Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-07-18
XXXVEHtll CGtgrcss nee Est SesssOu

XxXVEHth C0nyrcss Est sess;on
WASHINGTON, July 16.
HoUsE.-Mr. White, of Indiana, from the
Select Committee on gradual emancipation
to whom the Presidents recent message anc
draft of a bill were referred, reported bill
providing that whenever the President shall
be satisfied that Maryland, Delaware Ken
lucky, Tennessee or Missouri has adopted
measures for emancipating the slaves through
out either or all these States, it shall be the
duty of the President assisted by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, to procure and deliver
to such States s. per cent. U. S. Bonds, equal
to the valuation Of the slaves, according to
the census of 1860, provided no compensa-
ton shall be made to any State which has
aided the present rebellion, or to any one that
has held or accepted any civil or military Of
flee under the so-called Confederate States, or
any one of them. The whole amount of the
bonds to be delivered shall not exceed, in the
aggregate, SO,000,OO0. For the purpose of
settling the slaves beyond the limits of the
United States $2O,OOOO0O are appropriated
to be expended in colonization, at the discre-
ton of the President The benefits of this
act shall not enure to any State failing to pass
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date of the passage of this act
The bill also provides for complete eman-
cipation within 90 years. If any State, after
having received any bonds, aforesaid, shall
recommend or tolerate slavery, contrary to
the act of emancipation, it shall refund to the
United States all the principal and interest
paid on account of such bonds.
Mr. White, of Indiana, briefly explained
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10000 copies of the bill and report were
ordered to be printed The bill was referred
to the Committee of the Whole on the state
of the Union.
Mr. Kellogg offered resolution empower
ing the President to call out million men for
the army, but the House refused to suspend
the rules to receive the bill.
The admitting of Western Virginia was
postponed till December
The bill authorizing the President to con-
tract with any foreign power to receive and
colonize rc-captured Africans, was passed.
The bill amendatory of the act of 1875
came up. 1t authorizes the President to call
out the militia not exceeding 9 months, and
the employment of blacks. Passed, under
the operation of the previous question.
A resolution of thanks was passed to Naval
officers Gardner, Davis, Dahlgreen, Rowan,
D. d. Porter, and Stringham.
SENATE-Mr Wilson, of Mass, from the
Military Committee, reported back the bill to
authorize the raising of a volunteer force for
the better defence of the State of Kentucky,
and asked to be discharged from its further
consideration.
Mr.. Davis, of Ky, called the bill up and
urged its passage.
Messrs. Wilson and Collamcr opposed the
passage of the bill.
Mr. Clark thought that Kentucky should
not be allowed to raise troops simply to fight
on her own soil. He said that at one time
there were 1G men from rural town in New
Hampshire in one regiment of the army of
the Potomac, but he was informed that but
one of them was alive Not one of them per-
ished by the bayonet, but all of them in the
trenches of Virginia. But how could he ask
his own people to go and fight and die and
rot by the wayside in Virginia, when Ken
lucky was allowed to have troops paid by
the Government who only fight in the State
of Kentucky and do easy service within her
own doors.
The bill was then laid aside informally.