asked any other boon since they obtained freedom. I have in my possession a letter from a man who is nominated for commissioner of common schools in one of these States begging that this department of education may give his State all possible aid and counsel in organizing a system of common schools.

And all through the southern States they want, not teachers merely, but they want to know what the best systems of education are in the various States of this Union, and it is precisely that kind of information which the Department is furnishing, and was established to furnish. We are sending out one hundred and sixty thousand tons weight of agricultural reports every year, and gentlemen send them to their

Mr. FARNSWORTH. We have had a speech from the gentleman from Tennessee, but he did not tell us precisely how this was to be done. The collecting of statistics and publishing them in a book is not going to educate the freedmen. You cannot send out education as the Commissioner of Agriculture does seeds, done up in parcels. You cannot put it up in that way. Education must start from the root, from the home, with the primer and the spelling-book. Education must be patronized by the States, by the establishment of schools, colleges, and institutions of learning. They must be the custodians of the education of the children of this country and of the children of a more advanced age, the freedmen. A Department of Education located here in Wash-constituents, loading the mails with them, to ington cannot be the custodian of education; nor can such a department, it seems to me, be of any sort of advantage to the country. You might as well have a department of commerce, a department of merchanics, a department of the Christian religion, or a department of shoemaking; for it is quite as important that the soles of our feet be well protected as that our souls be cultivated; it is quite as important that the understandings which we tread on should be good as the understanding with which we legislate; and you might just as well, it seems to me, have departments of all these different subjects as a department of education here in the city of Washington. It would do as much good. Now, I would like some gentleman to tell us the ways and means, the particular manner in which the Commissioner of Education is going to educate the freedmen how to vote, and the poor children out in the district of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GARFIELD] how to read their Bibles? Perhaps the gentleman can tell us.

Mr. GARFIELD. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. FARNSWORTH] has given an illustra tion just before he asked his question that seems to me very striking. He says he would like to know whether we need a department to improve the understanding upon which we tread. Now, I do not know but that we need just such a department as that.

Mr. FARNSWORTH. As I do not make speeches for the purpose of getting the opinion of John Bright or of spreading them in the Globe the gentleman will excuse me.

Mr. GARFIELD. Well, I will excuse the gentleman of course.

Mr. SPALDING. We have no department of grammar here yet.

Mr. PIKE. The reporters fix up all that. Mr. GARFIELD. Now, to be serious about this matter, I want gentlemen to understand that when the ordinance of 1787 was passed it was one of the fundamental conditions that of every township of land ceded to the United States one sixteenth was to be set apart forever as sacred to the purposes of education.

Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania. Was not that for the education of the common people and not of the nabobs of the country?

Mr. GARFIELD. One township at least in every State was set apart for establishing universities, and there were universities established. Gentlemen of this Congress will understand that not all Congresses have been unable to see any importance in fostering the interests of education.

Now, Mr. Chairman, I desire to say one other thing in regard to this bill. It is not claimed that we should take any control of education in the States. It is not claimed, as the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. STEVENS] would indicate, that we advocate the study of Latin and Greek to teach the negroes how to vote. But it is claimed that there are seventeen States in this Union that, until a very recent period, had no system of education. The States of the South, with perhaps two or three exceptions, never had a system of education. And next to the love these people just released from slavery have for liberty itself is their love of knowing how to read and write-for entering into the fields of knowledge. They have asked to be educated more earnestly than they have

teach the people better how to sow and hoe and reap. Will you not expend the small amount appropriated by this bill for this Department, in telling the people of this country how best to educate their children and how best to fit them for the high duties of citizens? I shall feel that a wound has been inflicted on the honor of America if this Department shall be stricken down just when it is beginning to live. It was established at the request of the teachers of the countrya body of men who are silently but certainly molding the destinies of the future generations. Shall their modest request for national recognition once granted be so soon denied? I am unwilling to believe that this House will strike down this Department.

[Here the hammer fell.]

The committee rose informally; and the Speaker resumed the chair to receive

A MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. GORHAM, its Secretary, announced that the Senate had passed, without amendment, a bill and joint resolution of the House of the following titles:

A bill (H. R. No. 1077) to authorize the construction of a bridge over Black river, in Lorain county, Ohio; and

A joint resolution (H. R. No. 318) to correct an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain exporters of rum."

