AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr. BROWN answered the Constitutional objections urged by the gentleman from Boone and Hendricks, (Mr. Cason,) against the resolution.
Mr. GREGORY, Mr. WOOLLEN, and Mr. HARNEY, continued the discussion.
The resolution was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The joint resolution (H. R; 16see page 82) in regard to Congressmen from districts under military control was ordered to the third reading.
PAY OF SOLDIERS.
The joint resolution [H. R. 17--see page 32] for increase of pay of privates and noncommissioned officers was read.
Mr. HOLCOMB offered an amendment reducing the any of officers under the rank of Major twenty-five per cent. Major and higher rank pay decreased fifty per cent.
Mr. HIGGINS made an ineffectual motion to table the amendment--yeas 34, nays 56.
Mr. BROWN was in favor of increasing the pay of the private soldier, but was at the same time in favor of decreasing the pay of Major Generals, Brigadier Generals, Colonels, Majors and Captains, many of whom were skulking from the field and loafing about hotels and whisky shops.-- He hoped the day was not far distant when the army would be dispensed with, but until then he would stand for justice to the private soldier.
Mr. CASON offered an amendment to the resolution to raise the pay of non-commissioned officers in proportion to that of privates.
Mr. WOLFE made an ineffectual motion to table the resolution and amendments.
On motion by Mr. HOLCOMB the resolution was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs with instructions to report on Thursday of next week.
JESSE D. BRIGHT.
The joint resolution [H. R. 18] endorsing the expulsion of Jesse D. Bright from the Senate of the United States was read the second time.
On motion by Mr. HANNA it was laid on the table by yeas 52, nays 39.
Pending the roll call--
Mr. BROWN said: I do not vote to lay the resolution on the table because I am an admirer or endorser of Mr. Bright.-- Neither do I so cast my vote as evidence that I endorse the letter that he wrote to Mr. Lincoln. But I so cast my vote because I believe that that partizan Senate expelled him therefrom because he did not indorse the imbecile prosecution upon the part of the present Administration of the present war; because I have good reason to believe that the Abolitionists of that Senate expressed their willingness to retain Mr. Bright if he would recall certain statements and sustain the Administration in its war policy; because I have good reason to believe that his refusal to indorse the war policy of the Administration was the real cause of his expulsion, and not the letter to which that Senate referred.
THE SECOND READING.
House joint resolutions 19 to 25 inclusive (described on pages 85, 93 and 94 of these Reports,) and Senate joint resolutions 1 and 2 (described on pages 44 and 69) were severally read the second time.
