Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-09
From Washington.

From Washington.
WAsulNGroN, May 2S.-Nothing was done
in the Senate to day.
In the House a resolution was adopted d.
rccting the Secretary Of the Treasury to re.
port the amount of gold sold since the 1st in.
stant, at what rates and what agents employed.
Mr. Williams submitted preamble and
resolutions requesting information from the
President, whether any employees of the Gov
ernmcnt in the Southern States have offered
public honors to dead or living Coniedcratcs
Mr. Nicholson objected, and the resolution
was laid over.
Thad. Stevens introduced Bill declaring
that the States lately in rebellion have forfeit
ed their rights under the Constitution, and
can, be reinstated in the same only through the
action of Congress. 1t provides that they
may form valid Governments the present
ones being continued for municipal purposes
until they shall be duly altered aud their Ex-
scntlyes sa , aud LEGISLATURES recognized. Their
and submitted to the people, majority Of
whom is necessary for ratification, allowing all
male persons above twcnty-one years to vote.
No Constitution is to be presented for Con
grcssional sanction which denies civil rigts to
any person. The Bill was committed to the
Committee of the Whole on the State Of the
Union.
Thad. Stevens offcrcrcd q resolution in
structing the Committee on Pcnso to double
those Of Federal soldiers disabled or killed
during the civil war.
Mr.. Stillwell offered a resolution directing
the Committee on Pensions to report on cxtcn-
ding the provisions Of the pension law TO the
families of Provost and Deputy Marshals and
Enrolling officers killed or disabled during the
war. MIR. Stillwcll declining to modify SO as
to make it one Of inquiry the motion was
adopted by a vote8of yeas 60, nays SIS.
Mr.. Whaley offered a resolution directing
the Committee on Printing to report Bill
limiting the hours Of labor Of employees of
tho Government Printing Once to eight hours
per day. Rejected.
Nj. Lynch, from the Committee on Banking
md Currency, reported adversely to exempt
ing the currency Of State Banks outstanding
o. the 1st of July from the tax of ten per cent
imposed by law. Laid on the table
During the debate on Saturday, Thad. Ste
vens referred to n rccreant and apostatc senator
Ii o is understood to mean Senator Doolittlo,
of Wisconsin.
A General Court Martial has been convcn-
cd to try General Augur, President, for de-
positing Government funds in the Merchants
National Bank.
tits stated that the counsel of Jefferson
Davis will demand an immediate trial of him
If the Government asks for postponement
which is possible, they will demand his re-
lease on bail, which they are ready to give to
tho amount of ten million dollars.
WASHINGTON, May 28. Amongst tho nu-
merous Bureau reports transmitted to Con-
grcss today was letter dated Charleston, s.
@, April 31st, from Assistant Commissioner
General Il. X Scott to General Howard.
General Scott says: "Stcedman and Full
lerton found his administration of Sea Island
affairs omnently satisfactory" lie says:
{" The planters generally are much gratifod at
the Bureau arrangement, and dread the idea
of its removal" lie says: "Gen. James Con-
ner, L.W .Spratt, Esq, and NJ. L. Bonham,
and others, who donounce the Bureau, are
politicians, and not planters. The latter all
favor tho Bureau" a"
CHICAGO, May 15.--A German namod
Charles Soholtz was committed to Jail to-day,
charged with adultery and double murder
His wife testi6es that he had heen living in
adultery with woman in their own house,
and that ho threatened to kill her if she. ever
complained of the matter; also that ho had
killed two of their children as soon as born,
binding her by awful iithreats to secreoy. The
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