The message further announced that the Senate had passed a bill and joint resolutions of the following titles; in which the concurrence of the House was requested:

A bill (S. No. 159) relating to the western Pacific railroad;

A joint resolution (S. R. No. 152) to extend the time for the completion of the west Wisconsin railroad; and

A joint resolution (S. R. No. 154) to admit certain persons to the Naval Academy.

LEGISLATIVE, ETC., APPROPRIATION BILL. The Committee of the Whole resumed its session.

The amendment of the Senate in relation to the Department of Education was under consideration.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I desire to show to the Committee of the Whole that the Senate have put in this amendment which we are asked to agree to $4,300 more than was estimated for.

Mr. MAYNARD. I suppose they were satisfied that not enough had been estimated for.

Mr. WELKER. I do not propose to discuss the general question of education in this country in the few remarks I propose to make in reference to the amendment of the Senate. I agree with gentlemen who have already made remarks on this subject, as to the great importance of the educational interests of this country. But I do not concede that the establishment of this Department of Education is to furnish the means by which and through which the people of the different States of this Union are to be educated. But I will not discuss this question now. I wish to make a few remarks in relation to the efficiency of this Department of Education, since this Congress creased that department of the General Government. Since I have been in Congress I have been connected with the Committee for

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the District of Columbia. I have taken a great deal of interest in the cause of education in this District. And my venerable friend from Pennsylvania [Mr. STEVENS] has been chairman of a committee on the subject of a system of common schools for this District. year ago, in conjunction with a colleague, I introduced a resolution calling on this Department of Education for certain statistical information connected with the educational interests of this District, from which I expected, as I have no doubt the chairman of the Com mittee on Public Schools for this District expected, to gain a great deal of information in reference to what plan of education should be adopted in this District. That resolution was passed a year ago; but I have never heard a word by way of report in answer to it.

Mr. GARFIELD. That report has been set up in type for several weeks past.

Mr. WELKER. It may be set up in type; but I have never heard of it, though the resolution was passed a year ago. Now, if this Department is to control the educational interests of this great country, it seems to me that if there was any efficiency in it it could have answered those inquiries in regard to this District within a year after the resolution was adopted.

Mr. GARFIELD. Did not the resolution require the Department to make a complete census of this whole District, which has been done very completely and thoroughly?

Mr. WELKER. It was to furnish a census of the District, together with such other information as would enable us to get up a system of common schools for this District.

Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania. We have three other census bureaus now.

Mr. WELKER. No report has been made. I speak of this to show the efficiency of this Department.

Mr. PIKE. I think there is a minute or two left of the time allowed for debate on this proposition. I wish to remind the Committee of the Whole of the argument of the senior member from Ohio, [Mr. SPALDING,] which is the most plausible I have heard.

Mr. SPALDING. Does the gentleman call me the senior member?

Mr. PIKE. I think the gentleman is older than the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. WELKER] who has just spoken. The gentleman referred to the system of land grants for the support of common schools. Now, I have no doubt the State systems of common schools have worked well. But is it worth while to spend $20,000 a year on this Department of Education, besides the expenditure necessary for paper and printing, in order to ascertain that fact, when the records of the various States will exhibit the facts to any gentleman or any association that desires them, and will send for them through the proper channels?

[Here the hammer fell.]

The amendment of the Senate was non-concurred in.

One hundred and ninety-fourth amendment; In lines eleven hundred and forty-three and eleven hundred and forty-four strike out "$6,500" and insert $9,000;" so as to make the clause read:

For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, melter and refiner, chief coiner and engraver, assistant assayer, and seven clerks, $39,000.

The Committee on Appropriations recom mend non-concurrence.

The amendment was non-concurred in. One hundred and ninety-fifth amendment; Add after the word "dollars," in line eleven hundred and forty-four, the following:

Provided, That from and after the 1st day of July, 1868, the annual compensation of the weighing clerk shall be $2,500, and the compensation of the calculat ing, accounting, and warrant clerks shall be $2,000 each.

