The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-19
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xxxIxth Congressional Session.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is.

ture, rejecting the Constitutional
Amendment Tabled, and ordered
printed.
Various petitions were, presented
and referred, including one asking
the passage of laws against the pres
ent system of determination OF the
Indian race. ft aah
Henderson presented a petition
from the citizens of Missouri. for an
increased duty on fax seed, Tabled.
Sumner offered a resolution calling
upon the President OF the United
States to communicate the same, if
not inconsistent with public interest,
any correspondence between the De-
partment of. State and Mr.. Motley,
Minister to Vienna, relative to his
reported resignation. s'.o.4
The Chair said it requires unani-
nous consent to consider this resolu-
ton to-day.
Buckalow objected, and it lies over.
Wilson, from the Military Com
mittee, reported the bill of the House
of last session to establish and pro-
tect the national cemeteries, requiring
each grave to be marked with the
name of the occupant, and each GEM
etery to be inclosed with stone or
iron fence, and appropriating $4,000
! for carrying out the purpose.
At the suggestion of Wade and
others, the bill was laid over for the
present.
Henderson presented a bill declar-
ing the bridges built by the North
Missouri Railroad Company over the
Missouri River, at St. Charles, Mo-,
legal structure and post road. Re
ferred
Salisbury moved that the Senate
take up his resolution, calling upon
the heads of departments for list of
removals from office, made between
March 4, 1861, and March 4, 1865.
The motion was rejected. rs #
The bill to regulate the tenure Of
Office was taken up. The question
was upon Summers amendment, as an
additional section, providing that all
officers of the government except
clerks of the departments whose sala-
ries exceed 81 900 per annum, shall
be appointed by the President, by
and with the consent of the Senate.
Sumner said it is now little more
than year ago since l felt it my
duty to characterize message of the
President, as white washing That
message presented the condition of
things in the rebel States as fair and
promising, when the prevailing evil
dence was directly the other way. Of
course the message was white wash
ing" and this was a mild term for
such document; and you do not for
get how certain Senators here were
struck at this plainness, leaped for
ward again4to the same task. Time
has shown i was right on former ocl
casion If anybody doubts that /
was right yesterday. i commend him
to time; and he will not have to wait
long. For myself, shall insist al
ways upon the complete freedom of
debate. and shall exercise it, thank
God, now that the slave masters have
been driven from this Chamber; such,
at least, is the liberty of an American
Senator. Of course there can be no
citizen Of a Republic too high
for exposure. as there can be
none tooe low for protection,
the exposure of the high and pro-
lection of the weak These are not
only invulernable liberties but COM
manding duties. At last the country
is opening its eyes to the actual con-
dition of things, and already it sees
that Andrew johnson, who came to
supreme power by bloody acct
dent, has become the successor of
Jefferson Davis in the spirit by which
he holds the Government, and the
mischief he has inflicted on his coun-
try, sees the President of the rebel
lion released by the President of the
United States. 1t sees the violence
which took the life of his illustrious
predecessor, and is now by his
preverse completely extending
through the rebel States making
all who love the Union its vic
tins, and filling the land with oppres-
sion; it sees the war upon the faithful
Unionists is still continued under his
powerful auspices, without any dis
tinction of color, so that both whites
and blacks are sacrificed; it sees he is
monster of discord, aud not min
lister of peace; it sees SO long as his
opinion prevails there is small secu
rity, or tranquility, or reconciliation
that the restoration of prosperity in
the rebel States, so much lenged for
must be the business of the whole
The country must be embarrassed
and the conditions upon which res
a sound currency must be postponed
All these things the country now
sees, but indignation assumes the
form of judgment, when it is seer
that this war is reaching
mischief secondly to the
rebellion. the cause of which is invig
grated and extended through a plail
usurpation. In holding up Andrew
johnson to judgement l do not al
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