Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-25
CONGRESSIONAL.

HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Speaker
presented a message from the President
with report of the Secretary of State
relative 70 the cases OF Warren and Gas
tiiy, sentenced 10 penal Imprisonment,
which WIS referred.
Schodeld, from the Committee on
Elections, reported that the credentials
OF the ATksnsss Represent Stives were in
proper form, with resolution directing
the administration OF the oath of office.
Brooks presented q protest, but the
resolution was adopted and the members
sworn in.
The protest presented by Brooks is
signed Uy all the Democratic members,
and is quite lengthy. IL was read. The
conclusion OF it is as follows: " We, the
representatives of the people from the
Free States, in behalf Of our constituents,
earnestly and sOlemuly protest against
this violence upon our Constitution
upon oar peOple-and do hereby counsel
and advise all friends Of popular govern
ment to submit TO this force and fraud
only U6til At the bsilOt-bOX, and opera
ting through the elections, the great
wrong can be put right. There is no
law in the land over the constitutional
law, and there is no government but
Constitutional Government, and hence
all bayonet made, and Congress imposed
Constitutions are OF no weight, authority
or sanction, save that en- forced by arms
az element Of power unknown to Ameri-
cans in time Of peace, ana never required
bot as it acts in and under the Suyrene
civil law and the Constitutional statutes
enacted in pursuance thereof We pro-
test therefore in behalf of the free people
Of the North and West against the right
Of this military OligSrcby established in
Arkansas or elsewhere in the now re-
enslaved States Of the South, to impose
upon US, through Congress, taxes, or Gus
toms, or other laws to main tain this oil
gsrehy or its Freedmen's Bureau. We
protest against going into the newly pro-
vised c0partnership of military dietation
and having negroes in the administer
ton of this Government, aud we demand
in the name of Others, in the name of
the Constitution, and for the sake of pos
tsrity, not its reconstruction, but the res
tOretIOn of that sacred instrument which
has been to all of Us "fiery pillarn
from 1877 unto It's present overthrow,
and in all sOlemnity before God and
man, and under 3 full sense Of the
responsibility OF all we utter, we do
hereby affiX our names to this protest
against the Submission of these persons
claiming to be members Of Congress
from Arkansas"
The Heuse then went into a Committee
of the Whole on the tax bill.
A number of amendments were made
to section IL, which prohibits distillatlon
in breWeFies or sugar refneFies. Section
u was amended Oy mskiBg the tax on
registered distilieFles, on their MASKING
and fermentirg capacity, as follows
On the first twenty bushels Of grain or
sixty gallons Of molasses or less, in
twenty-Iour hours, to 81 %.
On the motion of Schenck, the Com
nnittee rose and the House ordered that
all debate on the bill be closed down to
section Is, and the House again went
into a Committee Of the Whole. None OF
the sections were rejected and no amend
ments other than verbal ones were made |
10 many OF the sections fiom 10 TO 46, all |
relating to distiiiatiOn. Logan, IRON
the Ways and Aiesns Committee offered |
three new sections 70 come ia after sec !
ton As. The first providing for the aD- |
pOintmenE by the Secretary of the Treas |
ury, on the recon- mend alton OF the Com |
missioner of Internal Revenue, of one
officer for each United States Judicial |
District, TO be called 3 Supervisor of In |
ternsl Revenue on distilled spirits and |
tobacco. The second directing that no |
general or special agent Of the Treasury |
Department 10 connection with the in
ternal revenue, except as provided for
by this act, shall be appointed as Com /
missioner, employed or retained in Office; |
and the third declaring that no Assessor
shall be authorized to enter any district |
other than the one to which he mas been 4
appointed, for the purpose of exercising
authority. After an explanation, the i
second and third sections were agreed to.
Koontz moved to amend the 18th sec
ton, by providing that the compensation
of internal revenue stOrekeepsFs be paid
by the United States, Agreed to.
AT the suggestion Of Judd, the amend
ment offered to the LIST section of the /
bill, which was left undisp0sed of, was
then taken up.
1t was modified so as to read as follows,
and adopted, to add to the reqt ire
ments OF the payment Of fifty cents taxes
GA every gallon by the dislillerl owner Or