The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-23
PRocEEn.-- bNGREss ON TUES
Ky.

:, SENATE:-The House joint resolution authorizing
tne secretary e va 70 transfer to the managers
Gh o. me Oho asylum for disabled soldiers and sailors,
up and passed. The Bill prohibiting any further
Payment to the owners Of slaves drafted into the
cusson, laid @ over The Tie Conn Committee anu on % Mitary
Affairs reported fayorably on tho House Bill for
tho payment of awards for the capture OF MIR.
providing for the appointment of q committee OF
three Senators to inquire into the publication in
tho Of tho II
ling, the resolution was laid over. "a .7-,
A Committee of Conference was appointed on
the supplementary Military Bill A Bill was passed
authorizing tho Secretary Of War to ssrc one suit
OF ciothing for each invalid solder in any repular
soldes's Homo in The United States. Mr.. John
oi Ha MnrT,and rose and stated that his col
state had requested him to ask that his creden-
pals n SHOULD be referred to tho Judiciary Commit
ee' as he courted the fullest investigation into m
ms public acts. Tho reference wns accordingly
made. Bill was introduced declaring that no
person @ shall be eligible to either House Of Con-
States, Or aided, in any manner, any hostile % GOV
tSn ehnme1t It was Is referred to the Committee on
which was concurred in by the Senate. An EIecu,
tive session was hold, after which tho Senate
HOUSE OF Representatives, BIZ was passed
to remedy the defect in the enrolment Of the Bill
relative If to import duties on woollens from which
omitted joint resolution was | passed T prohibitss ts
ing the further issue Of Agricultural College scrip
to any Southern State except the State of T.nnes-
constitutional rights as States in the Union by
Con- Congress e. a BIZ vas also passed e7empting lad
The Supplementary Military Reconstr uction Bill
as amended by the Senate, was taken up, and the
House refused to reccde from its amendments
.here!o, ana ordered committee Of conference on
A joint resolution was passed extending the pro-
visions Of the Bill in relation to the publication Of
and to the Territories and providing for the pab
ncatlon IN three papers in Loui"iana Mr.. Ste
vens then called up his Bill for the confscation Of
IN f II the he proceedings elsewhere Tho Bill
11o ten seeding States and al the lands and other
II, 1852, all Of which is to be seized, conderned
Out Of the proceeds each adult male freed slave
ls to receive 10 acres and each one who is head of
q family 40 more. Out of the balance sum of
fifty dollars for each household is to be appropri-
late slaves. 900 is to Be invested in United
states SIX per cent bonds and the interest added to
she pensions Of Union soldiers, and $500 600 COO is
citizens by the civil or military government @ of fhe
Gonfsdsraey The remaining sections Of the bill
t ba me methods and machinery by which it
Mr. Stevens proceeded to make o speec:, upon
the subject, but had uttered only q few sentences
"toaa LIS otieLBLA luuco, anu ne was compelled to
ask A1r. Mcpherson, the Clerk, to;continue the
reading Of it: The whols subject was then post
poned until December next. &, The House then
vent into Committee Of the Whole and took up the
BIZ! appropriating one million OF dollars 10 the
relief or the South. After q long discussion the
Bill. - -.,i = = 2 - -. ~ ''io 0
The Conference Committee on the Supplements
~ Military Reconstruction Bill made o report,
which was concurred in, after q abort discussion
Senate amendment, but inserts an additional
amendment providing that Congress shall be sat-
lsed that there was no interference with voters at
the election, and that the Constitution adopted
meets the approval Of the majority Of the people
IN the scvcral States The House then adjourned.