The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-10
Conversational.

WASHINGTON, June 9.-House.-The
!. Chinese reception to-day attracted an i'm
mense crowd. This usual proce edings oc-
Cured.
A bill was reported from the Reconstruc-
ton Committee dividing Texas into three
States. Ordered to be printed.
The bill inaugurating the southern State
officers was read three times and passed
yeas, lis; nays, 81.
The following is the bill as passed in the
House to-day:
"Be it enacted, &c., That the Legislature
of each of the States Of Arkansas, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Geor-
eia, and Alabama, elected under the Con-
stitution thereof, framed and adopted in
pursuance of the provision of an act for the
more efficient government of the rebel
States, passed March 2, 1867, and the acts
supplementary thereto, be and hereby is
authorized to meet on such days as may
have been fixed either in such Constitu-
ton or by proclamation of any officer au-
thorized to convene said Legislature by the
Convention which framed such Consti-
tuition; and if no day shall have
been fixed as aforesaid, or If the day 80
fixed for the meeting of the Legislature OF
either of said States shall have passed, or
shall have so nearly arrived before the
passage of this act, that in the opinion Of
the Governor elect there might not be time
for the Legislature to assemble on the day
80 fixed, such Legislature may be convened
within thirty days after the passage OF this
act by the Governor of said State. :.
"SEcTIoN 2. That whenever either OF said
States shall be admitted to representation
in Congress, the executive and judicial
officers of such State, duly elected and
qualified under the Constitution thereof,
may be inaugurated without delay, and the
Government of such States shall thereupon
be transferred to the civil authorities
thereof.
"SEcTIoN 8. That it shall be the duty OF
all civil and military officers exercising
authority in either of said States to afford
all practical aid and protection to the
officers of such State in carrying out the
provisions of this act and any such officer
who shall wilfully withhold such aid and
protection, or shall wilfully prevent, hin.
der, or delay the meeting of either of SAID
Legislatures, or the Inauguration Of any OF
said State officers, or of any other civil OF
military officer under either OF said state
authorities, shall be guilty of felony, and
upon conviction thereof before any Federal
or State court of criminal jurisdiction
shall be punished by imprisonment not e5'
ceeding ten years, or by fine not e4ceea !,
ing l0,00O, at the discretion OF the court.
4 bill providing for the construction :. o.
a railroad and telegraph line from Mools
to New Orleans was introduced.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs Was
directed to inquire whether the establish
ment by Mexico of free ports at Mata'
moras and other towns on the Rio drande
was not contrary to the commercial rlgn1s
of this country.
The consideration of the tax Dill VA
then resumed; pending which the hous'
adjourned. A., NJ. :,
Potter, Of Charleston, 8. C., Tor 5relmeu1se.
ment in the sum Of 940, 600, exPenaeo 2.
herself and family for the support OF unioi
prisoners during the war, vas read anu l'a' 10 10
1 ferred to the Committee on Claims.
a petition from the Louisville board 9
Trade, asking reduction Of the Whlske.
tax to fifty cents, was read. !.
The consid eration of the omnibus admis
sion bill was then resumed. Alabama W. wa
added to the list by q vote Of 22to IL. In %
Republicans voting nay were Messrs. Gole
/ Conkling, Edmunds, Fessenden, fFe u,
shuysen, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrll
Vermont, Trumbuil, and Yates.
a motion to strike out the provision n =,
slifying the Georgia relief clause was Gus
/ cnssed all day. The argument took 9 WIG. g,
j range. II was claimed that without TIM