The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-17
CoNeRBss1oNAI PROCEEDINGS.
The following are the Congressional proceed
iDps Of yesterday, continued from our Fourth
EDITION :-

Mr.. MORRILL, (Me.), from the Committee on
the District Of Columbia, reported the bill TO
atber purposes, in the District OF Columbia,
with an amendment substituting a new bill,
changing TO some extent the provisions and de-
tails Of the original measure, introduced and
referred last week.
the District Of Columbia, reported n bill TO
amend an act entitled an act to authorize the
extension construction anu ana use Dy the i5; BalIl;
from between Knoxville and The Monocacy
Junction, into and within the District OF Co
Iumbia providing that instead of the right
gTanted TO said company by the act referred To,
40 extend their said road into and within the
DistTict of Columbia, to such point OF terminus
as NAV he agreed upon by said company, and
the corporations Of Washington and George
town; the said company are psrct m & 10 &
and to such place as may be authorized Dy Con-
gress, and not otherwise
The bill was ordered TO lie upon the table and
Mr.. Mr. lsUSSER tMass) from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported the following reSo-
Iution which was considered and agreed TO.
Whereas The traffic in labOrers transported
from China and other Eastern countries, known
as the Coole trade is odious to the people of the
United Stated, as inhuman and immoral;
And lUhere0S, 1t is abhorrent to the spirit OF
modern International law and policy, whlch
have substantially eXtirpated the African
slave trade, to permit the establishment IN
its place of a mode of ensaving men, diff
fering from the former in little else than in
the employment OF fraud instead OF force, 10
make its victims captive 3e ~ thefeiore, I'M REQ
ment TO give effect to the moral sentiment Of
the nation through all its agencies, for the pur-
pose of preventing the further Introduction OF
Coolies into this hemisphere or the adjacent
islands.
MIR. CoNNEss (Cal.) offered the following joint
resolution, which was referred to the Commit
too on Post Offices and Post Roads,
Resolved, by the Senate, DC, That the Postmas-
ter-Genera be and he is hereby authorized to
employ ocean mail service between san tran-
cisco California, and Portland, oregon, three
times per month, in continuation of the service
from New York via Panama to san Francisco;
P1OUtded, that the cost of said service snail not
exceed S25,OOO per annum.
Mr.. GRIMES (lOwa) introduced bill TO amend
certain acts in relation to the navy, which pro-
vides that the Vice President shall be the rank
ing officer of The navy shall be considered re-
pealed by the act approved July ~, 1866, estab-
fishing the grade of admiral, which latter shall
be the ranking officer and the sixth section of
the said act is so amended that the secretary Of
The admiral shall be entitled to the rank, sea
pay and allowances of o alteutenanJ-commande
IN the navy, TO date from acceptance OF his APP
Section 2repeals the act of August 5, 1856, and
March 3, 1852 giving the force of law TO certain
general orders of the Navy Department estab.
hshing the relative rank of staff officers and
provides that the same shall be established by
regulations of said department
Section provides that the number of mid
sbipmen authorized by law at the Naval Aca-
deny shall be exclusively such as are in the
graduating class on the 9TH Of March of each
year, and repeals the law requiring that cadet
engineers shall be under eighteen years of age
when appointed, and have been employed two
years in fabrication of steam machinery
Section provides that officers of the volun-
teer naval service transferred to the regular
navy, shall be credited with the services per-
formed by them the same as if they had been
in the regular navy.
Section requires that hereafter the store
keeper at the avail Academy shall be detailed
from the paymasters corps of the navy, and
preScribes his duties.
Section amends section of the act to pro-
vide more efficient discipline for the navy, so
that the authority therein given to the COM
mander of any vessel of the navy to convene a
summary court-martial shall require the pre-
ViOus order of the Secretary of the Navy, and
may be suspended or withheld by him, or by
the commander of the squadron TO which the
vessel may belong, if without the United States.
Section authorizes the payment, out of the
Naval Pension Fund, to every person who
from age or intirmity is disabled from sea SER
vice but who has served as an enlisted person
in the navy or marine corps twenty years and
not been discharged for misconduct, In lieu of
a home in the PHILADELPHIA Naval AssyIum if
he shall elect, of equal to one-half the pay OF
his salary when discharged, to be paid quarterly,
under the direction of the Commissioner of
Pensions upon certificate from the Secretary
OF the Navy, to whom application must be
made; and it is also provided that disabled per-
sons of similar class who have served ten years
may be aided from the fund.
Section gives to the commandant of the
Marine Corps the rank and pay of brigadier-
general OF the army
The bill was referred to the Committee on
Naval Affairs.
Mr.. HOWARD CIich.) moved that the Senate
take up the resolution, offered by him yester-
day, instructing the Committee on Foreign At
Mexican affairs.
Mr., WILLIAMS (oregon) hoped the Senate
would proceed with the regular order which
was the bill to regulate the tenure OF Office
Mr.. SUMNER (Mass.) said he had no objection
to the passage of Mr.. Howard's resolution, pro-
Vided that it was amended so as to leave il to
the discretion of the committee 10 report, If in
their Judgment expedient. He believed the in
quiTy altogether unnecessary, there was
every evidence that the French troops were
now leaving Mexico. There could be no doubt
of this: He had official and unofficial cOntirma-
tiOn of the fact
Mr.. HOWARD Cdich.) did not believe all these
rumors about the departure of French troops
AT any rate it was subject upon which he
on Foreign Affairs.
The question being taken on Mr.. Howard $
motion, 1t was disagreed to-
Mr., FEsSENDEN (Me.) said IL was originally
his intention to call up the Tariff bill to-mor-
row, but he had concluded not to do So He
would now give notice however, that he should
call II up on Monday and expect to keep il
before the Senate until it was disposed of.
The bll to regulate the tenure of office was
taken up, the question being upon the amend
ment OF Mr.. Sumner as an additional section,
"that all officers and agents of the Government,
$l0O0per annum, shall be appointed by the Presi-
dent by and with the advice and consent OF the
Senate" instead OF as many of such officers as
are now appointed by the heads of departments
MIR HOWE (Wis) took the floor in advocacy
of the amendment. and the proposition was
further discussed by Messrs. Fessenden, Ed
munds, and others.
In the course Of some remarks, Mr.. CoWAN
(Pa.) said the whole number of offices in the
gift of the President was two thousand four
hundred and thirty-four. The whole number
of removals made during the year was four hum
MIR. SUMNRR Niass.) asked Mr.. Cowan if he
could inform the Senate the number OF offices
in the gift Of the Secretary Of the Treasury?
Mr.. CowAN (Pa) said he thought he could.
He would come to that presently; all the reno
vals he knew to have been made by the Presi-
for the Chief Magistrate, but for the country,
and he might say FOR themselves. There was a