The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-01-29
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Washington. |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-There was no session
of the Senate to-day. ~ 81
The House session to-day was devoted entirely
to debate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-HousE-Under call
Of States, following among others, bills were in
stroctions from He'll Gate, forbidding assessors
and collectors from being interested directly or
indirectly in forfcitures under the revenue laws.
Mr. Stevens introduced bill relating to snf.
fragc and national questious-to regulate the ap-
pointment of Government agents, providing tenn
porary government for Wyoming territory.
Mr.. Cary, bills to provide for uniform curreu.
cy and liquidate the national debt-relieving
McLane College in Tennessee. amending national
currency. An supplying documents to agricul-
tural colleges, removal of distractions from up
per Missouri river. ftss at,-r
A bill allowing transportation from warehouse
at Iudianola Texas, to San Antonio.
A bill declaring compromises for violations
of the revenue law felony
A bill for the better organization Of the United
States District Courts In Louisiana.
A bill establishing Branch Mint at Santa Fe.
A resolution passed repeating the territorial
certain classes from suffrage
Several executive communications were pre-.
scented. Also resolution from the Georgia Con.
yention, urging the re. reorganization OF the State
government-the removal of disabilities and
modification ofthe test-oath.
A petition from the members of the Louisiana
Convention praying the removal of Hancock,
State and parish officials.
Also petition from the Mississippi Conven.
ton relative to the Freedmen's Bureau.
A bill forbdding the payment ofcertain claims
arising from the rebellion resumed. The bill
passed yeas SO, lays 6S.
The Secretary ofState asked for pay of expenses
for arresting and trying surratt. The resolution
WAS adopted ta
In the Senate Mr. Wilson introduced bill
removing the disabilities of certain citizens OF
Virginia.
The Secretary of the Treasury was called on
for an elaborate report regarding captured and
abandoned property.
| The bill relieving Gov. Patton from disabilities
was resumed. Messrs. Howard and Drake wanted
| furtherproof OF Mr.. Patton's sincerity. Messrs.
Buckalcw and johnson opposed special legisla-
| ton on the subject. The bill passed by vote of
| 26 to s.
The postponed reconstruction bill resumcd.-
Mr. Wilson favored the BILL and in opening he
said: A" He had, in the thirteen years he had been
in the Senate, listened to great many speeches.
He had heard the domineering Davis, the bus-
tcring Toombs, the plausible Mason, the willy
Slidell, but he had never listened to more wick.
cd speech than that delivered by the Senator
from Wisconsin, (Mr. Doolittle,) on Thursday
last"
Mr.. johnson followed, arguing against the
| bill.
The Bureau Of Statistics reports the number Of
immigrants since 1851, one and half million.
The Union Pacific Railroad is in good running
order, and extends $40 miles beyond Omaha.
The Supreme Court has decided that, in case
of necessity, the Captains of vessels can sell
them in foreign ports.
T. H. Harmon, the Bureau agent at Lake Provi
dence, Louisiana, has been arrested in Charles
ton for theft, and goes to New-Orleans ironed
Revenue to-day 1000. The subsistence bill
was passed by the House to day. 1t enacts thai
| hereafter no money shall be paid out ofthe treas
ury on the following class cases, arising during
the rebellion, until further action of Congress
First, OIL account of seizure or imprisonment of
or for damages or demurrage, or detention o
any appliances of transportation, whether BY
land or water in the insurrectionary States. Sec
ond for transportation SERVICE toll fcrriage, &c.
beyond the tariff fixed by the Quartermastel
General during the war; Third, for use and oc
cupation of land in the insurrectionary States
used for Notifications and other military defen
sive services during The war.
b From Richmond.
RICHMOND, Jan. 25.-The habeds corpus cast
that was brought before Judge Underwood tt
test the constitutionality of the reconstruction
acts was to-day adjourned over till Wednesday
The commandant of Libby prison produced thu
prisoner, and made return that he was held b,
order Of Gen. Schofeld, under the authority
the reconstruction acts. The prisoner was rep
resented by four prominent lawyers, oil member
of the Conservative State Central Committee
which body brings the case up with the intention
of carrying it to the Supreme Court.
Nothing important done in the Convention.
From Atlanta.
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. 25-The Convention votes
fifty dollars to each member out of the ten thou
sand received yesterday. The balance has beef
appropriated to incidental expenses.
Four additional sections of the Bill OF Rights
none of novel nature were adopted
The committee on finance reported that the.
had had an interview with Gen. Meade, and tina
he has applied to Gen. Grant for the loan Of
sufficient amount ofthe funds sent by the Stat
of Georgia to pay its Indebtedness to the Gpv
ernmcnt OIL the Western and Atlantic Railroad
to defray all the expenses of the Convention, an
that Gen. Grant accepts the proposition, so ia
| nc b;s rower extends He will answer defntel