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CONGRESS lONAL.
xxxVIIth COngress---First Session
WASHINGTON, January %.

SENATE. - Howard introduced a bill
relative to the time of holding the circuit
in the District Court of the United States.
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Pomeroy introduced bill supplement.
airy to the act to provide for the better
organization of the military establish
ment of the United States. Referred to
the Military Committee.
Wilson introduced q bill to authorize
contracts to be made in such States as
may advance pay and allotments to vol
unteers and militia in the service of the
United States. Referred to the Military
Committee
Browning offered a resolution, which
was adopted, that the Military Committee
enquire into the expediency of authoriz-
ing the President TO offer volunteers now
in the service such bounty as he may
deem necessary to secure their enlist
ment; also, into the eXpediency of au-
thorizng the President to offer such
bounty for re-enlistment of such volun-
teers for one. year or for longer time;
also, of providing by law for three
months volunteers, either by enlistment
or draft
Latham moved to take up the resolu-
ton calling for the record of the Fitz
John Porter court martial
Hall thought it was bad practice
for the Senate to constitute itself court
of error to 90 over these courts martial,
and as it was already printed, he did not
think it best to Adopt the resolution.
The motion was disagreed to-yeas Is,
NAYS %
Howard hoped the resolution would be
adopted He thought the record ought
to go to the county, andbe read by every
one.
! Fessenden said he was rather in favor
of having the record printed, that it
might go to the county, but the record
/ had been printed. He had received a
copy and read it. He believed the re-
suit arrived at was amply justified by
/ the facts, and no other result could have
l been reached in any court. But the re-
] cord wac voluminous 1t would create
a vast expenditure under the present
circumstances.
Lane of Kansas called up the bill to
provide for the removal of the Sioux In
dams from Minnesota. The bill was
passed.
! A message was received from the
President transmitting the report of the
Secretary of the State, and the docu-
ments concerning the capture of British
vessels sailing from one port to an
other.
Trumbull called up the bill for the in
Identification of the President for sus-
pending the kdbeas corpus.
Davis spoke at length, characterizing
the proclamation as the most eXtraordi
nary document ever issued, claiming
that TIE President had no power to dc
anything of the kind, and such acts were
palpable violations Of the Constitution
and laws of the United States.
The President might as well have is
Constitution itself
Mr. Lincoln has fairly shouldered the
abolition policy, but the people have de
clared in thunder tones that the Consti
tuition shall nat be destroyed.
Harris moved to amend so as to make
the provisions of the bill apply to crimi
nal as well as civil cases.
Powell said the object of the whole bill
was to prevent persons who have been
injured by the myrmidons of power from
any relief in the couts, but the people
would treat with scorn the wickedness Of
this Administration.
No upright people could do otherwise
Doolittle said lie had listened to hun
dreds of speeches of the Senator from
Kentucky and the whole burden of them
had been denunciations of the Admins
tration which was struggling to put down
the rebellion, but he never heard one
word in condemnation of those men who
dripping the blood of their country; men
who are stained with perjury, corruption
and treason, who were his associates, but
from day to day he denounces the Presi
dent of the United States, aspersing hi:
(Lincoln's) motives
The present Administration bears up
on its shoulders responsibility never
borne since the days of Washington, and
this responsibility has been borne with a
single purpOse-to preserve the Consti-
tuition and to live up to the oaths taken
to protect and defend it.
Al to this question of power to sus.
PEND HdJeGS corpus, there is an honest
difference OF opinion Ill regard to 1t, and
the President of the United States, than
whom more honest and patriotic man
does not live, believed he was acting
under the constitution in suspending the
writ, and the Senators from Kentucky
and others spend most of their time in
denouncing and trying to break down
the Administration, but never say a
word against rebels who are trying tC
overthrow the Government. He had
listened to this kind of talk until he was
tired of it.
Powell said he had said that those
who went into the rebellion were doing
wrong He felt it his duty to denounce
all violation of the constitution.
Collamer said the bill simply provide:
for the transfer of these case to the Uni
ted States Courts.
) If there were constitutional question:
to be decided, it was proper that such
cases should be transferred to the United
States Courts After further discussion
the amendment of the House was agreed
to.
A long debate ensued on the bill.