Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-20
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Night Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE
WASHINGTON, June 19.-Edmunds,
from the Judiciary Committee, reported,
with an amendment, the bill relative to
holding elections for Senators.
Wilson introduced o joint resolution to
cross from the rolls OF the army certain
officers, absent without authority from
their commands. Referred to the Mill
tary Committee.
PomerOy introduced q bill TO transfer
the Indian Bureau to the War Depart
ment. He said the purpose was to turn
it over to the Freedmen's Bureau. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Indian Al
fairs. O.. -. arE afl
Wsshburne, of Indiana, from the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, Teporteda bill
relating to the additional bOuuties, which
was ordered to be printed and recon-
mitted. Itf.
Ketchum, from the same Committee,
reported bill providing for the appoint
ment Of q committee to examine and re-
port on certain claims from the State
OF New York. Ordered to be printed and
re-cOmmittsd.
On the motion OF Morgan, the adverse
vote Of yesterday on the bill for the relief
Of certain exporters of rum and alcohol,
Was recOnsidered and passed.
The Chair laid before the Senate the
House resolution passed yesterday, de-
nOunCing the land treaty with the Ossge
Indians.
Sumner said the resolutions related to
q matter that should properly come be-
fore the Senate in executive session.
They were therefore transferred 10 an
Executive session and referred to the
Committee on Indian Affairs.
HOUSE.
Farnsworth, from the Conferences Com
mittee, on the bill relieving from politi-
cal disabilities certain persons in the
Southern States, made q report in favor
of striking out the names of George s.
Houston, OF Alabama, and George w.
Jones, Of Tennessee.
Buck made a minority report, and
spoke Of the high character Of the men
who were excluded By it, and said that
he knew of no reason for it, were it not
that Mr.. Jones might probably be dam
gerous competitor for Congress, for the
district in which ne lived.
Farnsworth defended the report, and
said that when the Senate's amendment
was referred to the Reconstruction Com
mittee, that committee naturally con-
suited the members from Tennessee as TO
the present condition of r.Jones' mind,
and came to the conclusion, from what
they said, that until Mr.. jones asked to
be relieved from his disabilities, it
was not worth while for Congress
to tender amnesty TO him. He did not
Inquire into the politics OF the man pro-
posed to De relieved, but he did inquire
as to whether he was acting with the
loyal people of the United States, or was
acting with the rebels of the South. At
ter further discussion the bill was de-
fsated by " to 90, less tuan two-thirds
voting for it. A motion to reconsider it
was made, and the matter was laid over
until Monday next.
The bill regulating the carrying of
passengers on steamships and other YES
sells, was called up and passed.
The Speaker then proceeded to the
business on his table, and disposed OF it
as follows
The Senate's amendment to the House
joint resolution for turning over damaged
ordnance for the Lincoln monument
was agreed to.
The Senate's amendment to the House
bill, to amend the act of March 25, 1864,
providing for carrying the mails from
the United States TO foreign ports, was
cOncurred in; as was the Senate's amend
ment to the bill continuing the Freed
mems Bureau ; the Senate's amendment
to the Dill relating to the Supreme Court;
the SenRte's amendment ~ the bill for
the relief of certain exporters of distilled
spirits, by striking cut the word aico-
no" were ali coucarred in,