The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1867, Page 5

Secretary Stanton and Quarvermaster General Meigs Tt was indefinite:y postponed. Tuy HILL FOR TUE ANIZATION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT 0S LOUD IANA The Orenx or 1 & unnounced the passage by the House of the bili tor the establishment of civil govern- ment in Louisivua, Messrs, Wank, P.) Of Ohio, and Sumer, (rep.) of aneously and for the same purpose. ve way to Mr, Wade, who moved to post. ake up the Louisiana bill) As ion left he hoped Senators: would proceed to immedute action The Senate bad al- ready established tts reputation for talking, he boped it would now show its capacity for energetic action. Opposition to this motioa came from both sides of the chatnber, on the ground that the necessary business of | the moralng had uot been disposed of, Mr, TRUMBULL, (rep,) of Ill, waa quite as anxious, he said, a8 Mr, Wade could be to take up the bill indicated in bis (Mr. Wade's) motion; but he thought Senators should have an opportunity for clearing their hands of bills and reports first, Mr. Lave, (rep.) of Ind., said he would oppose the mo- tion of dir. Wade, because he wanted to make reports from the Peasion Commitiee. Mr. HenpRicks, (dem) of Ind., asked if it was in order to object to the consideration of the bill ? The Car said it was not, as the bill was not yet be- fore the senate. Mr, Wade’s motion was put and decided in the affirma- tive by the following vote — watiociseny Sian chant i 8 a Howard, Howe, Kirkwood,’ Morgan’ Sherman. Ste 5 hers wart, Sumner, Nars—Mesars. Buckalew, Cattell, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Koss, Foster, Hendricks, Johnson, Lane. Morrill. Neamith, 5 ) Pol a ‘an Winl and Willey—19, aA ens Pere So the bill was taken up. It required unanimous con- ‘aent to consider it to-day, and, Mr, Hendricks objecting, it goes over. PUNISHMENT FOR LARCENY OF Mr. Hexprrcxs called up the bill to of any articte ot governm:nt property by a fine and imprisonment for not less tham one nor more ten years, or both, which was passed. SURVEY OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI. Mr. Ramsay, (rep.) of Minn., offered a resolution for the printing of five thousand copies of Genera! Warren’s of the survey of the Upper Mississippi. Referred to the Committee on Printing. CONSULS? FEES AND SALARIES. Mr. Foca, (rep.) of N. H., offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the salaries, fees, &c., of consular and commercial agents of the United States in Europe for the four years preceding June iast. Adopted. THE WAR CLAIMS OF TENNESSEE, ‘Mr, Parrerson, (rep.) of Tenn., offered a resolution, ‘which was adopted, calling upon the Secretary of War report by whose authority a commission was appointed during the war to adjudicate the war claims of loyal citi- zens of Tennessee, the names of the commissioners and the amount and nature of the claims adjudicated, ‘REPORTS. Mr. Wizson reported adversely the House resolution in relation to the appointmeat of cadets to West Point; also the House bill to provido for payment fi wed in the service of the United States; alse the resolution in elation to brevet rank, 0 resolution to pay the in, Con: airin Henderson, Mi Pomeroy, Rainsai Wade, Wilkams,” Wilson aud ish the larcen: uni fe 000 Tennessee Home Guasd’, word ar8%, all of which were indefinitely Mr. WiLLtAM> ‘(rep.) of Oregon, from the Committee -on Continger, Expenses, reported resolutions to pay to the widay’ of the late Jacob Collamer, and the widow of the ia, Solomon Foot, the amount due them under the ‘bil Wereasing the compensation of members of Con- Bs, which were rs . MORRILL, (rep.) of Me. from the Com- ‘mittee on Military Affairs, without amendment, the bill to regulate the disposition of the unclaimed colored vol- — bounty fund now in cuswody of the Freedmen’s jureau. bir, Witsox reported from the same committee the Honse bill providing forthe payment of the additional dounties authorize’ by law to soldiers who have lost their discharge papers, with an amendment. This amendment makes the bill provide that in cases where the claimant’s discharge certificate is alleged to be lost or destroyed, and where the claimant’s application for arrears of pay and bounty prior to, the act of July 28, 1866, bas already been settied by the Auditor upon proof of loss discaar, claims for said additional ‘Bounty may be settled the Auditor upon eo of him Secretary reported Under the regulations tobe prescribed by the un e regulations of the ‘Treasury. fe Mr, Witsow also without amendment, from the same committee, the House bill extendi: eral officers and officers on lashes: list similar process of the State courts in the from the Com- mme Mr. Awtaosy, .) of RL, reported ‘mittee on Printiog the House bill’ maxing Mr. Wi officers mi9sion ithout eottle Rando! fo ing electi the House tendons of pablic. printing ce Tiirron oaiber of ana cective — adversely u; ie eee aloen te and to promote the Sereote same was indefinitely postponed. + Wir. Wane presented the following telegraphic mes} tage, which was read :— ‘ Denver , Colorado, Feb. 12. 1867. To TH Prestprnt OF THe SENATE AND SPEAKER OF THE TivEs:—A large and enthusiastic mass r adopted the ‘Congress the rece! he President, Resolved, Tha jonal House or rt ‘mecting. held this evening, unapimously aM Preambie and resolutions: — it to Congress by in- people of Colorado to and whereas, the same unscrupulously have ‘ted our Territory and i many otiver ways by depreciating onr wealtls and ity, and falsifying our actual population; now, there- Union men of Arapaho county, and many from 8 of the Territory, im mass convention assem- following: ve been falsely reported it the majorly of the State o1 ion ; ‘on, That the President, of this, meeting telegraph these resolutions to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, with a request to lay them before the respec it Congress, AMOS STOCK, President. PUBLIC LANDS Iv AID OF A RAILROAD, Mr. Powgroy, (rep.) of Kansas, introduced a bill grant. public lands to aid in the constraction of telegraph wire from ‘the city of Lawrence, Kansas, boundary line between the United States and Mex- the direction of tne city of Guayamas, on the California, Referred to the Committee on Pacific cvsroms Laws, © eontinuing ia force u i semuaey 1. 