Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

of the Treasury, in reply TO a resolution
calling on him for information in regard to
the amount received by Col. Hubbard for
the sale of captured and abandoned prop
erty.
Mr.. Sherman presented memorial
from citizens of Alabama, praying relief
from the cotton tax. Referred TO the Coms
mittee on Commerce.
Mr.. Pomeroy presented petition from
citizens Of Atchison, Kansas, asking Con-
gress to establish impartial suffrage wher-
ever its jurisdiction extends. Referred to
the Committee on the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Cabett introduced bill to subst-
tute gold notes for legal tenders, and to
facilitate the resumption of specie paw
ments. Laid over and ordered printed
The hour of noon having arrived, the
President pro tenn. announced that the last
session of the thirty-ninth Congress stood
adjourned without day, and the Senate of
the fortieth Congress was called TO order.
The Secretary was directed to inform the
House of Representatives thereof, and
committee was appointed, as usual, to
notify the President.
Mr.. Stewart introduced bill to estab-
lish national school of miners. Laid on
the table and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Drake offered a resolution which
was adopted, asking the Secretary of the
Treasury to inform the Senate whether any
| part of the salary of any United States
Judge had been withheld on account of
| non-payment of taxes.
Mr.. Fowler introduced bill for the re-
port of the tax on collection. Laid on the
table.
Mr.. Thayer asked for the present con-
sideration of the resolution, asking the
Secretary of the Treasury whether Ed
mund Cooper assumed the duties of Assist
ant Secretary Treasury on November 80
and if so, under what law and by what
authority.
Mr.. Buckalew Directing il was laid over.
Mr.. Williams offered resolution which
was laid on the table and ordered printed,
instructing the Committee on Indian
Affairs to inquire into the expediency of
providing certain reservations of lands in
| different localities for Indians, adopting
customs OF civilization.
The committee appointed to wait on the
President has returned, and stated that he
informed them he would communicate
with the Senate in writing tomorrow.
House of Representatives.
At half past ten the House resumed its
session.
On motion of Mr.. Blum the Committee
| on Banking and Currency was instructed
to inquire into the expediency of so chang
ing the laws in respect TO the tax on nae
tional banks as to permit all stock owned
in State where the bank is located to be
assessed and paid in the city or town where
the stockholders reside.
Mr.. Wilson, chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, obtained leave to make per-
sonal explanation referring to an editorial
article in the National Intelligencer, of the
18th of November, in which the action of
Mr.. Churchill, of New York, on the i'm,
parchment question is spoken of.
Mr.. Ingersoll declared the reply was
from Messrs. Wilson and Woodbridge.
He said the article attacked his colleague
unjustly, and gave itself point by stating
| a Misrepresentation of the report of the
minority committee in its Introductory
paragraph. 1t certainly was not his inten-
ton to cast reflections on Mr.. Churchill, or
of suspecting his personal or official in
tegrity. He imputed to him none but
conscientious motives.
On motion of Mr.. Washburn, of Illinois,
the Secretary of War was directed to com.
municate certain information as to vessels
in the revenue service, how and where EN-.
ployed, their cost, the number sold within
two years.
There were bills introduced and referred
to demand the act of July, 1866, increasing
the pensions of widows and orphans; to
Il
rency; for the purchase and annexation of
British Columbia, including Vancoover's
Island declaring Cincinnati port Of en-
try for the repeal of the cotton tax; to
allow the taxation of greenback compound
interest notes and national currency by the
various States and territories to provide
pensions for certain officers and soldiers
who served in the war of 1912, the Next
can war and the Indian wars, Including the
Black Hawk war concerning the promo
ton of retired naval officers to the active
list to re.establish the boundaries and
change the names of certain collection dis
triets in Michigan for an additional ses-
sion of the District Court of the United
States to be held in New Albany, Indiana /;
to provide for Jurors in certain cases in the
District of Columbia to establish certain
post roads in Ohio.
Ms. Brooks offered resolution declaring
that in the opinion of the House the con-
| traction of the currency to four millions of
| dollars per month, as authorized by law,
| but subject to the discretiop of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, ought during the
present depressed condition of the COM
merce and manufactures of the country to
cease. He moved the previous question
| which the House refused to second by 35
to "a, and
Mr.. Ingersoll rising to debate the resolu-
| ton, it went over under the rules.
Mr. lngersoll obtained unanimous cons
sent to a question to the chairman of the
| Committee of WAYS and Means. He on
| the first day of the session introduced bill
| to repeal that section of the law which
authorized a contraction of the currency,
and had it referred to the Committee of
| Ways and Means. He desired the chair
man of that committee to state when the
| House would have a report on the sub
ject.
Mr.. Schenck replied that the committee
had as yet been unable to consider more
| than one important subject relating to
| finance, and on that was prepared to report,
referring to the repeal of the cotton tax.
The committee proposed to meet from day
to day and to grapple as best il could with
every one of these financial subjects, and he
| apprehended a report would be made at
an early day on the subject to which Mr..
Ingersoll referred and other important
| subjects
Mr.. Payne offered a resolution as pro-
vided in joint article of the constitution,
that no money shall be drawn from the
treasury, except in consequence of appro-
priations made by law, and that the Pres
ident had, with the advice and consent of
the Senate, made treaty with the En-
peror of Russia for the cession of terri
tory Ia payment Of 81, 200 600 in gold, and
instructing the Judiciary Committee TO
inquire into and report as to whether, unr
| der the constitution of the United States
and laws of nations, he had the hostile
| right to grant or refuse, at his discretion,
an appropriation for the payment of such
treaty, was adopted.
Mr.. Eggleston presented joint resolu-
ton in reference TO the national finances,
and in favor of repeal of the cotton tax,
which was referred TO the Committee on
Ways and Means.
Mr.. Munger offered resolution direct
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to sus-
pend at once all further action in the
execution of the law for spirit meters for
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