The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1866, Page 1

‘ ¢ TH a WHOLE NO. 10,055. TMH NATGONAL CAPITAL Phe Representation Basis and + Rebel War Debts and Sla Claims in the Senate. (Speeches of Senators Wilson and Fessenden. No, American Registers to be Reissaed ‘to Expatriated American Vessels. Passage by the House of an Im- portant Revenue Bill. Foreign Bondholders Taxable and Currency Value the Taxation Basis, Proposition to Provide Home- steads for the Freedmen. Life Grant of the Franking Privilege to Mrs. Lincoln. Whe Canadian Commission and the Reciprocity Treaty. &e. &. &e. Wastinctox, Feb. 7, 1866, FUE CANADIAN COMMISSION AND THE RECIPROCITY TREATY« ‘The conference between the Canadian Commission that Ihave been here a few weeks endeavoring to arrange for Teciprocal trade with that province and the House Com- mitice on Ways and Means was broken off last evening, and the delegation leave for home to-morrow. In one pense they have accompiished nothing, but in another their mission will probably not be fraitless, But little ‘was allowed to transpire concerning their power to act for their government, the nature of the propositions sub- mitted or the spirit in which the latter were received by eur officials and the committee with which they directly megotiated. Their meetungs with the committee were at first purposely informal, so that the official or semi-offi- cial correspondence is very brief indeed, and gives ‘no information concerning details. It has leaked out, how. ever, that the delegation conceded the prgent inequality and injustice of the Reciprocity treaty in consequence of ‘the altered condition of our revenue laws produced by the war, and admitted that taxes on their products should rest on a basis substantially equal to our interna! Fevenue duties, They were willing to stipulate for an enlargement of the Welland Canal that would accommo. date nearly all vessels on the upper lakes if they could Shave some assurance that no hostile legislation on our part would thwart the enterprise, and were willing to ox. ‘tend the present fishing regulations if allowed coasting privileges by us. .They also proposed to make their patent laws conform to ours, and to accept a true or just ‘tax on beer, whiskey and tobacco. By this they did not mean two dollars per gallon on whiskey, for they be- lieved this too much, but were willing to place it at half that amount, They also favored transit laws being made the same by law. To these propositions they re- ceived the following counter-propositions instead of a @irect reply:—That the committee would recommend Congress to amend our navigation laws; that fisheries should remain unchanged, and that we should concede certain duties as equivalents; that we would admit free firewood, burr millstones aud grindstones undressed, cotton yags and gypsum, and establish a schedule of @aties on all other products. Thuis schedule was cou- sidered unjust by the delegation asa whole, and espe- qaailly #0 in impoving a tax of twenty cents per bushel on wheat, fifteen cents on barley, ten cents on outs and corn, tweuty per cent oa cattle, and twenty-five per eeaton four. They wight have been inclined to accept some of the rates on the schedule, but were given to uo- derstand it must be accepted wholly, or corresponding @oncessions given on other articles. As no agreement was reached, and but little encouragement given for ether overtures, the delegation lave concluded to retnra to their constituents until the necessities of trade point oat the regulations and concessions advantageous to both: eountries, Our commerce with Canada i# estimated at sbout seventy millions per annum, besides which we twansport pearly twenty millions of her products to market over our lines of trausit. . PRB COLIACTION OF INCOME TAXRS FROM THE B+ ‘TATES OF PRESONS DECKASED LX 1563. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Bpeaker of the House, with enclosures from eGicers, explains relative to the collection of income taxes of 1863 from the estates of persons who died after De eomber 31, 186%, and prior to the levy for that year Commissioner Rolling says that such taxes were colle ted for 1863 as far as practicable by direction of Commis. sioner Lewis, and that it does not appear from the re- cords of the office that anything bas been refunded. He further states that such taxes of 1863 upon incomes of persons who died during 1865 were collected but after wards refended, and that incomes of 1864, jn similar cance of subsequent death, were not aneewed, in accordance with new instructions from Commissioner Lewis, These rules, though diferent, were wnilor in their application. He dose not undertake to explain whether the Commissioner changed the rule in view of the supposed eftect of some amendment! of the Inw or from « change of opinion. © sioner Orton says that the regulations at the piven, vad referred required executors or adminisirators to make such fe turns; but does not decide whether the req irement stood upon the ground that they received those estates charged with @ debt due the United States, or whether upon the idea that they were trustees of the heirs or creditors, though inclining to the opinion that ether gTound might betaken. He says, further, be dows not fest authorized to pay beck the duty as erroneously or iilegally assessed or collected, whoa it was pad under a rele of the office then operating THE REDEMPTION OF MUTILATED OURMENCY. ‘The Treasury Department i* about to follow up the oireular lately issued detining the regulations for tedemption of mutilated