Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-06
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Daily Kennebec Journal.
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Building and the State Housed
FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
WAsHISGToN, April 5.

WASHINGTON, April 5.
SENATE. The House joint resolution di-
recting an inquiry into the circumstances of
the Oneida, was passed, Mr.. Stewart remark
ing that he regarded the conduct of Capt.
Eyre as an instance of shocking inhumanity,
and believed it to be the duty of the Navy de-
partment to institute thorough examination,
as an act of justice to those lost, and to enable
the world to know the facts, that the retribu-
ton Of mankind might be visited upon the
guilty.
Mr. Cottcl presented a memorial from many
thousands of manufacturers of New jersey
in correction of the statistics in the last report
of Commissioner Wells. characterizing them
as libel upon American manufacturers and
working men, and asking special cXamina-
ton of the cases cited in the report
a bill requiring supervisors Of the Internal
Revenue to be appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate, was reported upon
adversely.
Mr.. Cameron offered a resolution directing
the Military Committee to suggest some APP
propriate testimonial in honor of the volun-
teers of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,,
who on the 18th of April. 1861, marched
through the city of Baltimore to defend the
capital of their country. they being the first
troops who responded to the first war procla-
nation of the President of the United States
The resolution provoked considerable discus
sion. in which Thurman, Salisbury. Fenton
and Conkling joined each Senator defending
the record of his own state, and the prompt
ness with which it forwarded troops to the de-
fence of the capital. The whole subject was
finally referred to the Military Committee.
Mr.. Wilson thought there was no need of
any personal feeling npon matter so well
understood. The fact was, that four COM
panies from Pennsylvania unarmed, and one
of them un-uniformed. arrived here on the
evening of the 18th of April, after the assault
upon them with clubs and brickbats in Bal
tmore. One Of them. colored man named
Nicolas Biddle, had been badly wounded in
the head. He came into the capitol, and the
blood which dropped from his wound upon
the marble floor was the first blood shed in
the war. The next day the Massachusetts
troops were fired upon in Baltimore.
The Georgia bill was then taken up, and
Mr.. Sumner addressed the Senate in long
argument against Mr.. Bingham's amendment,
as an engine of the power supported by
techncalities. and upon the power of Con-
gress to enter state and establish a repub-
lean form of government.
Mr.. Carpenter followed Mr., Sumner in an
argument against the constitutional power of
Congress to impose restrictions on any state
ditSi WHICH tiic SENATE spent aH iIour III tA-
ecutive session and then adjourned
House. The bill disseminating the free
bureau and dividing its property and func-
tons between the war and educational de-
partments was passed lO4 to 6l
The Committee on Revisions of Laws re-
ported a complete revision of the statutes re-
lating to patents and copyrights, which was
referred to the Committee on Patents.
The House went into the Committee of the
Whole on the tariff bill, and Mr.. Allison 5
amendment reducing the duty on clarified
sugars from to l2 per cents per pound
was agreed to. 67 to 50.
The duty on refined sugars was fixed at I
cents per pound, a provision being added,
requiring custom house inspectors to take
samples of each package and preserve them
in glass bottles for future indentification and
reference. The clauses on molasses, spices.
&C.. were agreed to without amendment. The
duty on wines in casks is fixed at 80 cents
per gallon on brandies, and on dist led spirits
at SO 90 per gallon, and pending discussion
on the amendment TO increase the duty on
cordias, Sc, from $500 to Sl.50 per gallon,
the committee rose.
Mr.. Butler of Mass, asked leave to intro
duce a joint resolution to annex the republic
of Dominica, but Mr.. Wood of New ork
objected and the House adjourned.