Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-12-15

are of sufficient interest and Importance to
be well considered by the committee.
The resolution was then referred without
objection.
Mr.. Chandler moved that the resolutions
offered by him to-day be printed; which
was carried.
Mr.. Brown offered the following, which
was adopted:
Resolved, That the committee on Military
Affairs and the Militia be instructed to in
quire into the expediency OF repeating an
act of Congress Of March 2lst, 1861, enti-
tied ian act to remove the United States
arsenal from the city of st. Louis, and to
provide for the sale of the land on which
the same is located"
Mr.. Doolittle moved that all bills, petit
tions and memorials which were pending at
the close of the last session of Congress be
referred to their appropriate committees.
This ives carried.
A joint resolution from the House was
announced. giving notice to Great Britain
of the termination of the reciprocity treaty.
Mr.. Foster moved to refer 1T to the COM
mittee on Commerce.
Mr.. Sumner thought it ought to go to the
committee on Foreign Relations, and it was,
on motion, so referred.
The Senate went into executive session,
and soon after adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Wilson of Iowa, from the committee
on Judiciary, reported bill amendatOry of
the act of July 18th, 1862, to define the pay
and emoluments of officers of the army, &C..
so as to read that ''any alien of q years and
upwards who shall have enlisted in the
volunteer or regular army, navy or marine
corps, and been honorably discharged, may
become citizen without any previous dec
laration, and shall not be required to prove
more than one years residence" The bill
was passed.
The bills for a ship canal around the Falls
of Niagara and ship cannal from the
Mississippi to Lake Michigan, were further
postponed until the 22d day of January
next.
On motion of Mr. Brooks of N. Y. it was
Resolred, That the committee on Foreign
Affairs inquire into the expediehcy of pro-
viding by treaty or otherwise for the pro-
lection OF our Canadian and Provincial
| frontier from murder, arson and burglary
on the pretense of rebel invasion.
| Mr.. Schenck, from the committee on Mil
itary Affairs, reported bill pending, that
all Major Generals and all Brigadier Gen
erals in the military service of the United
States who, on the 18th day of February,
| 1865, shall not be in the performance of
duty or service corresponding to their re-
| spective grades and ranks, and who shall
not have been engaged in such duty or SER
vice for three months continually prior to
that date, shall then be dropped from the
rolls of the army, and all the pay and emol-
uments or allowances of such general Off
GERS shall cease from that date, and the va
cancies thus occasioned may be filled by
new promotions and appointments as in
other cases; but no officer is to be consid-
cred as included in the foregoing pro-
vision whose absence from duty shall
have been occasioned by wounds received
or disease contracted in the line of his duty
while in the military service, or by his be-
| ing prisoner of war in the hands of the
enemy, or under parole; and any Major
General of volunteers who may have been
appointed from the regular army under the
authority given in section 22d of the act of
1861. toauthorize the employment Of volun-
teers to aid in enforcing the laws and pro-
tecting public property, and the acts amen
datOry thereto, who shall be so dropped
from the rolls shall not thereby be dis
charged from the service of the United
States, but shall be remitted to his position
and duty as an officer of the regular army.
Second. Thereafter continuously until
the termination of the existing war of the
rebellion. on the last day of each month at
ter the 18th day of February, 1865, the pro-
visions of the foregoing section shall be
made applicable to any general officer in
the military service of the United States
who shall not, said last day Ofany month.
have been engaged in the performance of
duty or service corresponding to his proper
rank for three months consecutively then
next preceding.
Mr.. Cox inquired of his colleague what
had become of similar bill introduced
here at the last session.
Mr.. Schenck replied, that having passed
the House it hangs in the Senate.
| Mr.. Cox saw no necessity for the passage
of such law, as the President now has the
power to drop officers for incompetency or
inefficiency. He asked why the Senate had
not acted on the old bill?
Mr.. Schenck replied that he could not
tell his colleague the reason for the Senate's
non-action on the subject, as the question
had been fully discussed at the last session.
He (Schenck) would now merely move the
previous question.
This was seconded, and under its opera
tiOn the bill was passed by vote of SO
against 3S.
The House proceeded to the consideration
of the joint resolution pending from July
last, authorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to appoint three commissioners to in
quire and report at the earliest practicable
| moment the best and most efficient mode of
raising by taxation the necessary amount
of revenue for supplying the wants of the
| Government, having regard to the sources
from which derived, with power to take
testimony under such regulations as may
be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
The above resolution was tabled by a
vote of 6S yeas to 66 nays.
The House took up and passed without
debate the Senate bill authorizing the pur-
chase and construction of sixteen revenue
cutters on the lakes, and appropriating one
million dollars for that purpose.
The House went into committee on the
Presidents Message.
| Mr. Brooks of New York made speech
in opposition to two points in the message,
viz: That the war must 60 on withOutany
further negotiation, and that the war
must continue until slavery is abol-
ished throughout the United States-
He maintained that the subjugation of the
men against intolerance on the subject of
slavery. Mr.. Brooks said our difficulties
can be adjusted by negotiation, but never
by arms.
Mr.. Price, of Iowa, replied by saying
that the speech delivered by Mr.. Brooks
was intended to strengthen the hands of the
slave-owners, and to that extent depress the
Union cause.
The House, after further remarks from
Mr.. Brooks, adjourned.
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