Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-03-17
coNeREssioNAL PRocEEp1rGs.
SENATE.


oO1GREssIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
? SENATE.
! W~AsHIEGToN, March Il
Mr.. Fessenden, from the Commits
on Finance, reported withamendments
a bill to supply the DEFICIENCIES in appro
priations for the civil expenses Of tn
e Government for the current fiscal year
o Among the amendments are the fol
5 lowing
+ Striking out the appropriation for re
: building the outer range lighthouse II
= Samdusky Bay, Ohio; striking U th'
2 proviso that carpets for the public build
Y inos shall be of domestic manufacture
r and reducing the item for expenses II
o detecting the cOunterfeiting of United
y states notes from hundred thousand
to fftv thousand dollars. Among others
s the report strikes out items for the ex'
e penses of the census Of Arizona, in 1854
q fo- compilation of the laws Of the United
Y States relating TO revenue, commerce
l and navigation; il adds an item OF SO
= 900 for DEFICIENCIES in the fund for sick
e and disabled seamen it provides a sal
airy for the Treasurer at San Francisco
= S15OO additional for the Assistant Treas
Y urer Of the United States, and for the
r Assistant Treasures at Boston and 81
: Louis 5000 each.
Mr.. Williams presented a memorial ol
the Oregon Legislature against the taxa
ton of mining and mining claims. Re
ferred to the Committee on Mines and
! Mining.
: Mr.. Morgan presented petition OF lhe
2 Adams Express Company for the issue oi
: limited states notes in lieu Of like notes
1 DESTROYED by FIRE; which was referred to
> the Committee on Claims.
Mr.. Trumbuu, from Committee on Jul
r dietary. to whom was referred a !
RIGHTS bin with House amendments, re-
norted that the committee had agreed to
[ HE House amendments, and asked the
$ Immediate consideration of the bill for
. The purnose Of cOncuTring.
Mr.. Davis thorein objected, and the bill
The senate went into executive ses-
sion, and subsequently adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Wilson, Of Iowa, from the Judi
ciarv Committee, reported back Senate
bill in relation to the Court of Claims,
with the following amendments as an
additional section:
SEC That at the end Of each session
Of the Court OF Claims the clerk Of said
Court shall transmit a copy Of the decis-
ions thereof 70 the heads of departments,
the Solicitor. Comptroller and Auditor OF
the Treasury, the Commissioners of the
General Land Office and Of Indian At
fairs, the chiefs of bureaus, and otherofi-
GERS charged with adjustingclaim against
the United States.
The amendment was agreed to, and the
bill, as amended, was passed.
Mr.. DOnnelly, of Minnesota, by unani-
nous consent, introduced a bill granting
land 10 the State Of Minnesota, for the
establishment 0f an institution for the
relief of disabled soldiers and sailors,
which was read twice, and referred to the
/ Committee on Public Lands.
The House resumed, as the business Of
the morning hour, inc bill reported yes
terday by Mr.. Cook, from the Judiciary
Committee, being a substitute for the act
of March Sd, 1863, relating to the ha5eds
cCgDus and ~relugating JUDICIAL proceed
ings in certain cases. The substitute re-
ported hy the Committee proposes to en-
act that any search, seizure, arrest or i'm
prisOnment made. or other trespasses or
wrongs done or committed, or any acts
omitted to be done during the rebel
lion, by any officer or person IN
der and by virtue Of any order,
written or verbal, general or special
issued by any military officer or the
United States holding the command of
the department, district or place within
which such seizure, search, arrest or i'm
prisonment was made, done or COM
United, or any acts were so omitted to
be done either BY the person or officer to
whom the order j. addressed, or by any
other person aiding or assisting him
( therein, shall be held and are declared to
come within the puryiew OF the act to
which this IS a~mendatory, and within
the purvieW Of the fourth, fifth and sixth
sections of said act, for all the purposes
of defense, transfer, appeal, error or linn
itation. provided that other sections Of
the bill relate to the defense 10 be made
in such judicial proceedings.
Mr.. Cook explained and advocated the
bill. It embraced, be said, two prin-
oiples, in which were also embraced the
hdbeGs corpus act of 1855, approved and
signed by President jackson. They were:
! Ist. That the United states shall protect
lis officers in executing its laws and
maintaining its authority and "a. That
the question whether an officer was act
ing under the authority Of the United
States. These two principles, he said,
could not be surrendered without sur
rendering the power Of the American
/ Government. He moved to recommit
the bill.
MI. Harding, OF Kentucky, opposed the
bill, and made a speech to show how it
| could be used TO protect the most despotic
and outrageous acts of the United States
officers and soldiers.
The morning hour having expired be-
fore the close Of the remarks Of Mr.. Har-
ding, the bill went over until tomorrow.
/ ---- n.-,.-. Dol =, Wsfrz,-,
Burnet, ESQ.
At the request OF Senator TTumbull,
| the following letter from Gen. Brayman
| in reply To the charges Of fraud made
against him by William Burnett, was
read in the Senate:
WASHINGTON, Dc March ], 1866.
Sir: When Hon. Garrett Davis, Of
Kentucky, shall have concluded the
reading of the communication of VIM.
Burnet, viii YOU have the kindness to
ask that this note be read at the Secre-
tary's desk, that it may have equal pub
LEFTY before the Senate and the country ?
While in command at Natchez in 1864,
I was furnished with an elaborate de-
tailed statement, under oath, of extensive
frauds and crimes perpetrated by VIM.
Buruet, and others, against the Govern
ment and private citizens. This COM
plant I forwarded to my superior officer,
asking for instructions. Being author
lied. I ordered the arrest of Burnet and
his aCcOmplices. A commission, COM
posed of able and honest men, made s
thorough investigation. The proofs of
BUrnet's guilt was so overwhelming that
he resigned on the fifth day Of the iuyes-
tigation.
The commission made a fun and elab-
crate report, accompanied by charges
and specifications. These were trans
mitted to my superior officers, with copies
for the War and Treasury Departments,
where, ] doubt not, they are on file.
Then, and during the whole period of my
command, ! urged the trial Of Burnet
for the ofienses charged.
I now reaffirm the guilt Of this man.
l reafirm and stand by all my official
orders and acts in his case, and am pre-
pared to convict him wheneverhis friends
consent to an investigation. As an Off
Ger of the Government, ] did but my
duty. My superiOrs We're advised Of every
step taken, and I had their approval
throughout.
I cannot condescend to notice the
grossly indecent personal illusions which
the paper contains, further than to say
that they We're made in 1854 by men
smarting under a sense OF detected guilt,
thoroughly investigated by my superior
officers, and by their written orders and
Endorsements, now in my possession, pro-
nounced false audmaliciOUs. II Is amaZ-
ing that Mr.. Burnet, knowing his state
mentS to be untrue and officially Giscred-
tied, should venture their repetition; and
unfortunate that he should be able to
impose them upon the courtesy OF sena-
tors.
Please do me the favor to join in de-
handing Il COMMITTEES, with power to
send for persons and papers, that a most
thorough Investigation may be made.
II may be well even now 70 inquire why
William BUruet was not tried, and
whether at one time the Infection of /
crime and speculation had not made bad
men strong enough to thwart an efforts /
AT conviction and defy fair ~accounta-
bility.
Respectfully, Your obetiept servant,
NJ HHANHAS,
Breyet Ma or General Volunteers.
B3-The London Herald saws the
movement has begun for laying the
Atlantic Cable. During the summer, as
NJ present arranged, the Great Eastern
will carry a new cable and viii lay it to
Newfoundland. She viii then coal and
return to mid Atlantic, where she viii,
with her consorts, grapple for the lost end,