator from Missouri,
from ;he Senate.
The Clerk read IN extract from the Sc,
cessicn sPecrh Of Sen ,tur johnson. deliver
ed u Missouri.
The resolution WIS referred
The hill to promote the efficiency of the
navy, reported by Mr.. Grims from the Ma
val Committee, was taken M.
On motion Of Mr. Dolittlc, the time of
retiring was made forty fge instead of forty
years.
After further discussion the bill was pas
/ sed.
/ Mr.. Johnson, Of TENNESSEE. moved that so
much of the Presidents message as refers
! 20 railroad through Western Kentucky
and Tennessee be referred to a select com
mi.tee.
| The motion was agreed to.
The Senate then vert into Executive ses.
sion, an |, upon the opening Of the doors,
/ adjourned I'LL NJ. niay
/ IIousE.-Mr Blair, # No rising to
! questI' of pri, l-ge, caused to he read the
following extract, as farther explanatory of
the remarks which he made Yesterday on
Mr.. Lovcjoy's resuluti having in view the
revocation OF part OF Gen IIalieck g gen.
eral order relative 10 the fugitives The res
oiuu' H. 1T has already been st ated, was
Ind II the table:
HEADQUARTERS DErT OF Missouri.
To Hon. T. p. Blair, Washington:
Yours OIL the 4th inst. is inst received -
Order number three was in my mind,
merely necessity. Unauthorized persons.
black or white, Tree or slave, must he keat
out OF our camps, unless we are willing to
pubilsh to tie enemy everything we do or
intenG to do. IL was a military and not a
political order ] am ready to carry cut
any lawful instructions, in regard to iugi.
tive slaves, which my superiors NAV give
me, and TO enforce any laws which Com
gTes> may pass; bot | cannot make law.
and Will not violate it. You know nv pri-
vate opIHlon on the policy Of confiscating
the siave property of rebels in arms. II
Congress shall pass it, You may be certain
that L shall nIUrce it. Perhaps ny policy
as to the treatment Of rebels and their prop.
erty Is as well set out in Order No. Is, is
ued the day befJre your letter was written,
as could now describe it, Yours truly,
IL. w. uALLECK,
Mr.. LovCj1y replied, and in conclusion
said. II AIRY soldiers want to fight simply
:or the purpose of returning fugitive slay es,
he sald he had OILY to remark that the
army woClI be stronger without them
Washington, Dec. u.
Mr. Blair, of Missouri, frcm the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, reported b /.
authorizing the raising f a volunteer force
for the better defence of Kennedy.
Mr.. WIckliiir, who sevcrai DAYS ago intro
ducei the bill, proceeded to sh ~ the i'm
poTtancr Of 2assi G i. Kentucky. lie said.
was To he the great battle ground Of this
war. The people of that Stare hoped seen
70 see the day when the invaders foot wouli
be expelled IRON that territory, which is
now invaded. PROPERTY has been ruthless
~ destroyed and carried of; hUmesteads
have been made de>solate bridges burned.
&c. 1t IS to protect the State while the
army il marched elsewhere that tire volun-
teer force - required. Mr. WicklGe alan
said that he had received from the m lli-arv
board of Kentucky an urgent apr,icari, n In
call "n the War Deuatuosnt ard AK FIR int
-uch Corps ~ the hi, provided. lie had
brought he subject 20 the attention # the
Pres't' nj aud Secretary % War. and II met
not My with their aTprcyal, iut that #
all the Cabinet.
Mr.. Maynard snake Of a recent i1rrr.
IN the part Of Kentucky 80 much ravmgn4
and LAID waste ty the rebel troops. AMI
would uliude at future time 30 tie dr>-
ueSsing condition of affairs in Eastern
| Tennessee which he had alone the honor 20
represent. HE people, be said. had been
left unprotected by the government, not
withStnndirg their firm devotion to the Tn
ion. He held it - Ice duty not Only To-
protect loyal men in Tennessee and Ken
lucky butln 5 Carolina and every where.
as much so as IL PeLBsy wanna and lie ad
joining States.
The further considerati,n Of the bill WAS
I postponed till Monday.
The House proceeded to the consideration
OF the SPECIAL orders, namely:
/ The various propositions involving the
quest Of emancipatiug the pers, rs held
a. slaves by reue!s.