Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-25
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- w.su1SaroN. June 24.-Mr. Howard
;r,yndured bill retaining the Freedmen's
p,rsau and 10 provide for its discontinue
anee.7 Referred 10 the Committee on Nil
itary Affairs rl-
~ Conness called mp g bill making
oi,ht -hours davis work for the iaborers
and mechanics in the government employ.
Bill passed 26 to IL.
Bg special order the legislative appro-
priation bill was taken up. The question
being on the amendments BY the Commit
tee on Appropriations to the House bill ap.
uropriating $40 900 for Che Department oil !
Education, was agreed to. Several minor
amendments were slso agreed to.
Mr.. Sherman from thu Finance Com
nittee, reported an amendment increasing |
an appropriation for salaries and expen-
sss of the internal revenue administration
from Sc, 100000 to $S,000,0 900, which was
agreed to. Also an amendment inereas-
ing incidental appropriations for the Sec
retary and Treasury Office to 500, 600, and
appropriating $4,000 for temporary
clerks in the Treasury Department. The
former was agreed to. The latter coca
stoned debate until adjournment, which, on
account of Senator Henderson's wedding,
was ordered 10 2o'clock tomorrow.
House of Representatives.
The Speaker presented the message from
the President, with report of the Seere-
| tary of State relstive TO the cases of War
rem and Costello, sentenced to penal inn
prisonment. Referred.
Mr.. SchOfeld reported from the Com
/ nittee on Elections that the credentials OF
| the Arkansas Representatives were in pro-
ner form. with a resolution directing that
| the oath of Office be administered.
| Mr.. Brooks presented protest. The
resolution was adopted and the members
were sworn IN.
The protest presented by Mr.. Brooks,
and which is signed by all the Democratic
members, was read. 1t is very lengthy,
and concludes as follows:
We, representatives of the people for the
free States, in behalf Of our constituents,
earnestly and solemnly protest against this
violence upon our Constitution and upon
our people, and do hereby counsel and ad-
wise ali friends Of popular government to
submit to this force and fraud only until at
the ballot box, operating through elections,
I this great wrong can be put right. There
ia no law in the land over the Constitution
al law; there is no government but con-
stitutional government, and hence all bay
onet modes, all Congress-inposed Constitu-
lions are Of no weight. authority or sane
lion. save that enforced by arms, an ele-
ment OF power unknown to Americans in
peace. and never required bat as 1t
acts in and under the supreme civil law.
The Constitution, and statutes enacted 10
pursuance thereof, were protest, then,
In behalf of the free people Of the North
| and West against the right Of this military
| oIi0archy. established 10 Arkansas or else
where ia the now re-enslaved States Of the
South, to impose upon US, through Con
eress, taxes, or customs, or other laws 70
maintain this oligarchy,or its Freedmen
Bureau; we protest against going into the
| proposed copartnership of military dicta-
lion and negroes in the administration o.
: this government. We demand, in The
name of the authors Of the Constitution
and for the sake of posterity, not its re
; | construction, but the restoration OF tha
sacred instrument, which has been 10 all o
us a pillar of FIRE from 1877 on to It's pre-
sent overthrow and in all solemnity, be
> fore God and man, under full sence
the responsibility of all we utter, we do
J, hereby afix our names to this protes
i against the admission of the three person
claiming to be members Of Congress iron
Arkansas. .t
On motion of Mr.. Schenck the Hous
ordered all debate on the bill closed, dow
r / to section forty-three. The House agai
= went into q Committee on Sections, whie
was rejected. @ ,ss
No amendments other than verbal wer
made to sections from twelve to forty 81
: all relating to Oscillations.
: Mr. Logan from the Ways and Mean
r Committee, offered three new sections
:. the committee, after section forty-hve.
|, The first providing for the appointment
by the Secretary of the Treasury, on th
IS recommendation of the Commissioner {
d Internal Revenue, of one officer for eac
v United States judicial district, to be Gale
d a Supervisor Of Internal Revenue on Di
II titled Spirits and Tobacco. The secon
:, directing that no general or special ager
ls of the Treasury Department, IN connectlo
with the internal revenue, except as Pr'
l. vided by the act shall be appointed con
missioner, employed or retained in ofhc
The third declaring that no Assessor aha
be authorized to enter any district tina
le the one to which he has been appointed Il
Inc purpose OF 6AeIClSlHB dubhOAitJ'
After some explanation the second an
i third sections were agreed to.
le Mr.. Koontz moved to amend the fort.
seventh section by providing that the con
u pensation of Internal Revenue StorekeePe
II be paid by the United States. Agreed
I At Mr. Judd's suggestion, the amen
I ment offered to the first section Of the b
o. which was left undisposed Of, was taken u
1t was modified to read as follows, al
., adopted
ai Add to the requirement Of the PAYNE
of fifty cents taxes on every gallon by q
~ distiller, owner, or any person having pc
II session thereof, the words before remoy
y from the distillery warehouse. This
e lows no exception.
e Mr.. Boutwell, offered an amendment
~ the 49lh section, providing that the bu
IT, ness of distilling alcohol and sPlrituo
q; LIQUORS for expectation, may be authoriz
III BY the Secretary of the Treasury on app
70 cation of distillers, and that distlileries
e. authorized, shall not distil for export.
ter discussion and without action, the col
as mittee took a recess.
y The Speaker stated that he had decld
le that the Arkansas members should recel
Oh paw from the 18th Of March, the day
''S their election, but az they claim pay fro
o. the beginning Of Congress, he would rel
~ the matter to the Judiciary Committ'
Adjourned.
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