The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-09
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CONGRESS.

NoNOaGco.
The nouecs OF Congress reassembled yesterday In
the Senate there great deal Of business trans
acted communication from the Mayor OF Washington,
transmitting the result Of the election there ad
to negro suffrage was received and laid on the
table, were also the credentials Of Randall Hunt
Senator elect from Louisiana. The memorial Of
the New York Chamber of Commerce, asking pro-
lection 10 Northern creditors against the operations
Of state statutes OF limitation in the South, aud
era soldiers petitions requesting equalization Of pay and
bounty, presented and referred. Resolutions
adopted calling the President for information regard
ing the order issued by military authorities In Cali
fornia forbiddng expectations Of to Mexico, and
for the why there has yet been appointment
authorized OF o commission to investigate the claims
Of loyal shareholders for compensation for coored men
owing them service who enlisted In the military
service.
In the House OF Representatives number Of matters
received attention Bills introduced and referred
20 dispose OF the public lands Of the South as home
steads, TO amend the naturalization laws for the cree
tion OF Post Once in this city, to provide pensions
for soldiers Of the Of 1872 for the construction Of
military and postal railroad between New York and
Washington, granting bounty and additional pay
70 soldiers and who enlisted in 1861, 10
the benefit OF the hsbeas corpus persons held
in servtude contrary the constitution and for various
other purposes. bill reported from the Ways and
Means Committee, and ordered TO be printed authorsng
the Secretary Of the Treasury to issue six per cent coin
bonds SUFFICIENT TO fund all the floating debts Of the
government The committee was instructed to re-
port ON the sxpedency or q reinsurance of mutilsted
boads. and tho Banking COMMITTEES on the pro-
prie,y OF providing for the redemption by internal
revenue officers and other government agents OF mutt
st..s
the whole power Of the government necessary, should
be used TO put end to polygamy was adopted Reso-
Iutions were adopted calling the President for in
formation relative TO the delivery to our gov
erumont of the rebel pirate Shenandoah, and
In regard to the alleged kidnapping by Maxi
milan OF Mexico of one Of the Iturbido children,
and asserting the OF tho House hat the national
military should not be withdrawn from tho South
ern States Till their presence there shall have been de
cIarcd by Congress longer Tho last named
resolution was adopted b. ninety four to thirty seven
votes Some time spout in Committee Of the Whole.
during which speeches made by Messrs. Latham,
OF west Virginia. sholabarger Of Ohio, and Blame oil
Maine.
repcr, from General Howard Commissioner OF the
rreedmen's Bureau, was yesterday presented to the
House Of Representatives III response 10 the resolution
Of that body asking information In regard 10 whether
any abandoned or boled rebel real estate In tho South
transferred to the charge OF the Bureau had been
restored TO Its former owners, or whether any Of
such property allotted 10 the negroes homesteads,
has since been taken from Thorn. The General sayi
that in South Carolina and Georgia the freedmen were
assigned few plantations rs homesteads by General
Sherman and that they have not yet been dspossessed
of thesc but that plantations for time oocu
pied by them cu,vators but not allotted 10 them
have been under recent orders restored their former
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greater part OF such property which held, and ha
lost its former character Of self supporting branch Of
the government Previous orders for the settlement o
negroes on the abandoned rebel lands lately in mos
cas-s been countertnanded.
secrr,sry ~ the Treasury Nccullcch yesterday com
munrssd 70 the House s,aismon, 81 Tho dinicuitic
Attending ~, assessment aud collection OF intcna
,hs late nsurrechonsry districts ny reason
Tho inability o. officers 10 take TIC ictt oath
without they cannot draw pay, and tie majority o
them poor tina, they forced 10 seek other
ploymen, which viii return ready cash and enable then
TO live The Secretary urges TIA, the test oath b.
modified in lis application &c internal revenue officers
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tho extremely cold weather OF Sunday continued .,
prevail yesterday, not only IN this city and vicinity
but in all PARTS Of the country from which W
have reports In fact during the forenoon there va
an in,onsifying Of the severity Of the temperature
and the zero point, which ordinarily In this reg'o
n regarded as about the limit OF endurance, woul
have been considered comparatively coufor,abl
altitude for the mercury. The Thermometer earl
in the morning indicated ten degrees below aero
this city while from country towns In this State and
Conneciicut we have the announcements Of ranges a
she way down TO twenty eight degrees below. Even
far south as Washington D. @, ~ stood one degree b
low AZ eiahs O'Clock ~ the morning Al Ottawa Canad
n marked thirty one degrees. IL was certainly u
coldess day We have had n years, and was, may
supposed, suhcient TO CONCEAL the ardor Of the mo
enthusiastic devotce Of Arctic explorations There vi
much suffering among the poor and tho scantl