Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-10

hOiAA AslbSf thC tlAA o0Nh
not es shall before maturity be legal ten
der for all purposes, including the redemp-
ton Of national bank notes, except for
payment Of import duties and coin interest
on government bonds; after maturity they
shall be a legal tender for all purposes
before excepted by the government; and
that the Secretary may, after specie pay
ment has commenced, issue notes payable
in coin in less than one but not more than
three months and may also purchase coin
| to enable him TO redeem bonds, not ex-
ceeding S50,000,O00. t.- os.t
Mr.. Lynch To provide against expan-
sion and contraction of the currency. The
| bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treas
| ury to Issue $500, O00, 900 in coupon bonds,
payable in lawful money on demand, at
| five per cent. interest in coin--the bonds to
be issued to any person paying the par
value thereof in lawful money. SOD
Mr.. Wilson; To authorize State author
tiles to tax non-interest bearing United
| States notes.
Mr.. Payne: To amend thebahkrupt law.
| Mr.. Washburne, of Wisconsin: To
! amend the Pacific railroad acts by estab,
| fishing a commission, consisting of the
1 SCcfEtdIF vi w oCtICbdlH Va lhtCi
and Attorney General, to fix annually, on
| the first of July, tariff of charges for
Transporting freight and passengers over
| that road. $3.50
| Mr.. Walker: To amend the pension acts.
Mr.. Harding For a like purpose.
/ Mr.. Lawrence, of Ohio In reference to
the island in Miami river. eaf
i Mr.. Eggleston: To charter the Wash.
/ ington and Cincinnati railroad. =.
/ Mr.. Kerr: To regulate the compensation
/ of assistant assessors and assistant collectors
/ of internal revenue in certain cases.
Mr.. Logan: In reference to the longevity
of the relations of on-commissioned Off
GERS and priyates, also requiring the Com
mittee of Ways and Means TO inquire into
the Justice and expediency of reporting q
bill refunding the income tax collected
from officers of the army and navy during
the war. ; =s.s, l.,-t
Mr.. Terry: Joint resolution of the Mich.
igan Legislature in reference TO public
lands for wagon roads in Michigan, and in
reference to improving the harbor at the
mouth OF Sheboygan river.
| Mr.. briggs: Defining acts granting lands
to Michigan for ship canal.
i Mr.. Loughbridge: To prohit the sale OF
| Cherokee lands in body and providing
for the sale thereof; also to grant lands in
aid of the common schools Of the District
of Columbia.
| Mr.. Windane To amend the recon
struction act of March, 1867, by providiag
that the constitution in the late Rebel
States may be ratified by majority of the
votes registered, and the qualified votes
cast at such an election. deferred to the
Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Chillicott: To establish an addi~
tional land list in Colorado.
Mr.. Van Trump: To amend the ma
tional currency by rendering absolutely
void all contracts for charging a greater
rate of interest than provided for in the
Both section of thatact.
Mr.. Poland offered a resolution for the
appointment of committee of members
to which shall be referred the reports OF
the committee to revise, simplify, arrange
and consolidate the statute of New Or
leans. Adopted.
Mr. Boswell offered resolution direct
ing the Judiciary Committee to consider
the expediency of so amending the laws
to req uire members of constitutional con-
ventions in the unreconstructed States to
take test oaths.
The Speaker presented the message from
the President, in reply to resolution oil
the 18th of July-lost- to amend
the organization to ayenge the death Of
Macmillan. Referred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs.
The resolution on the distribution OF
the Presidents message, came up, and an
animated discussion took place. On pro.
position by Mr. Butler to refer TO the
Committee on Appropriation that part oil
it referring to the appropriation fol-
the purchase of the Territory of Alaski,
Messrs. Butler, Washburne of Illinois,
Washburne of Wisconsin, and Schenck
taking the ground that the treaty was not
operative till the House had agreed to
make the appropriation, while Messrs.
Banks, Stevens of Pennsylvania, and Rob-
inson argued that the matter came properly
before the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mr.. Buffers proposition was rejected, and
the matter was committed to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs.
Mr.. Chandler called up his resolution.
declaring that during the war between
England and Abyssinia, the United States
will preserve strict neutrality. He main
tanned it was merely retaliatory meas,
ure for the course England pursued toward
this government during the rebellion. Had
Great Britain acknowledged the Alabama
claims he would have been silent, but she
had thrown them out of court. Those
claims were first lien on every foot of
land on this continent and adjacent islands
owned by Great Britain, and it would
require them to satisfy the national honor.
He would never again refer to the Ala
bama claims until this mortgage was fore
closed. He believed messengers were on the
way here from Abyssinia to procure
ships-of.war. He believed that they
would be recognized, and he would, if a
British ship-of-war chased one of them
into United States port, compel her to
remain under the guns of a fort until the
Abyssinian had twenty -four hours start.
Let the Abyssinians light up old ocean
With the burning ships of Great Britain.
If the King Of Abyssinia enlisted seamen
here, he hoped perfect neutrality would
be observed He believed, if the resolu.
ton passed, from ten to fifty privateers
would be on the seas in one hundred days,
and British chronometers would be as
cheap in this market as American chronom
eters were once in Britain.
Mr.. Anthony agreed that the conduct
of England during the rebellion had been
wholly unjustifable, but the true way to
revenge ourselves upon England was to
show by our own growth and power the
superiority of republican over amonarchi-
cal constitution, by attracting here the
capital and labor of Europe. We con-
quered the rebellion with the sympathy OF
England against us, let US overcome her in
the art of peace. He would go further,
and press upon the powers that be, with
perfect immunity, private property on sea
az on land.
Mr.. johnson said there was no object in
this resolution; no greater evil could
happen to this country than war with
| Great Britain. Wewould emerge, doubtless,
with honor, but with immensely increased
debt. All great principles of human free
dom were recognized by Britain, and such
a war would doubtless initiate against hui
man liberty. Great Britain certainly COM
mitted a gross error in 1861 and owed il to
herselfto pay every dollar Of the damages,
and he contended that the resolution pro-.
posed in effect to resign those claims. He
would never vote to provoke a needless
| war with Great Britain.
Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, wanted
| To know how the Committee on Ways and