The Committee on Appropriations recommend non-concurrence.

The amendment was non-concurred in.

One hundred and ninety-sixth amendment: Strike out "$150,000" and insert "$191,000;" so as to make lines eleven hundred and sixty and eleyen hundred and sixty-one read as follows:

For wages of workmen and adjusters, $191,000.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I move to close debate on the pending amendment. Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania. Allow me to say a word?

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I do not withdraw the motion.

The motion was disagreed to.

Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania. I merely rise to inquire of my friend from Ohio [Mr. GARFIELD] whether his latter speech was not the tail end cut off from the bureau of education, [laughter;] and whether he did not intend to have added, after he got the bureau of education pretty well established, that no child should read a newspaper or that no debate in Congress should ever be published so that it could be read, unless it were in Greek or Latin? [Laughter.]

Mr. BLAINE. I desire to say a word. The CHAIRMAN. Debate is exhausted on the amendment to the amendment.

Mr. GARFIELD. I withdraw it to allow the gentleman to renew it.

Mr. BLAINE. I renew it. The gentleman from Ohio brings up the English practice. If he wants to bring in a proposition here by which a few gentlemen who occupy front seats or who have accidentally or otherwise a more favorable position, shall have their speeches reported, while Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones are never noticed in the reports anywhere at all; if he wants that kind of a system introduced I do not think he will find a majority here in favor of it. But I desire to say this-and I say it after some degree of examination-that there is no representative assembly in the world that begins to compare for the accuracy and value of its reports of its proceedings with the American Congress. There is no single thing connected with the American Congress that stamps responsibility so much as that everything a man says and every motion he makes goes into the permanent record of the official Globe. I say that if you should abandon that you will have removed one of the strongest possible chains of responsibility con. necting the Representative with the constituents, and which is worth three times what it costs, that every man shall be held to account for what he says here to-day, to-morrow, and for the remainder of his public life.

Mr. GARFIELD. The papers will give us all the reports necessary.

Mr. BLAINE. You have that now. If you abolish the Congressional Globe, you will get no more from the Associated Press than you get now. You will get precisely what you get now and not a particle more.

Mr. DONNELLY. I desire to offer an amendment, to come in at the end of the amendment of the Senate.

The CHAIRMAN. That is not now in order. The question is on the amendment to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. GARFIELD.]

Mr. FARNSWORTH. I hope that will be

voted down.

The question was taken on Mr. GARFIELD'S amendment; and it was disagreed to.

Mr. DONNELLY. I now move to add to the amendment of the Senate the following:

And from and after the 4th day of March, 1869, unless it be previously otherwise ordered by Congress, the proceedings and debates of the two Houses shall be published daily at the Congressional Printing Office, the reports thereof being furnished by reporters provided by each House for itself, in such manner and under such regulations as it may prescribe.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I rise to a question of order. I submit that that amendment is not in order. It proposes to change existing law.

Mr. DONNELLY. The amendment is ger. mane to the amendment of the Senate. It provides for the very contingency contemplated by the Senate amendment.

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair overrules the point of order made by the gentleman from Illinois. The amendment is germane to the Senate amendment.

Mr. DONNELLY. The amendment pro

that when the House again resolve itself into Committee of the Whole on the Senate amend

debate upon the pending amendment and all amendments thereto shall terminate in three minutes.

Mr. BLAINE. Allow me to correct the gentleman. If there is anything done, it will be done by the Globe.

Mr. DONNELLY. The provision of the Senate is, that all acts and parts of acts authorizing the publication of the debates of Congress shall be repealed from and after the 4th day of March next. And we are told by the gentleman from Maine [Mr. BLAINE] that the proprietors of the Globe do not desire to continue to publish these debates.

Mr. BLAINE. I beg pardon; I did not say any such thing.

Mr. DONNELLY. Then I misunderstood the gentleman.

Mr. BLAINE. All I said was that the proprietors of the Globe desired to have this amendment agreed to by the House. I have no doubt they do desire to continue to publish the debates of Congress; but they are willing to take their chance, under a new contract, in competition with all others.

Mr. DONNELLY. That is to say, the Senate amendment proposes to dismiss the proprietors of the Globe, and they desire to be dismissed.

