imprisonment not less than fifty days. It provides for trying persons charged with the described offences upon the presentment or the indictment of a grand jury in any of the circuit or district courts within the judicial district in which the crimes shall be alleged to have been committed, or authorizes a writ of capias to the marshals of the districts, to be furnished, on application to the President, with sufficient military force to execute the writ. An oath is prescribed for all officials, jurors, &c., and the President is authorized to grant an amnesty to all offenders within the act, except those who, having held office under the United States, have at any time engaged in rebellion and held office. This was rejected-yeas 9, (Messrs. J. B. Blair, Clements, Diven, Fisher, Harrison, Horton, Lazear, Maynard, Mitchell,) nays 140. Mr MORRILL, of Vermont, offered a substistute whose principal difference was the omission of this the second section of the reported bin: in this section. And this addition : | Harding, Harrison, Holman, Horton, Johnson, Kerrigan, AN EMANCIPATION Bill. May 14-The Select Committee reported this bill: United States shall, after the passage of this act, wilfully That if any person within any State or Territory of the engage in armed rebellion against the Government of the United States, or shall wilfully aid or abet such rebellion, or adhere to those engaged in such rebellion, giving them aid and comfort, every such person shall thereby forfeit all claim to the service or labor of any persons, commonly known as slaves; and all such slaves are hereby declared in the laws of the United States or of any State to the confree and forever discharged from such servitude, anything traty notwithstanding. And whenever thereafter any person claiming the labor or service of any such slave shall seek to enforce his claim, it shall be a sufficient defence thereto that the claimant was engaged in the said rebellion, or aided or abetted the same, contrary to the provisions of this act. That whenever any person claiming to be entitled to the service or labor of any other person shall seek to enforce such claim, he shall, in the first instance, and before any order shall be made for the surrender of the person whose service or labor is claimed, establish not only his claim to such service or labor, but also that such claimant has not in any way aided, assisted, or countenanced the existing rebellion against the Government of the United States. May 26, pending its consideration, Mr. FRANCIS P. BLAIR Jr., offered an amend That if any person within any State or Territory of the United States, other than those named as the aforesaid, after the passage of this act, being engaged in armed rebellion against the Government of the United States, or aiding or abetting such rebellion, shall not, within sixty days after public warning and proclamation duly given and made by the President of the United States, cease to aid, countenance, and abet such rebellion, and return to his allegiance to the United States, all the estate and property, moneys, stocks, and credits of such person are hereby forfeited thereafter-ment, to add to the bill sections providing for wards to the Government of the United States, and the the appointment by the President of commis same are declared lawful subjects of seizure and of prize and capture wherever found; and the President of the sioners for each slave States, to make lists of United States shall cause the same to be seized, to the end the names of slaves held by persons described that they may be confiscated and condemned, as hereinafter provided, to the use of the United States; and all sales, in the first section, to be reported to the district transfers, or conveyances, of any such property after the court of the United States, of the proper disexpiration of the said sixty days from the date of such trict. If the slaves are not claimed by any one, warning and proclamation shall be null and void; and it they will be declared free by the court; if they shall be a sufficient bar to any suit brought by such person for the possession or the use of such property, or any of it, are claimed, the claimant must prove that he to allege and prove that he is one of the persons described has not been engaged in, nor aided and abetted the rebellion, nor given aid and comfort to those engaged; or if engaged under compulsion this must be proved. In failure of proof, the slaves shall be declared free, and be given a certificate of freedom, and to be employed under the direction of the commissioners, in cultivating useful labor, and may be employed by the comlands belonging to the United States, or other manding officers of the army, with the consent of the commissioners, as may be agreed upon. Commissioners authorized to bind them as ap prentices to loyal proprietors of lands or mechanics, for not over five years where the slaves are over twenty-one, and if under, not to extend beyond their twenty-fifth year. The President was authorized to purchase lands in Mexico, Central or South America, or islands in the Gulf of Mexico, to be removed with their own consent, they to receive not exceeding fifty acres to an individual, or eighty to the head of a family, and be guaranteed the civil and political rights secured to all other citizens in said countries-the