The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-14
CONGRESSIONAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is.

AShiN1lON, ECU. Id.
SENATE. E-
Mr.. Wilson, from the Military COM
mittee, reported adversely upon the
House resolution of thanks to Secretary
Stanton and Quartermaster Generai
Meigs. 1t was indefinitely postpoheu;
The Clerk of the House anh S;nI enr
the passage by the House Oh rn,nent
in Ionis;ana- The bill was taken up
-, &c of 23 TO 10, but Mr.. Hendricks
OS,a.t;ne TO consider it to-day, 1t goes
over till to-morrow; u
Mr.. Hendricks called up a bill TO pun
;sh larceny of any article OF govern,
ment property by a fine OF $5,Ooo anu
Imprisonment for not less nan nor
more than 10 years, or both. Passed.
Mr.. Morren reported from committee
on Military Affairs, without amend
ment, q bill to regulate the disposition
of unclaimed volunteers bounty fund
now in possession Of the Freedmen's
Bureau.
Mr.. Wilson reported from the same
committee q house bill for the payment
of additional bounties authorized ny
law to soldiers who have lost their dis
charge papers, with an amendment.
Mr.. Wilson also reported, without
an amendment, the house bill extend
ing to general officers and officers on
the retired list the benefit of an addl-
tional ration for every five years OF ser
vice.
He also reported, with amendment,
the house bill crediting a volunteer OH
Ger in the regular army with service as
a volunteer, and giving to such ofhcers
the same rank by brevet in the regular
army as they held by commission IN the
Mr.. Howard reported without amend
ment the bill authorizing h payments
of the rewards offered for the capture
of jeff. Davis. ~.
Mr.. Poland reported from the judi,
ciary committee, the bill providing that
n person held upon mense process or
execution issued from United States
Courts. shall be entitled to n discharge
in the same manner as if arrested on a
similar process of State Courts IN the
same districts.
Mr.. Anthony from the committee ON
Printing, reported House bill making
the SUPERINTENDENT of Public Print
ing elective by the House of Represen-
tatiyes. with an amendment making
such officer an officer elective By the
Senate.
Recess till Z.
HOUSE.
A Joint resolution of the Wisconsin
Legislature was presented for a grant
of land in the construction OF Green
Bay and Lake Pepin railroad, and re-
ferred to the committee on Pubic
Lands.
Mr.. Miller asked leave to offer a reso-
luton declaring it Incompatible with
the policy of the protective system OF
the United States, and detrimental to
the industrial interests of the country,
to admit. under any pretext whatever,
free of duty, foreign iron, whether man
ufactured for railroad purposes or 9th
erwise.
Mr.. GlossbreDner objected.
MI. Phelps explained that he was abb
sent when the vote was taken on the
Louisiana reconstruction bill, ami he
would Mt the proper time ask to record
his vote against it.
The Speaker presented the laws OF
Montana Territory. Referred. Also a
telepraphic dispatch from Denver, Col
orado Territory, announcing the pro-
ceedings of n public meeting in favor
of the admission of Colorado.
The House resumed the consideration
of the bill for the establishment of mil
itary governments in the South.
Mr.. Van Horn advocated the bill; ar
guing the illegality of the governments
set in lately rebellious States.
Mr.. Stevens withdrew the motion to
recommit in order to submit some
amendments, which he explained.
Among them was q substitute for the
second section, by which Congress d.
rectly detailed five general officers to
command in the military districts pro-
posed to be organized.
Mr.. Garfield suggested that it was not
for Congress to undertake to detail army
officers.
Mr.. Stevens said he had tried vainly
to satisfy the views of the gentlemen
around him, bnt finding that he could
not, he withdrew his proposition to
amend.
Mr.. Boutwell, closed the debate, argyll
ing the necessity and propriety OF pass
ing the bill. In the course of his re-
marks he said, if it should happen that
the Supreme Court should declare, as 1t
possibly might, that the ten States late
ly in rebellion were States i'll the Union,
and entitled to all the rights and privi-
leros of States, and should base their
declaration OH any act of Congress, then
these States were restored Us far as the
judiciary could restore them, to their
position in the Government, and moth
ing remained to Congress and the peo-
pie except to accept that conclusion as
| binding, or else enter into indescribable
and dangerous controverS les with the
chief judiciary of the land. If, howev-
er, this bill became o law and is put
in operation, the Supreme Court would
have nc capacity to see IN those ten
States any civil government, therefore,
for judicial purposes, it could see no
State, and Congress would keep in its
own hands the political reorganization
of those States.
In reply to the lquestion by Mr.. Ell
bridge he said it was competent for
Congress to declare that the late rebel
lious States should be governed 10y mill
tary law, and that the pretended State
governments had no power to issue
writs of habeas corpus, or to do any
other act of the Government except by
power derived from the military au-
thority.
Mr.. Schenck, having had five min
utes allowed him, declared his assent to
the propriety of extending martial
law Over the States that were in rebel
lion, and it was his opinion that at the
same time Congress ought to indicate
to the people of these States what they
were required to do in order that they
might have civil governments and be
represented in Congress, and that he
understood it to be the object of Blain's
amendment and therefore supported it.
At two o'clock Mr.. Stevens moved
the previous question.
Mr.. Bingham appealed to the House
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