The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-21
XXXIXth CONGRESS. nd SESSION
SENATE


The bill was considered to provide
for the annual Inspection of Indian
affairs, upon which the question was
upon agreeing to the substitute passed
by the House transferring the Indian
Bureau to the War Department.
at O'Clock the Clerk of the House
announced the action of the House on
the Reconstruction Bill
Mr.. Williams moved the postpone
ment of the Indian Bill for the purpose
of taking up the Reconstruction Bill.
The amendments of the House were
read.
Mr.. Williams moved that the Senate
concur.
After debate, the Senate took recess.
EVENING SESSION.
The House joint resolution author
izing the employment of national ves-
sells to transport food and clothing TO
The Reconstruction Bill was then
taken up.
Mr.. DooIittle offered an amendment
to the House amendments, as follows {:
Add to the last section the following
proviso: provided, that nothing in
this act contained shall be construed to
disfranchise any person in either of
said States from voting or holding
Office who have received pardon and
amnesty in accordance with the con-
stitution and laws.
MI. DooIittIe supported the amend
ment.
Mr.. Sherman said that If the House
amendments We're too harsh, the South
ern people had the Democrats in the
House to thank for it. A minority of
the Union party assisted by every Dem
ocrat, helped to defeat the acceptance of
this proposition in the House, and left
it open 10 further amendment with the
result now before the Serate.
Mr.. Hendricks defended the action of
the Democrats in the House. He said
they could not have voted differently
without placing themselves on record
as in favor of the bill, TO which they
were opposed in every respect
HOUSE.
After some unimportant bushes, the
House proceeded to consider the bill to
provide for the more efficient govern
ment of the rebel States.
to recede from the disagreement TO the
Senate amendment, and moved the
previous question.
On motion of Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa,
to non-concur with the Senate amend
ment with an amendment TO the nth
section, as telegraphed yesterday. The
House refused TO second it.
Mr.. Shellabarger moved the follow
ing amendment to the amendment TO
the amendment, to come in as new
section:
lind be It further enacted, That until
the people of said rebel States shall, by
law, be admitted to representation in
Congress of the United States, the civil
government that may exist therein
shall be deemed provisional only, and
shall be in all respects subject to the
paramount authority of the United
States, which can at any time abolish,
modify, control and supercede the
same; and in all elections 10 any Office
under such provisional governments,
all persons shall be entitled to
vote, and none others who are
entitled to vote under the provisions of
the 5th section of this act, and no per-
son shall be eligible to any Office under
such Provisional Governments, who
would be disqualified from holding
office under the provisions of the Sd
article of the said Constitutional
Amendment"
The previous question was moved
and seconded.
Mr.. Boyer moved to table the bill.
Negatived.
adopted.
Mr.. Wilson's motion to concur in the
Senate amendment, with Mr.. Wilson's
amendment as amended on motion of
Mr.. Shellabarger, was agreed to. The
bill was then sent to the Senate.
The House bill to render applicable
to seamen OF the United States navy
and marines the provision relating TO
pensions, in the appropriation bill of
July, 1866, was passed.
The House went into Committee of
the Whole on the tax bill. The tax on
cigarettes, cheroots and cigars of all
descriptions was fixed at five dollars a
thousand. The line taxing grape
brandy at fifty cents a gallon was struck
out, leaving the tax at two dollars.
The House took recess till 1870.