currency by establishing « bareau especially for such redemption. The new bareau ‘will be embodied in the matioual currency division, and it is propored to send an agent of the Department to Albany in a few days in order to gather something of the aystem in vogue at that capital for the redemption of ‘the mutilated notes of New York State banks The Creasing quantity of Treasury notes mow being presented for redemption whow mutilation occasions a discount mpon their face has peremptorily necessitated a separate burean for the purpose, and it i# expected before the year is ont none in the department will be more actively PROPORRD DISPOSAL OF FURLIC LAND IN CRMTAIN SOUTHRRN STATES. To-day, Mr. Jolian, of Indiana, brought up the bill of the old homestead laws to the bhicks now free, In connection, 4 communication from the Commissioner of the Lane, Ofice was rev 1 to the House, in which that official, W'ag is commonly known as a radical, advocated the ext osidn of the benefits of the new homestead bill to pardemed rebels, At tho end of the reading Mr. Ste- ‘veré, ho had imperfectly heard it, inquired who the wathor was. Upon being told he ejaculated something which sounded vastly like “damn him,” with € more profane prefix. This isan indication of Mr. Stevens” Gifference with other radicals, The bill expired in a parliamentary way to-day; but Mr, Julian will demand the attention of the House to it immediately after the special orders are disposed of, since it is highly im portant, It gives freedmen privileges, like loyal white mep's privileges, to preempt parcels of eighty acres in the large body of public lands of the five States named. GENERAL BANKRUPT LAW. Mr. Jencks, of Rhode Island, who has been laboring Jong, both in and out of committee, upona general bank- rapt act, gave notice in the House to-day that he should demand action upon it as the special order due to-mor- row, The bill is understood to be a very accommodating one, since it provides a way for any embarrassed man to wipe out all his debts, and Mr, Jencks expects it to pass. Several gentlemen, and among them Mr. Conkling, of New York, who has also spent considerable Congreasional time during two or three terms in the careful investiga tion of the subject, propose to amend the act materially if the House will permit it. - THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL was considered in the House Committee of the Whole to-day and slaughtered line by line, so far as appropria- tions for the Brooklyn Navy Yard were concerned. The city members could make no head against the praning in committee; but the appropriations will probably pass easily enough when they come before the House. The Brooklyn yard is recognized as the most important among the navy yards, even by the Western members, who profess to have little interest in the navy, and when the test vete comes they will no doubt vote to support it, THE OFFICE OF CASTER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. A report is in circulation that the office of Cashier of Internal Revenue is to pe abolished in consequence of the fact that under the present law the receipts of inter: nal revenue are deposited with Assistant Treasurers and depositories of the United States, and that little or no money is now paid into the office at Washington. This would be a saving of nearly three thousand dollars per aunum to the government. GENERAL GRANT AND GENERAL BUTLER. The fact has just come out that in response to one of General Grant’s cards of invitation to his recent recep: tion, General Butler addressed a very curt note of declina- tion, stating that he neit her wished to hold personal inter- course with the Lieutenant General or any of bis family, and must decline the present, or any future proffer in that direction. This exhibit ion of spleen bas occasioned a great deal of amusement since its publicity. General Grant good naturedly destroved the note as Seon as received and read, determined if it ever appeared in print to know positively that it was furnished by Butler himself. Cherishing no personal ill will toward Gene al Butler, he inviied him among other celebrities, and feels that in so doing he plaved himself right on the record, THE EXPENSES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION coM- MITTEE. Mr. Stevens has succeeded in getting the House to agree to the joint resolution appropriating ten thousand dollars for the payment of expenses for his committee of fifteen. Sundry clamorous witnesses who have been boarding on credit while mavufucturing reports for the committee will now be paid, Farther.than this, a con. siderable surplus will remain for the travelling expenses of « sub-committee, should any of the gentle fifteen decide on a trip to the South in search of further light. So far the Reconstruction Committee has beea conducted very economically. THE CONPRRENCE OF GENERALS has broken ap a# mysteriously as it assembled, and little hasfome to light as to what transpired therein. General Meade has been gone two days, and Generals Shermau and Thomas departed last evening. A special car was placed at the disposal of the latter by E. J. Wil- kins, agent of the Pennsylvavia Central Railroad, THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, ~~ - SENATE. Wasmxarox, Feb, 7, 1966, PUSISEMENT FOR KIDNAPPING, Mr. Crank, (rep.)of N. H., reported frou the Judiciary Comuwittee # bill to punish kidnapping. It provides that if any person shall kidnap any negro, mulatto, or any otber person, or entice such person away, or knowingly connive at or aid such attempt, for the