The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-15

III. Uaevsland moved to sgnenst. by pro-
+ vIdfng fha1 th6 appointment oG IcEa sn 81
several STATES instead u 0g the President,
The lAat two amendments MeEa eonszas
F cred pending when the b1d vent over uu-
F Gli tomorrow 3t1e Aousasthen proceeded. /.
ae na3K past one 10 knR euns1e aEaston Of ls
Hfu fer sne fa8I and genera grace am.
nesev- ans oblivion OF al1 sgEarsfos sefs.
+ IN The war OF fnB 4ata reoaIf1a0. Tne 11LE
eMeenfs NJ est Point and Anna POLLS grad
{ nata5. mem oeNs or either Ao1sa OF Con-
sress, and Or the gonledeEata Congress,
heads or departments foreign fnEsteTa.
and judges of any United G1ass courts
who engaged IN the FeAsIIto11s zEaa ners or
secession conventions, s8oYeEnra OF ss-
eeded states au1E1g the EDneti#oas aEsY nRra
eun who cruelty treated kemaTaz nffsaEera
FOR Uhlssd States funds entrusted Il lheua
during the Eaoslt1ous or VINO hage eE1-
e4Ev oE pnhtfc stores OF the Unftes1 Asaaass
alt aeser LerH nom the e n1sea sstaAas AExHrs
Navg snd al bounty jumpers. Mha
GATED, 1r forfeited iilIe. Hhlea Is 1o7T heia
81 ahe Il uthed states O. any fhtEg person
and 81 LANDS 11eupied tW natAcIat csEass
vfous removal of disabilities from any
persons whom lt excspts from the pro-
visions, and declares Invalid every right ,
cf action and liabilities arising, IN accord
ance with the law or contract IN asd Of the
A9AI m Butler, Of Massachusetts,. said that
he wished The state OF the country was |
such that all exceptions could be struck /
out, bat such was not the state OF the 4
country. The bill swept out everything /
that had been done wrong on one aide as 1
well as the other aud SAID that no more I
suits could ne brought for acts done or
Committed during the war, either by those
who warred In oenalf OF the United states
or those who wsTred against t. As 20 the
ne SAID ne thought al the time. after near
ing the eulOgy IA the Seuats on Gen. Lse,
that the idea that those cemeteries could
ia IN any way transferred should be
mt an end to. II the u MON soldiers did
anything during the wa, they certainly
Fsrusworth and BECK offered a subslI-
eufe for toe all, the former removing no
condttionaiiy all disabilities under the
Third section Fourteenth Amendmenf,
and the latter excepting only West Pom
and Annapolis graduates Members OF Com
gress, Heads OF departments, Foreign Min |
fsters aud United states Judges, who aided
aud participated in the rebellion.
bingham moved substitute Tor the First
from ali persons except suen as were sea-
ators and Representatives In the years
1860 or 1881, or were IN either ofsnch ctiarao-
ters, officers IN the army and navy of the
United States heads Of departments, |
U. s. Judges, u. s. Ministers, and except
snsndment an dt have held ONCE since tiae I'd
OF June, 1870.
Mr. Beck opposed the bill. he declared
that instead Of tt being hill granting gem
eraI am nesty, 1t was Dill or pains and
penalttess a btl1 making wart0us dlscrtm-
nations. He believed tne Republican
press d. sired to have general amnesty ex-
tended; he thoagat that the party had
lost slate after state By Congress refus1u z
to pass such a bill, and that tt would con-
tinue to lose 90 long as Congress main
ta1ned that position.
Mr.. Holter advocated its adoption.
Mr, FarnsWorLh's substitute believed |
that the proposition Wo1ld be found to be
not only most generous cut the most pa
trIotic and wtsest proposition In tnat re.
speCt before the House.
at the conclusion of Mr.. Holter's re-
marks, the 0lM went over till Tomorrow /
Mr. Dawes, from the AppropriaGion
Committee, reported q legislative, judicial
and executive appropriation b1ll, hlch
was made the special order for Tuesday
next It approprtates about 20.000.g10.
Mr. Stevenson offered q resoIuLion cali
ing on the Secretary OF War for o report
of 1ha commission 70 examine bridges
over the OHIO RIVER which Was adopted.
a bill was introduced By Mr. Townsend /
TO amend the act OF the zth Of July, 1910,
respecting the judicial system OF the UntteQ
states. kLe1erre1s
The House then, az S:45 PM, adjourned I