PAY OF SOLDIERS.
The unfinished business of yesterday coming up in regular order The pending motion to lay the amendment on the table was agreed to by yeas 27, nays 18.
Mr. COBB made an ineffectual motion--yeas 16, nays 30--to lay the amendment proposed by the committee on the table.
Mr. LANDERS moved to amend so as to favor the reduction of Chaplains' pay fifty per cent.
Mr. MARCH thought the committee's amendment covered the whole ground embraced in the last amendment offered.
Mr. LANDERS thought a greater reduction should be made in the pay of Chaplains than in that of other officers. Many thought this useless officer ought to be dispensed with.
Mr. BROWNE, of Randolph, said if the mover would change the amendment so as to favor the abolition of the office of Chaplain, he would vote for it.
On motion by Mr. MARCH the amendment to the amendment was laid on the table--yeas 27, nays 18.
On motion by Mr. DOWNEY the amendment was amended so as to favor the passage of an act to secure the payment of all dues to soldiers and more prompt payments hereafter.
Mr. WOLFE made an ineffectual motion--yeas 12, nays 34--to lay on the table the amendment as amended.
The amendment of the committee as amended, was then concurred in, and the resolution adopted by consent.
The hour for dinner having arrived--
The Senate took a recess till 2 o'clock