Mr. BLAINE. I do not say that.

Mr. DONNELLY. What their wishes are is of no moment to us. We should provide for any contingency that may arise, and not be left at the mercy of the Globe proprietors. My proposition is that in the event that no new arrangement is made by Congress the debates shall be published in the Congressional Printing Office until otherwise ordered.

[Here the hammer fell.]

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I move that the committee now rise for the purpose of closing debate.

Mr. MAYNARD. I desire to say something on this proposition.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I will move that debate be closed in three minutes; and I will give that time to the gentleman from Tennessee, [Mr. MAYNARD.]

Mr. PHELPS. I desire two or three minutes' time.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I move that the committee now rise.

The motion was agreed to.

The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker having resumed the chair, Mr. WILSON, of Iowa, reported that the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union had, according to order, had the special order under consideration, being the amendments of the Senate to House bill No. 605, making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1869, and had come to no resolution thereon.

ENROLLED BILL SIGNED.

Mr. HOPKINS, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the following title; when the Speaker signed the same:

An act (S. No. 347) to confirm the title of Ethan Ray Clarke and Samuel Ward Clarke to certain lands in the State of Florida, claimed under a grant from the Spanish Government.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

Mr. SITGREAVES asked and obtained leave of absence for ten days.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I move

Mr. ROSS. I move that the House do now adjourn.

The question was taken on the motion to adjourn; and upon a division there were-ayes 43, noes 30.

Before the result was announced,

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois, called for tellers.

The question was taken upon ordering tellers; and there were twenty-two in the affirmative. So (the affirmative being one fifth of a quorum) tellers were ordered.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. Before the tellers are appointed and take their places I desire to suggest that we can probably get through these amendments in ten minutes more. Then I shall ask that the House meet at eleven o'clock to-morrow, in order to take up the deficiency bill, so that if we can possibly get through it we need have no session on Saturday.

Mr. HIGBY. Why not make that proposition now, and then adjourn.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I suggest that we finish this bill to-night, meet to-mor row at eleven o'clock, and take up and go through with the deficiency bill, and then adjourn over to Monday.

Mr. WASHBURN, of Indiana. I object. I do not want to finish this bill to-night.

Mr. BLAINE. I hope the gentleman will withdraw his objection.

The SPEAKER. The pending question is on the motion to adjourn.

Mr. ROSS. I withdraw that motion.

Mr. WASHBURN, of Indiana. I will withdraw the objection to meeting to-morrow at eleven o'clock if we can adjourn now. I do not want to go any further with the legislative bill to-night.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. WASHBURN] objects to my whole proposition, to go through with this legislative bill to-night, meet to-morrow at eleven o'clock, and take up and go through with the deficiency bill, and then adjourn over to Monday. I understand, however, that he does not object to the last part of my proposi tion; and as there seems to be an indisposition to continue longer in session this afternoon, I will ask unanimous consent that the House meet to-morrow at eleven o'clock, finish this bill, take up and go through with the deficiency bill, and then we can adjourn over until Monday.

The SPEAKER. It requires unanimous consent to change the hour of meeting. No objection was made.

PRINTING TARIFF BILL.

Mr. MILLER, by unanimous consent, subreferred under the law to the Committee on mitted the following resolution; which was Printing:

Resolved, That one thousand extra copies of the tariff bill be printed for the use of the House.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Mr. DRIGGS asked and obtained leave of absence till Monday next.

RAILROAD, ETC., IN CALIFORNIA.

Mr. ANDERSON. I ask that the bill (H. R. No. 1016) granting lands to the State of California for the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Vallejo to Humboldt bay be ordered to be printed.

The SPEAKER. If there be no objection the order will be made.

There was no objection.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Massachusetts objects to the morning hour to-morrow being dispensed with. If that objection be insisted on, the House cannot go into Committee of the Whole till after the morning hour. All these appropriation bills are made special orders after the morning hour.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. It was a part of my proposition that the House should meet at eleven o'clock, and at once go into Committee of the Whole on the deficiency bill.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman modified his proposition to meet the views of the gentleman from Indiana, [Mr. WASHBURN;] and the Chair stated that the hour of meeting tomorrow morning would be eleven o'clock.

