The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05
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[oxT SESSION..S5TH CON1nESS'

80 sEsSION.-37TR CONGkESs.
F.erox June 2s.-SESATE.-The Presi-
WAsh ,., laid before the Senate commu-
dent f,om the War Department transmitting
pcshoGn. Ill renorts of the battle of Pittsburgh
the ono'eI 100 IN number. Referred to the Mill
r ~, Committee. ,..;.;on ,n.n;mor.,v
~ ~ volunteers favorably discharged, ask
s! .s.t the provisions in rugard to bounty &C.,
~ blended to them.
BE-, WADE presented petition from citizens
81 ohio, asking for more vigorous prosecution
d TIE w WaiE, from the Naval Committee, re-
nj. III a.ct the House bill for the relief of the
por'eo railroad Company. The bill provides
Panama sss 1r.yment Of s7,475 for transportation
Passed m protested against the obnoxious doc
be . aas would give despotic power to the
tri De ant he thought there was too much le'
fresu .oxards the leading rebels
MEN, COWAN said he was as much in favor
NJ .;sb;nv rebels as any one. He would only
Of p ..;snt 70 the Union men Of the South.
W. WILKINSON referred to the declara
NJ the Union men of the Sonth, that un-
tou. .ometbing was done there would be no hope
less s0Hiesh1'S
for tbem.un,Hr ..;a bo would mt down
~. .Eon with the whole force of the Gov
.ls .s0, and hang the guilty leaders as high as
eIum Init it is not the way to suppress the
hsI ',,;o, IN mass cases obnoxious to all loyal
feoe" t,om the border States. Hardly day
nen u,. hu, measures are introduced by certain
rh;ch are calculated to make enemies in.
stead Of friends: o.ao,. ~ Tho
Senate bill that no evidence shall be e1cluded
y. account of color. Rejected--yeas IA, nays
~ ", SUMNER read letters from Union men in
rsnneasee in favor of confscation and enamel
nation with colonization.
M POWELL said such vas not the opinion
of one man in 5000 of the people of the slave
The question was then taken on M. CLARK'S
rotion to substitute the bill of the Senate Com
ni,tee for the House bill, which was agreed 70.
YEAS.-Anthony, Browning, Clarke, Cola
M, Covsn. Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden,
goote, Foster, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Howe,
yesmith, Rice, Simmons, Starke. Ten Eycke,
YiYS-Chandler, Grimes, Hale, Howard,
King, Morrill, Pomeroy, Sherman, Sumner
frumbull, Wade, Wstkinson, Wilmot OF Nilsson
r. Wrght-l7.
ABSENT-Bayard, Carlisle, johnson, Ken
pedy, McDougal, Powell, Pierce, Salisbury
THOMPSON, Wilson of Massachusetts,.
Various amendments and substitutes were Of
fered and rejected, when the amendment substi
tutipg the Senate bill was concurred in by
YEAS I9 nays II; and the confscation bill ther
shen passed yeas % nays ls.
WASHINGTON, June 3O.-SENATE.-The reso
luton providing that contracts made by thu
papers, was taken up and passed.
The resolutions relating to compensation o
Senator's appointed to fill vacancies, was takel
Up and passed.
ingfurrher provision in relation to salvage, wa
taken up
The bill provides that vessels and goods be
longing to loyal citizens of the q. s. which ha
been captured by the rebels when retakea b.
tae z. S. shall be delivered to the owner
without salvage.
Nr GRIMES opposed the bill az having tn
esec. to take away the salvage from sailors il
many cases.
After further discussion the bill was passed
The bill granting a pension to the widow Q
Gen. G. T. Smith was passed.
bill was reported prescribing additions
olhs to the officers Of the Government
Agreed to.
The bill establishing arsenels was taken up.
Executive session. Adjourned.
HoUsE.-Mr. HICKMAN asked, and the Con
nittee on Judiciary was discharged from tn
consideration Of the article in the N. Y. Tribun
with reference to Select Committee. Tn
reason assigned for this request was that tn
Committee had not time to attend to the exam
alation of the matter,