New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-29

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WASHINGTON Monday, Jan o. 1867.
Tn the Senate to-day an important bsh was paSSeu
4, nrent and punish counteTfeiting OF United states
notes bonds or certificates of Indebtedness Inc
oeoDl and third sections of interest to business
ION The one makes it an Offense to publish plac-
ard or advertisement of any kind in the likeness or
atnilitude of United States note or bond, and the
other Furnishes any one who shall imprint or write
Susiness card or other advertisement on Govern
-pent note or bond. This bill passed by the
House in June last hut failed to receive the CONSIDER
alton of the Senate during the last session Announcer
important bill passed in the senate was
that regulating the issue OF wnts Oh
habeas corpus by United States Judges. MI Waue
Offered a resolution calling upon the PRESIDENT Ior
information as TO how long and how often Gov yum
nngs has been absent from his post in Colorado, by
whom his absence was authorized, by whom his eX-
penses were paid ETC. This was amended SO as to
applv 10 all Territorial Governors and was then
passed The cause of Mr.. Wades action in tins mat
ter is the bitter hostility of Gov. Cummings to the
admission of Colorado. The Tariff bill came up at
o'clock and was discussed until the adjournment, at
half past five There was two hours debate ON grind
stones with result but to keep the duty where II
was and half dozen speeches on iron, with similar
effect Mr. Fessenden wanted to sit the bill through
sender then gave notice that he should expect TO
pass the bin tomorrow.
This was resolution day in the House, but none
Of any great importance were acted upon. Kasson
introduced resolution to prevent the whipping OF
negroes in Southern States, which, after hard hght
its author attempting to have it psssed-was re-
ferred TO the Judiciary Committee discussion OF
the Missouri members impeachment resolution con-
sumed all of the latter half of the morning hour lie
slit Mt Amend
ment RadieaD INDUCED in q brief cooQuy about
She genuineness of the reports that Bingham while
ON the stump in Ohio told his fellow citizens that,
a they reelected him to Congress- he would not shut
his ewes nor his mouth until he moved
resolution of impeachment against President
johnson. The consideration of Mr.. Ste
yens's enabling act occupied the rest OF
the days session. and this important measure was at
last disposed of Julian Of Indiana, Cullom Of Hi
nois and Scofeld Of Pennsylvania made speeches in
favor of Mr.. Stevenss plan, which, together with
ether facts led Mr.. Stevens TO hope that the bill
might pass without going to the Reconstruction
Committee When the debate had finished, Bingham
demanded the previous question on a motion TO re-
commit the bin to the Reconstruction Committee
This gave rise TO good deal Of maneuvcrng and ac-
fivity among the friends and opponents OF the bill
Bingham and ConlIng were looked upon as the lead
ers of the Republicans in favor Of TecOmmitting,
while Stevens, backed by Boutwell,, Sheua-
barger, and Morrill,, was considered the cham
pion Of the immediate passage of the bill Bng-
ham. in his remarks, expressed himself
satisfied with the Constitutional Amendment, while
Conkng did not commit himself. Boutwell, was
willing TO have the bill so to select committee in
stead of the Reconstruction Committee. During the
debate, which was very spicy and interesting Stew
ems denounced Bingham in very severe terms, telling
him he did not want his counsel nor advice, neither
did he recognize his authority to speak for the people,
and in fact, be would not believe word he said.
For this language the Speaker called Mr. Stevens to
order and thus put stop to an interesting family
quarrel During the debate between the leaders,
active canvassing was going on between the Repub-
hcan members many being at a loss TO know how to
vote The Stevens men put forth the statement that
the reference of the bill to the Reconstruction Com
mittee was the same as killing it entirely large
number however whose Iadicalism cannot be
doubted thought otherwise, and consequently voted
for the reference After a half an hours
oanvassing, the crisis was reached by Bng-
ham demanding the main question on his
motion TO refer As soon as he did this the
Democrats moved to adjourn, which was voted down,
and then Bingham again demanded vote, when
Stevens, seeing defeat ahead, moved to adjourn but
the Democrats voted with the Bingham party, and
che motion was lost. The vote was then taken, and
Che bin was recommitted by So Yeas to G5 Nays, al
the Democrats voting in the affirmative. The whole
number Of Republicans in the House Is 13S OF this
number 4S voted to recOmmit the bill, 65 voted
against Tecommittng, while 90 were absent and did
not vote The vote by which the bill was recon-
mitted to the Committee Reconstruction demon
Etrated two things that it the sense Of the House
that the bin needed amendment, and that the best
place in which to amend it was the Reconstruction
Committee Room, and not the floor of the House
The XXXIXth Congress had done nothing more
solemnly more deliberately, and more carefully than
TO organize that Committee The Union party
throughout the North and West went into the last
canvass upon the report of that Committee and its
recommendations. 1t carried the country upon them
The persOnel of tho Committee and its fitness for
the discharge Of the great trust committed to it were
Endorsed by the people at the polls, after discussion
more thorough and general than any in the history of
sur politics. The endeayor to take from this
nittee the perfection of this legislation contemplated
by Nh. SteveDs's bill, was resisted by a sufficient
number Of the Radical members TO defeat the
motion 1t would have been impossible 10
have made the necessary changes in the
bill in such an arena of parliamentary
license and disorder as the House is, with the unm-
tied right of motions to amend and to substitute,
quite as impossible as TO frame Tariff bill in Com
nitee of the Whole instead of having IT done by the
Ways and Means Committee. This is the significance
Of the Radical portion of the vote to-day, seemingly
In opposition TO the bill.
RThe correspondence between the State Department
and Mr. Motley, the Austrian Minister, relative to
the latters resignation, called for some time ago at
Mr. Summers instance, sent to the Senate to-day
but was not formally laid before that body. There
are but two letters-one from Mr.. Seward and one