The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-07-12
.saINeroN Jl,lv II

would introduce q joint resolution making
| amendments to the resolution OF Mr.. Ohand-
4 Ter. from the cOmmitte on commerce, re-
1 ported back the House bill in reference to
| the further collection of duties and imports.
/ The loan bill was received from the House
and referred to the committee on finance
| Mr.. Hale introduced bill regulating the
| employment of volunteers in the Navy; al
so to regulate the marine force also to i'm
crease tae Navy in time of war; to increase
the number of paymasters in the army and
relative to the Academy.
] Fessenden from Maine, from the
! committee on finance, reported House bill
! for the payment of the militia and volun-
/ teers, with an amendment making the APP
| preparation FIVE and three-iourth million
| dollars instead of six million. The amend
ment was agreed TO, and the bill passed.
Mr. Clark called up resolution offered
| yesterday, regarding the expulsion OF Sc
| coded Senators.
4 Mr.. Bayard saw no reason TO" anything
more than declaring the seats vacant.
Mr. Latham said he should not vote for
the expulsion. He should vote that the
names of the Senators be stricken from the
roll aud their seats declared vacant and
would strike out the word expelled.
Mr.. McDougal said he was ready to vote
for expulsion. No man has right to
seat who espoused the cause of treason.
Treason 10 some was a gentlemanly crime
and entitled to the axe instead of the halter
but still it was a crime.
Mr. Latham's amendment was agreed to,
yeas II, nays 81. Messrs. Bayard Breck-
enridge, Bright johnson of Tenn, johnson
of Mo, Latham, Nesmith Polk, Powell,
Rice and and Salisbury voted in the az
frmative The resolution was then passed,
yeas 30, nays 10.
Resolutions approving of the acts of
President Lincoln were then taken up.
Mr.. Polk resumed his remarks. He said
Missouri had INSTRUCTED no law of the United
States and yet that State under no pretence
of law had been invaded by United States
troops from Iowa and Kansas.
Mr. Polk argued that the President had
no right to invade the State or give the
power 10 proclaim martial law through
mere captain. He referred to Capt. Lyons
acts as illegal and unconstitutional
Mr. Wade moved TO refer the resolution
to the Judiciary committee
Mr. Powell took the same ground as Mr.
Polk and said the President had no power
to declare a blockade against any of the
States and he had no right to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus.
Mr. Wilkinson asked the Senator if he
approved the action of the Governor of
Kentucky in refusing to send volunteers in
answer to the Presidents proclamation.
Mr.. Powell said all the State of Kentucky
approved of it. and he was one of her peo-
pie. In the earlier and better days of the
Republic such monstrous usurpation of au-
thority had been the cause of impeachment
at the bar of the Senate. He said peace
must be had by compromise and concilia-
ton, and not by force.
Mr. Wade withdrew his motion to refer
the resolution to the Judiciary Committee
Mr.. Bayard renewed it
Mr.. Breckenridge rose, but yielded to Mr.
Wilson, who moved to postpone the resou-
ton till tomorrow. Agreed to.
The bill for providing for the better or
ganization of the mill tary establishment was
taken up, and the several amendments or
dered to be printed. The Senate wentinto
executive session. Adjourned.
HOUSE, Stephens from the committee on
ways and means reported bill making ad-
ditional appropriations for the Legislative,
Judicial and Executive expenses for the year
ending June, 1862, and including June last
Also a bill making appropriations for tie
civil expenses of the Government for the
same period.
fairs reported bill to promote efficiency of
the army Also a bill to employ volun-
teers to aid in supporting and defending the
| Government.
All the above bills were reported to COM
mittee of the whole and ordered printed.
On motion of Stephens the House went
into committee on the army bill with Wash
burne in the chair.
Mr.. Stephens said the committee on ways
and meansSwished to complete their business
so that the House might adjourn next
Thursday They were disposed these war
times to give everything the government
asked, trusting that before half year pass
ed away a peace may be restored. The i'm
portance of having disciplined troops was
so obvious as not to require argument. IF
the army should betoo large when the re-
bellion was suppressed it would be easy to
reduce it. The bill proposed a war standard
| Mr. " allandingham believed the act of
the President increasingEthe army uncon-
stitutional. He regretted to hear that the
committee of ways and means had merely
carried out the recommendations of the ex-
ecutive department. Inasmuch as 1t. an
pears that the war is to be waged he asked
that majority of both the House and SEN
ate take care of it, in order that it may be
conducted under constitutional restrictions
! IL WAS KNOW II tiltt Lie biil no commence IN
the Republican party, but he woald rather
trust the majority here than the admins
tration. easl
Mr.. Burnett said he had not had the OPP
portunity to examine the bin and was op-
posed to the way the bill was rushed
through and should vote against it,
Mr.. Lovejoy wonfd net vote, as the bill
proposed to increase the stan ding army to
more than double what it now is He
would give 100000 men and $500, 600, 600,
and his constituents would give their five
!, per cent. and shed their last drop Of blood
| for the suppression of the rebellion, but
r they did net desire to increase the regular
army
! crease of the army, saying it was too small
for the last fifteen or twenty years.
Mr.. Burnett said, TO put down rebellion
IL was necessary to increase the REGULAR ar