The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-08-07
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.
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After session of nearly eight months, Con-
gress on Saturday, the 18th, adjourned until
the first Monday of December next The ses-
sion has been protracted one, but the business
done amounted to little practical value. The
closing proceedings we're characterized by much
confusion and excitement, but the members
generally separated with kindly feelings TOWARD
each other. It is difficult to tell exactly ~nae
was done and what was left undone at the close
Both houses remained in session throughout the
whole of Friday night. The President vetoed
the bill to create surveying district in Mon
tana. The bill which passed both houses to
admit the territory of Nebraska into the Union
was not signed, and is therefore lost. No at
tempt was made to pass the Colorado bill over
the veto of the President All the appropria
ton bills were passed, but there was severe
struggle over the miscellaneous appropriation
BILL aud it saved by only one majority
There was strong opposition IN the House TO
the increase of the salaries of the members, with
mileage at twenty cents per mile, but the mea-
sure was finally pushed through, together with
a general increase Of the salaries Of the officers
of the House. The salaries of the members OF
the Senate and House increased to $4,000
year and that of the Speaker to $4,000 The
bill for the equalization of bounties was passed as
"rider" TO the miscellaneous appropriation
bill 1t will require appropriation OF about
S75,OOOOOO
The new army bill was passed 1t provides
for fifty four new companies to be attached to
twenty seven existing battalions, and eight new
regiments, four to be of coored troops.
The joint resolution was passed to exempt
the officers and soldiers of the army from the
payment of the special five per cent. income
tax as was also the bill distributing the awards
for the capture OF the .assassns Of the late Pres
he rl he a Jefferson
Davis was stricken out. Mr. Boutwells resolu-
tions relative to Jefferson Davis completely 10
Mr. Lincoln's assassination were adopted. Mr.
Rogers made minority report or the subject.
Senator Patterson of Tennessee was, by vote
of 81 to H. admitted to his seat.
Among the bills which were lost was the one
to create a national bureau of insurance, and
the one to refund $500 to each person who was
drafted twice within one year and paid commu
tation money, or who, not being liable to mill
.sary duty, furnished substitutes The bill in
relation to the tariff on wool, which passed the
House, was laid on the table in the Senate -
The bill for the construction of an airline Rail
road from Washington to New York, which
passed the House, not reached by the Sen
ate, and therefore goes over to the next session
A large number of nominations made by the
President were confirmed and many others
jected. Resolutions conn limentary to the pre-
siding officers Of each House were adopted -
They made appropriate responses, and then for
mally announced the close of the first session Of
the 39th Congress.
IL the outset of long editorial summing up
most ably the manifold enormiies perpetrated
by the late Congress, the National Intelligencer
says:
''This Congress will ever be most conspcu-
ously Infamous in the category Of the worst or
CARNATIONS having governmental functions that
have dishonored and shamed enlightened So
ciety in all the worlds history. Its dispersion
from the Capitol to widely separated ard remote
localities is welcome relief to apprehensions
arising from the bodily presence of concentrated
mischief, such as in the material world takes to
itself the form of the plague that s,alketh at
noon day"