purpose of selling such person into involuntary servi- tude, he i¢ made Mable to a fine of from two hundred to five thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both; and the master of the veasel carry- ing away such person, if he aids the abduction know ingly aod wilfully, i also subject to a heavy penalty THR TAX ON AGRICCLTCRAL IMPLEMENT? Mr. Wana, (rep.) of Obio, presented the memorial of manufacturers of agricultural implements in the State of Ohio, asking for a reduction of the tax on agrieutty ral implenents; which was referred (o (he Committee on Finance. HEMONETRANCE AGAIN THK PASSAGE OF THR REPRRNEWTA TION CONSTITUTIONAL AME: PETITION FOR RAO RIGHTS. Mr, Sounxe, (rep) of Mavs, presented a remonstrance against the Of the pendiug Comatitutional amend ment, which was ordered to |@ upou (he table; also the petition of the Female Anti lavery Society of Phita- pogo for equal rights without distinction o@ arcount color. RQUALITY (8 THE Bick OF NRPRAPENTATION. Mr. Brows, (rep.jof Mo., introduced a petition from citizens of Kngland, asking (or the enforcement of equality struction. SORTHERS CREDITORS Tw Mr. Hexonicxe, (dem.) of Ind, from on the Judiciary. to whom was relerred the memoria ot the New York and Bovtoa Chambers of Commerce ask. ing for jal action to exempt Nortbera creditors from the operation of Southern statutes of limitation, re ported that no legislation was necessary, as the act of Jane 11, 1864, covered the sunject. LAND FOR CON*TRUCTION OF A RAILPOAD IN CA! 1PORN! Mr. Coxwnss, (rep.) of Cal land for the construction ceo Bay to Hombott Bay, in the State of Caliform which was referred to the Committee on Public Lande, REOSUANCH OF AWKRICAN REOITERS Mr. Ciaxoten, (rep.) of Mich. thea called up the House Uill to prevent the reissue, without Congres ons! legislation, of American registers to American veseis whose registers were changed during the war Mr. Saxawas, (rep.jot Ohio, thought the bil onwiree an? too severe in its punishment. Since the war was | over be thought there no impoley in permitting | there vessels to return to American registers, The | change of registry wax only temporary, and was done to | ~~ vewols from falling @ prey to rebel privateers Many shy nets Who ded thee were among the beet citages oF the United #tates To exclude all such vessels would be to injurethé American marine very Hy. Mr. Unaspien explaived that oder the lew of 1793 no ship transferred toa foreign Gaz could return without the apecific art of Congress. He did not believe the present law was actually necesary. Ke only effect would be to put ail on an equality, and to give there who made 8 false sale uo advantage howe who made a boma fide The yeas and nays were demanded, and the bill was passed by the folluwing vote — Yras—Messrs Anthouy. Brown wb 0 SOUTHRRN STATCTRS OF LUMITA- Chandler, Clark, Con root, noes, 1» Diron, ithe, Pewenden.’ Foot, Poster pa | Hendaton, Howe Kirkwood Lane of Ind. apaas, M Morrill, Poland, Pomeroy, Ram $97 Stewart, Sumner, Frimbuil, Van Windle, Wade, Willey ct Nave—-Mesers, Davis, Guthrie, Mendricks Johnson, Me. By Riddle, Seulsoury, ———~ = NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1866—WITH SUPPLEMEN feng of ae common Father of all the races abd kindred of men, and of these vast material juteres then placed a!! upon the hazara of civil war, That civ! War closed in utter defeat and overwhelming disaster to those dominating possestors of human chattels These four anda haif millions of slaves are things no longer, ‘Dut men evermore. This capital invested in the bodies of our fellow men was wrested from the gripe of Its pos- sessors by the band of the war invoked to make slavary and the mighty interests pertaining to it a perpetual in- heritance. hen the rebel slavemasters saw their ‘vaunted confederacy crambiing and falhag around them they, 4rue to huinan nature, indulged the delusive hope that some gradual system of emancipation would be inaugurated, or that some compensation for their lost miltions would be made the government they had striven to destroy. While were indulging in these illusions the President required them t amend their State constitutions, and to adopt the amendment to the constitution of the United Staves for the atter extine- on of rlavery. Coming to the realization of their defeat, digester and humiliation, they yielded a reluctant consent to these requirements of the President of the United “tates. Though interest dictated a prudent reserve, utterances in Georgia, Louisiana and other dtates give warning to the nation that the rebel slavemasters hope for compensation for slaves emancipated “by national authority, Georgia adopts the constitutional amendment with the distivet avowal that it will not preclude ber from seeking com- pensation for her omaacipated bondmen, and political conventions ia Louisiana emphatically declare their por pose to seek such compensation, Manifestations in many forms in other sections of the Soutn give unmis- takable indications that they are biding their ime, when within. these chatnbers they will clamor for compensa tion for slaves wrenched froin their possession by federal power. Prudential considerations now {mposo silence ‘upon them; but the “natural Jeaders” of the South know full well that, when thee Vacant chairs are aga filled by the representatives of reorganized rebel States, the demand for compensation for slaves emancipated by our decrees will fire the Southern heart and rally and unite the Southern people, as the echoes of the opening cannon on Sutoter fired, rallied and united them in the