Ellsworth American., 1866-06-01

Internal heteHHe BUt-EIuHu~uttoWc ~ po""-
ties-4Serenade Of the President and, Cabi-
net-The Senate and Reconstruction.
Mr.. EpIToR:-
For the first time this session the House
is hard at work in business session to-day,
(Saturday)-; heretofore Saturday has
been devoted to speech making. Now
they are i'll committee of the whole on the
Revenue Bill. and will reach its concluding
section to night, before adjournment. Ii
has been Il long and laborious task, and it
may be hoped that the bill is a good one,
and that it will give pretty general salts
| faction. 1t is not worth while for me now
to attempt anything like synopsis of this
measure. but when it is reported as II
comes from the House. may give some OF
its salient points, for the benefit Of your
readers.
The bill for the equalization u bounties.
has been thrown into quite mnfdle in the
House, by substitute offered by Mr..
Schenck. to what is known as Mr.. Julian 5
bill. This substitute was introduced and
carried through under the previous ques-
ton. as an amendment before the House
were aware of its main features. The
original proposition is rendered about
nugatory. and should this child of General
Schenck, become a law, its favors can be
enjoyed by but few, and Mr.. McCulloch
will have no reason TO complain of very
heavy depletion of the Treasury. As |
understand the bill. which passed on Fri
day by a vote Of one hundred and twenty
nine to two. is very considerable falling
off from what was first proposed. The
language of the second section is as fol-
lows:
THAT in computing and asertaining the
bounty to be paid to any soldier. sailor or
marine, or his proper representatives, un-
der the provisions of this act, there shall be
deducted therefrom any and all bountics
already paid, or payable under existing
laws, by the United States. or by any State,
county, city. town, or other municipal or
ganization, or by any voluntary association,
so that IN no case shall the aggregate a
mount of bounty allowed and paid from all
sources exceed eight and one third dollars
for each month of actual faithful service,
or at the rate of one hundred dollars per
year. And in case fany sailor or marine
to whom prize money has been paid. or is
PAYABLE. the amount Of such prize money
shall be deducted. and only such amount
of bounty paid as shall, together with such
payable by the United States. or by any
State, county. city, town. or other munci-
pal organization, or by any voluntary as
sociation, amount in the aggregate to the
sum allowed by this act.
The effect of this will be, not only to tle-
prive a large number of men and their
families from recovering any further COM
pensation, but lit will compel the States
and localities that were liberal in the be
stowal of bountieS upon their own soldiers.
and sailors. TO pay their further proper
ton to the men of states and towns &C..
where no bounties We're given for recruits.
For instance. Maine. Massachusetts. New
York. and some other stateS-if this bill
passes the Senate. must aid in paving the
soldiers of Indiana and Kansas. anu some
other states. that gave no bounties. Now
this is not fair. Let the bountcs be equal
lied without any regard To what states and
towns have done in the way of local
favors to recruits. If this cannot he done.
Don't hold out illusivc promises to the
brave men who fought our battles. and
Won our victories, "mor talter with them
in a double sense. keeping the word of
promise to the ear. and breaking it 10 the
hope"
think better bill than this will pass
both Houses of Congress before the adjourn
mcnt. and thus some justice at last will be
done the soldier.
We have had II little sensation here the
past week got up for our especial benefit.
and for the general enlightenment of the
country upon the heretofore much mootcd
with respect to my policy, ''or rather per
haps should say. how stands Mr.. Stanton.
This fumigation was resorted to. for this
particular reason. There is little squad
vi siiidii poiittidi> III w ashiiiStol NIo
call themselves johnson men. They have
not been copperheads. nor secsesionists.
but till a recent date they were Union Re-
publicans. They have club, and at the
head Of that club stands Hon. \, W. Ran
dali. First Assist ant Post Master General
a very very pleasant gentleman by the way !:
but died in the wool johnson man. lie
and others like him, want harmony in the
Cabinet. so they say. and they mean TO
have it. With this end in view. they got
up a serenade and visited the President.
and all his constitutional advisors. and
called for speeches. Now said they in the
start we will have them; but just how far
they have got them, and whom they have
got the country already knows. They have
not got Mr.. Stanton, nor Mr.. Harlan. nor
Mr.. Speed. They have got Mr.. Wells and
Mr.. McCullOch, (slr. Seward was absent.
We all know where he stands. Nor they
have not got-as it not unfrequently hap
pens-is fact of deeper significance than
the other fact of who approves the Prcsi.
dant's course.
incline to the opin on that no very pro-
fonnd impression has been made upon the
country by this flmigating process of our
small politicians. and government officials.
Certainly no Union man here in the Nation
! al Ca itol. feels otherwise than pleased al