Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-14
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1XXVITth Congress -2nd Session.
SENATE,
WASHINGTON Fssraary 10

The Senate declined to.actso the Names
of the thirty-eiRht Major and one bundrsJ
and Gfty-four Brigadier Generals nomi-
mated.
The list was returned to the President
for revision.
Dir. Wilson, from Massachusetts,. from the
committee on military affairs reported hack
the bill to raise additional soldiers for the
service with che recommendation that it do
not pass because the authority intended to
De granted ls sufficiently granted in the act
approved July, 1862,
This is the bill introduced by Sumner
| Mr. Wilson from the same COMMITTEES 70
ported back the bill to withhold the nav NJ
officers absent from duty The resoIution
was called up to revive the act to sacnr.
to men actually employed in the depart
ment of the West and Missouri their nav
bounty and pensions. Passed.
Mr.. Clark called up the joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay Perry E. Brochus his salary as iudGe
OF the Supreme Court of the United States
for the territory of Nav Mexico. Passed.
air. Sumner called up the bill to prevent
correspondence wish the rebels. Passed.
hr Fessenden called up the bill to pro-
vide for ways and mesns to support the
Government.
An amendment was adopted making the
interest on notes authorized by the bill and
certificates Ofindebtedness hereafter issued
payable In lawful money instead Of, coin.
Also an amendment reducing the notes
to be issued to one hundred aud ifto mill
lions instead of three hundred millions, in
Guiding the amount issued by the resoIu-
ton of January 18th, 1858.
The section allowing coupons on honda
and notes to be received for customs, thir-
ty days before due and after due, was
stricken out
Mr. Clark moved to amend the proposed
tax OF two per cent on the circulation of
the banks so as to make it one per cent for
two years and two per cent after that.
Mr.. Harris said he could vote for no such
amendment, rs ho deemed it declaration
of war against banks.
Mr. Clark said he offered the amendment
to relieve, not destroy them If the scheme
passed yesterday was to go into effect, that
circulation mast take the place of bank
circulation. He was ready to sacrifice
anything to save the government.
Mr. Fessenden said the Senator from
New York WAS willing yesterday to vote for
the bank bill to aid the government, but
now lie was not willing that the bill should
go into operation. The very essence of the
bill passed yesterday was to introduce
new circulation to take the place of bank
circulation, but if the banks were to still
Eo'on issuing all the notes they pleased, it
would render the new plan nudity. This
tax was designed as a pressure on the
banks to induce them to come under the
new arrangement, and help make a uni
form currency all over the country.
Mr.. Harris contended that he had sup
ported the new. banking bill as a voluntary
system which the banks would receive as a
measure to exterminate and make war on
the State banks.
Mr.. Chandler said the question was
whether we should support the Govern
ment or protect the State banks at all haz
ards. What would the banks be worth if
the Government went DOWN. They would be
worth nothing. This question was of far
greater Importance thaG banks.
Mr. Harris was willing to tax the banks
as heavily as they could bear but not to
extinguish them.
Mr.. Powell declared shat there was q
scheme to destroy legal banks and substi-
tute worthless currency founded on de-
preciated bonds. He said the policy of the
Secretary of the Treasury had been wrong
and rulnous from the first and if he could
not carry on the Treasury he ought to re-
sign and not flood the country with trash
never redeemable in coin.
Dir. Fessenden said the gentleman from
Kentucky had very peculiar views about
carrying on the war. He said he was low
al and wanted to preserve the whole coun-
try, but would do nothing to put down the
rebellion. He would let them go on,
though he said it was all wrong. He
would do nothing to stop them, yet hewas
a loyal man.
Mr.. Powell-As loyal as the Senator
from Maine.
Mr.. Fessendeu said he did not dispute it,
only they differed in their modes Of putting
down the rebellion. He (Fessendenl would
defend the country, and not allow the free
States to be overruled by savAges. The
Senator from Kentucky said he would do
all that, but would not vote a dollar. He
opposed the war from the beginning. The
Senator from Kentucky would have nothing
but gold paid by the government.
The discussion was continued at cousid-
able length.