The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-15
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, July 8.
The President has submitted to Congress
brief message, enclosing the draft of a bill to
compensate any State which may abolish slav-
cry within its limits, and respectfully recon-
mending its passage.
The following message from the President
was delivered to Congress to-day.
Fetto,o citizens Of the Senate and House of
Representatives..
Herewith is the draft of the bill to compen-
safe any State which may abolish slavery with
in its limits, the passage of which substantially
as presented, respectfully and earnestly re-
commend.
lSigned) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BE il enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives., in Congress assembled:
That whenever the President of the United
States shall be satisfied that any State shall
have lawfully abolished slavery within and
throughout such State, either Immediately or
gradually, ii shall be the duty of the President
assisted by the Secretary of the Treasury, TO
prepare and deliver to each State an amount Of
six per cent. interest, BEARING bonds of the
United States, equal to the aggregate value of
dollars per head, of all the slaves within such
States, as reported by the census of 1860. The
whole amount for any one State to be deliver
ed at once il the adjustment be immediate.
or in equal annual installments, if it be grad
ual, interest to begin running on each bond at
the time of delivery and not before
And be it further enacted, that if any State
having received any such bonds, shall at any
time afterwards, by law, introduce or tolerate
slavery within its limits, contrary TO act of
adjustment upon which such bonds shall have
been received, said bond so received by said
States shall at once be null and void in whose
ever hand they may be, and such State shall
refund TO the United States all interest which
may have been paid on such bonds.
The House Select Committee on emancipa-
ton in the border States will probably report
upon this subject tomorrow.
The following is an extract of the bill passed
by the House to-day imposing an additional
tax on sugar produced i'm the United States
On all Muscovado or clarified sugars produced
directly from sugar cane, there shall be levied,
collected and paid under this act upon all
such sugars produced in the United States.
duty OF one cent per pound and such addi-
tional duty and the duty specified in the act
aforesaid, shall be levied, collected and paid on
all such sugars not manufactured for consump-
ton in the family of the producer or manu-
facturer thereof, on the day of the approval of
this act by the President.
section I'd provides that this act shall not
apply to to sugar manufactured from Sorghum.
Inc members of Congress of the border
States met, but did not conclude their bust
ness tonight 1t seems, however, that while
they Will, perhaps, with half a dozen excep-
tons, not endorse the Presidents emancipa-
ton scheme, they win, nevertheless, propose it
TO the respectful consideration of their respec-
tive States.
The Committee of Ways and Means has a
recommendation before them urging the ne
cessity of Congressional legislation TO relieve
the specie market.
Col. Frank Blair has gone TO Missouri to
raise his brigade.
The President has refused TO sanction the