Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
Proceedings in the SENATE

therein, and any United States Court
having admiralty jurisdiction may now
take cognizanee of cases arising out Of
said captures. The shares in such cap
lures which may be awarded to officer
and men entitled to prize money are to
be paid out o! the treasury.
On motion of Mr.. Morton, the Senate
took up the resolution to authorize the
payment of Senators from the recon-
structed States from the commencement
OF the fortieth Congress.
Mr.. Merrill, of Vermont, moved TO
amend so as to pay them only from the
second session of the fortieth Congress.
The resolution was briefly discussed,
and then on motion of Mr. Morrill,, of
Maine, it was postponed and the Indian
appropriation bill taken up.
The Committee on Appropriations re-
ported and explained the various amend
ments recommended by them, which
were generally agreed to, and the con-
sideration Of which occupied until 800,
when, on motion of Mr.. Sumner, the
Senate went into executive session, and
soon after took a recess.
The bill regulating the ranking privi-
lege was passed exactly as it came from
the House
Proceedings in the House
Several petitions were presented. The
Election Committee reported against
Thomas A. Hamilton's claim to a seat
from Tennessee. Ordered printed.
The vote laying the bank bill On the
table was TecoEsidered.
Mr.. Pomeroy moved it be recommitted
with instructions to report forthwith.
Two more amendments were offered,
and notice given Of others.
Mr.. Hooper moved to strike out the
second section. Lost, Is to 149.
Mr.. Coburn moved to amend BY in
structing the committee to report back
the fourth section as amended yesterday
by the adoption Of his substitute. Car
ried, 81 to rs.
Mr.. Ingersoll moved to instruct the
committee to report back the resolutions
he offered yesterday as amendments and
which were then adopted by the House.
Rejected, 70 to SO.
Mr.. Miller moved the bill be tabled.
Lost 81 to sc.
The question was then taken on the
motion to recommit The bill to the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, with
instructions to report forthwith.
The fourth section, as amended by Mr..
Coburn, to include his fourth section, was
agreed to without division.
Mr.. Pomeroy Immediately reported
back the bill as instructed
The previous question was considered,
and the main question ordered on its
adoption as a substitute for the Senate
bill. Substitute adopted-yeas 80, noes
76.
Mr. Wood moved to lay the bill On the
table. Lost-yeas II, nays 10 The
bill with amendments then passed.
yeas log, nays II.
Mr.. Boutwell, said he desired to make
q statement to the House. The atten-
ton Of the House being secured, he went
on to say, "it was my purpose until very
recently to report from the Reconstruc-
ton Committee bill for the establish
Dent of provisional government for the
State of Mississippi.
After full and free conference with
gentlemen on the other side especially
with the gentleman from Wisconsin
Mr.. Eldridge, and having been by them
assured very proudly that it was their
purpose to resist the passage Of the bill
by such parliamentary measures as they
can command, felt obliged to abandon
preparation of it at this time. There is
other public business Of great importance
pressing. AS l have reason to expect
that the bill will be vetoed, and it would
be useless to pass it unless passed by
both Houses between this and next
Saturday night, | feel constrained
by a sense of public duty to abandon the
measure for the time, with the assurance
to our friends on the other side that i'm
meIiately after the 4th of March, we will
test the capacity Of this side to pass that
or similar measure.
Mr.. Eldridge said The gentleman
| from Massachusetts, has stated that it
was our purpose to resist the passage OF
the bill to which he REFEREED erritorial-
izing Mississippi. He has stated, with
entire frankness, what / said, that
we did intend to resist it to the
utmost of our power and ability. We
believe, We always believed, that the
State Of Mississippi is a State in this
Union, entitled to all the rights and privi~
leges of every other State, and she has
been SO ever since the war against rebel~
lion was successful, and we shall now,
and at all times, resist any effort to turn
her into territory or any other State in
the Union.
Mr.. Pettis, from the Committee on
Elections, called up the New Mexico
case, and addressed the House in advo
cscy of the report off the committee, when
at half past four the House took recess.
In Committee OF the Whole, Mr.. Ferry
in the chair, the consideration Of the
army appropriation bill was resumed.
During the discussion Mr.. Garfield
said they had been told by the Secre-
tary Of War that they had not any more
troops than they needed Tor actual neces~
sites Of service, and that Gen. Grant
does not recommend any reduction, ex-
cept by absorption.
Mr.. Dodge offered the following SUBJ