The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-22

almond, van Anken. Van Horn. o.
i N. Y, Van Tromp, Washbnrne. Of
Wis, Washburne, of ILL.,, Wash burue.
| of Ind, Walker, Williams, Of Penn
sylvania, Wilson, of, Iowa, Wilson. Of
Ohio, Wood, Woodbridge, Wood
ward-1l2. @l. ae saI
The following is the vote on the
Reconstruction bill s 96
Yeas-Alison, Ames. Anderson.
Amell, Ashley of Nevada, Ashley o.
Ohio, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Banks.
Beaman, Benjamin, Benton, Bing-
ham, Blaine, Blair, Boutwell,, Broom
we'll, Buckland, Bromall Cake.
Churchill, Clark of Ohio, Clark If
Kansas, Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Cullum.
Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Donneiiy,
briggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Fla, Eliot,
FarnsWorth, Ferris, Ferry, Field,
Garfield, Grovelly, Griswold, Holsey.
Harding, Highly, Hooper, Hop
kihs, Hubbard of Iowa, Hub
bard Of West Virginia, Hurlburt,
Hunter, lngersoA, Jenckes, Judd,
Julian, Kelly. Kelsey, Ketcham,
Kitchen, Koontz, Lawrence, o.,
Llnoeln, Logan, Loughridge, Nor
rill, Maynard, Mccarthy, McClarg,
Mercer, Miller, Moore, Morehead,
Mullins, Myers, Mum, Neweomb,
O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Perham, Peters,
Pike, Piles. Plouts. Poland, Palesly,
Pomeroy, Price, Roam, Robertson,
Sawyer, Schenck, Schofeld, Selie,
Shanks, Smith, Spalding. Starkweath-
er, Stevens Pa, Stevens n. H., Taylor,
Thomas, Trimble. West Va, Trow-
bridge. Twitchell, Upson, Van Amon,
Van Horn, n Y, Van Horn. Mo,
Van Wycke, Yard, Washburne. WIS,
Washburne, Ind, Washburne, Mass,
Walker. Williams, Penn, Williams,
Ind, Wilson, Iowa, Wilson, Ohio,
Wilson, Pa, Window, Woodbridge
124
Nays - Adams. Archer, Axtei!,
Barnes, Barnum, Beck, Boyer, Brooks,
Burr, Cory, Chandler, Eldridge, Fox,
Getz, Glossbrenner, Galladay, Grover,
Haight, Holman, Hotchkiss, Hub
bard, of Connecticut, Humphreys,
johnson, Jones, Kerd, Knott, Mar
shall, Mccormick. Morrissey, Unin-
gen, Niblack, Nicholson, Phelps,
Pruiu, Robinson, Ross, Sitgrores,
Stewart, Stone. Tabor, Trimble, Of
KY, Ankin, Van Trump, Wood, |
Woodward-45.
Announcements were made that
Mr.. Morrill, was paired off with Mr.
Randall and Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. |
Latin were absent; the latter on ac-
count of the serious Illness of his /
brother.
The bill then passed-123 to Is.
Logan offered resolution, calling
on the Secretary of the Treasury for |
information as to the amount of 1910 !
notes issued through the Treasury
Department, since the 1st of October,
1867, the persons to whom sold, and |
the amount of commissions paid &c +;
also the reasons, which, in the opinion |
of the Secretary, rendered it expedi- |
ent to withdraw so large an amount |
of currency from the business of the |
country; also what action has been |
taken concerning the withdrawal of |
5 20 bonds, held by the United States |
Treasury to secure the circulation of |
the National Banks and the substitu-
ton therefor of 1910 bonds. Adopted |
Eliot, from the Committee on
Freedmen's Affairs, offered a joint
resolution authorizing the Secret tary
of the Treasury to issue, for the re-
lief of all classes of the destitute in
the South, such dessieated potatoes
and dessicated mixed vegetables as
have accumulated during the war,
and not now needed for the use Of the
army. Passed.
The Senate joint resolution, limit
ing the contracts for stationery and
other supplies in the Executive De-
partments to one year, was slightly /
amended and passed.
Farnsworth, from the POST Office
Committee, reported back the bill for
the erection of building at Peoria
for Post-office and internal Revenue
offices, which was referred to the
Committee on Appropriations
FarnsWorth also reported bill en-
powering the New Orleans, Mobile &
chattanooga r. r., to build and main
tain bridges across the navigable wa
ters on its route, and declaring the
railroad and bridges a post route.
Passed.
Farnsworth also reported bill au-
thorizing the Southern Minnesota
r. r. Company to build and operate
a railroad bridge across the Missls
sippi River, between La Crosse and a
point opposite in Minnesota, such
bridge to be post road.
Washburne, of Illinois, said he
would like to offer an amendment, to
repea al the clause legalizing Clinton
bridge. as he desired to show the in
fiuence brought to bear on the House
of last Congress, by the Chairman of
the Post-Ofiice Committee, Mr.. Alley,
of Massachusetts,.
Farnsworth declined to allow the
amendment to be offered Bill {
passed.