Mr. WASHBURN, of Massachusetts. I am willing that the House shall meet at eleven o'clock; but to-morrow being private bill day, I am not willing to give up the morning hour. Mr. BLAINE. Is not that objection entirely too late?

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks it is not, because in putting to the House the proposition of the gentleman from Illinois the Chair did not state that if it were adopted the morning hour would be dispensed with.

Mr. BLAINE. Well, at any rate, we gain an hour by meeting at eleven o'clock. I move the House now adjourn.

The motion was agreed to; and the House (at five-o'clock p. m.) adjourned.

PETITIONS, ETC.

The following petitions, &c., were presented under the rule, and referred to the appropriate committees:

By Mr. BANKS: A memorial from William Cornell Jewett, urging payment for Alaska as a national measure to protect the national honor, and as a people's appreciation-without regard to party-of the life-long public services of Hon. W. H. Seward, and his foresight in acquiring territory near American Pacific possessions, destined to surpass the Old and New World in civilization, commerce, and cities.

By Mr. FERRY: The petition signed by over 10,000 of the business citizens of New York city, respectfully asking for speedy action in the passage of the bill and the appropriation for the construction of the building for the new post office and United States courts in that city, and recommending the adoption of the report of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, submitted to the honorable House of Representatives June 16, 1868.

By Mr. JUDD: The petition of Z. M. Hall, asking the refunding of tonnage tax paid in

error.

By Mr MOORE: The petition of Thomas Stanger and 17 others, glass-workers in Glassboro, New Jersey, complaining of the depression of industry, and praying for such additional protective duties as will revive manufac tures and restore prosperity to the country.

By Mr. PAINE: The petition of James Hinds, for enactment of a law for distribution of arms to militia.

IN SENATE.

FRIDAY, July 3, 1868.

Prayer by Rev. E. H. GRAY, D. D. On motion of Mr. POMEROY, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of yesterday was dispensed with.

ADJOURNMENT FOR FOURTH OF JULY. Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, to-morrow being the anniversary of the birth of the nation, I move that when the Senate adjourns to-day it adjourn to meet on Monday at twelve o'clock.

Mr. FESSENDEN. I take it that motion

ought not to be put until there are more members present.

Mr. JOHNSON. We always adjourn over the Fourth of July.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Not always. I remember that Congress met together on the last Fourth, and I think we were in session all day.

Mr. JOHNSON. Let the motion lie over for the time being.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair understands the motion to be withdrawn.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.

Mr. WELCH presented a memorial of the Board of Trade of Jacksonville, Florida, praying an appropriation for the purpose of opening the mouth of the St. John's river, Florida; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Mr. YATES presented a petition of citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, praying that pensions be granted the soldiers and sailors and the widows of soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions.

Mr. SUMNER presented the memorial of William Cornell Jewett, protesting against that portion of the report of the Committee on Retrenchment proposing to rank the mission to Austria second class, and that to Belgium and that to Holland as first class; which was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. BUCKALEW presented petitions of journeymen cigar-makers and manufacturers of cigars of the first and second congressional districts of Pennsylvania, praying that a tax of five dollars per thousand be imposed on domestic cigars, and that the tariff on imported cigars may remain unchanged; which were referred to the Committee on Finance.

Mr. CRAGIN presented the memorial of Junius Boyle, commodore United States Navy on the retired list, praying to be restored to the active list; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. SHERMAN presented the memorial of Z. Jackson, of Colorado, in relation to the charges on freight on the Union Pacific railroad, eastern division; which was referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad.

Mr. MCCREERY presented a memorial of citizens of Louisville, Kentucky, protesting against the prohibition of the export of distilled spirits; which was referred to the Committee on Finance.

PEONAGE IN NEW MEXICO.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a proclamation of the acting Goy ernor of the Territory of New Mexico, in involuntary servitude in violation of the laws; relation to holding peons in bondage and

which was referred to the Cominittee on Territories.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

Mr. HARLAN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. No. 532) to incorporate the Uniontown and Washington City Railroad Company in the District of Columbia, reported it with amendments.