proceeds of confiscation and the earnings of those liberated persons to be applied to the payment of those expenses. That every person guilty of the acts described in the first section shall, in addition to the forfeitures, be incapable of voting for President or Vice President, and not be an elector of the United States, and disqualified from holding the office of President or Vice President, or holding any office by appointment from the President. The substitute was rejected-yeas 25, nays 122. The YEAS were: Messrs. Baxter, Jacob B. Blair, W. G. Brown, Roscoe Conkling, Diven, Dunn, Fisher, Goodwin, Haight, William Kellogg, Killinger, McKnight, McPherson, Maynard, Mitchell, Moorhead, Justin S. Morrill, Nixon, Timothy G. Phelps, Porter, Sheffield, Stratton, Trimble, E. P. Walton, Worcester-25. The bill reported by the committee was then passed-yeas 82, nays 68, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Francis P. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, William G. Brown, Buffinton, Campbell, Chamber lain, Clark, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Catler, Davis, Duell, Dunn, Edgerton, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Fenton, Fessenden, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Gurley, Hickman, Hooper, Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg, Killinger, Lansing, Loomis, Lovejoy, McKnight, McPherson, Mitchell, Moorhead, Anson P. Mor rill, Justin S. Morrill, Noell, Olin, Patton, Pike, Pomeroy, Porter, Potter, John H. Rice, Riddle, Edward H. Rollins, Sargent, Sedgwick, Shanks, Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Stratton, Trimble, Trowbridge, Van Horn, Van Valkenburgh, Verree, Wall, Wallace, E. P. Walton, Washburne, Wheeler, Whaley, Albert S. White, Wilson, Windom, Worcester-82. NATS-Messrs. Allen, Ancona, Baily, Biddle, Jacob B. Blair, George H. Browne, Calvert, Clements, Cobb, Corning, Cor, Cravens, Crisfield, Crittenden, Dawes, Delano, Diven, Dunlap, English, Fisher, Granger, Grider, Haight, Hall, This was rejected-yeas 52, nays 95, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Arnold, Baker, Baxter, Francis P. Blair, Campbell, Clements, Colfax, Roscoe Conkling, Dawes, Delano, Diven, Dunn, Edgerton, Edwards, Fenton, Fisher, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Gurley, Kelley, Killinger, Mc Knight, McPherson, Maynard, Moorhead, Anson P. Morrill, | shall be punished by the forfeiture of his personal property, NATS-Messrs. Allen, Alley, Ancona, Ashley, Babbitt, Baily, Beaman, Biddle, Jacob B. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, George H. Browne, William G. Brown, Buffinton, Calvert, Chamberlain, Clark, Cobb, Frederick A. Conkling, Corning, Cox, Cravens, Crisfield, Crittenden, Cutler, Davis, Duell, Dunlop, Eliot, English, Fessenden, Granger, Grider, Haight, Hall, Hanchett, Harding, Harrison, Hickman, Holman, Hooper, Horton, Hutchins, Johnson, Julian, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg, Kerrigan, Knapp, Lansing, Law, Lazear, Leary, Lehman, Lovejoy, Mallory, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nugen, Odell, Pendleton, Perry, John S. Phelps, Potter, Price, John H. Rice. Richardson, Robinson, Sargent, Sedgwick, Segar, Sheffield, Shiel, Sloan, Spaulding, John B. Steele, William G. Steele, Stevens, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, Trowbridge, Vallandigham, Van Horn, Van Valkenburgh, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Wall, Ward, Webster, Wickliffe, Wilson, Windom, Wood, Woodruff-95. Mr. SEDGWICK'S substitute, as follows: And whereas the several States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, wickedly and unlawfully combining under the title of the Confederate States of America, have, together, made war upon and rebelled against the Government of the United States, and continue in such state of war and rebellion: Therefore, SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That every commanding military or naval officer whose military district shall embrace any portion of the above-named States may, and it shall be his duty, by proclamation or otherwise, to invite all loyal persons to come within his lines and be enrolled in the service of the United States; and it shall be his duty to enroll every such loyal person and to employ such of them as may be necessary in the service of the United States, and no person so enrolled and declaring his loyalty to the United States shall ever thereafter be held to involuntary service or labor, (excepting as a punishment for crime,) any law or regulation of any State to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That if the slaves of any person or persons who have been and continued loyal to the Government of the United States shall be made free by the operation of this section, such loyal citizen or citizens shall be entitled to just and reasonable compensation for his claim to the service or labor of such slave: And provided further, That if the slaves of any person or persons who are minors or married women shall be made free by the operation of this section, they shall also be entitled to just and reasonable compensation for their claim to the service or labor of such slaves. Was rejected-yeas 33, nays 116, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Babbitt, Baker, Beaman, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, Buffinton, Clark, Davis, Duell, Edgerton, Eliot, Fessenden, Frank, Hickman, Hutchins, Julian, Francis W. Kellogg, Lansing, Lovejoy, Anson P. Morrill, Pike, Potter, John H. Rice, Riddle, Edward H. Rollins, Sedgwick, Sloan, Trowbridge, Van Valkenburgh, E. P. Walton, Wilson, Windom-33. SEC. 3. That every such person described disqualified to hold any office under the Government. SEC. 4. This act shall not be construed as to affect prosecution or conviction of persons guilty of treason before the passage of this act, unless convicted under it. SEC. 5. The duty of the President, by his marshals or other officers, to seize and sequester property of every kind, of persons engaged in rebellion and especially of officers of the rebel army and navy, and of the President and other officers, military, naval, or civil, of persons formerly holding office under the United States and taking up arms, or give aid and comfort to the rebellion, or persons owning property in loyal portions of the country hereafter engaged in the rebellion; to hold and possess such property until appearance and trial of the offender. No slave to be seized under this act, but the United States to have a lien on all slaves of the persons described to answer such order as may be made touching their liberation, and no sale of any force made after the commission of the offence. SEC. 6. That the property so seized and sequestered shall be held or rented until the owners can be proceeded against, and if convicted, said property shall be forfeited and all perishable property may be sold and proceeds paid into the Treasury, and if owner discharged on trial shall be returned to said owner. SEC. 7. That if the owner of any property seized shall flee from justice, and cannot be brought to trial, an order shall be made by the court requiring such person to appear at a certain time, and if he do not, all his estate shall be forfeited, and the liberation of his slaves, and himself and heirs forever barred from recovery thereof. SEC. 8. That the President of the United States, when he deems it necessary that any personal property seized by the army and navy, and belonging to a person hereafter engaged in the rebellion or given aid and comfort thereto should be confiscated, may cause proceedings in rem against such property, and if found to belong to a person engaged in the rebellion, said property shall be forfeited. SEC. 9. President may by proclamation command insurgents to lay down their arms within sixty days, and if they do not, their property shall be confiscated and slaves freed. SEC. 10. That no person discharged from labor under this act, nor the descendants of any one, shall ever be reduced to involuntary servitude, (except as a punishment for crime,) and entitled to be discharged on habeas corpus. from service or labor owing to another, the court shall give SEC. 11. That whenever any person shall be discharged such person a certificate of discharge, under seal of the court, and conclusive evidence of his freedom, and if thereafter seized, shall be discharged on habeas corpus, and if the person so holding the freed man shall be convicted, he shall be punished with imprisonment for not less than one year or more than five years. SEC. 12. That no slave escaping from one State or territory to another shall be delivered up, (except for crime,) unless the owner make oath that he has not been engaged in the rebellion or aided and abetted it; and no person in the military or naval service of the country shall assume to pass on the validity of any claim of one person to the services of another. SEC. 13. That the President is authorized to employ negroes for the suppression of rebellion and treason, and organize and use them as he may deem proper. NAYS--Messrs. Allen, Ancona, Arnold, Ashley, Baily, Baxter, Biddle, Francis P. Blair, Jacob B. Blair, George II. Broone, William G. Brown, Calvert, Campbell, Chamberlain, Clements, Cobb, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conk- SEC. 14. And is also authorized to make provision for the ling, Corning, Cox, Cravens, Crisfield, Crittenden, Cutler, colonization of negroes made free by this act as may be Dawes, Delano, Diven, Dunlap, Dunn, Edwards, Ely, Eng-willing to emigrate, and obtain the consent of the Gov lish, Fenton, Fisher, Gooch, Goodwin, Granger, Grider, Gur-ernment of the said country to their protection and settleley, Haight, Hall, Hanchett, Harding, Harrison, Holman, ment within the same, with all the rights and privileges of Horton, Johnson, Kelley, William Kellogg, Kerrigan, Kil- freemen. linger, Knapp, Law, Lazear, Leary, Lehman, McKnight, McPherson, Mallory, Maynard, Menzies, Mitchell, Moorhead, Justin S. Morrill, Nixon, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nugen, Odell, Olin, Patton, Pendleton, Perry, John S. Phelps, Timothy G. Phelps, Pomeroy, Porter, Price, Alexander II. Rice, Richardson, Robinson, James S. Rollins, Sargent, Segar, Shanks, Sheffield, Shiel, Smith, Spaulding, John B. Steele, William G. Steele, Stevens, Stratton, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, Train, Trimble, Vallandigham, Van Horn, Verree, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Wall, Wallace, Ward, Washburne, Webster, Wheeler, Whaley, Albert S. White, Wickliffe, Wood, Woodruff, Worcester-116. Mr. E. P. WALTON'S