Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-20
NUMBER 1ia.1o -
The Weeks Dolne.f i'm CoIgressr

The Weeks Doings in CongressE
In the House of Representatives Mr.
CoRLEY, carpet Dagger, of South Carolina,
introduced bill to create censorship Of
books In the common schools of the SOUTH
ern States, so as to exclude all that do
not meet Radical approval. None but
the truly loyal" furnished by Massachu-
setts, which exalts the negro over the
white man, the New Englander above all
the rest of the white race, and Boston
above or on par with Mahomees third
Heaven, to be allowed in the schools. fi9s
Mr.. ROBINSON, deeply imbued with the
spirit that claims N2fi <asi1 7sst'-fA
mo pent-up Utica contracts our power.
The whole, the boundless continent is ours" 80
introduced bill for securing the annexa-
ton of Cuba to the United States, without
purchase, which was referred to the conn
mittee on Foreign Affairs. It resolves that
Spain, having thrown off its own govern
meng, has no right to inflict gogernment
on the people OF Cuba contrary to their
wishes, and that it is duty of the United
States to acknowledge the independence,of
the government now successfully estab-
lished in Cuba by its people, or take meas
ures for the annexation of Cuba to the
United States, as the people OF Cuba may
indicate, provided no payment be made to-
the dethroned Queen or any other person
arrogating the right to dispose of or control,
the land contrary to the wishes of the peo-,
pie thereof. =, ,, : 5t..s.s j i4af a-,i,
The Tenure of Office bill, passed to crip-
pie President JOHNSON, was then, as far as
the House was concerned, repealed by1a
vote of yeas III, nays AZ. ssa srau sliid
Mr.. BANKS introduced joint resolution
to take the Negroes of Hayti and San Don
mingo under the protection of the United
States, and secure them stability in theirs
government. s-,.,f a, 7,agao aojaai
In Senate, on the 9th, Mr.. STEWART, from
the Judiciary committee, reported the fel-s
lowing constitutional amendment. and
asked that the committee be discharged
from further consideration of the subjeet:%
ARTICLE 10 The right OF citizens Of the
United States to vote and hold, off e shall
not be denied or abridged blythe United
States or any State on account of race, col
or or previous condition of seryitude.
| If adopted, the amendment woufdP Sc
cure negro suffrage and political equality
UCbW CCu ItiC laws III OuiOi ~
ing $4,000 majority of the voters Of the
State decided against it. 'Ns'elSsA
I On Monday; 5of the present week, Mr.
SHERMAN reported bill rtquiring, al, I,
bonds to be paid in, gold, unless, the cons
tract was otherwise, and that any man havs 1
ing fifty dollars in greenbaeks, could lend
them to the United States, at five per cent. I
per annum interest, to be redeemed at the
end of forty years in gold. Mr.. SHERMAN .
takes good care to fix in his bill a clause
preventing these new bonds, from being 8
taxed by the State he smisrepresents in \
Congress, or by any other State. 'oE "a .
The scheme also authorizes Banks to I,
issue payable in gold, without interest.ir-ss
respective of the limitation of circulation g
except that they shall not exceed 65 per /,
cent. of the Treasury notes deposited !
with the Treasury of the United States for
the redemption of outstanding circulation.
II In the House. Mr.. PoL IND, who like
other dobsters in Finance, introduced pro-
Jet, involving the issue of coupons or reg- q
l. istered bonds to the amount of one thou
sand millions of dollars, redeemable in
coin after thirty or ffty years respectively
bbS bblit ySdL OOu0o w OCdI lulCf Oobf db
AZ per cent. in coin, and the fifty year
bonds to bear interest at per cent,;,.
the bonds to be exempt from Nation-o
! al, State and Municipal, taxes, except the
income tax, and to be exclusively used in !
payment of or exchange for outstanding /
bonds or notes that have fallen due oribear i
interest at higher rates. The Secretary Of
the Treasury is to retire and cancel al
United States notes now outstanding by (
their, conversion into such bondssnGircusr
lating notes are to be issued to the National
| Banks as fast as the United States notes are
| cancelled, until the amount OF United States
notes outstanding shall be reduced to one,
hundred million dollars. The NauonaI
Banks are hereafter to make their deposits
for the security of their circulation in the
bonds provided in the act. = 20. ,..455; To-.
loii t Mr.. BINGHAM, of Ohio, introduced bill
to allow Mississippi her constitutional
rights, to a representation in Congress !.
whenever her Legislature win vote to-
ratify the 18th amendment to the tConsti-
tuition, and to strikeont of the Constitution
of that State the clause which opposes po-,
litical equality with the negroes 8 s1sjJo,
Mr.. HELMAN offered aresolution, theIfirst
partof which, being Theoretical, was agreed
to, but the second, being practical, was
laid on the table yeas 1l0 to nays 54.s It
is as follows ia..ssTss 1a0 @ insHian3ils
RESOLVED. That in the present condition
of national finance, no further subsidies
ought to be given by Congress either in
lands or money, to railroads or other cor
poratons, or to promote local enterprise,
but the whole resources of the country =
ought to be applied to the pressing neces-
sites of the public service, in such manner
as will relieve the people from the burr .
dens of taxation. 1se I,ed -sgss ads bstIo
Resolred, That the grants of publiclandsq g
to corporations ought to be discounten- q
to be held as a sacred trust to secure home-
steads to actual settlers and for no other
purpose whatever. s'iio - e.. = =
The railroad lobby was too strong for
Congress to pass the resolution If agreed
to, and carried out in good faith, it would
have saved many millions Of dollars. But
railroad corporations have too many agents
in Congress to hope for reform In that par
ticular. So. end the week'szdoings of Con-
,-ser -----lTssl 1llli4
d1 THE editor of the Portsmouth Times,
who is the faithful Representative of Scioto
county in the Ohio Legislature, has made
visit to the Ohio Penitentiary, where he
"passed through the workshops where q,
thousand men are engaged in nlcvarious
.f ,1,;llod opd so,,r;ot,c ~, ne a.