The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-12

Per Cent. Loan CeFtiflcates-Rali.
road Matters-BIll 10 Admit Ger.
tain Southern States 30 RepFesen-
tatiOn In Congress.
y WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE Sec
retary of the Treasury gives notice
that all compound interest notes in
tended for conversion into 3 per cent.
\ temporary loan certificates. must
either be presented to the Assistant
Treasurer at New York, who has FULL
charge and control Of the issue of
such certificates. or to the Treasurer
of the UEited States at Washington,
who will issue certificates. which on
presentation at the Office of the As
sist Treasurer at New York, will en-
title the holder to receive such certiti-
Gates in exchange for compound la
terest notes intended for redemption
in lawful money.
The President of the Union Pacific
Railroad has submitted an affidavit 10
the Secretary Of the Interior showing
the completion Of an additional sec
ton Of twenty miles Of the road, from.
the $50 to the $50 mile post, and that
the Government Commissioners be
instructed to examine and report
thereon.
The Committee on Was and Means
will probably report an amended or
consolidated tax bill. It proposes to !
create the Internal Revenue Bureau
into a department The whisky tax
is retained at 81. The tax on cigars |
is to be raised to $40 90 per 900. /
Brewers have failed to get wa tage /
allowed. The bill will be acted on by |
the House Immediately after the Chi /
cagO Convention.
The following is bill reported BY |
Stevens to-day:
A bill to admit the States Of North /
Carolina, South Carolina, Louis |
lana, Georgia, and Alabama to /
representation in Congress.
WHEREAS, The States Of North /
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, /
Georgia, and Alabama have, in pur- /
suance of the provisions of an act en- /
titled an act for the more efficient /
government Of the rebel States"
passed March 2d. 1867, and the acts /
supplementary thereto, framed Con-
stitutions Of State government, which
are republican, In form, and have
adopted said Constitutions by large
maiorities Of the votes cast at elec-
tions held for the ratification or re-
lection thereof Therefore, be Il enact
Ell by the Senate and House II 4
Representation Of the United States
Of AnerjcG III C0nQress assembled, |
That the States Of North Carolina, |
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, /
and Alabama. shall be entitled and /
admitted 10 representation in Con- /
gress as States in the Union, when /
the Legislatures Of said States. re-
spectiVely, shall have duly ratified /
the amendment TO the Constitution Of /
the United States, proposed by the |
Thirty ninth Congress, and known as
Article Fourteen, upon the fol- /
lowing Fundamental conditiOns /
That the Constitutions of the said /
States shall never be so amended or 4
changed as to deprive any citizen or
class of citizens Of the United States /
Of the right to vote, who are now en-
titled to vote By the said COnstitu-
tiOns respectively; except as a pun.
ishment for such crimes as are now /
ielonies at common law, whereof they |
5hall have been duly convicted; and /
no person shall be held to service or /
labor as a punishment for crime In /
the said States, except by the public l
officers charged with the custody OF /
convicts by the laws thereof.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, |
That if the day fixed for the meeting |
of the Legislature of either Of the |
said States by the Constitution there
of, shall have passed before the |
passage of this act, such Leglsla- |
lures may be convened within
thirty davs after fhe massage Of this |
act, BY the President Of the Conven-
ton which framed the Constitution
Of such State. Ha94
SEC. 3. Aa8 be 10 further enacted,
That the first section Of this act shall
take effect when the President Of the
United States shall officially proclaim
the due ratification by the legislatures
of said States respectively. OF article
I fourteen. of the amendment Of the
| Constitution or the United States.
proposed by the Thirty ninth Con-
Mr. Bingham has proposed an
amendment, to strike out the words
IN the second Section. commeneing.
that the Constitutions of the said
States" ending with the words, duly
convicted, and insert In lieu thereof
( the words, that civil and political
rights and privileges shall be forever
equally secured in said States, to all
I citizens Of the 'United States resident
therein, as now provided in said Con-
stltutlons respectively"
II WASHINGTON, May 11.-To-mor-
row has been set for the erial Of Sur
4 raft, aud the prosecution are already
having summoned their witnesses.