Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-22
CONGRESSIONAL.
1I1yIIIth COngress.--Flrst Session.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
HOUSE, Morris of New York, spok,
favoring the con6scation of estates o
rebels who inaugerated aud are respon
sible for All the evil of the rebellion.
Rogers opposed the pending reso
/ luton, contending that estates Gould mo-
be forfeited beyond the lifetime Of the
offender, and the measure now proposed
was clearly against the Constitution
without taking the question on the Con
fscation bill. The House went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the amendatory
excise law.
An amendment was adopted taxing
ali cotton in the hands of manufactures
heretofore exempted two cents per pound.
Brooks, of New York, moved TO strike
out the drawback of two cents per pound
in all cases where the duty imposed by
this act upon the cotton used in manu-
factories shall be satisfactorily shown to
have been previously paid.
Brooks, Voorhees,, Harrington and j.
G. Allen, advocated the amendment re-
garding such drawbacks as paying bounty
to manufacturers at the expense of ag-
ricultural interests.
Morrell and DAVIS rejected, showing
that New England pays its fair proper
ton of taxation on Its products and in
dustry. 49,.
Wsshburn of Illinois said whatever
complaints might be uttered in Voor-
hees' district of Indiana as to the opera
ton of the various laws, there was no
complaint in the loyal district in which
he (Washburn) represented. His con-
,stituents were not only willing to pay
the present tax but additional tax to
crush the rebellion and hang traitors.
The rebellion is to be crushed, and the
States brought back, if necessary by
subiugation.
Grennell OF Iowa in behalf of the
farmers represented favored the en-
couragernent of manufactures.
Brook amendment was disagreed to;
an amendment was adopted that all
spirits imported prior to the passage of
the act shall pay an additional duty of
fifty cents The bill as amended is re-
ported to the House where it and substi-
tute, as intended to be offered by Ste
phens, were ordered to be printed pre-
liminary to further action The House.
adjourned
SENATE On motion of Wilson the
Senate took mp the bill to promote en-
listmepts Grimes wished it postponed
as the bill did not provide bounties for
colored soldiers. Further considera-
tons postponed the bill until tomorrow.
The resolution of Davis, calling on the
President for the correspondence of the
United States and the rebel authorities,
was postponed
On motion of Pryor, orders were post
poned and unfinished business taken up.
johnson, of Nd, addressed the Senate
on the rule requiring Senators TO take
the OATH
The Agricultural Commissioner re-
port, advers to tax of 20 per cent. on
leaf tobacco, was referred to the FL
nance Committee.
Johnson, of Nd, spoke on the ques-
ton OF the adoption of the new oath as
a rule of the Senate, opposing it as I'M
constitutional In the course of his re-
marks he said the people Of the South,
when the military power of the rebellion
was subdued, would again come into the
Union under the Presidents amnesty
Proclamation He opposed placing the
negro on a political equality as a great
er evil to the slave than to the master
1t was a political degradation of the
whites unnecessarr to crushing the re-
bellion. The day was fast approaching,
if the power of the Government was ex-
ercised as it ought to be, when the mill
tary power of the rebellion would be
crushed and the people Of the South
would share in heart as well as deed, in
the blessings of restored Union.
Howard favored the adoption of the
oath arguing that without the fidelity re-
quired by this oath to the Constitution it
became deal letter; he said the people
of the North were not such fools as to
fight war as this, sacrificing 100000
lives, and then turn around and invite
traitors to come back and sit in the
counsels of the nation
The amendment Of Howell was reiec-
ted. Yeas II, nays 20 Adjourned till
Monday