The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-16
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WASHINGTON Jnlv 10

- "ASnlN6ION July II
House-Mr. Julian asked leave ~ 10. -.
duce resolution, ordering the Recopstrno
ton Committee to report bill torftitino
lands granted to the Southern States e.,
Railroad purposes, stating that there wa ers
live millions of acres of the best land in Az
South in hands of rebel corporations wb;ns
the poor men, white and black. shouId baea
for homesteads. 's
Mr.. Wood objected.
Mr.. Julian moved to suspend the rr,o,
The rules were suspended by vote Of 90
to 36, and the resolution was so moffsaS
as to embrace only Mississippi, Aabams
Florida, Arkansas, and Louisiana, an5
passed.
Mr.. Butler offered a resolution that tba
District Commander be authorized to issne
81, 100000 in coupon bonds at 1916 ner
ceRt. to repair the levees on the Mississippi
which should be a condition precedent to
the admission of Louisiana. He moved
suspension of the rules, witch failed.
The Senate reconstruction bill was report
ed with several amendments.
A rambling debate ensued, during which
Mr.. Logan, of Illinois, said he had no SYM
pathy with any man who went bail for JEFF
ferson Davis. IF it had been he who captur-
ed Jefferson Davis,-he asserted it and Mr.
Greedy could publish it, that there never
woald have been any troublein trying Jefer-
son Davis either in a civil or military
court, except as he logan might organize
He himself would have been the court and
there would now be no Jefferson Davis. He
would to-day, if he had the power, hang
Jefferson Davis and every one of his Cabi-
net officers.
The only man in America who had nerve
enough to hang traitors was Juarez.
Mr.: Stevens moved the previous question
on the bill as amended.
It passed and went back to the Senate.
The House took recess to 8 o'clock.
In the Senate, Mr. Chandler called up the
resolution directing the Committee on For
eign Relations to enquire how many Mexi-
can soldiers were executed after their cap
ture.
He said that Maximilian's operations were
a part of the rebellion. IF he had succeed
ed, the decree of SO would have been intiic-
ted on Union soldiers.
Macmillan signed his own death war
rant in signing that decree. He ought not
to have died by the bullet. The officer cap
turing him should have hung him to the first
tIet. us WdS uOG uOuc, duI FL pIORett GuE
Mexicans to be chivalrOus people.
The course of this government toward
Mexico is cowardly.
Mr.. johnson spoke favorably of Maximil-
ian.
Mr.. Nye denounced him as an agent of
Napoleon to assist the rebellion. He eulo-
gized Juarez.
Mr.. Howard thought that Maximilian's
fate was deserved.
Mr.. Wilson offered bin authorizing the
Secretary of War to raise four regiments, and
million and half dollars,
for frontier defences.
The Senate went into executive session,
and took recess until 8 o'clock.
One of the House amendments to the re-
act is to the. effect that the
opinion of any civil officer of the govern
ment shall not bind the District Command
ders or any of their suberdinates, and States
officers must take the iron clad oath.
Julian's bill FORGETTING the Southern Rail
road land contains a section providing that
all lands sold for Federal taxes or under
the bankrupt law, shall be sold in lots OF
not lest than twenty nor more than eighty
acres,