The Charleston Daily News

FROM WASHINGTON.

PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS ON THE 21ST.

In the Senate, Mr. Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported the bill to create the grade of General in the army. Mr. Williams offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into and report upon the expediency of providing for a uniform and effectual mode of election of United States Senators by the Legislatures of the respective States. The resolution was postponed until Wednesday. Mr. Hendricks asked that the Colorado Bill and the President's veto be taken up. The Senate decided to make them the special order for Tuesday next. The Fortification Appropriation Bill was taken up and passed. The bill incorporating the Academy of Music in Washington was passed.

In the House, Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, introduced bills to protect the right of action of loyal citizens; to define and punish crimes, and to amend the act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States. Mr. Davis offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Committee on Banking and Currency to inquire into the expediency of exempting the currency of State bonds, outstanding on the 1st of July, from the tax of 10 per cent., now provided by law, until the 1st day of July, 1867, to some day previous thereto. The resolution offered by Mr. McClurg, in February, proposing to levy contributions on the seceding States, to defray the expenses incurred in protecting loyal citizens and maintaining the authority of the Government in those States, was taken up and passed. The House also agreed to the resolutions offered by Mr. Henderson, sustaining the President in executing the laws of the United States upon a sufficient number of leading rebels in each of the States lately in insurrection, to vindicate the majesty of the law, to sustain the confidence of the loyal people, and to warn the refractory for all time to come. The Tax Bill was then taken up.