Posted on 02/17/2023 4:54:36 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 16.
THE FINANCIAL MEASURES.
The Ways and Means Committee will report the Bank bill as it passed the Senate, and it is now believed that Mr. SPAULDING will support it in a speech on the floor.
The Senate amendments to the Loan bill will be considered by the Committee to-morrow, and will, at an early day, be reported back to the House. It will be acted on in advance of the Bank bill.
It is conceded now by the opponents of the Bank bill that it will become a law. They admit, also, that the Senate amendment to the Finance bill, taxing banks, will be retained, although the House will at first strike it out. This will make the Bank bill operative.
SENATOR WILSON's CONSCRIPTION BILL.
In the Senate the time has been mostly occupied in discussing Senator WILSON's Conscription bill, which is going through another ordeal of amendment. The Copperheads take little or no part in the discussion.
At the close of our dispatch the Senate is still in session, discussing the Conscription bill, with the hope of passing it before adjournment. The Democrats are mostly gone, probably in the hope of destroying a quorum.
P. S. -- Midnight -- The bill has passed.
EXEMPTING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
The effort in the Senate to amend the Conscription bill so an to exempt members of Congress was defeated by the handsome vote of 13 to 24.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE GENERALS.
It is said that the President is not well pleased with the action of the Senate in returning his list of proposed Generals, and is inclined not to prepare another, as authorized to do by the Senate resolution.
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