Evening star., 1864-04-29
THE EVENING STAR.
CONVERSATIONAL.
In TIE SENATE yesterday

IN THE SENATE yesterday
The House Joint resolution to increase by
on foreign imports. excepting therefrom print
ing paper reported from the finance Committee
with an amendment, was considered.
After remarks by Messrs. CLARK; Coiiamer,
johnson and Davis, in support OF the Senate's
amendments, and Messrs. Chandler and Hale
IN support OF the original House bill, the first
amendment, decreasing the tarin to thirty three
and one-third per cent on present duty was
adopted-yeas, 10; nays, IL.
The amendme Mt e1empting goods in bond was
adopted by yeas, 10; nays, 1s. The resolution,
as amended, was then reported to the Senate,
and a separate vote ordered.
The nendment decreasing the tariff to thirty
three and one. third per cent, was adopted:
yeas, 10; nays, II.
The amendments made in the committee
were then voted on. The first amendment
was non. .concurred in yeas, III nays, ~.
The amendment in committee, exempting
goods In bond and in transitu, was rejected:
The joint resolution was then passed by a vote
OF yeas, 80; nays, 8. sa --+.araI
IN THE HOUSE -...- .-...s---.-.... - ~
The following message OF the Presidentof the
70 tie honorable Senate and House Of RepreSsn-
tatires IL have the honor to transmit here with
condition Of the people of East Tennessee, and
asking their attention to the necessity of some
action ON the part Of the Government fer their
aas 1en = s.es r.
Tenne ssee Relief Association" 30 s.az =.
Deeply commisserating the condition Of those
loyal ann to ,1,at male any
military is doing and will continue to do, the.
best for them within its power. Their address
represents that the communication between
Knoxville and Cincinnati, by way of Central
Kentucky, would be OF great consequence in
the pres ent emergency. 1t may be remembered
that in the annual message OF December Iae'
fnen no rafoad dS construction was
Congress. 1 would T ye: { BE- searty concu1lenss Of
the the road, both fo- - pleased to construct
-...,nuing military necessity.
TIE address TO the President recounts the
suffsrings Of the people Of East Tep:Aessee
that from voting population Of $4,000 Union
men, ,0Oo to is, 900 hsc enlisted in the Union
army; that the ree:sis, in the fall.of 1861, had
in properties; that Burnside's, Sherman's and
Longstresets armies had exhausted their re-
maihl4R supplies that perhaps not five per
ceht. of the accustomed breadth will this
spring be sown in wheat-fences being des.
froyed and farms left desolate, with net even
supply OF seed of common farm products.
1t asks, h1st, prompt ayment of claims against
ties for obtaining supplies for the destitutiOn
which a single year Of industry cannotremedy;
and estimates the expenses and losses which a
raaroad built In 1861 would have saved at five
millions Of dollars.
The Speaker also laid before the House 8
message from the President in answer to a re.
solution of inq uirv whether Francis p. Blair
holds any appointment or commission in the
military service Of the United States. On mo-
tfon this message was referred to the Committee
on Elections.
The House resumed the consideration of
amendments to the TAX bill, and having dis.
posed of all of them by concurring in the re.
commendatons OF the Committee Of the Whole
on the State of the Union, the House proceeded
to dispose OF the new section offered by Fer
nando Wood, namely:
So much of the seventh section of the act of
March ,, 1854, to increase the revenue, as levies
tax Of forty cents on spirits imported prior to
that date, be and it is hereby repealed, and the
Secretary Of the Treasury be directed to refund
and pay all moneys thus exacted.
MIR. Washburne offered the following as a
substitute That all spirits of domestic produc-
tion and held for sale on the 1st Of May, 1864,
and upon which no tax shall have been paid
shall be Subject to duty OF fifty cents per gal.
Ion, and on all such spirits on hand and for
sale on which prior duty shall have been
paid, - duty Of thirty cents per gallon; pro.
vided that bona fde retail dealers in spirits,
dufy licensed, shall not be taxed on their stock
on hand, whose quantity on hand does not ex-
ceed two barrels.
The question being taken, Mr.. Washburne's
substitute was adopted-Yeas Is: nays 63.
The bill was then passed-yeas 102 nays 80.