Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-24
XLth Co1gress--Second Session.
WASHINGTON, June %.

A large number OF petitions praying tnat
the soldiers of 1S12be included in pension
rolls were referred.
Mr.. SUMNER from the committee on
Foreign Affairs reported with amendments
the bill for protection of the rights of
American cirizens abroad.
The amendment reported by Mr.. Sumner
strikes out that portion of the third Sec
ures in cases of illegal Imprisonment of
American citizens, and inserts new pro-
vision to make the section read:
Be it further enacted, That whenever 1t
shall be duly made known to the Vice
President that any citizen has been arrest
ed and is detained by any foreign Govern
ment in contravention of the intent and
purposes of this article, or if any citizen
shall have been arrested and detained
whose release upon demand shall have
been unnecessarily delayed or refused, it
shall be the duty OF the President forth
with to report to Congress all the circum-
stances of any such arrest or detention, and
so arrested, that Congress may take prompt
action to secure to every citizen of the
United States his just right.
Mr.. EDMUNDS called up the bill to
amend the act to provide for elections of
Senators of the United States, providing
of Senator elect, the Legislature shall
meet on the Second Tuesday thereafter and
proceed to the election.
Some discussion followed, but no action.
Mr.. THAYER sent to the Chair the Gre
centials of Alex. Mcdonald and Benz. T.
| Rice, Senators elect from Arkansas, and
moved they be sworn in.
Mr.. DAVIS said he held in his hands the
credentials of two other gentlemen, that
| he asked to have read. [Laughter.l
The papers were read, being the credsn-
tials of John P. Jones and Jos. 81. Garland.
as Senators elect from Arkansas, dated oath
| of November, 1866.
Mr.. HOWARD moved to lay on the table.
Agreed to.
Mr.. DAVIS moved the documents of
both parties be referred to the judiciary
committee, with instructions to inquire
which were constitutionally elected.
After a long discussion the motion was
rejected. : s
| The Senators elect from Arkansas were
sworn in at 2M o'clock.
MR.. CONN ESS withdrew his resolution
offered yesterday, to discharge the Com
mituee on Foreign Affairs from the further
consideration of the house bill for the pro-
lection OF American Citizens abroad, on
| the ground that the committee made re-
port.
The Legistive appropriation bill was a
gain taken up. The question was on Mr..
| Summers motion to strike from the amend
ment of the Committee, the clause repeal
ing the act creating the offices of second
Assistant Secretary of State and the Ex-
aminer of Claims in. the State Depart
ment.
MIR. SUMNER made some additional re-
marks on the su ,ct.
After a debate the amendment was
adopted, By % against IA. The next
amendment of the committees was agreed
to, increasing in the Treasury Department
the torce of clerks. in class from ii to IL;
in class 2, from to IA; in class l, from 6
to 10; and increasing the amount OF ap-
preparation accordingly.
An amendment adding clerks OF class
4 for the first Comptroller was adopted.
On motion of Mr.. SHERMAN the amend
ment appropriating $4,500 for temporary
clerks for the First Comptroller was amend
ed by increasing it to $4,000.
Another amendment was adopted in
creasing the number clerks for the I'd
Comptroller from seven to twelve, in class
four, and fourteen to twenty in class three,
: fifteen to twenty-eight in class two, six to
twenty-one in class one, and adding twelve
copyists.
adds three clerks for Commissioner of Gus
toms. The committee added tor the same
two clerks to class four, two to class three,
and two to class two.
Further amendments of the committee
were adopted striking out the provision to
: continue in torce so much of the act of
March Ia, 1854, as to authorize upwards of
, 200 clerks OF class in the office of the Sec
ond Auditor until June 3Oth, 1869,
and ne longer; adding for the Fifth
Auditor clerks, 1 copyist, and 2
: laborers, as a temporary force, in
creasing the appropriation for detection
and bringing to punishment violators OF
: the internal revenue laws, from one to two
hundred thousand dollars; increasing the
1 number of clerks of class one in the Land
: Office from 30 to 40. --7tr
n At half past four, two thirds of the bill
r vet remaining to be considered, on motion
of Mr.. TRUMBULL, the Senate went into
= executive session, and after some time ad-
'journed.