Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-07
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FROM WASHINGTON, .
The President Recommends n
Modification Of IIle Test Oath
SemnIe Galleries CrOxysIaH

passed. Ill lSOZ.
The Senate galleries are again densely
filled to-day, to witness the proceedings on
the message Of the President vetoing the
Civil Rights bill. Senator Wright. of New
Jersey, appeared and took his seat in the
Senate this forenoon. Senator Dixon, of
Connecticut, at l % o'clock had not ar
rived.
senator HIane SusIa iuS the Veto
and Defends 1he President.
Senator Lane, of Kansas, about whom
some doubts have existed as to his vote on
the Civil Rights bill, made . speech in the
Senate supporting the veto OF the President
and defending the President from the
charges made againsthm by Senator Wade,
of despotism, dictatorship aud treachery. I
There are many members of the House
of Representatives on the floor Of the SEN
ate, and those who fiji the galleries are ap-
parently most intensely interested in the
proceedings.
Civil Rights Hill Passed Over the
Presidents Veto.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The Senate has
passed the Civil Rights bill over the Presi-
dents veto by vote of 80 yeas to 10 nays.
Disbursements of War and Navy
departments.
New YORK, April G.-Thc Tribunes
Washington special says: The dsburse-
ments of the Treasury Department on ac-
count of the War and Navy Departments
for the quarter ending March 3lot, were as
follows: War Department, for January,
$2525l293G; War Department for Februa-
ry, $l5 40l 1856; War Department for March,
SS6OS,0Sl; Navy Department for January,
$3,547 7656; Navy Department for February,
co OpD
$4,5S3,044. The one million increase in the
Navy Department for March was OCCASION
ed by large remittances abroad for the use
OF vessels on foreign stations.
Ordered Ia the Indian Country.
The commanding officers of the 10th and
18th infantry. and % battalion of the 18th,
have been ordered to report to Brigadier
General Cooke, commanding Department
of the Platte, headquarters at Omaha. In
case of the pursuit of mischevOus Indians
or whites infestng the border line, the
troops will act without regard to the de-
partment line, simply reporting their ac-
tiOn, through their own commanding Off
GER to the commanding General of the de-
partment invaded.
Another NEessnge.
The Times Washington special says it is
understood that the President will in a day
or two send TO COngrcssa message in which
he will suggest a modification of the test
oath in order to enable the Government to
fill the revenue offices, &c, of the South, in
accordance with the propositions of heads
of Departments.
appointments.
The Times Washington special SAYS
Brevet Colonel Jas. II. Taylor, late Assist
ant Adjutant General on General Augur's
staff, has been appointed Adjutant General
on General Grants staff, in place of the
late General Seth Williams.
Colonel A. II. Markland has been ap-
pointed special mail agent for the Postoflice
for the district comprising the Pacific
coast.
The Fisheries,
The Worlds Washington special saws
| The House committee on Foreign Affairs
yesterday instructed their Chairman to re-
port joint resolution to send a naval fleet
to the fishing grounds to protect the rights
of our citizens, and at the same time to pre-
serve peace. The resolution is understood
to be approved by the Secretary of State,
and is only regarded as precautionary
| measure.
Another Nut 10 Crack.
Advices from Buenos Ayress state that an
Italian vessel, on which an embargo had
been laid by the Federal Court at that port,
had been taken out of the harbor under
| the protection OF the guns, of the Italian
war steamer Veloce, which steamed into
the inner roads for this purpose. The ac-
tion taken by the local authorities in the
matter was not ascertained prior to the de-
parture Of the South American mail
steamer.
The Test Oa1h-I4edter from the
Secretary of Ihe Treasury.
WASHINGTON. April G.-The President
transmitted communications from the Sec
retary of the Treasury and the Postmaster
General addressed to him by those officers,
suggesting a modification of the oath of
office prescribed by the actOf Congress ap-
proved July I'd, 1862. lie fully cOncurs in
their recommendations, and as the subject
pertains to the efficient administration OF
the revenue and postal laws in Southern
States he earnestly commends it to the early
consideration of Congress.
The letter of the Secretary of the Treas
ury confirms the names OF collectors of In
tcrnal Revenue, assessors, assistant asses
sOrs, collectors and surveyors OF customs,
SC, appointed since the overthrow ot the
rebellion in the Southern States, who have
not been able to take literally the oath of
Office prescribed by the act approved
July %, 1862. Besides these officers,
considerable number, perhaps the larger
proportion of those holding slIbordiate po-
sitiOns in the Revenue Department, have
been also unable to comply with the re-
quirementso OF the statute. AS Il consequence
they have served without compensation, as
their appOuntS coul1 not he autlital nv tha
accounting officers of the Government -
Many of these officers have performed very
important duties with iidclity,and not a few
must be in great distress by reason of this
inability. When the appointments were
made it was found thatft would be difficult
to find competent officers in many of the
Southern Revenue Districts who could
take the oath referred to, but so important
did it seem to the Presidentand Cabinet, for
the purpose OF equaizing public burdens,
that the revenue system should be estab-
lished throughout the recently rebellious
States with as little delay as practicable,
and that the unpleasant duty OF collecting
taxes from an exhausted aud lately rebel
lious people should be performed by her
own citizens, that the Secretary of the
Treasury did not hesitate to recommend for
appointment, and to appoint, men of whose
present loyalty there was no question, but
who might, either willingly or unwilling
ly, during the progress of the rebellion, be
so connected with the insurgent State and
Confederate Government as to be unable to
take the oath of office. This was not
done from any disposition to disre-
gard the law, but with an honest
and sincere purpose of collecting
the revenues with as little trouble to the