The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-27
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
wAsH1seToS, June %.
SENATE.

A bill creating the Office of Surveyor
General of the Territory of Idaho, was
A bill authorizing the Cleveland &
Toledo and Cleveland & Pittsburgh
Railroads to construct swing bridge
over the Cuyahoga river on the Gov
eminent piers, was passed.
The Senate refused TO take up the
Niagara Ship Canal bill, by yeas IL,
< bill to reimburse the wyandotte
Indians for the value of two churches
and library destroyed, Mr.. Doolittle
said, by the border ruftians at Kansas
was pissed, and the bill to amend and
continue in force the bill establishing
the Freedmen's Bureau was taken up
and read.
Mr.. Davis moved to lay the bill on
the table. This was disagreed to by
yeas q, nays q.
After discussion in which Messrs.
Wilson, Hendricks, and Trumbell par
ticipated, Mr.. Buckalow moved to
amend by providing that the Bureau
shall remain in existence one year in
stead of two. This was disagreed to by
yeas 6, nays 26.
Mr.. Hendricks moved to strike out
the l4th section. This was disagreed
to. He then moved to strike out from
the Bird section the following words,
land the commissioners shall under
direction of the President and as far as
the same, in his judgment be necessary
for the efficient and economical admin
istration of the Bureau, appoint agents,
clerks and assistants as may be reQulr-
ed for the proper conduct of the Blu
reau." This was disagreed to.
Mr.. Hendricks moved to amend by
striking out the provision declaring
"ull persons in the employ of the Blu
Ha
and entitled to the military protection
of the government while in the dis
charge of their duties. This was also
disagreed to. The bill was then passed
and goes back to the House for concur
renee in the amendments. Its provis-
ions are as follows:
Sec. l. That the act to establish bu-
reau for the relief of freedmen and ref
ugees, approved March 3, 1865, shall
continue in force for n term of two
years from and after the passage of this
act.
Sec. 2. That the supervision and care
of said bureau shall extend to all loyal
refugees and freedmen so far us the
same shall be necessary to enable them,
as speedily as practicable, TO become
self-supporting citizens of the United
States, and to aid them in making the
freedom conferred by the proclamation
of the Commander-in-C Chief, by eman-
cipation under the laws of the States,
and by constitutional amendment,
available TO them and beneficial to the
Republic: -.
with the consent of the Senate, appoint
two assistant commissioners in addi-
ton to those authorized by the act to
which this is an amendment, and they
shall be assigned to districts by the
commissioner with the approval of the
President. and the commissioner shall
also appoint under the direction of the
President such agents and clerks as may
be necessary; Military officers or en-
listed men may be employed but with
out increase of emolument. The COM
missioner is required TO give preference
TO men who have done faithful service
in the army, and all persons appointed
to service under this act and the act to
which this is an amendment shall be
so far deemed in the military service OF
the United States as to be under the
military jurisdiction and entitled to the
military protection of the Government
while in the discharge of the duties of
their Office.
Sec. 4. Officers ofthe veteran reserve
corps and volunteers may be retained
in the Bureau after their regiments
have been mustered out.
Sec. 5. The second section of the act,
to which this is an amendment, shall
be deemed to authorize the Secretary of
War to issue medical stores, supplies
and transportation for needful pur-
poses. No person will be deemed des-
titute, suffering or dependent who is
able to procure employment and sup
port himself.
Sec. 6. WHEREAS, BY the provisions
entitled an act to amend an act, &c, for
the collection of direct taxes in insur-
rectionary districts within the United
States for the purpose, of certain lands
of the Parishes of st. Helena and st.
Luke, South Carolina, which were bid
in nv the United States at public tax
sales, and by the Limitation of said act
the time of redemption of said lands
has expired; and whereas, in accor-
dance with instructions issued by
President Lincolon on the 10th day of
SeDtember, 1868, to the U. S. district
tax commissioners for South Carolina
certain lands bid in by the United
States, in the parish of st. Helena, i'll
said State, were in part sold by said tax
commissioners to heads of families of
the African race in net parcels of not
more than twenty acres to each pur-
chaser; and whereas, under the said in
structions the said tax commissioner
did also set apart for schOOl-iarmS GER
tain parcels of land in said parish,
numbered from u % IuCiuSLfSJ hIdh-
ing AN aggregate OF 5000 acres, more or
less: therefore be it further enacted,
that the sales made to heads of families
of the African race, under the inStrlc-
tions of President Lincoln to the Uni
ted States district tax commissioner for
South Carolina, of date of September
IS, 1868, are hereby confirmed, and all
leases which have been made to such
heads of families by said tax commits
sioner shall be changed into certificates
of sale in all cases where leases proved
for such substitution, and all lands
now remaining unsold which come
within the same designation being 5000
acres, more or less, shall be disposed of
according to said instructions.
Sec. z. That all other lands bid in by
the United States, at the tax sales, be-
ing IS, 600 acres, more or less, and now
in the hands OF the tax commissioners
as the property of the United States, in
the Parishes of ST. Helena and st.
Luke, excepting the school farm, as
specified in the pending sections, and
so much as may be necessary for mill
tary and naval purposes at Hilton
Head, Bay Point and Land End, and
excepting also, the City OF Port Royal,
on st. Helena Island, and the town OF
Beaufort, shall be disposed of in par
cells OF 20 acres each, Mt 81 so per acre, &c
such persons, and such only, as have
acquired and are now occupying lands
under and agreeable to the provisions
of Gen. Sherman's field order, dated at
Savannah, Ga, January 10, 1865; and
the remaiatng lands, if any, shall be
disposed ofin like manner to such per-
son as had acquired lands agreeably to
the said order of General Sherman, but
who has been dispossessed by the res
toration of the same to its former own
ers; provided, that the lands sold in
compliance with the provisions of this