Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-08
LATEST I'ELEGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
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ton providing for the adjustment of ac-
counts OF the Acting Collector of the In
ternal Revenue. Referred to the Com
mittee on Finance.
Mr.. Sumner introduced a bill abolishs
ing the District Court for the Eastern
District of Texas, and extend the iurisdic-
ton Of the Court of the Western District
over the whole State. Referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Wilson introduced a bill vaeating
certain Offices in Virginia and empowering
the constitutional convention to gil the
ssne.
Mr.. Corbitt introduced bill TO amend
the existing laws in regard to the inter
nal revenue and other purposes. Referred
to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Pomeroy introduced bill in regard
to the claims of the executor of the In
dian chief John Ross. Referred to the
Committee on Claims.
Mr. Trumbull called up the Joint resolu-
ton appointing as agents ofthe Smithonian
Institute, T. H. Woolsey, of Connecticut,
VIM. b. Aston, of New York, James Nc
Clean, of New Jersey, and Peter Parker,
of Washington. The resolution was
adopted.
Mr.. Sumner reminded the Senate that
the bill for the further security of eaual
rights in the District of Columbia, had
been sent to the President on the 10th of
December, and the President having failed
to return it he now asked leave to intro
duce bill precisely the same.
Mr.. Sherman suggested a reference Of
the matter to the Judiciary Committee.
A debate on this point, by Messrs. johns
son, Edmunds, Drake and Sumner, con-
tinued until the morning hour expired,
when the bill was so referred.
A resolution was introduced by Mr..
Davis, instructing the Committee on Com
merce to inquire into the expediency of
regulating the fares on the various rail-
roads in the United States. Referred to
Committee on Commerce.
The bill repeating the tax on cotton was
taken up, and Mr.. Conkling withdrew his
motion. to postpone, saying be should, at the
proper time, press the amendment confin-
ing the suspension to one year.
The question required on Mr.. Johnson's
amendment excepting the crops grown in
1867 and in the hands of producers.
Mr.. Williams moved an amendment ex-
empting all cotton remaining unsoId in
the hands of producers when the act takes
effect, providing that no tax heretofore
collected shall be refunded Lost.
Mr.. Johnson's amendment was also lost
on the question of recurring on Morton's
amendment reducing the tax on cotton
grown after 1867 to one cent.
Mr.. Conkling moved by combining the
exemption to 1868.
Messrs. johnson, Frelinghysen and Pat
terson, Of New Hampshire, spoke in favor
of repeal, and Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont,
against.
Mr. Davis made speech of some length,
claiming ifthe North would keep its spoon
out of the Southern dish the South would
soon be reconstructed, and that free negro
labor had proved failure.
Mr.. Morton replied that the reason why
the Northern spoon was in the Southern
dish, was that the South had once put its
spoon in the Northern dish. The negro
might have been made lazy by freedom,
but the evil could be remedied if the
Southern whites were made more indusD
trious. He then proceeded to support tie
Justice of at least a reduced tax.
Mr.. Howard would support the amend
ment of the Senator from Indiana, but he
could not vote to vote to give to the South
the privileges which he was compelled to
deny to his own constituents, and he in
quired of the chairman of the Finance
Committee, whether provisions had been
made for supply the deficit, occasioned by
| removing the tax.
Mr.. Sherman replied, instancing several
portions of the estimated expenses of the
government for the fiscal year would be re
duced, the whole would exceed one hun
bred and fifty million dollars, so that Con,
gress might safely throw off one million
taxation.
Mr.. Howard inquired whether that com
mittee had considered the propriety of dis
continuing the payment of the war debt fol
the present.
| Mr.. Summer said bill to that end wa
now on the table in the House of Repre-
| sentatives.
Mr.. Cobb offered a resolution instructing
the Committee on Military Affairs, to in,
quire into the expediency ofputting officer
of the 50th Wisconsin volunteers, on tbs
same footing in reference to the tire
months extra pay proper, as though the
had been mustered into the service at thu
time of the passage of the act granting
such extra pay to certain officers. Adopted
Mr.. Hopkins offered a resolution in
structing the Committee on Public Land
to inquire into the expediency Of subject
ing to entry, under the homestead law, anC
offering for sale and pre-emption, for aetna
settlement. all the unsold sections and part
of sections of the public lands remaining
unsold along the line Of railroads wher,
the odd number of sections have beer
granted on the reserve to and in the con
struction of railroads. Adopted.
House OF Representatives.
The speaker presented a communication
from the Secretary Of the Treasury trans
hitting the report of the special Commits
sioner of Revenue, which was referred tC
the Committee on Ways and Means. Alsc
a communication from the Secretary of tn,
Interior transmitting copies Of letters from
the Secretary of War, adj interim, and Gen
| Hancock, relative to the surveying anC
bringing into market the lands of the
Peninsula of Alaski. Referred to Com
mittee OH Public Lands.
A bill TO facilitate the payment of the
soldiers bounties came up with amend
ments, but were Withdrawn.
Mr.. Washburne, of Indiana, proposed a
substitute directing the Secretary of the
| Treasury to employ by transfer or other
wise, add tional clerks, not less than fifty
in the department of the Second Auditors