Year: 1864

The tax remained dollar barrel ale on spirits,
from and after July to February dollar and fity
cents per gallon and after that day two dollars per gallon
receipts Of express companies three per cent instead
OF two and hall coal three per cent instead of five
cent income tax arranged that all incomes above $500
and under $5000 taxed FIVE per cent; above $5 900 and
not exceeding 000 anda half per cent; bank
tax, one cent circulation and onehaf per cent
deposits one half per cent capital and two per cent
on all circulation above certain amount.


The House concurred in tho report.


The House passed the bill to amend the Pacific railroad
act.


The bill further to regulate and provide for the enrolling
and calling out of the national forces and for other pur
poses, then taken up.


Mr.. SCHEECK offered substitute for this bill, which
proposes to dispense with Communication entirely and to


leave the law in relation to substitutes it now s As
explained by Mr. ECHENCK-


This substitute provides that the President in his dis
cretiou may order draft for not than three
than one year. Any person volunteering offering
substitute for drafted man, mustered the service


for term of one year. unless sooner discharged shall re-
ceive bounty of hundred dollars and il for term
of two years bounty of two hundred dollars aud if for
half Of which shall be paid to the soldier at the time
of his being into the SERVICE oneourh at the
expiration Of of his term Of service and
the end OF his term of and in Of his death
while in the service the residue of his bounty shall be paid


to his legal representative and in he is honoraby
discharged from wounds sckDess incurred n the
vice. he shall receive the full bounty Among other prov
sons it permits drafted substitutes volunteers to
select the companies corps OF their respective States
into which they will 60 The Secretary of War is
CURED TO discharge any minor who enlisted without The
consent of his parents guardians And his substitute
permits soldiers to be obtained from States in rebellion
be incorporated with the regiments Of States procur
ing them.


This bill gave rise to protracted debate, which occu-
pied the House till six o'clock in the evening, when
adjournment took place, leaving the bill still pending The
following is sketch Of the debate


Mr. SCHESCK of Ohio said that the rebellion must be
put downf not 10 ten years, then in twenty years;
matter how long, the will last until the rebellion is
suppressed If peace should be made to-day COM
promise every sensible must know it could not last
sixty days II recognized this Southern COnderacy
as distinct naonalty-we living this side end they
on the other, with border from the mouth of the PtO
mac to the Gulf Of Mexico--we may expect maraudne
war murder, robbery, and every thing else
Nothing but the putting down Of the rebellion could insure
He had heretofore said and repeated that
although the not prosecuted for the destruccs
slavery yet such would be the quence No peace
could be made on any other that this sboui
be a republican Government throughout all the States
There could be peace but by submitting the Const
tuition and putting end to slavery He could no more
think procuring peace without this than he would OF heal
ing the wounds in the body of of poor soldiers by
leaving ball in. He would not retain slavery to tester
and irritate the body polite


Mr. ODELL of New York, was opposed to the repeal OF
the Communication clause. The people had received that
provision with favor In his State many citizens had
themselves
ment each of three hundred dollars and they had cerf
Gates to that effect in their pockets But the substitute
of the gentleman from Ohio Mr. sCHENCK) other citizens
to be deprived of similar privilege There should be
such discrimination. Congress should egisa.e that
the people may understand that have fixed principle
and purpose. He not whit behind that gentleman
in his anxiety to fill up the army His State first in
the war; and would be last out of it. But there a
better way than that proposed aud he believed that
by volunteering and enstments with the bounty can
get all the men II is deep in the hearts of the
in he ~
shall be sustained and the Democratic party, to which he
belonged is not behind the other in accomplishing this
desirable purpose We are IN or the war Whether the
contest shall continue for log short tme New York
and the other Northern States will sustain the Govern
mcnt 10 carrying on the war.


Mr. GARFIELD of Ohio, said il Congress should persist
in retaining the commutaton clause, armies will not
be adequately filed and the rebellion could not be put
down during the term of this Congress under this Ad
He referred to the example of England
raising troops and IL this not sufficient TO stimulate
ourselves should take lesson from what fathers
did iu the Revolutionary war We had not done much
they did to this end in view of the relative crcum
stances o the country We shall not rise to the height of
the occasion till the representatives of the people to
height of the occasion till the representatives rise and
meet them in the wsy Of manhood and victory. If we will
take example by England and Revolutionary res
we should take example from enemies. He was free
to say they fought we-tbey unanimous U It'll
into the with the desperation and abandonment of
foes shall not succeed Fortune fe every thing
they have pucked up the and flung into the
test Volunteering and drafting resorted to during
the Revolutionary We have the right to force men
into the field He appealed TO the House to strike out the
communication clause which stumbling block, aud
then they would give us sn army victory, and peace.


Mr. MALLORY, of Kentucky, repeated what he aid
former occasion, namely that the policy of


ing to conscripon instead Of volunteering the
which the Government could adopt In the sprg of 1862
volunteering progressing rapidly that the chair
man of the Senate Committee Military Affairs (Mr
WILSON, s4id il must stop, and it stopped by he
Government. At the commencement of the 1t
ndcted the principle that il those who engaged 10
the rebellion would lay down their arms they should enjoy
their constitutional rights intact There then lack
OF volunteers who rallied to the defence Of the flag 1t was
the factous meeting of the Governors at Altoona which
operated upon the President and induced him to change
the policy and substitute one, which has failed aud
which fact the Republicans scmit


Mr. MALLORY replied to MIR. GARFIELD, coutrndiDg


that the power conscript exercised during
the Revolutionary during the of 1912. Men
not then forced to become soldiers n the army IL
reserved for this Congress to raise in this way
after volunteering which progressed rdpdy had been
stopped All knew that the effort TO procure men by
drafting failure and IL proposed TO put the
iron hand Of oppression our own people do


those of the South The day Of reckoning approaching
III the people not inteIered with they will hur the
present party from power saying, Away knew
you aud they will place instead them hose who res 2ect


the rights of the people He cobte nded that the policy Of
ehsng negroes into the military had caused the


loss of ten white for every that recruited
He said that the attempt which had been made make
out the negro better soldier than the white


founded upon dispatches manufactured for the pur-
pose which the facts upon investigation did not sustain
lie read letter from Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky
soopg that the despatch read in the House time
sgo, by Mr. BLAINE, OF Mane sppsuding the valor of


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