Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
Congregational Summary and
Washington News.
WASHINGTON, JAN. sc

IL SOhoNANaNASAoA Ah4CL4LlCLN
brought forward in the House yester-
day by Mr.. Kelso, is understood to rep
resent the veiws of a large number of
radical Republicans of Missouri.
Section 1st provides that no State
shall deprive any citizen of the United
States, sound in mind, unconVicted
with infamous offence, age twenty-one
years, resided in the State one year, in
the town, or county thirty days, next
preceding the day of election, of the
right of voting at all elections, for
Presidential electors, Representatives
in Congress, and all elections for Gov
ernor, State, County, District, Parish,
City or Town officers.
Section I'd provides no law shall be
passed depriving any citizen of sound
mind and unconvicted of crime, from
following any lawful business.
Section Sd makes it the duty of each
State to provide for the education of
all its children.
Section 4th makes it the duty to car
ry out the Sd section if it fails. The
amendment was sent to the Judiciary
Committee.
The House Military Committee has
agreed to the bill providing that claims
for bounties, under the act of last ses-
sion, in cases where the claimants dis
charge certificate is alleged to have
been accidentally lost or destroyed,
may be presented to the Second Aud
itor of the Treasury for settlement, and
upon proper application, accompanied
with proofs of such loss, the Auditor
shall examine the CLAN as in other
cases, and payment shall be made in
the usual way. The nature of the proofs
required shall be prescribed by the
Treasury Department.
The question enforcing the test oath
on lawyers came up in the District
Court this morning. Chief Justice Cart
ter and two associate Judges were on
the Bench. A motion was made to adj
NIT A. B. Magruder, of Virginia, who
cannot take the test oath to the bar Of
the Court. The Chief Justice said to
admit him would be to set aside the
first rule of the court, and he supposed
the object of the motion was to call at
tention to that rule, with a view to its
modification or repeal.
The disposition of the court is to &C.
commodate themselves to the condi-
ton of affairs, as well a. it reasonably
can, without becoming accessories to
rebellion; they do not propose to do
either, before or after the fact. We
perceive that the necessity of position
requires this to be fully and fairly met,
and disposed of in an intelligent, just
and deliberate manner, and therefore
will be pleased to hear from you at
any time you may suggest. The mo-
ton was set for hearing on Thursday
next.
The fate of the Colorado and Ne
braska bills is uncertain. Friends are
not able to count two-thirds for them
in either House, when full.
The Committee on Banking and
Currency, at 8 session this morning,
concluded to reconsider its action in
allowing Randall's sinking fund and
legal tender bill to be reported for &C
ton of the House. Mr.. auckland, who
though opposed to the bill. voted to
allow it to come before the House, en-
tered 8 motion to reconsider, and 1t
would have been acted on at once but
for Mr.. RandalPs absence. The bill
will be recalled on the next session OF
the committee,
The Finance Committee are under
stood to be strongly opposed to the
House Gold bill, and will probably re-
port against it in a day or two.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 81.
The House to-day, after a long and
spirited debate voted, by 76 to 70, to
transfer the control of the Indian Bu-
reau from the Interior Department to
the War Department
The Tariff bill has occupied the Sen
ate for ten days. That body is holding
an evening session and hopes to finish
the bill before midnight. Its fate in
the House is somewhat doubtful. Its
special friends talk of trying TO get it
through without allowing it to go be-
fore the Ways and Means Committee,
and are confident of its passage if they
can do this. Its enemies, however, are
sure that it will be defeated, OF at least
materially modified, if brought before
a Committee of the Whole, and hope
to secure the important changes in the
Ways and Means Committee.
Under the bounty equalization bill
of last July about $4,000 applications
for extra bounty for white, colored and
deceased soldiers have been made
to the Second Auditors Office, and
about 100, 900 of living white soldiers,
to the Paymaster Generals Office. APP
plications are still coming in at the
rate of about one thousand per day.
The Senate bill regulating the tenure
of Office and the Presidents power of
appointments and removals was reach
ed in the House to day, but put owe
till to morrow, with the understanding
that it shall be debated all day and
voted on without amendment at 4
o'clock.
The delegation of Kansas Indians,
which arrived in this city yesterday,
had q preliminary interview with the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative
to the removal of their tribes from
Kansas to the Indian Territory.
The December report of the Freed
mems Bureau for Mississippi shows T.
900 rations were issued during the
month, being a slight increase over
those issued for November. The
Freedmen manifest no spirit of idle
ness, and planters are SO anxious to Sc
cure laborers that many are brought
from other States. They are paid from
SO to SIS per month, and are furnish
ed with rstions quarters and medical
attendance.
There Is q growing interest in the
subject of freedmen's schools.
Two fruitful sources of dissatisfaction
to the negroes are the laws preventing
them from carrying firearms and
holding real estate.
The hearing of the argument on the
test oath here, before the District Su-
preme Court, was postponed till to-
morrow.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, FEE. /.
The bankrupt bill was taken up, the
question being on the amendment of
the Judiciary Committee to strike out
from the list of exceptions the follow
ing words "And such other property
not included in the foregoing excep-
tions az is exempted from levy and
sales upon execution by the laws of the
State in which the bankrupt has his
domicile, at the time of the commence
ment of proceedings in bankruptcy, to
the amount not exceeding that allowed
by such exemption laws IS were in
force In 1864"