Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-21

| Goyernment, for the year ending June 80, 1867
following words And from and after the close u.
the present fiscal year the annual salary of the direc
tor OF the Philadelphia Mint shall be 81 900; and tn,
annual salaries Of the treasurer assayer meter anC
rener shall be $250O each; the salary of the assist
ant assayer shall be 200 and the annual salaries
clerks now receiving 81 500 shall be $1,000 and thos
| now receiving $500 shall receive ST 500 ;,
Mr.. WaShburne objected to increasing salaries il
this special department -
Inc house agreed TO strike out the words as given
Yeas SS, nays 40 The amendment striking out SIS.
0OO for the ashlnston police telegraph was agreed
| to. The bill was then passed.
BATTLEFIELD MAPS,
| Mr.: Lawrence, OF OhiO offered resolution in.
structing the Committee on Military Affairs to in
qure into the eXpedlency of providing by law for tn,
| publication of typographical maps of the battle
| fields of the rebellion; which was agreed to-
| HABEAS CORPUS.
| The House then took up the bill heretofore con-
sldered to amend an act relating to hobeaS corDus
and regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases
1t provides for the transfer to United States Court
of all suits brought against United States officers foI
| arrests and imprisonments made during the war.
- Mr.. Rogers, of New jersey denounced the bill as
the democratic party from the charges Of disoyaity
| made against it by the gentleman from New York
(Mr. Conkng) on yesterday.
| Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio said that he knew of a cas-,
IN kentucky where man had been arrested for act
ing under his lGarfelds) orders, in capturing bant
Mr.. Harding asked Mr. Garfield to give the namt
| OF the officer he had just alluded to-
Mr. darneId.-l VIII give the gentleman no infOr-
on his track '''''U' VI So'eSS'oN
Mr.: Harding.-I will ask the gentleman another
question: w hat court was that officer indicted il?
Mr.: Mckee (Rep,) of Kentucky, said that the
pending bill affected affairs in his State lie was
S%iad % 70 near that the gentleman who preceded him
had declared that the democratic party would sustain
the officers and soldiers of the Union: but the trouble
was, that they never found anything to sustain
There were now, he said, thirtv-fiYe hundred cases
pending in the State courts of Kentucky. against Of
cers and soldiers who had by orders from the Pres
dent and down through Department Commanders,
cd cit GpfE
asked for the passage OF act behalf of his State
where its Legislature had Disseminated in favor oil
We're in prison to-day in kentucky-in this time OF
peacc-were Federal officers, who had been indicted
by a grand jury for arrests which they had made
Mr.. Garfield will give the gentleman no clue
that will Jeopardize che feaGd property ofmy friend
lSlight appauSe.l
Mr.. Smith, of Kentucky, proceeded to show that
the rebels in Kentucky endeavOrng to obtain
tu control of the State Notorious guerrllas carried
the elections and exulted over Union people He was
Wg 10 go as lar as any one, and say to these peO-
pie, II you will behave yourselves we will bury the
hatchet and do the best we under the crcum-
stances; but, II they must have blood, NJ Ken
my: [Applause.l
Mr.. Smith related a case where an ATTEMPT had
heen made By returned rebel to assassinate Union
Kentucky State Senator.
# this state of things was to continue he would saw
Lay on Macduh and damned be he who first cries
mold, enough IAppauSe.
MIR. Ross, of Illinois. opposed the bill on the
ground that 1t exempted from prosecution many Off
spite.
Mr. Cook, of Illinois, closed the debate on the bill
when It was ordered to third reading, and passed
The nays were as follows: Messrs. Ancona, Ber-
gen Boyer g Brooks, Chanler, Gotorth, Dawson, FL
drridge' G!ossbTenneTi Grider, Bale Rep.( HARDING
7: Jones, Kerr, LeBlond. Marshall, Mccullough
Nicholson, Randall of Pa, Ritter, Rogers, R6ss
S1tgreaIyyes Strouse Taber, Thornton, Trimble and
TAXING MONEY
Mr.; Conkling, Rep) Of New York. from the Ways
and Means Committee, reported bill declaring
money on hand not exempt from taxation Mr.
Conhllng said the committee reported the bill TO
meet meet a very strange construction of law in Ohio,
where the assessor of the State had doubts us to their
right to tax as money on hand legal tender notes
Mr. Spaldng, (Kep.) OF Ohio, said that he supposed
no member on the floor believed that the faith of the
money on hand.
Mr.: Stevens, (Rep) of PENNSYLVANIA, asked if this
bill did not alter the present law relative to the ex
emphon OF Government bonds etc., from municipal
or State taxation?
Mr.. Conkling thought not He could see no obiec-
ton to the States taxing money on hand as money
Mr.. Stevens said he wanted to see if we could pass
this bill without violating the public faith He read
from the law under which the iegaI-tenders were is
sued, which said that AL Treasury notes and bonds
and sther obligations of the United States, shall be
exempt from State taxation" He then read from
another section of that law. showing that the word
obligation declared to Include National curren-
ey United States notes Treasury notes, fractional
notes and checks for money" Mr. S. then said that
when United States notes declared free from
taxation by Congress- they declared to be free
from taxation in every bOdy's hands He Thought
that the law in force settled the question that fhr
present bill should not pass
MIR. Conkling maintained that Congress never in
tended to declare that money on hand should not be
Mr.: Stevens said he desired more time to consider
the Dill 1t was then on motion, recommitted to the
Committee on Ways and Means.
