The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-25

SENATE.
FRIDAY, February 81, 1865.

Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Jeter, of the Dap
list Church.
Mr.. Semmes, from the Finance Com
mittee, reported back, with the recon-
mendation that it ought not to pass,
House bill to provide for the immediate
payment of arrears due the army and
navy. Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Wigfall, from the Military Com
mittee, reported back Senate bill to abo-
lish the Offices Of post quartermasters,
commissaries, &C, which had been sent
back from the House with an amend
mcnt; and recommended that the Senate
do not agree to the amendment, but ask
: committee of conference.
Mr.. Hunter disapproved Of a commit
tee Of conference on this bill. He was
opposed to the bill, as, if passed, it would
derange and interrupt the collection of
the tax in kind. There might exist
other valid objections to it, with which
he was not acquainted.
The bill was, for the time, informally
passed over, and,
On motion, by Mr.. Hunter, the Senate
resolved into secret legislative session,
and soon after adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met at the usual hour.
and was opened with prayer by the Rev.
DR.. Peterkin.
Senate amendments to House bill to
establish foundry and arsenal in the
valley Of Deep river, North Carolina,
and to House bill to amend the thir>
teenth section of the act to reduce the
currency, &C., approved February II,
1864, were concurred in.
Mr.. Lyon, of Alabama, from the Com
fnittee on Ways and Means, reported the
following bills:
A bill further to provide for the regu-
lation of taxation on banks and bank
notes, and for the confiscation of such
notes in the hands of alien enemies.-
Ordered to be printed. .
to record and keep all accounts of the
Navy Department. Passed.
A bill to amend the act authorizing
tho appointment of assistants to the re-
gister in signing notes and bonds, so as
to allow two additional clerks to be ap-
pointed. The bill was amended so as to
prohibit the appointment of any person
liable to military duty, and passed.
Also, q bill to provide for the more
efficient organization of the Treasury
Agency in the Trans-Mississippi De.
partment Passed.
A bill making additional approrpia-
tions-made the special order after ex-
listing special orders, and ordered to be
printed.
Also, bill providing for the refunding
OF money paid by persons residing in
districts declared impracticable for the
collection of the tax in kind in commu.
tation of said tax, in cases where the
tax has thereafter been collected in kind.
Mr.. DeJarnette, of Virginia, offered.
as an additional section, bill, prepared
by . special committee on the subject,
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to suspend the collection of taxes in
cases where it shall be shown to his
satisfaction to be peculiarly oppressive
or unjust.
The amendment was adopted and the
bill passed.
The resolutions reported some days
since from the Committee on Foreign
Affairs in connection with the result Of
the late peace negotiations and the dc.
termination Of the Confederate States to
prosecute the war, coming up,
On motion of Mr.. Baldwin, of Vir-
ginia, the further consideration thereof
was ordered to be in secret session.
On motion of Mr.. Clark, of Missouri,
the House resolved into secret session.
and having spent some time therein, the
doors were re-opened and the House
adjourned.