Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-20
FROM CALIFORNIA.
FIRE AT OWENSBORO, KY.
Loss About 100000 Dollars.
XXXIXthC Congress
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, OecemDer ~.
On motion of MI. WORTH, of Indiana, it
was resolved that, if not incompatible with
the public interests, the President commu-
nicate any information in possession of the
Executive Department in regard to the steps
taken at any time by the so-called Empire
of Mexico, or any European power, to OBJ
tain from this government q recognition of
the so-called Empire of Mexico, and also
what correspondence or action has been
taken by the Government of the United
States.
EMr. STILLWELL, of Indianns, offered the
following:
WHEREAS, the war for the preservation
of the Union and the Constitution is now
over, and its counterpart, Instructions re-
bellion has been put down by the strong
arm of the Government peace and Union
being the object and that having been OBJ
tanned, therefore,
ResolUed, That the people who rave been
in rebellion against the Government, and
who have submitted 10 the laws of the
United States and nave adopted a Republi-
can form of Government, repealed the ordi-
nance of secession. passed the Constitutional
amendment forever abolishing slavery, re-
pudiated the rebel debt and nave passed
laws protecting the Freedmen in their lib
erty, that the Representatives of the people
elected to Congress having received their
certificates of election from their respective
Governors. should be received as members
of the T~hirty-ninth Congress when they
shall take the oath prescribed by Congress
known as the test oath, without further de-
lay.
The above was referred to the Committee
on construction |
On motion of Mr.. NUGENT it was resolved
that the Committee on Judiciary be in
structed to enquire into the ~expediency of
providing by law that no person shall be
appointed a clerk of a District or Circuit
Court of the United States who is of kin or
related by blood or marriage to the Judge
thereof.
On motion of Mr.. SLOAN, of Wisconsin,
the Committee on Roads and Canals was
instructed to inquire whether persons visit
ing the National Capital are subject to any
unnecessary Inconvenience andobstacles in
passing through the city of Baltimore, and
10 report to this House at an early day
whether it would be Just and expedient To
authorize the No-the--- a4A4 D-aHoAI
Company to extend their road to this city.
Mr.. HALL, of Indiana, introduced the
following resolution:
ResoiUed, That the act Of July I'd. 1862,
prescribing an oath to be taken and sub
scribed to by any person elected or appoint
ed to Office under the Government Of the
United States, before entering upon the du-
ties of said office, is of binding force in all
the departments of the public service, and
should in no instance be dispensed with.
A motion to lay the resolution on the table
was disagreed to by a vote of 80 yeas and
I26 nays
The resolution was then passed.
Mr.. HARPER, from the Committee
on the War Department of the 10y
al States, reported a resolution which
was adopted calling upon the Secretary of
War to furnish to the House a statement
showing the number of men furnished by
each State from the first of April 1851,
the number of three months men and the
credited to each State on the stand
ard of three years, etc.
ION motion of Mr.. ELLIOTT, the Commit
tee on Commerce was directed to inquire into
the expediency of reporting a general bill
providing an appropriation for the necessary
Improvements in the sea and lake coasts,
and in ~navigable rivers.
Mr.. MILLER introduced a bill to inquire
into the practicability of having steamship
navigation from the Chesapeake Bay, at the
mouth Of the Susquehanna River, to Lake
in the State of New York. Re-
ferred.
A message was received from the Senate
accompanied by q report from that body,
proposing appropriate action consequent
upon the death of President Lincoln.
The report was unanimously concurred in
by the House.
Mr.. WASHBURNE, of Illinois, from the
select committee appointed to take action
On the bill for the relief of Mrs. Lincoln,
the same with a substitute, name
y, that the Secretary of the Treasury, if
not otherwise appropriated, shall pay to
Mrs. Mary Lincoln, wife of the late Presf-
lent of the United States, or, in the event
Of her death before payment, to her legal
representatives, twenty-five thousand dol
Iars, provided always that any sum of
money which shall have been paid
% his personal representatives since his
Heath OF account of his salary as President
If the United States, shall be deducted from
laid sum. The bill was passed.