Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-03-06

ousiness.was passed through Congress the last
two days of the session 10 not among the mos:
creditabie Of the proceedings of tloneTa.s. The
Senate amendments TO the Amsndatorv In
ternei Revenue, the AnendatorY Tarif an
the Indian Appropriations bills were not even
read to the Eous &c, being so numerous, but wers
all non .Concarrea in bodily, and forth with
seat to the Conference Committees, on whose
reports, ard with but brief and occasionally
imperfect ex PLANTATION, they were SIcpted an /
again, to q bill merely to define the pay OF Off
GERS servants, twenty or thirty sections were
added in relation to military affairs, including
an amendatory enrolment bill and kindred
objects, and on these there had TO be q Commit
tee OF Conference, and rushed through without
an intelligen knowledge OF their Character.
The OWL Appropriation bill owes its defeat
to being loaded down with extraneous amend.
mepts. and the want of Ii a % TO adjust the Diff
ferences between the two Houses The Amen
datory Tsriff bill imposes an additional duty OF
two dollars a ton on railroad iron.
The extra session CT the Senate has nothing to
do with legislation, but will act upon nomina-
tons for office, and probably continue for two
weeks.
The Civil bill. as originally reported, con-
taIned large appropriations for the Coast Sur
vey, Lighthouse, established land surveys, and
other effects of a miscellaneous character.
This being considered an "omnibus bill, tho
House added new features, and the Senate
weighed 1t down with heavy appropriations,
including at least four millions OF dollars tor
the expense of calling out and sDbsisting tho
State militia, and appropriating seven or eight
hundred thousand dollars to repay moneys
ad vaDced for the Pennsylvania militia in as.
sistiDg to repel invasion.
The Senate struck out q material amendment,
inserted at the instance Of Mr. Davis, of Mary
land, namely That no person shall be tried by
court. martial or military commission IN any
State or Territory where the courts OF me United
States are open, except persons actually mus
tered and commissioned, or appointed other
wise by lay, In the military or naval service,
or Rebel enemies charged with being spies.
The disagreeing votes of the two houses were
sent TO O conference committee. The managers
compromised all their differences excepting
this, which it was proposed to be acted upon
separately, but many of the members OF the
House preferred losing the bill TO guaranteeing
the clauses in question, and so by dilatory mo-
tons they defeated it.
All the other general appropriation bills
were passed. and also a bill to establish bu
reau for refugees and freedmen, and IL author
iZe the COINAGE of three cent pieces of copper
tional currency under five cents.
The bankrupt and the Illinois and Niagara
Ship Canal bills were lost in the Senate; while
the bill to pay extra compensation to the build
eTs of IRON clads was also lost,
Nothing as finally done with the Camden
and Amboy Railroad Company, the House bill
remaining cloggeo in the Senate with amend
ments.
The following are the items of the defeated
Omnibus Biil:-Coast Survey and Light House
establishment in cludingSpecial works, signals,
&c, Sl,5i7,52G; purchase or files OF newspapers
tor library OF Congress, and coal for warming
the library, S3,00O care OF transient paupers,
grounds. including the furnishing usual at tn
beginning of every Presidential term, $500;
repairs OF the Capitol, including the approprl-
alton tor the dome, sos 400; lighting the Presi-
dents House and grounds, Pennsylvania av-
enue, -Four. an d a. half, Seventh, and Tweifth
streets, and deficiencies, sos 900; repairs OF
Pennsylvania avenue, Potomac bridge, tenc-
ing, water pipes. clearing sewers, aud for
reservations and care OF grounds. &c, S23uG1;
wall III front of the Old Capitol, paving IN
front of the VI ar Department. stone crossings,
impro yement of Franklin Square, iiiumina-
ting City Hail and Capitol, fuel and labor,
Sl6,110; Warden Of the Penitentiary, Sl6JG
Hospital for the Insane, S117.Wo Patent Office,
S22, 81 0; Botanic garden, including sewer, $780,
Si5; Asylum for the Deaf, Dnmb, and Blind
extension OF building, &c, $50, las: public land
surveys Sl9l.0 600; Investigations relative 10
mineral Reserves, SIS, COO Academy of Sciences,
SG,UGU; court houses, custom houses, and other
Government buildings, $4,000; purchase Of
Merchants Exchange, New York, Si,0G0,000;
miscellaneous Claims on the Treasury,
10000; Pacific Telegraph, $4,000: apprehen-
sion and conviction Of counterfeiters, 100000;
census OF Idaho SIS, GOO; certain pTivats claims.
S33. 532; Arizona Territory, Sii, 100; revenue
agent, New York, and compiling revenue laws,
Ss,CNN; additional for publishing statutes at
large, IS pay for chart Of reserved fisheries,
and commission under the reciprocity treaty,
Si,4OO; fitting up room in the Old Treasury
building, 81 1000 revising laws OF the DtsIl2f
of Columbia $1,000; repairs OF Naval Academy
at Annapolis, $4,000; salaries OF clerks in
Assistant Treasurer's office at Philadelphia,
$4,000; San Francisco branch mint, SS5,9T3;
expenses in the Quartermaster Generals de-
partment, $500; printing national currency,
and paper, S23,23i; Tor the adludication OF the
NJ isssfHaFsa claim, 81 ,OyvCOO Total, >s7,o2O18o
were clauses contained in the biII authorizing
the sale OF the Pennsylvania Bank baiiding; to
adjust the claim on the Government OF the
State OF Ne York tor duties paid on imported
arms purchased in bond; for expend.ng $4,000
FOR expenses OF officers enforcing the treaty for
the suppression OF the slave trade; to pay thu
interest upon the debt due the Smithsonian
Institution in coin and for applying the ap-
preparation heretofore made for the Territory
OF Nebraska to the pay OF the militia in that
Territory.