180b, tue low for the unt , ie Samet ee ‘TLR LEAGUE MALAND BILL. at ae tion of the League Island bil Mr. (rep.) of Conn., resumed the floor in op- and continued his argument against the selec- Island on the ground that the location and malarious, that it was too far from ‘was difficult of navigation, and that the of water to it was not . Grimes, (rep.) of lown, replied to Mr. Foste 3 ir, op- tion of he Mr. Sumner fora commission Presented the credentials t from Connecticut, which COLLECTION OF DIRECT TAXES IN WEST VIRGINIA. The bill to oxtend J time for collecting the direct taxes in the State of West Virginia until the 1st of June, 1867, was passed. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MATTER, Extending the timo for strect railways; to amend the act incorporating the Na- tional Theological Instiwute of Washington; fixing the compensation of the bailiffs and criers of the courte of the District of Columbia; to grant certain priviloges to the Washington, town and Alexandria Railroad, MR, STEVENS! MBL At half-past seven P.M. the Clerk of the Senate an- passage by the House of the bill to provide for the more efficient government of the insurrectionary States. It was road a first time. Mr, Scunen moved to proceed Mr. McDougall objecting, it DISTRICT to its consideration, but wont over ander the'rules. A bill appropriating $16,000 for the temporary relief of deesivute Solero poopie the District, and to be die. tributed onder the superintendence of the Freedmen's El ill i i ii NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1867, there had been among the poor. Hl et to amen the bill by increasing the amount to $20,000 .* The amendment was adopted and the bill was passed The bilt supplementary to the act incorporatiog the Newsboys’ Home was iaken up, discussed abd Laid over. SALAM! OF CUST 'M HOUSE OFFICRKS. Mr. Morcax, (rep. of N. Y., by unanimous consent, introduced a bill amendiug the law Oxing the salaries of collectors of customs, 80 a8 to make the swary of the General Appraiser at New York $3,000 per annum, and of the Assistant Appraisers at Portland, Boston, Phila- delpbia, New Orleans and San Francisco $2,500 per au- num, from the lst of July, 1866. Referred to the Com- mittee on Commerce. PRIZE MONRY FOR SIONAL CORPS OFFICERS AND MEN, Mr. Wuson called up a bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the officers and men of the Sigual | corps under Admiral Farragut, at Mobile bay, the same amount of prize money paid’ to the men of the navy who participated in that engagement, which was passed, PURCHASE OF DAVID'S ISLAND, Mr. Witsow called up the joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to purchase tor thirty-eight thousand doilars Davids’ Island, in Long Island sound. Passed. PURCHASE OF PROPERTY AT PITTSBURG, Mr, Witgoy called up the House bili authorizing the Secretary of War to purchase certain lots of ground ad- joining the United States Arsenal at Pittsburg, which wi "The ‘Senate then at ten o'clock adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasursorox, Feb. 13, 1867. GREEN BAY AND LAKE PEPIN RAILROAD. Mr. McIxpox, (rep.) of Wis., presented a joint resolu- tion of the Wisconsin Legislature for a grant of land to aid in the constraction of the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad; which was referred_to the Committee on Public Landa. TE DUTY ON IRON, ‘Mr. Mrigs, (rep.) of Pa., asked leave to offer a resolu- tion declaring it incompatible with the policy of the Protective system of the United States and detrimental to the industrial interests of the country to admit under any pretext whatever free of duty foreign iron, whether manufactured for railroad purposes or otherwise. Mr. GLOSSBRENSER, (dem) of Pa., objected. Mr, Puewrs, (rep.) of Md., stated he had been necessa- rily absent, yesterday when the vote was taken on the Louisiana struction bill, and that he should at the bree time ask permission to record his vote against the EXICUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. The Srxaxer presented laws of Montana Territory, whieh were referred to the Committee on Territories. Also a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in anger to the House resolution of February 2, relative to revenue collected in Baltimore city and the several counties of Maryland in 1864 and 1865 from all sources except duties on imports, which was laid on the table. Also a te fo despatch from Denver, Colorado Territory, announcing the p' ings of a public meet- ingin favor. of the admission of Colorado as 9 State, Laid on the table. at Pog ea ke PASSAGE OP THE BILL TO KarApiish MILITARY GOVERNMENTS EX THR LAIKLY REBELLIOUS STATES. ‘The House resumed the consideration of the bill re- Ported by Mr. stevens, from the Reconstraction Com- mittee, for the Establishment of Military Governments in the South, Mr. Vax Hors, (rep.) of N. Y¥., addressed the House. He argued the illegality of the governments set up in the lately rebellious States, that they were without any authority of law, and, being under the control of those who were the leaders of the rebellion, they could not and must not be ized by Congress. He argued that the right to act by Congress, in re-establishing loyal governments in those states, was beyond any question, and tho duty was imperative. The spirit of the rebellion was still alive, and the loygl men, both black and white, and especially those who had fought for the country, were socially and politically proscribed. He depict their trials and sufferings, and demanded that the gov- ernment should at once give these States loyal been that the people demand that they be secured. Mr. Stivers, (rep.) of Pa., withdrew the motion to re- commit the bill inorder that he might submit some amendments, which be explained. Among them was a substitute for the second section, by which Congress iteelf directly detaited five general officers to command in the several military districts proposed wo be or- by a citrzen of the republic, or had it come to this, that Congre-s Was net only to clothe the emaucipaicd siavo With the elective trauchise, but also to give him the whole political power of the State, to make the majority of white men his sudjects for life, and compel them to pay the expenses ot Lis administration? There was not ‘ap cmancipaied siave in America that would ask any Such legisiation at the bands of