Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-01-15
Leather Market.
coRREoKED WEEKLY BIZ
EG'LALN Go WARD,
CONGREGATIONAL.


CONGRESSIONAL.
Congress assembled on Monday, the
9th inst. after the reces fer the holt
days, with considerably more than a QUO
rum present. No business ofiulportanee
was done in the Senate. Ia the House,
Nj. Broomal, Of Pa, introduced a bill
relating to finance, providing for the
redemption Of legal tender notes. It
enacts that the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall cause TO be redeemed in god
at the United States treasury, and can
I celled, all legal tender notes presented
for redemption, IN sumo of not less
than 0 hundred dollars each, such
redemption to begin on the first day Of
the month following the passage Of the
act, and during that month shall be at
the rate of one hundred dollars in gold
for n hundred and forty dollars in
notes, aud that the amount IL notes
shall be decreased fifty cents per mon tn
for every one hundred dollars IN gold
until It shall be reduced to one hun
dred dollars. The Secretary of the
Treasury shall not contract the volume
Of legal tender currency except under
and pursuant to the provision of this
act. 1t was referred to the COMMITTEES
on Bankisg.
A resolution was introduced by Mr..
Wsshburne, Of Wisconsin, by yeas 50,
nays %, a party vote, ceDsuring the
President for removing General Shsri
dan, and thanking him for his course
while in command of the Fifth Militia
~ District also thanking Gen. Grant
for his letter to the President on thu re-
mOyal of Secretary Stanton, and pissed.
Mr.. Banks introduced a bill making
eight hours 8 legal days work in all
Government workshops, and was pass
ed without opposition.
. Mr.. Eidridge, Of Wisconsin offered a
resolution to thank General Hancock,
for his administration of affairs in the
Fifth Military Department, but was
laid onthe the table.
HOUSE,, Jan. 7th.-N,r. Schenck, from
the Commute on WAYS and Means, re-
ported q bill to compel the payment Of
the taxes on distilled spirits in all cases
when Withdrawn from bonded ware-
houses, and made q lengthy expIana-
ton of the fRuds which make il nee
essary. After considerable debate. the
bill passed. This virtually breaks up
the whole system of bonded warehouses
and requires that the tax on distilled
spirits OF all kinds shall be paid at the
dlstiIlery before being removed.
The bill to facilitate the payment of
soldiers bounties, came up, when Mr..
Washburne, Of Indiana, proposed as n
substitute. q bill directing the Secrets-
~ OF the Treasury to employ by trans
fer or otherwise, a sufficient number of
additional clerks not less than Fifty in
the division of the second auditors Of
hee, IN the Treasury Department, fur
nlshlng information to the Paymaster
General in reference to soldiers claim
ing bounties under the act Of July
1866, to be continued as long as nee IS
sary, and the preference to be given in
this employment of clerks to dischar-
ged soldiers and sailors, and directing
the assistant treasurer at New York
pay duplicate checks on notice of
The loss Of the original, Whica was
agreed to and passed.
SENATE-The bill to repeal the tax on
cotton was taken up and finished. An
amendment torelisYe the cotton Of last /
years growth now in the hands Of the
producers from taxation was strongly /
urged but was defeated by a large ma
An amendment to make the
tax one cent per pound, instead of two,
as 1t Is nov, was also defeated. TIE
bill, as passed before the House, before
recess, declared all cotton grown last
year exempt from tax. The Senate re-
fused to agree to this, and the bill as
passed by that body simply suspends
the tax for the year 1858.
HOUSE, Jan. Sth-The Senate amend
ment to the bill repeating the cotton
tax was taken from the Speakers table
and referred to the COMMITTEES of Ways
and Means.
The House proceeded to the consid
Grafton Of the report Of the Election
on the contested cage Of she
Congressional District OF
Missouri, which closes with resolutions
that Birch, the contestant, is not en-
titled to the seat, and Van Horn, the
member, is so entitled. Alter
debate the resolutions were sdopted.
Mr.. Schenck offered a resolution in
struoting the COMMITTEES On Military
Affairs TO inquire into the expediency
of providing by law for the transfer of
the Soldiers Home at Washington to
the National Aaylum for Disabled Sol
disrs, and of changing the name ofthe
Institution to the National Slldlers
Home, which was adopted.
SENATE-Mr. Trumbull, from the
Committee On Judiciary. reported .
bill amending the bankruptcy act, and
recommending its indefinite postpone
ment, which was agreed 70.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, offered a
resolution directing the COMMITTEES on
france to inquire into the expediency
of a~fixing a penalty ~ any officer of
the Government VIC shall authorize
an expenditure Of or pay money for any
purpose not previously authorized by
Congress, and after some debate it was
adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman, the SEN
ate again took up the house Dill diree-
ting that certain monies in the hands
of the United States Treasurer, the
proceeds Of captured ana abandoned
rebel property, shallbe covered BY war
into the Treasury, when Mr..
Trumbull took the floor, charging that
the Secretary Of the Treasury had paid
mere than Two million dollars to dis
loyal claimants, and that even after adj
verse opinion by the Attorney General
he has paid hundreds Of thousands of
dollars. Mr.. sherman suggested that
the bill be referred TO the Committee A..
on Re;reuehmsht, when Mr.. Bowe sd-
dressed the Senate in favor o. ne BIZ.