spring of 1861. Who is there among us that does not believe that these reconstructed but unrepentant rebels will seek the first, the last, and every oceasion, to wring from the nw tion some compensation for the millioas emancipated by the flat of the national goverament? That statesman is indeed little read in the school of human nature who believes the people of the rebel States will not seek by all the means at their command to extort from the ted ral government some consent and against their will ‘To these two thousand million emancipation is W be udded amount ng to thou The honors ble Senator from Kentacky (Mr. Guthrie) told us the other day that the South lad lost by the rebellion ten thousand millions of dollars. Impoveriahed by th mense walmed soldiers of th orphan echtidren of men f: cannot, will not, dare 1 pensation, and to labor means within their power, or to war upon the na tional debt, which taken from the people of the rebellious States a portion of what the losses and waste of a four years’ war left to thom. He who expects other action than this from the leaders of Southern opinion is but a r student of hnman nature, and especially of slave- jolding human nature, To mamtain the uuity of the republhe and preserve the menaced life of the nation, the government of the United States gummoned more than two millions of men to the field, organized les, created naval squadrons forthe bluckaling of uthern ports, and carried on for more than four voars war of gigantic proportions. To xapport these vast armies, to create these great naval squadrons Uat hoy ered along the Southern coast, from the Votomae ty ihe Rio Grande, the government was compelled to call upon the loyal people for nearly three thonaand millions of dollars. L people, animated with the same lofty aud selt-sacrificing patriotiem that carried their sous to battle fields, at this callof their country loaned these millions to feed, to ctuthe, to arm, to pay the soldiers of the repablic, and to pension the widows and orphaned children of heroes failen in battle for Lhe existence of the repablic. With the same hory zeal that flied the rank: ‘wasted battalions, tha: conti buted sweaty ms inchariies to the sick and wound fenders of their country, the loyal peoplo—bank merchants, farmers, mechanics, laborers, al! cond\uons of men, and women, too—in the dark and try! of the rebellion, when men of little faith duubte result of the struggle for national existence, and revel sympathizers ave rebel apologists propheried disaster ‘and national bankruptey, trusted their tnterests and for tunes to the faith of their endangered country. These millions of the loyal people, loaued faith of the perilied nation, ‘created vies that lined the coasis, «nd sw Hon Ul the ave masters con! This mal fragments. oy ent for the preservation of the national life: “debt, losses, surrounded by the wastes of war, by the rebel armies, and the widows and u batul mie compensation, by upon the plighted u pu the if a8 sacred as the blood of our heroes out on battle felde. This watiomal debt te the Of nations! Faith, honor, interest, all demand that heroes he widews and orphans of the pation dead. This voet a jarger, if measur by = interest—by al cust of ing '\~ will bear mot lightly upon the resource: of th To fund it at reasonadiv rates, to provide ans promptly to meet the interest yok hy o08 to extinguieh it at no distan: period, to 0 the burdeus bedr as equally and lightly upon all interests, will wx Us f slatesmanship, and the patience, euduran. > and pati im of the people for to come. only are holders of these securities con ever affects the public credit, but all conditions of mnen and aif (ne pursuits of life wre also coucerned {In what ever adeers it, The national debt has been made the basis of our banking systom aud currency, Money lenuer: and money borrowers, mere turers, business men of all occupatio sang institutions and the laborers w wives aud childrey the fraite of daily toil, 4 direct, « personal ipterest tp maintaininy the faith of the nation and the credit of it ‘The hoiders of the public sures, the peop! cerned in all ther vital interes: ‘y mana credit of the nation, in funding the public debt at low rates of \uterest, and providing for its ultimate extin guishment, and io the retorn at au carly day then tue dept of payments, now demand, and they have « peratively to detand, that the natiowsl securities, in whieb are biended aii public aud private interests, shall pot be put at bazard by expere tion. National credit, 1k: 1 sensitive, It feeis the 80 stealthy in ite advances, The bolder: of securities canmet bat auxious!y note multitudinous indie cations of coming danger. With the clear vision of »eif juterest, they fee, foei, realize that the guardaarhlp of these thousands of millions of dollars, fucurred to put down the rebellion, cannot be os ely inirusted t) the de. et ee = oviphed tue public a powensors currency founded upon the pu the searred soldiers of ihe republic, and the ty falien heroes are bardiy ready to intrust their inher be that iuheritauce ever #9 sinall, lo the mew whe bolders of thousands of milous of ¢ and obligations. ‘They know that these bated and ruined men, smarting under defeat, poverty and wounded pride, will be ready ever to make combinations will those who imthe dark aud troubled aight of tne rebell on predicted the scaling down or ths repudiation of the wa ttonal debt, to secure payment for rebel debt and emnam ipated siaver, or to scale down or repudiate the dein incurred for their overthrow = The holders of your securities, the