The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-12
CONGRESSIONAL PRoCEEDINGs..
wAsH1NaFoNi Jan. II.

the removal OF the tteSlpEOclty 4EettkyS
referred to the Committee on Conn
merce.
Mr.. Fessenden called up the bill to
| authorize the SecretaryScf the Treasury
| to appoint an Assistant Assessor.
Mr.. Sumner offered as an amendment
a'proviso that no person shall be ap-
1 pointed an Assistant Assessor without
| being Obliged to take the oath required
by Act of Congress. w y
| Mr.. Fessenden objected to the amend-
ment stating that there was a law IN
the statute book requiring the oath to
be taken, and the proviso offered by Mr..
Sumner was unnecessary.
Mr.. Sumner said that the Secretary of
the Treasury had in published report
admitted the appointment of men to
Office in the South without requiring
them to take the oath. Mr.. Sumner
subsequently Withdrew his amendment
and the bill was passed.
Mr.. Wilson offered resolution which
was adopted, calling for information in
regard TO the advertising expenses of
the departments, and in what Washing
ton papers they are printed, and by
what law the printing is..authorised, &C.
Mr.. Trumbull, fromithe Judiciary
COMMITTEES, reported a bill to enlarge
The powers of the Freedmen's Bureau;
also bill to protect the citizens of the
| United States in their civil rights, and
gave notice that he would call them up
as soon as printed. 81
| After the bills reported by Mr.. Trum-
bull, Mr.. Wilson offered n joint resolu-
/ ton respecting the three months extra
pay of officers of volunteers when mus
| tered out of service. 1t provides that
| section of the act of March Sd, 1865,
making appropriations for the support
of the army for the currant year, shall
be amended to make provisions for
three months pay proper to all officers
of volunteers below the rank of Briga-
| dier General who have been commits
stoned since March Sd, 1865; who have
| remained or shall remain in the service
until mustered out by reason of their
services being no longer required. Or
dered to be printed.
Mr.. Nesmith offered resolution
which was adopted, requesting the Pres
ident to communicates information in
regard to the negotiations with the Re-
publican Government of Mexico in
1861, for the purpose of marching u. s.
troops from Guayanes to Arizonia
through the Mexican territory.
| The President pro tenn stated that the
/ moning hour having expired the busi-
ness before the Senate was the resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Howe yesterday for
the appointment of Provisional Cover
nors in the Southern States.
Mr.. Johnson said he had no reluc-
tance in addressing the Senate on the
subject because of his connection with
the special committee of fifteen, but be-
cause the opinions he was about to state
were opinions he had entertained from
the beginning on the subject in ques-
ton.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Johnson's
speech Mr. Howe obtainee the floor, and
on motion the Senate adjourned.
The Speaker laid before the House
the credentials of Jos. Farrow and John
ID. Kennedy, as members of the House
from the State of South Carolina, which
was referred to the Joint Committee on
Reconstruction.
The Speaker laid before the House a
communication from the Secretary of
War stating, among other things, that
commissioners were appointed in Della
ware and Maryland tomnke awards for
slaves who were mustered into the mill
tary service, but that the order was Sus-
pended, by order of the President, as to
the other slave States, as all the money
available was required for carrying on
the war. The communication was re-
ferred to the Committee on Military At
fairs. Eiafe-
Mr.. Stevens. from the Committee OH
Appropriations, reported the army app
preparation bill, which was made the
special order for next Thursday. The
House then resumed the consideration
of the bill extending suffrage to the ne
groes in the District of Columbia
Mr.. Rogers, of N. j., by permission OF
the House, spoke for two hours, insist
| ing that this is exclusively u white
mans government, and that 1t was an
outrage on tho citizens of that District
to attempt to make the negroes equal
| to them. f
A bill was reported from the Commit
tee on Invalid Pensions, giving pen
in the military service. The pension to
commence from the passage of the act.
The bill was thus passed after an etfec-
| tual effort to amend, SO as to make 1t
commence from the LIST of January,
| 1866.
Mr.. Brandagee offered a resolution
directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to report for the information of the
House, the aggregate amount of money!
appropriated and expended from the PEE
Rod of the establishment of the Phila-
delphia navy yard to the present time,
including the, cost of the site, shops,
docks, machinery, and all other items
which pertain to its establishment.
Mr.. Thayer suggested an iamend7
ment, which was accepted, also to furn-
ish an estimate ofthe value of the pro-
perty.
that the Secretary likewise state the
number of shops built and their char
acter.
Mr.. Brandagee said it was not to be
expected that the Secretary of the Navy
should possess the Information which
the gentleman desired.
Resolution was then agreed to.
Mr.. Smith offered a resolution to al
low the Committee on Militia to have a
clerk. He stated that the committee had
before it the recommendation of the
President for perfect militia system,
which was endorFed and urged by. 1t. !
Gen. Grant. i
There WIS also resolution requiring
the finding out the number of arms be-
longing to the United States, in order to
an equitable distribution of them
among the several States. i
Mr.. Banks said that the reorganiza-
tionof the militia was of the greatest
consequence; when the war broke out
almost every State was unprepared, be-
cause but little, III any attention had
been given to the subject of the militia,
and because all plans for re-organiZa-
ton for the last twenty-five years were
defeated now If the committee under
takes to re-organize this arm ofthe SER
vice, it would render important service
to the country, and would have greater
labor than any other committee, there
fore the committee ought to have a clerk
If 1t undertook this work..
The resolution was agreed to.
lR Mr.. Stevens, from the Committee on
| Appropriations, reported bill making
| appropriations for the support of the
army for the year ending June 30th,
1867, which was made a special order
for Thursday next. :. -
On motion of Mr.. Ingersoll, the Com
mittee on Territories was instructed to
inquire into the expediency of report
ling bill to repeal the act organizing
| the territory of Utah, and to divide
said territory, attaching one part there