Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-27
THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
SENATE


SENATE.
a resolution was adopted requesting the
president to furnish the correspondence be-
tween the Manchester workmen and himself.
a Joint resolution was adopted to facilitate
proper representation of our industrial inter-
ests ut the Hamburg national exhibition Mr..
POWELL offered a resolution to appoint COM
mittee to investigate the conduct of Col. Gill
bert in dispensing an assembly at Franfort,
Ky Laid over.
The bill providing circuit courts for dis
tricts in California and Oregon, and for an
other associate judge in the ,supreme court.
was passed
A resolution was adopted instructing the
military committee to inquire how many pay
masters, quartermasters and commissaries of
subsistence of volunteers are required by the
public service, and inquire into the propriety
of limiting the number,
Mr.. POWELL called up the resolution APP
pointing a committee Of investigation relative
to the arrest of Mr.. Mahoney. Mr.. WILSON
moved to indefinitely postpone 1t. Carried
81 against 10.
The bill to reorganze the engineer corps
was then taken up. Mr.. GRIaEs opposed the
bill.
An amendment was adopted comforting the
rank of brigader general on the senior officer
of the marine corps, and abolishihg the Off
Ger of colonel commandment. The bill was
then recOmmitted to the military committee.
The bankrupt bill was then taken up. The
conscription bill was reported from the house,
and the amendments were ordered to be
printed. Adjourned
HOUSE.
Mr.. DAWES from the committee on gov
eminent contracts, reported the senate bill
with amendments tO minis In fr9nIS " bjpb ua
passed. 1t provides that any person employed
in the military, militia or naval forces in time
of war, being directly or indirectly engaged in
procuring false vouchers, receipts, &C., for
the purpose of obtaining money traudulently
from the government, shall be arrested, tried
by court martial, aud on conviction be pun
ished by fine and Imprisonment, as the court
may decide, save death. Any person not in
the military or naval service, on conviction,
shall pay a fine of $1,000 and double the
amount of damage the government may have
sustained and Imprisonment not less than one
nor more than five years.
Mr.. MCPHERsoN, from the military COM
mittee, reported back the senate bill for the
appointment OF additional major generals and
brigadier generals. The committee proposed
to increase the major generals from twenty to
forty; agreed to-S6 against 56 also to in
crease the brigadier generals from fifty to one
hundred; agreed to-S9 against AZ. The
proviso that no general beyond the authorized
number shall be appointed in any branch of
the service was stricken out.
Mr.. Cox offered an amendment that the
president shall appoint no one excepting for
gallant conduct in the field; adopted-9l
against Il. The bill passed-l03 against SO.
The house then went into committee on the
amendments to the internal tax bill.
Several amendments were made to the in
ternal revenue bill. Several amendments
relative to the tax on spirituous liquors were
offered and rejected.
Mr.. STEVENS made Il report on the disa-
greeting votes of the two houses on the bill to
provide ways and means to support the gov
eminent. All the points are covered except
the bank clause. The report was agreed to,
yeas II, nays 50. The house insisted on its
bank clause disagreement, and asked another
committee of conference. Recess till Z.
EVENING SESSION
Resumed consideration OF the amendments
to the tax bill, Mr.. ColtaX in the chair. Among
the amendments adopted was one taxing
steam engines of all descriptions, including
marine engines, one and One-half per centum
advalorem instead of as in the bill three per
centum advalorem, on marine engines.
Mr.. LovEJoY moved an amendment that
hereafter there snail be no higher rate OF duty
collected on printing paper imported than is
now imnnaod IL, tl,u phiDl. t!,ie ie sup
pIement on the domestic manufacture of pa
per.
Mr.. MORRILL, of Vermont, said the amend
ment was irrelevant and before the close of
the session the committee on ways and
means intend to bring in bill on the sub
ject of the paper tax, which the house could
modify to any extent they pleased. Mr..
LovEJoY withdrew the amendment.
Mr.. FISHER offered substitute for the I'd
section, being the same in substance but more
carefully drafted, which was adopted. The
committee acted on the bill to the end of the
9th section without making any material al
iteration, when they rose and the honse adj
journed.