peaple whose vital Interests require (unt Uhese securities sali be guarded agewet poseible dan- ger, imperatively demand that irreversivie guar antees shail be made tuat the nation will never a+ sume rebel debie nor pay for «aves emancipated by the needs or will of theit endangered country. The loyal people of the United States who risked their pri pore of the national authority have 's the r highest duty to demand— governinent require, a# & condition the admiasion of re: ates, that te tu it forever ed slaves or words No shal! ever be made by the United Sialee or 7 for oF OM account Of the eman ipation af ‘slave, or for or on account of any devi contra ied, ine irred im aid Of rebellion against te wat)yual eo ernment. Lat the Confederate Biates be required as a condition to their admmvion into there chambers, (0 it, Its incorporation into the organic law of the od will hedge about the pationat debt with additional Five youre ago the leaders: and organizers of the rebellion, without one gretance to be redremed, on wrong t be righted, one right to be vindicated, left these chambers, tarned thei backs country, duty and henor, and sought, through the fire and blood of civil war, the dismemberment of and the death of the nation Three hundred the bloom of life, have died thoumand. the repable thoussod loyal herves, in that We mation might (ive, Hundreds of . Courts and coxeom ho: 8 and post offices are open, Judicialofficery and the collectors of! foreign and mnvernal Teventres arg there, and the authority ‘sod power of the Dabonal goVeruMent areas complete Lire NOW a On the ‘ Varobna led tne dance of secession. Tho pro- x the uation for person and property in the rebel more potent thar Une past céneration; forall the pury authority over the people of tho: entire and complete. True, the pi ‘Sues to the Uni ntatives Tre States are" not yet here to participate in our legislation and to frame laws for the country they have striven to lot ‘from tic map of nations. They cannot yot lay their hands upon the . statute’ book of the country, nor aide. in. ghaping the the regenerated republic, 'When they are to ome is for the Congress of the United States to deter Ere they shaibeome: we owe it to our country, to interests of its loyal millions, w see that suc MIposednas justive arid liberty, the of tho whole nation and the public safety, juire. We may got require of the returning representa. hives of rebelliods States, aS Conditions of admission, that they ghall always vole for taxes to pay. the annual inter- est of the debt thelr treason imposed on their country, or for the extinguishment of-that dobt at no distwnt period; hor may-we sequire of them What they shail vow to pay the pensions pledged to our scarred veterans, or to the Widows and orphans of our slain heroes; but we can re- Mie, aiid we should require as a condition precedent to heir admission, the complete repudiation of all rebel debts, and the entire abandonment forever of all claims for an emancipated race. The people of the loyal States, if Congress ahat! give them the opportunity, will surely incorporate into the fundamental law of the land these words, or words of like import —‘‘No payment shall ever be made by the United States or any State, for or on account oF the emancipation of any sia slaves, or for or on account of any debi contracted or incurred tn aid of the rebellion against the national government,’ ‘The joint resolution way referred to the Committee on Reconstraction. THE PRERDMEN’S BUREAU ILI. The bill for the enlargement of the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureav, with the House amendment, was refersed to the Judiciary Committee. THK REPRPSENTATION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, ‘The proposition to amend the constitution on the sub. Ject of representation was takeu up. Mr. Hexpenson, (rep.) of Mo., offered, as a substitute for the pending proposition, an amendment to the con stitution prolubitng any State trom making distinctions imcivil rights on acconnt of color. Mr. Peesnpex, (rep.) of Me., thought he might,.if so any other period for disposed, raixe a question ax ‘to the propriety of the amendments propos comm tte tion by umner aud H powitions to au different nature, 4 question, for it really made no dit sion. » took it as very posible that t proposed by the committee needed some correction. If #0, the Senators would have ample time to exatuine it and t would be prepared, undoubtedly, to say what u may bo necessary in or 1» what the bonorable Senator from Massachusetts has eaid is the proper object of an amend an improvement. 1 sliould be very glad to see it made stronger if the complaint against it is | tial it is weak. I lope Senators will eudeayor to make | it strouger. Mr. Forse then took up fered by Mr, Sumner this morning, in w tioner chat rizes the 4 disgrace Ww the natio Declaration of Indepeadence. recommended this to the cousiderat with bis endorsement. If he (Mr Fe « the proposition « disgrace to the United States, or an attempt to repeal the Declaration of 1a dence, he certainly 4 be as far from advocating it as ‘he ty, it was something extre or nator from Massachusetts say Of a passed the House of Representa yy more than a two-thirds v lly and politically, that 1 was a disgrace te Declarat He thought the bonorable Senator, when he gave (he sanction of his high position to that petition and Its seatiinente, had pardly well cousidered whetuer i¢ wax modest to inpugn the aewon of men | not, perhaps, as eminent as ‘bimeelf, ut etill with some claims to consideration from