New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-11
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I'M 70 repeal certain parts o. az eGg 1 a9 b1lS
Legislature nt The right OF way to the DESyER PACIFIC
RAILWAY and ThIEoRH 1amSSa from the Colonization
socetT asking for POSTAL FdGiLII 1s DC: I9s
COUNT. osr resolution instruetinS .ae Committee on
tba district OF Columbia 10 ascertain and report the
names and positions Goyernpent officers VINO nave
had real estate II the District Of Columbia transferred 70
them since 1861 with q description OF me properly.
Adopted The Senate Joint resolution pGCSng Igr w
DESTROYED to prevent ecntagCn was tsKe9 om sne
Speakers table, ~ G9oK ~ R ep reported M
stute for bin 70 authorize tso building OF Military
eng company to construct road by the most direct
route with conditions limiting passenger fares 10 tnree
cents per mile and requiring hs through UP 20 UT
Mi ELIOT reported Joint resolution GG Se nss '1S
Secretary Of War 70 Assign and set apart Tor S 81 %
sustne Fla Mr. WOOD Ds% a ~ :: sssgdsi fcc t ths
tho JOINT resolution should DO n9dneJ - ution was
|. passed. SALE OF LANDS ON TIE SEA 1sLANDs -.
tho sale OF certain lands aud lots the Sea Islands Of
Beaufort District South Carolina, and for other purposes
The FIRST section confirms the instructions given 10 the
Tax Commissioner for the District OF South Carolina by
President Lincoln dated on the 10th December 1863 sub
second section provides the public sale for cash Of oil
lands set apart school farms in the ST. Helena Parish
oS' anS Of o0 all lands in Port Royal
South Carolina, subject by law to the disposal OF
such Tax Commissioners, and which remain unsod.
The third section authorizes the Tax Commissioners to
we've residents OF the plantations on the Sea Islands in
the nnreeemed land Of such plantations which may be
at the disposal of the Tax Commissioner INC fourth sec
ton requires all persons who have acquired claims undar
Gen shermans Order OF January S 1885, TO to Obtain %a
rants for the same before the ISL OF May 1858 ana 9oecI
the lands not required TO meet suen warrants 10 SAFE W
the Tax Commissioners TO freedmen VINO are neaus oI
families or who have served IN the United states army
than 40 TO any one freedman except the ads
Islands Which may be sold al not less than 80 cents per
acre, and in parcels not exceeding 800 acres. 49,. -,
Mr.. PAINE. III reply 10 questions and objections by
Messrs ChanIer Kerr Fansworth and Others explained
2P soad be h5 ss
until the state OF South Carolina shall be represented in
NIr CHAMBER Dem, N. " suggested that the
of advertising which in the bill is required only IN the
Charleston papers, should be considerably enlarged as
much of the property owned by persons residing in the
Mr. r. PAINE moved the previous question The bill
was then passed-.Yeas, 75 Nays, 81:
Committee reported bin for the admission Of the State
S5 he spirit fe S the @ the a% ~
1867 entitled An Act supplementary 10 an act entitled
AN Act TO provide for the efficient government OF
the Rebel States, passed March O. 1867 and to facilitate
restoration" The Committee especially intend TO en-
force the spirit that when there TO be any
conflict the facts in the evidence between the spirit
and the letter such is the true principle laid down 10y
moral iursts for the Government Judges BY the act,
two things evidently intended One was 70 admit
Alabama a State If, after full registration with time
for deiberation, majority OF her citizens should be IN
favor Of admissions the other TO prevent hasy and
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considered the subject Hence the law provided that not
only Alabama, but all the conquered territory, should
and II majority of legal voters thus registered should
cast their favor Of Constitution, Convention
majority Of all the registered votes by either their own
yGon or shGa mot ne cast against
most unusual provision in our OF any other Government
but in ordinary times II would have but httle ehec
tween the time of registration and the time OF voting
On the day Of the Alabama election nost extraordinary
| and uOev ed sfaf things existed
In very large portion OF the State especially in the
Ss very severe Oh RACED c IRON morn
passabe degiee that 1t is testified by Gov Smith, now
gentlemen that it kept from the polls numbers OF voters
who would otherwise have attended In attempting TO
drowned, and this fact deferred many from proceeding
6f thus M T S5s SS22 stay t S SSd
all gone and voted against IT, 1t would not have changed
dS{ Fssst from e ys noy ~ favor to ma
registered voters were deferred by the most infamous
casting them Votes FOR tie Constitution Very few white
men did and very few black dared thus 70 their
votes lest they should Be deprived Of food for which
they were suffering Az tbs is proved by the sworn
HSou aOS pers6H H RS have sngy and Voluntarily se
to their violent discharge since ne Dy ther enei
cording to their owD will and pleasure careful anay
sis has been made well could be OF the number OF
votes that were destroyed boxes seized and thrown out
troy them and it is believed from all this that the mum
by violence, outrage, and fraud, had they been cast
would have Overbdlanced all those counted against the
| Constitution, whether cast enumerated cast by
reason of sickness absence or death Some time before
the Alabama election the Convention the injustice Of
the law and requested Congress TO restore the majority
principle the vote upon the adoption OF the Constitution
The House did not hesitate 70 perceive the justice
of the amendment requested and passed an act and sent
IL TO the Senate The Senate, by some unaecounabe de-
that act sleep their files two months, until after the
fate OF Alabama had been announced Ihey then took
up passed IT, and 1t has passed both Houses Of
the Votes cast should govern has been restored and your
II
this The circumstance OF the almost unheald OF
storm the day OF election the violence OF human pas
sOn and the wild phrenzy Of former masters the polls
together with the evident injustice OF the principle in
question: upon which no one has yet acted seem to your
Committee TO demand that Alabama should be admitted
into the Union OF the States thereof But while
this free people are rebuilding mighty nallOn IN Whlch
there must be faint OF despOsm or nusc, they have
examined carefully all the provisions Of the Constitution,
and as precedent which they hope VIII never be de-
parted FROM but which has become necessary by the IL
Justice Of the sister States they have determined that
state shall ever be admitted into the Union when the
right 10 universal suffrage shall not be made permanent
cunning scheme might be devised by which peonage,
such as is already established in some OF the South
American States hight be created, they recommend the
passage Of the act for the admission OF Alabama as
The report was ordered to be printed and made the
special order for tomorrow.
COMBINATION OF TIE FREEDMEN's BUREAU.
Mr. ELIOT REP Mass) reported back substitute for
the bill TO continue the Feedmens Bureau year from
War to reGstabsh the Bureau where it has been dscon
nued, beng satisfied that the personal safety Of the
the bill went over till tomorrow.
ENENPTING MANUFACTURES FROM TAX.
Mr. sCHENCK Repr OHIO reported back the bill re-
ported by him yesterday TO exempt certain manufactures
from internal tax The second section is modified so as
10 read:
nothing contained shall he repeal or inter.
fere with law regulation, provision for the cClec-
ton which under the existing before
ofApr 1863 The third section struck out Altogether
Mr. SCHENCK explained the bill. The Committee OF
Ways and Means he said had intended to present
pee law covering the whole subject and not to present
special bin repeating the tax on manufactures IL had,
however been urged on the Committee from members of
the House, and from outside interest thing exceed
Dgy desirable that having determined TO relieve manu-
acuers from the five per cent 1t should be done with
out waiting Tor the general bill Such suggestion had