American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-02-06
Thirty-Ninth Congress.
Claims of DislOyaI Persons
not to be Paid.
Tenure ofOmce Bill Passed by
the House.
WASHINGTON, February 2, 1867.
SENATE.

gar rennerB OF tne bGlJeu States; sLa-
ting that there are thirty FIVE millions
invested IN their business in the country
and asking protection in pending tariff
bill,
Mr. Wade called up the bill authori.
zing the Judges of Idaho to appoint the
times and places of holding Courts, and
providing that the Legislature be elected
biennially in August, and meet bi nnial,
ly the first Monday i'll December, which
passed.
The joint resolution authorizing Ocean
Mail service three times per month be-
tween San Francisco and Portland, Ore
gon, at cost not exceeding S25, 900 per
annum, was passed.
Dir. Summers resolution calling for
the latter on which Mr.. Seward founded
bis inquiries to Minister Motley, was
passed.
On motion of Mr.. CoRasss, the Sec
retary of State was requested to report
what steps were taken by him to obtain
from the Republic of Columbia the right
for the United States to make the neees-
safy surveys for an Inter Ocean Sh.p Ca
nal through her territory.
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judiciary,
Committee, reported joint resolution
prohibiting payments from the Treasury
to persons not known to have been oppo-
sed to the rebellion, and in favor of its
suppression, with an amendment striking
out the provision above quoted. and leav,
ing the bill to prohibit payment Of any
claim of such persons occurring prior to
the 18th of April, 1861 and that no por>
tion shall authorize such payment until
this joint resolution is modified or sejec-
ted.
Mr.. Stewart, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported bill providing
for the entry at the minimum price Of
public lands in California and Nevada,
and settled and occupied as town sites,
with an amendment providing that it shall
be construed subject to the provisions of
the act granting right of way to ditch
and canal owners over public lunds, and
nsthing in this act shall be construed to
grant any right in conflict with the rights
of miners upon public lands, which they
hold under any law of Congress, or by
rules or customs of miners.
Mr.. Hendricks from the Committee
on Judiciary, reported bill to define
and punish certain crimes therein nam
ed, with an amendment striking out the
whole bin and inserting that if any per-
sc Is shall rob another lawfully in custo-
dy tsseeeof of any kind or description of
personal property belonging to the Uni.
ted States, or shall feloniously take and
carry away the came, the person so often
ding shall on conviction be punished by
fine not exceeding $4,000 or by impris.
,onment at hard labor not less than one
year or more than ten years, or both, at
the discretion of the court:
Mr. Haines introduced iill to amend
the act for the removal of causes in GER
tain cases from State Courts, approved
July 27, 1866, which amendment pro
vides that parties now resident of any Of
the States lately in insqrrectiop, or par
ty plaintiff in any cause now pending or
hereafter brought in any court of such
State who is or shall be defended in
cause retained according to the laws of
such State for adjudication, for relief
sought by him, after plaintiff has ceased
to prosecute the riginal action, shall be
entitled, where the amount involved ex-
.ceeds $500, at any time before the trial
or final hearing thereof to have said cause
removed to the United States Circuit
Court for such State, in the manner pre-
scribel by the act to which this is
supplement: Provided, that such remo>
val shall apply only to such causes as
could under the Constitution aud exist
ing laws he brought into the Circuit or
District Court of the United States in
such State by the original act.
Section 2 provides that the pleadings
in the cause when transferred shall have
the same voice and effect which the orig
anal pleadings would havein State Courts
Z under the laws and practices thereof at
the time Of commencing of the cause
therein provided, that no person shall
be excluded or prevented from testifying
or be deemed incompetent as q witness
tupon account of his color or race.
The Bankrupt bill came up. The
pending question was upon the amend
lnont of the Judiciary Committee to
strike out the proposition of the House
bill exempting from sale under the op.
erations of the law SO much of the debt
ors property as is exempted BY the ex.
.emption law Of the State in which the
debtors reside. 1t was debated by Messrs
Stewart, Foster, Poland and Doolittle, af-
ter which vote was taken on Mr.. Will.
sons amendment to insert in lieu of the
above provision that an amount may be
exempted not to exceed $4,000 This
was rejected, and the questson REQUIRED
on striking out the clause above referred
TO. Yeas IA, nays 25.
The Senate bill to regulate tenure Of
Office which received from the House,
amended SO as to include Cabinet officers
among those who can, pot be removed
without the advice apd consent Of the
Senate. ~
Mr.. Edmonds moved that the Senate
disagree and call for Committee of
Conference. em edj
Mr.. Frumbull hoped I he Senate would
agree TO amendment. He did not see
why Cabinet Ministers should be excep-
ted from the provisions of the bill, and
the fight might as well be made here as
in Committee of Conference. T-i'