Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-27

The Senate bill to amend the act of Jul
lst, 1862, TO aid in the construction of
railroad and telegraph line from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific ocean, was take
up, and a long ana excited discussion wa
: participated in.
Mr.. STEVENS explained thas the objec
of the LIST section was simply to extend til
December, 1865, the time in which tn
Union Pacific Eastern Branch could file tn
map and designate The general route.
The object of the I'd section was 10 correc
fraud committed in copying the report 0
a conference committee of the last session
by which the California Company was pro
hibite from extending its part Of the worl
more than 250 miles beyond the eastern
boundary of the State. The bill passed.
The next business on the Speakers table
was the Senate act to amend the act oi
March Sd, 1868, granting lands to Kansas
10 alternate sections to aid in constructing
railroads. The bill allows steam traction
engine road from Atchison to Santa Fe
Each train to be capable of moving 80 tons
or 200 passengers six miles an hour.
| Mr.. TROWBRIDGE spoke in support Of
the bill.
Messrs. JULIAN, THAYER and RAN
DALI, of Pennsylvania, advocated its re-
ference to the Committee on Public Lands.
Mr.. TROWBRIDGE finally assented and
the bill was SO referred.
The Senate Joint resolution to authorise
the hiring of a building or buildings Tor the
| temporary accommodation of the Depart
ment of State, was taken from the Speak
| er's table.
On motion of Mr.. RADFoRD the appro-
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600, and the joint resolution as amended
passed.
The house adjourned at 1 o'clock.
SENATE.
Leave of absence for residue of session
was granted to Mr.. Lane, of Kansas, on
motion of Mr.. LANE, of Indiana.
Mr.. CHANDLER, from the Committee
on Commerce, reported 8 joint resolution
authorizing the Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railroad Company and the Cleveland and
| Toledo Railroad Company, either or both
jointly to construct swinging bridge over
the Government piers across the Cuyahoga
! river at Cleveland.
Mr.. EDM0NDS offered proviso by way
of amendment, that Congress may alter or
repeal this provision. Adopted. The joint
resolution as amended was then passed.
The SENATE then took up the House
| bill amendatory Of the organic act of Wash
ington Territory. 1t makes the sessions of
the the Territorial legislature biennial in
stead of annual, and increases the com
pensation of members from three to six
dollars day. The bill was then passed.
Mr.. STEWART called up the House bill
to create the office of Surveyor General of
Idaho Territory. Passed.
Mr.. HOWE moved to take up the House
bill to establish a ship canal around the
falls ofNiagara. Disagreed to by yeas II,
nays 10.
A bill to reimburse Wyandott Indians
for the value of two churches and a library
destroyed. by border rulIians, passed.
The establishing the Freedmens Bureau
was taken up and read.
Mr.. DAVIS moved to lay it on the table.
Disagreed tO-yeas 6; nays 81
After some discussion in which Messrs.
WILLOW, HEN BRICKS and TRUMBULL
participated, Mr.. BUCKALEW moved 10
amend by providing that the Bureau shall
remain in existence one year instead of
two.
This was disagreed to by yeas to %
nays.
Mr.. HENDRICKS moved to strike out
the 14th section, which was disagreed to.
Mr.. HENDRICKS moved te strike out
from the third section the following words:
"And the Commissioners shall, under the
direction of the President, and as far as the
same may be in his judgment necessary for
the efficient and economical administration
of the bureau, appoint such agents, clerks
and assistants as may be required for the
proper conduct of the bureau"
Disagreed to.
Mr.. HENDRICKS moved to amend by
striking out the provision declaring all per
sons in the employ of the bureau to be IN
der military jurisdiction and entirely to
military protection while in the discharge
of their duties.
Disagreed to.
The bill then passed, and goes back TO
the House for concurrence in amendments.
Its provisions are as follows:
Section 1st. That the act to establish
bureau for the reliefo of freedmen and refu-
gees, approved March Sd, 1865, shall con
tinue in force for term Of two years from
and after the passage of this act.
Section .. That the supervision and care
of said Bureau shall extend to all loyal re-
fugees and freedmen, so far as the same
shall be necessary 70 enable them as
speedily as practicable to become self-sup-
porting citizens of the United States, and
TO aid them in making the freedom con-
ferred by the proclamation of the COM
mander-in-chief by emsncipation, under
the laws of the States and by the cOnstitu-
tional amendment available to them and
benefit to the republic.
Sectien 2. The President shall, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
appoint two assistant commissioners in ad-
dition to those authorized by the act to
which this is an amendment They shall
be assigned to districts by the Commis-
sioner, with the approval of the President;
the Commissioner shall alss appoint, under
direction of the President, such agents and
clerks as may be necessary. Military
officers or enlisted men may be so employed
but without increase of emolument. The
Commissioner is required to give preference
to men who have done faithful service in
the army. All persons appointed under
this act and the act to which this is an
amendment shall be deemed in the service
of tho UnitedStates and to be under military
jurisdiction and entitled to the military
protection of the Government while in the
discharge of the duties OF their office.
Section 4. Officers of tie Veteran Reserve
Corps and volunteers may be retained in the
Bureau after their regiments have been
mustered out
Section ). The second section of the act
to which this is an amendment, shall be
sufficient to authorize the Secretary of Was
to issue medical stores, supplies and trans
portation for needful purposes. No person
shall be deemed suffering or dependant,
who is able to procure employment and
support himself
Section c. WHEREAS, By the provisions of
an act approved February ), 1853, entitled
an Act to AIMED an Act entitled an Act for
the collection of direct taxes in insurrec-
tionary districts within the United States,
and for other purposes, certain lands Of the
parishes of St. Helena and st. Luke, South
Carolina, were bid in by the United States
at public tax sales, and by limitation of said
act the time Of redemption of said lands
has expired, and
WHEREAS in accordance with instruc-
tions issued by President Lincoln on the
10th day of September, 1865, to the o. s.
District Tax Commissioner for South Caro-
lina, certain lands bid in by the United
States in the parishes of st. Helena in said
State, were in part sold by the Tax Com
missioners to the heads Of families Of Afri
can decent, in parcels of not more than 20
acres to each purchaser, and
WHEREAS, under said instructions said
Tax Commissioner did also set apart a
school farm in said parish, the number on
| this plat from l to 30, inclusive, making
an aggregate of coo acres, more or less.
Therefore, be it enacted that sales made to
heads of families Of the African race, under
the instructions of President Lincoln under
| the direction of the District Tax Collector
/ of date of September 10Th, 1868, are here
by confirmed, and all leases which have
| been made to such head of families by said
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