Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-06
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, Mr.. sherman called up
the hill relating TO United States notes
ana The auhstilution OF coin, providing
that any contract hereafter made, spe-
officially payable ip coin shall DO legal
lied and valid, aud may be enforced &C
cording TO its terms, notwithstanding
anything in the bill in relation 10 United
States notes. .u
Mr. Trumbull called up the House bill
10 admit North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama He explained
that ia the substitute the COMMITTEE had
stricken out Alabama, aud, by mistake,
Florida was inserted, contrary 10 the
opinion Of majority Of the COMMITTEE
though he, personally had favored IN,
sorting il. He stated the number oil
votes cast for and against the Constitu'
ton in the States enumerated, and IN the
matter of Florida read a communication
from the General Of the army, Enclosing
telegram from General Meade, dated
Atlanta, June 3, 1868, which stated that
the majority in favor Of the Constitution
in Florida is $3.50,
The Arkansas bill came up from the
House, an&khe Senate insisted on its
amendment, and ordered n committee oil
conference.
Mr.. Wilson moved to amend by in
sorting Alabama"
After long debate, and without ao'
ton on the bill, the Senate went into
executive session, and soon after ad-
journed. a..
In the House, Mr.. Lawrence, Of Ohio,
presented a resolution OF the Ohio Legis..
iaiure relative to survey Of the Miami
and Erie Canal, for the purpose Of en-
lareing it to the capacity of ship canal,
which VAS referred.
Mr.. Perham. from the Committee on
Invalid Pensions, reported bill relating
TO pensions. The first section CONSTITUTES
the existing pension laws so as to give
the precedence TO relatives OF deceased
persons, having neither widow nor child,
in the following order: First, mothers
second, fathers; third, orphans, broth
ers and sisters, who shall be pensloned
Jointly, if there be more than one. The
other sections apply to matters OF detail.
The bill passed.
The House then went into Com mittee
of the Whole on the tax bill The sixth
section, which gives the appointment OF
all revenue officers to the Commissioner,
being under consideration, large num-
her of amendments we're offered, and
after considerable discussion were all re-
icctel or Withdrawn, and the question
was taken on Mr.. Garfeld's motion to
strike out the section, which was carried
by sixty.four to forty five. The seventh
section was also struck out, and the
eighth considered. 1t regulates the du-
ties of internal revenue store keepers.
Mr.. Logan moved TO strike out the
whole section because it provided for
bonded warehouses and if the whisky
tax was reduced, to be collected at the
still, the only way in which the tax could
he collected, then there would be no use
of having bonded warehouses.
Mr.. Judd withdrew his motion to strike
out the eighth section, with the under
standing that the section be reserved for
amendment in view OF further action on
the whisky tax.
The fourteenth section was, on motion
of Mr.. Schenck, struck out. Several
amendments of detail were made to the
sixteenth section.
Mr.. Jencks moved verbal amend
ment to the twenty-second, when the
committee rose, and the Speaker pre-
sented message from the President in
regard to the trials of American citizens
in Great Britain, and the House adj
iourued.