Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-02-13

the Military committee with the eamenll-
ments adopted by the Military committee.
These amendments strike out the clause
recommending General Grant for that posi-
ton. Agreed to.
Mr.. Converse proposed to amend SO that
the Lieutenant General shall be General-in-
Chief of the armies under command of tlle
President, or shall remain in chief command
during the pleasure of the President. With
out coming to vote the Senate adjourned.
IIoUsE.-Mr. Webster offered an amend
ment that the bounty of 500 now payable
for each drafted mar, shall be paid to the
person to whom such drafted person owes
service on freeing the pers0n-agreed to. ID
Various propositions were disposed of. a
The committee rose and reported the
amendments to the House. sr
Mr.. Schenck offered o substitute, which
includes the above amendments. Ordered
to be printed together with the bill.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL.
SENATE.-On motion of Mr.. Lane, of In
diana, the committee of the judiciary was
instructed to inquire into the expediency of
amending the present law regulating the.
Supreme Court so as to cOntine its decision
to matters OF law alone.
The Senate then took up the House de-
ficiency bill, as reported by the Senate FL
nance committee.
The commissioners amendments were
mostly agreed to. They strike out all the
House provisions for increase of clerical
force in the departments, and authorize ap-
pointments in various bureaus for time
not exceeding one year after the close of
the rebellion, of about one thousand clerks,
and provide for salaries by appropriations;
and also provides for the employment of
females. Certain amendments from the
Naval committee were concurred in. The
amendment appropriating $4,000 for de-
ficiencies in the quartermaster's, ordnance
and cOmmissarys departments was adopted.
Various amendments were offered, when
the Senate adjourned till tomorrow.
HOUsE.-The House proceeded to the con-
sideration of the Senate enrolment bill, as
amended by the committee of the Whole
on the State of the Union.
Mr.. Cox of Ohio. suggested that the bill
lie over until Monday in order to give fur
ther time for its examination, the amend
ments being In such confused state.
Mr.. Schenck of Ohio, replied that the
public eXigencies were so pressing that he
could not give an hour. He then moved
the previous question and explained the
amendments and substitute, concluding by
an appeal to the friends of the country to
pass the bill, that the army might be recon-
structed and the Government sustained.
Mr.. Harding, of Kentucky, desired to ad-
dress the House. .r.e ~ F..
Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio, proposed that the
gentleman (Harding) should by general
consent be allowed half an hour for that
purpose. ,'r. fe" ''f'ti,
Mr.. Schenck objected to this proposition.
| Opposition to further proceedings on the
bill was manifested, when Mr.. Rogers, of
New Jersey, moved to reconsider the vote
by which in the earlier stage of the pro-
ceedings the House had agreed to adjourn
till Monday. This motion was laid on the
table by vote of one hundred against forty.
| The House then proceeded to vote on the
| amendments to the Senate bill.
| The House voted on the following House
amendment: All able bodied male persons
of African descent between the ages of 20
and 45, whether citizens or not resident in
the United States, shall be enrolled accord
ing to the provisions Of the act to which
this is supplementary, and form part of the
national forces, and when slave of loyal
citizen shall be drafted and mustered into
the service Of the United States, his master
shall have certificate thereof. The bounty
of 500 now payable by law for each draft
cd man, shall be paid to the person to whom
such drafted person owes service or labor
at the time of his muster into the service OF
the United States. On freeing person the
|. Secretary of War shall appoint q Commits
i sioner from each of the slave States repre-
sentatives in Congress, charged to award a
Just compensation not exceeding $500 to
each loyal person to whom the colored vol
unteer may owe service, who may volun-
teer into the service of the United States
payable out of the commutation money
upon the master freeing the slave.
The amendment was agreed to-yeas 81
nays 81. EG4 sU.f"3 F.e
The House having thus agreed to the
Schenck submitted a substitute to thu
Il amendment, which was agreed to, and thu
i original bill as thus amended was passed.
yeas 93; nays 60.
The bill as passed provides that the quots
of each ward of city, township, precinct o.
election district or county wher'
the same is divided into wards
shall be as nearly as possible in proportion
to the number of men resident therein sub
, ject to draft, taking into account as far a.
practicable the number which has been pre-
viously furnished, and In ascertaining ant
filling said quota there shall be taken int
account the number of men who have here
tofore entered the naval service of tn,
| OHlbtu JtdJtos diu WuOoC HdtiiCo
upon the enrolment lists as already return
ed to the office of the Provost Marshal Gen
! eral of the United States. y"
l.. Any person enrolled under the provisions
of the enrolment act who may hereafte
be enrolled. may furnish at any time previ
! Gus to the draft an acceptable substitute
: who is not liable to draft nor at the time il
I; the military or naval service, and sucl
= person so furnishing a substitute shall b
exempt from draft during the time 70
4 which such substitute shall be exempt fron
draft, not however exceeding the time TO
which such substitute shall have been mus
tered, but no private soldier, musician 0
non-commissioned officer being actually il
the military service of the United State
shall be procured or accepted as a substi
tute. i4S af
The boards of enrolment are to enro,
all persons liable to draft under the pro
visions of this act, and Of the enrollmer
act, whose names shall have been omitte
by the proper enrolment officer, all person
who shall arrive at the age of 20 years befol
the draft, all aliens who shall declare the
intention to become citizens, all persons dis
charged from the military or naval servie
of the United States who have not been
such service two years during the presei
a war, and all persons who have been exeml
; ted under the provisions of the second Sc,
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