Substitute provides: SEC. 1. That every person who shall hereafter commit treason, shall suffer death, and all his slaves made free; or be imprisoned not less than five years, and fined not less than $10,000, and all his slaves made free; said fine shall be levied on property excluding slaves. SEC. 2. That if any person shall engage in rebellion against the United States, or give aid and comfort thereto, SEC. 15. And is also authorized to extend pardon and amnesty to those engaged in the rebellion. SEC. 16. That the courts shall have full power to carry this act into effect. Which was rejected-yeas 29, nays 121. The YEAS were Messrs. Baxter, Francis P. Blair, Dawes, Delano, Dunn, Fisher, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Granger, Killinger, McKnight, Maynard, Mitchell, Moorhead, Justin S. Morrill, Nixon, Olin, Patton, Timothy G. Phelps, Porter, Alexander H. Rice, Sheffield, Stratton, Train, Trimble, Verree, E. P. Walton, Worcester. Mr. MORRILL, of Vermont, offered a substitute providing SEC. 2. That the President shall appoint commissioners for each State by whose laws persons are held to service, who shall make a list of the names of slaves and their owners and return it to the district where the slave resides; which list shall be published, requiring all persons to appear and show cause why certain persons held to labor should not be discharged; and on failure of such persons to appear, their slaves shall be declared free, and on appearance the claimant shall file an affidavit that he has not been engaged in rebellion, or aided and abetted it, or if engaged under compulsion must show it, and if proved that he was not engaged in rebellion his slaves shall be returned to him; but on failure of such proof, or on the failure or refusal to take the foregoing affidavit to prove the compulsion when alleged as an excuse, the court shall declare the person so claimed as free, and grant him a certificate of the same under seal, and shall be conclusive evidence of his freedom. And all persons so declared free, if seized, shall be forthwith discharged on habeas corpus; and the court, acting on said writ, shall commit for trial for kidnapping the person so holding the freed man, and on conviction imprisoned for not less than one or more than five years, and any one swearing falsely shall be guilty of perjury. SEC. 3. That if any person held to labor by one engaged in rebellion, if omitted from the commissioner's list may, on summary application to the district court, be placed on the list, and to be treated in every way the same as if his name had been placed on the list by the commissioner. Commissioners shall have ample time to complete their SEC. 4. That no such person or his descendants shall ever again be reduced to involuntary servitude, and every such person shall be entitled to discharge from such service on habeas corpus. lists. incapable of holding or exercising any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Government of the United States; which was agreed to-yeas 84, nays 66, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Bingham, Francis P. Blair. Blake, Buffinton, Burnham, Chamberlain, Clark, Colfax, Federick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Covode, Davis, Dawes, Duell, Dunn, Edgerton, Edwards, Ely, Fessenden, Fisher, Fran chot, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Gurley, Hale, Hanchett, Hickman, Hooper, Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Killinger, Lansing, Loomis, Lovejoy, Low, Mc Knight, McPherson, Mitchell, Moorhead, Anson P. Morrill Justin S. Morrill, Nixon, Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Pome roy, Porter, Potter, Alexander H. Rice, John H. Rice, Rid die, Edward H. Rollins, Sargent, Sedgwick, Shanks, Shella barger, Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Stratton, Train, Trimbl Trowbridge, Van Horn, Van Valkenburgh, Verree, Wall Wallace, E. P. Walton, Washburne, Albert S. White, Wilson Windom, Worcester-$4. NAYS-Messrs. W. J. Allen, Ancona, Baily, Biddle, J. P Blair, George H. Drowne, William G. Brown, Calvert, Clem ents, Cobb, Corning, Cox, Cravens, Crittenden, Delano, Del. plaine, Dunlap, English, Fouke, Granger, Grider, Haight, Harding, Harrison, Holman, Horton, Johnson, William Kellogg, Kerrigan, Knapp, Law, Lazear, Leary, Lehman, Mallory, May, Maynard, Menzies, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nugen, Pendleton, John S. Phelps, Price, Robinson, James S. Rollins, Segar, Sheffield, Shiel, Smith, John B. Steele, William G. landigham, Vibbard, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Ward, Webster, Chilton A. White, Wickliffe, Woodruff, Wright-66. Which was rejected yeas 16, nays 126. The Steele, Stiles, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, ValYEAS were The original bill reported from the committee was then negatived-yeas 74, nays 78; as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Francis P. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, Buffinton, Campbell, Chamberlain, Clark, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Cutler, Davis, Duell, Edgerton, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Fenton, Fessenden, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Gurley, Hanchett, Hickman, Hooper, Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Lansing, Loomis, Lovejoy, McKnight, McPherson, Moorhead, Anson P. Morrill, Justin S. Morrill, Olin, Patton, Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Pomeroy, Potter, John H. Rice, Riddle, Edward H. Rollins, Sargent, Sedgwick, Shanks, Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Trowbridge, Van Horn, Van Valkenburgh, Verree, Wall, Wallace, E. P. Walton, Washburne, Wheeler, Albert S. White, Wilson, Windom, Worcester-74. NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Ancona, Baily, Biddle, Jacob B. Blair, George H. Browne, William G. Brown, Calvert, Clements, Cobb, Corning, Cox, Cravens, Crisfield, Crittenden, Dawes, Delano, Diven, Dunlap, Dunn, English, Fisher, Granger, Grider, Haight, Hall, Harding, Harrison, Holman, Horton, Johnson, William Kellogg, Kerrigan, Killinger, Kaapp, Law, Lazear, Leary, Lehman, Mallory, Maynard, Menzies, Mitchell, Nixon, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nugen, Odell, Pendleton, Perry, John S. Phelps, Porter, Price, Alexander H. Rice, Richardson, Robinson, James S. Rollins, Segar, Sheffield, Shiel, Smith, John B. Steele, William G. Steele, Stratton, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, Train, Trimble, Vallandigham, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Ward, Webster, Whaley, Wickliffe, Wood, Woodruff-78. June 18-The House passed a bill reported in pursuance of these instructions-yeas 82, nays 34. It was not considered in the Senate; but emancipation clauses were inserted in the confiscation bill, and agreed to by both Houses. During the pendency of another bill (107) to forfeit the property and slaves of persons who shall engage in, or aid and abet, armed rebellion against the United States, 1862, April 22-Mr. BINGHAM offered a substitute That if any person or persons, within any State or Territory of the United States, shall, after the taking effect of this act, engage in armed rebellion against the Government of the United States, or shall aid or abet such rebellion, all the property, moneys, stocks, credits, and effects of such person or persons are hereby declared lawful subjects of prize and capture, wherever found, for the indemnity of the United States against the expenses of suppressing such rebellion; and it is hereby made the duty of the President of the United States to cause all such property, wherever found, to be seized, to the end that the same may be confiscated and condemned as hereinafter provided for the use of the United States. SEC. 2. That all property so captured or seized shall be condemned in the district courts of the United States, and that the proceedings of condemnation shall be in rem, and shall be instituted and prosecuted in the naine of the United States in any district court of the United States within any district in which the same may be seized or situate, or into which the same may be taken and proceedings first instituted, and which proceedings shall conform as nearly as may be to proceedings in prize cases, or to cases of forfeiture arising under the revenue laws; and in all cases the property so seized and condemned, whether real or per May 27-Mr. PORTER moved to reconsider this vote. A motion to table the motion to re-sonal, shall be sold pursuant to such rules as the Secretary consider was lost-yeas 69, nays 73. June 4-The motion to reconsider was agreed to-yeas 84, nays 65; and of the Treasury may prescribe, and the proceeds deposited in the Treasury of the United States for the sole use of the United States. SEC. 3. That the Attorney General or any district attorney' of the United States of any district in which the said prop erty or effects may at the time be, or into which the same may be taken, shall institute the proceedings of condemna tion as hereinbefore provided. Which was agreed to-yeas 62, nays 48; as follows: Mr. PORTER moved that the bill be recommitted to the Committee with instructions to prepare a substitute, providing that the slaves of the persons included in the classification in the confiscation law, are declared forever discharged from service or labor, and providing YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, for an enrolment of them by commissioners, Beaman, Bingham, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, Buffinton, Burnand the action of United States judges, as indi-ham, Chamberlain, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Covode, Cutler, Davis, Duell, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, cated in other amendments, for colonization of Fenton, Franchot, Frank, Gooch, Granger, Gurley, Hooper, them in Mexico, Central or South America, or Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Lansing, Loomis, Love the Gulf Islands, with homesteads, and declar- joy, McKnight, McPherson, Mitchell, Moorhead Nixon, Noell, Patton. Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Porter, Potter, John ing every person embraced in the classification H. Rice, Riddle, Edward H. Rollins, Sargent, Shanks, Shel labarger, Stevens, Stratton, Trimble, Trowbridge, Van Horn, Mr. E. P. WALTON offered a substitute, defining the crime of treason, and affixing a penalty of death, or imprisonment and fine, on conviction or confession, and his slaves shall be free. The President is authorized to appoint commissioners to sequester and seize the property, real and personal, of persons bearing arms against the United States, or giving them aid and comfort, and is also authorized to grant pardon and amnesty. These are the concluding sec tions: SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any State, or part thereof, in which the inhabitants have by the President been declared in a state of insurrection, the said insurrection shall have continued for a period of six months, then and in that case the President is hereby authorized, if in his opinion it shall be necessary to the successful suppression of said insurrection, by proclamation to fix and appoint a day when all persons holden to service or labor in any such State, or part thereof as he shall declare, whose service or labor is by the law or custom of said State due to any person or persons, who, after the day so fixed by said proclamation, shall levy war or participate in insurrection against the United States, or give aid to the same, shall be free and discharged from all such claim to labor or service; and thereupon said person shall be forever free and discharged from said labor and service, any law or custom of said State to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 7. That whenever any person claiming to be entitled to the service of any other person as a slave shall seek to enforce such claim, he shall, in the first instance, and as preliminary to the trial of such claim, show satisfactorily that he and the person to whom said service was claimed to be due during the period of insurrection or rebellion was loyal to the United States. Which was rejected-yeas 33, nays 70, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Baxter, Francis P. Blair, William G. Brown, Calvert, Casey, Clements, Roscoe Conkling, Crittenden, DunLap, Dunn, Fisher, Goodwin, Granger, Grider, Gurley, Harding, Harrison, McKnight, McPherson, Mallory, Menzies, Mitchell, Moorhead, Justin S. Morrill, Nixon, Olin, Edward H. Rollins, James S. Rollins, Sheffield, Shellabarger, Stratton, E. P. Walton, Worcester-33. NAYS-Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Joseph Baily, Baker, Beaman, Biddle, Bingham, Jacob B. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, George H. Browne, Buffinton, Chamberlain, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Covode, Cox, Cutler, Davis, Duell, Eliot, Ely, Fenton, Franchot, Frank, Gooch, Hickman, Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Kerrigan, Knapp, Lansing, Law, Loomis, Lovejoy, May, Morris, Noble, Noell, Odell, Patton, Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Potter, John H. Rice, Riddle, Sargent, Shanks, Smith, John B. Steele, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, Trimble, Trowbridge, Vallandigham, Van Horn, Van Valkenburgh, Voorhees, Wall, Ward, Albert S. White, Chilton A. White, Wilson, Windom, Woodruff, Wright-70. Mr. PORTER also proposed a substitute, which was rejected-yeas 30, nays 72. 52. April 23-The bill was tabled-yeas 59, nays Subsequently a new bill was prepared by the Select Committee, to whom, April 24, the whole subject was referred. IN SENATE. tion of the same, or to any person or persons in any State or district within the United States, now in a State of insurrection and rebellion against the authority thereof, so that in either case the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon them, who shall during the present rebellion be found in arms against the United States, or giving aid and comfort to said rebellion. And to insert in lieu thereof the following: First. Persons hereafter acting as officers of the army or navy of the rebels now or hereafter in arms against the United States. Second. Persons hereafter acting as Presi dent, Vice President, member of Congress, judge, foreign minister, consul, or commissioner of the so-called Confederate States. Third. Persons hereafter acting as an officer, whether civil, military, or naval, of any State or Territory who by the Constitution of the so-called Confederate States Fourth. Persons who having held an office of honor, trust, is required to take an oath to support said Constitution. or profit under the United States, shall hereafter take up arms against the United States. Fifth. Persons who, owning property in the loyal States or Territories, or the loyal portions of disloyal States, shall hereafter assist or give aid and comfort to the present rebellion. Mr. KING moved to amend by adding: Sixth. Persons in the present insurrection levying war against the United States or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Which was rejected-yeas 7, nays 32, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Chandler, Grimes, King, Pomeroy, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson-7. NAYS-Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Carlile, Clark, Cowan, Daris, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Hale, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Latham, Morrill, Nesmith, Powell, Saulsbury, Sherman, Simmons, Stark, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Thomson, Willey, Wilson of Massachusetts, Wilson of Missouri, Wright-32 The amendment of Mr. SHERMAN was then agreed to-yeas 26, nays 11, as follows: YEAS Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Chandler, Clark, Cowan, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hals, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Nesmith, Sherman. Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Thomson, Willey, of Wilson Massacubsetts, Wright-26, NAYS-Messrs. Carlile, King, Lane of Kansas, Morrill, Pomeroy, Saulsbury, Stark, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson of Missouri-11. The bill was referred to a select committee, and was not reported; but this classification was introduced into the confiscation act. SECOND AMENDATORY JOINT RESOLUTION. First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress. IN HOUSE. 1864, February 5-The House passed this joint resolution: That the last clause of a "joint resolution explanatory of An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes,"" approved July 17, 1862, be, and the same hereby is, so amended as to read: "nor shall any punishment or proceeding under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the estate of the offender contrary to the Constitution of the United States: Provided, That no other public warning or proclamation under the act of July 17, 1862, chapter ninety-five, section six, is or shall be ro quired than the proclamation of the President, made and published by him on the 25th day of July, 1862, which proclamation so made shall be received and held sufficient in all cases now pending, or which may hereafter arise under said act." By a vote of yeas 83 to nays 76, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, Arnold, Ashley, John D. Baldwin, Baxter, Beaman, Blow, Boutwell, Boyd, Brandegee, Broomall, Ambrose W. Clark, Freeman Clarke, Cobb, Cole, Creswell, Henry Winter Davis, Thomas T. Davis, Dawes, Deming, Donnelly, Driggs, Eliot, Farnsworth, Fenton, Frank, Garfield, Gooch, Grinnell, Hizby, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Asahel W. Hubbard, John II. Hubbard, Hulburd, Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Kelley, Francis W. Kel logg, Orlando Kellogg, Loan, Longyear, Marvin, McBride, McClurg, McIndoe, Samuel F. Miller, Moorhead, Morrill, Daniel Morris, Amos Myers Leonard Myers, Norton, Charles Belonging to any person or persons beyond the jurisdic- O'Neill, Orth, Patterson, Perham, Pike, Pomeroy, Alexander Pending the consideration of a bill to confiscate the property and free the slaves of rebels, 1862, April 24-Mr. SHERMAN moved to strike from the first section the words: H. Rice, John H. Rice, Edward H. Rollins, Schenck, Scofield, Shannon, Sloan, Smithers, Spalding, Stevens, Thayer, Tracy, Upson, Van Valkenburgh, Ellihu B. Washburne, William B. Washburn, Williams, Wilson, Windom, Woodbridge-83. NAYS-Messrs. James C. Allen, Ancona, Baily, Augustus C. Baldwin, Jacob B. Blair, Bliss, Brooks, James S. Brown, William G. Brown, Chanler, Clay, Coffroth, Cox, Cravens, Dawson, Denison, Eden, Edgerton, Eldridge, Finck, Ganson, Grider, Harding, Harrington, Benjamin G. Harris, Herrick, Holman, Hutchins, William Johnson, Kalbfleisch, Kernan, King, Knapp, Law, Lazear, Le Blond, Long, Mallory, Marcy, Mc Dowell, McKinney, Middleton, Wm. H. Miller, James R. Morris, Morrison, Nelson, Noble, Odell, John O'Neill, Pendleton, Pruyn, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, William H. Randall, Robinson, Rogers, James S. Rollins, Ross, Scott, John B. Steele, William G. Steele, Stiles, Strouse, Stuart, Sweat, Thomas, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Webster, Whaley, Wheeler, Chillon A. White, Joseph W. White, Winfield, Fernando Wood, Yeaman-76. IN SENATE. February 17-Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back this joint resolution, without amendment, and with a recommendation that it do not pass. June 27-Pending the consideration of the bill to establish a bureau of Freedmen's Affairs. Mr. TRUMBULL offered this as a new section: And be it further enacted, That the last clause of a joint resolution explanatory of an act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes, approved July 17, 1862, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. The words proposed to be repealed are, "nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." June 28-This was agreed to-yeas 23, nays 15, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Conness, Foot, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson -23. NAYS-Messrs. Carlile, Clark, Collamer, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Henderson, Hendricks, Hicks, McDougall, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, Ten Eyck, Willey-15. Same day, Mr. HENDRICKS moved to strike out this section; which was disagreed toyeas 13, nays 16, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Buckalew, Carlile, Clark, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Hendricks, McDougall, Powell, Riddle, Ten Eyck, Van Winkle, Willey-13. NAYS-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Conness, Foot, Harlan, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Trumbull, Wilkinson, Wilson -16. (see page 260.) "Rebel" Sequestration. *861, August 6-The "Confederate" Congress passed a bill "for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same in the existing war against the United States," of which the Richmond Examiner of the following Monday gave an abstract. The following is the principal legislative clause : held for the full indemnity of any true and loyal citizen, a resident of these Confederate States, or other person aiding