The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-15

A resolution was introduced that the
committee ON Ways and Eeans in
quire into the expediency of abolishing
the offices of collectors, assessors and
other agents of the Internal Revenue
Department, and of apportioDiDg the
amount of tax required to be raised from
domestic sources among the several
States in proportion to their population.
Referred to the committee on Ways and
Means.
Also one declaring that the American
people learn with horror and indigna.
ton of the treatment of American citi-
zens held as political prisoners under
the English Government; that no Ian
guage is adequate to condemn such
treatment, and urging on, the national
Executive the imperative duty OF i'm
mediate Intervention in their behalf.
Referred to the committee on Foreign
Mr.. Paine introduced q bill authorlz-
ing the Secretary of war 10 PROVIDE Ior
the taking of meteorological opserva-
tions at the military stations In the IN
terror of the Continent, and Tor giving
notice on northern lakes and the Allan
tic seaboard. of the approach and force
| of storms. Thebill recites that the rec
ord of marine disasters on the northern
lakes for 1863 and 1869, ssshows that in
1868 there were I164 casualties, involv-
ing the loss of life of 321, and of proper
ty of SILL 900 and that in 1869 there
were 1914, with q loss of 209 lives and
81, 100000 worth of property; that in
1868 there were totally lost los vessels
of the value Of 81, 2O7 300, and in 1869
there werel26 vessels lost, of the value of
81, Ala, 200. 1t recites, further, that sci
entific observations have already shown
that the course of storms in the United
States is generally from the West to the
East, and have made known their rate
of progress fly the preceding changes of
the barometer, and that large proper
ton of the loss of life and property by
marine disasters on the northern lakes
might be avoided by timely notice to
mariners of the approrch of storms.
Mr.. Ward obtained leave to have
printed and recommitted to the COM
mittee on Reconstruction bill pending
for the admission of Virginia to repre-
sentation in Congress upon certain fun
damental conditions. The conditions
are that the Constitution of Virginia
shall never be so amended or changed
as to deprive any citizen or class of cit
liens of the United States of the right
to vote in that State who are entitled to
vote by the Constitution thereof now to
be recognized, or of the right to sit
upon juries, or of the right to an equal
participation in the school fund and
school privileges, as now recognized by
such constitution, provided that any al
teratiou of such Constitution may be
made with regard to the time and place
of residence of voters.
Mr.. Kelly presented a memorial of
the National Colored Labor Convention,
praying that the Surveyed public lands
in the Southern States may be sub'di-
vided into tracts of sixty acres each,
and that any freedmen who STALL settle
on one of the said sub.divided tracts
and cultivate the same for one year
shall receive patent for the same, the
title of said line to rest in the settler
and his heirs, aud to be inalienable for
a period of ten years from the date eff
entry; and fuhher, that the grants of
public lands made by the Government
| TO TallrOdu CDT pOIdulOuS VI puo COutH0ib
States and forfeited by reason of non
compliance with the conditions annexed
to such grant, SHALL not be revived, but
that the lands embraced in such ela2se d
grants be brought within the operation
of the homestead act.
The President sent a message to the
Houseannouncing that he had approved
the bill for the removal of political dis
abilities from large number of per-
sons.
The House went into COMMITTEES on
the Census bill.
At quarter past three o'clock mes
sage was received from the Senate an
nouncing its proceedings in reference to
the death of Senator Fessenden. Eulo.
gies of the late Senator were pronounced
by Messrs. Lynch, Peters, Hale, Brooks
of New York, and Dawes, after which
the House adjourned.