The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-12-07

Clerk to place no names on the rolls from
the States not represented in tho prcced-
ing Congress-, or declared entitled to rep
resentaton, and providing that no electo-
raj votes shall be counted from any state
not represented at the time in Congress.
Second. To pass Il bill remedying tho de-
feet III the law which may prevent
any State canvassipg the voters for elect
ors of Presidenkand Vice President
Ihlrd. 10 pass q law changing the time
OF the meeting of Congress- with view to
assembling.on the 4th of March.
Fourth. To raise q special committee
tor the rigid Investigation of the Now Or
leans riot, the number of lives destroyed,
the property burned, and to what extent
Government officials We're included therein;
the committee t. have power to send for
persons ana papers, to De accompanied by
the ScrSeant-at-arms and to report appro-
pirate legislation.
Fifth. To order 4 select committee to in
yestigatc the proceedings under the laws
for collection Of direct taxes in tho rebel
States, and the sciZuro and sale of aJan-
doned and cOntiscatcd lands and other pro-
pcrty.
Sixth. Committee on Pensions to inquire
whether any pensioners in the disloyal
States, struck from the pension rolls, havo
been restored in violation of law.
Seventh. y special committee to investi-
gate the fact connected with the release of
South Carolina, recently set at liberty by
the Delaware judge.
y resolution passed. unanimously that
the members of the caucus bind them
selves to sustain these propositions as
party measures.
Ashley. of Ohio, said he noticed present
a gentleman who had drawn the address of
the Philadelphia Convention, and asked if
he was q member of the Union party and
had any right there.
Chairman Morrill,, Of Vermont, replied,
amid laughter,
While the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilcst sinner may RETURN
Raymond, on being asked whether he
did not participate in the Philadelphia
Convention, rcpied that he had. but not
i'll any spirit of hostility to the Union
party; that he entered tho Convention to
strengthen that party, thinking it should
be more conservative than it was; but,
when he found it likely to lead to the de-
feat OF the Union party, he abandoned it,
and had ever since done his bcstt to main
tain and support the Union party He also
said he approved tho measures reported
here this evening.
Scoheld moved that tho gentleman, DO
allowed to rcmalu III the caucus or not, at
his option, and judge fC. himself whether
he was a member of the Union party or
not.
Laurence, Of Ohio, asked Raymond whe-
ther be adhered to the doctrine of the
Philadelphia address, and particularly to
the clause that rebel States could not rati-
fy the constitutional amendment without
.dishonor.
Raymond was understood to deny there
was any such clause in it. He adhered to
that address according to his own con-
struction of it, but not according to the
construction sometimes put on it by others.
stevens could not see how Raymond
N,.,Aff Il ~.
party after his membership in the Phila-
delphla Convention, and his authorship of
the address put forth by that body.
Darling and Hale, os New York, and
Garfield, of Ohio, favored Eaymond's re-
naming in the caucus, and Morriss, of
raymond made further explanations
with regard to the Philadelphia address,
when the caucus adopted Scofield's resolu-
ton by sixty-six against twenty-five.