Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-12-14
CONGRESSIONAL.
IConcluston Of Aonday's Procesdia0sJ


crease the pay proper of army officers
twenty dollars per month, fix the commu-
tation price Of the ration mt fifty cents in
stead of thirty cents, as ut present, and al
low sixteen dollars per month.
Mr.. Wilson said the price of provisions
is more than doubled since the commence
ment of the war, which made 1t very hard
for army officers, especially for the line Of
tlcers. Captains and Lieutenants were with
difficulty enabled to support themselves,
owing to the great rise in the price of pro-
visions and clothing. The condition of the
treasury made 1t very difficult to increase
the pay of these officers. He would COM
mend the subject to the serious considera-
tion of the Military committee, to whom he
moved reference of the petition, and it
was SO referred.
Mr.. Wilson presented the petition of Col.
Higginson, praying for an amendment to-
the act of last session limiting the increase
of pay to those colored soldiers who were
free on and before April 10Th. 1861 The
petition was referred to the committee OH
Military Affairs.
Mr.. Doolittle offered the following,
which, on his motion, was referred to the
Finance committee.
Resoloed, That the committee on Finance
be instructed to inquire into the propriety
of the immediate passage of an act to in
crease the revenue, First, by an additional
tax of one per cent. upon all sales of real
and personal property, including also all
bargains for the sale of merchandise, pro-
duce, gold and silver coin and stocks of
every description; Second, by an additional
tax of 25 per cent. on the gross receipts, to
be added 10 the present rates of all railroad
fares, including street railroads, steamboats,,
and fprrinc n ha nnllantn1 hu fhn q ninc
or rpersonsrunningth the same for the use Of the
Government. And that said committee be
further instructed to inquire into the pro-
priety Of the passage of law to prevent
the further exhaustion of the currency by
the organization of any new banking associ
tions, except where they may take the place
of some existing State banks; and also in
quire into the propriety of redeeming all
the outstanding interest-bearing legal ten
der notes, by issuing In their stead other
notes in denominations not less than $50
each bearing uniform interest from the
first day of January in each year, of 3, Go
and 10 per cent. per annum, with coupons
attached, to be paid out anu be made legal
tenders for their price, with interest added.
Mr.. Ramsay introduced bill to extend
the time for the completion of certain land
grants to railroads in Minnesota and Iowa.
lie Lands.
Mr.. Farwell introduced the following
resolution, which was agreed to:
Resolued, That the committee on Com
merce be instructed to inquire into the pro-
priety of providing by law that vessels en-
gagged in foreign trade shall employ or take
on board American boys, at least one for
every five hundred tons measurement.
He also introduced the following, which
was adopted:
RESOLVED, That the committee on Com
merce be instructed to inquire into the pro-
priety Of consolidating the three great dis
tricts. and for providing that licensed ves-
sells may trade Oh the Atlantic and Gulf
coast without clearance and entry at the
Custom House.
Mr.. Davis, according to previous notice,
introduced a series of resolutions for the
restoration of peace, union, DC. The reso-
lutions presented a convention of all the
States as the agency by which these ends
are to be attained, and they then propose
to refer to the consideration of such con-
vention, as a basis of a settlement of all
difficulties among the States, numerous
amendments to the Constitution, arranged
in eleven separate paragraphs:
The first paragraph proposes to form the
States of Maine. New Hampshire and Ver-
mont into one State; the States of Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
into one State; the States of Maryland and
Delaware, and the eastern shore OF Virgin
la, into one State.
The second provides that the President
and Vice President be chosen alternately
from the free and slave States, but both
never at the same time, either from free or
slave States, for the term OF four years, and
that any person who may have filled the
office of President shall be forever ineligi-
BILE to it.
The third provides that all the States, in
the month of January next before the eX-
piration of the Presidential term, shall pre-
sent candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency, the free States for the one Office
and the slave States for the other as they
may be respectively entitled to one and the
other office, and shall certify to the two
Houses of Congress and to the Supreme
Court the names of the persons so chosen,
and tor which office they have been chosen;
and on the first Monday in February fol-
lowing, the Supreme Court, in the presence
of the two Houses of Congress, shall select
from the persons whose names have been
certified for the Presidency and the Vice
Presidency, four names that have been GER
titled for that office; the Justices of the SUI
preme Court to be ineligible to any other
office.
The fourth provides that the President
shall have power to remove from office the
heads of the State, Treasury, Navy, War
and Interior Departments, the Attorney
General, all Diplomatic officers and Secre-
taries of legations; and all other civil off,
GERS. except those who hold office during
good behavior, whom he is required to
nominate to the Senate, he may suspend
from their offices.
The fifth asserts the absolute right to the
writ of habeas corpus in all places, and un-
der all circumstances, to trial by jury ac-
cording to the mode prescribed by the Con-
stitution, the freedom of religious opinions
and worship, of the press and of speech, eX-
emption from arbitrary arrests, and the
right Of citizens to hold and bear arms for
their own defense.
The sixth provides that each State shall
have the exclusive right and power to es-
tablsh within its own borders in what sub
ects there shall be property, and all its
ocal and domestic institutions, and to
make all laws and regulations concerning
them.
The seventh provides that private propert
ty shall not be taken for public use excep'
% subserve some constitutional operation
of the Government, nor until the owner shall
have received or secured from the Govern
ment, according to law, a full and fair COM
pensation.
The eighth provides that necessity shall
not originate or confer any power except
within the actual lines and to supply the
ordinary military wants of each military
force, unless essential to the public service,
immediate or impending, and so urgent as
not to allow the delay which would be re-