Year: 1866

tE1eCNAPH HIC n 6SINACT.


DATES TO MARCH ss,h.


Important Decision as to q Soldiers


ResPOnsibility to Law while under


Orders..Death Of Senator Foote, OF


vermont..The Presidents Veto OF


Report ON the Crossing OF the Plains


by Emigrants..Genera Lee Denies


tho Existence of Disa ffecti ON I'm his


State.-The State Better off without


Negroes..The Veto TO be Voted Over


III P0ssible..Present Condition of


the Senate and Prospect OF Passing 9


over the vet0..AmondmenS to the


Duties of the Clerk Of the House of


Representatives..Ne Jersey and


Vermont Senators, It is Hoped, will


Vote ON the Passage over the veto..


Opinions OF tho Press ON the Veto.


The President will not Endure Op.


position from Officials..A British


Reform Triumph..Schles swig Hol.


stein to be Given to Prussia ..NOrth


Schleswig Restored to Denmark.


Stevens's Escape from Ireland-.His


Advice to Irish Fentans, etc.


Washington March 23rd.-The following is the Loan
Bill passed the House: BE it enacted the Act
entitled an Act to provide ways and to support the
Government March 3rd 1865 shall be extended con.


rued to authorize the Secretary the Treasury at his
discretion to receive any treasury notes other


ons issued under act whether bearing interest not
in exchange for any description of bonds authorized by
the Act to which this is amendment and also dis
pose Of any description Of bonds by such Act either in
the United States elsewhere in such and at
such rate as he may think best for money Of the United
States or for treasury notes certificates of indebted
ness certificates of deposit other representatives Of
value which have been or which NAV be issued the pro
ceeds therefore to be used for retiring treasury
other obligations issued under any but nothing herein
contained shall be construed to authorize any
the public debt provided that Of United States notes. not
more than ten millions may be retired and cancelled
within six months from the passage Of this Act and there
after not more than four millions in any one month"; and
provided further that the Act to which this an amend
ment shall continue in force in all its provisions except
modified by this Act.


shall report to Congress, at the
session. the amount of expenses money borrowed
under this Act and on what terms, and the char
Of the expenses incurred.


Frankfort KY. March 27tht-The Court of Appeals has
rendered decision which virtually prevents soldier Of
the Union or COnfederacy from being prosecuted for
committed under the orders of superior officers


Washington, March 27th.-The Republican asserts
that the President has laid up for the
five hundred of the principal participants in the rebellion
whom he holds for the purpose justice The Supreme
Court yesterday decided that National Bank shares are


liable to local taxation being personal property Chief
Justice Chase of the opinion that this indirect
mode of taxing national securities which was not author
lied, intended to be authorized by Congress- In the
cases of Cutting Fisk and Others the Court held that
broker chargeabe purchases of securities made on
his own account the his commissions when pur
chasing for Others Senator FOote is supposed be
dying condition this The following the message
OF the President vetOng the civil rights bill: 81 regret
that the bill entitled act to protect all persons in the
United States in their civil rights and furnish the of
tner vlndcaton contains provisions which l cannot
approve consistently with of duty the whole
people and obligations to the constitution By the
section all persons born in the United States and SUBJ
ects Of foreign power excluding Indians who are not
taxed declared citizens This provision comprehepds
the Chinese of the Pacific States Indians subject to taxa


ton and gpsies as well as the entire designated
blacks or people Of cOCr mulaOes and
African blood The bill does not propose to give these
classes any status of citizenship in States except which
may result from their status citizens of the United States
The power to confer rights Of State citizenship Just
exclusively with the States the power confer
Federal citizenship with Congress The right of Fede
raj citizenship thus TO be conferred several excepted
races now for the first time proposed be given by
law. IT, claimed by many all persons born in the Uni
ted States already citizens the passage of this bill
not be necessary to make them such. IT. the other
hand such persons not citizens may be assumed


from the proposed legislation to make them such the grave
question presents ITSELF whether when eleven of thirty
States unrePresented in Congress is sound policy
make out the entire cOOred population and all other excep
ted classes citizens -Four millions of them have Just
emerged from slavery into freedom Can /: reasonably
supposed they the requisite qualifications eutie
them TO the privileges and mmunies of citizenship Have
the people OF the several States expressed such


may also be asked whether is necessary that they
should be declared citizens in order that they may be
secured in the enjoyment Of the civil rights proposed
conferred by this bill These rights are by Federal and
State laws secured to all domced aliens and foreigners
even before Naturalization and may be safely assumed
that the same enacments sufficient to give like proec
ton to those for whom this bill provides Besides the
policy of the Government always has been that persons
who strangers and unfamiliar with our institutions
should ntai iuith hv
cie This bill In effect dscrminates against large number
of intelligent and worthy foreigners in favor negroes
and intelligence have just been suddenly opened by pro-
posing to make them citizens at The first section
also contains enumeration of the rights to be enjoyed
to make and enforce contracts and be sued give evil
dence inherit purchase lease SELL hold and convey real
estate and personal property and have full and equal
benefit Of all laws the white citizens and
common with white citizens and other This per-
feet equality Of white and colored attempted
fxed by Federal laws In every State the field
OF State jurisdiction which covered by these enumerated
rights In Of them any State any power
of discrimination between different In the exercise
of State policy matters exclusively affecting the peo
pie of each State it has frequently been thought expedent
to discriminate between races by statutes In States
north well south 1t Is enacted for instance that
white person shall marry negro to mulatto. Chancellor
Kent says, speaking Of blacks, marriages between them
and whites forbidden in States where slavery does
not exist and prohibited in all savehoding States by law
and when not absolutely contrary to law they revolt
OFFENSIVE against Oece0cy.


do not say this bill repeals State laws this subject for
as whites are forbidden to intermary with blacks the
blacks only make such contracts whites themselves
are allowed to make therefore they cannot under this
bill enter into marriage contract with the whites. cite
this however instance of State policy
and to inquire whether Congress sbrogate all State
laws OF discrimination touching contracts generally may
not also repeal State laws to marriage
races Hitherto every subject embraced in the
ton OF rights conferred by this BILL has been considered
exclusively belonging the States Congress repeal
State laws discriminating in these subjects why may
repeal all State laws discriminating in suffrage The object
OF the second section b to afford discriminating protection