Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-02-15
DEM0CK1I 5 NEWS.
WAsusEcros, Feb. Is.

DHMVONA4 N1V Os
wAsnrEo ros, Feb. Is.
SEHATE.-An xmendnent offered BY Will
son WassAlepted eqdallsing tie pay of col
ored tfUope eta extending tho provisions 81
the bill % siyt them. 90 eddisiosaI thirty
dollars PSF month fsoa Jan lss, 1854
An amsndmeae offered By NJ. Dooiittle
deductiug four dollsrs per month from their
pay tof uuppofting their families and frieods
10 under discussion. 49,.
A fsport u the Secretary q Wss wse ~.
eeivod II aoDWef o. eOoOiueloo roletive %
omcess, eeooutasloe Gor qusstsss asd feel
Il showe thst there IRE 567 officers here
dfovjae OosA e6o0oeaetsns, go 3 Major
0ensrals, Is Bsigsdief 0enefsls, 81 Colo
nels. 10 Ii. OoloDsls, "a Maiors, 126 Cap.
tains, 50 Leutesants. 20 surgeons, IL sssls.
tant dungeons, and 70 psywsssers.
MrHowelI presented . meDosial from the
Milwaukee chamber Of Commerce, repre-
seotine sbat within fiss months moro than
825 100000 has been mined and 10 wait.
ing egrsss, and askioe aid IN sbe iron struc-
ture Of wagon road with military protec-
sion through central Ainoessts. Referred.
2 On motion, Mr.. Wilson proceeded to tbs
consideration Of the bill equalixing pay Of
U. 3. sOldiefs.
Mr.. Oonses withdrew his amendment
conferr:ng the beueats 70 those in service
1t tho time Of the passage Of the amend
ment.
Mr.. Sumner offered an amendment, that
in cases wherc tho Secretary Of War shall
be satisfied that persons Of color have been
mustered into the service Of the United
States ct IL dollars per month, they shall
be paid at that rate for their previous ser.
vices.
Mr.. Grimes hoped the Senator would
withdraw his proposition, end that from
this time forward every soldier wss to re-
esvs tho same pay. He hoped the bill
might be allowed to stand on its merits
without making it Retrospective.
9 Mr.Wilson moved to strike out the clause
in the bill Of the committee, giving colored
troops the same pay, &c. except bounty,
during the whole time they had been in
the service, and insert, latter hrst day Of
January, 1894"
Mr.. Sumner would not withdraw his
amendment without first explaining that
its provisions would oaly apply to . lev
regiments, end there would be no great
draft on the treasury.
MI. Fessenden here Stained the floor, and
from sbe finance committee reported Ger
tain amendments to the House deficiency
bill. lie asked that they lie over till
Monday.
Mr. johnson, in reply to Mr. Sumner,
said II tho black men OF Maryland we're Is
coed % the black man enlisted elsewhere
why make exceptions z II justice was done
according to the views Of the Senator from
Massachusetts, some eight hundred thou
sand dollars would be taken from tho trea-
sury, or, as ho understood it, abou. one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All
should be paid alike. Why did moi Massa-
pay these troops berself2
Mr.. Fessenden said no understood the
pay had been offered, but colored troops
r. fused to receive it.
Ssnstor Wilson explained the circum-
stances under which col0red troops FROM
had refused &c receive their
psy. They held the Government to pledges
made to them, and wanted full pay Of $l3
per month or asked to be discharged from
the U. $ service. i IS. .s.. s.ssN~
Mr.. johnson said then they were c0lored
gentlemsn 81 extraordinary sensibilties.
Mr.. Gfi6es aid snat from the yer1 ont.
set he andshis colleague, Mr. Harlan, were
10 favor CT putting negro troops on Oh equal
ity with whites. lie visa, in this respect.
before the Senator from Massachusetts,.
Mr. Sumner said that ia . public speech
he had said that be was in favor Of carrying
the war into Africa. lie vas more in favor
u carrying the African into the VA.
lLaughter1
Mr.. Crimes was not only in favor Of car.
Tying the African into the war, but paying
him sl3 per month, and for placing him ON
> footing with other soldiers. II We were
going back to pay these colored troops from
AID Connecticut, why not
pay them from Tennessee. He was in-
formed there were some 81 regiments o.
these troops tbere. He thought there vas
trouble in the future to be unprecedented
from making . Retrospective char Acter ol
this bill indiscr.minste. lie sympathized
with fhe gallant and patriotic young men
Df the 54th ana 55,h Massachusetts, colored
troops, but be could not help believing it
was on account III this action that the col.
osed men vi the South Carolina regiments
refused to receive their pay.
Mr.. Cowan said If we we're going back
Tor the colored men be was also in favor Of
Y bite men, who were our earliest volun
teers aud bad bore the hea. lest burden Of
the day. He was not in favor Of over riding
the statute TO do justice to these negro
TROOPS until equal and exact justice had
been done to the veteran white soldiers.
When she country should DO restored to its
wontcd prosperity We could do justice to
III, now it 10 exceedingly dangerous.
The amendments Of Mr.. Wilson were
then adopted.
The amendment OF Mr.. Doolittle, pro-
viding that from the monthly pay Of color
ID troops mustered into service in insurrec
tionary districts, the SUN Of $3 per month
shall be served to reimburse the expense.
increased by the United States in finding
md clothing the widows, children and pa
rents Of deceased colorcd troops. This vas
rejected after some debate.
Mr.. Sumner proposed . proviso, that 10
al cases Of past services OF colored troops,
y hen it shall appear to the Secretary VI
W ar from actual papers Of enlistmcnts, tha,
be troops were enisted under act Of July
1861, they shalt be allowed pay prom,s. d
BY that act. This was rejected, ayes ll6,
nays q.
Mr.. Cox offered . substitute for the bill
~ amended rs from and after tie passage Il
4 this act al soldiers OF the Q. 8 Of the
same arm Of service shall! receive like com.
peneation.
Mr.. Cowan supported his amendment at
some length, claiming that the negro must
Dc regarded ~ ctisen under the consti-
tuition, A. he read, and entitled to the
nrOt octi0D of the laws