Congress, They only asked equal righis aud equal protection. Mr. Loan, (rep of Wis, inquired whether Mr. Bing- ham's amendment did not allow rebels to vote in the organization of civil government. Mr. Biycuam replied that it allowed them to vote un- less they were disfranchised on account of their partici. pation in the rebeilion by the majority. Mr, Stoax—Aye, by themselves. Mr. Bixcuas repeated “By themselves." Is the ma- jority of one hundred thousand emancipated slaves iu South Carolina composed of rebels? Mr. Buaivn, (rep.) of Me., asked the Speaker whether the pending motion to recommit the bill was amendable by substituting another committee for the Committee on ruction, The >praker replied that it was. Mr. Busixg—Then I move that the motion to recom- mit be amended by substituting the Judiciary Commit- tee, and with instractiom® to report bac« immediately the bili reported by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr, Stevens), with my amendment added, as the sixth Section, and on that motion 1 move the previous ques- tion. Thy ‘ious question was seconded by a vote of 64 to 53, mes ‘Mr. Srevexs demanded the yeas and vaya. ordering the maim question the yoas and nays were ordered. ‘Spaupixc, (rep.) of Ohie, rose and said, that in order to test the sense of the use upon the question, he would now move that the bill and pending amend- ments be laid on the table, intending, however, to vote himself against the motion. Yatton wage Lia, a wiely party vows, fo the Ronee ro eas 39, nays 115, a iy Vote, 80 re. fused to lay the bill and amendments on the table. The vote was then tak main and jarred ir, Blaine's motion to refer, with instruc- to Mr. Tec on tions, to the Judiciary Committee. . Stevens being entitled to close the debate, took the opportunity of doing 80 at thistime, lest he might not have an he, in consequence of the re- committal of the He said that for the last two months this Congress had been considering measures connected with the Southern States, while these States had been bleeding at every pore, The whole country was alive to the necessity for action, although itself seemed to be insensible to it. The whole) coun- try had beer alive to the supineness with which Con- had conducted itself. And yet Congress had sat ere and raised no voice to effect what the declared to be its duty. lt had been asked gentlemen why the truction Committee had not presented some bill on which Congress could act. That had been asked on his own of the House with some acrimony by the gentleman from Obio (Mr. Bingham), and others, and with some pro- Ppriety on the other side of the Houso, It must be recollected, however, he said, that during this session Congress had no opportunity to act in the matter until after the beliays: and since that time comers bad had but lta mord than a month to attend to business, It would also be Cgere Rony ee the heer yy 4 was a plan preset whether good or not, and that on that on that plan a’ debate of three weeks had taken place in tho House, without any attempt to amend it, and with a rigid determination on the part of a gentle- man (Mr. Bingham), who, in the most upparliament ‘and discourteous manner, took the charge of the bili after it had been reported, and with a yjgor and energy and doggedness, if he might says without offence, which would do great credit Stonewall Jackson in hig best condition, had refused to open the bil! “f% amendment. The House would reollect that he had asked often for an opportunity to offer an amendment to that bill, bat that opportunity had been refused, and inasmuch as the House had sus- tained the refusal he accepted the position, just as the rebels did, because he could not help it. He had labored, on that in conjunction with several committees of loyal men from the South, for four months, and had altered and realtered, written and rewritten it several times, and found that it met the approbation of nume- Tous societies and meetings in the Southern States. It was, therefore, not simply his fault if the bill was not as good as might have been framed. He did think, how- ever, that after all it was uncivil, it was unjust, it was indecent not to attempt to amend it and make it better, and to see whether the House could not do something toenable the loyal men of the South to create institu- tions according to the principles of republican govern- had warned the House that if that ment. ganized. bill went back to the Committee on Recon- Mr. Garviexp, (rep.) of Ohio, suggested that it was not | straction 1 must die, But his rij friend for Congress to undertake to detail army officers. from Ohio (Mr. Bingham) had assured the House that its Mr. Stevens said that he had tried to satisfy | recommittal would have no such effect, That it would the views of gentlemen around him; but ing that he | be back hore fresh and blooming in course of a could not do so he withdrew the proposition to amend } Couple He asked the where was that the second section, _ bill now, the House had not something in lieu Mr. BoUrwert, (rep.) of Mass., then took the floor to | of it, In ‘to the bill now before the House it was close the debate, arguing in rt of the with a perfect understanding that if it become propriety of the bill. the course of his re- | a law it must pass without amendment. It was not in- marks he edits engeinr yh omy ge yore tended as a Reconstruction bill, it was intended copie of the United States shou! lare, as it possibly | asa police bill to protect the men of the Sout! restored, as them, to their position in the government, nothing remained to and pags ‘that conclusion as binding or an indescribable and controversy chief eet the land. . - however, Bho be- came a law were io feity to tee Inhowe en States Court would have no ry the South was consistent with the constitutional duty ‘Suggested the question to whether the cotabliahment of military governments govern ir, BOUTWELL said the question was Lehee epont one, and he would try to answer it before he took his seat. Mr. Expres, (dem.) of Wis., inquired of Mr, Bout- well whether this bil! gave the right of trial in capital offences before juries. ‘Mr. Boutwaxt admitted that it did not. direct opposition to and in violation of the constitution, which that a 'y charged with crime should have the right to trial jury and an opportunity to confront the witnesses