the country. Mr. Pessenden next proceeded, Ait, odo what became his duty ax a mem tee on Reconstr which actuated Hon Was nob the original one, as pr wenden. After dmenesion in the How tives it went back to the committee, and uereby striking out Une words “direct ta was ue for two reasour. Im the Gret place it was bt that It would be sito without a provirion Wo dircot taxen; afd 1B the nett place If the Lance) Were Ptrckew ont af (he resoimtion ‘the samme, becamse direct tates are mont, precively in the same ciphe it was eniirely unnecemary, He would another thing by way of introduction. It hax been by honorable gentlemen in the other House that Lire committee in reporting this resolution bas travetied beyond {48 powers— that it was question not to the committer. He begged leav Nena.or bere showld wave & to the commitioe by the House of Representa: ing seul to them forthe consideration, of oo had the beet rght in the world to report wpow it, and re port it i it present shape, or in any other He did not Uhink the coumittes of Often was subject t animad version for taking upon itself what does uot > to i, Something has been said with referen: to t disposition to amend the constitution, aud the for bearance of ( s has been d with regard and great 1 be Fe-venden, muet | Veneragion for the eoust ats high ab opinion of It, But I bave no be won of 1 than those who mad it, aud it did a that it Was so perfect thal ou amendin ould be made tbat would be, 1 Massachusetts, au improvement Vided pheiaeives, in the orginal they pro ent, for its amendmen 0 very oarliest day of our his tory, amy ives. They found defec great work of Un wod they » " ua barely poms ible that ia crs Muay avive Ulaat wilt the advance of Lime, Circumel reader }| necessary, and have rendered neces revise the instrument and tu accommodate ts the developineas whieh tue hax made. Such nently the condition of things wow. We bi war That war bas resulted iastitation iu “om had a great the overthrow of e which bad been tion from ius very founda ave been engaged har yons in the Const: tution baying special Slavery — more erpecially that 1 Pation. That ia refere expressly, because ia some of the States Luere were large Bumbers of negroes mut recognized ar freemen, bat Weld as boudewen, not responsible for their own ante, Comsidefed wita reference to the politiest eundivos of the eoupiry under these circumstances the provision of 1 wills reference by it wered that th are of sae, a wiready yi tuat repmesentation be founded upoa poyulatio cluding ali persons with one exception. It way be nad that ben thé negroes became free they of necertity were included among the whole samber to be counted ani the provision with regard to representation became ay plicable & all And i. # a simple matter to say there ara po claws of persons in the country wio within the description referred to, and that ai alike upap thy sane base, and representation # (ouaded so happens that we ean t put out h hae gone with us from ¢ to the present da: ry lar existed has beew able might say within one or two months that there constita ve Of persons, gnorant aud uneducated, who up ty a recent period bay heen beld in bondage and considered by the Comatitition ite widered a part of the ie tue United States, and that gow ar Re prefens not only have they beew tue 0 own have been competied to submit to thet ral desire that the old maser has to retain pow & nétaral dinmelination to see his former saves placed on & level with himself All thir i# perfect!y obvious for alt Baow that thore who once pomremed power de not it willingly, Men are 0) made of suck mut that ‘Gan give ap the anjoyment of a py one wh ome or a struggie, What, then, have wea right t | oy Trill be the rewalt of leaving the const tutions where it? sii Ube: that, wo f existe bara yo Fees Oe bs - deny tical righis tot 0 here unit to exereie The result of continuands of precisely (he same rule aod t) Of & ferting Which the bonorah!e Benator from Mase churetia has well claracterized a* contrary to the four dation iplee of republican government No quertion +) would be the result, aed we should Gnd ww as power 4 stern whieh, if rf y, haw a tendency to Why nor propre + mumple in the terns that the honorable Proposes, Wo trike at the root ‘With all Gistinetign oo acomwet Mates of tee Union, oo fer future | on) in the former slave States of the Union a large number | ! sour, wi Id be ite immediate operation? It would! place the thern States ip this condition: they must | cher mit too far the suffrage, Or they must extend it too far for their own safety, or, at any mate, for What might be presumed to be their own go ‘The Senator from Maasuhuseis even would hardly contend that, at suitrage nan who looks at th dispassionately and iv id com that tidse no | recently slaves (the great mi have been kept | lu igvorance all their livesdnd forbidden to gequirt | formauon) are fit to exercise the right af Mullrage, | that the slave Stats must either aduntb ail or else they ust make a rele of exelosion that Would cut off not ouly all the colored population,. bub avery larre portion | ol their own white pepylation from the exercise of the right of suffrage. It has been cRarac b of those Suutes that the | the benetit of have deen quite apunwilling to extend oation to whites as to blacks. The fT could accomplish ity that would provemt ime from putting into the constitution « provisiof hike that of the Senator from Massachusetts, because | woold trust to ume, which would have its etect. Aiter a while Tesult Would be attained, and we dhould have in t