Mr. RAMSEY, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported a bill (S. No. 589) to establish certain post roads: which was read, and passed to a second reading.

Mr. HOWARD. I am directed by the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, to whom was referred the bill (S. No. 73) granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the city of Lawrence, in the State of Kansas, to the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, in the direction of the city of Guayamas, on the Gulf of California, to report it with amendments.

In con

nection with that bill I ask the Senate to receive and order to be printed a copy of a bill now pending in the congress of Mexico for the construction of a railroad through that republic, so as to connect with the line mentioned in the bill which I have just reported. I move

that it be printed for the information of the Senate. The motion was agreed to."

FUNDING AND TAX BILLS.

Mr. SHERMAN. I am directed by the Committee on Finance to report back the bill (H. R. No. 1284) to change and more effectually secure the collection of internal taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and to amend the tax on banks, with amendments. The amendments will, of course, be printed; and now, in order to fix the order of business, I submit the following order:

Ordered, That on Monday next at one o'clock Senate bill No. 207, and also House bill No. 1284, shall be the special orders, and continue as such from day to day until they are disposed of.

Mr. CONNESS. I understand one of those to be the tax bill. What is the other? Mr. SHERMAN. The funding bill. It is to make th. I desire to do it so as not to have the funding bill and the tax bill speany struggle about the order of business. The motion was agreed to.

Mr. SHERMAN. In order to facilitate business, I ask the Senate to allow me to take up for a moment Senate bill No. 207, with a view to have the amendment that I offered the other day to the civil appropriation bill printed as an amendment to that bill, as Senators may want copies of it. I ask that Senate bill No. 207 be taken up for a moment.

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to consider the bill (S. No. 207) for funding the national debt and for the conversion of the notes of the United States.

Mr. SHERMAN. I withdraw the substitute that I offered to the bill, and offer the following in lieu of it, which I ask to have printed:

That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue coupon or registered bonds of the United States in such form and of such denominations as he may prescribe, redeemable in coin at the pleasure of the United States, after twenty, thirty, and forty years, respectively, and bearing the following rates of yearly interest, payable semi-annually in coin, that is to say: the issue of bonds falling due in twenty years shall bear interest at five per cent.; bonds falling due in thirty years shall bear interest at four and a half per cent.; and bonds falling due in forty years shall bear interest at four per cent., which suid bonds shall be exempt from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local authority, and the same and the interest thereon, and the income taxes or duties to the United States, other than such therefrom, shall be exempt from the payment of all income tax as may be assessed upon other incomes; and the said bonds and the proceeds thereof shall be exclusively used for the redemption, payment, or purchase of, or exchange for, an equal amount of any of the present interest-bearing debt of the United States, other than the existing five per cent. bonds and the three per cent. certificates, and inay be issued to an amount, in the aggregate, sufficient to cover the principal of all outstanding or existing obligations as limited herein, and no more, but not to exceed $700,000,000, shall be of the issue redeemable in twenty

years.

SEC.. And be it further enacted, That there is hereby appropriated out of the duties derived from imported goods the sum of $135,000,000 annually, which sum, during each fiscal year, shall be applied to the payment of the interest and to the reduction of the principal of the public deb', in such a manner as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treas ury, or as Congress may hereafter direct; and such reduction shall be in lieu of the sinking fund contemplated by the fifth section of the act entitled "An act to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States," approved February 25, 1862.

SEC,-. And be it further enacted, That the holder of any lawful money of the United States, to the amount of $1,000, or any multiple of $1,000, may convert the same into bonds for an equal amount, authorized by the first section of this act, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and any holder of any of the bonds provided for in the first section of this act may present the same to the Treasurer of the United States and demand lawful money of the United States for the principal and accruing interest thereon. and the Treasurer shall redcem the same in lawful money of the United States, unless the amount of United States notes then outstanding shall be equal to $400,000,000; and such bond shall not be so redeemable after the United States have resumed the payment of coin for their notes.

SEC.. And be it further enacted, That any eontraet hereafter made specifically payable in coin shall be legal and valid, and may be enforced ac cording to its terms, anything in the several acts relating to United States notes to the contrary notwithstanding.

