The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-18
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Washington News and Gossip.
WASHINGTON, February 49, The dis
bursements on account of the ID apartments
iDr the week ending to-day were: War,
Sl,30Z7i4; Navy, $l2O,ll0; Interior $780,
Og9.
The Secretary of War has decided that
every bounty claimant shall be regarded a.
having served TO the end of the war, who
enlisted for three years, aud was mustered
out with his organization, because the
services of the latter were no longer re-
qured by the Government, and as being,
therefore. entitled to additional bounty.
Internal revenue receipts since February
|, amount to $l0,029,SS5 50 total receipts
since the commencement of the present
fiscal year, $14,043,922.
THE MILITARY sUBJECTIoN OF THE SOUTH
THE SABBATH DESIGNATED.
WAsHINGToN. February 1.-THE Senate
remained in session until 6 o'clock Sunday
morning, at which hour it passed the bin
providing for the military government of
the Southern States, with the amendment
agreed on by the Committee appointed at
the Senatorial caucus held on yesterday
morning.
THE BILL,
The preamble declares that no legal State
governments or adequate protection for
life or property exists in the rebel States of
Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, and that it il
necessary that peace and good order should
be enforced until loyal and Republican
State governments can be legally estab-
lished.
The first section divides the States
named into five military districts, as In the
original bill.
Section second makes it the duty of the
President to assign to the command ofeaCh
district an officer of the army, not below
the rank of Brigader General, and detail
sufficient military force TO enforce his au-
thority within the district, &c.
Section three makes IL the duty of such
officer to protect all persons in their rights,
persons and property, to suppress insurrec-
ton, violence and disorder, and to punish,
or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the
public peace and criminals. He may allow
the local civil tribunals to try and punish
Offenders, or organize committees or tribu-
mails for that purpose. All interference of
| State authority Is declared null and void.
Section four provides that all persons ar
rested shall be tried without unnecessary
delay. No cruel or unusual punishment
shall be inflicted, and no sentence affecting
| life or liberty be executed until approved
by the commander of the district.
| Section five that when the people of any
one of the said States shall have formed a
Constitution and government in conform
| lty with the Constitution of the United
States in all respects, and framed by a con-
vention of delegates elected by the male
citizens of said State, twenty-one years old
and upward, of whatever race or color, or
previous condition, who have been a resi-
dent in said State for one year previous to
the day OF such election, except such as
may be disfranchised for participation in
| the rebellion, or for felony at common law I;
and when such Constitution shall provide
that the elective franchise shall be enjoyed
| by all such persons as have the qualiiica-
tion herein stated for electors of delegates,
| and when such Constitution shall be rati-
| fed by majority of persons voting on
the question of ratification who are quail
fed as electors for delegates, and when
such Constitution shall have been sub
mitted to Congress for examination and
approval, and Congress shall have approved
| the same; and when said State by vote of its
Legislature, elected under said COnsttu-
ton, shall have adopted the amendment to
| the Constitution of the United States, pro-
posed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and
known as article fourteen; and when said
article shall be declared part of the Consti-
tuition of the United States, said State shall
be entitled to representation in Congress,
and Senators and Representatives shall be
admitted therefrom, on their taking the
1 OhJu DTesCTlUtu ny ldWs anu Jntl anu Lnefe-
after the preceding sections of this act shall
be imperative in said State,
In this shape it passed; ayes, %; nays,
| 10.
Mr.. Doolittle moved an amendment as an
additional section, that the sentence ofdeath
under this act shall be carried into execu-
ton without the approval of the President.
| Adopted by 81 to a.
Here Is the thing, in all its atrociousness.
| OF course the House will assent.
| Special Dispatch 10 the Cincinnati Gazette
THE PRESIDENT FIRM.
The President, in consultation with high
officials Friday, stated positively that he
utterly repudiated the statements that he
had offered terms of compromise, but that,
on the contrary, he held firmly to his
policy. Justice IA part of the Republi-
cans drawn into the late meetings, de-
mands the explanation that they were dis
tinctly and repeatedly assured that the
President authorized the persons, who as
sumed to act on his part, to say that he,
johnson, was willing to agree on the basis
of the constitutional amendment and i'm
partial suffrage, and some of the Republi-
cans who went TO the meetings did so in
good faith, believing johnson was coming
over to them, notwithstanding the Presi-
dent positively denies IT,