New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-06
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 5.-House-An amendment
to the rules offered and laid the table set
ting apart one day in next week for the considera
ton of public business, to be called the :" white
mans day."
A resolution was offered instructing the Com
mittee on Reconstruction to inquire into the ex-
pediency of levying tax on the rebellious States
in order to defray the expenses of keeping up
standing army among them to keep the peace.
The House resumed the consideration of the bill
extending the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau,
and an amendment was adopted that its opera
tons be confined to those States where the writ
of habeas corpus is suspened.
tSen0te-Mr. Fessenden called up the joint reso-
luton from the Committee on Reconstruction, pro-
posing constitutional amendment basing repre-
sentation upon population and excluding from re-
presentation all persons denied the right of suf-
frage on account of color.
Mr.. Sumner spoke in opposition, and offered a
substitute declaring that all persons shall be equal
before the law in their civil and political rights.
1t occupied the attention of the Senate during the
entire day. He contended for the perfect political
and civil equality of all men, and will not conclude
mis- speech until tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-Senate.-By clerical
error Mr.. Anthony's bill regulating suffrage in
the District of Columbia is made to confer
suffrage only upon white persons
Mr.. Clark, from the Committee on Claims, re-
ported adversely upon several petitions for com
pensations for losses incurred by the invading
armies in Virginia and elsewhere.
Joint resolutions were then read proposing the
the following amendment: representation shall
be appointed among the several States according
to their respective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons, including Indians not ia Sed j;
provided, that whenever the elective franchise
shall be denied or abridged on account of race or
color, all persons of such race or color shall be
excluded from the basis of representation" Mr..
Sumner offered substitute for the above, in sub
stance that Congress may enforce the prohibition
of slavery by appropriate legislation, and that all
relics of slavery should be removed, including all
questions of rights on account of color He char
acterizes the proposed resolutions for an amend
| ment, as nothing else than another compromise OF
| human rights.
Mr.. Sumner supported his views in a speech Of
considerable length.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The Secretary of tht
Treasuary has issued an order that from and after
the first of March all Southern manufactures il
possession Of the manufacturers shall be held sub
ject to the present rates of duty, no exception
being made in any cases on account of the manu-
| tacture.
The United States Consul at Liverpool report
to the Secretary of State, under date of the 12t
of January, the loss of three American vessels
the Harry of the West the Meridian, and th
1igress, and the rescue of their crews.
| The cattle scourge is rather on the increase
9243 cases are reported for the week ending the
Goth ut. Since the commencement of the disease
upwards of 10000 cattle have died of the plague
or have been killed after taking it.
terrific tempest was raging off the coast OF
France on the 18th. Several wrecks came into
La Rochelle.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Senate combinations !:
Daniel Richards, Tax Commissioner for the Dis
trict of Florida; W. P. Kellogg, Collector OF Gus
toms for the Port of New Orleans; and BreVet
Major Gen. B. W. Brice to be Paymaster General,
with the rank of Colonel.
RICHMOND. Feb. 5.-The Virginia Legislature
has adopted resolution approving President
Johnson's reconstruction policy.
A Washington special says that the Committee
on WAYS and Means will recommend a new Cana
dian reciprocity treaty, or an extension of the old
one 1t is probable that reciprocal legislation will
take place. making the tax distilled spirits simi
lar in both countries; navigation is to be open
the locks of the Welland canal are to be enlarged
the tolls are to be the same to all parties; impor
lations from Canada are to be toned so as to pos
sess no advantage over our own products, and th'
free ports in Canada are to be abolished.
New YORK, Feb 5.-John Roberts, the cham
pion of Great Britain, dudley Kavanaugh, Mel
wire, Foster and other billiard celebrities, leaV'
this evening to take part in the Memphis billiart