stitution what I should may be, 1 am no! rage ls wu ral right that it must be conferred upon any free Tt is a trust reposed in him by law, which he exce ites under the law, and although I fold that the right of suffrage should be extended just as fart, and jst ag far, as the public good will allow, I do not hold that any man is injured when @ jurt aud reasonable law provides that something nuore ie neces sury from him than a bare existence in order to give bin the right to vote, The argument of the Senator from Massachusetts would apply in {ayor of women just a much as it applies to those to whom he specially refers Mr. Fes den then stated the objections which th committee saw to the proposition abolishing distinetic on account of color, and the reasons wh dit to recommend the pending measure. The committee be- heved that 4 proposition like that of the Senator from Massachusetts could not get the requiaite number of States, and 1 could be no hope of it adoption. The State of Connecticut had refused to adopt * similar in her own State, The State of W done the ame | All the Western States seemed to be opposed to it New York made distinetion on account of and would ad here to i. The re, then, but two pi lott jon Upon Vote » Senate. Of better, becaus pend it presumed the original } ba ee wo Clange, It Vi | uo pr State a right to be repre j ented 2: vor’ With thie distinetion that if the class of people not fit | wo be re ented It is for U lence of , ul Lt propow ti euden, 18 that it ac indirectly not have the | todo | dir. sutansr's specch, showing, as he thought, the | piwett abs bis proposition, * The four o cloek, adjourned VsE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasuixarow, Feb. 7, 1806. Laxp on SLMOAD AND TRERGKAVH. PORPORE of Kansas, inyoduced « bill grant or railroad and telegraph parposes tn that st | THK MxastN IX PORTIONS OF THE KNUK LAW Mr, Mornua., (rep.) of Vi., called up the bi etofore reported by him from the pmitioe of ye and Means, declaring (he ineaning of certam parte of the In ternal Revenue aot, as follows INTERNAL BEY ‘rip OF money Payable to mek: vhler®, deporiors GF partes Whalsvever, sideuts, whether citt ra * eau ail persons » stockholders, aliens. . ow an eon pons, a hon resitent) The words ke returns oF d with any duty whether the several ated according U» Iu ease of neglect or oy ng tO Mah ie wote, and W assere the duty thereon, wud to add thereto the amount of penalties imposed by law. incase of | stich ueglect or reyusel, wun! explained that the first part of the bi referred to faliroad securities, &c is to be paid held abroad, andre pom ther and got on the amount in coined me t+ panned Lan AND Dart p.) Of Pa, from the Committee on Ap ported a bili making appr 4 Whole on the state of the Union | Me New TORK QUAmANTINE {Mr Ww sm, (rep) of Wl, awked to report from the Committee on Commerce the bill horetotore vntro duced by Mr. Raymond, re ¥ of the Treasury, the Se retary of War and tue Fecretary of the Navy to place the hulke of veri at the disposal of the onere of Quarantine int New helen (rep.! of I1!., objected, and #0 the bill Was hot reported. Unanimous consent herng r THE APPORCTMES OF FRAN AoMrme Mr Iuew, (rep }o" Mags. from the Commitioe on Nw | Affairs, reported « bill further ent Of rear admirals aod Ue | Geore to the regu It was reeow PHEAENTATION OF CRON Mr. Buoows, (dem.) of N.Y. presented the of the members elect from Alnbaum He suppoved they would have to go to the “Tomb of the Capaiou Vowna— Yea,” “Ves, That's so ‘The credentials of the teuwhers elect from the State of Alabama wore then referred, wi\hout debate, to the Com m lee on Kecoustre ’ ! roren are My Broons said t | migned ree number | to vote On looking o (aes be could wot find ruitabie ition which it | cnutd be referred to, He thenght of the Commitier of | Claims, but be did not know whether the ebairman bad ufficten! gallantry to give the petition conwd 410g vem | it related to “males.” (Langtiter.) | Mr Dave, (rep) of N. ¥ , suggested that the pettion be referred to a select committee of afd Uachelors Mr ite ue Jed Committee, but war mot rat mao (Mr Wilson) wo therefore asked mivice as tu as the che York (Mr Urooke | gentieman from | man | Mr Bnoous said that the evn | from Veunsyivauime (Mr etevets) sbeorte! ppowed that it Wow id alm thin petit of lows, raid it abould be ie ry Using and | don't The petition was Reeountt action Tw PURUC LANDE IS THe my | Mr Jeusan, (rep) of toa Commits oo Public Lands feported a Wi providing that from aad re OF thin act ail the public lands in tie we, Miewenipp: Laueane Ay shail b+ toade for more than a ball q eighty sctes, and that (he pubiie ba shali be dispmed of in to other wan pamegs of thenct. Provided, that no distinetion ot di eit nation ball be made a the qonstrectou of (ule ot 06 aechunt of Teee OF Color, and Bo mineral lmde shall to entry of seulement under is coe jan read a salement to show that ate in land oly ope teeth of aod there « to be Bo oon rebel o Or tne. three wits not AS op aowtat foal povet be tee +, td thet he imtrodeerd the 40 more Wo 04 remmmet sem 1) prepemed to @etriba'e theee 1h ead to freedmen — ‘Go Gree stoned your wives teem on the pet i Wa passed a resolution of that kind tuewesult would be | result of euch’ a proposition. .as. Lb mentioned would then be to place power in the bands of 4 | few. The whole civil and political power of these Slaves would be exercised by @ vory mail number, and, for a tind, It would ercater oligarchy — the power of a few wk of this fot at dab argument, | @ band & petition | rigne | ce of the