The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-27
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.


wAsHfsaros, February 2e.--SESATg.
Grimes, In presenting petition from citizens
OF Iowa, said he would take occasion TO refer
TO dispatch, published In the Enteilt0snceT this
morning stating that an immense ratification
meeting, had been held In Keolruk, ut which
the veto message and the Presidents admins
tration had been endorsed. He said that the
author of that dispatch had been opposed to
the war all along, and that his press had been
thrown into the river 70. he utterance Of dis
loyal sentiments. He was unwilling that the
dispatch referred to should go forth as a reflex
Of the sentiments of the people Of Iowa.
Mr.. Lane, of Kansas, moved to take up from
the files the papers In the case of Messrs. Bax-
ter and Snow, Senators elect from Arkansas,
and refer them to the Committee on the Judi
ciary. Mr.. Clark called for division on the
motion, and the question was called for on
withdrawing the papers from the files, and
decided In the affirmative. Mr.. Clark then
moved that the credentials be laid on the table,
with those from other lately rebellious States.
Mr.. Lane called the yeas and nays. The ques-
ton was decided in the Acknowledgements, 81 /;
nays, 10. Mr.. Lane moved TO admit Messrs.
Baxter and Snow TO seats on this floor, which
motion was laid on the table.
At clock the regular order was taken up,
being the concurrent resolution that no Sena-
tors or Representatives from any seeded State
shall be admitted until such State shall have
been declared entitled to representation. Mr..
Sherman took the floor. He maintained that
the resolution could confer no power not al
ready vested in Congress. A similar resolu-
ton, he said, had been adopted by the last Con-
gress.
HousB-Mr Elliott introduced bill to con-
tinue in force the act to establish Bureau for
Freedmens Affairs. Referred to the Commit
tee on Freedmen's Affairs.
Mr.. McClung offered resolution, prefaced
by a preamble, that it be referred to the Joint
Committee on Reconstruction, to inquire and
ascertain whether contumacy be clearly mani
tested In the seeding States, and IL so; to
inquire into the expediency of levying contri-
buttons on the disloyal inhabitants Of such
States to defray the extraordinary expenses
which would otherwise be thrown on the
National Government for keeping up stand.
ing army and protecting the loyal citizens In
their natural and personal rights under the
Constitution. After an unsuccessful effort to
lay the resolution on the table, 1t was referred
to the Committee on Reconstruction.
The Speaker laid before the House the cre'
dentials of Alexander Hamilton Jones, men,
Der elect from the Seventh Congressional dis
trict of North Carolina. They were referred
to the Committee on Reconstruction.
The Speaker also laid before the House the
resolution Of the General Assembly of the
State of Virginia in relation to the direct tax
levied by Congress in 1861, and now being COL
lected in Virginia. Referred to the Commit
tee of Ways and Means.
Mr.. Bingham, from the Committee on Re-
construction, reported back the joint resolu-
ton proposing the following amendment to
the Constitution The Congress shall have
power to make all laws which shall be neces-
sary and proper to secure to the citizens of
each State all the privileges and immunities
of citizens in the several States, and to all
persons in the several States equal protection
in the rights Of life, liberty, and property.
Mr.. Bingham showed the Importance of pass
ing this amendment in order to preserve the
unity Of our people in one government and
to carry ont the constitutional power. Mr..
Rogers opposed the amendment, arguing that
it interfered with the just powers of the
States, and would tend to Capitalization. No
vote was taken, and the constitutional amend
ment comes up again o-morrow.