The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-28

#rs WAsHNaToN, March II.
SENATE. Sumner presented several peti
tons in favor of emancipation Of Slaves,
Mr.. Hale offered a resolution asking thl
Secretary of the Interior to transmit to the
| Senate all the correspondence in relation &
the Bank of Augusta. Adopted.
Mr.. Hale also offered resolution thai
the Committee on Naval Affairs be instruct
ed to inquire whether there is any laxity
on the part of the officers. of the blockadine
squadron on the coast, especially at Charles.
| ton, and whether there is any foundation
| for the statement of the British Consul at
that port, that armed trooped ships of the
Confederate States have been allowed to go
in and out Of the port of Charleston and no
attempt to stop them, as large numbers of
them had been taken South. The people of
that State had lost property equal in value
to the whole amount of the slaves at the
commencement of this war. He regarded
the Presidents message not as threat bat
as q prophecy which he felt would be full
filed everywhere if the war continued. He
was perfectly willing that the proposition
should 60 to the people of his State, and the
matter be left entirely to the States
Ninety-six days of the war expenses would
have paid for all the slaves in Missouri,
Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and the
District of Columbia, and the expenses Of
the war for two years would pay Cor all the
slaves in the country.
Price, from the Committee on Finance,
reported bill to allow arms ordered by
States to aid in suppressing the rebellion,
to come free of duty. -
On motion of Mr.. Fessenden, the naval
appropriation bill was then taken mp. A
long discussion ensued on the completion
of Stevens battery. No action was taken
on it.
The Senate went into Executive ses-
sion.
The Senate adjourned.
HOUsE.-The House in Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union, resumed
consideration of the tax bill.
Sheffield offered an amendment that upon
all sales of goods, merchandise and other
property of estates, which shall be used for
consumption or investment, including all
exchanges of property, excluding jobbers,
or middle men" tax OF one per cent. on
the amount of such sales --.
Alter discussion, the amendment was tenn
porarily Withdrawn. Further debate fol-
lowed, and the amendment was adopted,
taxing candles of any material valued at
Is cents at &c per pound between 10 and
20 cents, one cent per pound, and above Is
cents, l3c per pound.
An amendment was offered taxing an
thracite coal IS cents per ton, and bitumin-
Gus &c per bushel. Adopted, with the pro-
viso not to go into effect until the termin-
alton of the Reciprocity treaty.
An amendment proposing tax on cotton
OF cents per pound after the first Of May
was rejected. Also exempting from duty
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tax on burning fluid was stricken out.
The Joint Resolution giving pecuniary
aid to the States in case they should eman-
cipate their slaves, was taken up
Mr.. Henderson said he felt disposed to
vote for the resolution. There was a strong
objection to ~ IN the border states, and
they believed that this was an attempt to
abolish slavery in those States, and then in
the other States. He was sure there was
no such intention on the part of the Presi-
dent, and he thought there WAS no such
intention on the part of the members of the
Senate Although the subject of slavery
was The cause of the rebellion, yet there
were other interests in the State of Mis-
souri,. The people in that State (Nissouri)
were deeply interested in having the Mis-
sissippi River kept open to its mouth. He
had also opposed the bill for the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia, not
because he considered it Unconstitutional,
but because it was inexpedient to bring the
subject up for discussion. The South have
been annually frightened by some story of
an abolition monster. Yet, if Congress
should abolish slavery in the District of
Columbia, he did not believe that his State
would secede. He hoped that if Senators
determined to do this thing, they would be
quick, for the great State of Delaware get
ting peep behind the curtain and discov-
ering the awful plot to emancipate the few
slaves she has already nearly free, might
go South for her constitutional rights,
where certainly her constitutional rights
would be preserved in full force.
The Senators from Kentucky are getting
excited, and the Senators from Virginia and
Maryland are getting suspicious of some
thing dreadful to happen. He had been
opposed to the bill for the cultivation of
cotton lands, though he supposed it HARM
less, for the reason that it might have a
bad effect on the border States. Yet if the
statement is true that slavery should be the
corner stone of the government, he was
willing to fight to the last with the North
against such government. Nothing would
tempt him to raise his hand against the
government. All the revolution he want
ed was the ballot-box. He did not think
there were 30, 900 slaves left in Missouri.