The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-28
WASHINGTON, January 20.
senate.

of an act restricting the Jurisdiction of the Court
of Claims, which provides that the second and
lhird sections OF said act shall be so amended as
that claims of loyal citizens Of States not In re-
bellion for Quartermasiers' stores actually fur
nished TO the United States army and receipt
ed for. or which may have been taken by order
or sanction OF army officers without receipts
master. General accompanied by evidence of
the facts in the case. and 10 shall be the duty of
the Quartermaster-Ge General TO cause such claim
TO be examined, and if satisfied of the Justice Of
/the claim and the loyalty OF the claimant, TO
report such case to the Third Auditor of the
Treasury, with recommendation Tor settlement,
and that similar claims for subsistence furnished
as above shall be considered ana acted upon in
the same manner by the ommssary-General
of Subsistence. Referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs.
the care and supervision OF the Capitol and
Capitol grounds, and for other purposes; pro-
vding that all persons not in the employment
of the Senate or House of Represen tatives, the
Supreme Court, or the Court of Claims, or the
office of the Commissionerof Public Buildings,
! but who may be employed in or about the Ca
pitol, including the Librarian of the Congtes-
sional Library, MS assistant aud messengers;
the whole Of the Capitol police force the watch
men, labOrers and all others necessarily en-
poYtd in the care of the Capitol, the cultivation
of the ground. &c, together with the floral and
propngatng gardens, shall be under the charge
4 of a Superint tendent of the Capitol and Capitol
i Grounds, to be appointed by the President of
the Senate and Speaker of the House of Repre-
Sentatives; and that all the supervision hereto
fore exercised by the commissioners of Public
= Buildings overtheCapital and groundsde described,
B shall be exercised by the superintendent afore-
said and all the rooms of the old building former
ly used by the Senate and House, shall, when re-
quired for the nse of either body, be placed un-
der the charge of the Sergeaut-at- Arms of the
Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representa-
a tives, as the case may be, but all parts of the
! Capitol not then held shall be under the Super
intendent of Capitol and Grounds; and it is fur
ther provided by the bill that all oilsalowed by
4 any committee appointed by the Senate or the
4 House of Representatives or by the two bodies
4 Jointly, in satisfaction of any claim against
either the Senate, the House of Representatives
or both bodies conjointly, shall be audited and
l1ON ppAh hNy 10 nn nf q
sury as passed by the committee approving such
i bill. Referred to the Committee on Public
Mr.. WiLsoN (MassJ introduced bill to
z abolish and prohibit the system of peonage in
States which declares unlawful the holding of
any person to service or labor under the system
! known as peonage in the said territory or any
4 other territory or State OF the United states;
that all acts, laws, resolutions, ORDERS etc, in
heretofore established and enforced, by virtue
of which attempt may be made to maintain or
enforce the voluntary or involuntary service or
vlabor of any person or persons in liquidation of
any debt or obligation, or otherwise, are hereby
declared null and void, and Furnishes with fine
of from $1,000 to S5000, or imprisonment from
one to five years, or both, any persons
4 who shall hold, arrest, or return, or aid
\ therein any person to a condition of
or advances in the liquidation OF which
the voluntary or involuntary service Of any
person or persons is may hereafter be
claimed under the said SYSTEM are declared
4 null and void, and the persons so held shall be
That the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bu-
4 reau shall within thirty days from the passage
of this bill, appoint an assistant commissioner,
to be located in the Territory of New Mexico. to
" enforce the provisions of this act; and any per-
I son who shall obstrucJ or in any way interfere
with the said assistant commissioner shall be
subject to the penalties provided as above, in the
second section of the act; and any military OH.
Ger SO interfering with such commissioners shall
be dshonorably dismissed the service and be
4 thereafter disqualified for holding office under
the Government, and that all persons IN the
civil or military service of the Governmental in
the said Territory of New Mexico shall be re-
s quired to aid in enforcing this act. Referred TO
the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr.. SUMNER (MaSS) introduced n bill to
amend the act incorporating the Newsboys'
"A Home, and also for the relief of abandoned
children in the District of Columbia, which
Il provides for changing the name of the News
+. bows Home to the Newsboys' and Children's
Aid Society of the District of Columbia and en-
larges the powers of the board of managers, so
that they may receive any Vagrant INDECENT or
abandoned minor children under regulations
as provided in the bill. Referred to the Com
"A mittee on the District of Columbia.
Mr. WILLIAMS (Oregon) called up the joint
81 resolution introduced by him yesterday giving
messengers, watchmen, and other civil en-
ployees of the Government engaged in Wash
ington city, including clerks in the city Post
Office, and the detectives of the Metropolitan
Police whose salaries do not exceed $500 per
i. annum, twenty per cent. extra compensation
on their respective salaries or pay for one year.
from and after the 3Oth of June 1866.
Pending the consideration of this the morn
II ing hour expired, and the Tariff bill came up,
the question being upon the amendment of Mr..
Freylinghuysen TO Increase the duty on zinc
= spelter or Jentenague, in blocks from two TO
two and a half cents per pound. Disagreed To.
j Yeas, 10; nays, II.
"A Mr. FEssENDEN (NIe.) moved to amend by
striking out the word "albertite" from the fol-
lowing paragraph-"On chapapate or asphalt
tum, bitumen or mineral pitch, albertite and
bituminous shales of all descriptions, five dol
lars per ton. His object. he said, was TO put IL
81 under the head OF COAL The amendment was
MIR, EDMUNDs (Vt.) moved to amend, by
changing the duty on all marble in slabs or
blocks from fifty cents per cubic foot,and twenty
per cent, ad Valorem, to one dollar per cubic
1o5t.
4 mittee, on the bill in regard 10 the appoint
ment of pension agents, made report.
The report was agreed to, ana the Dill now
goes TO the President AS agreed TO by the com
mittee, it removes all pension agents appointed
since the first of July last, instead OF the FIRST
OF October in the bill passed by the Senate.
II The Tariff bill was resumed.
Mr.. Edmunds' amendment was disagreedto
Mr. DAVIS moved to increase the duty on
Russia Manila, and all other hemps, unmanu-
Ifactured, from twenty-five TO fifty dollars pei
lton.
Mir. HENDERSON addressed the Senate on this
lsubiect, and in the course of his remarks sale
he hoped the bill would be postponed unti
ft was ascertained what the House intended u
do about reducing internal taxes Every yea
OF the last four or five years he (Mr Henderson
had been asked to vote an increase OF interna
taxes. No sooner had he done this than he was
told he must increase the tariff to protect hOmt
manufacturers He believed the existing tarit
was ample for revenue purposes. Under II anC
the internal tax now levied, the natlonal DEB
could be paid of in fifteen or twenty years
This bill, he said was unjust to the West.
seemed TO be the result of a combination o
different interests, each agreeing TO help tn
oIher and the result being general lncreas
all round.
Mr. WILSON (Mass.) asked and obtane
unanimous consent to Introduce resolluo