him. ‘Mr. Bourwe.t replied that the power of Congress to the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus was not confired to pone ne of rebellion or invasion. The power arose at such periods, but it did not cease to exist till in the judgment of the law making power the cause of rebellion or invasion had passed Ls Aig Aor -mifeon mained. The of these ten were to. day not only without civil government, as had been deciared by ernment as woll as in that condition the Executive Department of affirmed in this bill, but were when it was in the rebeilion hi by the’ prociama- tion of the President, daly authorized by law; and there- fore this was & new cxercise of power; not the continu. ance of ® previous! erwin power. Mr, Bovrwau aA that the President's proclamation had no other effect than to proclaim that ib war ‘was at an end, but that no proclamation of the Presi- dent, whatever its terms, could deprive the legislative ment of the great power en- e constitution—the power of decid- ing for itself whether the case of rebellion exists; ard when the incidents and effects and consequences of the rebellion terminated that power was in Congress, and no proclamation of the President could deprive Con- LDRIDGE understood Mr. Boutwell to claim that gasyension of the writ of habeas corpes justified she holding of a person c! with crime and the trying him in a mode different that required by-law. himself did not so understand the effect of a suspension Sandia enptane he castes a Se u 8 e constitution plied, which secured the right of a apeedy trial before a ir. Boutwenx declined to yield further. He had only to say thas in his view, so far as those States were con- cerned in the exigency which existed, it was competent for Congress to deciare that they should be governed by military Jaw, that the State governments had no power to issue a writ of habeas corpus or todo any other act of Pag ae 2 by power derived from military authority, itary authority, althongh supreme, was not necessarily exclusive. The officers might, a8 provided in the bill, it the local tribunals the power and opportunity of ing of questions as might arise among ie, Ir, SCHENCK, (rep. of Ohio, having had five minutes allowed him, dec! his assont to the propriety of ex- ‘were in rebel- represented in Cong! understood it to be the object of Mr. Blaiae’s amenément, and he therefore supported it. At two o'clock Mr. Srevens obtained the floor and ‘used ho pre- {ious auestion by & vote of 64 vo 78, and the debate con ] ja \proper! pretend to object to its yet they had objected to his particles and his participles (| ter); and they bad with a perti- pacious determination taken every step that was possible to pledge Congress smondment asa finality on the adoption of which the South should be admitted to representation in Congreas, (Voices from the republican members—‘Ob, no.”) His Jearned friend from Ohio (Mr. Bingham) had this morn- exultation that he had suc- ing declared with proj cended in havi thi ide would be an endorsement of the t's policy, Tt be pledging Congress in advance to what the po weg ae iB , the admission t, certain things should be done. Mr, SumLLapancen, (rep) of Ohio, said that it was care- fully embodied In one section of the Louisiana bill that when any State should present itself for admission to representation in Congress, that admission should be on such terms as the Congress to which the application was made might demand. He said that was putin ‘or the very jo! td of excluding conclusions that this Congress waa declaring in advance what should be the proper terms of admission. Mr. Buarss declared that his amendment left the mat- ter entirely to Congress. Mr. Srevens said that it declared that when ceriain things were done, which were universal amnesty, uni- versal suffrage and universal Andy Johngon—(laughter)— those States should be admitted into the Union. It would give him great pleasure to join inthe Jo may og of the gentleman from Ohio, bat that he belioved that the course led by forbidden is into the sheep or goat holes of the President, bill simply proposed to Protect the loyal peopleof the Nouth, and if gentlemen chose to introduce to-morrow a joint resolution making the Louisiana bill applicable to all the other rebel States it might pass both houses in two houre. But he did not like Congress to be tied up in advance. He did not like say tia gither against the constitutional amend- gh ho had no respect for it. He felt so im- with the importance of jing this bill, that, though not ve well, he had felt bound to say this mnch. If he might presume upon the age without any of the wisdom of Nestor, he would say to the ng gen- tlemen around him that the acts and deeds of this burn- i of this solemn day, of this very moment, wos cas their shadows into the far future and would make their impress on the annals of history. They should appear on the dark or on the bright page of that history just as with cordiality, without guile, without Dickering, without small criticism they leut their aid to ‘War against measures to promoie the great question of humanity and universal liberty. He knew that gentle- men on the other side t his bill asa harsh mea- sure, and apneaied for the display of principles of benevo- lence, mercy and forgiveness still more startling and saintly than those of the Atbenian of Gallilean saints, But all good principles might be carried too far. Good- ness and benevolence were noble things; but when a man squandered his estate on vagabonds and thieves, he did that which could command no from any Suenvure, Ho appealed tee House to pas ie wikhout measure. He the House to pass it withou of the amendments offered to it. e question was taken on the motion of Mr. Blaine ‘to refer the bill to the Judiciary Committee with instruc. tions to report it back with the following asan additional section :— Sroniow —. And be it further o1 ‘That when the con- stitutional amendment Cc We fourteen by the Thirty-Ninth C shall have become a part of the con- stitution of the United States. and whea any of the late s0- mn Staten shall have ratified the same and formed its constitution and laws thereto in all respects; its constitution that the ayeres ually and impartially Fnited ‘bitte, fwenty.one years colo ‘may be disfran- ud as ing in the late rebellion and when said been submitted