The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20

intended to be granted is sufficiently grant
ed in the act approved July, 1862. This IS
the bill introduced by Mr.. Sumner.
Mr.. Wilson, from the same committee,
reported back the bill to withhold the pay
of the officer absent from duty.
A resolution was called up to revive the
act to secure to men actually employed in
the Department of the West their pay,
bounty and pension. Passed.
Mr.. Clark called up the joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay Perry E. Brochus his salary, as
Judge of the Supreme Court of the United
States for the Territory Of New Mexico.
Passed
Mr.. Sumner called up the bill to prevent
correspondence with rebels. Passed.
Mr.. Fessenden called up the bill to pro-
vide for ways and means to support the
Government
An amendment was adopted, making
the interest on notes authorized by the bill
and certificates of Indebtedness hereafter
issued, payable in lawful money, instead OF
coin; also, an amendment reducing the
notes to be issued to $3.50, 600, 600, instead
of $500, 900, 900, including the amount is
sued by the resolution of January 18th,
1868. The section allowing coupons on
bonds and notes to be received for GUS
toms thirty days before due, and after due,
was stricken out.
MIR. Clark moved to amend the propOs-
ed tax OF two per cent. on the circulation
of the banks, so as to make it one per
cent. for two years, and two per cent. af-
ter that.
Mr.. Harris said he could vote for no
such amendment, as he deemed it dec
laratiOn of war against the banks. 1t was
a notice to them that they must wind up
their affairs in two years The banks had
nobly supported the Government, and he
would not vote to destroy them.
Mr.. Clark said he offered the amend
ment to relieve, not destroy them. If the
scheme passed yesterday was to 60 into
of bank circulation. He was ready to sac
rifice anything to save the Government.
Mr.. Fessenden said the Senator from
New York was willing yesterday to vote
for the Bank bill to aid the Government,
but now he was not willing that the bill
should go into operation. The very es-
sence of the bill passed yesterday was to
introduce a new circulation to take the
place of bank circulation, but if the banks
were to still go on issuing all the notes
they pleased it would render the new
plan a nullity. This tax was designed as
q pressure on the banks to induce them
to come under the new arrangement,
and help to make a uniform currency
all over the country.
Mr.. Harris contended that he had sup
ported the new banking bill as voluntary
scheme, which the banks would receive,
and not as measure to exterminate and
make war on the state banks.
Mr.. Chandler said the question was
whether we should support the Govern
ment or protect these state banks at all
hazards. What would the banks be worth
if the Government won't down. They
would be worth nothing. This question
was of greater Importance than banks.
Mr.. Harris was willing to tax the banks
as heavily as they could bear, but not to
extinguish them.
Mr.. Powell declared that there was
scheme to destroy legal banks and substi-
cute worthless currency founded on de-
preciated bonds. He said the policy of
the Secretary of the Treasury had been
wrong and ruinous from the first, and if he
could not properly conduct the treasury
department, he ought to resign at once,
and not flood the country with worthless
trash never redeemable in coin.
Mr.. Fessenden said the Senator from
Kentucky had very peculiar views about
carrying on the war. He said he was 10y
al and wanted to preserve the whole coun-
try, but would do nothing to put down the
rebellion. He would not then go on,
though he said twas all wrong-he would
do nothing to stop them, yet he was
loyal man.
Mr., Powell said he was as loyal as the
Senator from Maine.
Mr.. Fessenden said he did not dispute
it, only they differed in their modes ofput-
ting down the rebellion. He (Mr. Fessen-
den) would defend the country, and not
allow the free States to be overruled by
savages. The gentleman from Kentucky
said he would do ali that, but would not
vote dollar, and opposed the war from
the beginning. The gentleman from Ken
lucky would have nothing but gold paid
by the Government.
I1OUSE-luo I1OuSO IOOk up Cuo NAVAL
Appropriation bill, as reported from the
Committee of the Whole, with amend
ments.
The House rejected Mr.. Culvert's pro-
position to dismiss the seventy-six mid
shipmen alleged to have been appointed by
the Secretary Of the Navy, contrary to
law.
The House, by vote of sc against 26,
concurred in the amendment that hereaf-
ter while the rebellion lasted, there shall
be ono of the eleven additional midship-
men for each congressional district in the
loyal States, to be recommended by the
members and delegates of the House, as
heretofore, and such additional midship-
men from the next class shall be appoint
ed on the recommendation of the men,
bers and delegates of the present Congress.
The House, by vote of II against A,
agreed to the amendment striking out an
appropriation of $463, 300 for the New
York Navy Yard, and inserting 81 ,21S, 900
for floating or sectional dry dock of suf-
ficient size and capacity for raising any of