Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-14

touching the style, cost and contract for the
postal cards ordered at the last session OF
Congress; also for Information and CORES
pondence touching the present contract for
postage stamps; the change in stamps
adopted under such contract, and the causes
for it; to what extent If any the government
is loser; when the present contract ex-
piIes, and what steps ifany been taken for
advertising for proposals under the law both
as to postal cards and postage stamps.
Adopted.
A number Of private bills were reported.
Relief for william and Mary College
ON sMiseegenation Terms.
The House at 1:20 went into convention
of the whole on the private calendar, l..
Myers, of Pennsylvania, in the chair, and
took up the bill to reimburse the college of
William and Mary in Virginia, $65, 900 for
property destroyed during the war of the
rebellion.
Mr.. Shanks offered sn amendment pro-
Viding that no part of the money shall be
paid until regular meeting of the stock
holders or corporate authorities of the col
lege shall have adopted and caused to be
entered in the records of the corporation a
resolution declaring the college to be opeD-
and it shall in all times thereafter be open
for the admission on equal terms and with
equal privileges, of all persons irrespective
Of race, color or previous condition Of SER
Vitude.
Mr.. Pierce, Chairman of the Committee
on Education and who reported the bill,
opposed the amendment which be regard
ed as being intended to kill the bill. The
result of its adoption would be that instead
of its being a college open to all citizens OF
the United States it would be college open
only to colored citizens. The colored citi-
zens of America, and he represented a
colored constituency, did not desire such q
distinction. They desire the recognition
that was made in the civil rights bill. They
should be open to them.
Shanks defended his amendment, argu-
ing that the money in the treasury was con-
tributed proportionately by colored people,
and that the amendment was based upon
the provisions of the constitution.
Critcher of Virginia, opposed the amend.
ment aud stated that there was now with
in few miles of the college Of William
and Mary college devoted exclusively to
the education Of colored children, SO that
there was no necessity for the proposed
amendment.
Sharks asked Critcher whether the
regulations of that colored college forbade
the admission of white students.
Critcher was not aware OF any such
provision, but there were no white stu
dents at that college.
Mr.. Shanks-As a matter of ehoics |
presume the suggestion of the gentleman
from Mississippi, (Mr. PERCY rs to the
civil rights bill is question in the future.
If he will wait until that becomes the law
and if it produce its proper effect, it will
answer all the purposes Of my amendment;
bat if this bill is to pass first, | prefer that
it should be properly guarded.
Mr.. Hawley, Of Illinois, opposed the bill
and sent to the clerks desk and had read
letter from Gen. T. Ii. Roberts, of Brook
Ign, New York, who commanded the Uni
ted States troops at the college, stating that
from all the information be obtained on the
spot, he had an impression amounting to a
moral conviction that the college was set on
fire not by United States soldiers but by
Rebels out of
Pure Cussedness.
Mr.. Hoar, member of the Committee
on Education, supported the amendment
and made strong appeal in favor Of the
bill.
The question was taken and it was adop.
ted by 70 to II.
The Committee then rose and reported
the bill. The first question was on the
adoption of Mr.. Shank's amendment, and
it was adopted. Yeas. SO; nays, T6. The
only Republicans votiug against it were
Messrs. Butler, OF Tennessee; Cobb, OF
North Carolina; Perez, Of Mississippi; and
Sargent, of California.
The bill was then rejected, the vote on
its passage being, yeas 80, nays 126. The
Democrats all Joined in the vote against it.
The Army Of Assessors.
The House then took up Senate amend
ments to House bill abolishing the offices of
Assessors and Assistant Assessors of Inter
nal Revenue. All those that were verb al
amendments were concurred in without
question, tbei only important one re-
naming being that authorizing the sp-
pointment of twenty-five treasury agents.
After long and uninteresting debate, in
which the Senate amendment was opposed
by Messrs. Dawes, Kerr and Beck, mem
bers of the Committee on Ways and Means,
and defended by Mr., Butler, of Massachu-
sets, who stated that distillers were in
Washington lobbying against it, in order
that they might have wider field for an
evasion of the revenue laws, the amend
ment was rejected by 20 to 80, and COM
mittee of conference ordered, the conferees
on the part of the House being Messrs.
Dawes, E. n. Roberts Of New York, and
Beck of Kentucky,
The House then adjourned, the session
tomorrow being restricted to general de-
bate.