The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-14
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WARRINGTON, July 12,-In the
House, Mr.. Julien asked leave to in
troduce q resolution ordering the Re-
construction Committee to report q
bill forfeiting the lands. granted to
the Southern States for railroad pur-.
poses, stating that there were 5,00O,-
600 of acres of the best lands in the
South in the hands, of rebel corpora
tions, which poor men. white and
black, shonld have for homesteads.
Mr.. Wood objected. Mr.. Julien
moved to suspend the rules. The
rules were then suspended by vote
of ninety-nine to thirty-fve, and the
resolution modified to embrace ohly
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Ar
kansas and Louisiana, when it was
passed. ~ N."s
Mr.. Butler offered resolution that
the District Commander be author
lied to issue 100000 of coupon
bonds, bearing $40 per cent. in
terest. to repair the levees, and the
assumption of which should be con-
dition precedent to, Louisiana's ad-
mission. He moved suspension of
the rules, which failed.
The Senate reconstruction bill was
reported, with several amendments.
and a rambling debate ensued, during
which Logan, Of Illinois, said he had
no sympathy with any man whowe
bail for Jefferson Davis. If it had
been he who captured Jefferson Da-
Wis, he asserted, and Mr.. Greeley
could publish it, that there never
would have been any trouble in try
ing Jefferson Davis, either in civil
or n military court, except such as he
(Logan) might organize He himself
would have been the court, and there
would have been no Jefferson Davis.
He would, to-day, if he had the
power. hang JEFF. Davis and every
one of his cabinet officers. The only
man in America who had nerve enough
to hang traitors was Juarez.
Mr.. Stevens moved the previous
question, when the bill, as amended,
was passed, and went back to the
Senate. 81
The House took recess at s o'clock.
In the Senate, MIR. Chandler called
up his resolution directing the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations to in
quire how many Mexican soldiers had
been executed after capture. He said
that MaXimilian's operations were q
part of the rebellion, and, had it sue
ceeded, the decree of 'G6 would have
hanr ind A,nta1
Maximilian signed his own death
warrant on signing that decree. He
ought not to have died by the bullet.
The officers capturing him should
have hung him on the first tree; this
not done, proved the Mexicans Chi
valrous people. The course of this
Government toward Mexico was cow
ardly. Mr.. Johnson spoke favorably
of MaXimilian. Mr.. Nye denounced
him as the agent of Napoleon, to as
sist the rebellion, and eulogized Jua-
rez. Mr.. Howard thought AIaximi-
lian met deserved fate. The matter
was postponed.
Mr.. Wilson offered a bill author
izing the Secretary of War to raise
four regiments, and appropriating
81, 500, 600 for frontier defence. The
Senate then went into Executive ses-
sion, and took q recess until 8 o'clock.
One of the House amendments was
to the effect that the opinion Of any
civil officer of the Government shall
not rid district commanders of their
subordinates, and State officers must
take the iron-clad oath. The bill, in
its present state, contains fourteen
sections.
WASHINGTON, July 13.-The fol-
lowing is the text of the bill as it
passed both Houses:
Be ii enacted by tie Senate and House
Of Representative Of tie United States
Of america, IN Congress assembled,
That it is hereby declared to have
been the true intent and meaning of
the Act Of I'd March, 1867, entitled,
'An Act to provide for the more eff
cient government of the rebel States, {"
and OF the Act supplementary there
to, passed on the 23d of March, 1867,
that the governments then existing
in the rebel States of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas
and Arkansas, were not legal State
governments, and that thereafter the
said governments, if continued, were
continued subject in all respects to
the military commanders of the re-
spective districts, and to the para
mount authority of COnoress