to the sald There was groat excitement as the vote was taken, as it showed—the Ce la ome Tm fd the sup- port of Mr. Blaine’s motion—that it would be avery close vote, After all had Moorhead, Moulton Paine, Perham, Mik: » Tal foru ot 'N. Ky., Ward of . ¥.. Washburn of Mass... Wai worth, Williams, Wilson of Fa., Windom—9%. ‘The question then recurred on the passage of the bill as modified this morning; and it was passed by a vote of 109 yeas against $5 nays, as tollows:— Yeas—Messrs. Allison, Anderson, Arnel, Ashley of Ne- ada, Ashley of Ohio. Barker, Baxter, Benjamin, bam. Blaine, Houtwell Bromwel, Broomall, dy, Clark of Ohio, Clarke of Kansas, Cobb, , Dawes, Del Deming, Dixon, 'y, Eggleston, Kliot, Farns: worth, Farquhar, Fe jarfield,” Grinnell, Harding of 11. Hayes, Henderson, Hizby, Hill, ‘Hoimes, Hooper, Hu! of Conn., Hubbard of W.Va. Huvvell of Ohio. Hulburd, Ingersoll, Kelley, Ketcham, Koontz, Laflin, Lawrence Pa., Lawrence of Ohio, Longvear, Lynch, Marato 5 Maynard, MoClurg. 'McKec, MeRuer, Mereur, Miller, Moorehead, Mornill, Morris, Moulton Myers, Newell, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Patterson, Perham, Pike, Plants, Price, Rice of Mass... er, Schenck, Schofield, Van ¥ Cook i Donnelly, Driggs, Dun Marvin, Shel ag ly ding. 8 jiat wo a, ding, Stat leveus, Stokes, er, Trowbridge, U eriam, Van Horn of Mo. Van Horn of N. ¥., Ward of N. Y. er, Washburn of Mass, Welker, Wentworth, Whaler, ams, Wilson of Pa., Wil- son of Iowa, Windom and Woodbridge—109. Nays—Messra. Ancona, Bark . . Campbell, Chanler, Cooper, Di rees, Den- ison, ldridge, | Fi Good: Harding of Ky., Harris, Hawkina, Hubbell of N.Y. Humphrey, Hunter, ‘uykendall, Latham, Le Blond, Leftwich, Loan, ‘Niblack, Nicholson, Ni ford. Randall of Ky. Raymond Ritter, Rogers, Ross, Rousseau. Shanklin, it. Stillwell’ Strouse, Taber, Taylor of Tenn., ‘Thomas, John L. Thomas, Thornton aud Ward Mi. Sravexs, exulting at the final success of his meas. ure, asked the Speaker eee kee erent him to endorse the Laertes, that pan lsentenieand there were gods above. ughter. The bill as passed desoribes the States affected by it as “the late so-called Confederate ” instead of called States," as ly printed. It also inserts the word “local’’ before words ‘‘civil tribunals’ in the ‘third section, and after the words ‘‘military custody” introduces the words “except in cases in which the per- son is beld to answer only for a crime or crimes exclu- sively within the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States within said military districts therein, or”. The House, at half-past four o’clock, took a recess till half-past seven. Evening Session. The House resumed its session at half-past seven o’clock with a pretty full atten of members, the galleries being coneet with spectators, 1NcRI COMPENSATION TO CIVIL EMPLOYERS. On motion of Mr, Morriit, (rep.) of Vt., the amend- ments of the Senate to the House joint resolation giv- ing increased compensation to civil employés of the gov- ernment in Washingtion were taken from the Speaker’s table and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered printed. Mr. Harvia, ae TIL, said he was opposed to the measure and would not give assent to anything that would give it a better position; but the Speaker quieted his fears in that respect by assuring him that Mr. Mor- nill’s motion gave to the measure no advantage. MATL ROUTES IN WEST VIRGINIA, Mr. Wnaxey, (rep.) of W. V., introduced a bill to establish maii routes in West yogis ‘and Virginia, which was referred to the Post Office Committee. INTERNAL REVENCUR—SPERCH OF MR. MORRILL The House, on motion of Mr. Monn, resolved itself into Committes of the Whole on the State of the Union, Mr, Bowtwell in the chair, and proceeded to the consid- ération of the bill re} d from the Committee of Ways and Means, on the 11th of February, to amend existing laws relating to internal revenue, Mr, Morvritt, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, explained the bill, and submitted his views at length gn the subject of internal taxation, as follows:— R. CHAIRMAN:—The Committee of Ways and Means, in reporting the present bill, have sought to aflord the greatest possible amount of a oa 18 COUDTTy, Gon sistent with a prudent regard {to the pubiic credit, and were led in the outset to consider what would be the most feasible mode of accomplishing this object and leave at the same time the fewest impediments in the way of general industry. If the tax on distilled spirits, tobacco and .cigars were fully paid or collected the tax on the major part of all other manufactures could have been at once remitted, Unfor- tunately necessary changes in the law, followed by un- necessary and more unfortunate officers, have proved ‘Unat two dollars, whether above the price of whiskey or not, is certainly above the price of those who make it. mene ee have ioe hd by the maker for as much ag production © tax, betrays the fact that whoever is in the business somebow corruptly evades the payment of some part of the orsmall, due to the government, ey Brey je amendments proposed now to this branch of the law will hereafter secure a more effectual collection of the reve- nue from spirits, for the present we are forced to temporarily on many other articlea which will doubtless be rel atno distant day. Two pre- sent themsely: ‘We must reduce a percentage of lures oF entirely 5 the first, and by intend: that they to distribute equal favor over the whole cotton by pers my tually aid alt br: sis f industry rectly act anc! ol quite as much as thoy would be aided bya direct one per cent diminution of the tax, Last year we liberated a eee nomber wel articles, the benefit oon, ree ‘Das on! just begun operate, now We #! L) added 4 the number tothe extent of surrenderi;, obtained im the first year of the operat; eet a tee move than els mace ye lant of Y L Soha, Sn ed jes, iltions of dollars, and yet. annually exhibits a }. Italy, however infavorable her balance sheet, is too young to be severely eriticized. Austria, wi a ved currency has largely contributed, to the degradation and dismemberment of the nation, is an example s0 excessively bad that to cite it would not de refreshing, even to thore whose condition was much lees forlorn. Prussia is in a far sounder position, and comes out of a successful war, with no inereaso of taxa- tion; but when