WASHINGTON, March 21.
SENATE. – The bill to establish a national foundry was taken up. Mr. Grimes moved that the bill be referred to a special committee of five, together with the bill for an arsenal and armory at the West.
Senate then went into executive session.
HOUSE. – The House passed the bill to secure to pilots, engineers, sailors and crews on gunboats their pensions.
Mr. Stevens, in reply to a question as to how soon Congress would be able to adjourn, replied, it depended on how many objections were made to the tax and other bills, but so far as the committee on ways and means was concerned, would be enabled to adjourn by the first of May, but must work more hours, and perhaps sit evenings.
The House concurred in the Senate’s amendments to the bill for the better regulation of the law of prizes.
The House then went into committee of the whole on the tax bill. A Joint resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to have the frigate Roanoke iron clad and otherwise altered and improved at the earliest possible day.
The proceedings were confined to the section fixing licenses. An amendment was adopted taxing the wholesale dealers in liquors, distilled spirits, fermented liquors and wines of all kinds, one hundred dollars for each license. The committee rose and the house adjourned till Monday.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 1
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