shall, where not made at the residence of the person whose property is distrained, be made at the county seat of the county in which the distraint is made; also, that said committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending said law, in relation to the tax on manufactures, as to prevent a double taxation of the same articles; as, for instance, under the decision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, leather, which is taxed as such, and again when manufactured into boots, shoes, harness, &c.; spokes, hubs, &c., which are taxed as such, and again when forming parts of manufactured wheels; and, in like manner, the materials of clothing, carriages, machinery, and so forth. Mr. Price introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 118) to revive an act to secure to the officers and men actually employed in the western. department or department of Missouri their pay, bounty and pension, and for other purposes; which was read the first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Vallandigham submitted the following resolution; which was read, and, debate arising thereon, it was laid over under the rules, viz: Resolved, That this house does earnestly desire that the most speedy and effectual measures be taken for restoring peace in America; and that no time may be lost in proposing an immediate cessation of hostilities, in order to the speedy final settlement of the unhappy controversies which brought about this unnecessary and injurious civil war, by just and adequate security against the return of the like calamities in times to come; and this house desires to offer the most earnest assurances to the country that they will in due time cheerfully co-operate with the Executive and the States for the restoration. of the Union by such explicit and most solemn amendments and provisions of the Constitution as may be found necessary for securing the rights of the several States and sections within the Union under the Constitution. Mr. Pendleton submitted the following resolution, viz: Resolved, That the following protest of thirty-six members of this house against the passage of House bill No. 591 be entered upon the journal. The same having been read, Mr. Pendleton moved the previous question. Pending which, Mr. Stevens moved that the resolution be laid on the table. And the question being put, Yeas... It was decided in the affirmative, Nays.... 75 40 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Cyrus Aldrich John B. Alley Mr. Fernando C. Beaman John A. Bingham James Buffinton Mr. Alfred A. Burnham James H. Campbell Ambrose W. Clark Mr. Bingham introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 119) to provide for twenty thousand additional volunteers; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Bingham also introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 120) for the emancipation of slaves in rebel States and Territories; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Hutchins submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be requested to consider the propriety of preparing and presenting a gold medal with appropriate inscription upon it to each of the officers and soldiers who bravely volunteered to cross the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg in boats in the face of the fire of the enemy, that their names and heroism may be remembered by their grateful countrymen, and to report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Ashley, by unanimous consent, introduced bills of the following titles, viz: H. R. 624. A bill to facilitate the settlement of land titles in the Territories of the United States which are or may hereafter be organized; H. R. 625. A bill to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Idaho; H. R. 626. A bill to reorganize the pay department of the army of the United States; H. R. 627. A bill to enable the people of Nevada to form a constitution and State government, and for their adn.ission into the Union. on an equal footing with the original States; H. R. 628. A bill to enable the people of Nebraska to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; H. R. 629. A bill to enable the people of Utah to form a constitution and State government, and for their admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; H. R. 630. A bill to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States; and H. R. 631. A bill to establish a mining bureau in the Department of the Interior; which were severally read a first and second time, and, with the exception of the bill H. R. 626, referred to the Committee on the Territories. Ordered, That the said bill (H. R. 626) be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Cox submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Resolved, That the President be requested, if not incompatible with the public service, to communicate to this house any correspondence or other information in his possession relating to the alleged interference of our minister to Mexico in favor of the French in the present war between the Mexican republic and the Emperor of the French by signing a protest against the expulsion from Mexico of French subjects. Mr. Chilton A. White submitted the following preamble and reso. lution; which were read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Whereas Captain John Elwood, of the United States army, recently mustering and disbursing officer in this city, was arrested and placed in solitary confinement in the Old Capitol jail some time in the month of September last; and whereas he was found dead in his cell some six weeks after his arrest, under suspicious circumstances— Resolved, That the committee on the conduct of the war be directed to investigate the circumstances attending the arrest, confinement, and decease of the said Captain Elwood, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is any ground for the suspicion attending his death, and whether there was cause for the imprisonment and rigorous treatment to which he was subjected by those who pretended to act under the authority of this government. Mr. Cox moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to. Mr. Shellabarger submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be directed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the internal tax law that the publishers of newspapers whose circulation does not exceed two thousand five hundred shall not be required to pay a license. A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Nicolay, his private secretary, notifying the House that he did, on the 19th instant, approve and sign a bill of the following title, viz: H. R. 598. An act to adjust appropriations heretofore made for the civil service of the Navy Department to the present organization of that department. Mr. Granger, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did, on the 18th instant, present to the President of the United States a joint resolution of the following title, viz: S. Res. 108. Joint resolution for increasing the bond of the Superintendent of Public Printing. Mr. Calvert submitted the following preamble and resolutions; and debate arising thereon, they were laid over under the rule, viz: Whereas the Secretary of the Navy has knowingly and wilfully violated and set at defiance the various acts of Congress regulating the ap pointments of midshipmen to the Naval Academy by appointing, during the recess of Congress, seventy-six midshipmen in utter disregard of the provisions of law, and in derogation of the rights of the members of this house, and undertakes to justify this arbitrary assumption of power upon the plea of necessity, and, furthermore, undertakes in his annual report to condemn the settled legislation of Congress on the subject: Therefore Resolved, That this house protests in the most decided manner against this despotic exercise of power on the part of the Secretary of the Navy to make these appointments in defiance of law. Resolved, That all appointments so made by the Secretary are in violation of the whole legislation of Congress on the subject, and are hereby declared null and void. Mr. May submitted the following resolution, viz: Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to communicate to this house a copy of an order which, on or about the 28th of November, 1861, he caused to be read to State prisoners confined in Fort Warren, whereby they were forbidden to employ counsel in their behalf, and informed that such employment of counsel would be regarded by the government and by the State Department as a reason for prolonging the term of their imprisonment. The same having been read, Mr. Lovejoy moved that it be laid on the table. And the question being put, Yeas It was decided in the affirmative, {Nays.. 63 48 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. May submitted the following preamble and resolution, and debate arising thereon, it was laid over under the rule, viz: Whereas the custom-house authorities of the city of Baltimore have imposed onerous and vexatious restrictions upon the internal trade and commerce of the people of Maryland, among themselves, amounting in a great degree to a prohibition of the same, and discriminations are made in applying the said restrictions, by the discretion of the said authorities, of an unjust and mortifying character, and in many instances founded upon personal or political prejudices; and whereas, among others, it is required that citizens holding the faith of the Roman Catholic church, as a condition of such trade and commerce, shall take and subscribe an oath discriminating against their religious faith, in the mode and ceremony of its admin |