The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-10
CONFESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON, May 8.
SENATE

regulate the transportation of nitro-gly-
cerine, which was referred to the Conn
mittee on Commerce.
Mr.. Henderson introduced a bill to
regulate the appointments to and re-
moVals from offices. The bill was or
dered to be printed.
A bill to incorporate the National
Theological Institute of the District oil
Columbia was passed. The object OF
the Institute is the education of colored
men for christian ministry.
Mr.. Grimes introduced resolution
instructing the Finance Committee to
report upon the expediency of provid-
ing by law that no public officer shall
deposit Government funds except In U.
s. Sub-Treasuries where such exist,
and in the u. S. Treasury in Washing
ton, which was adopted.
The House resolution appointing a
commissioner to select site for the
New York Postoffice, was passed.
The bill to1preyent the Introduction
of cholera was taken up.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Wilson, of Ohio, from the Com
mittee on the Judiciary, reported the
bill to repeal the Esd section of the act
of the 3Ith Congress relating to pass
ports, which repealed the existing law
in reference to persons liable to militia
ry duty. The bill was considered and
passed.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration ofthe special order, being the
constitutional amendment reported
from the Reconstruction Committee.
: Mr.. BrOOmal, of Pennsylvania, said
it was to be expected that the joint reso-
luton would receive opposition from
the unrepentent SO. 1t was therefore
useless to waste argument upon them.
1t was also to be expected that the SIX
Johnsonian new converts to the democ-
racy would vote against the measure,
commencing with the gentleman from
New York, Mr.. Raymond, and endlng
with the gentleman from Kentucky,
Mr.. Smith, who had the disease in it's
mildest and most amiable form, ana
on them two argument was useless,
there must therefore be thirty-nine votes
against the measure. He wanted there
should be no more. So far from treason
being made odious, 1t was the most pop
ular institution of the South. Treason
has been made popular there and 10y
atty had been made odtous.
Mr.. ShanElin next took the floor in
opposition to the measure. He said the
first proposition contained In the meas
ure struck at the reserved rights of the
States. Those rights which the found
ers of the Constitution believed essen
tial to the existence of theGovernment.
1t proposed to strike down these rights
and concentrate all the power in the
general government. The second pro
posed TO disfranchize the people of the
States which had gone into rebellion,
until the chains of oppression could pc
riVetted on them through all time to
come. If these people submitted to the
terms sought to be imposed upon themi
they ought not to come back into the
Union, and ought not to hold place or
position as free American citizens.
They might have been disloyal, but
their history showed them not an inte-
rior people. They had been overcome
by numbers but not by superiority in
wisdom or bravery.
Mr.. Raymond was the next speaker.
He expressed his qualification at the
Committee having sub
mitted their scheme as whole, and
illustrative of the danger of submitting
only one portion mt a time, by reference
to the recent course of the British Min
istry on the Reform bill, the Ministry
having commenced the session with a
clear majority of sixty, which majority
had dwindled down to five because the
Ministry persisted in bringing forward
only one portion of the Reform scheme.
He Expressed his belief that all the
States to be affected by the proposed
measure should be represented, but he
did not hold il to be essential to the val
idity of Congressional action on the
Constitutional amendment that they
should be thus represented.
The debate was further continued by
MessrS. Mckee and Eldrtdge.
In the course of n colloquy between
Messrs. Wilson, of Iowa, and Raymond
the Speaker stated that he understood
it was the intention to bring the meas
ure to a vote tomorrow and that there
were thirty gentlemen still desiring to
speak.
he expressed his approval of the meas
ure, except the Sd section. He also al
luded to the eagerness with which Mr..
Stevens acceded to the suggestion OF the
name OF Gen. Grant for the candidate
of the Union party in1S69 for President,
as giving assurance that there would
be no dissent in the party on that sub
iect when the right time should come.
Mr.. Eldridge spoke against the Joint
Resolution and denounced the Recon-
struction Committee as having entirely
the country,
He proposed to amend Mr.. Garield's
motion to recommit with instructions,
by striking out the Sd section and in
serting the following: All persons who
adhered to the late insur-
rection, giving aid and comfort to the
so-called Confederate states, are forever
excluded from uoluluS any OAASS "a
trust or profit under the Government OF
the United States. ID
Mr.. Boutwell, denounced the Demo-
cratic party whose position every trail
tor in the South and every sympathi-
ger with treason in the Moth sustained
and in their hour of national peril, It
was their sad misfortune to be compel
ed to admit that he who secured the
suffrages of the people for the second
office IN the government, accepted the
policy of the Democratic party as his
policy.
before the House.
Messrs. Spauldfng, Miller, Elliott and
spoke In favor of 1.-THE joint
resolution.
mond to task abouthis supposed incon-
sistency between his position on the
measure and his position on
the civil rights bill, which Mr.. Ray
mond, acknowledgment the INTEREST," taken
in his record by the gentleman from
Iowa, explained to be no inconsistency
ut all.
Mr.. Stevens gave notice that at three
O'Clock tomorrow, he would move the
previous question and ask to vote on
the joint resolution.
Mr.. Bidwell introduced bill in rela-
ton to Round Valley and other Indian
reservations in the State of California;
and bill to establish post routes in
that State, which were read twice and
referred.
Mr.. Julian introduced a bill concern
ing the elective franchise in the Terri
tories of the United States, and the adj
mission of new States into the Union.
Read twice and referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Mr.. CulIom introduced bill to regu-
late the proceedings before Justices of
the Peace. This was read twice and re-
ferred to the Committee on the District
of Columbia.