Prussia wages battle her soldiers are six pence per day, forage on the enemy, and an indemnity is demanded of the vanq England is a fairer example. She increased pational debt by the Crimean war four hundred and fifty millions, and her annual expen- ditures has since been larger by about $100,000,000 per year; and instead of being diminished sinco the close of the war, ls now nearly twenty millions more than it was in 1868, at the close of the war. Besides the anaual charge of $350,000,000, Great Britain raises }40,000,000 in a single item for poor rates. were forced to create a large national debt, yot since the close of the war we have stendily and largely reduced the sum of our expenses from the point at which they baa Ng ag i ay Our expenditures were, in . ¥ ; ip 1866, $520, 750,983; and in 1867 are estitaated at “17,000. Tate shone ag well the elasticity of our government in rising to the height of the emergency, asa facility in pn hed from the track of war to the inexpensive avd moro genial track of peace. Our expenses for next year are estimated at nearly $75,000,000 more than the present ear. The cost of government hae been only increased in exceptional departments, and elsewhere it should not be permitted to co its accustomed limits, bes hp eee in relation to the rate of the tax on distilled spirits, now as heretofore, presents all of ite embarrasement. As an origina! question as my opinion, in view of the insuperable difficalties in the way of enforcing the law, that a leas rate than two dollars per gallon was advisabl if whiskey frauds should continue to be successt rpetrated it is not impoesible that a lower rate may be ot some fature time accepted. But now the Committee of Ways and Meane reached the conclasion to recommend an adherence to the present rate, and have some very stringent provisions believed to be if we expect any considerable revenue, and without which we may ae well retire vanquish the attempt to enforce this part of interna! Revenne law. As a beverave it may be esti- mated that the consumption of the United States ia about oné and a quarter to one anda half gallons per capita, of a total ef about forty-five to fiity million galions. In 1860 we produced nearly ninety million a of which it was estimated that seventy-five mii- ion gallons were consumed a3 « e large somewhat reduced Es increase of cost has unquestionably the amount consumed, and if it were wholly to extin- guish it there would be few and we might jently bear the loss of all revenue from this source in @ community tolerabiy, ‘an increase duty has been found not to diminish consumption #0 much as to increase smuggling and illicit distillation. Father Mathew, in bis temperance Iabors from 1835 to 1841, reduced the consumption of spirits in Ireland iy million gatlona, when the duty was only two shillings four pence per gallon; but raising the duty, 1360, oven eight shillings to ten shillings per gal- Jon, did vot reduce the ber of gallons charged only about one million of gall although the Irish population were ‘of the mort meagre sort, Itt true that the consumer fas bad to pay almoet the entire amount of the ii cost added by the tax; but hitherto other partios than the government coliocted and pocketed much the li share of If the goverament has got 000,000 the have got $60,000,000. stragyle protect honest men, if any can be found, who and to punish with a pitiless impartiality allof any other sort, “Heine number of dis- i) undoubtedly dimin- ish the sources of frand; and an increase of the special tax isa in the right direction, We raised last year from disti spire $20,008,678. If we collected om the full amount consumed it would have been per- haps $00,000,000 or over. Tho tax on sugar made sogar cane it is proposed to redace to one uniform rate if one per cent per pound, all other being ox- When we the facts and . more than half of the amount th The amount already brought to the seaboard tho amount of weekly shipments show that the crop of last year has yet by no means been brought to market, and the ex- Peciation of 2,000,000 bales is likely to be fulfitled The crop cannot be hidden forever, althouct Planters and speculators conspire to mislead {s too tempting to allow cotton lands to re: Next year, if the season should not be unpr We may anticipate a handsome increase over the ent. The crop of the past year, after paying tl three cents per pound tax,jwill have been sold for three fourths as much in gold’ as that of the largest crop (185#) ever produced in the United Stat the great cotton market, and although the is larger than for five years, yet the price ts higher now, and growing firmer, than it was last May, selling for middling uplands at about twenty-nine cents per pound, in gold, and tending upward, and it is selling im New York at thirty four cents per pound, currency. ne promise for cotton from most other countries, for 1867, is not improving. Egypt and Brazil will not increase their crops, notwithstanding the temptation of high prices, and India, it is estimated, will fall short of the crop of the present year by four hundred thousand balea, There is no discouragement in the way of the produc: tion of cotton in the United States, and the tax should no sooner be removed from it than that on petroleum. The manufacture of leatber is hardly less extensive than ite use, Nearly State and Territory has more or less capital embarked in its production. ‘he outley for boots and shoes in the log cabin is not unfrequently greaver than in the four story brown sione mansion. The har- ness, trunk and carriage makers also use it as a raw ma- which if taxed duplicates their burdons. Before ‘we were compelled to levy internal taxes we had a pros- artes trade of several millions in and shoes, which, of course, must be nearly or quite annihilated by the tax on leather, no part of which could be returned virtue of a drawback; but with leather free this le again have a better chance of being recovered. Tin , hollow ware, stone and loyed large numbers of workmen, and are used by classes of peopie for domestic pur- got ond ty Chcee tn, sadenaty, evenamapors partons Tf exempting tin pails the cost of good but- their fair proportion. and tin pans shall tend to diminish the ter, who will be likely to in, we exempted all dry why should not a - barrel be free ro t is proposed to answer this