Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-06

$1,000; Lieutenant-Colo when com
manding regiment or military post 81, 500
when on other duty $500; Major 81. 500
Captain $4,000; First Lieutenant Sl,sOO
officers on leave Of absence sixty days re-
duced 80 per cent, except for sickness; 10
per cent addition to yearly pay shall be
allowed in lieu of additional ration and
forage TO be drawn for horses actually pres
ent and kept on duty. The pay of enlisted
men is the same Hereafter each en-
listed man shall receive one dollar
extra q month for two years instead OF
bounty, and an additional dollar for each
year thereafter. The allowance TO officers
travelling under orders shall be increased
to 10 per cent. per mile. Laborers and over
seers TO receive 25 and 80 cents per day ex-
ira pay respectively. officers may purchase
subsistence and fuel as now, in kind and
at rates to be fixed from time to time by the
Secretary of War.
After some debate The bill went over till
| tomorrow.
An amendment to the Constitution pro-
posed by Mr.. BINGHAM was indefinitely
postponed on his motion.
The bill authorizing the acceptance Of
| League Island was taken up but not acted
on. The Speaker stated that it continued
before the House until disposed OF.
A letter received from the Secretary of
the Treasury relative to gold sales was laid
on the table.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
Mr.. P0MER0Y introduced a bill 10 au-
thorize the Secretary of the Interior to leave
and preserve the public lands which con-
tain mineral springs. Referred.
Mr.. GRIMES called up the resolution
regulating the investment Of the pension
fund
Mr.. DoOLITTLE called up bill to in
crease the pay of clerks in the Interior De-
partment.
Mr.. NYE called attention to the res
olutiOn of the johnson club, saying it was
made up in part of these clerks.
Mr.. EDMUNDS reported the House bill
for the protection of lives Of passengers
travelling on steamboats, on the Western
rivers. Ordered printed.
Mr.. EDMUND'S bill amends the section
which revokes the license of the pilot, who
may refuse to admit into the Pilot house a
learner of pilotage, by providing, instead of
such revocation a fine Of $500. 1t provides
afterwards in certain cases, for the revoca-
tion and fine of $500. The allowed metals
now required TO be placed in or upon the
flues of boilers shall be fusible, at a temper
ature not exceeding four hundred and forty
degrees of fahreneIt. The sixth, seventh,
eighth and ninth sections are stricken out.
These sections relate to the transportation
of nitro glycerine, which has been the sub
iect of special legislation. The fourteenth
section relating to the life boat disengaging |
apparatus on the sea and lake steamers, re-
quiring such apparatus to be so arranged as |
to be safely launched. The provision re-
specting the lights on river steamers IS
stricken out.
An additional section provides that the |
supervising and local inspectors of steam |
boats shall execute such bonds as the Sec
retary of the Treasury may prescribe con-
ditioned for the faithful performance OF du-
ties of their respective offices, and payment |
in the manner provided by law ofsll money |
received by them.
Mr.. HOWARD called up the proposed |
Amendment to the Constitution. The pend |
ing question was upon the amendment pro- |
posed Yesterday by Mr.. Doolittle as e sub |
stitute for the second section. After the |
census to be taken in 1870, and each sue |
ceediug census, representatives shall be ap |
pointed among the several States which |
may be included within this Union, accord |
ing to the number in each State of male |
electors over twentY-one years Of age, quail /
fed by the laws thereof to choose members /
Of the most numerous branch Of ifs Legisla- |
ture, and direct tax shall be apportioned |
among the several States according |
to the value of real and personal taxable
situate in each State not belonging
to the State or 10 the United States. The
national debt and payment of pensions
ought to be secured and the basis Of South
ern representation ought to be changed.
He would like it much better if it provided
for the right of suffrage for the blacks, but
as it was claimed that under it the South
ern people would be induced for the sake Of
political power to grant the right of suffrage
to negroes, he was willing TO vote for it.
He believed the plan as it was now before
the Senate, would receive the appreciation
of the country, and he believed the Presl-
dent would support and use his influence to
secure the adoption.
Mr.. STEWART said he should by and
by explain the reason why he should vote
for the pending propositions; though it was
known that it was not the one which he
was originally in favor Of, it was better
plan than he expected would be agreed
upon and might yet lead to a general am
nesty for universal suffrage.
Mr.. HOWE stated that he should vote
aginst the amendment of Mr.. D0OLITTLE
and for the report of the Committee Of
Fifteen. He then discussed at much length
the resolution tor the appointment OF FRO
visional Goverernors in the Southern States,
offered by him in January last, and after
wards reviewed the different sections of the
pending r5solution and the Presidents poE-
cy. He said that although the Southern
people were not fit to make laws at home,
they are fit and must be allowed to send
here to participate in max
ing laws for the United States. By his
appointing provisional Gov
ernors, the President had trampled the
constitutions of the Southern States under
foot He made virtually new States out of
them. In the history of the executive
efforts to reconstruct these States many
very noticeable facts were found. He
(Howe) had been profoundly interested in
looking over the journal of these executive
efforts to make loyal States out of rebel
1t was difficult enterprise.
Mr.. Howe then reviewed several of the /
proclamations issued by Provisional Gov
ernors in the South, doing it, az he said, to
show that in the reorganization of the |
Southern States the principles of State
rights,were entirely ignored and everything |
done by authority of the Federal Govern
ment. Pending the discussion the Senate |
went into an executive session and soon |