The amendment was ordered to be printed.

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE.

Mr. PATTERSON, of New Hampshire, from the joint select Committee on Retrenchment, submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Printing:

Resolved, That four thousand extra copies of the report of the Committee on Retrenchment upon the diplomatic and consular service of the United States be printed for the use of the Senate.

JOHN SEDGWICK.

Mr. COLE. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of House joint resolution No. 96.

The motion was agreed to; and the joint resolution (H. R. No. 96) for the relief of John Sedgwick, collector of internal revenue third district California, was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to John Sedgwick, collector of internal revenue for the third district of California, the sum of $3,500, or so much thereof as the proper accounting officer shall, from satisfactory vouchers, determine necessary to secure him a salary of that amount for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, in addition to the amount he necessarily paid out, in currency, in the discharge of his official duties for that year.

The joint resolution was reported to the Senate, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed.

AMERICAN STEAM LINE TO EUROPE.

Mr. POMEROY. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of House bill No. 939.

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. No. 939) to provide for an American line of mail and emigrant passenger steamships between New York and one or more European ports.

The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the bill. At the conclusion of the reading of the fourth section,

Mr. CONNESS. At this point I desire to say that I should like to have that bill laid over at least for a day. It was reported by the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads when I did not happen to be present, Perhaps that is my own fault, though when I am able I am generally at my post.

Mr. POMEROY. If the Senator will allow

the reading of the bill to be concluded, then, if he desires it, it may go over.

Mr. CONNESS. It is scarcely worth while to consume any more time with it if we desire it laid over for examination. It presents at least a very complicated scheme of putting an American line of ships upon the Atlantic ocean. There is no man in the Union more in favor of having our mails carried in our own ships than I am; but this is a peculiar measure, and I want an opportunity to consider it before it is further acted upon. I move that it be postponed until to-morrow..

Mr. POMEROY. If the Senator will withdraw his motion and let the bill be read, it is all I ask to-day."

Mr. CONNESS. Very well; I will do that.
Mr. RAMSEY. There is but a section or

two more to read.

Mr. MORGAN. I think the Senator from California is right. I do not think it is worth while to spend the time of the Senate in reading this bill now. I move that its further reading be dispensed with, and that it be postponed. Mr. POMEROY. I hope the bill will be read through.

The reading of the bill was concluded.

Mr. POMEROY. Now, if the Senator from New York or the Senator from California wishes to look further into it, I am willing that' the bill shall lie over, and I move to postpone its further consideration.

The motion was agreed to.

BRIDGE IN BOSTON HARBOR. Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. R. No. 321) in relation to the

erection of a bridge in Boston harbor, have directed me to report it back and ask for its present consideration.

By unanimous consent, the joint resolution was considered as in Committee of the Whole. It is a direction to the Secretary of the Navy to detail two competent and impartial officers of the Navy, and the Secretary of War to detail a competent and impartial officer of the engineer corps, who shall compose a commission, whose duty it shall be to make careful examination of the harbor of Boston, and to report to Congress, at its next session, in what manner the commerce of that harbor and the interests of the United States in the navy-yard at Charlestown will be affected by the construction of a bridge over the water between the main land in the city of Boston and East Boston in the manner provided in an act of the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts entitled " 'An act to incorporate the Maverick Bridge Company;" and it provides that no bridge shall be erected by that company across that water until the assent of Congress shall be given thereto.

Mr. SUMNER. The Senator from Maine reported that resolution, I understand.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Yes, sir.

Mr. SUMNER. A suggestion was made to me by a party in interest that there should be two commissioners appointed by the War Department as well as two by the Navy Department. By the resolution there are to be two from the Navy Department and only one from the War Department. It was thought by this gentleman that the interests of all concerned would be better consulted if there were two from each Department. I should like to submit that suggestion for the consideration of my friend.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I think if the Senator reflects he will see that there can be no importance attached to that for this reason: that there are no adverse interests represented by possibility on this commission. The commission is to represent the War Department and the Navy Department. They can have but one interest, which is the general interest of the Government, and they are of course, in presumption of law, entirely disinterested; and then it is the examination of a general fact with reference to the interests of the Government and the interests of commerce.

against the desires of my friend. Mr. SUMNER. I will not make any motion

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I hope not. The joint resolution was reported to the Senate, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed.