said Confederate States in the prosecution of the present war between said Confederate States and the United States of America, and for which he may suffer any loss or injury under the act of the United States, or of any State thereof, authorizing the seizure or confiscation of the property of citizens or residents of the Confederate States, or other persons aiding said Confederate States, and the same shall be seized and disposed of as provided for in this act: Provided, however, When the estate, property, or rights to be effected by this act were or are within some State of this Confederacy, which has become such since said twenty-first day of May, then the act shall operate upon and as to such estate, property, or rights, and all persons claiming the same from and after the day such State became a member of this Confederacy, and not before: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not extend to the stocks or other public securities of this Confederate Government, or of any of the States of this Confederacy, held or owned by an alien enemy, or to any debt, obligation, or sum due from the Confederate Govern vided, also, That the provisions of this act shall not embrace ment, or any of the States to such alien enemy. And prothe property of citizens or residents of either of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, or the District the Indian Territory south of Kansas, except such of said of Columbia, or the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, or citizens or residents as shall commit actual hostilities against the Confederate States, or aid or abet the United States in the existing war against the Confederate States. Sections 2 to 13 provide for the appointment of receiv ers in each county, and impose a penalty of $2,000 on all who may endeavor to conceal the ownership of property belonging to alien enemies. Section 14 provides for the appointment of three commissioners to take charge of the sequestration fund, and to hear and decide on all claims against it. For its enforcement, the then Attorney General, J. P. Benjamin, issued this circular: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, RICHMOND, September 12, 1861. Instructions to receivers under the act entitled "An act for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States and persons aiding the same in the existing war against the United States," approved August 8th, 1861. law as alien enemies: The following persons are subject to the operation of the dents of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri, or All citizens of the United States, except citizens or resi the District of Columbia, or the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, or the Indian territory south of Kansas. All persons who have a domicil within the States with which this Government is at war, no matter whether they be citizens or not: thus the subjects of Great Britain, France, or other neutral nations, who have a domicil, or are carrying on business or traffic within the States at war with this Confederacy, are alien enemies under the law. All such citizens or residents of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri, and of the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and the Indian territory south of Kansas, and of the District of Columbia, as shall commit actual hostilities against the Confederate States, or aid or assist the United States in the existing war against the Confederate States. Immediately after taking your oath of office, you will take possession of all the property of every nature and kind whatsoever within your district belonging to alien enemies as above defined. You will forthwith apply to the clerk of the court for writs of garnishment under the 8th section of the law, and will propound to the garnishees the interrogatories of which a form is annexed. These interrogatories you will propound to the following persons, viz: 1st. All attorneys and counsellors practicing law within your district. 2d. The presidents and cashiers of all banks, and princi pal administrative officers of all railroad and other corpora tions within your district. All agents of foreign corporations, insurance agents, commission merchants engaged in foreign trade, agents of foreign mercantile houses, dealers in bills of exchange, executors and administrators of estates, assignees and syndics of insolvent estates, trustees, and generally all persons who are known to do business as agents for others. Be it enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States, That all and every the lands tenements, and hereditaments, goods and chattels, rights and credits within these Confederate States, and every right and interest therein held, owned, possessed, or enjoyed by or for any alien enemy since the twenty-first day of May, 1861, except such debts In the first week of each month you will exhibit to the due to an alien enemy as may have been paid into the judge a statement showing the whole amount of money in Treasury of any one of the Confederate States prior to the your hands as receiver, and deposit the same for safe keeppassage of this law, be and the same are hereby seques-ing in such bank or other depository as may be selected for trated by the Confederate States of America, and shall be that purpose by the judge-reserving only such amount as |