The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-01-12
Congregational.

Commerce -,.
Mr.. Fessenden called up the bill to au
thorize the Secretary OF the Treasury tc
appoint assistant assessors. s.., ,..-..
Mr.. Sumner offered as an amendment
a proviso that no person shall be ap
pointed an assistant assessor without be
ing obliged to take the oath required by
the act Of Congress. r.,
Mr.. Fessenden objected to the amend
ment. There was law in the statute
book requiring the oath to be taken, and
the proviso offered by Mr. Sumner was
unnecessary.
Mr.. Sumner said that the Secretary OF
the Treasury had, in a published report
admitted the appointment of men to
Office in the South without requiring
them to take the oath. ....
Mr. Sumner subsequently withdrew "
lis amendment, and the bill was then
passed. -5.......
Mr.. Wilson offered a resolution which
was adopted. calling for information in
regard 20 the advertising expenses OF
the Departments; in what Washington
papers they are printed; by what law
the printing is authorized, DC.
Mr. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported bill to enlarge the
powers of the Freedmen's Bureau, also
a bill to protect the citizens of the Uni
ted States in their civil rights, end gave
notice that he should call them up as
soon as printed
The resolution offered yesterday by
Nh Howe for the appointment of Pro
visional Governors in the Southern
s tates was then taken up.
Mr. johnson took the floor in opposi-
tion to the views expressed yesterday by
Mr Howe. t' .--
After bill reported by Mr.. Trumbull,
Mr.. Wilson offered joint resolution re.
specting the three months extra pay OF
officers and volun teers when mustered
out of service. 1t provides that section
q of the act Of March 3, 1865, making
appropriations for the support OF the
army for the current year, shall be
amended to make provisions for three
months pay proper to all officers and
volunteers below the rank OF Brigadier
General, who have been commissioned
since March 3, 1865, and who have re-
NAMED or shall remain in the service
until mustered out by reason OF their
services being no longer required. or-
dered to be printed.
Mr.. Nesmith offered a resolution which
was adopted requesting the President
to communicate information with re-
gard tonegotiations to with Mexicoiln ls6l
for the purpose of marching l nted
States troops from Guayawas to Arizona
through Mexican territory.
The President pro TEN. stated that the
morning hour having expired, the busi'
ness before the Senate was the resolu-
tion offered by Mr.. Howe yesterday for
the appointment of Provisional Gov
ernors in the Southern States.
Mr.. johnson said he had no reluctance
in addressing the Senate on this subject
because Of his connection with the
special committee Of fifteen, because the
opinions he was about to state were
opinions he had entertained from the be-
ginning on the subject in question.
HoUsE.-The Speaker laid before the
House communication from the Secre-
tary of War, stating among other things
that commissioners were appointed to
Delaware and Maryland to make awards
for slaves who were mustered in the mil
itary service, cut that the order was sus-
pended BY order of the President as to
the other slave States, as all the money
available was required for carrying on
the war The communication was re-
ferred to the committee on Military At
fairs.
Mr.. Stevens, from the committee on
Appropriations, reported the army ap-
preparation, bill, which was made the
special order for next Thursday.
The House then resumed the consider
alton of the bill extending suffrage to
the negroes in the District of Columbia.
Mr. Rogers made a speech against the
bill.
Mr.. Rogers, ofNJ., by permission of
the Hoose, spoke for two hours, insisting
that this is exclusively white mans
government, and that it was an outrage
on the citizens of the District to attempt
to make the negroes equal to them
The Speaker laid before the House the
credentials of James Farrow and John D.
Kennedy as members of the House from
the State of South Carolina, which was
referred to the Joint committee on Re-
construction.
A bill was reported from the commit
tee on Invalid Pensions giving a pension
to the widow of captain who died IN
the military service, the pension to COM
mence from the passage Of the act. The
bill was then passed, after an Intellectual
effort to amend it so as to commence
from January |, 1866.
Mr.. Brandegee offered resolution di
recting the Secretary Of the Treasury to
report for the Information of the House
on the aggregate sums of money appro-
priated and expended from the period OF
of the erection OF the Philadelphia navy
ward to the preset nt time, including the
cost of the site, shipping docks, tracking
and levelling, and all other items which
pertain to its establishment
Mr. Thayer suggested an amendment,
which was accepted also to furnish an
estimate of the value Of the property
Mr.. Strouse wished an amendment so
that the Secretary should likewise state
the number of ships built there and
their character
Mr. Brandegee said that II was Lot to
be expected that the Secretary 81 the
Treasury should possess the information
which that gentleman desired.
The resolution was then agreed to
Nr Smith offered resolution to allow
the committee on Militia clerk He
stated that the committee had before 1t
the recommendation of the President tor
a perfect militia system, which was Ell,
dorsed aud urged by Lieutenant General
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