The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-13
CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. July Is.
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The Joint resolution giving the right of wax
through the Military Reservations TO the Union
Pacific Railroad was passed.
Mr.. Guthrie (Ky.) reported from the Finance
Committee bill indemnifying the States for
war expenses.
Mr.. Williams (Oregon) made motion 10
reconsider the vote by which the Senate had
defeated the bill to reannex Alexandria to the
District OF Columbia.
MIR. Wiley CW. Va.) introduced bill proyid-
ing tor the restoration of the Southern States 10
the right of representation which was ordered
to be printed.
upon the President for information in his pos
session as to the murder of twenty-three Union
soldiers at Kingston, N. c., by order of the
Rebel Generals Polk and Picket in June 1864.
Mr.. johnson (Md.) objected, ana its considera-
tion was deferred, under the rules
House or Representatives:
Mr.. Mercur (Pa.), from the Committee on the
District of Columbia, reported back the House
bill to incorporate the National Soldiers and
Sailors Orphan Home. Read the third time
and passed.
Mr.. Kuykendall (Ill) from the Post Office
Committee, reported back the Senate bill di-
rectirg the Postmaster General to allow the
accounts OF A. I. Spencer aud Gordon s. Hub
bard for carrying the mails between Chicago
and Mackinaw, ETC., from 1854 to 1852 Read
the third time and passed.
The amendments OF the Senate to four House
Pension bills were taken from the Speakers
table and concurred in. The amendments were
only of a verbal natnre
Mr.. Woodbridge (Yt) introduced bill for the
relief OF the st. Adams Bank, of st. Alban's
Vermont. Read twice and referred to the Com.
mittee on Banking and Currency. 1t authorizes
the Commissioner OF Internal Revenue to sus-
pend the collection of duties or taxes accrued or
accruing from October Is, 1864 to July l, 1866
On motion of Mr. Stevens (Pa.), the House
resolved into Committee of the Whole on the
State Of the Union, Mr.. Raymond IN. " in the
chair, and proceeded to the consideration of
the Dill making aDDrODrIntiODs fOr aun n1rv III
expenses OF the Government for 1867
MIR. Latin IN. Y. moved to strike out the
paragraph appropriating $50 900 for publishing
the first volume of the Medical and Surgical
History of the Rebellion, under the direction of
the Surgeon-General, and to substitute there
for paragraph ,appropriating $780, 900 for pre-
argued that the work should be done at the
Government printing office, or if not, that pri-
vate publishers would publish it at their own
risk # they were only furnished with the
At the suggestion of Mr.. Wilson Iowa). tbe
original paragraph was modified by insertiner
after the word publishing" the words sat the
Government printing office" The subject gave
rise TO considerable discussion. participated in
by Messrs. Latiln, Stevens, Bingham, and Kas-
son. The amendment was rejected.
MIR. Price Qowa), moved to strike out the
paragraph, and argued that the publication of
the book would only be for the benefit of few
professional men. as not one man in hundred
would understand anything about it.
MI. stevens (Pa.) opposed the amendment but
said he would not undertake to answer the argu-
ment of the gentlemen from Iowa, for it was the
most extraordinary speech that ever came from
an enlightened man.
Mr.. Conkling IN. ~ spoke of the Invaluable
character of the work, and said that unless
Congress was to drop altogether the business of
printing books; this was eminently a book that
should be printed at the public expense
Mr.. Banks (Mass.) spoke in favor of the
appropriation, and said he had been informed
that If the information embraced in the work
had been known to the faculty before the war.
the additional saving of lives that II would have
effected would have amounted to twenty per
cent.
The amendment was rejected, there being but
10 ayes, which, Mr.. Price remarked, was more
than the number of just men that could be
found in Sodom. Laughter)
On motion of Mr.. Humphrey of the Committee
on Commerce. paragraph was inserted ap-
proprating $4,000 for the enlargement and re-
pair of the Custom House and Post Office at
Bangor, Me.
On motion OF Mr.. O'Neill, from the same
Committee, a paragraph was inserted aDpro-
pTiating $4,000 for additional station houses.
lifeboats. etc., along the coast of New JERSEY.
between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor'
and $4,000 for repairing and lighting the light
house at fuckers Beach on the coast of New
jersey