Showing posts with label Thomas B. Cooper. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

XXXVIIth Congress – FIRST SESSION

WASHINGTON, April 16.

HOUSE. – The following resolution was adopted from the judiciary committee:

Resolved, That the Government should not interfere with the free transmission of intelligence by telegraph, when the same will not aid the enemy or five some information concerning the military or naval operations on the part of this Government, except when it may become necessary, under authority of Congress, to assume the exclusive use of the telegraph for its won legitimate purposes, or to assert the right of priority in the transmission of its own dispatches.

Fourteen bills, with a joint resolution relative to forfeiting the property of rebels, and making it a penal offence for the army and navy to return fugitive slaves, and including kindred subjects, with the recommendation from the judiciary committee that they ought not to pass, came up to-day. No action taken on them.

Mr. Morrill, of the committee of ways and means, reported a bill appropriating $30,000,000 to pay volunteers; also $100,000 for the pay of bounty and pensions to officers and soldiers of the Western Department.

A message was received from the President, saying that he had signed the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.

The death of Mr. Cooper was announced, and the customary resolutions passed.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1

Monday, February 2, 2009

Hon. Thomas B. Cooper

member of Congress from Pennsylvania, died at Coopersburgh, Lehigh Co., on the 4th inst.

– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1863