The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-16

: ! nv LllanS expressed Ine nope tlat
no, amendments would be adopted.
He would prefer such proposition as
that of Blaine's amendment. Passed
indefinitely. ~
Stewart again deprecated military
governments at the South without
such an amendment to the bill as was
now before the Senate. fif ha1 -
81 Morrill, advocated the bill with or
without amendments. E7evoI
Henderson advocated universal suf
frage. .rsaaa4 rusl ~
Yates spoke in favor of the BILL
After further debate, Williams, at
A 30 o'clock, moved a recess, giving
notice that he would expect the Sem
ate to sit until it passed the BILL .igua3
A recess was taken. ksf an
HoUsE.-On motion of Wilson, of
Ohio, the Secretary Of State was d.
reeted to inform the House what
States, now represented In the House.
have ratified the Constitutional
amendment, in addition to those COM
municated In his report Of February
5th.nu Isa .dgIudj Hal8iKd
Several private bills were + passed,
including credits of e, 900 to Almon-
son Eaton, receiver of public moneys
atStevenspoint, Wisconsin,; of SO, $50
to Thos. VaBorg, jr.,sCapt. and @. M.
Of Volunteers at Alton, for money
taken from his office.
The House bill, constructing and
giving effect. to the resolution of July
/, 1864, for the relief of certain States,
was considered and referred to the
Committee. of the, Whole, and was
put on the private calendar. y1
Y The House proceeded to the consid-
Grafton of the bounty bill. "a. 9isa of
Schenck explained its provisions-
1t was the same, he said, as passed
the House last session, not acted on
by the Senate, with two differences;
one providing for cases Of lost dis
charges, and one made necessary al
lowances of additional bounty made
under the Act of July %, 1866. This
bill proposed, to certain extent, to
equalize bounties, whereas the Act of
July %, 1866, only gave additional
bounties to all soldiers. 1t was i'm
practicable, in the present condition
Of the Treasury, 10 bring the bounties
to all soldiers up to the standard of
the highest -bounties paid some sol-
diers, they having received as high as
81, 200 and $500. The standard
adopted by the Committee, and
which q met the approval of
the House last session, was to
secure to each. soldier as much
as 81 ,000ia year bounty The bill was
not to give bounty to those who had
received Such, but those who received
little or nothing. The Committee had
adopted a simple principle, that to ey-
cry man who served the Government
faithfully, and had been, honorably
discharged, no matter how he en-
tered the service, shall be given a
bounty proportionate TO the length Of
time Of service Ifone month, he will
receive lS83 three months, $25; one
year, 500; if two years, $500, and SO
on. Several members desired to of
fer amendments, but Schenck de-
clined to allow it. In the course of
the debate, he stated that the estimate
of the amount of money required un-.
der the bill, was between seventy five
and eighty millions the War De-
partment's estimate, however, was
four hundred and eighty millions
The House seconded the previous
question on the bill, "a to 72, but re-
iected the call for the main question,
rs against Is; so the bill was left
over for amendments. -sa
BENJAMIN moved an amendment to
include some Missouri and Maryland
slaves. f,~us
Rollins moved an amendment by
striking out of the second section the
clauses making deductions for local
bountles.fs ~ sesA8 - y rHffs8itf
Stevens moved an amendment by
striking out the section repeating the
additional bounty act Of July %, '66.
Taylor moved to strike out the ex-
ception of the prisoners of war who
enlisted in the service. -
Rollins then moved the previous
question, which was seconded and the
main question ordered.
Schehcki yielded the floor. to Kas-
son, who opposed Rollins amend
ment, contending that the effect would
be to tax the Western States for ad-
ditional ,bounties to soldiers of East.
ern States who had already received
large bounties. The amendment. was
destructive of the principles OF the
bill, and would eventually defeat IL.
Rosseau asked Kasson whether the
effect of the amendment would be to
pay the soldiers who had, received
high bounties as much as those who
4
Kasson replied that was the effect
of it. ~ III In IL
Rollins asked kasson whether 1T
would deprivs the Western States of
tbe r;ebt to pay a soldier as much
bounty as Eastern States paid theirs.
/ Kasson thought the question was
| l;ke rich man asking a poor man
whether h the poor man had not the
same right to build a palace as a rich
man had. The soldier from the
| Western States had gone into the
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