Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-19
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CONGRESSIONAL REPORT
xxxvuI congress..--Fyrst ssssior
! WASHINGTON, Feb -.
SENArE.-On motion OF MIR. Lane, of Ind
the Committee on judiciary was instructtd {
inquire into the expedicncy Of amending tn
present Law regulating the Supreme Court, S
as to coD3ne its decisions to matters of la,
alone. s9{{ iaatng He~4-f
The Senate then took up the duficenc
bill as reported by the Senate finance Com
mittec
The committees amendments were mostl
agreed to. They strike out all the Hous
provisions for an increase of the clerical fore
in the departments, ard authorize the ap
pointment in various bureaus, for a time no
exceeding one year after the closs Of the re
bellion, Of about 1000 clerks, and provid
for salaries by appropriation, and also pro
vides for the employment Of females.
| Certain amendments from the Naval Com
mittee were concurred in.
An amendment appropriating $4,000 fo
deficiencies in the Quartermaster's, Ordnance
and Commlssary's Departments was adopted
HoUsE.-The House proceeded to the con
sidcration of the Senate Enrolment bill, a.
amended by the Committee Of the Whole OF
the State Of the Union. -...
Mr.. Cox, of Ohio, suggested that the bill
lie over until Monday, in order to give further
| time for its eYamination--ths amendment.
being in such confused state. ...
Mr.. Schenck, Of Ohio, replied that thu
public exigencies were SO pressing that III
could not give an hour. He then moved thu
previous question, and explained the amend
ment and substitute, concluding by an appea
to the friends of the country to pass the bill
that the army might be recruited and thu
government sustained.
Mr.. Harding desired to address the House
Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio, proposed that the
gentleman (Mr. Harding) should, by genera
consent, be allowed half an hour for thai
purpose.
Mr.. Schenck objected to this proposition.
Opposition to further proceedings on the
bill was manifested, when Mr.. Rogers moved
to reconsider the vote by which, in the Garlic,
stage Of the proceedings, tine House had
agreed to adjourn till Monday. This motion
was laid on the table by vote of lou against
40. .,t
The House then proceeded to vote on the
amendment:
"All able bodied male persons of African
descent, between the ages Of 20 and As
whether citizens or non-residents in the
United States, shall be enrolled according te
the provisions Of the act to which this is sup.
Elementary, and form part of the national
forces; and when a slave of loyal citizen
shall be drafted and mustered into the service
of the United States his master shall have a
certificate thereof The bounty of 800 now
payable by law for each drafted man shall be
paid to the person to whom such drafted per-
son owes service or labor at the time Of his
muster into the service of the United States
on freeing the person. The Secretary OF
War shall appoint commissioner from each
slave State represented in Congress, charged
to award inst compensation, not to exceed
$500, to each loyal person to whom the COL
ored volunteer may owe service, who may
volunteer into the service of the United States,
payable out of the communication money, upon
the master freeing the slave"
The amendment was agreed to-yeas 81,
nays 81.
The House having agreed to the amend.
ment to the bill, Mr.. Schenck submitted a
substitute, which was agreed to, and the orig.
inal bill as thus amended was passed, by SO
yeas to 60 nays.
The bill a. passed provides that the quota
OF each ward of city, township, precinct OF
election district, or county where the same is
divided int wards, towns, townships or cleo.
ton districts, shall be as near as possible in
proportion to the number of men resident
thei elm subject to draft, taking into account,
% far as practicable, the number which has
been previously furnished therefrom. And
in filling said quota there shall be taken into
account the number of men who have here.
tofore entered tho naval service of the United
States, and whose names are borne upon the
enrolment lists already returned to the Office
of the Provost Marshal General of the United
States. Any person enrolled under the pro.
visions of this enrolment act who may here.
after be enrolled may furnish at any time pre-.
vious to the draft an acceptable substitute,
who is not liable to the draft nor at the time
in the military or naval service; and such
person 10 furnishing substitute shall be ex.
empt from draft during the time for which
such substitute shall have been accepted; but
no private ,Jldier, musician nor non.commis.
stoned officer, being actually in the military
service of the United States, shall be pro-
cured or accepted as substitute.
The boards of enrolment are to enroll all
persons liable to draft under the provisions OF
this act and of the enrolment act, whose
names shall have been omitted by the proper
enrolling officer; all persons who shall arrive
at the age Of 20 years before the draft; all
aliens who shall declare their intention to
become citizens; all persons discharged from
the military or naval service of the U. s.,
who have not been in the service two years
during the present war, and all persons who
have been exempted under the provisions OF
the second section of the act to which this
actis supplementary, but who are not exempt
ed by the provisions of this act, and the
boards Of enrolment shall release and dis
charge from the draft all persons who, be-
tween tho time of the enrolment and the
draft, shall have arrived at the age of Is
years, and shall strike the names of such
persons from the enrolment. Any person
drafted into the military service, may, before
the time fixed for his appearance for duty at
the draft rendezvous, furnish an acceptable
substitute, subject to such rules and regula-
tons as may be prescribed by the Secretary
of War. If such substitute is not liable to
draft, the person furnishing him shall be ex-
empt from draft during the time for which
such substitute is not liable to draft, not ex-
ceeding the time for which he is drafted and
if such substitute is liable to draft, the name
of the person furnishing him shall be liable
to d aft in filling future quotas; and if Any
drafted person shall hereafter pay money for
the procuration Of substitute under the
provisions of the act of which this is an
amendment, such payment of money shall
operate only to relieve such person from draft
during the time for which the person was
drafted, unless the names placed in the box
be sooner exhausted, in which case the name