The Portland daily press., 1866-06-27
BY TELEGRAPH,
TO THE DAILY PRESS.
Wednesday Mornisg, June 27, 1866.
xxx CoNGREss---1st Session.

G& 3 &1- WASHINGTON, June 20.
SENATE.
The bill creating the Office of Surgeon Cen
eral OF Idaho, was passed.
The Senate refused to take up the Niagara
Ship Canal bill, by yeas 15, nays 10.
The Freedmen's Bureau bill was taken up.
The bill amendatory to the organic act of
Washington Territory, passed.
The bill for the relief OF the owner of the
ship Magcienne was passed.
Inc bill amending and continuing Sin force
the bill establishing the Freedmen's Bureau,
was taken up and passed. 1t goes back to the
Hou.e for concurrence. 1t continue, in force
two years, and provides for the care Of ali 10y
al refugees and freedmen. Two additional
Assistant Commissioners are to be appointed.
All Assistants are to be of proved loyalty. All
appointees shall be deemed in military service
and under military protection. Officers Of the
Veteran Reserves or Volunteer service, now
on duly in the Freednen'5 Bureau, NAV be
retained with the same rank as he. ejotore.
The sa.es made to heads of e,ro fam lie t
certain land in South Caroiii a, by the tax
Commissioners in September, 1868, are con-
himed, and leases made at the same line are
authorized to be changed into certificates
sale. All lands IN tn pal shes OF ST. L Ike and
s.. Helena, except the city OF Port Royal
for military of naval purposes, are to be dis
posed OF III 70 acre lois, at $1.50 per acre TO
such persons only as have received and a.e
now occupying those lands agreeably to Gen.
Sherman's order. The purchasers are not to
ALLEVIATE them within six years. Certain pow
ers are given to the Commissioners. It also
provides for the restoration by the President
to the former owners, OF the lands in the Sea
Islands, now occupied by persons under Gen.
10 -.
restoration is moi to be made until after the
crops of the present year shall have been gath
cred by, and fair compensation given to, the
present occupants for all improvements.
A conference committee was asked on the
Army Appropriation bill.
The Senate then went into Executive ses-
sion. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The bill to pay bounties to "Grey Bear the
3tth Iowa regiment, which was laid on the
table few days since, was taken from the
table and passed.
The committee of conference reported back
the Senate bill to regulate the Transportation
of nitro glycerine with amendments, extend
ing Its provisi ,ns to nitroeum, or blasting oil,
or nitrate oil or powder mixed with any such
oil or substance, changing the penalty from
$500 to not less than $1,000, nor more than
$4,000, and requiring the substance to be
surrounded with plaster OF paris or other ma
terial that will be non-explosive when saturat-
ed with such oil or substance. The amend
ments We're agreed to and the bill as amended
passed. 80 81
fne committee reported a bill declaratory Of
the act OF Feb. 10. 1866, authorizing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to issue registers to
vessels in certain cases, which was passed.
Inc bull preventing any discrimination in
the rates of pilotage was passed.
The amendments of the Senate, 65 in num-
Der, to the Internal Revenue bill, were refer
red to the Committee on Ways and Means.
The bill amendatory OF the act to aid the
Union Pacific Railroad was passed.
The Senate resolution appropriatinc $4,000
for hiring building for the State Department
was amended by reducing the appropriation
to S25,0O0, and passed. Adjourned.