Daily national Republican., 1864-04-12
CONGRESSIONAL.
TuIRTr-EIGHrn ooNuuEss
First Session.
SENATE.
TUESDAY, April ~, 1864.


The Vice President laid before the Senate a
communication from the Treasury Department,
In reply to a call for information relative TO
the amount of money expended, number of
men employed, &C., under the act providing
for the collection OF direct taxes in insurrcc-
tiouAry districts; the amount OF money paid
into tho Treasury therefrom; the quantity Of
land sold, &c. The Secretary says the reply
embraces all tho reports made TO the DcPatt-
inent on the subject.
Mr.. Sumner, from the Committee on Slavery
and Freedmen, reported on petitions relative
| To persons freed during the present war, with
a bill to establish Bureau Of Freedmen.
Mr.. johnson presented petition from suboT.
dinatC employees In the Executive Departments
| In this city for Increase of compensation.
Mr.. Fcssenden, from the Committee on vi.
nance, reported on tho petition OF Moses Y.
Beach, Of the New York Sun, for the remission
of the tax on his paper for a certain day Ia
order that he might give the whole proceeds Of
that days Issue to the Sanitary Fair, and asked
10 be discharged from It's further consideration
| Mr.. Davis introduced bill, In compliance
with previous notice, to regulate the mode O
ascertaining the value OF lands aud other roa
estate that may be taken for the use OF th,
United States. Referred 10 the Judiciary Com
nttec aud ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Davis also introduced a bill to prevent
the assembling OF and trial by courts-Inarta
arising in the land or naval forces OF tho United
States, when In actual service in timO of wal
or public danger. Referred TO the Judiciary
Committee and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Wilson introduced a bill concerning the
subslstence and ray OF the army; which was
referred to the Military Committee.
On motion of Mr.. Harlan, the bill gfanting
lands TO the State Of Iowa to aid in the con.
Btructiou of railroad from the Missouri river
to connect with certain lateral roads In Min.
ncsota, was taken up, amended, and passed.
Mr.. Wade called up the House bill " enable
tho people Of the Territory of Nebraska TO form
constitution preparatory to admission into
the Union.
Arer considerable debate the subject wa'
laid over.
The naval appropriation bill was then taken
up and the amendment, pending yesterday, fol
the purchase of land for the extension of tho
wharf front at the Charlestown navy yard, wal
adopted.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
| Mr.. Stevens, from the Committee of Way
and Means, reported bill TO prevent the dc
probation OF the currency, the confederation o
which was postponed. II provides that an,
bank or banking association, or individual, Is
suing notes to circulate as money, shall pa
one fourth Of one per cent. a month, and tha
aftcr one year no such paper shall bo issue
without authority of Congress.
Tho House resumed the consideration Of tn
resolution 10 oxpol Mr.. Long, OF Ohio, as
member Of this House.
Mr.. Eldridge, Of Wisconsin, addressed tn
House against the resolution; which, he con
tended, was calculated to stir up strife at
time when there should be unity and gooC
feeling A member could be expelled only fOI
acts and not for words spoken in debate.
Mr.. Eldridge held that the seeded State
cannot be brought baclsif the war is prose
cuted for purposes OF subjugatinn, but the
may bo by proper policy. The Republican
arc revolutionary party, for they would oycI
throw tho Constitution, without which ther
could be no Union.
Mr.. Spaulding, of Ohio, advocated the adOr
tion Of the resolution, calling tho speech Of hi
colleague (Mr. Long, wild haranguo. Iii
colleague had made vile fling Ht the Prcsi
dent and at the nation, and had said he ha
come 10 the cOnclusion that the Union ncvC
can be restored, and that there was no scntl
mGnt, either North or South, on which tn
Union could be restored; and further, tina
there was no vestiGo Of the Constitution re
naming. He held that his colleagues spoCc
was criminal RIGHTEOUSNESS.