Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-01-22
THIRTY.sEvENTH CONGRESS.
Third Session.

-- ..-. WAeHihGToN, Jan. I'll.
SENATE Ten Eyck presented the ore
dentials of Hon. James W. Wall, elected Sen.
ator from New Jersey.
Mr.. Wilson presented the credentials of Hon.
Charles Sumner, reelected from Massachusetts,
for six years.
Mr.. Anthony, from the committee on Print.
ing, reported resolution to provide for print
ing the eighth census. Adopted.
The bill for the reorganization Of the Court
of Claims was taken up. The question being
on the motion Of Mr. Foster to lay the bill on
the table, it was rejected by yeas 10, nays 20.
The question then REQUIRED on Mr.. Grimes's
motion to insert bis substitute repeating the
original act establishing the Court of Claims
Rejected-I1 to IS.
Mr.. Hale contended that If this bill passed
II would open the way for thousands of claims,
He proposed, If he could get the, opportunity,
10 offer an amendment that no money should he
drawn from the Treasury on judgments from
this Court until ell the debts arising from The
war were settled This law will open the doors
of the Treasury to vast horde Of contractors
and private claimants, who seem 10 have the
idea that the Treasury is their private properly,
and law opening the Treasury 10 like law Of
the Medes and Persians-never TO be repealed.
The discussion was continued at length by
Sherman, Bayard, Doolittle and TmmbulI.
Mr.. Wilson said in reply to remark of the
Senator from New Hampshire, that Coppresa
was In no way responsible for the non-paymept
Of soldiers, and he wanted the country and the
army 10 understand this. Congress had given
the Secretary of the Treasury power to sell
bonds Of the Governments, and had passed. a
Law that the soldiers should be paid every two
months; yet the bonds were not sold, for some
Gauge. The Government had asked for no
special Legislation, and professed to be pre-
pairing way 10 pay the army Yet the army
was not paid, and great many complaints are
being made. On the 20th Of December the
House Of Representatives passed resolution
for the prompt payment Of the army and navy,
and the Finance committee Of the Senate
amended Il, making an appropriation Of $780,
00O,O ,OOJ, and the House appropriated 800 000,.
600, and now, from the public press Of the
country, and, ne was sorry to say, from the ex-
ecutive branch of the Government, the idea has
gone forth that Congress had not provided the
means to pay the army and has not 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. He (Wil.
SOM did not choose to take the responsibility
for the non-payment Of the soldiers, and dis.
owned IL for the Senate and House. We were
obliged last summer and autumn to raise q large
body Of troops, and agreed to pay twenty-five
dollars bounty, and expeditions were sent away
and had to be paid In advance. This rule re-
quIred that the soldiers should be paid every two
months, and Government profesaed to be proyid-
ing the means to pay the army; yet the payments
for September and October we're NOT made. He
supposed the large drafts on the Treasury had
exhausted the funds. The Secretary had sent
no request for additional means, but had sent a
great financial scheme, which would take
months 90 carry into execution. But Con-
gress, without waiting for any official request,
promptly passed en- act TO provide for the pay.
ment OF the soldiers. The trouble had arisen
mainly from the peculiar circumstances OF the
case. After the adjournment of Congress the
President found 1t necessary to call ont three
hundred thousand new troops, giving large
sums In bounty, and large expeditions were
sent to distance, and these men had to be
paid. The trouble seemed to be that those
were not paid first who had waited longest.
Mr.. Hale offered an amendment, that NO
money shall be paid out Of the Treasury under
Judgment Of the Court Of Claims until after
the appropriation shall be estimated for by the
Secretary of the Treasury. Adopted.
| Mr.. Foster moved to strike out the provisiop
for two additional judges. Agreed to--yeal
81, nays II. a'a . .as.,
The bill then passed by vote Of 20 against
Is.
HoUsE.--The House yesterday passed reso.
luton declaring William Vandever not entitled
to bis seat, owing to his having accepted d mil
itafy commission.
Mr.. Maynard had raised point that sucl
action on the part Of the House, being In th,
character Of an expulsion, requiring under III,
Constitution vote of two-thirds, the Speake
oyerruled the point, from which decision Mr.
Maynard appealed. i,S,I
Mr.. Cox to-day moved to lay the appeal o
the table Agreed to-62 against 36.
Mr.. Washburne moved to reconsider the vot
by which the resolution was passed.
The vote was then reoonsidered by 20 agains
ga. r
After long argument pro and con from sev
eral members, the resolution was postponed :,
the Sd Of March next-76 against 6s.
The House concurred in ell the Senate
amendments to the Military Academy bill, an,
then went into committee Of the Whole 70
general debate. aAi n
i Mr.. Harding of Kentucky, said the Presl
dent's proclamation had united the South, o
he had predicted, 90 one man, and paralyKed th
lefforts Of loyal men 90 as to leave little hope
the restoration Of the Union. He spoke abou
arbitrary arrests, and said any man In the Ex
ecutiye Department. who usurpsd. power unde
the miserable, detessable subterfuge Of mill
tsry necessity, deserves to be called tyranl
HE had no hope Of reunion under the pfesen
radical policy. The Democratic party Of th
North and South would crush out both Abe
lltionists and Secessionista, and snatch the Gov
Iesnment from ruin. ,9DIl II0d,
M WiIaon read Aha Crittenden ,eaolut;ons