The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-17
Congress-.

H0use-Mr. Julian asked leave to intro
duce resolution, ordering the Reconstruc-
tion Committee to report bill torfeiting
lands granted to the Southern States for
Railroad purposes, stating that there were
five millions of acres of the best land in the
South in hands of rebel corporations, which
the poor men, white and black, should have
for h0mesteads. .
Mr.. Wood objected.
Mr.. Julian moved to suspend the rules.
The rules were suspended by a vote of 80
to SO, and the resolution was SO modified
as to embrace only Mississippi, Alabama,
Florida, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and
passed.
Mr.. Butler offered resolution that the
District Commander be authorized to issue
100000 in coupon bonds at 1910 per
cent. 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.
Mr.. Logan, of Illinois, said he had no sym
patty 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
would have been any troublein trying Jeffer
son Davis either in civil or military
court, except as he Nogan) 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.
1t 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
part of the rebellion. If he had succeed
ed, the decree of '66 would have been inflic-
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
tree. This was not done, and it proved the
Mexicans to be chiyalrous 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 bill authorizing the
| Secretary of War to raise four regiments, and
appropriating million and a half dollars,
| for frontier defences.
The Senate went into executive session,
and took recess until o'clock.
One of the House amendments to the re-
| construction 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 subordinates, and States
officers must take the iron clad oath.
Julian's bill FORGETTING the Southern Rail-
road land contains section providing that
all lands sold for Federal taxes or undel
the bankrupt law, shall be sold in lots Of
not lest than twenty nor more than eighty
acres.