The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-19
ConEresa.

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| ing reports were made to Congress
from the Committees. We condense
! from our exchanges:
TIE NEW ARMY BILL.
Mr.: Schenck, from the G ,mmittee
on Military Affairs. reported substan-
TALLY the bill organizing the army,
which makes the army to consist OF
hye regiments fyartiIlery, six of cav
airy and; fifty Of infantry. Ten of
the infantry regiments are to be COM
posed OF veteran reserves and eight
OF the colored troops. Officers and
enlisted men of volunteers are made
eligible to appointment as officers of
new regiments, and it provides for
the abolition of the provost marshal's
bureau. The remaining provisions
are substantially as in the House bill
lately rejected. It is believed the
present bill may be acceptable to the
House.
AMENDMENT TO BANKING BILL.
Mr. Hooper, from the House Com
mlttee on Banking, reported several
amendments to the National Banking
and Currency act. The twenty first
section Is so amended as to make
reduction Of ten per cent. in the cir
cnlation of all banks which have q
capital exceeding 100000; aud to
limit the circulation OF, any single
bank to 81, 900, 600. Section thirty
two is amended SO as to require all
banks situated III the places mention
ed In section thirty one Except New
York, Phila 1elphia and Boston) to
have an agency in those cities which
shall redeem their own bills and the
bills of banks for which they are re-
demption agents. Section forty-one
is amended SO as to reduce the tax on
circulation to one-quarter of one per
cent. each half year, and to strike off
the tax on ccpital. Several other inn
portant ame ailments are made.
THE NAVY.
The Senate passed the bill to de-
fine the number and regulate the ap-
pcintment of officers in the navy. It
creates the Office of admiral, with
one vlce-admiral, ten rear admirals,
twenty-five commodores, fifty cap
talns, ninety commanders, etc. Tie
admiral's pay is fixed at $4,000 a
year. Mr.. Fessenden took occasion
to say that he was tired of hero wor-
ship, and should vote against Great
ing the grade of admiral for Farra-
gut, or that of general for Grant.
BUREAU OF INSURANCE.
In the House, Representative
from Pennsylvania introduced a bill
for the creation of a national buretfu
Of Insurance! The present 'sso-called"
Congress are determined that, SO far
as they are concerned, nothing shall
be left undone toward utterly chang
ing our Government from one of
limited and well-dcfned powers to a
grand, consolidated, central despot-
Ism, whose powers shall be limited
only by the will of an irresponsible
majority. They have already usurped
most OF tho important and multifa-
rious powers, which were wisely left
by the Constitution to the several
States, or to the people themselves,
and now they are preparing to usurp
yet another.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS
The correspondence between Mr..
Motley, American Minister at Vienna.
and Count Mensdorff, Austrian Minis
Wa AOA \ OACASA <Aua1T5, IC11LlVC TO the
forwarding of troops to Mnximilian,
in Mexico, was laid before Congress.
Minister Motley remarks that the time
seems to have arrived when the posi-
tlon of the United States Govern
ment in relation to Mexico should
frankly and distinctly, be made known
to the Imperial Royal Government
and to all others whom it may directly
concern. He is, accordingly, in
structed to state that the United
States sincerely desire that Austria
m"y find it just and expedientt to come
upon the ground of non-interven-
ton in Mexico, which is maintained
by the United States, and to which
they have invited France. They could
not but regard, as matter of serious
concern, the despatch of any troops
from Austria for Mexico, while the
subject he was thus directed to pre-
sent to the Austrian Government re-
mains under consideration. Count
Mensdorff, on May 80, returns, in
answer, that, in consequence Of the
aforementioned consideration, the
necessary measures have been taken
to suspend the departure of the new
ly-enisted volunteers for Mexico.
RADICAL PERFIDY.-Iti is stated that
a witness named Campbell has in
formed reliable parties in New York