Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-19
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

/ WASHINGTON Jan. 18.-SENATE-Reso
luiions Of the Kentucky Legislature re-
/ specting the constitutional amendment, were
laid on the table and ordered TO be printed.
The Chair submitted a resolution Of the
Kentucky Legislature rejecting the oonsti-
tutional amendment. Tabled and ordered
printed
Various petitions were presented and re-
ferred, including one asking the passage Of
laws against the present system Of extermin-
alton Of the Indian race.
Mr.. Henderson presented a petition from
the citizens Of Missouri for increased duty
on fax seed Tabled.
Mr.. Sumner offered a resolution calling
upon the President Of the United States to
communicate soon, if not inconsistent with
the public interest, any correspondence
between the Department Of State and Mr..
Motley, Minister to Vienna, relative TO his
reported resignation. The Chair said 1t
required unanimous consent 10 consider
this resolution to-day. Mr.. Buckaleu OBJ
jected and it lies over.
Mr.. Wilson, from the Military Committee
reported bill Of the House Of last session,
TO establish a system Of national cemeteries,
requiring each grave TO be marked with
the name Of occupant, and each cemetery
to be enclosed with a stone or iron fence,
and appropriating $50, 900 for carrying out
the purpose. At the suggestion of Mr..
Wade the bill was laid over for the present.
Mr.. Henderson presented abill declaring
the bridge built by the North Missouri
Railroad Company over the Missouri river,
at St. Charles, Missouri, a legal structure
and part of the road. Referred.
Mr.. Salisbury moved that the Senate
take up bis resolution calling upon the
heads Of departments for list Of the re-
movals from Office made between March
4th, 1881, and March 4th, 1863 The
motion was rejected.
The bill 10 regulate the tenure Of Office
was taken up. The question vas upon Mr..
Summers amendment as an additional sec
ton providing sll officers Of the govern
meut, except clerks Of Departments whose
salary exceeds 8. 900 per annum, shall be
appointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent Of the Senate
Mr.. Sumner said: 1t is now little more
than year ago since ] felt Il my duty to
characterize q message Of the President IS
white-washing. That message presented
the condition Of things in the Rebel States
evidence was directly tho other way
or course the message was white-washing,
and this was o mild term for such a docu-
ment. And you do not forget how certain
Senators, horror-struck az this plainness,
leaped forward 10 the same task. Tine
has shown that ! was right on the former
occasion, and if anybody doubts that was
right yesterday, commend him to time,
and he will not have TO wait long. / shall
insist always upon complete freedom OF
debate and shall exercise It. Thank God
now that the slave masters have been driven
from this chamber, such is at last the lib
erty Of an American Senator. or course
there can be no citizen OF q Republic too
high for exposure, ss there can be none too
low Tor protection. The exposure Of the
high and the protection Of the low-these
are not only Invaluable liberties but
commanding duties. At last the country
is opening is eyes 20 the actual condition Of
things already il sets that Andrew John
son, who came 70 be supreme power by
bloody accident, has become the successor
Of Jed. DAVIS in the spirit BY which he is
governed, and the mischief he has inflicted
on bis country secs the President Of the
rebellion released by the President Of the
United States; sees tbs violence which
took the life Of bis predecessor, and
is now, by his perverse couplicity,
extending through the Rebel Stated
making all who love the Union its
victims, and filing the land with oppres-
sion; secs the war upon the faithful
Unionists is still continued under bic power
ful auspices, withcutany distinstionof color,
% that both white and black are sacrificed;
Il sees he is monster Of discord and not
a minister OF peace il seea 90 long as his
opinion prevails there is small chance for
security or tranquility, or reconstruction
that the restoration Of prosperity IN the
Rebel States, 40 much iooged for, must be
embarrassed, and the conditions upon
which rosts a sound currency must be post
poned. All these things the country nov
sees but Indignation assumes the form Of
Judgment when IL sees this war, reeking
mischief second 10 the rebellion iiselt, Of
which il isa continuation, is invigorated
and extended through a plain usprpation
IN the holding up Of Andrew johnson 70
Judgment ] DO not alludo to bis exposure