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Show LATEST TELEOliAMS. FORTY -FIFTH CONGRESS. Washington, 27. The credentials wore presented of Senator Hhields, of Missouri. Shields then took tbo oath of office. A targe number oi bills wero referred, re-ferred, including one by Ferry to rcorganiza and discipline the militia of the United States. The bill reported from tho commit teo on naval aOairfl, on Tmirsday last, to abolish tho volunteer navy of the United States, passed. The houae bill authorizing the sec retary of tbo interior to pay Catherine and Sophia Gormain $2,500 out of the annuities due the Cheyenne Indians, they having been captured by said Indians while en route from Georgia to Colorado, passed without discussion. Edmunde, from the judiciary committee, com-mittee, reported back the house joint resolution proposing an Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the payment of claims of disloyal persons for property injured or destroyed in war of tho rebellion, and an amendment amend-ment in the nature of a substitute. Placed ou the calendar. Edmunds said tho judiciary committee thought the resolution, as it passed tho houso, was totally inadequate for the purpose pur-pose indicated by the title. He gave notice that he would call up the bill up for conaideration at an early day. After disposing of the morning business and passing several bills on the calendar, the bill to pay Warren Mitchell for cotton taken during the war was taken up and a long discussion discus-sion followed. Edmunde moved that it be indefinitely inde-finitely postponed. Kejecte-d yeas 21, nays 23. Hill, in oppoiiug the bill, said he would voto against it because it was a war claim He waq opposed lo tho payment of all war claims, whether they bo from loyal or disloyal ppr-sons. ppr-sons. He might, probably, except ex-cept a few religious and educational institutions whose property was destroyed. de-stroyed. To pay these war claims would bankrupt the government, and as we could not pay all, it would be unjust discrimination to undertake to pay some. The senators sen-ators on the republican Bide an id Warren War-ren Mitchell was disloyal aod thould not be naid, while the senators on the democratic side said he wns loyal and should be paid. What was meant by the word loyalty? Did it meano man devoted tOBtateB under the Constitution? Con-stitution? It was an easy matter lor a man in Maine or New York to proclaim pro-claim his devotion to the Union during dur-ing tho war, but further .down, whore the sun is warmer, it requires courage for a man to say he was devoted to the Union. He (Hill) knew thous ands and tens of thousands of men in the south who stood up and proclaimed pro-claimed their fidelity to the Union to the very last moment. There were many men who fought secession until un-til it became a fact, aud submitted to disunion as they submitud to the death of father or eon. When secession seces-sion came, the cnly thing they cculd do was to go wjth their people. This question ot loyalty bad not received a proper definition. He knew thousands thous-ands nf men in the south who would. at any time during the war, havo terminated it upon the basis of honest reunion. He believed the greatest possible ciiUmj'-y which could happen to this country woula be one section exercising the powers of cougreoa over another. Siuce he had been in congress bo hid heard men denounce the southern people as disloyal thirteen years after tho way, and he believed in his heart that il these men had been south ih?y would have rivaled William L. Yancey in their devotion to secoeaioo, because they were men of the same temperament. Tho people ol this country cugbt lo wnko up to the conviction con-viction that the late war was an honest war; it was fought on account of the conviction that they were right. This perpetual talk about rebels and fidelity lo the Union did not come Irom a oi.n.uii mcufl spirit. The war is over. Tbe Union is restore:!! and it was lime thai wo should leave the parous, of war bsbiud. He maintained ttie aouthyru soldier would never act oougr-'sa fur h pension; his widow uud urpnau wimit! nover ask for it. Tney weeopt. d ideii lossce as a penally for the Uilure a brave men should do Tiip s ouer the people ol the Eouth were tubt to repair their losses by work, by (nighty aud industry the better it would be for them and tho country Let the Jesses of war go, aud il'thu people dent re to avoid such losses in luiure, they must avoid war. He was the humbles man in the democratic party. That paity was now about to leiuru to full .Hedged power, because the people wee satisfied that the republicau parly was no longer competent to remain re-main in Dower. To ere were fuur things wbieib the deruour.uio paif,y ought to proclaim to tbe world ami ad hero lo them wiiu ti iciity. Firet, ho wojid noi pay any war claims whether the partus were loyal or disloyal. Second, he would vote uo more public moni'y er 1 md to build up railroad corporal inns Third, he would, in tfOod fib, pay every dollar of tbe pu&iic i-tbt, prin cip.U and interest, in good money ol standard value. Fourth, be would rtiioio iiie Constitution of the country aod honesty in its administrations. Do these things and in his judgment the child was not born who would witness the termination 0f democratic rule'in this country. Beck, in reply, defended Ihe e-Uim o! Mitchell, aLid had read the Crii.-tenilen Crii.-tenilen resolutions, adopted m July, lStil, to show that the w.u was dlI waged for conquest, but to preserve the Union, lio kuew th.il there wero many 'raudulent claims. There , were men here now making affidavit of luvaily. niL'ii whom they bad, as i Uuiou oilivers, arrested dur.ng the war fur disloyalty, and they made -affidavit now simply becuso they ; wished to get a sharo of tho claims. I Tiie senate then went into execu-, execu-, live ucsnion on motion ol Conkling. j Wiien the doors reopened a niessago I wjs received irom the house in an-iswer an-iswer to the request of the senate 1 traiL-mitling iho tcstomony before tho committee of that body in regard to i Stanley Matthews, the senator from (Ohio. It was was nut laid bt; fore tho i senate to day. Adjourned. Wright's bill, loaning $.)00 to every man not worth $o00. desiring to take advantage ol the provisions of tho humeateud law. wa-i taken up. After the discission bill w.ta de ie.iti'd, yeas 22, nays 22 BilU intrudu.'cd anJ r.-fi:r-e.i: By Ycuntf, providing for a treaty with Mexico. By Feuu, proposing an Amendment Amend-ment to the Constitution providing that the term ot judgeB of the supremo aud inferior courts ol the United Slates shall be limited to twelve years and, that Ihe offices of those now on the bench who have served twelve years be vacated. By Dunntl), from Ibe committee on commerce-, declaring the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the United State's over tho harbors uud navigable v. utors of the United States. Ordered printed aud recommitted. Hashell moved toauepend the rulea aud pass the lull authorizing the secretary of war to erect headstones over the graves of Union soldiers interred iu private vil!ge or city cemeteries. Agreed to. Whilthorue moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill for the emotion of a number of buildiugs, chiefly in the EO'tlh. MillB inquired why there was not an appropriation for a building in Texas, and moved to adjourn. Agreed to yeas 103, nays 81. A democratic caucuj was announced an-nounced for this evening. |