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Thirty-hinth Congress First Session.
SENATE.
TERRITORIAL OFFICERS.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Mr. Williams called up
bill to prevent the absence of territorial officers
from their official duties 1t provides that no ter
from the territory of which he is an officer for
more than thirty days at time. Mr.. Williams |
says the absence of territorial officers from their
duties on the other side of the Rocky mountains |
was source of great evil to the territories. Ter
rltorlal judges, governors and secretaries fire |
quently absent themselves for six months at a |
time, to visit Washington and other eastern cities.
Mr.. crimes was conscious that great injustice |
has been done to the people of the territories by
the absence of their officers, but he thought the
bill was too sweeping in it's character.
MIR. Nesmith thought the provisions of this bill |
too strong. In many cases the absence of terri
toral officers was necessary for the discharge of
their duties.
Mr. Conness said the bill called his attention to
the fact that territorial officers selected from
superannated politicians of the East, for whom no
use could be founda home These men corrupted
the manners of the people Of the territories. Terri
toria officers, Mr.. Conness said, ought to be Sc
iccted frothe Inhabitants of the territories, and
not from used up politicians of the East. rH.gf5s
BILLS FROM THE PENSION COMMITTEE.
Pending the consideration of the bill the morn
ing hour expired, and the special order which was
the consideration of bills from the pension COM
mittee, was called for. Cd re. , .....,ts.
On motion of Mr., Grimes, it was ordered that
when the Senate adjourn to-day, it be to meet on
Monday next. 4...os" 80 .& 5i. II
Mr.. Sprague asked the chairman of the Commit
tee on the District of Columbia, Mr. Morrill,, when
he intended to report the bill comforting the rights
OF suffrage upon the colored persons IN the District
| Mr.. Morrill, said he would introduce the bill at
an early day. MIR. Morrill, introduced a communi.
cation from the colored people Of the District OF
Columbia, asking Congress to participate in the
celebration of the abolition of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia on the anniversary on the 18th
Of April. 1t was referred to the Committee on the
District of Columbia.
The Senate refused conference on the amend
ment from the House, prohibiting the sale o
liquors in all public buildings.
Il resolution was adopted calling upon the secre
tary or the Interior for information relative to th
been taken to prevent it, The Senate went int,
! executive session.
MESSAGE FROM THE PREsIDENT-NAvAL APPRoPRI
| ALTON BlLL-THE ARMY BILL, ETC.
| WASH NGroN. April l3.--Mr Washburne, of Illi
nois, offered resolution, which was adopted, in
| structing the Committee on Commerce to inquire
what legislation, if any, is necessary to prevent
the introduction of the cholera into the United
| States.
The speaker presented communication from
| the Secretary of War, in compliance with the
resolution of March l4 stating that he has data
by which to form an opinion as to the effect the
erection OF a quarantine will have on the nayga-
ton waters of New York harbor. Also commu-
nieation from the same, in answer to a resolution
OF the lGth inst, in relation to the finding of the
commission in the case of the awards to the cap.
tors OF Booth and Harold The communications
were laid on the table and ordered to be printed
In the naval appropriation bill the House rece-
ded from the following disagreements {: rs
To appropriate $50 600 for the Brooklyn navy
yard and S9l,OOO for the Norfolk navy-yard and
agrees to them. t'-
The Senate agrees to the amendment appropra.
ting Sl35 900 for the purchase of sOakmanis OF
Eldridges wharf, at Charlestown, and $1,000 fol
the Pensacola navy-yard.
The House agrees to the appropriation of S25 ,
600 for the purchase of additional grounds at An
naI oils. Other amendments were agreed to.
: message from the President in reference to the
fisheries was received, but the House having taken
up the bill to reorganize and establish the army o
the United States, as special order, Mr.. Schenc6
declined to agree to the suggestion of Raymond to
let the message be read, ard the House proceeded
to consider the army bill.
THE ARMY BILL. .Ns..4-
Mr.. Schenck in reporting the army bill said il
: was passed in conformity with the views of the
lieutenant general of the army, and was sanctioned
by the secretary OF war, in so far as it regarded
the number of the standing army. 1t provides fol
an army to consist of $50 600 men, but with an or
ganization capable of expansion to $4,000. Hi
own opinion was that the army should amount t,
at least 100000 men, but he yielded his opinion tt
| H..
was sanctioned by the President Without gon.
, into details, it would be found that the numbe
agreed upon was by no means too great. Th
Senate fixed the number of infantry regiments a
htty, and the COMMITTEE at ftty-tive which wa
according to the recommendation of the secretar
Of war aud the lieutenant general commandipc
The pairing down of these five regiments by tn
Senate was done, apparently, for the purpose
crowdlng out and getting rid Of the veteran rt
serve corps. The committee retained fty.fy
regiments, using ten of them for q veteran reserv
corps. Appropriations for the army during tn
last year OF the rebellion amounted to S5I6 600 00(
The estimates for the army proposed to be retaue
amounts TO S38 600 GOO, one sixteenth of what tn
army cost during the last year of the war Anothe
feature of this bill, differing from that of the Sen
ate, was in regard to the number of colore,
troops
The Senate proposed eight regiments of cooret
troops; this bill proposes ten regiments of coloret
troops. The Senate bill proposed that ten Of the
twelve cavalry regiments provided for in both
bills should be composed Of colored men, While
! the House bill contained no such clause. He was
aware that there would be objections from some
quarters to the preserving of tile veteran reserve
corps He would not now get into any argument
as to the organization of that corps lts services,
/, its character or the manneri in which it was Off
cered He would but say that this corps, which
sprung rom the necessities of war, had its birth
in the eXigences Of great struggle. lt was pro-
no.ed in tLs bill to retain fifteen regiments of that
cnrus the officers of these regiments to be drawn
not exclusively from those who were oicers in the
ty enty-pur regiments that heretofore existed, but
, | tn he selected by examination from among those
, Ulcers and from auung all other wounded yoiun-
teer officers who may have requisite qualifications
Their enlisted men to be left to The discretion
of the President aud that all regular army officers
who have during the war commanded volunteer
troops shall be connected either as regular army
officers or as volunteer officers. Committee re-
gardvd either as giving the first third of the prize
TO regular army officers, and then remtting 10 the
| enjoyment OF lhe other twothirds of those army
| officers who had commanded volunteers during the
war, thus cutting off volunteer officers. The com.
'nittee to besnch as might be fit fur field or garri
| soa duty. who might be assigned for service in
camps, bnt all of WHOM would be rejected from
other regiments. i.tz .Ei -.I5rt "a
| Another feature in the bill reported was the
preseryati0n, as distinct bureau, OF the proves,
marshal and his assistants. He knew tGat that
! W9aId be subject Of ohiecton--he would only