New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-08

Business of the House Yesterday-Addi.
tiOnaI COmps nsatiOn 20 MarshRls- Veto
Message.
WASHINGTON, June 7.-HOHse--The bill
| for the relief of Mary Ann Montgomery,
widow of William M. Montgomery, captain
| of Texas volunteers, passed over the Pres
| idents veto.
The bill making an appropriation for the
| payment Of claims, as allowed by the COM
mission on claims, was referred to com
I mittee OF conference.
The Senate bill giving the right of way
| through the public lands TO the Pensacola
| and Louisville Railroad Company, Of Ala
| bama, was passed.
The river and harbOr bill has gone to a
| committee of conference.
The Senate amendments to the House
| substitute for the bill providing for the re-
! demption and sale Of land sold for direct
taxes, were coHcurred in, and 90 to the
| President.
The Senate bill to declare and enforce the
| civil rights of citizens of the United States
was taken up, when Mr.. Poland moved an
amendment fixing the maximum of the
penalty at $1,000. The House refused to
pass the bill under a suspension of the
rules. Mr.. Poland then modified his amend
ment so as to tix the penalty of the viola
tion of the law at SlOO. The House again
vbted-yeas SO, nays 73. The question was
decided in tho negative. as a two-thirds vote
was required. Therefore the Senate bill
still lies on the table.
The House next took up the Senate bill
extending the suspension of the privileges
of the writ of habeas corpus until after the
next session of Congress, but instead of
two-thirds in favor there were only fifty
six votes in the afirma i've and eighty-eight
in the negative. This bill also remains on
the Speakers table.
The House, on a motion of Mr.. McHenry,
took up and passed the Senate bill for the
payment OF all proper war claims OF the
State of Kentucky.
The House passed the Senate bill reliev-
ing Charles j. Faulkner, Of West Virginia,
from political disabilities.
The Senate bill allowing census marshals
additional compensation passed.
.SelaGte.-The vote erasing the section
paying ante-belhm Southern mail contracts
from the sundry appropriation bill was
twenty-eight to twenty-seven.
VETO MESSAGE.
To the Senate Of the United States;
l have the honor to return herewith the
Senate bill No. 500, entitled ian act for the
relief of Thomas B. Wallace, of Lexington,
in the State of Missouri without my sig
nature. This claim for which 81 $50 are
appropriated by this bill, is of the same
nature and character as the claim of DR.. j.
Milton Best, which was returned to the
Senate on the first instant without my sig
nature. The same reasons which prompted
the return of that bill for reconsideration
apply in this case, which also is a claim
for compensation on account of the raw
ages OF war, and comes under the
same general principle Of both interna-
tional and municipal law, that all prop
erty is held subject not only to be
taken by the government for public uses,
in which case, under the constitution of the
United States, the owner is entitled to part
compensation; but, also, subject to be tenn
pOrarily occupied, or then actually de-
stroyed in times ofgreat public danger, and
when the public safety demands it, and in
the latter case governments do not admit a
legal obligation on their part to compensate
the owner The temporary occupation Of
injuries to, and the destruction of property
caused by actual and necessary military
operations are generally considered to fail
within the last mentioned principle, and il
a government makes compensation under
such circumstances, it is a matter of bounty
rather than of strict legal right. If it be
deemed proper to make compensation for
such losses, renew my recommendation
that provision be made by general legisla-
ton for all similar cases.
U. S. GRANT.
In the Senate tonight Mr.. Kellogg offer
ell supplementary enforcement act, to
which Mr.. Casserly raised point of order.
Mr.. Anthony, in the chair, Overruled the
point, and the Senate sustained him, %
TO %
Mr.. Thurman said that under this ruling
any amendment could be offered, and Mr..
Sumner Immediately offered his civil rights
bill
Mr.. Casserly charged that the whole
thing was cOncOcted in advance.
The debate is now going on, with indica-
tiOns of long session.