Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-07-17
Washington, News.


On the 11.h The Senate passed tie suppJglen-
tary Reconstruction Bill, and sent tha samet, TIE
House for its concurrence.
In tho House, on the 18th, Mr.. julien isked
leave to introduce resolution ordering ths, Re-
construction Committee to report Bill forfeing
the lands granted to the Southern States ior
railroad purposes, stating that there were 500
600 of acres Of the best lands in the South in th
hands Of rebel corporations which poor mer,
white and black, should have for homesteads.
Mr.. Wood objected. Mr.. Julien moved to sut- /
pend the rules. The rules were then suspended
by vote Of 90 to s5, and tho resolution modified
to embrace only Mississippi, Alabama. Florida,
Arkansas and Louisiana, when it was passed.
Mr.. Butler offered Q resolution that the District;
Commander DO authorized to issue 100000 of'
coupon bonds, bearing a,1e Per cent interest
to repair the leqees, and he asspmpion ef,vhich
should BE condition precedsntt to Louisiana's aa-
mission He moved "a suspension 0f the rules,
which failed.
Ghe Senate Reconstruction Bill was reported
with sererd amendmspts, nnd rambling. debate
ensued, during which Logan, Of Illinois, said he
had no sympathy with any. man who went bail
for Jefferson Davis. If it had been he who
capsursd Davis, he asserted AND Mr. Greelyysould
publish It, that there never would have beoa'any
trouble inttrying Jefferson Davis eitherin civil
or military court, except as he (Logan) might
organize. He himself you'd hsys been thecourt,
and there would have beer. no. Jefferson Davia.
he would today, if he had power, hang JEFF.
Davis and every one Of his cabinet officers. Tbs
only man in America who bad nerve enough te
hang traitors was Juarez. ,,,, .;s-;,. -, ia;,.
Mr.. Stevens moved the previous question phsn;
the bill IS amended was passed, and went back 70
the Senate.
In the Senate, 5lr. chandler called up fisfeso.
luton directing tie Committee on Tereisp Rela-
tions to inquire how many Msxican soldiers had
been executed after capture. He said iMaxinil!
ian's operations were port of the rebellion, and
had it succeededg thesdecres ,of S66, would zhsye
! been infected on Union ,soliiera:. MaIimilian
| signed his own death warrant on signing that de-
cree. B., ought not to have died by the bullet.
Tho officers capturing him should have hung
him on tae first tree, this not done, proved Mexi-
caps jhiyplrous people. The courss Of thS
Government toward Mc1ic0 was SowaIdiy, s5,.
Mr.. Johnson spoke favorably of Maximilian.
Mr.. Nye denounced him as the agent OF, Napole-
on, to assist tho rebellion, and eulogized Juarez.
Mr.. Howard thought Macmillan met a deservi
ed fate.
| The matter was postponed, 81 80 8G
One of the House amendments to the Recon-.
structon Bill #as to tho effect that tho opiniorof
any civil officer of the Government, sBaHnot rid
District Commanders of their subordinates, and
State ofic,rs must take the Iron Glad Oath. :. !.
Julien's Bill, forfeiting Southern Railroad
lands, con .aips section providing that dll lands
sold for Federal taxes, or under the bankrupt
law, shall bc sold in lots Of not less than twenty,
and not N are than eighty acres. 80 - 77i,'7 ~
On the 18th, the Reconstruction bill, as passed,
wa, signed by the proper officers Of both houses
and presented to the Presidsut.i This Bill will
be found in our columns to-day.