Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-03-19
FORTIETH CONGRESS.
This Afternoons Proceedings.
THURSDAY, March 10.

confidence in the ability and st.tesmanship OF
HON. L. M. Stanton, &c, &c. Laid on the ta-
bic.
Mr.. Sumner presented petition of large num.
Der Of citizens OF Wasmng gton, asking the mas
sage of bill TO recharter Washington, rro-
testing against any connection of Washington
win Georsetown, or being placed under the
government of Commissioners, and expressing
a preference for the Sumner bill. Referred Ia
Committee on District of Columbia
Also, memorials numerously signed hy col
oren people OF Kent, Sussex, and Newcastle
counties, Delaware, asking the passage oflaws
conferring political rights upon them.
MI salisbury said that although one of these
pettions purported 10 come from his town. he
knew that there was not a single negro there
who had signed it.
The memorials Were referred to the Com mit-
tee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Pomeroy moved to reconsider the vote of
yesterday passing the resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury Ter statement of the
monthly expenses of the War, Navy and Inte-
rior Departments since July !, Is65, and stated
tnat he desired TO offer an amendment TO it,
calling for the different items Of expense in
detail
Mr.. Hendricks said II such an amendment
was adopted il would take months before the
inquiry could be answered. He wanted the
information he had called for to be able to vote
lnlelhglbly upon the appropriation bills.
Mr. Pomeroy said If the items Were not given
IN detail II might do us some injury
Mr.. Hendricks said there was no covert mo-
tive in his resolution. He did not know who
the Senator meant by ''us.'' He had no desire 20
DO any INJURY TO him or to his.
After some further discussion. the motion 10
reconsider was agreed TO.
MIR. Grimes, from the committee of confer
ence on the invalid pension bill, reported that
the committee Were unable to agree IN refer
ence TO the naval pension fund; and on his
ordered.
Mr. Trumbull ked to take up the 5iu 10 re-
move poliucal disability from Roderick r.
Butler, of Tennessee.
Mr.. Nye, from the Committee on Naval Az
fairs, reported a bill TO place the name of Geo
w. Do,y on the naval list as commander since
July. 1862; passed.
The bill relative to Mr. Butler, of Tennessee.
was then read, with the substitute reported yes
terday by the Judiciary Committee
Mr.. salisbury asked what honorable SER
vice Mr.. Butler performed anterior % I-62 The
bill speaks of his honorable service after that
date.
Mr. Trumbull gave ar account of the career
Of Mr.. Butler. and stated that the fact of his
having done good service 10 the Union cause
was considered sufficient reason to remove his
political disability and allow him to take hs
seat in the House.
Mr.. Saulsbury asked if it would not be prop
er 10 insert provision relieving all persons
VINO had gwen and and comfort to the rebellion
since the same date.
After further debate Mr. Buckalew moved to
strike out the words ''a Constitution
Mr. Irumbull hoped that 1t would not be
adopted.
Without further action, the bill TO exempt
certain manufactures from internal tax was
t1hen up.
Mr.. Morgan moved to strike from the taxable
list "refned sugars and the products of sugar
efneries."
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIyKs.-M Dawes
Mass introduced a bill authorizing the con-
struction OF a railroad and telegraph line from
New Orleans to Mobile. Referred 10 Commit
tee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and or
dered TO be printed.
Mr.. Clarke lkan.) introduced a bill authoriz-
ing the sale OF 20 acres OF the Fort Leayenworth
leserI alton Referred TO Committee on Mill
tary Affairs.
Mr.. Paine (Wis.) presented JOINT resolutions
Senators and requesting Its Representatives in
Congress to adhere 10 the policy of the lovaI
people OF the Republic, as indicated in the laws
on the Judiciary.
Mr.. Fsrnsworth Qn.) } reported from the Post
Office and Post Roads the Senate amendments
to The annual Post Route bill, and they were
concurrCd in.
On motion of Mr.. Washburn (Ina.), the Post
master General was directed 10 report TO this
House the names OF all special agents Of his de-
partment; when appointed: the rate of compen-
sation; and the names of all persons to whom
complimentary commissions of special agents
We're issued, and why such commissions were
issued.
Mr. Boutwell, (Mass.), from Committee on
the Judiciary, reported back the bill in rela-
tion TO judges of the Supreme Court. 1t pro-
yides that IN case of the removal of the Chef
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States from office, OF of his death, resignation,
or inability to perform the duties of his Office,
the same shall devolye upon the Associate Jus.
uce Of said court. whose commits ion is senior
in point of time; and such Associate Justice
shall be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court OF
the United States until the inability of such
Chef Justice shall be removed, or until hIs
successor shall have been appointed and con-
fiTmed by the Senate.
The bill was amended by striking out the
words ''and such Associate Justice shall be
Chief Justice OF the Supreme Court of the
United States" and was passed as amended.
The House resumed the consideration of the
Freedmens Bureau bill
Mr.. Eliot (Mass.) withdrew the motion TO re-
commit, and moved the previous question.
which was seconded.
He then yielded TO Mr.. Wood, of New York.
who addressed the House in opposition to the
bill. He first referred to the original organiza-
uon OF the bureau, and said the passage of the
original act was urged as a military necessity
only, end that military necessity had now
passed. But notwithstanding this another
large appropriation is urged to sustain this
bureau and all its powers for a longer time.
1ht sc powers, he said, were all outside OF aud
unknown TO the Constitution. Mr. Eliot said
that this bill was necessary TO the gene raj well
iare; but he Mr. Wood) reminded the country
that general" welfare left the country when
the Republican party came into power, and in
his place other generals have sprung un. We
have the General from Massachusetts, (Mr.
Butler,) who Is making war upon the Pres
ident, and he Will probably bc as success
iul as he was at Fort Fisher We have
the General from Ohio, (Mr Schenck,) who
larry, and with much more persistency
than he exhibited when he led his troops to-
wards Vienna Court House, ia Virginia. Rer
feIring more Immediately TO the pending bill
Mr.. Wood contended that its continuance va,
unjust 10 the whites and crnel 10 the negroes
lie read from history TO show the effect OF
emancipation upon the slaves of the West
India Islands. Under the operations of this
Bureau the negroes here would relapse into the
same coroiiion of barbarism in the West
lndia Islands. He was opposed elso to the
way in which the Bureau had been managed
He had no spec charge to make against & en-
Howard, but he had seen II stated that General
OF amalgamation, and that he had said he would
affection was mutual. He had also seen n
stated that Gen. Howard had become wealthy
since he assumed the management of the
Bureau, and had purchased land here at cheap
rates W hich he sold out TO freedmen at a great
advance. Mr. Wood, in CONCLUSION. stated sum.
msriiy some OF the reasons why he opposed
the bill, which were among others because
mere was no power given to make appropria.
uon for this purpose; because the occasion for
tne Bureau had passed; because IL had thus Ear
failed to accomplish any good purpose; because
III was injurious 70 the best interest of the freed.
men As IL made them lazy and IndolenL and
because 1t was wrong in spent, spirit and
principle.
Mr. ArneIl (Tenn.) addressed the House in
support of the bill. He insisted that the bepe.
6is Of the Bureau had been extended a. much
} to the white as to the colored people. In the
cours4Nof his remarks he referred TO the ssK. X.
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