The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-12-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
wAsntsoroS, Dec. 20.

tiOn directing the iresluenb ~ III
struct the officers Of the Army and
Navy, and Of the Freedmen's Bureau
to prevent and prohibit the inhiction
Of corporal punishment for crime
and mlsdemeanors in lately robellious
states until their civil governments
shall have been recognized aud rati.
fod by Congress. Ordered TO be
printed.
MIR. Henderson offered n resolution
based on dispatch from Governor
Fletcher Of Missouri, calling upon the
President for information as to wheth'
or he has, since the first Of Decem.
Der, sent troops into the interior Of
Missouri, for any purpose, and. If so,
TO indicate his reasons, &c. Adopted.
Mr.. Williams rose TO a personal
explanation & stated that he had been
misunderstood and misreprosented in
certain circles in regard to petition
lie had reported IL back from the FL
nance Committee with a request tc
be discharged from further consider.
alton of the same.
A petition from the ladies of th'
Treasury Department having beer
presented at the last session, praying
for an increase Of salary, the salaries
of the ladies were raised in accord
ance with the petition, and the FL
nance committee had, therefore, ne
further use for the paper, and had i
reported back to the Senate. Mr.
Williams said that q story had beer
put in circulation that he had report.
cd adversely to the roposcd increase
of salaries, and he had received sew
oral scaudaIous letter with referoncC
to the subject, aud he wished to in
form the parties Interested that such
attempts to coerce Senators to accedC
to their demands would have but liz.
tic effect upon him. lie had favored
n judicious increase Of salaries at thC
last session, aud should do so, but Ii,
should act in accordance with his owr
sense of justice, regardless of the
abuse or threats of men who had
misroprosentod him, individuals, per-
haps, who at the last sossion, were
engaged in maligning Congress thro'
Of their johnson Club.
Mr.. Pomeroy introduced a bill to
secure the speedy construction of the
Union Pacific Railroad, Southern
branch, and the telegraph lines, and
to secure to the Government the use
Of the above for military and postal
purposes. 1t provides for the issue
of per cent. bonds, of one thousand
dollars each, to run twenty years, on
the completion Of each, twenty miles,
at tho rate of sixteen such bonds per
mile. The road is to run via Fort
Riley and Fort Smith, in the valleys
of the Neosho and Grand Arkansas
Rivers.
MI. Wilson presented the follow.
ing joint resolutions
WHEREAS, The practice ofinHicting
eorporeal punishment for offences
against the laws and municipal rights
is barbarous in character, and degrad-
ing in practice; and whereas, in tho
present unsettled state of civil affairs
in the States lately in rebellion, the
freedmen in their helplessuess arc
liable to subjection to this barbaroui
degrading punishment, which would
in tho existing condition Of affairs
ondangor social order and all indus
trial interests: therefore be it
Resoired, That tho President of the
United States be, aud he is hereby
authorized aud directed to instruct
the officers of the Army and Navy,
and of tho Freodmen's Bureau, to
prohibit and prevent the inaiction OF
corporeal punishment for any crimes,
misdemeauors or often es by any pre-
tended civil authority of any State
lately in rebellion, until their civil
government shall have been reorgan.
lied, ratified and guaranteed by the
Congress of the United States. c
The bill to admit Nebraska was
then taken up. The question was
upon Mr., Hondricks motion to post.
pone the further consideration of the
bill until the 9TH OF January,
Edmunds took the floor IN support
Of the amendment of Mr.. Brown, at
taching a condition of impartial suf-
fringe upon the admission of the State.
lie maintained that Congress had a
right to make conditions precedent Ia
the admission of a State aud that il
would bO retrogOdiug from the prinoi
pie of equal rights, asserted in tn,
District Suffrage Bill to permit an in
coming State to deny suffrage on ac
count Of color. fl liH W vnH
Mr, Wade denied that in advocat-
ing this bill no was less the advocat,
OF free principle than he had been in
former days, lie regarded this bill
as a help and not a hindrance to free
principles.
Mr.. Polneroy gavethe reasons why
he should vote against Mr., Browns s
amendment, He felt bound, he said,
to act in good faith to the State and
could exact no conditions now that
were not in the enabling act,
Mr.. Howard replied to the speech
of Mr.. Edmupds, depying the right
of Congress to attach tho conditions
of Mr. Browns amendment,
AZ 2;45 T.. NJ no vote being taken
on tho pending bill or amendment,
Mr.. Grimes asked that an executive
session be held,
Mr., Bnckalew, who had the floor,
declined to yield, and proceeded 70
speak at length upon the bill aud
amendments, dwelling mainly upon
the topics already discussed.
Mr., Sprague followed in a written
speech opposing tho bill,
Aitor an executive session tho Sen.
ate adjourned to Thursday, Jan. 3D.,
1867.
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A Sound Platform.