Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
SEN ATE.
 " AsHfNaToN Feb, i

The chair subfnitteda communica tionsfrom the Secretary of War insrela' ton to the censtiiutionality of the laws of Maryland, in regard to the ap premiership system. Referred to tht Judiciary Committee. .Mr. Henderson presented the report of the Special Committee on tho memorial of the Mississippi Conven ton, on the subject ofthe dcstitutior in. that State. Referred. m
 Mr. Frclinghuvsen offered bill fol the protection of persons making dis. closures to parties or witnesses. Pass ed.
 Mir. Howard asked vote in order io passagain the resolution requesting the President to communicate any instrue- tions given to Generals Pope and Meade. Son taking command of the Fourth Military District, under .the reconstruction acts, with copies of the discussions and votes in the Cabinet on the same subject.
 Mir. Bucklow moved to strike out the last clause. The amendment was agreed to and the resolution re,adopt- ed.
 The Senate then took up the bill regulating the tenure of certain offices, The question being on. MT. Summers motion to except the special agents of the State Department. Mr. Sumner advocated and NIr. Bucklow and Mr. Patterson, of New Hampshire, oppes- ed the amendment.
 The morning hour expiring, the special order being the supplcmentary reconstruction bill, it was taken up, and Mir. Williams spoke in favor of it.
 HOUSE.
 Mrs Butler, from the Committee on Appropriationsreporteda a bill to regu- late the custody and expenditure of public moneys. Ordered to be printed and recommitted.
 Mir. Arilc. offered resolution recit- ing that armed organizations, known as the ''Klux klue, were committing brutal ontrages and numbering white and colored Unionists in Maury, Giles and Montgomery counties, Tennessee, and great terror and uncertainty pre- vails there, and instructing the Con- mittee on Negro affairs to enquire into such outrages, and the best means for their suppression.
 MT. Maynard offered resolution az the sense of the House, that it is inex- pedieht te giye-e treaty to regulate the duties on imports or otherwise inter- fere with the revenue arising there from, as established by statute. Refer red to the Committee on Ways and Means.
 The House then proceeded to the of the morning hour bill, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, concerning the rights of American citizens in Foreign States.
 The bill for the temporary relief of the poor in the District of Columbia, was referred.
 The House then took up the bill re- ported by Mr. Julian from the Commit tee on Public Lands, declaring forfeit- ed to the United States certain lands given to aid in the construction of rail- roads in Alabama, Mississippi, Louis- jana and Florida.
 MT. ArneN spoke in favor of an amenment excepting from the opera tions of the bill the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad Company.
 Mr. Williams asked as to the loyalty of the stockholders of that company, that it appeared from the report of the select Committee on Railroads, that at recent election of directors five of the fifteen were certified to be loyal, six of doubt ful loyalty, and four were admitted to be rebels. The reason assigned for the selection ot rebels being that no more loyal stockholders could be elected.
 MT. Arnell replied that it was not correct, and mentioned the names of several loyal officers of that company.
 MT. Trimble asked whether it was not fact that the only interest the stockholders in those roads had was after the mortgages should be satisfied and whether those mortgages were not held by parties living in the North, and who were loyal to the Government.
 MT. Arnell replied that it was undoubtedly true.
 Mr. Shanks spoke in support of the bill.
 The motion to reconsider the vote and drecommitting the bill, was adopted.
 The Speaker presented acommunica- ton from the Secretary of War, trans hitting the correspondence between the President and General Grant, in reference to the Secretary of War. The correspondence was read, and was lis tened to with unusual interest and attention. and then referred to- the Reconstruction Committee.
 MT. Covode asked whether it was in order, in view of the straightforward and manly course of General Grant in the whole transaction, 10 move vote of thanks to him.
 The Speaker said it was not in order.
 The following is the correspondence;
 WAR DEPARTMENT, Feb. 4. 1868.
 STR: In answer 10 a resolution of the House of Representatives, l transmit herewith copies furnished me by Gen eral Grant, of the correspondence be- tween him and the President, relating to the Secretary of War which he re- ports as all the correspondence he had