Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-24

WASHINGTON, April %.
(Conclusion q Fnday's Proceediaqs.l


the Senate Finance committee agreed to. III
An amendment of Mr.. Wilson, that all
persons of color who have been mustered
into the service shall receive the same cloth
ing, pay, etc., except bounty, as other SOL
diers, from the 1st of January 1854, and
that every person of color hereafter muster
ed shall receive q bounty In the discretion
of the President, not exceeding 800, was
adopted by ayes 81, noes 0.
An amendment was adopted giving a
bounty, without regard to color, to the
troops mustered into the service under the
call of October 18th, 1868.
Another amendment was adopted giving
to colored troops mustered into the service
on pledges made to them by persons acting
under the authority of the War Depart
ment, the pay, etc., allowed to other SOL
diers, and that the same premium be al
lowed as for white recruits mustered into
the service.
Considerable difficulty was experienced
In obtaining quorum to-day on several oc-
casions. :.
The amendment of Mr.. Hendricks, in
creasing the pay of non-commissioned Of
tticers and privates fifty per cent, was re-
jected.
HoUsE.-The licenses for bowling alleys
and billiard rooms were increased from $5
TO $40, and the same amount for each adj
ditional table. efst F4E
Mr.. Kasson moved that two OF the license
clauses be transposed, giving as reason
that lawyers and doctors should take the
precedence of stations and iackasses.
Mr.. James G. Allen, of Illinois, objected,
saying that the two clauses were properly
placed. .-. u. -
Amid excessive laughter the amendment
was rejected.
Builders and contractors are to pay
license Of $40 when the contract is over
$25,000, and one dollar additional for
every $1,000.
Mr.. Morris, of Ohio, offered an amend
ment, that loafers shall pay each license
Of $40. Every person lettering at street
corners, or standing on hotel steps, shall be
deemed lOafer; provided that members of
Congress waiting at the crossings for street
cars, shall not be required to take out q
license therefor. Excessive laughter.]
The amendment was rejected.
The Committee have thus far acted upon
all the sections relating to the general pro-
visions of licenses, seventy-nine in number,
and have commenced upon those under the
head Of manufactured articles and pro-
ducts. tGgf
An amendment was made, including
may be transferred without payment of
duty directly from the place of manufac-
ture to bonded warehouse for exporta-
tion.
The committee took recess till seven
o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The Tax bill came up. An amendment
was made so as to read: "On all mineral
Goals except such as are known in the trade
as pea coal and dust coal, duty of five
cents per ton; provided, that in case of con-
tract or lease of coal lands, made prior to
the passage of this act, the lessee shall pay
the tax, If not otherwise ordered, and all
dues or taxes on coal mines and coal de-
liyered by coal operators on contracts here
tofore made, shall be paid by the purchas-
ers thereof if not otherwise agreed upon
by the parties"
The committee struck out the following:
"All gas companies are authorized to add
the duty or tax imposed by law to the price
per thousand cubic feet OH the gas sold."
Mr.. Wiswell offered an amendment in
creasing the duty from twenty to twenty
five cents on coal illuminating oil per gal
lon.
Mr.. Holman unsuccessfully moved to tax
them thirty cents.
Mr. Schofield said there was no compari-
son between whisky and light-whisky was
a demoralizing luxury, while these illumi-
mating oils were the poor mans light. 1t
costs twenty cents to produce gallon of
oil, and the tax proposed was one hundred
per cent.
Mr.. Morrill's amendments were adopted,
and also one that oil produced by the dis
tillation of coal asphaltum or shale exclu-
sively shall pay fifty cents per gallon.
Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa, offered an amend
ment taxing crude petroleum one dollar per
gallon.
An amendment was also adopted making
the duty four dollars per ton on blooms,
slabs or loops, when made in barges or
bloomeries, delivered from the one, thus
doubling the original duty.
j. G. Allen unsuccessfully moved for
duty of six dollars instead Of three dollars
per ton on railroad iron. .... max
Pending its consideration, the committee
rose at ten o'clock and the House adjourn
ed. r. @~.ii.. '~'
WASHINGTON, April %.
HoUsE.-Mr. Washburne, from the COM
mittee on Commerce, reported bill to ere
ate an additional supervising inspector of
steamboats,, his duties to be confined to
New Orleans; and also to boards of local
inspectors at Portland, Oregon, and at
Memphis, Tennessee. iS--a $500.
The board of inspectors at Wheeling is
discontinued for the reason that there are
two other boards of inspectors for the Ohio
river. The bill was passed.
Mr.. Highly, Of California, from the select
committee to examine into Representative
McClurg's charge that his colleague, Mr..
Blair, of Missouri, had violated the law in
the matter af an alleged liquor speculation,
and also to investigate the genuineness or
falseness of an alleged order for liquors,
made report thereon, to the effect that the
original order, signed by Maj .-Gen. Blair
and other officers, was for liquors, cigars,
ETC., to the amount of $3.50 or $l75; but
that the order was altered by which power
was given to call for $500 worth of the
same for the latter's speculative purposes.
The committee are satisfied that no viola
tion of the law was committed by Mr..
Blair. .tE slice rf.ftl
Mr.. Blair, of Missouri, spoke of his in
tention soon to take leave of the House.
He said the charges against him were made
while he was in a military command, and
circulated against him because he was op-
posed to the trade regulations of Secretary
Chase, and differed from the plan of Mr..
Chase to let the Southern States go. His
colleague [McClung] had brought the
charges here with the coarseness and bru-
tality that characterize low and vulgar
minds. The Speaker called Mr.. Blair to Or
der, reminding him that personalities must
not be INDUCED in. n lsas9ig by
I Mr.. Blair begged the pardon of the
Speaker. His colleague tMcClurg] had
gone to the trouble of having what he CALI
nd thn. rrdn hot hal IL