The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-01-28
Pending the consideration OF the amend
nent, the committee rose aud the House
adjourned.
WAsHINaroN. Jan. 2l.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
SENATE Mr.. Ten Eyck presented the
credentials Of Hon. j. w. Wall, elected Sen
ator from New Jersey
Mr.. Wilson psesented the credentials OF
Hon. Charles summer, ne elected irom Mas
sachusetts for six years.
Mr.. Anthony. from the comittee on Print
ing reported resolution to provide for Prints
ing the eighth census. Adopted. !
The bill for the reorganization OF the Court
Of Claims was taken up. The question be-
ing on the motion oil Mr.. Foster to lay the
bill on the table. it was rejected by yeas 10,
nays 20. The question then recurred on
Mr. Grimes's motion to insert his substi-
tute repeating the original act establishing
the Court Of Claims. Rejectsd--I to 55
Mr. Hale contended that ii this passed it
would open the way for thousands OF claims.
He proposed If be could get the opportu.
nifty to offer an amendment that no money
should be drawn from the Treasury on
judgment from this Court until all the debts
arising from the war were settled. This
law will open the doors of the Treasury to
vast horde Of contractors and private claim
ants, who seem to have the idea that the
Treasury is their private property, and
law opening the Treasury is like a law
OF the Medes and Persians never to be re
pealed.
The discussion was continued at length by
S ma BayaId, Dool;ttlo and Trumbul,
Mr. Wilson said in reply to a remark of
the Senator from New Hampshire, that Com
gress was in no way responsible Tor the nom
payment OF soldiers, and he wanted the
country and the army to understand this.
Congress had given the Secretary OF the
Treasury power to sell bonds of the Gov
eminent, and had passed law that soldiers
shonld be paid every two months; yet the
bonds were not sold, for some cause. The
Government had asked for no special legisla
ton, and professed to be prepared to pay the
army Yet the army was not paid, and a
great many complaints are being made. On
the 2Cth Of December the House of Repre-
sentatives passed resolution for the prompt
payment OF the army and navy, and the FL
nance committee of the Senate amended it,
making an appropriation OF 100000, and
the House appropriated $1OO0O0,O0O, aud
now, from the public press OF the country,
and, he was sorry to say, from the executive
branch of the Government, the idea has
gone forth that Congress had not provided
the means to pay the army and has no. done
its duty. There never was an hour when
the Government did not have full authority
from Congress to provide the means to pay
the army. lie (Wilson) did not wish to
take the responsibility for the non payment
Of the soldiers, and disowned it for the Sen.
ate and House We were obliged last sum.
mer and autumn to raise a large body oil
troops, and agreed to pay twenty five dollars
| bounty, and expeditions were sent away and
had to be paid in advance. This rule requi
red that the soldiers should be paid every
two months, and Government professed to
be providing the means to pay the army;
yet the payments for September and October
were not made. He supposed the large
drafts on the Treasury had exhausted the
unds. The Secretary had sent no r, quest
for additional means, but had sent a great
financial scheme, which would take months
to carry into execution. But Congress, with
out waiting for any official request, promptly
passed an act to provide for the payment o
the soldiers The trouble has arisen mainly
from the peculiar circumstances of the case.
After the adj urnment of Congress the p,
ident found it necessary to call out three
hundred thousand new troops, giving large
sums in bounty, and large expeditions were
4 sent to distance, and these men had to bc
paid. The trouble seemed TO be that those
were not paid first who had waited longest
Mr.. Hale offered an amendment that nc
money shall be paid out OF the Treasury un.
der Judgment of the Court OF Claims un.
til after ihe appropriation shall be estimated
for by the Secretary OF the Treasury. Adop
4 ted.
Mr.. Fostsr moved tc strike out the pro
vision for two additional judges. agreed te
yeas Il, nays II.
The bill, then passed by vote Of 23 agains
Is.
HoUsE.-The House yesterday passed /;
resolution declaring William Vaudever no
entitled to his seat, owing to his having &C
rcepted military commission.
Mr.. Maynard had raised point tina
such action on the part OF the House, benz,
in the character Of an expulsion requiring an
der the Constitution a vote o. two thirds, tn
Speaker overruled the point, from which de
cision Mr.. Maynard appealed.
Mr.. Cox to day moved to lay the appea
on the table. Agaeed to--82 against 36.
IL.
vote by which the resolution was passed.
The vote was then reconsdered by 20 a
gains GA.
After long argument pro and con fror
several members, the resolution was post
poned to the 3D. Of March next-78 agains
The House concurred in all The Sena e.
: amendments to the Military Academy bill
and then went into committee of the Whol
for general debate
i, Mr. Harding OF Kentucky, said the Pres
ident's proclamation had united the Soutf
as had predicted, as one man, and paralyze
+ the efforts OF loyal men so as to leave littl
n rope Of the restoration Of the Union. II
spoke about arbitrary arrests, and sal
) any man in he Executive Department VIII
usurped power under the miserable, detests
BILE subterfuge Of military necessity deserve
: to be called tyrant He had no hope
, reunion under the present radical policy
: The L emocratic party OF the North an
n Sonth would crush out both Abolitionis
and Secessionists, and snatch the Govern
ment from ruin.
Mr.. Wilson read the Crittenden resoll
tions heretofore adopted by the House, thi
S the present deplorable condition Of the cour
n try was caused by the disunionists of Il
a South. For this the gentleman from Ky
voted, but now the same gentleman declare
e it was brought about by the Aboitionists
!, lie (Wilson) rccepted the declaration as ez
/ pressed by the gentleman, under oath, viii
he repudlated the sentiment OF the speec
The committee rose and the House az
n journed.
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