The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-01-26

cuslohsj oah' iotn,' through MT.
Perham, of Name, reported adversely
on the petition of the widow of Ma
jor General 4. V. Sumner, praying
for an increase of pension from $50
to $50. The committee could not
consent to an increase Of pension to
those who are already receiving $50
per month, while so many poor wid-
ows of soldiers are receiving only 8
dollars. This is supposed to settle
a large class of claims of the same
kind now before the Committee. The
same Committee also made an adverse
report on the petition of Mrs. Nc
Lain. The petition sets forth that
Capt. McLain, while commissioned
only as a Captain, was at the tune of
his death acting as Lieutenant Colonel
and prays that the widow may re-
ceive q pension according to the po-
sition in which he was acting at the
time OF his death. The report states
that during the war many officers
were killed or wounded while exer.
cising higher command than that
for which they were commissioned,
and the committee are opposed to
granting pensions for higher rank
than that for which the officer was
actually commissioned. As there
was no opposition to the report in
the House, it is supposed all similar
cases before the committee will be
disposed Of in tie same way.
The bill for the enlargement of the
powers of the Freedmen's Bureau
was discussed in the Senate Tuesday,
Mr. Salisbury, of Delaware, attack
ing the measure from the Copper
head side, and Mr.. Fessendcn, of
Maine, making the principal speech
in its defense. Mr. Fessemdcn. in
the coulso of his remarks, asserted
that there was no ground for the re-
ports that there was any conflict be
tween the President and the loyal
members of Congress. In the House,
a spirited debate, often assuming the
character of verbal skirmishing, took
place, in reference to the proposed
amendment of the Constitution in re-
gard to the appJrtionment OF taxation
and representation. 1t was partlci
pated in by q large number of mem
bers. No final action was taken.
In tue ornuto nuvnuay, A.. IL.
sender, and in the House, Mr.. Ste
vens, reported from the Reeonstruc
Committee joint resolution provid
ting for an amendment of the Con
stitution by which representation
and joint taxes shall be apportioneC
among tie States according to thei
respective population, counting til,
whole number of persons in eacl
State, excluding Indians not taxed
In those States where the electiv,
franchise IL abridged or denied t,
any class of persons on account o
race or color, those persons thus ex
cluded are not to be counted IN th
basis of representation. The bill
for extending the powers of th,
, Freedmen's Bureau, was discussed
in the Senate, and various amend
ments offered by Democrats and Mr.
Cowan, very conservative Unionis
from Pennsylvania, were rejected.
The death of Henry Winter Davis
says the Nashville Banner, take
! from the ranks ofthe radicals mint
desperately brilliant and persona
of commanding weight. Davis ha,
been for years the most defiant poll
tician in America, and has done more
toward the formation of his arty in
Maryland than all others PIT togeth.
er. He was handsome, ready, grace.
tul, INSCRIPTIONS, elegant, scholarly
fearless, the darling of q mob, tho
soul of secret society, tie embodi
ment of city autocrat.
Rufus Choate, the only son of th'
late distinguished lawyer of tina
name, died near Boston, day o.
two since. lie has served in tn,
army as a Lieutenant, but was com
PEELED to resign from broken health
He was thirty one years of age.
A number Of deaths have occurred
in New York, which the physician
decide were caused by "bad -four.
Instead of "death in the pot"
IrS0,risos horoo'tor to be death in til
. A letter written by Hon. A. II
Stephens, late Vice President of tn
Southern Confederacy, has been re
ceiyed in Washington. lie says tina
the original Union men of Georgi
suffer greater persecution now OF
account of their sentiments than the,
did during the days of the confedcr
acy.
The New Jersey Senate Tuesda,
passed the joint resolutions ratifyinl
the Constitutional Amendment abol
ishing slavery, by vote of 13 to
The resolutions had already passe,
the House, only ten members voting
in the negative. One hundred gum
are to be fired to-day.
The Missouri Damocrat nnhI;oba,