TAX COMMISSIONERS IN ARKANSAS.

Mr. STEWART. I desire to call up Senate bill No. 564. It is in reference to the direct tax commissioners in Arkansas.

The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 564) for the relief of Hulings Cowperthwaite and Enoch H. Vance, and for other purposes, was considered as in Committee of the Whole.

The Committee on the Judiciary proposed to amend the bill by striking out all after the enacting clause, in these words:

That all the acts and proceedings of the said Hulings Cowperthwaite, and the said Enoch H.Vance, as such tax commissioners for the State of Arkansas, and all acts and proceedings done by them or either of them under color of authority under said act of June 7, 1862, or acts amendatory thereof, or of their assessments as such tax commissioners, are hereby ratified, confirmed, and legalized, and shall have the same force and effect, and be valid in all respects and for all and every purposes, as if said acts and proceedings had been done and performed by a board of three commissioners properly appointed and constituted and acting in conjunction as contemplated by said act.

And in lieu thereof inserting:

That the acts and proceedings which have been had or performed by any two of the tax commissioners in and for the State of Arkansas, shall have the same force and effect as if had and performed by all three of said commissioners.

The amendment was agreed to.

The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment was concurred in.

Mr. STEWART. I should like to have the preamble stricken out. I do not know whether that comes after the passage of the bill or not. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That motion is now in order.

Mr. STEWART. I move, then, to strike out the preamble, in these words:

Whereas Hulings Cowperthwaite and Enoch H. Vance, direct tax commissioners for the State of Arkansas, under the act of June 7, 1862, acted as such tax commissioners from January 1, 1865, until May 25, 1865, without the presence or concurrence of a third commissioner as contemplated by said act, and the Government of the United States recognized their acts as such commissioners during said period: Therefore.

The amendment was agreed to.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed.

On motion of Mr. STEWART, the title of the bill was amended so as to read: "A bill concerning the tax commissioners of the State of 'Arkansas."

JUDGES OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Mr. WILLIAMS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Senate bill No. 487.

The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S. No. 487) to disapprove an act of the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory redistricting the Territory and reassigning the judges thereto was read the second time, and considered as in Committee of the Whole. It proposes to disapprove the act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington, approved January 25, 1868, entitled "An act defining the several judicial districts of the Territory and assigning the judges thereto."

Mr. DAVIS. I should like the Senator from Oregon to give some reason why that measure of the territorial Legislature should be disapproved, why we should pass this bill?

Mr. WILLIAMS. I supposed the honorable Senator was informed on that subject, as the bill has been considered and reported by the Committee on Territories, of which he is a member; but perhaps he was absent at the time. I will simply state that the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory have passed an act by which they have put pretty much all the Territory into one judicial district with the design to legislate so far as practicable the other judges out of office. It is entirely inconvenient to the people and unjust to the other judges. It was produced by some feeling of personal heat or political prejudice, or something of that kind, and the act of the Legislature ought to be disapproved.

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed.

ADJOURNMENT FOR FOURTH OF JULY. Mr. JOHNSON. I renew the motion I offered a few minutes ago, that when the Senate adjourns to-day it adjourn to meet on Monday next, to-morrow being the anniversary of our independence.

Mr. EDMUNDS. I hope that motion will not be agreed to at this time. There is important business on the Calendar which, if not finished to-day, I shall ask the Senate to sit to-morrow and finish. At a later stage in the proceedings possibly I should have no objection; but now I hope the motion will not be agreed to.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from Maryland.

Mr. EDMUNDS. I ask for the yeas and nays upon it.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

Mr. EDMUNDS. Before this vote is taken, I wish to appeal to my political friends, to ask them not to adopt this motion at this time. We are coming near to the end of the session. There is important legislation of a political character on the table, which is to be considered to-day, I hope, which may not be finished. There are many other bills that ought to be considered to-day or to-morrow, in charge of my friend from Iowa; [Mr. HARLAN.] On