THE CASE OF TENNESSEE.
Mr.. Raymond, OF New York, then asked Mr.. Binr-
ham when the Joint resolution relating Tennessee
would come up?
Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio. said that it was so far off
that nc dld not think 1t would come up for week.
MIR. Raymond replied that it seemed to him that ii
was the most important measure before the House
| and ought to be discussed.
Mr.. Hulburd, of Now York, rose to a personal
exnlaaatio n, and reviewed an attack on him in the
New York Tribune Of yesterday relative to his
speech on the loan bill. He compared Mr. Greedy 5
on-to-Specle payments equal to his famous onto
Richmond declaration, and declared that one would
prove as rqlnoHs the other. He to the Clerk
desk to he read long article from California news
paper, giving an amusing account of MIR. Greedy 5
nasty ride IN stage coach in that State as llustra-
ing the haste Of that gentleman; 1t was read.
MT lngersoll, OF illinois, said that he hoped the
balderdash would not be allowed to go in the Globe
DIPLOMATIC EXPENSES.
Inc House then went into Committee of the Whole
and took up the bill making appropriations for the
Consulor and Diplomatic expenses of the Government
for the year ending June 50, 67. This bill appro-
PIRATES for the salaries of envoy extraordinary min
Great Britain, France, Russia, Prmo.ia Spain Ans
trla Brazil kennh.." O. O. nexico, China Isly Rome
Japan etc; etc. For expeRses under lie neutrality
act, SZUOU Tor the act - encourage emigration $20-
.gO Ihe bin was laid aside to be reported to the
House, and the Committee took up the bill making
appropriations for the serV ice of the Postofce De-
partment for the fiscal year ending Both Of June
1901 This bill appropriates for the inland trans
p9r65ation OF mails S955O,oOO; for cOmnesisation
OF Postmasters, 5OOO0: for foreign Iansportatinn
S69OUO; Tor clerks for nOStlces 81 920 000 for
ent tn Letter carriers 500 OOOor postage stamps and
stamped envelopes $3.50 CO., for mail bags Sl3J 0OO for
advertising SSG,GUG for payment of balance due to
1DrelgD
$32OO0e; for the mail steamship service between the
United States and Brazil Sl50,o0; for mail steamship
SIX months ending June 80, 1861, S250UOO for over
land steamship mail transportation between New
York ahd California, S9OO,0O0.
The Committee rose and reported the above hills
to the House, and the House passed the Postal Ap-
preparation bill. The Consular bill was laid over up
til tomorrow. AT P. NJ. the House adjourned.
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A New YORK MERcUAsT tOBBED OF TWENTY-FIVE
lH0UsAk1 DoLLARs-We have to chronicle strange
story OF the loss OF twenty thousand dollars in
bills and bonds from the pocket of man belonging
to heavy business firm in New York. The account
is on the face ofi of doubtful correctness it seeming
most incredible that q business should be SO
careless as TO have so large an amount of money
about his person and in such place, but he is en-
titled to the hearing of his story. HI calls himself
MIR. Hermann. a wholesale dealer in millinery and
dress goods in the city Of New York, and has been
for the past few months engaged in a tour of the
Southern and estern cities taking orders for goods
&c In the course Of which he found himself the first
OF the week in Chicago, where he remained couple
oI uayS anu on W eQneSuay evening resumed his
Journey eastward, by way of the Michigan Central
Railroad. His money, which he had in AZ package
containing about $4,000 in grs5nbacks and 5000 in
bonds OF the United States all right when he left
Chicago on the morning raln and upon taking berth
in the sleeping he put his coat in the inner breast
pocket of which he had placed the money under his
head. Early yesterday morning, an hour or TWO be-
fore the train reached this city, he looked at his
watch to ascertain the time and noticed also that his
money appeared TO be all right. Upon his arrival in
this city however, and the from the depot in
an omnibus he missed his money An immediate
search made in the omnibus. at the depot and in
the cars, but to purpose. He applied to the police
and received all the aid possible but up last night
no clue had been found to the package Detroit Free
Press, March l6, '''
Q4ArH 9E INDIANs.-0n Saturday last, Ah-Moose
or Little Bee head Chief OF tribe of Chippewa In
dlans who with three others of his tribe have been
with their Great Father" died at the quarters of
the delegation, on B:street, near 3d. on Saturday
The deceased and his companions was taken sc last
week with the black measles" disease peculiarly
severe among the Indians H3 was attended by Dr.
Dove, VINO called n Dr keasby, as consulting physi-
clan. The deceased before he died designated his
youngest son, Saw-as ko-zick, as his successor His
remains yesterday inferred in the Congressional
Cemetery Rev. DR.. Keeling, Of Trinity Church. Off
eating. The other Indians are still very sick b..
hopes ara entertained of theirreeovery NJ = ,u'
1t Is Saldi Is not a dangerous ~, - 40 ulseasu i
treated, and not likely 10 ne MhSn p[IIRoIG IRG
Star. attack the Whltes.- wash.
deIe.-1 lain, another of the Chippewa Indians,
-edtion OF whom is now in this city, died yester-
DAY OF the same disease that carried off his chief All
moose lie was also placed in of Scoay's deO-
terry. Others of the Indians are yet very ILL., and but
sllght hopes of their entertained This