The national Republican., 1861-07-22
THIRTY-SEvENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION.
Saturday, July 20, 1861.
SENATE.

United States be and he Is hereby authorized
to appoint commission for the United States
to represent the agricultural and mechanical
interests Of this Government at the next Worlds
Fair, to be held in London in the spring of
1862. Referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
Mr.. COWAN presented memorial Of Ger.
tain citizens Of Pennsylvania praying the
establishment Of a national armory at the Falls
OF Big Beaver river, in Beaver county, Penn.
sylvania.
Mr.. KING presented resolutions Of the Legis
lature of New York in relation to the treaty
between the United States and Great Britain,
commonly known as the Reciprocity treaty.
Mr.. HALE reported from the Committee on
Naval Affairs, with amendments, bill to in.
crease the medical corps Of the navy. The
amendments reported were concurred in. Mr..
H. offered further clause providing for the
appointment of additional students in the Ma.
val Academy. The further consideration of
the bill was deferred.
: THE CAPTURED NAVY YARDS.
Mr.. H. offered the following resolution;
Resolved, That the COMMITTEES on Naval At
fairs be instructed to inquire into the circum.
stances attending the surrender Of the navy
yard at Pensacola, and the destruction Of the
property of the United States al the navy yard
at Norfolk, and the abandonment of the same
by the forces Of the United States, and to in.
quire especially If there was any default in
either case on the part Of any officer of the
| United States, and that said committee be i'm
powered to send for persons and papers and
\ that they be authorized to sit during the recess
of Congress; and further, that they be allowed
to devolve all or portion of these inquiries on
| a subcommittee Of their own members if they
shall deem it expedient
| Mr.. TRUMBULL reported back from the
| Committee ou the Judiciary the bill concerning
the bonds Of paymssters Of the army, with a
| recommendation that il do not pass, the present
provisions on that subject being deemed sufh.
| cient. .. ..
METROPOLITAN POLICE.
The Senate took up for consideration the bill
to regulate the police force for the city of Wash
ington. The bill was read the third time and
passed
EXPENDITURES OF VOLUNTEERS.
The bill authorizing the Secretary Of War to
reimburse the expenditures Of certain volun.
teers for musical bands was read the third time
| ard passed.
Mr.. FESSENDEN reported back from the
| Committee on Finance, House bill authoriz.
! ing the Secretary Of the Treasury to remit Ger.
tain fines and torieitures which bill was con.
sidered aid passed.
| PROTECTION TO LOYAL CITIZENS.
| Mr.. JOHNSON, OF Tennessee, introduced,
on leave, a bill making an appropriation to pay
the expenses Of transporting and delivering
arms and munitions of war to the loyal citizens
of the States now in rebellion against the Gov.
ernment of the United States, and to provide
for the expense of organizing them into com.
panies, battalions, regiments, or otherwise, for
their own protection against domestic violence,
| instruction, invasion, or rebellion.
| Mr. J. urged that,-as the National Govern.
! ment was bound 10 guaranty Republican Gov
| ernment to the several States, it was its duty
10 afford the protection asked for its loyal citi.
zens. Referred to the Committee on Military
! Affairs.
MIR. TRUMBULL, on leave, introduced a bill
to provide for holding district and circuit courts
iu Judicial districts during temporary vacan.
cy in the judgeship. Referred to the Commit.
tee on the Judiciary.
On the motion Of Mr.. GRIMES, the consid.
Grafton Of the bill authorizing the construction
of one or more armed ships or floating bate.
ries was deferred.
Mr.. TRUMBULL reported back from the
Committee on the Judiciary bill to confcare
property used for insurrectionary purposes,
with an amendment in regard to the court in
which condemnation is to be made.
Mr.. T. then proposed, as his own, an add.
tionsl section, as follows:
THAT whenever any person claiming to be
entitled to the service or labor of any other
person under the laws of any State shall EN-.
ploy such person in aiding or promoting any
iusurrection, or in resisting the laws of the
United States, or shall permit or suffer him 10
be SC employed, he shall forfeit all right to
such service or labor, and the person whose
labor or service is thus claimed, shall be thence.
forth discharged therefrom, any law to the con.
trary Notwithstanding
ORDER OF THE DAY.
AT one o'clock the Senate resumed the con-
sideration Of the order of the day, being the
Joint resolution to approve and confirm certain
acts Of the President of the United States for
suppressing insurrection aud rebellion.
Mr.. LATHAM, Of California, addressed the
Senate in support of the resolution. He ex.
pressed the pleasure with which he had listened
to the speeches of Messrs. Breckenridge and
Bayard, and his concurrence in many of their
views, but not word had either of them said
as to the outrageous infractions Of the Consti.
tuition by those now in rebellion. Mr.. l.. said
that Whatever was necessary, on the part of the
President to support the Constitution aud the
laws, even though without authority, he would
approve. If the Courts had not, in some in.
stances, been tainted, he would have left to
them the duty OF suppressing treason. He com.
| plmenteo Judge lhhey, anu opJecteu 10 the
suspension ofthe Aabeas corpus at Baltimore, and
to increase of the regular army by the President.
He might have accomplished the object Of sup.
pressing the outbreak by the volunteer forces
of the country.
But Mr.. L. cordially approved the blockade
of Florida and other Southern ports and the
means taken to defend the capital. To the
latter measures he gave his cordial aud EN-.
yhatic approval, and believed the President
would have been derelict and deserved impeach.
ment if he had neglected this duty. Being
elected cousttutionaIly, Mr.. Lincoln was enli.