Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-02-19
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3 a Superintendent. ats salary Of $1,000
: to be stationed at New York, and to be
connected with the State department
l The President, when he deems it neoessa.
+ ~, may appoint another Superintendent
, to be stationed atNew Orleans.
1t will be made the duty of the Commits.
siOner to collect information of soil, eli
| mate, mineral resources, agricultural
products, rates Of wages, price Of labor,
| means Of Communication and wants of
the Industrial interests Of the United
States, for dissemination abroad in isffer-
ent languages, at an expense not exceed
ing $50, 900.
Ten thousand dollars may be used in dis
seminating this information in newspa.
pers and by similar means.
Resolutions Of the Kentucky Legislature
were presented to the House to day BY Mr.
Harding. asking reimbursement Of losses
from rebel raiders.
The Military Committee decided to post
pOne anything Of the sort. Such claims are
likely to be postponed till the close Of the
war.
Mr.. PomerOy's bill donating public lands
to orphans of soldiers deceased, gives the
same amounts of the College grant, name
ly, 5000 acres for each Representative and
Senator.
The gold question receives all sorts of
solutions. Here is another in the form of
bill, presented today by Brutus Clay:
That when special or express contract has
been made since January 1st or shall here
after be made upon deposit on loan of gold,
nothing shall be legal tender for discharge
of such contract or of any judgment rem
dered thereon but gold, any law to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
Gen. Garfield submitted bill to organ
izs Regiment of Veteran Engineers from
the Army of the Cumberland for three
years or the war, to be accredited in draft
quotas to their respective States.
Mr.. Morrison has bill to provide pay
ment Of bounties to thoae volunteers who
enlisted before the date for the call of troops
in Ootober last the same as are now given.
A. J. Aliens bill apprOpristing half
million dollars for public works in Cairo
has been presented, and now asks for fifty
thousand dollars for q Custom House,
Court Room and Post Office for the same
sweet village.
The following is Senator Browns reso-
luton just introduced, sbOlishing slavery:
That from and after the passage of this
act, slavery shall not exist in any State
or Territory in the United States, law,
claim or custom to the contrary, notwith-
standing; nor shall involuntary servi-
tude bepermitted otherwise than in pun
ishment for crime, whereof party shall
have been convicted.
Senator Sumner has another proposed
amendment to the Constitution, in sub
stance the same as Senator Browns with
the addition of the erssure of certain
words from the Senate section, first srti-
Gle thereof, so as to make it read "repre-
sentative and direct taxes shall be appor-
toned among the several States which
may be included within this Union &C.
cording to their numbers, excluding Indi-
ans, who are not taxed"
An additional clause strikes out the
provision Of the Constitution which rem
ders up fug;tives from labor.
The Senate Special Committee to-day
authorized Mr.. Sumner to make long and
elaborate report in favor Of the repeal Of
the Fugitive Slave law. The report en-
braces an exhaustive review Of the whole
question Of Constitutional obligation to re-
turn fugitive slaves and Of the legisla tion
based on it.
The report Of the Conferences upon con-
scripdOn was presented today.
The following is fuller synopsis than
that sent last night
Exemption of certain high officials is
stricken out none being exempt but sol.
iiers in the field or honorsbly discharged,
and persons mentally or physically unfit.
The House provision requiring boards Of
examination to hold examinations at diff
ferent points in their districts at the op.
tiOn of the Secretary Of War, is retained,
as also that enrolling negroes throughout
the United States, with the essential mod
iaoation that when the slave Of loyal
master is drafted and mustered into ser
vice, thereupon such slave shall be free
and the master be paid bounty of 800.
The report was ordered to be printed.
The payment Of cOmmutstiOn, which is
fixed at $500, cannot exempt for a longer
period than one year, and if the quotas are
not filled by draft another is to be made
till the full quota is obtained. Drafted
clergymen, who may be assigned to duty
as non-oombstsnts in hospitals or to the
the care of freedmen, can only
avail themselves of such provision, when
their department oOmpOrt with their con-
scientious scruples. The report is signed
By Wilson, Nesmith and Grimes, of Senate,
and Schenek and ,Denning Of the House,
Herman declining to concur in it.
The following confrmstions were made
in Senate to-day.
Charles Hutchins, Of Oregon, to be In
dian Agent for the Territory of Idaho
Horace James to be Assistant Quarter
Master, with rank Of Captain.
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