The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-16
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CONGRES SIONAL.
LxXVIIth COngress---First Session.
WASHINGTON, January Is.

Elections.
The House went into Committee of
the Whole to provide Ways and Means
to support the Government.
Walker Of Massachusetts, examined !
the bill under consideration.
The authority given the Secretary Of |
the Treasury to borrow 5000, 200, 900 was |
q ligimate mode of raising money, but |
he objected that the bonds were not to be
sold at less than par The Government |
should come into market like any other !
borrower and raise money on the best |
terms it could, without restrictions.
Lovejoy advocated such a tax on
banks as TO drive their notes out of cir
culation, the vacuum to be supplied by
Government issues.
Pike opposed the bill pending.
Thomas of Massachusetts was in favor
of the clause imposing a tax on bank
notes to restrain the circulation within
reasonable limits.
The Committee rose, and the House
adjourned.
SENArE.-The Vice-President present
ed the credentials of Charles R. Bucka-
lew, Senator elect from Pennsylvania
Dixon offered resolution requesting
the Secretary of the Treasury to inform
the Senate what amount of compensation
is paid Collectors of Customs in enumer-
ated and non-enumerated distsicts under
the act of May It'll 1922, and March Sd
1871, and also, from what source the
funds are derived ont of which said COM
pensation is paid. Adopted.
On motion of Sumner the papers rela-
tive to the French spoliation claims were
referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations
Carlisle offered a resolution request
ing the Postmaster General to inform
the Senate if there have been instruc-
tons sent from his Department to his
deputy postmasters, in any State, to the
eject that a recent order allowing GER
tain papers to pass through the mails
does not apply to those excluded by mill
tary authority, and if SO, by what law
any military commander or authority is
authorized to exclude any matter hereto
fore transmitted, and by what law said
order was issued from his Department,
and to furnish copies of any such in
structions and the names of persons to
whom sent. The resolution was laid
over.
Fessenden called up the Civil De-
fciency bill
Several amendments were adopted,
when the bill wrs postponed till to-mor-
row.
Fessenden then called up the bill
making appropriations for the support of
the Military Academy for the year end
ing June, 1864.
Wade was opposed to supporting this
| West Point academy.
He believed it had been a hot bed of
treason.
Had there been no West Point Acad-
envy there would have been nc rebellion.
He believed the army officers from that
school were distractions to the army to-
day.
Wilson, of Mass, thought that disloy-
atty could not be charged against West
Point.
About 620 officers from that Academy
were in the army, and had remained
loyal About l7S from the Southern
States had resigned, and 10 from the
Northern One hundred AID thirty
eight officers from the slave States had
remained loyal and seventy two of these
were from the seeded States.
There might be some evils connected
with the West Point Institution.
Fessenden asked if large portion of
the officers from civil life were not educa-
ted at West Point
Wilson said they were.
Wade said the West Point Institution
had only fostered iealousies and rivalrses
in the armies, and that it was a monop
oily entirely at variance with the Gov
eminent
Fessenden said that many men had
gone South from Ohio, and from his own
State, Maine, acquired property and
were the very worst men in the South
Foster thought this sort of discussion
was calculated to increase the jealousy,
when we should do all we could to make
harmony of action.
Wilson said there were 81, 900 officers
in the army, and that there could not be
over 500 of them from West Point.
Lane, of Kansas, said these men had
been educated at West Point at the ex-
pense of millions of dollars. Could the
Senator from Massachusetts point to a
single ray of genius exhibited by any
one of these officers.
] Wilson said we had lost twenty-siz
general officers since the war commenc
ed, seventeen of them were killed in bat
tie. Nine of them were educated al
West Point Among them were such
men as Lyon, Mansfield, Mitchell, the
Astronomer, removed from his command
in the West, God only knows why, Bay
j ard, recognized throughout the country
as a brilliant officer, Reno, Stevens
: Richardson, Sill, Hooker and Rosecrans
/ Had these Generals shown no capac
7 ity and no rays of genius?
y He believed there were no better ar
e tillery officers in the world than those il
our army.
The discussion was continued b,
: Trumbull, Fessenden, Davis, Grimes
Wade and Wilson
= The bill finally passed. Yeas 80
nays TO- Adjourned