Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-26
THE VERY LATEST
TELE CIR a p H.
CONGRESSIONAL.
1XYYIIIth Cengress-..First Session,
WASHINGTON. February y.

GENATE.-<A tue presentation
various petitions and memorials, on me
ton of Fessenden, the Senate reeonsid
cred the vote adopting the Conferenc
Committees report on the revenue bill
and appointed new Committee to con
fer with that appointment by the House
The bill relative to Assistant Pay
masters in the navy was called up b,
Hall, and after amendments was passed
Powell introduced bill for repeating
all acts granting bounties to vessels en-
gagged in the cod6sheries.
The Senate reeeded from its vote
agreeing to the Conference Committee
report on the Revenue bills, and another
conference committee was ordered
Bills relative TO appointments were
taken up and amended by striking out
the clause discharging volunteer officers
sixty days after the return of the vessel
and adding an additional clause empow.
eriug courts martial 10 reduce to seamen
such officers as absented themselves
from their commands. As thus amend
ed it passed.
A bill equalizing the pay Of soldiers
was then taken up. The question being
OH the amendment, including persons
enlisted under the call of October, 1862,
with bounty provisions An amend
ment TO this amendment was adopted,
providing that all persons whose papers
show that they enlisted under the az
of 1861. shall receive all the bounty and
pay promised in that statute The sub
ject was postponed till tomorrow.
The Military Commute was Instruct
| ed to inquire into the expediency Of ex-
tending the bounty to April. Executive
session adjourned.
HoUsE-Davis, of Maryland, defend
ed the validity of the late Maryland ell
ections, and spoke of the progress OF
emancipation, then said they were un-
der small obligations to President Lin
coin for what he had done. He advo-
CT to an amendment of the constitution,
declaring, as a condition of readmission
into the Union, that slavery b, forever
abolished in the Southern States.
Davis concluded by speaking against
the colonization of the freedmen, as in
compatible with true policy and human
ity.
Washburne then succeeded in procur-
iag the appointment: of Committee Of
Conference on the disagreeing to the
Lieutenant General bill.
Stephens, from the Committee of Ways
and Means, reported bill providing as
follows: That of the S6,O000OO loan au-
thorized BY the act of March Sd, 1854
in 1040s, 81 100000 be put in the mark
eft, redeamsble in not less than five years
nor more than forty. Stephens asked
for the immediate passing of the bill
Brooks asked if the bill did not also
authorize an additional loan of ten OIL
twelve million in $50 stock already sub
scribed for
Stephens said yes, to the amount o
100000. By common consent, &C
ton on the bill was postponed until tht
bill could be printed.
The naval appropriation bill was ther
taken ur.
Washburne, of Illiuois, moved to take
up the House bill to revive the grade o
Lieutenant-General, as returned from
the Senate, with the amendment stricken
out, which recommended that Gen. Gran
be appointed to that position.
Washburne said his object was to dis
agree to the Senate amendment in or
that the matter might be referred tc
the Commute of Conference.
Fink objected
The bill which Stephens introduces
to-day is supplementary to an act entitI
ed: An Act to provide ways and mean
for the support of the Government" Al
proved March, 1868, as follows:
Be it enacted, &c, That in lieu of s
much of the loan authorized by the &C
of March Sd, 1868, to which this is SUP
plimentary, the Secretary of the Trea!
ury is authorized to borrow from time t
time during the present fiscal year, an
to present and issue therefor coupon
and registered bonds of the Unite
States, redeamable at the pleasure of tn
Government at any period not less tina
FIVE years, and payable at not more tina
forty years from date, and Of such d
gominations as may be found expedien
not less than fifty dollars and bearin
interest of not more than six per cen
eearly, payable in bonds not over Oh
hundred dollars annually, and all otht
. bonds semi -annuslly i'll coin, and he nus
+ dispose of such bonds at any time {
E such terms as may seem advisable Fl
' lawful money of the United States, o
n at his discretion, for treasury notes, &c
tiicates of indebtedness, or certifcat
: of deposit, issued under any act of Co
gress, and all bonds issued under Ii
j. act shall be exempt from taxation by
under State or municipal authority"
The: clause appropriates two hu
;; dred and seventeen thousand dollars f
!! the Philadelphia navy yard. 1t stan
as reported by the committee.
Q After long debate, Stephens NOV
~ q new section providing for the erecti
ie of floating dock for Monitors, at n,
York and Philadelphia. The bill tn
I'd passed.
sk The bill 10 extend the time on I
sr withdrawal Of goods in public stores a
nd bonded warehouses was taken up a
e amended, changing the time from
i'll LIST of June to the 18th of September
l. Adjourned.