The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-02-02

Washington. F eb. l.

SENATE.
The Senate resumed the condi3arAtidl
OF the resolution offered by Trum bull.
Trumbluh vls opposed 70 EAr. Tel
kyck's motion to exempt Louisiana froa
the provisions of the resolution. If thi
wss done it would be . decision BIZ Con
gress That Louisiana was, on the 8th b
November, in condition to cast i Pres
| idental vote.
The Judiciary Committee, in consider.
alton of this subject, has avoided an ex.
preston of opinion as to whether Louisi.
ana was or was not in the Unien. What
ever might be the views of Seuators n
to the organization which had been got.
ten up in Louisiana, and although Con-
gress might hereafter have to reoneanize
that organization as legitimate. it did not
necessarily follow that the condition of
the state of things in Louisiana Cd the
9th of November was snch a. to authorize
the count of the votes. It was matter
of public notoriety to citizens in the land
that large portion of the State Of Louis
lana was. on the Sth Of November, in DOS.
session Of . hostilonnsmy, and there was
no opportunity 10 Vote for President and
Vice President in . very considerable
portion of that State.
1t might be a very serious question
whether, when one half or two-thirds pf
State was overrun BY an enemy AN election
held under such circumstances and under
the auspices Of our own guns, would be
m election which would authorize Con-
gress to receive the vote of that State
when in joint convention, to canvass that
vote. He did not mean by the action on
the subject to counsel the Senate one way
or the other in regard to the organization
which had been gotten up in Louisiana.
Ten Eyck claimed that Louisiana was
not out of the Union, nor never had been;
that no State had actually seeded. and
in the nature of the case, could not. There
had been aD election in Louisiana under
the auspices of civil Government, and
IL ,515 votes had been cast.
TrumbulI said the vote nf Louisiana is
generally over $4,000.
Ten Eyck said be kdew that the entire
vote had not been cast.
A great many of the Inhabitants Of
Louisiana had gone off into the rebellion,
and great many had been killed.
Howe explained why be should not vote
for Ten-Eyck's amendment to strike out
Louisians. He would be governed in
this action by statute of the United
States, authorizing the people to elect
Presidential electors. The statute did
not deprive a minority Of a right to 20
into an election because majority xefused
10 do SO.
There vas nothing said as to the num-
Der necessary. 1t was TO be done by inst
80 many people as saw tit 90 participate.
Harris thought it was unfortunate that
The Louisiana question was brought mp
incidently. II Congress had the power to
declare that Louisiana should not vote
Why had it not q right to declare that
New York should not vote. He denied
hat the local authorities of the States
named in the preamble we're in rebellion
At o'clock the Senate went into ex
ecutive session and soon after adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Cresweli offered the following res
1lutioo and asked una limcus consent for
its consideration, but objection was made
By Mr.. Morris of New York.
A resolution that the Secretary of War
be directed to report to the House what
compensation, if any, has been awarded
ID each of the several slavs States repre-
sented in Congress to loyal persons to
whom colored volunteers at the time Of
their enlistment owed service or labor-if
any compensation or only partial .compen-
sstion has been made, and further report
The reason or reasons why the act ap-
proved February "a, SO far as it relates
10 such colored volunteers, had not been
executed.