, 1866-01-21
CONGRESS.
PASSAGE OF THE PEN
SION BILL.
Debate on the Freed
:, mems Bureau Bill.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
MaZZfniD Dangerous
ly lii.
| The LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRE.
| LAND FIRED UPON.
Alarming Increase rc Of
the Cattle Plague.
IMPORTANT FROM
| MEXICO.
Sharp Correspondence Be:
| tween Gems. Weitzel
! and Mejia.
THr 11DED t1Z DID QTME
THELlBERALS PREPARING
FOR ANOTHER ATTACK
ON MATAll0RAS.
M, ROMERO'S VIEWS ON
NAP0LEON'S DE-
SIGNS.
A New Freedman's Colo.
niZation Project.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

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a Joint resolution s1~Ttus' 'sae i95 tae
coTpleioD Of the Br--t:, IL cour1 klvef
III. LANE. 81 indlana, called up the bill authoF-
Interior. to appoint Pension agents, an1 name the
boundaries ot Pension DISTRICTS.
ME. LANE, Of kapsas, IVES opposed 10 the blu.
he believed that there was no necessity for p9stirg
It, teesuse the National Banks would distribute
pension money for the use Of Tho depastmeuts, lie
asked time 10 br7ng In substitute With TINS pro-
The hill was read three times, and passed without
amendment.
MISREPRESENTATION Invalid md uther pensions
sor The year ending dune. 1857, Tas taken up and
III. STEWART asked leave to ca1t up the bill for
the nnn0its1on Of Colorado.
Mr. SUMNER hoped that This would not be done
~ he had y amsndzncas 70 onef.
Mr. STEWART gsSe notice that he would call
IN the t1lI On Wedikedny next.
Air. 1REMbULL called up the bin to eula.re the
e e msss husssn hv tno
operations Of the Dureau to the states latey IN te-
lii. TRUMBrLL ta,d that this would hare the
crect of excluding kcn,ncky, Missouri. Delaware
siaves Nho needed the protection ot ihe bureau.
Ke1,ucky should be Included in ,he bill Kentucky
did not waut the re!lcI proposed The freedmen
wese par Of her poRulation and would BE- cared
roud take ea-s OF the fteedn,en much better than
The Fseedment Barean. The bill before The Senate
| ~as providing for = laxzarunt Throughout the
| Southern States, ard Kentucky wanted no eneh
thing within her botaefs. The bill before the
| *cnate could moi Be intended AS matter Of econ
orny. II economy TINS the object 1t could better
] bare been accomplished by the Iutued1ate adni*:
| siap Of ihr Southern States He did not uudef.
etapd what gentlemen ncan! ~hen they
| said the var wa. not ovcr. Tocfr had been
no hostile rorrer in the ned tor nine months in
Max Inst, the President i>fued an Amnesty Psocla-
looked upon ~ lenicn 10 the south, bnl he was
sn1tF shat lhe President bad uut gone !ar1he-. A.
l. w1.. there were thirty-hyc thousand exceptions
10 the Proclamation, and among these all Tie mis-
| torrunee OF the war would be distributed. The
south lost ten thou-nnd millions Of doIlasr worth
| OF property by the WIZ, and he thought they De.
served ii az con-eluenee o. eugasinE IN the War,
but Has not this pnnishment cn"uEhs
In concirs1on- Ar. Guthrie raid there was M
reason in the world why Congress should send on
ce1t oil the FTeedncns B1reau to recnlare the relA
| tfons between the citizens and freedmen Of hel
lucky. He WIS eoFry TO eee the spirit that was uan
for he nelleyed those people werc honest and sln
ccrt IN their professions 81 willingness mud anxiety
| to return to the EMon.
Mr. POMEKOY wanted to hear from Nj. Gath
ne an n1m,ekion tha1 the constitutional amend
ment rendered null and void MI siave codes ami
lawf relating 70 eihSeTy:
| Mf. GUTHRIE eald that VIZ h1t opinion and tha
| OF a very able laryer Of Lexington. from whom =
| hat RECEIVED letter On the subject.
Mr. POMER0t continued his fet1efkE, sfattnI
| that he would do nothing to the southern State
1or revenge, bnt only for security IN the f1ture.
Pending the dtscussion. the Se0ate adjourned,