Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-09
Morning Edition.

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from the Circuit to the Supreme Court In
cases involving $1,000, whether suits OF
| equity brought into court by the original
| process or action of admiralty and maritime
Jurisdiction or cases appealed from other
j courts, but in special cases for due cause
shown to the Chief and Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court an appeal may be al
lowed without regard to the amount in
controversy. Exception is made under the
acts relative to inventors or for the eollee-
tion Of import duties.
SEC. 5-Provides that the present laws
| shall remain in full force. except as herein
after stated, as far as relates to Circuit or
| District Courts, their judges, powers, pro-
eesses, proceedings, clerks, times and places
Of holding, certificates of division of opin-
ion, &c.
Mr.. DOOLITTLE presented the ereden-
tials of John Pool, Senator elect from North
| Carolina, and in doing, 80 Mr. DOolittle
stated he owed it to the Senate as well as to
| himselftO TO state that Mr.. Pool has always
been devoted friend of the Union. He
was the Union candidate for Governor of
! that State in 1860, before there was sny i'm
mediate danger Of secession. He eanvassed
the State and opposed secession by every
means in his power to the very last After
the ordinance of secession had passed he
retired to private life and refused TO take
any part in political affairs until the peace
movement commenced in North Carolina
in which he took an active part and did all
in his power to embarrass the rebel author
tiles. The credentials were ordered to lie
upon the table.
SMr. COWAN presented petition asking
for repeal Of the homestead law and that
the proceeds of the sale of public lands may
be applied to the payment of the public
debt. Referred to the Committee on FL
nance.
MIR. HOWE, of Wisconsin, presented a
petition of the citizens of Wisconsin asking
that Congress spend no more time in dis
cussing the question as to whether the
Southern States are in or out of the Union,
but that they proceed to legislate sol as to
prevent the shedding of innocent blood in
the South and to protect loyal men there,
black and white. Referred to the Com
mittee on Reconstruction.
Mr.. STEWART offered a resolution, which
was adopted, instructing the Judiciary
Committee to inquire what legislation, if
any, is necessary to protect the citizens of
the United States in the Territory of Utah
in their civil rights.
Mr.. LANE, of Kansas, moved that the
Senators elected from Colorado be admitted
to seats on the floor of the Senate. Agreed
TO.
Mr.. WILSON introduced bill to repeal
the act authorizing the settlement ofclaims
against the United States for property used
or destroyed by the army or navy in the
late rebellious States. Referred to the Com
mittee on Military Affairs.
On motion of Mr.. NYE the bill for the re-
lief of B. RittenhOuse, fleet paymaster of
the Pacific Squadron, to idemnify him for
loss of money, stolen from his safe, was
taken up and passed.
EMr MORGAN called up ths bill to ex-
tend the time for Withdrawing goods from
public stores and.bonded warehouses.
The expiration of the morning hour pre-
vented final action upon the bill, and the
House Joint resolution to amend the Con-
stitution on the subject of representation
was taken up.
Mr. LANE, of Indiana, spoke at length
on the proposition. He opened the discus
sion on the subject by entreating the Sena-
tors TO merge partisan in the patriot
Speaking of the Constitutional guarantee OF
a republican form of government, Mr.. Lane
asked if the Constitution of North CorOlina
was Republican in form. He did not think
it was. The President, as Commander-in-
Chief of the army had right to appoint
Provisional Governors when the war ceased.
It was the duty of the President to recognize
Provisional Governments in the rebel States.
That theywere in rebellion and had lost their
connection with the Government such as it
was before the war Mr.. Lincoln and Mr..
johnson distinctly recognized in acts re-
peatedly. The power of the President over
the rebel States ceased with the convening
of Congress and it was for the Congress of
the United States to fix the status of the
seeded States. A State under the Consti-
tuition has no sovereign power to act except
in so far as its acts accord with the provis-
ions of the Constitution. Thelately seeded
States, not States in the true definition of
the term, have forfeited their rights as
such. They have rebelled against the Con-
stitution. They have cost the Government
| S3, ,0OO, 900 600 and half million of lives.
| The proposition to admit these States at this
| time is simply monstrous. We are called
upon now to eonquering what we accom-
| plished by compromise. What act of oon-
| ciHation rendered to the rebels had any
effect during the war! Not one. He
! wanted it known that the rebellion was put
down by force and force alone. He disagreed
with the President that this question OF re-
construction and suffrage ought to be left to
\ the States. Ifthe President has a right to
regulate suffrage at all /; if he has right to
/ saY who shall not vote, he has right to say
| who shall vote. He would wait until the
| last trumpet summoned the rebels to judg-
| ment. before he would admit them to these
halls. He did not know that emancipated
| slaves were fit to vote, but they were quite
| as fit as rebels. His plan of reeonstr uetior
| would be to pass an amendment to the Con
/ stitution that after one, two or Ave year
every man who can read the Constitution
| of the United states shall vote. He would
4 disfranehise the rebels for some space o
l time, and when he admitted them to vot'
again he you'd let the negroes vote Witl
them. We were not ready for the restOra
tion upon rebel yotes or colored votes
1t was the duty of Congress, and not OF the
| President " present a plan of reconstruc
tion To the rountry. 1t was the duty Of thi
| United States to see that every State had
| republican form of government But thi
| could not be done without the aid Of Con
gross. The late rebel States are not in
condition to be admitted into the Union
Nine out of ten eitizens of the Southern
States are rebels. He would not send rebel
to Congress. Every man elected TO Con
gress from Tennessee could the oath of otiic
Tennired of all members. In Arkansas too
he believed, men had been elected VIII
! might be admitted. One thing was certain
no man, from any State, would ever be
Senator with his conseut until he had take
the oath.
On motion of Mr.. JOHNSON further con
| alteration of the Constitutional amendmeu
was postponed until tomorrow.
MI. TRUMBULL, from the Judiciar
| Committee, reported the bill for the en-
lsrpement Of the powers of the Freedmen
Bureau, with the House amendment
He moved to agree to the House amend
| ments except that one which restricted th
operations Of the bill 10 States in which th
writ of habeas corpus was suspended o
Fsbrnary !, 1866. This amendment woul
exempt Delaware, Maryland and Missou
from the operations of the bill.
, Mr.. GUTHRIE rose to reply to some II
marks on the loyalty of Kentucky, made B
[ the Senator from Indiana, Mr.. Lane. &
denied that Kentucky was ever disloyal {
in the hands of disloyal men. He kne
J | Kentucky was loyal, and that since IL
. Governor, who was in Office when the n
) bellion commenced, went out of power Il
Governor and Legislature had been alwa.
l loyal.
. Kentucky were the most troublesome d
h ring the war, and the present condition
: Kentucky justified Congress in applyil
the Freedmen's Bureau bill TO that Stat
a Mr.. HENDERSON said he would n
: vote for the House amendments, and sa
: that the only way to protect the freedm'
was to give them ballot.
MFR. .SUMNER-That's it.
The amendments by the House, exec
that restricting the operation Of the bill
> States in which the habeas corpus was 81
3 pended February lst, 1856, were agreed
D II {ba hill Waa then Dassed.