New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-03
xXXIX Congress-.
SENATE.

Mr.. President, q great bereavement has fallen up
on the Senate. Mr.. Foot, a Senator Of Vermont
one of our most honored associates and the oldes
among us in continual service. died this morning
at o'clock. He has passed from this scene Of
duty and honor. In the presence of such . sor-
row, itseems better that public business should be
suspended in this chamber for to-day. Accord.
ingiy, I shall nuke motion, which I believe Will
have the sympathetic concurrence Of the senate.
I make it in the absence of the surviving senator
1roM Vermont, who is now necessarily engaged ~
attendance upon the family of the deceased, ana
after consultation with him. Imove that the Senate
The motion was carried, and the Senate ad-
eurned until Tomorrow. sss.
Mr.. Wilson, Of Iowa, from the Judiciary Com
mittee reported back bill to provide for the set
tlement Of the accounts Of certain public Offices.
Il provides that all moneys raised in the United
States for the support OF refugees or freedmen,
and received By any officer Of the United States
books q he Treasury Department, and accounted
for BY him in like manner as if. such moneys
had been drawn from the Treasury of the United
States. ~ -3s III 8s .i3sSs7 a ss35gs5 stls
in order to authorize the Third Auditor Of the
Treasury to settle the accounts of the officers OF
the freedHlen's bureau for the funds received by
them. All the funds received by officers of the
bureau from donations, were reported by them to
the Treasury Department, and charged on the
books Of that Department against them, hut there
was no law authorizing the settlement of the ac-
counts for the funds received in that way.
The bill was considered and passed.
Mr.. Morrill,, OF Vt, from the Committee of Ways
and Means, reported q bill to famend the internal
revenue act of June 3d. 1854 and the act amen
datory thereof, approved March 8, 1866. He stated
itw the purpose Of the Committee Of Ways and
Means to report . bill extensively modifying the
income tar, and in order that it may take effect
this year, it desired that the leyyng and col
lection Of such tax shall be postponed for two
months. He, therefore, asked that this bill be
considered now, in order that4he committee might
have time to report such bgl as would meet the
approval Of the House, which they would do at as
earyt period as practicable. There being no
objection to the bill il received its several read
ingS, and was passed.
+ enacts that all proceedings touching the levy
and collection Of the annual tax provided in
schedule A, Of section one hundred, Of the act to
provide for Internal revenue, etc., approved June
80, 1864, and the act connlendatory thereof,
approved March 3D. 1865, and all proceedings for
the levy, return and collection of the income tax
approved BY said act, be postponed for the space
Of two months provided all the provisions, rem
edies and penalties in said act shall remain in full
force and effect in all respects, except so far as
the same are changed, as to time, by the postpone
ment aforesaid.
MI. Raymond, Of N. *. offered the following
resolution, which was considered and adopted:
Resolred, That the Committee on the Judiciary
be instructed to inquire into the expedieney of SO
amending chapter tenth of the laws Of 1868,
entitled an act TO regulate the duties Of the Clerk
OF the House of REPRESENTATIVES in preparing for
the organization of the House, as to provide that
no member whose name may be called by the
Clerk in accordance with the act shall participate
in the election of Speaker, or in any other bust
ness Of the House, until he shall first have taken
the oath OF Office prescribed by the Constitution
and laws
The House then proceeded in the regular order
Of business. to the consideration Of the bankrupt
law, On which TIE House yesterday ordered the
main question.
Mr.. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, having charge of
the BILL expressed his willingness to have the vote
on the passage of the bill fixed for future day. in
order 70 accommodate members who were absent,
and who desired to vote on it. SG.3
Mr.. Schenck,of Ohio, remarked the difficulty
about that was that there were several members
about to leave the city who were anxious to vote
on this bill. He did not see that there was much
hkelihood Of the House being fuller a week or two
hence than now. ls
Mr. Ross, Of Illinois. objected to the debate.
MI. Jenckes moved to reconsider the vote by
which the main question was ordered yesterday, in
order to postpone the bill.
Mr. Washburne. Of Illinois, moved to lay the
motion 70 reconsider on the table. NJ
Mr.. Jenckes withdrew his motion and pro-
ceeded to make the closing speech in support of
The bankrupt law was defeated by vote Of
yeas, 80; nays, ~. s ssslsl III NJ 4 a
Mr.. Washburne moved to reconsider the vote,
and also TO 10y the motion to reconsider on the
table.
The vote was taken on the latter motion and re- |
suited, yeas, So nays, 68. So the motion to re-
consider came before the House. 81
MI. Beaman, of Mich, moved to postpone the |
reconsideration Of that motion one week, which |
Mr.. Hubbard, of Iowa, presented Joint resolu- |
ton Of the Iowa.l legislature, asking grant of |
lands 70 aid In the construction of the Iowa Rail
Lands. Mo-
Mr.. Lawrence, Of Ohio, asked leave to report
from the Judiciary Committee joint resolution
proposing On amendment to the Constitution Of
recommitted. a'l
Mr.. Ancona, of Pa, desired to make 1t a con-
dltlon that the bill should be brought back by a
motion TO reconsider.
Mr. Lawrence declined to make that condition
nj, Ancona thereupon objected.
Inc next business in order was the unfinished
business Of the morning hour Of yesterday, being
ne nii reported from the Committee on Indian
q subject Indian lands and allotted lands
IN hansas 70 ne leMs thereof. Al
/. ". lngefs9n, Of H. made speech in opposi- |
ton to the bill taking the ground that its praoti-
cal operation would Be to enable SPECTATORS to |
sWlndie the Indians out Of their lands Is53 I
Mr.. Stevens, Of Penn, offered the following al
substitute for the bill: That whenever / crime
shall be committed by an Indian or a white man in
Kansas, ne shall be arrested wherever he may be
Io ;. wilnln ne state, and tried wherever the
Mr.. Stevens remarked that the only excuse
which seemed to be offered for this law against the
people who were not represented here was thew
went into other parts of Kansas, committed crimes
there, and fell back into their own territory Sc
cured to them By treaty, and where they cannot
be punished. K that were the only object his
amendment would cover all that.
Mr.. IngersoH declared himself in favor Of the
amendment.
The. debate was further participated in BY
Aessrs. Henderson, Hubbard of Iowa and briggs.
v Nh. Briggs, Of Mich, moved d substitute, max
lng its proyiaons applicable to all the States and
Mr. Ross, Of nj, Dem., j moved to lay the bill
and amendments on the table, and that motion
Mas agreed to- yeas, SO nays, 4S.
!. On motion OF Mr.. Stevens, the evening session
Ier today was dispensed with.
Il NJ. Stevens asked consent to introduce an
2mendment to the Constitution of the United
taees declaring that Congress shall have power to
n w anty On cotton exported from the United
" Hooper, 81 Mass, objected.
& ar. Mindom offered > resolution, which was |
q y nsfvuetng the Committee on Public Lands
y nqn:xe INTO the expediency Of SO amending the I
~. seA9 bil - 70 give to soldiers who have
~. MansnHy disabled In the service and to
,sss .;fsy ala ether legal representatives Of de-
~ MI u no nave locaed lands under said
~ 81 n % loeated 81 them without de-
Ehe bill authofises he pnstns m ~ ],
depoat stampn and stamped enrsi,ss ~. ~,
WHICH had been postponed Hi I'M ~, aer sale'
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