Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-23
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MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
CONGRESSIONAL pRooEEDrNes.

rom the Military Committee, reported
oint resolution to drop from the army rolls
,ertain officers absent without leave from
command The latter passed.
MIR. Conness offered the following reso-
Intiop
Resolved, That the Committee on For
eign Relations be discharged from further
Of the bill from the House
for the protection of American citizens
abroad.
Mr.. Sumner objected to It's eonsidsrs-
ton.
Mr.. Conness gave notice, that tomorrow
he will ask the Senate TO consider that |
resolution.
Mr.. Yates called up biz o admit !
Colorado into the Union. After a debate
Of some length Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont,
was Oppressed to the bill because Colorado
had not sufficient population.
Messrs. Cragin and Nye supported 1t.
The bill went over with the morning hour.
On motion of Mr.. Edwards a concurrent
resolution Of thanks to Mr.. Stanton was
ordered to be communicated to him.
Mr.. Trumbull endevored to have the
veto of the Arkansas bill considered, but
Mr.. Davis having indicated his intention
10 speak o. the subject,
MIR. Morrill,, of Maine, insisted on the
special order, and the legislative apPropri-
alton bill was taken 40.
In the Committee on the Whole the
oustion was on the amendment by the Com
mittee on Appropriation.
The bill was, on Mr.. Trumbull's motion,
lasd aside until Tomorrow, and the veto
of the Arkansas bill taken up.
Mr., Davis agreed that the bill was un-
constitutional, after which the Senate pro-
ceeded to vote on the question, shall the
bill become a law, notwithstanding the OBJ
iections of the President? The vote re-
suited yeas thirty, nays seven. So the bill
became law.
House of Representatives.
Mr.. Loughbridge offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, That, in the opinion of the
House, the interests Of the country require
that the public debt should be recognized
and reduced TO a simple, uniform system,
more easily understood by the people than
it is in It's present complicated form ; and
that the interest on the debt should be re-
duced and for that purpose the Commit
tee of Ways and Means be instructed to
prepare and report, at as early a day
possible, bill providing for funding the
public debt and a reduction Of the rate Of
interest thereon, in such a manner and to
such extent that taxation may be reduced
and euualized as far as possible, consistent
ly with good faith to the national creditors
and Justice to the people. The resolution
was agreed to without division.
Mr.. Ward moved to reconsider the vote
and lay that motion on the table. Agreed
to.
Mr.. Price offered the following resolu-
ton
Resolved, That the Committee of Ways
and Means be instructed to inquire into the
expedieney of appropriating five million
dollars to take up the matured and matur-
ing Indebtedness of the United States,
which is payable in currency as the same
may become due; said amount to be taken
from coin in the treasury to be sold for
that purpose, and providing by law, that
no new Indebtedness shall be incurred by
the United States by the sale or issue Of its
bonds or notes, or other securities, until the
coin secured in the treasury is reduced to
two million dollars; said committee to re-
port by bill or otherwise. Agreed to.
The House proceeded TO the considera-
ton Of the report Of the Conference Com
mittee on the bill removing the political
disabilities in the Southern States. The
question being on Mr.. Broomall's motion
to reconsider the vote Friday last, rejecting
the report, the vote was recOnsidered and
the report adopted by & two-third vote Of
So to A.
The reporter is requested to state that
the Democrats in voting against the Con-
ference report did so because it struck out
the names of Messrs. Houston, of Alabama,
and Jones, of Tennessee, otherwise most of
them would have voted aye.
The Kentucky contested election case
was again taken up and debated by Messrs.
Beck and POLAND against the report OF the
committee and by Mr.. Epson in support
Of it.
Mr.. Kerr from the Minority Committee
on Elections, moved as a substitute reso-
luton declaring that John d. Young was
entitled to a seat and should be sworn in.
The substitute was rejected. Ays 30, and
nays SO.
The several resolutions reported by the
Committee on Elections we're then adopted
without division.
MI. hChEt dBpCGlNA tllA AOuh Ndlu anu
a seat as Representative.
The House at o'clock went into Com
mittee of the Whole, Mr.. Blaine in the
Chair and proceeded 20 the consideration
of the tax bill, general debate being limited
to one boar.
Mr.. Schenck addressed the committee in
explanation of the bill. He stated that in
addition to the tax Of sixty cents per gal
lon on distilled spirits, the committee had
provided what it called a special tax, by
which each distiller Of fifty barrels or less,
paying $500 year az a special tax and
four dollars day as a further tax upon
each barrel over the fifty. The tax on re-
tail dealers is fixed at twenty-five and fifty
cents; $1,000 and $1,000 according to bust
ness done. Bills are also proposed for a
tax Of FIVE dollars per day on each distille
~ capable of making and fermenting a
hundred bushels of grain day, and SO
day additional for each 100 bushels. Add
ing all taxes together, the tax on distilled
spirits would amount to about one dollar
per gallon, and produce from sixty-five to
seventy-fye million dollars.
The hour for debate having expired, the
Clerk proceeded TO read the bill By sections
for amendments.
Mr.. Van Wyck amended the first sec
ton by reducing the tax on whisky from
60 TO 80 cents.
Without action the committee rose, and,
on motion of Mr.. Schenck, it was ordered
that the Committee of the Whole take
recess daily from to half past o'clock.
a message from the Senate announced
the passage Of the Arkansas bill over the
Presidents veto.
Adjourned.
weather at Montreal, Canada.
MONTREAL, June 22.-The heat since last
Sunday has been intense, the thermometer
ranging from 94o TO l000 in the shade.