Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-01-13
Z CONGREssIoNAL,
coNGREss-FIRsr SESSION

SKsATR.-Afterou rreport closed Yesterday
The bill amendatory TO the enrollment act
wa1 taken up, and
bill providing that the Secretary Of War shalt
apply the money received from substitutes
and otherwise TO the single object Of procuring
Mr.. Sherman opposed the amendment, as an
extra income tax, and also calculated to raise
the price of enlistments. and as operating nm.
equally: We could not blend the system of
raising income and men together. II we retain
the communication clause you meet the objection
Of many for the present, bat the basis for fu-
ture dr. aftsis impaired. He proposed to avoid
persons furnishing substitutes, or paying com.
n utatien shall be liable to future draft {
you make an arbitrary draft you will excite
resistance to it. s-rA SKY rgEg-J e. -rE ~, or
Mr.. Collamer commended that the Government
should, when q drafted man had paid his conan q.
tation money, furnish q substitute for him. AT.
ter this substitute had been furnished, he took
the ground that the drafted party could not be
again drafted until the names of all who had
been enrolled under the call had been exhau st-
ed. He did not see the Justice OF getting a. mans
substitute, getting his money, and then draft
ing him again, when there were thousands VINO
had never even been enrolled. e#E
Mr.. Sherman proposed to amend so that D ar.
sons drafted should subsequently take the place
OF their substitutes.
The amendment OF Mr.. Sumner was rejected
by a vote of Is to Is. - Al s- 3 -
Mr.. Grimes wished to know the number OF
| colored troops enlisted, and whether any at
tempts had been made Or authorized for the
enlistment Of colored men in the border States
Mr.. Wilson stated that it was not in his
power to answer the question. He under.
stood that we had fifty thousand colored SOL
diers. 49,
MI Anthony understood that free c,lored
men not liable to the draft in the District were
not allowed to leave the District. --r.r,... ..
Mr.. Wilson had heard Of such complaints.
The authority BY which they were detained
| it should be abandoned. He saw the other
day hat the Mayor Of this city appealed to the
Secretary OF w ar so that colored people should
not be allowed to go out OF the city to enlist:
Mr.. johnson said that the Secretary OF War
approved OF it.
Mr.. Wilson said that whether the War De-
partment approved Of It or not, he disapprovsd
Oft. While the Government can take the son
Of white man without his consent, we are
told that we cannot go to the great State OF
Kentucky and enlist slave against the will
of his master. = .r-
Mr. Brown would inquire by what authority
the War Department pays for the slave.
MI. Wilson supposed that 1T was on the prin-
white one, and, besides all that, 1t prompted
emanc ipation.
Mr. johnson said that the term slave was
unknown in the Constitution, and yet sla yes
tuition. They were subjects OF inheritance,
subjects Of taxation and distribution, and liza
BILE for the debts of their masters.
|. HoUsE.-After our report closed
The further consideration Of the bill restrain
ing the Court of Claims in certain cases, was
postponed until Thursday next.
After the reception OF various bills from Com
mittees, the House went into Committee of
the Whole on the state of the Union, and pro-
ceeded to the consideration OF the bill to reim-
burse the State OF Pennsylvania for expenses
incurred in calling out the militia to repei in.
vasion, and appropriating 100000, or so much
as may be necessary.
Considerable discussion here ems ned between
Messrs. F. Wood, Stevens, Cox, Lovejoy,
Tbayer, and others.
Without taking any question the Committee
rose and the House adjourned.