Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-08
XXXIXthC Congress.
HOUSE.
WAsurNovaE ATorn

WASHINGTON, March Z.
Mr.. WASHBURN, from the Reconstruc-
ton Committee, reported to the House the
testimony taken by the committee in rela-
tion to the States of Louisiana, Texas and
Florida, which was ordered TO be printed.
The morning hour having expired, Mr..
| LATHAM, from the Committee on Print
| ing, reported a resolution, which was
adopted, to print 10000 copies of the address
of the Speaker and of the eulogy of Senator
| Cresswell on the life and character Of
| Henry Winter Davis.
On motion of Mr.. STEVENS it was also
ordered that the address and eulogy be
printed in the Globe.
On motion of Mr.. LATHAM, the Senate
amendment to the joint resolution giving
the consent of Congress to the transfer of
the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson to
Western Virginia, was taken from the
Speakers table and eoncurred in.
Mr.. BINGHAM moved that 5000 copies
of the joint resolution to admit Tennessee,
with the testimony and the accompanying
documents reported from the Reconstruc-
ton Committee, be ordered printed. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Printing
Mr.. SCHENCK reported from the Com
mittee on Military Affairs bill to reorgan-
ize and enlarge the army of the United
States. Read twice and reeOmmitted, and
ordered to be printed.
Mr.. LATHAM asked and obtained leave
to have printed a bill which he desired to
offer as a substitute to the Senate bill to
protect all persons in the United States in
their civil rights.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole, Mr.. Raymond in the chair. and
resumed the consideration of the bill, reg
ulating the trade with the British Provinces.
Mr.. KELLY said the bill should be re-
jected; it was false in principle and in de-
tail. 1t would diminish the revenues of
the country by suspending many branches
of industry. AS he considered its sec
tions he had become doubtful of its
origin as to whether it was British or Amer
lean. Many of its feature constrained him
to think it was of foreign and not American
origin. The provisions of the bill were cal
culated to PROSTATE many ofthe leading in
terests of this country, and to stimulate the
development of resources of the British
provinces. Reciprocity of treaty, he said
was the result of conspiracy. The first object
which was to give an American market to
foreign manufacturers by destroying every
branch of American manufactures.
Its second object was to PROSTATE the
grain growers and provision producers of
the West and North and make them all sub
iect to the oligarcny of the South. In sup
port of this view he had extracts read from
a work printed in Georgia some years since,
entitled Cotton is King" Inasmuch as
this bill had all the vices of the reciprocity
treaty, he should propose the following as a
substitute, viz Strike out all after the en-
acting clause and insert that from and after
the 18th of March, 1866, there shall be
levied, collected and paid on all articles i'm
ported from Her Britannia Msjesty's pos
sessions in North America the same duties
and rates of duties now imposed by law on
like articles imported from other foreign
countries.
Mr.. Kelley asked why we should sacrifice
our interests to promote those of Canadians
who had encouraged rebels to go into Mr..
Morrill's own district and rob its banks and
murder its citizens The Canadians were
our most dangerous enemies because they
were our nearest neighbors. He would
legslate for them on precisely the same
terms as he would for all the rest of man
kind. The bill might be entitled, a bill
to destroy fisheries, the salt manufactures
and lumber trade of the L nited States, and
to prevent the working of any bituminous
coal beds east of the summit Of the Allie
gheny Mountains and within the limits Of
the United States" It would ruin ell those
great branches of industry. B.
Referring to the statement made by Mr..
Morrill, yesterday, as to the equality be-
tween exports and imports Of bituminous
coal in our trade with Canada, Mr.. Kelly
denied that we exported bituminous coal
there; we sent only anthracite coal there,
which Canada must have, as she had none
of her own. Pennsylvania coal fields were
a God given monopoly, as with the cotton
fields of the South. The people of the
British provinces would yet be our country