work of the meritorious class of coopers before had occasion to say that a tax in the nature excise tax on manufactures could have been resorted to only from the imperative necessity of at once placing in the hands of the government an unusual and large amount of revenue, This resort has been successful. deylgned to be but temporary must ofa tisfactory character ip ime possible. } Jo not doubt that we early day be able to relieve iron, cotton, woollen and all other ger manufactures from any interns} tax. Itis with this prominent idea that the com‘nittee have diligently labored in framing the pres- emi bill. In addition to concessions in various other directions it is proposed to reducé the tax on woollen manufactures from five per cent to two and one-half per cent. may think that bar iron should have been liberated instead of woollens; but the tax on bar irom has been in the form of a specific, and is not now and never has been equal to the ad va- jorem tax of five per cent. The trade in each branch of business is equally depressed, and the action now pro- = will make the distribution of favors not unequal. jut a higher motive moved the committee, and that wos to piace woollen manufactures in the hands of the Cohsumer at redai cost, By reducing the tax on home manufactures of woollens two and a half per cent a reduction of the rates otherwise asked for by manu- facturers can be made in the duties on imported wool- lens of five per oe as pepe thiermn) The ae of ti ue last year from lens at six per chat sae A, ‘but in the act y July it wasy with all other manufactures, reduced to five per es The loss to the revenue this year by she: seneanen juction to twoand ajbalf cent, if our production remained the same, as it is not likely to remain, would be $3,172,642, For,the present it is proposed to amend the income tax and remove from It some of its most exceptionable fea- tures, The excemption of $600 is enlarged to $1,000, and in addition an allowance is to be made for all rent, taxes, insurance and ire, Another change is pro- posed to relieve the manifest injustice of taxiig {1 69 above $5,000 twice as much as those below. But one rate, and that five percent, is now recommended. To do more than this is to @ controversy as to the constitutional right to do it and to im the mind of every man who finds himself as he thinks unjustly op- pressed an excuse for ng his income to such an extent as will avoid the wrong with which he is threat- ened, To such 8 it seems abeor confiscation, and if justifiable to the extent of five per cent, then justifiable to the extent of fifty per cent} They offset wrong for wron; Few nations tolerate an income tax at all, and there Ey the for the next fiseal year end- tos June ie a ar Lining ne buble by the ee aD: Commissioner of Intergal ue, red ed 500, spend ul} the amount of We. ey have - sell, and po, prediuet, atthe generat ion heme, and the recent falling same revision of the expenditures year 1808 bring out items to she inal - = 7.247 Aa 7,000, 2 the total at $357.26" various reductions of taxes and exemptions, ing that we have secured such an increase of revenue waste hago yond all dowhg have somerbing to apply om the public debt, provided wo fio bis which will throw any considerable additional © on the Treasury. The committee have felt willl ‘or the coming year to give the ible amount of relief tor the business in- t try, and have also been willing to H the revenue that no large balance would remain in the Treasury to tempt any one to disregard § tie wisdom of economy. If there are any gentiomen who disbelieve the recitals concerninc idle factories, forges, furnaces and foundries, and who think that we are still on the top wave of pros- perity, and so may be willing to venture a deeper cut into our revenues, | invite them to look at the compara- tive returns of some of our principal railroads, to the present siate of our navigation interests, to the decline in the commerce of our canals, to our diminished export trade in cattle, horses, hogs, beef, butter, cotton and manufactures of cottan, iron, copper sud brass, together with numerous other articles, This an exposition of which Ihave the details, but which f shall not, unless compelled to do so, place upon the records. Depreased ag trade must be conceded to be, the depression it no greater, perhaps not yet so great, as might bave been ex to follow the recent exbaustive struggle of the country, Nor is it at ali cqual to what has been the expe- rience of Great Britain for the past year, where cholera, cattle plague, cotton famine, bad harvests and a com- mercial crisis have ull successively culminated; where the bank rate of interest was for three months kept at the maximam point of ten per cent, and where thousands of workmen are now only kept from starvation by daily charities from the Queen, as well ax from those who are hard pushed cven jo pay their poor rates, But I am by no means despondent of the future. The people of the South in no long time, it may be , will return to loyalty and to the Union, knowing that it is as “fixed as fate or foreknowledge absolute’ that this is to be their and our common country and government forever—a country and ment as formidable in war as benefl- cent in peace. They will speedily find how much more rapidly will be their growth with free institations than when linked to one of the last relics of barbarism. Mr. Le Bioxp, (dem.) of Ohio, called the attention of Mr. Morrill to the ‘ision in the forty-fifth section of the bill, looking to the destruction of the liquor forfeited when it would geil fora aad equal to the tax. Mr, Moxaitt replied that he had felt convinced that that provision would havo excited the disaj of the entieman, Who could not understand why such good Favor should be destroyed. ‘Sir Le Buosp retorted something which was not very clear avout a fair distribution of the liquor betweea New England and the West. . ir. Daxtina, (rep.) of N. Y., chairman of the Select Committee on Internal Revenue Frauds in New York and elsewhere, stated some of his views relating to the con- nection between distillers and inspectors of spirits de- rived from his 6: nce in that investigation. He ad- vocated the increase of distillers’ licences from $100, as now im of from $500, as proposed in the bill, to $1,000. He said that under the present system of