The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-08

senate.
Euening Session.
Inc legislative, Executive and Judiciary Ap-
continued. NP' '''-' A'' A0'''As ""'
An AnI amendment was adopted to appropriate
S4uOOO Ior facilitating telegraphlc communication
DetWeen the Atlantic and Pacific States
Inc Inc following appropriation was stricken out
Eo OF legal and other necessary assistance in the
disposal of private land claims in California, S5OO0
an amendment was adopted striking out the ap
preparation for extra compensation to officers of
the House of Representatives.
Mr. FESSENDEN, of Maine, offered an amend
i ment ior the appointment OF eighty additional
Mr.. TRUMBULL, OF Illinois, offered an amend
ment appropriating $500 year additional for the
reporter of the Supreme Court when he shall be
Obliged to issue two volumes OF reports in one
ment increasing the salary Of the District Judge of
california to S5000 the District Judges of Massa-
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Northern Illinois, Louisiana, Oregon and Nevada
70 S45OO and all other District judges to $4,000 per
a motion was made by Mr.. SHERMAN TO place
the District of Ohio in the s95O0 salaries,
Mr. POLAND hoped this would not be done.
II the recommendation OF the COMMITTEE on the
Judiciary was once departed from, 1t would be
Impossible to tell where it would end Every Sc
nator would want his district included.
Mr.. Sherman's amendment was disagreed to.
Mr.. POLAND offered amendment increasing
the salaries Of the judges Of the Court OF CLAIMS
to $i500 Disagreed to.
Mr.. CONNESS Of California, offered an amend
ment directing the Secretary OF War to have the
Nevada surveyed for new route to the Pacific.
Mr. WILLIAMS offered an amendment increas-
ing the salary of the Chief Clerk of the Senate to
$4,000; the Sergeant-at-arms to $500. Agreed to.
The bill was taken out of the Committee of the
Whole and reported to the Senate, and the Senate
at ten O'Clock adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
Mr.. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, resumingIthe
door on the bill to provide for the more efficient
government of the insurrectionary States, pre-
faced his remarks by stating that the reference
made to him in the correspondence just read was
wholly false. He went TO say that while he
willing to allow all proper latitude of debate,
any considerable delay at this period of the ses-
sion wonld be fatal to the BILL and he would there
fore ask the House to second the previous ques-
tion at one o'clock tomorrow.
This was bill, he said, for the purpose of giving
governments to ten States that now without
government. Congress now almost unani-
mously of opinion that there were no governments
of the United States. For two years they had been
in a disorganized condition. Two years ago the
armies of government calling itself the confede-
rate States of America were conquered and that
government dispersed, and by the law of nations
of government should be administered there
The reason why no government had been estab-
lished there before was that there had been divi
sion in the councils of the nation, that the Execu
tive had assumed to be a new government, to enact
new laws. and to establish new regulations of au-
thorty in the conquered territory. The sovereign
power of the nation repudiated, and had utterly
repudated on all occasions, the authority which
had thus attempted to establish governments
within those conquered provinces 1t had waited
patienty-too patiently he thought-in the hope
mony in the councils of the United States, and
that the necessary government for those States
hope had failed, and the longer Congress waited
the more pertinacious seemed to be the determine
tion Of the Executive to maintain his usurpation
Ithad now become the duty OF Congress TO as
sert its rights and to do its duty by establishing
some kind of government in those provinces,
which for two years had been in a state of an
archy. For two years the loyal people there had
endured all the horrors of the worst anarchy. Elk.
iles prosecutions, murders, had been the order OF
the day The best men OF those States were driven
from their homes and compelled to live on the
cold charity of the cold north, where they were 10
be seen living about everywhere, wandering
about, haggard and miserable, the ghosts OF the
unburied dead wandering on this side OF the Styx.
He was for making one other effort to protect
those loyal men from the cruelties, prosecutions
and vengeance to which they were subjected. II
Congress failed interfere eectually, it would be
responsible to the civilized world for the grossest
neglect of duty that any nation was ever guilty OF
before humanity. In conclusion, he proposed tnat
Messrs ELDRIDGE and RANDALL, of Penn
Mr.. BRANDEGEE, of Connecticut, addressed
the House in support OF the bill. VI all the pro-
positions that had been submitted from the JOINT
Oommittee on Reconstruction, this bill seemed at
once the clearest, the plainest, the most appro-
priate the freest from constitutional objections,
and the plan the best calculated TO accomplish the
two great master aims Of reconstruction: the one
the garnering up of the fruits Of victory, and the
other the restoration of peace on the only basis on
which peace and union could be restored, to wit:
protection to all, liberty to ALL and rights to all
employed the right tools for its accomplishment.
1t commenced at the point where Grant left off the
work, at AppomattoX, two years ago IL had one
purpose, to hold the revolted communities IN the
grasp of war until the spirit of rebellion should be
laid down, its arms had been laid down two
] years ago. He saw this bill promise that the
sword Of the republic shall be unsheathed agatni
shall be placed In the hand OF the greatest captain
of the age, and should be held by him suspended
once more over the heads Of rebels, with the awful
memory of the reverberatien OF the cannon which
opened Richmond to the Federal arms.
MIR. LIE BLOND, of Ohio, in rising TO oppose
the bill, said that Ohio to have State conven-
\ ton on Wednesday next and, therefore, he would
not indulge in high-sounding declamanons, IRE.
ferring to Mr. Brandegee's speeeh,) but would
present his views in brief form. The adoption OF
the law, he said would be the death-knell OF civil
liberty on this continent and would be the estao-
lishment of military despotism over the country
The preamble of the ball did not embrace SIM
4 gle truth in it. not one. The State organizations
In those States, he contended, were never broken
up, When the war ended they came back into the
Union as they had gone out All that was neces
sarV was surrender, and declaration TO the
American people that those States no longer made
war against the government OF the United States
hut submitted 10 IT, and would be loyal to the gov
ernment in future.
General Sherman, in his convention with Gene
raj johnson, had laid down the true doctrine anc
AZ that doctrine had been pursued IL would havt
produced harmony and peace, and rendered al
This LEGISLATION unnecessary. This bill was thu
same In principle as that introduced in the Senat
nv Senator Williams; but that Senator had sufti
cient regard for the Consultation to leave to tn
President his constitutional right as Commander
in.chief to detail the general officers who were Il
0overn the proposed military districts; but thi
Sill deprived the PRESIDENT OF that rlght AM
lodged 1t in General Grant
The hill, therefore, was unconstitutional even II
that light. He appealed 70 gentlemen en-, 10 pans
1T was setting aside the right OF trlal oy jury an
the privilege Of habeas corpus. He believed the
had already prepared aruess Ot .h 9a h