New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-01-19

coNGREssroNA DEBATE.
@H1rN aossrH
PROPOSED HEAVY TAX ON COTTON.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Etc. Etc, Etc. +
senate. sys IS
WAsHEGToN, Jan. i .-4sfr. Fessenden called np
the bill to authorize the Secretary OF the Treasury
to appoint Assistant Assessors.
| Mr.. Sumner offered ais an amendment q proviso
/ that no person shall be appointed an Assistant
| Assessor without being obliged to take the oath
required by the act Of Congress. te
Mr.. FesSenden objected to the amendment.
There was law in the statute book requiring the
oath to be taken, and the proyiso offered by Mr..
| Sumner was unnecessary. -
\ Mr.. Sumner said that the Secretary of the Trea-
|
| pointment of men to Office in the South without
I requiring them to take the oath. 38s&
Mr.. sumner subsequently withdrew his amend,
inent, and the bill was passed.
/ Freedmen's Affairs.
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee
reported bill to enlarge the powers of the Freed
mems Bureau. Also a bill to protect the citizens
Of the United States in their civil rights; and gave
notice that he should call them up as soon as
printed.
i The President pro tenn, stated that, the morning
| hour having expired, the business before the
Senate was the resolution offered by Mr.. Howe
yesterday, for the appointment of Provisional
Governors in the Southern States. t3sSa
| Mr.. johnson said he had no reluctance in ad
dressing the Senate that subject, because of its
connection with the special committee Of fifteen
4 for the reason that the opinions he was about te
4 state were opinions he had entertained from sths
\ beginning on the subject in question.
\ Proceedings of the Mouse.
4 WAsHINGToE, Jan. 1.-THE Speaker laid befort
| the House communication from the Secretary o
1 War, stating, among other things, that commits
sioners were appointed in Delaware and Maryland
to make awards for slaves who were musteres
into military service, but that the order was sus
pended, by order of the President, as to the othe
4 slave States, as all the money available was re
quired for carrying On the war. The communica
ton was referred to the Committee on miiitar,
affairs.
4
tials of James Farrow and John D. Kennedy, a
! members of the House from the State sof Soutl
Carolina, which was referred to the joint Commit
i tee on Reconstruction.
The Militia Committee.
u Mr. Smith offered resolution to allow the Con,
i mittee on Militia clerk. He stated thet the com
mittee had before it the Recommendation of tn
President for perfect militia system, which wa
4 iadorsed and urged by Lieut. Gen. Grant. Their
4 was also resolution requiring the finding out
Il ii number of arms belonging to the United States
in order TO an equitable distribution of them anon
4 the several States.
Mr.. Banks said that the reorganization Of III
Z militia was of the greatest consequence. NY he
the war brpke ont. almost every State was unpre
pared because bat little if any attention had bee
given to the subject of the militia, and because a
plans for reorganization, for the last twenty-hv
], years, had been defeated. Now, if the comnoitte
undertook to reorganize this arm of power.
would render important service to the country
and would have greater labor than any othe
committee. Therefore it ought to have clerk
it undertook this work.
On motion of Mr.. Tngersoll, the Committee ol
Territories wasinstructed to inquire into the expe
diency of reporting bill to repeal the act organ
izing the Territory of Utah, and to divide said Tel
ritoTy, attaching one part thereof to Nevada, an
the other to- the Territories contiguous.
i Cotton Tax.
4 MIR. Morrill, introduced bill proposing an add
tional tax on cotton, which was referred to til
0H tkuu h1E+s-iS.
Il Suffrage.
The House resumed the consideration of the bi
to extend suffrage in the District of Columbia, b
striking out from all laws and ordinances the Tor
:" white.i f-sF
Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey, said there ives n
purer patriotism than that which belongs to tn
party opposed to those in power. At the time
the adoption OF the constitution OF the Unite
States, none were included in the general term
" people y or " "ciiizens,' but white people, an
! ! the fact had been solemnly declared by the 81
preme Court of the United States; and that til
government was made for whita mon and womei
and not for the colored race.
Mr., Kelly said that he would rot be guilty of a
! impropriety, but he would CAST the gentleman
mention the case. d.
Mr.. Rogers replied: In the Drcd Scott case.
Mr. Kelly asked the gentleman whether he eve
!, heard of the distinction between the dictum of
Judge and the decision Of a court, and whether b
/, would point out the facts on which he raised TIL
l question, or the language on which it was Dc
, cided His tkellyss) recollection was that wht
: ore of the Judges of the cours said ives what th
, gentleman aBnounced as the decision of the cour
!! He affirmed that when the constitution YVES adop
/ ed, the free eolored men Of New Jersey and tll
? States adjoining, and in all The States exceptin
!, South Carolina and probably Delaware and vi
!, ginia-in which suffrage was regulated by statute
!. and not by constitutional pruyisiun-were citizen
Z and voted for delegates TO the convention who
!, framed the constitution and exercised Suffrage
! the question of its adoption. He challenged IL
= production of any legal decision or historical woi
y to contradict the assertion winch he mad made.
:, Mir. Rogers replied that he made the assertio
y and would swerye not single line from it. Th
!, Lin the Declaration of Independence, and in Il
, Constitution, the only intent was to include Il
. white race. isG 81
/ Mr. Kelly said the gentleman nlisrepresented Il
!, case, and asked what the court did decide.
Mr. Rogers replied that the court deeided-at
i that every Intelligent man who read phe decisit
:, would see it, that Dred Scott was not citizen
the United States or Of any State, and did not con
:, within the political status Of citizen, and cou
n not become free citizen in any court Of Il
:, United States.
I Mr.. Kelly remarked that tho gentleman had n
a vet answered what was decided. he (kel
y would state that the court decided that it had
~ Jurisdiction over the case before it, aud thereto
y turned it out of court and thereby proclaimed til
Y all the array of facts were outside of the court.
I, Mr.. Rogers said that great sanctity was given.
:, the action of the Supreme Cont by the gentlem
y y and his friends, when tile conrt leaned to radio
:, ism; but when the court fairiy met the issues
Y fore the country they then branded the court
U usurpers, secessionists and tyrants, whose dec
., ions were not entitled 10 consideration.
>, Mr. Kelly replied that the gentleman was sligi
NJ Nv mistaken The Republican party do not sta
Q, by that decision. He had never heard mamh
n of that party say that the court decided in acct
cr dance with law when it decided that il had no ,
+, risdictinn in the case. The assault was from
Y other party, who soy that tho court had jurisd
J, ton, Jt decided matters which those genteHi
u adopted as their creed.
Mir. Rogers repeated that the court decided til