Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-12
LATEST I'ELEGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

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WASHINGTON, March II.-Bills were
passed to amend the judiciary act of 1889,
and authorizing writs of error to be taken
to the Supreme Court, where suits were
| brought relative to the collection of in
ternal revenue after the money had been
paid into the treasury.
The Senate non-concurred in the House
amendment directing proceeds of sale OF
captured and abandoned property TO be
paid into the treasury. Committee of con-
ference appointed.
The funding bill was taken up, and Mr..
Corbett spoke in opposition to it.
The Senate then went into executive
session, and soon after adjourned.
House of Representatives.
The House non-concurred in the Senate
amendment to the invalid pension bill, and
appointed committee of conference.
The Speaker presented letter from Gen.
Grant, stating that 1882 votes had been
cast for, and 1905 against, the Alabama
Constitution.
| The House resumed the consideration OF
the Freedmen's Bureau bill reported yes
terday. The bill, which is a substitute for
former bill, continues the Bureau for one
| year after July, 1868, and the Secretary of
war is directed to re-establish the Bureau
| where it has been discontinued where the
safety of the freedmen requires it.
Second section makes it the duty of the
Secretary of War to discontinue the Bu-
| reau whenever any State shall be fully re-
stored to the Union, unless the Secretary
Is satisfied that further continuance of the
Bureau Is necessary provided, however,
that the educational division of said Bu-
reau shall not be affected, or in any way
interfered with, until such State shall have
made suitable provision for the education
of the children of freedmen within said
State.
Third section provides that the unex-
pended balances 10 the hands of the Com
missioner may be applied to the education
OF freedmen and refugees, subject TO the
provisions Of the law applicable thereto.
Section four provides that the officers of
the veteran reserve corps or volunteer ser
vice now on duty in the bureau az assistant
commissioners, agents, medical officers or
other capacities, who have been or may be
mustered out of service, may be retained
when the same shall be required for the
proper execution of the laws as officers of
the bureau on such duty, and the same
salary and compensation and all advances
from the date of their appointment as now
provided by law for the respective grades
and duties at the date Of their muster-out
and discharge; and such officers SO re-
tanned shall have respectively the same
authority and jurisdiction as now conferred
on the officers of the bureau by an act of
Congress passed July 10th, 1866. The bill
went over till tomorrow.
The Senate amendment to House bill to
facilitate the payment of soldiers bounties
was non-concurred in, and a committee of
conference appointed.
The House took up the bill for the adj
mission of. Alabama. The bill was tenn
porarily postponed.
The Speaker presented a communication
from the Secretary of War, with letter
from Gen. Meade, showing the necessity
for additional appropriations to carry out
the reconstruction acts. Referred to the
Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Paine introduced a bill to reim-
burse Milwaukee for expenditures for har-
Dor by that city. Referred to the Commit
tee on Commerce.
Mr. Van Wyck, from the COMMITTEE on
Retrenchment, made a report on the re-
ported fictitious destruction of the bonds
in the Treasury, which he asked be laid on
the table and printed.
Mr.. Logan said he believed that the of
fcials of the Treasury we're defrauding the
government, not only by the sale of bonds,
but by giving ont dies and paying counter
felt bonds and duplicate bonds, and yet
they found defenders on both sides of the
Capitol to Whithwssh and call them honest
men.
Adjourned