Mr. WILLIAMS submitted the following resolution, on which he called the previous question: Whereas it has been publicly declared by the supreme executiveauthority of is nation. in accord pang with the dictates of sound wisdom. the just instincts of humanity, and the undoubted sentiment of the people of the loyal States, that treason should be made odious and traitors not only disgraced.but impoverished; and whereas it is represented that while no traitor who has survived the chances of the battlefield and eseaped the retribution due to his crimes at the hands of the loyal soldiers of the North. has been otherWise punishedthan by thonward of public honors or the remission of disabiliticsto qualify him for the enioyment thereof. the memoriesof the traitor dead have beenhallowed and consecratedby local public entertainments and treasonable utterances in onor of theircrimc, which have not only been tolerated by the national authoritics. butin some instances approved by closing the public Officeson the occasion o tloral processionsto their graves.while the privilege of paying like hou ors to the martyred dead of the armies of the Union who perishedin the holy work of punishing the trca son of thosewho are thus honored. apd restoring the Union of our fathers. has been denied to the loyal peopleof thosq communities by the local authorities, with the connivimce or consent of the military or civil agents of this Government; and whereas the encouragementor toleration of such enormities is of pernicious and dangerous example, insulting to the iving soldiers of the Republic. uswell asto themem ones of the dead and calculated to make loyalty odious and treasonhonorable, and to obstruct, if not entirely prevent, the growth of such a feelin as is essentialtoanycordial orpermanentreunion O those States: Ther fore. Resolved. that the Precidont be pronested to in form this house whether any of the military or civil employees of this Government. within the State of Georgiaor any of the other rebel Stutos. li avein any way antenanced or asSistedin therendition of ab lic onorsto any of the traitom, cither living or end. who have beenwaging a parricidal war against this Government. in commemoration of their great crime. either by closm their offices on such occasions or making other avorable public demonstrations in connection therewith; and further, whether the privilege of doing like honors to lgivalty at the Gravesof the Union soldiers whohaveperishedfar from theirhomos and kindred has been in any instance. Obstructed or deniedbythe rebel authorities, with the concurrence or acquiescenceof the oflioersof this Government.