The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-15
SENATE.


sENAFE.
Mr.. Grimes called up the resolution ten
dering the thanks of Congress to Com. A.
H. Foote, for his gallant services in the
West.
Mr.. Lane, of Kansas, offered resolution
asking the Secretary of War to communi-
cate to the Senate any information he may
have as to the reason for the arrest of Lieut..
Col D. R. Anthony of Kansas. Laid
over.
Mr. Wade moved to take up The bill for
the admission of Western Virginia. agreed
to. Yeas rs; nays IL. The question was
on Mr.. Summers amendment to strike out
the provision freeing children, wherever
born after the 4th Of July, 1862, aud insert,
there be neither slav ry or involuntary, ex-
cept for the punishment of crime whereof
the party shall be daily convictei.@
The amendment was rejected, yeas IL;
nays "a
Yeas-Chandler, Clark, Grimes, King,
Lane, of Kansas, Pomeroy, Sumner. Trum-
bull Wilkinson, Wilmot, aud Wilson, OF
Massachusetts.
Mr.. Wiley moved an amendment as a
substitute for the latter portion of the bill,
providing that the State of Western Vlr-
gina shall be admitted on the fundamental
LQhL all SldN6S UOEu n4lulA LLO
limits of said State after the 4th of July,
1868, shall be free, and that the I'd section
of article l1th of the Constitution of the
said State, shall not be construed to autho-
rizs the passage of any law, by which eiti-
zen of any State of the Union shall be ex-
claded from any privilege or immunity to
which said citizen is entitled by the Consti-
tuition of the United States, provided that a
Convention to be recoBvened shall declare
the consent of said State to said fundamen-
tai condition, and transmit the same to the
President of the United States, who shall
proclamation of it, and said Stale shall be
admitted in so days, after such prOclama-
ton.
Mr.. Wade offered an amendment to Mr..
Wiey's amendment, that all slaves in the
limits of said State, who shall at the time
aforesaid, 1863, be under I'll years of age,
shall be free on arriving at that age. After
DISCUSSING, the amendment was adopted.
MIR. Carlisle offered an amendment that
the ordinance declaring the assent of the
State TO the condition Of the proposed Con-
stitution be submitted to vote of the peo-
pie of the State.
Mr.. Carlisle spoke ut considerable length
in favor of the amendment. He urged the
necessity of referring the Constitution to
the peOpI6 OF tue OldtO; as bncn
had not been represented in the State Con-
vention.
Mr.. Wade expressed himself utterly sur
prised at the remarks of the gentleman
from Virginia.
He was talking against time and shaking
confidence in the Convention that framed
the Constitution.
He (CarlisIe) while claiming to be a
friend of this measure was acting in a
manner to defend it.
Mr.. Wiley withdrew his first amendment
and offered as a substitute the bill from the
house substantially, the same, with pro-
vision for a vote of ratification by the peo-
pie.
Mr.. Lane offered an amendment that all
slaves in the State at the time aforesaid
under 10 years of age, shall be free when
81, and all under 81 and over 10, shall be
free when Is. Adopted.
Mr. Carlisle moved to strike out all con-
ditions of admission.
Mr.. Wiley's amendment was then adopt
ed.
The question then REQUIRED on the post
ponement of the bill till December.
Mr.. Trumbulrs motion was rejscted and
the bill passed-Yeas %, nays II.
The bill permitting the fraudulent use OF
postage stamps was passed.
The report of the Conference Committee
on the bill for the better government of the
Navy was agreed to, and the bill passed.
HoUsE-The House passed the Senate res
olutiOn adjourning Congress on the 10th.