The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-09
WASHINGTON.
[rRoM THE ASSOCIATED PREss.l
WASHINGTON, July s.
erman was in the Cabinet this morn

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The revenue to-day is ss44,OO0.
The President goes to Long Branch on the
18th.
It's thought that the President will call an
extra session of the Senate.
The conference committees on the Funding
bill are wide apart. three reports are eH-
pected.
Ofthe flfty-four mlllio ms of additional curren-.
cy provided by the acs just passed, Virginia
win receive, as its portion, nearly five million
of dollars; West Virginia nearly q half Of mil
lion; Tennessee four million and third; Loui-
siana five miluen four hundred and twenty-five
thousand; Mississippi nearly three million;
Georgia four million one hundred and eighty
one thousand; North Carolina four million;
South Carolina four million TWO hundred aud
sixteen thousand; Alabama four million; Texas
two million; Arkansas one million four hum
dred and ffty-fye thousand; Florida five hun
tred and forty-slx thousand.
-s...' b. SENATE.
The Senate was occupied all the morning on
a bill relieving seventy-hve Kentucklans from
political disabilities. An amendment covering
some five thousand persons was offered.
Abill relieving seventy-fve Kentuckians of
their political disabilities was passed by vote
Il to6. The general disability bill was taken
up and passed, after expunging from 1t several
names. -, ~ 49, =.
The Georgia bill was taken up by vote Of
2sto rs, after which, with view of prevent
Ing debate, motion to non-concur in the
House amendments and request conference
committee, was adopted by vote Of "a to %.
- - HOUSE. -
The fHeuse passed the River and Harbor bill
as amended by the Senate, and it goes 10 the
President. The. House then went into COM
mittee. on the Deficiency Appropriation bill.
A. bill providing for the payment Of bounty
to the First Alabama Cavalry, and First and Sc
cond Florida Cavalry, was passed; alter which
the House went into committee of the whole
on the Additional Deficiency bill to pay the e1-
:penses of taking the census, and OF the JUS
tees department An amendment providing
for the payment Of twenty per cent. Of
the salaries Of the employees of the Thirty
ninth Congress provoked discussion, during
which Mr. Dawes said he would go before the
people and tell them that the party which is
responsible for the expenditures Of public mo-
niles had refused to hold itself up to the point
of public economy He had as much fidelity
to the party as any living man, but he had
more fidelity to the good Of the country, which
was above party, and he intended to show the
country where the responsibility for the:ex-
trayagsnce rested. An amendment was adopted
approprlatlng $4,000 to pay the loyal men in
the South who assisted in taking the last
census.
Bingham, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported bill to regulate the mode of de-
clarlng the ratification of amendments to the
constitution. The first section makes 1t the
duty OF the Executive of each State, theIeGG1s-
Iatnre Of which shall have ratIhed I'm amend
ment, to certify such ratification forthwith to
the United States Secretary of State. The
second section makesit unlawful for any State
officer to certify to any repeal of such ratifca-
ton unless ON amendment for said repeal
shall have been first prepared by Congress.
The third section prescrlbes the penalties
Of an attempt to make such ratification by
any State authority, as imprisonment from
one to ten years, and a fine from two to ten
thousand dollars.
The rules were suspended and the bill pass
ed. Yeas, LIS; nays, 81.
Bingham, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported a joint resolution directing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to pay lawful owners
the net proceeds of all cotton seized after the
thirteenth of June, 1855, when such seizures
were made In violation Of the injunction Of the
Treasury Department, and after the surrender
of the rebel armies and the proclamation of
amnesty.
Butler, of Massachusetts,, made point Of
order that the bill made an appropriation, and
therefore must be referred the Committee of
the Whole. The point was sustained and the
bill was referred.