The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-08

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"Gf PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS ON THE 4rH
The bill to provide for the payment of Quarter
masters stores and subsistence supplies furnished
| timos, and laid over till Tuesday next Several
petitions were offered and referred, and private
In the House, OF, motion Of Mr.. Stevens. a Joint
| resolution was unanimously passed congratulating
the Emperor and people OF Russia on his recent
Providential escape from the danger of assassina-
ton. The report OF the Conference Committee on
the Hdbeas Corpus Bill was agreed to, and the bill
h1T waits the signature of the President The
pnhauthorizinE the construction or the lateral
branch of the Baltimore and, Potomac Railroad
INTO the District OF Columbia waA passed also the
ISll to Incorporate the National Association to
Educate Colored Men for the Christian Ministry.
HRe House then took up the bill to revive the
grAde of General in tho United States Army, and
VA was !. addressed BY Mr.. Deming Mr.. Raymond and
otner members in favor Of the bill, which was
passed by an almost unanimous vote-yeas, 1l6
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SPECIAL PARDoNs- ABANDONED AND SEIZED PRO-
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The following important news we take from the
Washington correspondence of the New York
Times, under date OF the 4th:
The President sent message to the House of
representatives In answer to resolution request
ing the names Of persons worth more than 500, 900
to whom special psrdons have been issued, and a
been seized as belonging to The enemies Of the
government, or as abandoned property, and re-
turned to those who claimed to be the original
owners.
Accompanying the message is communication
from the Secretary of State, who reports to the
President that Of the seven thousand one hundred
and ninety-seven cases OF pardons passed upon by
the Attorney General there still remain in the
State Department seven hundred and seven cases
which not yet having been finally disposed of,
have been stricken from the accompanying list.
The Attorney-General, in communication to the
President, says it does not appear from the re-
cords OF his office, how much property, real, per-
mixed. 6ei2ed and fOrfe fed tp
the United States under the act OF, 1862 rs ene-
mics propertyi nor do they chow any property
turned to the enemies Of the Government; nor is
their anything in that office in regard to abandon
|! The list Of pardons granted under the Amnesty
Proclamation of the President under the 18th ex-
ception is as follows Georgia, 1928: North Caro-
ns ASH Iexse 49, HewMexsS IL Mississippi
lima. G38; Arkansas, Al: Missouri, TO- Kentucky
IL; Florida, 49,; Wost.Virgnia, 49,.
| A. communicative IN from the Secretary of tho
Treasury says. as to how much property, real,
personal, and mixed has been seized as forfeited
TO the United States has been returned to those
who claimed to be the original owners, there is no
information in the Department ON the subject as
understood from the general and vague terms of
the resolution % is presumed the Act alluded to
he understands was committed by the PrefTdent
to the Attorney General, and 80 TAR as he is ad-
,yised, the Treasury Department has not UNDER
taken In any case the enforcement Of its several
provisions, or to release any PROPERTY held for
feited under; them 30 far as the Department is
concernedr The abandoned or confscable lands
heretofore hold by it we're tufhed over rhder the
Secretarys circular letter Of Juno ~ last to the
Bureau OF Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Act OF Congress, approved March s, 1865, and EI.
ecutive orders on the subject and that no freed
men occupying any OF said lands have been dis
placed by any action Of the Department at the
request or for the benefit OF returning rebels.
The Secretary OF War, in his communication to
the President, incloses several reports, among
from ha lsnfo nana ~,
ing there are norecords therein pertaining to the
restoration of property as defined in the resolu-
tion OF inquiry: Quartermaster-G General Meigs
Gays the railroads captured and held as a military
necessity have been returned to the companies
under Executive orders of the 8th Of August and
the 14th Of October 1866, and those in the Atlantic
States under orders of the War Department, all
on condition OF reorganizing and eecting loyal
boards OF directors and giving bonds satisfactory
reasonable time pay fair valuation for the Gov
crnment property turned over to said companies |
no5. and s sold to G them on credit. Major-Genera
that the Department has caused no property to |
be seized under the. act OF 1862 enemy's pro-
perty, and none has been taken from the officers Of
mies oftthe Government who claimed to be the |
original owners. The department has, however,
taken possession Of large tracts Of lands and fix
tures in both rebel and loyal States, military
necessity, and occupied the same with temporary |
works, which, ceaeing to be needed or used for
otensive or defensye purposes, have been disman
tied, and the movable parts sold on account of the
United States, except il, cases where the loyal
owners agree to receive the usual buildings as a
discharge OF all claims their part against the
united States for use, damage, &C., in which case
their property was returned to them on this un-
derstanding.
The Ohief Of Ordnance says the records of his
office show only one. case where captured property
received by the Department has been returned to
any one. This was machinery carGnred at Macon,
Ia, which has been returned to the former own
ers on the application Of Brigadier- General JED.
Webster, recommended by Lieutenant General
Gen. Howard, oY the 'Froodmnen's 8 Bureau gives
list Of the property seized under the act Of July
II, 1862; and subsequently yilrestored to former
owners. The greater portion Of the property of
this character Is situated inlVirglnie, and was
formally set apart for tho use OF refugees and
however, that much OF, 1t had been improperly
seized, and to avoid Injustice, action under the
circular was temporarily suspended. Part Of this
property had been merely lbeled. Against part the
proceedings had reached decree of condemnation
and sale! Very little, However, was actually sold.
On Sept r. 1863, Circular, No. Is, series Of 1866,
was issued to govern the action Of the Bureau re-
spectipg property. This circular, originally
drafted by the Commissioner, was submitted
to the President who materially amended it, and
1t was promulgated asreseiyed from him.
With respect to property seized under the act
OF July IT, 1852, this circular declares that 1t shall
be regarded as confsoated only after an actual sale
ers OF the bureau to restore II when IL appears
satisfaStorily thatgi6 has not been confiscated.
Such property has, therefore, been restored upon
PROOF that proceedings against it had been dis
missed in the United States Courts. The records
OF the Office do not show whether parties to whom
ththssarmy Of the 10 -called Confederate States
| or whether thew Qaye aid or comfort I'm he ro.