The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-30
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON, June %.
SENATE


are more fully established.
A bill to grant three months pay to
officers below Brigadiers who were in
the service on March Sd, 1865, was
passed.
The bill to authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to lease Saline lands con-
tanning mineral springs was discussed
and postponed until tomorrow.
Mr.. Wade called up the bill amenda-
tory of the act for the government of
the territories recently passed by the
House.
Mr.. Buckalew moved to strike out the
section prohibiting the denial of the
elective franchise on account of race or
color.
Pending discussion the morning hour
expired and the Niagara Ship Canal
bill was taken up.
Mr.. Stevens. from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported n bill making
appropriations for sundry civil eX-
penses of the Government for the year
ending June 3Oth, 1867, which was read
twice and referred to the Committee of
the Whole on the state of the Union,
and it was made the special order for
Tuesday next.
Mr.. Cooke, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported a bill for the creation
of National Bureau of Insurance,
The House proceeded to the consider
alton of the motion of Mr.. Miller, made
Friday last, to reCOmmit TO the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions the advance
report made on the bill granting PEN
sions to the soldiers of the war of 1872,
and instructing the committee to report
bill for that purpose. His motion,
after debate, prevailed-yeas 1Ol, nays
10. The instructions apply to sailors
n = we'll soldiers of ISL,
The bill provides that surviving OIL
GERS, northumberland officers and
soldiers of the war of 1872, who served
for term of three or more months or
were engaged in battle with the enemy,
shall receive from any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated the
amount of pension now paid according
to the same rank, but in no case shall
any receive more than the pay of Il
captain of infantry. Officers and SOL
diers who have served three months
or more against the Indians in the
same war are included: WIDOWS
of soldiers are entitled to the
same amount to which their hus-
bands would have been entitled.
Satisfactory evidence of service must
be furnished to the Secretary of the in-
terror. Pensions shall not be liable to
attachments under legal process Oil
GERS, non-commissioned officers and
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for three months or more, or were en-
gagged in battle and their widows are
entitled to the benefits of the act.
The House went into n Committee on
the Whole on the tariff bill. MIR Scho-
field in the chair.
a debate arose on a motion by Mr.
Wilson, of Iowa, to strike out the Spe-
cific tax on linens and leave the duty
80 per cent. advalorum rs ut present.
Mr.. Wilson thought the manufactur-
ers of the country were mistaken in
asking for an increase of duty on I'M
ports. What they needed most was
stability in law. There were many
provisions in the bill to which his OBJ
iections would apply. 1t was calcula-
led to benefit holders of large stock
of manufactured goods as much, If not
more, than the manufacturers and Mt
the next session of Congress Will be
called upon to reduce the duties and go
to the other extreme. He warned the
House that the tendency of this bill
would be TO drive the people of some
sections to favor free trade.
Mr.. Stevens was sorry to find mem
bers adhering to their opposition
against protection to American indus
try. He had hoped that the time had
arrived when all were agreed to build
up home markets for home Pr99d nc
tiOnS; the great west had reached the
time when the valley of the Mississippi
should be lined with manufacturing
cities. He was astonished that gen.
tleman possessing the talent of the
member from Iowa, should be found
insisting on sending the products of
the west to England, and purchasing
foreign goods instead of making them
at home.
Mr.. Wilson argued in reply, that
since the war had closed, and internal
revenue duties are being reduced $751;
OOO, 900, per annum, duties on imports
should not be increased to the amount
called for by this bill. He was as anx-
ious as the gentleman from Pennsylya-
mia to build up manufactures, but he did
not desire it to be done at the expense OF
sound policy. Mr.. Wilson's amend
ment was rejected.
On motion of Mr.. Dodge, the duty on
Crash was fixed at 50 per cent. ad valo-
rum.
Mr.. Hale moved to insert paragraph
taxing yarns, fax and hemp.
Mr.. Bundy moved to increase the
duty on pig iron from 80 to $40 per ton.
After long debate, participated in by
Messrs. Bundy, Spalding, lie Blond,
Mckee and Morrill,, the amendment
was agreed to-53 to 40.
Mr.. Hale moved to amend by increas-
ing the duty on bar iron from one to
one and quarter cents per pound TO
one and half cents, which was reject
ed-34 to SO.
The committee rose. Five sections of
the bill were disposed of to-day.
Mr.. Smith introduced bill requir-
ing officers of Territories TO hold their
offices and file their papers at the Capt.
twice and referred to the Committee on
Territories.
Mr.. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, intro
doced u bill to establish an addition
al land district in the Territory of Ne
braSka; the bill was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Public
Lands.
Mr.. Latham offered resolution
which was adopted, instructing the
Committee on Military Affairs TO en-
uuire into the eXpediency of reporting
an amendment to the act of March Sd,
1864, providing payment for horses anu
the equipment of officers lost through
the management of railroad transpor-
tation.
mittee, reported back, with amend
ments, the bill to amend the act of Sep
TENDER "a, 1859, 10 establish Judicial
Court of the United States.
The request of the Senate for con-
ference committee on the act to further
prevent smuggling, was disagreed to.
The House Committee of Conference
on the Freedmen's Bureau bill are
Messrs. Elliott, Bingham and McCul-
Tough. House adjourned.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.-The West
ern Union Telegraph Company's steam
er Wright, sailed yesterday for Petro-
poliski, thence to Behring's Sea, and
points on the Russian and American
coast. Col. Charles Buckley, Esq, in
charge of the Russian telegraph expe-
dition, sailed on the Wright, accompa-
MED by Count P. Anassoff, commits
sioner of the Russian government to
the telegraph company, and Thomas
w. Knox, author and Journalist, for
..,o,I, ,annaotaJ with tho ASSOniatp6