The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-01-22

Washington, Jan. y.

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consideration of the bill regulating the
carriage of printed matter outside of the
mails requiring the postage to be paid,
DC.
SENATE.--Mr. Sumner. from the Com,
mittee on Foreign Affairs, reported back
the resolution to allow certain officers to
receive presents from the Japanese gov
eminent. The resolution was passed.
Yeas, % nays, ii.
Mr. Browning offered a resolution that
the Committee on Judiciary inquire into
the expedicney of so amending the Ma
turalization Laws as to confer rights of
citizenship on foreigners who may serve
in the present war.
Mr.. Trumbull offered bill TO regulate
the compensation of District Attorneys.
Ga motion Of Mr. Wilson, the bill to
complete the defences OF Washington was
taken up and the amendment of the
House agreed to.
Mr.. Wilson offered new section re-
pealing the act allowing the discharge of
minors and providing no persons hereafter
shall be mustered into the service under
eighteen years of ago, but the oath Of
enlistment shall be conclusive as TO age.
Agreed to.
Wilson offered another amendment al
tering the Articles Of War By providing
the penalty of death to persons found
lurking as spies. Agreed to. He also
offered an amendment providing the death
penalty for any person forcing safeguards.
After further discussion the bill was laid
over until tomorrow.
Trumbull presented memorial from
w. c. Jewett, Of Colorado, protesting
a ,ainst immediate action on the slave
~ question as having tendency to pre-
vent peace, claiming that the sentiment.
of the people, either North or South, were
not represented in Congress, and pro-
posing joint action by the North and South
Tor amendments to the Constitution pro-
viding for gradual emancipation of the
slaves in thirty years.
On motion of Wade, the bill 70 author
ize the Sec'y of War to appoint two as
sistant secretaries was taken up.
Wilson offered as substitute that the
President, with the consent of the San
ate, appoint two Assistant Secretaries of
War, with a salary Of $4,000 year each,
the Office to last one year. The amend
ment was agreed to and the bill passed.
Hale offered resolution regarding the
compensation OF collectors of customs and
naval officers.
The report of The Judiciary COMMITTEES
on the resolution to expel Mr. Bright was
then taken up.
Mr.. Sumner said that the expulsion of
. Senator was one of the most solemn
acts, but our duties must be performed
especially when the good name of the
Senate and the welfare of the country is
at stake. Mr.. Bright has always been no.
toriously the friend and sympathzer of
Davis and Slidell in their schemes in ia
vor of slavery, and always voted with
them. He Sumuer1 commented on the
address of the letter which was to His
Excellency, Jefferson Davis, President Of
the Confederate States, and claimed that
it was as far as possible the recognition
Of a pretender as the President Of the
rebel States. The letter in its general
character was corresponding with public
enemy as a traitor, and WAS kind OF NOR
al aid to the rebels. 1t was a letter OF
friendship aud sympathy all the way
through, and showed that there was one
person who forgetting what was due to
the country and due to the rebellion
stretched forth his hand in friendly salu-
tation. A snyson who is SO mixed up in
the rebellion must be a traitor. But
again the writer of the letter on the 7lh
of September, 1851. puts forth another
letter to a Mr.. Fitch defending the first
letter, and again in debate in the Senate
he declared he has done nothing he would
not do over again under the same circum-
stances.
Mr. Lane. of Indiana, said that he
should say nothing ON the subject but for
the interest he felt in his State. He re-
ferred to his contest for seat here with
Mr.. Bright three years ago, but he said
he had now no memory of the outrage
perpetrated on him and against the hon.
or of Indiana. He had no personal i'll
feeling towards his colleague. He would do
him the justice to say that, on the first day
of the session he came to him and told
him that he Bright J desired and demanded
q full investigation of the charge made
against him. He would give him the
benefit Of manly ayowal, but when the
letter was written his colleague must have
known that war was to result from this un-
holy, unproyoked and God,accursed re-.
bellion. War was actually levied on the
Government at that time. Before the LIST
of March the rebellion Was inaugurated,
and Davis elected as its head. AT such
time letter was written By q member of
the Senate to the Arch High Priest OF the
rebellion, addressing him by the very
title which we to day arc resisting. The
letter might have been written carelessly,