Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-06

took away nothing essential to the soldiers
comfort and subsistence, and gave him sup
plies equal to any soldier in the world. and
twice as much as those Of JEFF. Davis. In the
aggregate the government will save consider
able, while the soldier is paid five or six times
as much as the deduction in the increase Of
the pay.
The bill was passed unanimously, there
being 1876 yeas.
Mr.. Stevens reported from the Committee
of Ways and Means the Senate amendments
to the navy appropriation bill, and the House
concurred in those appropriations. $4,000
for the completion Of steam sloops; $4,000
600 for the purchase and repair Of vessels for
western waters; $4,000, 900 for the purchase
and charter of vessels for b~lockading purpos-
es. The Senate struck out the approp, iation
of $l35,00O for the purchase of land adjoin-
ing the Charleston Navy Yard, and on the
amendment the Committee on Ways and
Means recommended a non. concurrence.
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, moved a reduc.
ton of the appropriation to 100000, shaw
ing that this was the value of the property
last autumn.
Mr.. Stevens explained the circumstances
under which this subject came before the
Committee of Ways and Means. The ap-
preparation was recommended by all the
c~ommandants who had beea at the yard by
Admiral Smith, of tho bureau of yards and
docks, and by Secretary Welles, ali of whom
consider the purchase of this property nee
essary for Government uses. q
Mr.. Rice, Of Massachusetts,, showed that
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Yard, had become necessary, by the large in
crease Of the navy, for which he said it was
proposed.
Mr.. Dixon, of Rhode Island, said that on
the breaking out of the rebellion, the academy
was removed to Newport, by the Secretary Of
the Navy; the same authority which remov-
ed, can restore it. The academy yeaf will
commence in September, 1865. If an occa.
sion should occur for its removal before that
time, it would doubtless be done. Besides
the naval academy property 1T Annapolis,
was occupied by the Wa Department.
Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, said that
Newport was q large and fashionable place,
and with all Its vices, was no fit place for .
young man. 1t is always better to have
seminaries of learning in small villages, where
there are but few temptations to vice.
The debate was continued, those who op.
posed the appropriation regarding it as a
speculation. The House concurred in the
Senate's amendment by 6s to SO.
The House then concurred in the Senate's
amendment providing that no money appro-
priated for the naval academy shall be ap-
piled to the support of any midshipman who
shall not hereafter be appointed in strict con-
formity with law.
The House next considered the Senate's
amendment providing that the naval academy
shall be returned and re- establisL.e ed at Annap
oils before the commencement of the next
academic year. The amendment was con-
Cured in.
Annapolis is a small village and just about
the rightssize. By returning to Annapolis
the government will save So, 900 or $780,
900 a year.
The House resumed the consideration of
the bill guaranteeing a Republican form Of
Government to States.
marks by saying that all of our efforts should
be directed to suppressing the rebellion.
There never was \ more disgraceful record
than that made by the leaders of the Demo-
cratic party the last four years. The rebel.
lion was i%naugurated under a Democratic
Administration, with its patronage and con-
sent, stimulated and encouraged by the
promise of the Northern Democrats, and now
kept alive in the hope that the same party
will come to its assistance. The course Of
the Democrats here was doing more for the
rebellion than our defeats on the battlefield.
While the Democrats hold President Lincoln
to a strict account, and charge him with VIC
%lations of the Constitution, they have no
complaints to utter against the rebels, who
set her Constitution at defiance. They want
to render him power'ess to punish traitors.
In conclusion, Mr.. Perham said slavery must
cease with the last struggle of the rebellion.
Mr.. Herman, Of New York, examined the
provisions of the bill under consideration,
and opposed it, because, according to his
judgment, it was in violation and subversive
of the great fundamental principles on which
the General and State Governments stand.