appoint- ing local inspectors it waa not raandatory on distillers to pay tax on spirits; it was morely optional. The inspector was really im the pay of the distiller, whereas he should be in the pay of the ment, and should not be con- tinued any length of time in the same district, Last year a tax was coil ou only fourteen milfions of gallons, while the production in 1860 was ninety mil- hons of gallons He contended that the tax wi paid on more than one-eighth of the spirits distilled, this he attributed largely to the pernicious influence of having ba may i 6 pay of distillers. Mr. Mol ass (rep) of Ky. et his assent and endorse. mont to what had been said by Mr. Darling. It appeared to him that if the Committee of Ways and Means had been devising for six months how best to facilitate frands uj e revenue it could not have hit spon « better than that of having local inapectors for each for tbe porpors of encouraging ‘and faciiating frands for porpore encouraging tating fran than of preventing them fue Jaw also appeared de- to throw the distillation of spirits into the hands italists to the detriment of «mall counts who really made the only whisky that was to drink. oeee ree Lopep in ros those remarks, because if it were possible he would wi out the whole business of distilling whiskey. He re. peated that the whole machinery of ear uaa designed to encourage frauds on the part of large dis- tllers. All general dobate on the bill wae closed, and the Clerk proceeded to read the bill by sections for amend. ment, The bill, 80 far as passed upon by the committee, is as follows:— Srcrion 1. That all acts in relation to the assessment, re- turn, ollection and payment of the income tax, tax w rresponden . have ventured to use up the entire surplus or “ally in and at juired to formed in the month of Mag, stall ereatiae be fen : iy cor. Feauird 8 rovern 980 | payment Ae tS hall the corresponding days ot. the pearing 242 lieth hove oan onion exceeg Bi. | of ail lands and other property which bh 5 shalt pay to one dollar $26,000. and Paid tn the tw dealers ‘bac. 3 regulates the ¢ or ings ar winch the. United ceedings against a ee feremue necessary for the just responsibility of thoes oM- cers and the prompt collection of all reveuues and dela due uing to the United States under gives the Com Sec set off or conveyed, by purcha: States in payment of debrs a g to intersal revenue, and regniaivs bis duticn the premises ‘Ske. 5 provides that if the manufacturer of any article upon which @ tax is required tobe paid by means of & stamp shall have sold or removed for sale any such article wi the use of the proper stamp, in additioa to the penaities now imposed by law for such sale or removal, it shall be the duty of the proper assessor or au#istant assessor upon such infor- mation as he ean obtain to estimate the amount of the tax which bas been omiited to be paid, and t@ make an assess. ment therefore and certify the same to the Collector; and tt shall also be the duty of the proper assessor or it Assessor iu like manner to estimate the amount of tases which maybe due from any manufacturer of distilied spirite on account of wuy spirits manufactured by him upoa to ich the tax has uot make proper assess- ment therefor, and the subsequen ‘for collection shall be in ail respects like those for the coll of taxes upon manufactures and productions, (The section was passed over informally without final action upon tt) S authorizes the Commissioner of Internal Reuenue, he shali deem it expedient, to designate one oF the assistant assessors to any collection district to make assessment in any partof such district for all suol taxes as may be due upon any specified objects of taxation. ‘Sc. 7 authorizes, the Commissioner of Internal Revenee, with the approval of the Secretary of the Ti such suma, not exceeding in the rinsed ther prop’ Y rt for detecting, bri sons guilty of violating the wa in casew where such expenses are not otherwise provided by law; an@ it appropriates $100,000 for that purpose. for any fal ay Suc. 8 enacts that hereafter fc failure to pay any im- ternal revenue tax at the e manner oy law, where such failure creates a liability to pay, s pem- alt; of tax so due and unpaid, the person or persons so failing instead of ten per centum shall pay a penalty of five per centum, together with inter- est at the rate of one per centum per ‘month upon said tax from the time the same became due. Sxc. 9 amends the acts of June 80, 1864, and July13, 1806, to provide internal revenue to support the goverament, to pay Interest on the public debt and for other purposes, im 2 following particulars:—To make the pay of assistant aday, without any allowance for office rent, compensation for the. asneasors thia amendment 10 take effect month of March, 1867, and the The committee rose and the House, at ten minutes past teu, adjourned. WOW MWR, ELIOT'S BILL IS RECEIVED IN NEW ORLEARS. New Onieaxs, Feb. 13, 186. ‘The announcement of the passage of Mr. Eliot's bill im the House is calmly received, and is barely commented upon, CONNECTICUT POLITICS, Norwica, Conn., Feb. 13, 1867. big ar ee Convention held bere to-day nomina- ted Hon. H. H. Starkweather, of Norwich, for Congress. Mr. Brandegee, the present incumbent, recoived* 28 votes, Starkweather 59; all others 20, Every town im the district was represented. LOUISVILLE MAYORALTY. Lounvinus, Feb. 13, 1867. In the Court of Common Pleas, during the discussiom of the effect of the recent decision of the Court of Ap- James Lithgow, acting Mayor, withdrew bis de- fence, whereupon the court ordered Tompert reins He will resume the Mayoralty to-morrgy, REVENUE FRAUDS IN LOUISIANA. New Ortaans, Feb. 13, 1867. Several distilleries have lately been seized by the United States Marshal for infraction of the revenue laws—frauds upon the government proportionately equal to those in the Kast and West, SEARCH FOR THE SHIP BAVARIA. , Feb. 18, 1867. Bostox, The Revenue cutter Mahoning has been sent in seared: of the ship Bavaria, reported as being dismasted off the coast, THE BARK CUBA. ‘The statement which appeared in yesterday's Harare relative to the stranding of the bark Cubs on the East Banks, on Monday morning, has since turned out ta be wholly untrue. It was made on information given to Shia ofice by William J. 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