Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-13
rHIRTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
WAsHISGToN, Jan, IL.
SENATE.

| iZatiOn of an emancipation bureau.
| A bill was introduced to aid Western Vir-
| ginia in more speedy and final adjustment
of slavery in that state. Referred to the jul
dietary committee.
! A resolution was offered that the foreign
committee inquire what further legislation is
necessary to carry out the treaty with Great
Britain of Aug. 8, 1872
A resolution was adopted requesting the
| president to inform the senate what measures
| have been taken to enforce the confscation
bill, and if any additional legislation is neces-
| sary.
resolution was adopted that the commit
tee on the conduct of the war inquire what
causes the delay in the execution of the act
contiscatng the property of rebels, especially
in the District of Columbia.
The bill providing for the further issue of
bonds and United States notes was called up.
letter from the secretary of the treasury
read favoring the measure, and explaining
that the resolution from the house would not
meet the wants of the government. The bill
was then passed.
A joint resolution from the house for the
prompt payment of soldiers was then post
poned, Mr.. FEssENDEN explaining that the
bill Just passed made much more ample pro-
vision.
Mr.. WILKINSON said it seemed to him that
the senator from Delaware made his speech
for the solepurpose Of aiding the rebel leaders.
His speech was the most outrageous ever ut
tered in the senate OF the United States, or
any other deiberative body. Much of it was
untruth, and his assaults on the president were
wanton and unjust The democrats when
the rebellion broke out, gathered about the
president, claiming to be in favor of putting
down the rebellion, and asked an equal share
in officers. The president was deceived by
these men and placed them in high position,
and cast away many of his old and true
friends. No man can ever succeed in this
way. There are enemies in every department
of the government, and these men must be
removed Who of all the loyal people north,
would have trusted the quartermasters de-
partment to such a man as Gen. Meigs, with
his antecedents? Who wondered that the
pontoons were late at Falmouth? or who
would have permitted Gen. Thomas tdphave
remained at the head of the adiutant generals
office? The friends of the president must
band together to save the government in its
blacklist hour, and do their whole duty, or
the government would fall, and they fall with
it.
Mr.. SALISBURY said it was not his province
here to reply to the low blackguardism and
scurrility of the felon.
Mr.. HALE called him to order.
The chair said the senator from Delaware
will resume his seat; he is out of order
Mi. SALISBURY, again rising, said, if any
one questioned, not his loyalty to this admin
lstratlon or the republican party, but his 10y
atty to the constitution and government, he
lied before men and in the presence of high
heaven, and as the senator from Minnesota
has brought himself within that class, thus he
left him.
The chair. said, the senator from Delaware
is clearly out of order.
The bill was postponed till tomorrow; and
the bill to raise volunteers for the defense of
kentucky was taken up; pending the amend
ment of Mr.. Harlan to allow the president to
raise 10000 men in any other state was re-
jected. Mr. Clark moved to postpone the
bill week; rejected, 10 against "a The
bill passed, 20 against ID. Adjourned.
A resolution was adopted instructing the
military committee to inquire into the expedi-
eucy of providing payment to company and
reglmental officers from the date of their conf
missions.
Mr.. COLLAR offered resolution discharg-
ing the ways and means committee from the
further consideration OF the house bill reduc
ing the duty on imported paper, and that it be
now considered; it was tabled.
A resolution was adopted requesting the
secretary of the treasury to inform the house
what amount has been expended in the emf
ployment and sustenance of slaves in disloyal
states and to what extent such expenses have
been compensated by the service of said
slaves.
resolution was adopted instructing the
committee on ways and means to inquire into
the expediency of reducing the duty on inn
Dortn1 materials Of which IL made
A resolution was adopted that the president
communicate full statistics of the trade and
commerce of the great lakes, western rivers,
and the st. Lawrence.
Mr.. WILSON of Iowa, introduced the fol-
lowing joint resolution, and moved that it be
referred tothe Judiciary committee :-"Where-
as, the president, as commander In chief OF
the army and navy, on the lst of January did
issue his proclamation in the following words,
| (Here follows the emancipation proclamation
therefore resolved by the senate and house
that said proclamation be, and the same is
hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed"
Cox moved to lay it on the table. Lost so
against 50. Referred to the judiciary com.
mittee.
| A resolution was adopted, requesting the
president to communicate what authority or
instructions were given to General Dix in
| Virginia, General Shepley in Louisiana, and
| General Stanley in North Carolina concern
ing the election of representatives in those
| states.
Mr. ELIOT asked leave to introduce bill
establishing a bureau of emancipation OBJ
iected to. A resolution was adopted, ap~
pointing select committee to inquire into the
expediency of establishing a military road
from New York to Washington.
resolution was adopted, setting forth that
it had been stated that certain property had
been seized in this district by the military gov.
ernor, as the property of the rebel secretary
of war, John A. Campbell, and as it is stated
that the marshal of this district is about to
take the said property on writ of replevin,
therefore
Resolved, that that the secretary of war in.
form the house whether the rebels are able to
retain attorneys in the national capital.
A resolution was adopted instructlng the
naval committee to inquire into the expedien-
cy of laying telegraph cable from fort Mon
roe and intermediate points to New Orleans.
A resolution was adopted, as the sense of
this house, that no creditors of the govern
ment are so meritorious as the soldiers, and
that no more money be paid to any civil of
ticer of the government, until every arrearage
due to any regiment in service has been fully
paid.
Mr.. STEVENS offered resolution authoriz-
ing and requiring the president to raise 1907
coo negro soldiers, to serve five years, and
receive So a month; non-commissioned Of
ficers $40, with rations, &C., one half to be
set aside for their families; commissioned of