Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-01-31

to the Reconstruction act was taken up
for the purpose of allowing Mr.. Doc
little to make q speech, whiehthat gen.
tleman proceeded to do. He laid down
three qualifications which the negroes
should possess before they should be
allowed to vote: l. Military service
at least one year; Q. Ability to read
and write; 8. A freehold worth $3.50
The morning hour having expired,
Doolittle was stopped. The Conference
Committee on the Cotton Tax bill re.
ported In favor of the compromise
amendment, that cotton imported after
July /, 1868, be exempt from duty
Adopted. Mr.. Grimes reported bill
authorizing the sale of iron-clads. Mr..
Doolittle then continued his speech,
which, was simply the unmeaning
moutbings of disappointed and ma
lignant demagogue.
Senator Trumbull promptly followed
the Wisconsin Senator, exposing his
falacies and demonstrating beyond a
question the constitutionality, wisdom
and the necessity of the Reconstruc-
ton acts of Congress.
The Senate Finance Committee have
had Mr.. Sherman's Financial bill un-
der consideration for several days.
There has been great deal of discus
sion over it, which finally led to the
reading of Mr.. Henderson's bill also,
and to an expression of views concern
ing the two plans. Mr.. Sherman has
himself proposed several amendments
the committee have also added some
with the consent of Senator Sherman.
The provision for giving one per cent.
to the States has been stricken out, as
has also the section authorizing foreign
loans.
A large nuesber of whiskey distillers
were before the Ways and Means Com.
mittee, urging upon the committee not
to reduce the tax on that article. The
committee are divided on the question,
but it is thought that Congress will ia
vor reduction.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, in
troduced an important bill to regulate
the proceedings in cases of impeach-
ment. 1t provides that the presiding
officer may call in the aid of che mill
tary and naval forces of the United
States to enforce the provisions, and to
suspend the officer while the impeach-
ment is pending.
On Monday, the Chair submitted Pc
titions from the Constitutional Conven-
tons of Georgia and Mississippi. pray
ing for the retention of the Freedmen 3
Bsreau. Mr.. Wilson introduced bill
to permit officers and soldiers to wear
corps badges for services during the
war. Garrett Davis offered resolution
that Congress ought to cease its war
upon the Constitution, etc., and that
the Freedmen's Bureau should be at
once abolished. Laid over.
In the House, Gen. Banks has pre-
pared bill on the rights of naturalized
citizens when abroad. 1t begins by
saying that the close Of the Revolution
airy War left three important interna-
| tional subjects unsettled betweeR the
United States and Crest Britain, viz:
Impressment OF scamen; rights of
search, and the question of expatria-
ton. 1t is then shown that the first
and second Of these subjects were prac-
tically settled by the war of 1912, and
that the third, yet unsettled, is now of
more importance than ever before
Careful examination is made Of the
course of Great Britain in asserting and
carrying out the doctrine that citizen
can never give up or release himself
from the allegiance due to the country
of his birth. The controversy existing
between our country and England and
in less degree with other European
powers, in regard to the rights conferr-
ed by immigration and naturalization,
is. General Banks says. a contest be-
tween feudalism and civilization.
1t meets with hearty approval in all
quarters.
The Ways and Means Committee are
making rapid progress on the Tax bill,
and expect to present ii in the House
within three weeks. The committee 10
acting i'm accordance with the resolu-
tiofis already made public. 1t will
present complete revision of the rev.
ehue laws, and the impression is that,
instead of much reduction i'm the tax
on those articles which now show the
greatest frauds, the penalties will be
more severe, and more time in Jail and
less in Washington compromising cases
will be one of the changes provided for
in the bill.
A large number of bills were intro
duced in the House on the 9th and re-
ferred; Among them was the follow
ing:
For the taxation of national bonds !;
giving the right to vote for Presidential
Electors and State officers to every citi
zen of the United States; providing
that the appointment of all agents of
any Executive Department of the gov
eminent, where the salary shall exceed
five hundred dollars, must be confirmed
by the Senate; to provide for a tempo
rary government for the Territory of
Wyoming; providing that in case a
Senator of the United States becomes
Vice President of the United States by
means Of being President of the Sem
ate pro tempore, and in case his Sena-
torial term expires before the Presiden-
tial term expires, he shall continue in
Office until the end of the Presidential