Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts, 1862.
1862, May 12—The bill for the collection of taxes in the insurrectionary districts passed the Senate—yeas 32, nays 3, as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Chandler, Clark, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Howe, King, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Latham, McDougall, Morrill, Nesmith, Pomeroy, Rice, Sherman, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Willey, Wilson, of Massachusetts, Wright—32.
Nays—Messrs. Howard, Powell, Saulsbury—3.
May 28—The bill passed House—yeas 98, nays 17. The Nays were:
Messrs. Biddle, Calvert, Cravens, Johnson, Kerrigan, Law, Mallory, Menzies, Noble, Norton, Pendleton, Perry, Francis Thomas, Vallandigham, Ward, Wickliffe, Wood—17.
The Democrats who voted Aye were:
Messrs. Ancona, Baily, Cobb, English, Haight, Holman, Lehman, Odell, Phelps, Richardson, James S. Rollins, Sheffield, Smith, John B. Steele, Wm. G. Steele.
TAXES IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS, 1864.
In Senate, June 27—The bill passed the Senate without a division.
July 2—It passed the House without a division.
Many financial measures and propositions were rejected, and we shall not attempt to give the record on these. All that were passed and went into operation can be more readily understood by a glance at our Tabulated History, in Book VII., which gives a full view of the financial history and sets out all the loans and revenues. We ought not to close this review, however, without giving here a tabulated statement, from “McPherson’s History of the Great Rebellion,” of