The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-07

SENATE.
MONDAY, March 6, 1865.

House bill constituting the act OF June
II 1864, increasing the compensation
Of the civil officers Of the Government
10 include the heads Of bureaux was re-
norted back from the Finance Commit
tee.
Mr.. Burnett offered an amendment,
giving the clerks in the Richrdond post
Office the same pay as clerks in other
Government departments in the city.
The amendment was agreed to and the
bill passed.
House bill to amend the acts to rcgu-
late the assessment and collection OF
taxes in kind was reported back from
the Finance Committee with amend
merts. The amendments except from
the operation of the bill "pcas and
ground-peas consumed by stock on the
ground where grown" and add as Sc
cond section, "That the penalty Tor the
non delivery Of the 1.-THE OF cotton or
tobacco shall be five times the estimated
value Of such 1.-THE"
The Senate acted on and passed the
following bills:
House bill authorizing hospital accom-
modations, for treatment, including sub
sistence, to certain officers and soldiers
resigned, retired or discharged.
House bill further to amend the act
to provide an invalid corps.
House bill to secure to sick and
wounded officers and soldiers the same
rights and privileges in obtaining leaves
of absence as are now provided by law
for soldiers obtaining Burroughs.
House bill making appropriations for
the construction and repair of railroads
for military purposes for the year 1865.
House bill providing for the auditing
and payment of properly authenticated
claims against the Cotton Bureau IN the
Trans-Mississippi.
House bill providing for the settlement
Of certain matters Of account growing
out of purchases of property, as alleged
by the purchasers, for tire use Of the
Government, by Payne & Co., in the State
Of Texas.
Mr.. Oldham, Of Texas, offered the fol-
lowing, which was passed:
".oISr RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR DoSAEIoSs TO
TIE TREASURY OF THE coSrEpERATE STATES.
W
their desire to contribute, by donations OF money
Jewels gold and silver plate and public securities
to the relief OF tie Treasury; therefore
"Resslred, That the Secretary of the Treasury
be- a, he is hereby, authorized to receive all such
donations, ard to publish i'll the daily papers a isl
of the donations received and the names OF the
donors
"That when the said contributions shall consist
OF certificates of Indebtedness lawfully issued by
d;sbursing officers of the Government, and the par
ties holding the willing to give part, but
,l,y~ Irlil nl f., Tho
Secretary Of the Treasury to receive the proportion
offered, if not less than one moiety, ana to return
the other moiety in certificates Of indebtedness re-
ccivable III payment OF taxes"
House resolution fxing Wednesday
next as the day of the adjournment Of
Congress was taken up.
Mr.. Vest moved its indefinite post
poncment Lost-ycas, 6; nays, ..
On motion, by Mr.. Oldham, the reso
luton was laid on the table.
The Senate went into secret session to
consider the House negro soldier bill.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The tax bill being taken up, the House
refused to concur in the Senatc's amends
ment by vote of. twenty-five ayes to
forty noes, and a committee Of confer
cnce was appointed.
A bill was passed to increase the salary
of the assistant treasurer at Charleston.
Mr.. Turner, of North Carolina, offered
the following preamble and resolutions
Whcreas, General John A. Preston, Supe,in-
tendcnt OF CONSUMPTION, reports 2l34s conscripts
from North Carolina, and only 81 frum Louisiana,
1862 from Florida, 1920 from Tennessee, SGGi from
Mississippi, 1850 from Alabama, S,992 from
Georgia. 9,i2o from South Carolina, 1888 from
Virginia, and not from Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
souri, or Kentucky; therefore
Rcsotred, That such q weak, partial and unjust
execution Of the law was I'M uIous and hurtful to
the cause for which the country blceds, and was
especially unjust cruel and oppressive towards the
citizens Of North Carolina
''RcsQrcd, That while tie citizens of North Ca
roiina were GENEROUSLY wropged by the -exccll-
ton Of the conscrpt law in other Sta tes they are
nov wtonged Ill three particulars in General Pres
toms report.
"lst. The State has more conscripts than he re-
ports.
them than he reports. -@
''3d She has not resisted the execution of the
consclpt Law, or any other law Of the Confederate
States"
The morning hour expired pending
the consideration of the resolutions.
A bill making an appropriation to sup
ply a deficiency in the War Department
during the fiscal period ending Decem-
Der 81, 1864, was passed.
A bill making an additional appropria-
ton for the redemption of temporary
loan made in the year 1861 of sundry
banks in the Confederate States, to sup
ply funds to the treasury, was passed.
A bill was reported to increase the
compensation Of two of the tax collect
ors in the city Of Richmond.
Adjourned.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher stated in