Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
IN SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Friday Jan. a. 1862.
The credentials of the Hon R. Wilson, of Missouri,
who has been appointed BY the Acting Governor OF that
State gil the vacancy occasoned BY the expulsion Of
Mr. johnson, were presented by Mr. Davis
Mr. Wilkinson called the attention of the Senate to
certain representations which had been made through the
newspapers which questioned Mr. Wilson's loyalty He
was represented having taken part In a meeting
which adopted resolutions declaring their sympathies to
bs with the South and Southern institutions and denoun-
cling as inhuman and dAbolical the war now Waged oy
the General Government against the South.
Mr. Davis and Mr.. Pomeroy explained, and docu'
ments were read showing the whole course OF Mr.. VII.
son to be loyal to this Government
Mr.. wilkinson withdrew bis objection, the oath was
administertd TO Mr. Wilson, and he took bis set
Mr.. Sherman introduced bill establishing two bi.
in the Navy Department. which was referred 10 the
Committee on Naval Affairs.
This bill provides Bureau Of Detail and Equipment
and one Of Seam Engineering and Machinery, with ne
cessAry clerks, messengers, &c
THE JUDICIARY.
The Senate resumed the consideration Of the bill to
amend the act Of the Sd Of March, 1887, entitled AN
act supplementary the act entitled an act to smend tne
Judicial system Of the United States" which has been
under consideration on several occasions.
The bill thus proposes 10 constitute several circuits,
the four eastern circuits being unchanged
The Fifth observation-disclosures, louisiana Mississippi Ar
kansas, aud Texas
The sixth Oircuit-NOrth Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
The Seventh Circuit-Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.
The Ninth Circut-Illnois, Wisconsin, MINES 'ta, To-
wa, ar Kansas. ,
An amendmsnt submitted by the Committee on the
Judiciary thus proposes to arrange the following cir
cults:
The Fifth Circuit-South Carolina, Georgia, Aabama,
Mississippi, aid Florida.
The Sixth Crcuit-LOusiana, Texas, Arkansas, and
Tennessee.
The Seventh Circuit Ohio aud Kentucky.
The Eighth Circut-Indana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota.
The Ninth Circuit-Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and
Iowa.
Mr.. Grimes proposed so to amend thus to cOusti-
tu.e some Of the circuits:
The Sixth Circuit-Louisiana Texas, Arkansas, Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
The Seventh Circuit-Ohio and Michigan.
The Eighth Circuit Indiana Illinois, and Wisconsin.
The Ninth Circuit-hissouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Min
nesota.
TO- and the bill as amended was passed.
Mr. BRIGHrs LOYALTY
The Senate resumed the consideration Of the resou.
ton which propoe5expuon OF Mr. Bright, aud the re-
port of the Judiciary Committee thereon.
Mr. Davis entered into personal explanation which
he deemed necessary arising out OF the debate OF
terday on the subject Of State lava orbiddng the In
sruction Of slaves He said there was 10 such law in
Kentucky on the contrary, for forty years there had
been Sunday schools in the principal towns, in which
the slaves we're taught TO read His own servants IS
thew were born were baptized according TO the rites q
the church to which his family belonged; as they die
they are buried with the formula Of the same church, as
his female slaves married. they we're given in marriage
precisely AZ white persons And Mr.. Rheu him
sef who owned from four to FIVE hundred slaves built
church for their religious education and employed
PREACHER 10 give them religious instruction. That was
yery common case with Southern psnters He then add
ed TO the enumerated which led 70 the rebellion,
the division of churches INTO churches North and South
s,d corrected an error into which he yesterday fell
spscting the suspension Of the writ Of hsbeas corpus
The King of England had had no p)wfr 10 suspend the
writ Of habsas since the act OF Charles H.. The same
prohibition was made by the bill OF rights passed when
William and Mary assembled the British throne, and
again, by the act oil settlement, Nnen the house oil
Brunswick succeeded the throne but the right to
t.bish martial law oy proclamation was vested in and
exercised by the King.
M Harlem reminded the Senate of discussion on
this subject time ago. in the course OF which Mr.
Mason syowed that il the policy OF the Slavehodng
States to discourage the education OF the slave popuA-
ion The rsasou was manifest cultivate the mind and
the moral sensibtes Of the man aud he was disquAll
fed 10 be slave He was gratifed TO learn that the
Senator from Kentucky sanctioned the marriage rites
common 10 his own household but he need not ask II
those relations were protected by law and II he bad not
legal right tue
been performed TO sell the wife from the bosom Of the
husband.
Mr. Cowan, who made the report from the Committee
ON the Judiciary in this case said that there not su
cause for Mr. Bights expulsion, reviewed the circum-
stances of the country the time the letter written,
the subdivision Of into parties the varied judge
ments a. 10 the right Of secession, the position oil the
Senator from Indiana his antecedents his former coz
nectons and he thought the charitable construction was
that the Senator from Indiana supposed the rebellion
WAS orsummated by the formation OF Government in
the South and that the thing had gone far that it
could not or would not be attempted to be arrested by
the force of the United States Government and II there
,.s no war and there was to be the communica
ton was innocent enough Taking all the crcumstan-
ces into account he did not believe the writing OF that
letter was accompanied with that intent which gives
character TO the offence and made II treason.
Mr. Harris, another member Of the committee, also
exclaimed why he had united with the majority Of the
20 m,,e in arriving at the conclusion which had been
reported.
hr. len Eyck spoke the same side.
Mr. Clark recaptulaed the circumstances OF the case
and drew conclusions against Mr.. Bright to whom he
could not but attribute guilty knowledge which stamp
ed the ch ,Tacter OF the act
Mr. Latham obtained the ,or, and after an Executive
se sion the Senate adjOurned to Monday.
INTERESTING FROM BERMUDA.
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