Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-30
VOL. XX---NO. "a.

but as the auther Of their misfortuEes. TheJ
would not voluntarily give equal politica
rights to the negro. There should be con
stitutional amendment or law of Congress
| guaranteeing the ballot to the negro.
After an Intellectual effort on the part o.
Mr.. Schenck to have the subject referred Il
the Committee on Judiciary, the previous
| question was ordered and the House ad-
jOurned.
SENATE.
Mr.. GRIMES offered a Joint resolution
rendering the thanks of Congress to Rear
Admiral Farragut and the officers and men
under him for their gallant conduct in the
engagement in Mobile Bay on the sth oi
| August, 1854. Referred to COMMITTEES on
Naval Affairs.
Mr.. SHERMAN offered bill, which was
referred to the Military Committee, author
izing the President to appoint at the request
OF any college capable Of educating one hun
dred and fifty young men, military officer,
to act as president or superintendent and
give instruction in the military service.
Mr.. RAMSEY, Of Minnesota presented a
memorial from the st. Paul Board OF Trade,
asking for the improvement of the Upper
Mississippi and such commercial arrage-
ments with the British Provinces as will se-
cure the freedom of the Welland and St.
Lawrence canals to American vessels and
the enlargement Of those canals by the
Canadian government to a capacity sufi-
cient to pass vessels of one thousand tons
from Lake Superior or Chicago to the ocean,
and also that joint commission represent
ing the governments of the States and
Provinces shall be authorized, with view
to liberal and satisfactory system of Reel
procity trade. Referred to Committee on
Commerce.
MIR. YATES, Of Illinois, introduced ths
following which was referred to the Joint
Committee on Reconstruction
Whereas, The Constitution of the United
States abolished slavery in all the States
and Territories of the United States, where
by all the constitutions, laws or regulations
of any State or Territory in aid Of slavery
or growing out Of the same, are null and
void; and
Whereas, By virtue of said abolition Of
slavery all men in all States and Territories
are citizens entitled to all the righ IS and
privileges of citizens, subject only to the
legal disabilities applicable to white per-
sons; and
Where's, also, it is expressly provided
that Congress shall have the power to en-
force, by appropriate legislation, the afore-
said power abolishing slavery, which can
not be done without protecting all citizens,
against all restrictions, or deprivation of
the rights resulting from slavery and secur-
ing to them all their civil and political
rights, including franchise, therefore be it
enacted, &C., that no State or Territory of
United States shall by any constitution,
law, or other regulation whatever, hereto
fore in force, or hereafter to be adopted make
or enforce, or in any manner recognize any
distinction between citizens of the United
States or Of any State or Territory on ac-
count of race or color or condition, and that
hereafter all citizens without distiction,
race, color or condition shall be protected in
full and equal enjoyment and exercise of all
civil Rand political rights, including the
right Of suffrage.
Mr.. WILSON introduced bill to increase
the number Of cadets and raise a standard of
admission to the Military Academy and
authorize the President TO appoint two ad
ditiOnal cadets for each State which shall be
represented in Congress and IS who shall be
selected from the sons of officers or privates
who have died in the military service of the
United States apportionate to the several
States according to the number Of troops
furnished during the war.
Mr.. HARRIS, of New York, presented the
remonstrance of a number ofcitizens against
the renewal Of the reciprocity treaty. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions.
Mr.. WILSON, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported favorablY on the
Ior une UenenT OF pupIic SCHOOLS m the D1s-
triet of Columbia
Mr.. WILSON from the Military Commit
tee, reported a joint resolution authorizing
the Secretary to grant the use of aportion
of the military reservoir on the st. Clair
river, in the State of Michigan, for railroad
purposes, which was passed.
Mr.. WILSON called up the bill to re-
strict the amount Of fees for collecting
the claims of soldiers to ten dollars each.
Mr.. CLARK, of New Hampshire, offered
an amendment to except cases in which the
accounting officer shall certify.
After the executive session the Senate
adjourned.