Posted on 01/21/2023 5:53:05 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 20.
The House, to-day, was not able to reach a vote on the Finance bill, owing to the large latitude given to debate. The amendments submitted by the Committee of Ways and Means seem to prove generally acceptable.
The Senate Finance Committee have reported the Army Appropriation bill. They have added a large number of appropriations, amounting in all to several millions of dollars, including one item of three millions for surgical instruments.
The special Message of the President on Finance, in the hands of the Ways and Means Committee, will receive no present action.
Senator WILSON introduced a bill this morning, prepared by Mr. WHITING, Solicitor of the War Department, and Judge HOLT, at the instance of the Secretary of War, for the prompt and uniform administration of military justice, and the better government of the military forces of the United States. It provides for a Bureau of Military Justice, and the appointment of a Judge-Advocate-General, with the rank and pay of a Brigadier-General, and an Assistant Judge-Advocate-General, with the rank and pay of a Colonel of cavalry, who are to constitute such Bureau, and to have the same franking privilege as the Secretary of War [???] [???] [???] for a Judge-Advocate-General of each military Department and for each army corps in the field, who are to conduct Courts of Inquiry, General Courts-Martial, and Military Commissions in the several Departments or armies. It is elaborately prepared and is intended to meet the present exigencies of the service.
The House Committee on Military Affairs, at their meeting to-day, authorized their Chairman, Mr. OLIN, to report a bill in accordance with the proposition of CYRUS W. FIELD, for laying a telegraph line from Washington to New-Orleans, coastwise, touching at such points as the Government might designate.
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