geationas | RICK FOUR CEN evant or tou find a multiplicity of mnell mone farm y re you lind liberty Mr. Taunu, (dem. | of said the bill propor take from market all t : hone | He offered an amondy ne tn have onatraed as to shall be me arioue:| by th ERK believed | steads it would be better ovenpation. neb men eould than to turn them vb Mir! Cuanten, (dem.j of No ¥., said this DOL involved the very Orst prineipies of the rights of property, Wisia p Profewsedly preventing epee One seclon it promoted speculation in another wee tot mension between th * and Id the land at thi ide of emigration « minch ax to whether the land, but that the white man te not t rep.) of D1, sald that vast bodier af lane held by speculaiors, apd be d soure provision extended to thetn that would prevent such monopolies magreet to Mr ust 104 | in the fubor’é amendment by a | vote of 37 5 pM went over Lilt tomorrow by the expiration of | the morning LAND GRANT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF vm WANTRD TO Se. 1 a Sepate bill prowhit ” ae the Burlington and Missouri Kiver Railroad Com lete the December, 1865, it tiow of twenty miles vy the I be entitied to the proper land provided by law. Alo the bill gravting ibe privilege to Mrs. Lincotn, AVPHONNIATION TO DEFRAY EXPKNNH COMMIT TR The House took up the wed it, I com WTR RECONE TE BOTION 105 agaitnt The consideration of the Navy Approy Mr Brawn, (rop.) of Me, was called to preside over omunitiee of the Whole on th {tbe Upon ‘ome of the iter Hr vy ¥ 1 stricken ont, but that appropri nety thovrwnd dollure for tue purchase of ah Fo perty wet among thos retained. The committee struck ous wn the Philadelphia propriations tbe of thirty-nive t fur Buikley’s patent 5 with buildings © Mr. WAsHWUKxe, (rep ) of TL, wanted to muike vot the Mr Kaw, (rep.) of A this nave yard was alrendy in a¢ ential une Lo the ge | erninent, and the Na t desired ow retained The committee struck out nearly all the items fer ths Norfolk Navy Yard Mr Wasniunyx, of Hiinols, offered an amendment ng twenty thousand dollars for the protee! iia AY Mt that navy yard, and 1 was attopted ved at 1f paw ty to gi ; ph Was rT The House t ar ull & order w afford an opport apoechen EV BNING SESRION Mewre, Wauxnn, (rop.) of Olio, Hexen Oregon, and Keio, (rep ) of Mimoari, the subject of negro snifrage and reconstruction The House adjourned, ARMY BULLETIN. IELAEY RD. Hospital Steward Charles Bowmer, from duty in De partment of Missourt and ordered to daty ia Department © kant KENDEZVOUR RKOKEN UP. r The rendezvous at Uh yon Island, Horton, M has been discontiqued and ortertd to be broken up im medrately NAVY BULLETIN. ORDERED, JANUARY SI. Sargeow Job Uerbin, to etoaier Habe, La nant Commander Wiliam K Fitabugh, Leewen ant 4. F, Gillett and Paytnaster Charles ML Eliredge, to steamer Idalie, Actiug Evsigue A. K. Brown and A. fleamer Idaho. DETACHED, Janvany 31 Captgin Jovn L. Worden, from apecial daty at Ne York, and ofdered to comrmud atosuner Idaho Lieutenant Commander James Po Koster, from Ne al Academy, and placed on wailing orders. Acuxtant Master R ruminers end Acting Bovign & K Morrihew, from receiving ebip Vermont, aad onfered 1e leaner Idaho. Acting Euriga Joseph Reid, from receiving ship Vor mont, and ordered Wo deamer Winoork! NED, Jancany JL. P Bashferd, to Assistant Surgeon Henry ©. Kekstein OKORRS KEVOKKD, Janvany 31 tant Engineer David Hardie, o steam Ase aut, and granted ck leave of atmcues Fire aw Between seven and eight o'clock oa lug 4 fire broke oat in the coucert mloon, Ne Bromiway, owned by Mrn Hogers, Damage ab Insured for $1,000, 1% the Globe Lumwenor | The cause of the fire in | Maret company under investigation by tbe Fire Fire at Cape Vine the Jane monteated rae Jarvin® grocery store Mewern lont Uhelr entre rloeke W. Warren * aud Hegge Aineworth ew They sore intared Disastrous Fire at Memphis. Meenee eh. 7, hee A devirdetive Ore cocurred fix morning om Ube ent eel, between Warhiogton and Poplar ger, ary go | Gry goods. and Mtumenthaltet eo however destroyed several smalter lebment: adjen ag” Ther wer only e emeli part of the | property ineured. The forniture of several Inanihies ve jing obeve (he stores wae burned ote Blmowt eviitely desroyed. $200 00 The stocks amd ‘Tes tous ts eonrmalbe ot A fre at Joie, 1 sone block and the ed joint and the Republics olice are im totum aeured for $0,000 at Le Crosse, Whe. ‘ inerately mw by © man named Jenn Tory bad & diepute about « women, when meron drew a large kale and drove it into Calahen » breast Callahan Khorked hie emeilant down ond iroppet dead The murderer has pot beew arrested. Mrutal Marder Sear Utten. | ae Feb 1 lee | A brotal murrter was Committed lest evening shoot as ded Joe Wiknom's lavern, about (wo sarnpike road, and jor ty The murdered mans about thirty Ove yearn of & child fuer youre etd. pmnittad by five young men, all of # the Utiew jal, The murdered mon hoe and be ahall broken wn oxy oeerarom Avaary, Feb 7, 160e the men arrested for the murder of ( ompbet Ame Fe avis, John Vann, Che Wittem (ether ore te I in the | Oek jall antel demanded try the authorities of Nerkmer cm Mr Camptett was driven from house by bin semmsltmtn, aod Lenten altnost to death preeeore of ie Previous to the murder the fetle bad bewte (wo mee Ad Slen two hore and « slegh News from the Puettic Comat. Raw Pramcinen, Feb 2 1808 The Union Legiiative cauter hee voted in fever of repratiog (he qpeciie contract law by «larger a oe fevoring & patpomement ef the Con) toe wet) b a Cobona CO Raigune (Miles Ren Ty ecard inet evening te one of the largest bytieeees ever