Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-17
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATION.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
A bill was introduced by Mr.. WILL.
LIAMS, of Indiana, to- pay the balance ".
the bounty to non-commssioned officer
honOrably mustered out, .- .=-f -
By Mr.. KERR, to regulate and limit IT,
admiralty jurisdiction of United Stat.
Courts. $3.50 .-,,...-.@'
By Mr.. JULIAN, to fix the time for eler
tlon OF Representative and Delegates t,
Congress. .->.trr s. r.-s77. ~ it}'e7lslT5
By Mr.. BRIGGS. joint resolution c
| the Michigan Legislature relative to Gus.
TINS and excise. ~. .:.-, -
BY Mr.. BALDWIN. to abolish the bond
ed warehouse saytem.
By Mr.. HOOPER, of Massachusetts,, t.
prevent depreciation of currency by pro
hibiting the circulation as money of any.i
thing not authorized by law. l--z-s
By HUBBARD, of w. Va, to facilitaf,,
the resumption of specie payments; tha
bill provides that after the first of Jul,
1858, twenty per cent. of all duties on i'm
ported goods may be paid in U.s.. note,
| after the first of July, 1869, forty per cen.
after the first of July, 1870. sixty per cent /
after the first Of July, 1871, eighty per cent
and after the first of July, 1872, the whole
By Mr.. BROOKE. in relation to lega;
tender notes. The bill provides that tn,
Finance committee OF the Senate and com
mittee of Ways and Means of the Hous-
shall inquire into the eXpediency-Grst, 0;
ltSdl Geuu6T nOG6S T6celVaDle l.:
part payment of custom duties, say fiv,
per cent after the 1st of January, 1868; ten
per cent after the 1st of March, 1868; sec
Ond, of repeating the legal tender act on all
contracts made after the 1st of March, 1868,
or If not repeating it enabling contracts to
be made payable in gold and silver.
All was appropriately referred. s 4
Mr.. BENJAMIN offered resolution re-
citing that the President, in his annual
message, had seen fit, in utter disregard of
the popular will as expressed in the cleo
tion of members of the Fortieth Congress,
to recommend the repeal of the reconstruct
tion laws, the effect of which would be to
remit the government of the late rebel
lious States to rebel hands, and abandon the
loyal element thereof to the will of traitors,
and that it is emminently proper that the
House should respond in emphatic terms to
SO extraordinary proposition. and resolv-
ing that the House will never consent
| to take retrograde step from its
advanced position in promoting the
cause of equal rights, nor to deviate
from its fixed purpose of protecting all
men as equal before the law; that there il
no reason to doubt that the restoration O.
the rebellious States il being successfully
accomplished on a firm and enduring basis,
and that no good reason exists why the
reconstruction acts should be refused
Mr.. KERR moved to lay the resolution
|
The resolutiod and preamble was then
adopted bv strictly party vote.
| Mr.. BUTLER moved to suspend the
rules to enable him to offer a resolution de-
claring that in the judgment of the House
all Indebtedness of the nation ought to be
paid in exact accordance with the acts of
Congress creating it. but not otherwise |;
that is to say, all loans enacted to be paid
in gold to be so paid, and all loans not so
enacted to be payable, ought to be paid in
lawful money of the United States.
The rules were not suspended and the
resolution was not received.
The, SPEAKER presented message
from the President, transmitting copies of
papers relating to the trial of Albert Rusk,
of Indiana, in New Orleans, and stating
that no action in the cBse was yet taken BY
the President. The message was referred
to the Judiciary committee. as
The endorsement on the papers by the
Secretary of War ad interim, is that the
crime was most fearful and brutal one:
that this was the first trial for murder by q
military commission under the reconstruct
tion acts, and the sentence should be car
ried into effect. s lr- l {
The House went into committee of the
whole, Mr.. Bromsll in the chair, and con-
sidered the deficiency appropriation bill,
which appropriates $1lS592, and after de-
bate reported back to the House, which at
ment giving twenty per cent. additional to
all civil employees in Washington whose
compensation is under $4,000. The bill was
then tabled.
The deficiency bill was again introduced
| and passed without provision for addi-
| tiOnal compensation.
The House refused to suspend the rules
on motion by Mr.. SCHENCK, in order
| to discharge the committee on Banking
| and Currency from the consideration of
Mr.. Lynch's bill to prevent undue expanI
sion and contraction of currency. Mr..
Schenck's object was to send it to the Ways
and Means committee.
Mr.. HUBBARD. of West Virginia, asked
leave to introduce a resolution that the
committee on Retrenchment consider the
eXpediency of reducing the pay of Mem
bers of Congress to four thousand dollars.
and ten cents mileage, but Mr.. HIGBEE
objected. ----s-r -...----s +
| Adjourned. ..-. 81.