The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-02
WASHINGTON, May 1.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, May 1.
SENATE.
Mr.. Trumbull, presented petition
| for the enactment of equal and just
laws for interstate insurance. Also a
petition for establishing a bureau OF
insurance. Both petitions were refer
| red to the Committee on Commerce.
Mr.. Trumbull presented the petition
of 146 citizens of Staunton, Virginia,
4 representing that the troops having
recently been withdrawn from that
place, the Union men are being perse-
cuted by the rebels, and praying for
the return of the troops for the protec-
/ ton of loyal men, The petition was re-
ferred to the Committee on Military
Affairs,
Mr.. johnson read letter from Gen.
Wade Hampton, contradicting the
charge of Gen. Sherman, that he
| (Hampton) ordered the burning of Co
| lumbia, S. c., and asking the appoint
ment OF special committee to investi-
gate the subject. Mr.. johnson moved
Its reference to the Committee on Mill
/ tary Affairs, but subsequently with
drew 1t at the suggestion of several
Senators, who said the Senate ought
not to receive it.
Mr.. Trumbul presented petition
| from citizens of Augusta county, Ntr-
ginia, asking the return of the Union
troops recently Withdrawn, TOR the pro-
lection of loyal men. 1t was referred
to the Military Committee.
Mr.. Howard, from the Pacific Rail-
road Committee, reported a joint reso-
/ luton to extend the time for compile
ting the first one hundred miles of the
Eastern division of the Union Pacific
Railroad, to the 9th of June, 1886. 1t
/ was passed.
The special order, which was the APP
preparation bill, was then taken up.
The pending question was upon the
amendment of AR. Trumbull, that no
person exercising or performing the
duties of any office which by law is re-
quired to be filed by and with the adj
vice and consent of the Senate, shall be-
fore confirmation by the Senate, re-
ceiVe any salary or compensation for
services, unless he be commissioned by
the President to fill up vacancy which
has, during the recess of the Senate and
since its last adjournment, happened
| by death, resignation, or expiration OF
| term and cause and case of removal, to
be reported to the Senate at its next
session.
Mr.. Boutwell, sent to the clerks desk
! an amendment which he proposed to
offer to one of the bills reported yester-
day by the Committee on Reconstruc-
| ton, and which was ordered to be
printed. It provides that whenever the
proposed constitutional amendment
shall have become part of the constitu-
ton, and Tennessee and Arkansas shall
have ratified the same and shall have
modified its constitution and laws in
conformity Herewith, and shall have
established an equal and just system of
suffrage for all male citizens within lis
Jurisdiction, who are not less than II
years of age, the Senators ana Repre-,
sentatives from such State, if found
duly elected and qualified, may after
having taken the required oath of office
be admitted into Congress as such, pro-
yided that nothing in tho section con-
tanned shall be so construed as to re-
uuire the disfranchisement of any loyal
person who is entitled to vote.
Mr.. Bingham also sent up supst-
tute. which he proposed to offer for the
bill, and which was also ordered to be
printed. 1t provides that whenever any
State lately in Instruction shall have
ratified in good faith and irrevocably
the above recited amendment, and snail
have modified its constitution and laws
in conformity Herewith, the Senators
and Representatives from each State,
IL founu duly elected and qualified,
| NAV after having taken the oath OF
office required by law, be admitted into
Congress as such.
Mr.. Stevens, from the Committee on
l "A
] Senate Joint resolution making appro-
priations for the expenses of collecting
| the revenue from customs, which was
considered and passed.
Mr.. Eliot offered resolution which
was adopted, reciting that an alarming
condition of destitution is reported as
existing among the white population
and freemen, extending to absolute
want OF food, in various portions of the
South, especially in Arkansas, Ala
1 baua and South Carolina, and that
without Government aid thousands
must perish by starvation before RAYS
ing other crops, and directing the Sc
lect Committee on Freedmen to inquire
into the expediency of recommending
an appropriation ofone hundred thous-
and dollars for their immediate relief
bv rations of food for the destitute,
giving the preference of such relief to
those whose personal property and sup
plies of food have been destroyed by the
ravages of war, to be expended under
the direction of the Commissioners of
the Freedmen's Bureau, with leave to
report at any time.
Mr.. Stevens suggested that the tnqul-
nv was not necessary, as the Commit
tee on Appropriations had yesterday
reported bill appropriattng eleven
| millions for the Freedmen's Bureau.
Mr.. Eliot said that the bill did not
cover the object intended by the reso-
| luton.
mittee on Naval affairs, reported back
the Senate amendment to the House
| bill for the better organization of the
Paw Department of the Navy. The
amendments were concurred In.
The House then proceeded 10 the con-
sideration of the bill reported on the
| nth of April, from the Committee on
| Commerce, to amend the act OF July
4th, 1864, TO encourage Immigration
and the act of March Sd, 1855, to regu-
| late the carriage of passengers In steam
| shins and other vessels. The bill after
| amendment in some of its details, was
Mr.. Kelly offered the following rseo-
luton, which was adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t is reported by the
citizens of Alabama in formal me-
mortal to the two houses of Congress
| that many ofthe people of the noun
| tain districts of that State are suffering
| from want; that considerable mum bers
of them have died of actual starvation,
,ResoIued, That the President be re-
/ ouested TO instruct the proper officer OF
| officers of the bureau of refugees and
freedmen to inquire into the condition
OF said districts, and any other districts
| of the iusurgent States, in which said
suffering may be said to exist, and 70
] relieve the people thereof, and provide
| them with corn and other seed fol
nlanting a crop sufficient for an annual
supply Of each family requiring such
MI. Ross introduced a bill to con.
struct ship canal for the passage o.