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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
wAsH1NoroN, Jan. q, 1866.
SENATE.

prominent Pennsylvania residents, in
this city, asking for impartial suffrage,
Mr.. Harris presented the protest OF
citizens of st. Lawrence county, against
the renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty
which was referred to the Committee
on Finance.
Mr.. CONFESS presented the protest OF
the California Legislature against the
sale of the mineral lands of the United
States. Referred to the Committee on
Public Lands.
The bill to enlarge the Freedmen's
Bureau was then taken up.
Mr.. salisbury spoke in opposition to
the measure.
Mr.. Grimes, ofIowa, introduced a bill
to amend the act for the relief OF sea-
men and others on board vessels LOST
or wrecked at sea, which allows com.
pensation to officers of the navy and
marine corps, for personal effects lost
in action with the enemy, not to exceed
one months sea pay, provided that nc
loss prior to April 1861 shall be paid
1T also provides the bounty money paid
| to any seaman or marine enlisttng in
the army by State or the United States,
should be deducted fIom his prize mon
ey.
Military Affairs, reported without es-
sential amendment, the bill introduced
by him to restrict the expense of col
lecting soldiers claims against the Gov
eminent.
Mr.. sumner gave notice of the. fol
| lowing amendment to be proposed to
as proviso; provided that the act shall
not take effect except upon the funda-
mental condition that there shall be no
denial of the elective franchise, or any
other rights on account ofcOlor or race,
that all persons shall be equal before
! A.. III II toll ~ ktra
State by a solemn public act, shall de-
clare re-assent of the State to this fun
damental condition, and shall transmit
to the President af the United States an
authentic copy of such assent whenev-
er the same shall be adopted, upon the
receipt of which he shall by proclama-
ton announce the fact, whereupon,
without further proceedings on the part
of Congress, this joint resolution shall
take effect.
Mr.. Dixon, of Conn.,, gave notice OF
an intended amendment to the late pos
tage stamps and stamped envelopes on
credit as follows: That whenever II
shall become expedient in the opinion
of the Postmaster General to substitute
a different kind than that in use he
shall, and he is hereby authorized tC
modify the existing contract for the
manufacture of postage stamps SO as tc
| allow the contractor sum sufficient &c
cover the incurred expense of any o.
| the manufactured stamps SO substitu'
ted. The amendment was ordered tc
| be printed.
Mr.. Ramsey, of Mimi, offered bill
| to provide for the appointment of 9
commission to erect or purchase site
for the Post Office at st. Paul.
The bill to enlarge the power of the
| Freedmen's Bureau was called up.
Mr.. Saulbury said he had not intended
when he came to the Senate this session
to. participate in the debates relating e
slavery, but the Senator from Illinois
(NIr. Irumbuli), had said the other day
that there was necessity in Delaware
for the operation of this bureau. Al
| though the Freedmen'S Bureau as origl
nally established was only intended
1 according to its provisions to extend t.
\ the States in the North, yet we cannO
| shut our ewes to the fact to what eX
| tension the bureau is bound to become
| One thing we know, and that is tina
hundreds of thousands of the negro race
| have been supported out of the Treas
ury of the United States, and the white
people of this country are taxed to pay
| that expense; for the first time in the
| history of this country has the thing oc
| curred that the great mass of the people
have been taxed to support In 1dleness
| a class of people too lazy and WORTHLESS!
| to support themselves. Look arounC
Of these GALLERIES Mt any time of the day
and Won viii see the beneficiaries o
| this bureau crowding there and listen
ing to the debates of this body. How
many of the honest and hard working
white men of this country are there who
can afford to come to the city of Wash
| ington and sit day after day, week attel
week, and month after month listening
TO your debates2 They cannot ahorc
| to do it, but under the protective care
/ of this Freedmen's Bureau your CALLER
les can be crowded every day with ne
groes listening to our deliberations, but
doing nothing to support themselves
and being supported out of the taxes
levied upon the white people of this
country. a,,, l4
The House resumed the consideration
of the constitutional amendmentreport,