The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-07-23
CONGRESS-.
SATURDAY, July ii.

In the Senate, the Committee on G om..
merce, reported back the Warehousing
bill with two amendments.
LIST. To exact bonds for the payment
of duties on double amount, when entered
for warehousing.
End TO limit the time which goods
may remain in store TO one year.
In the House of Representatives, call
was ordered, so that full vote might be
had on the final disposition of the gradua-
ton bill. There were found present ia
members. The doors and windows were
then closed, and a motion made 10 sus>
pend all farther proceedings under the
call. The yeas and nays were ordered
They stood las to II, so the doors were
thrown open.
Mr. Collamer's motion to lay the grad
uation bill on the table, was then taken
by yeas and nays, and stood yeas 81, nays
81.
Mr. Brodhead then moved to re-consid-
err the vote.
Mr. HenIy moved 10 postpone the con-
sideration Of Mr. Brodhead's motion until
Tuesday next.
Ga this the yeas and NAYS were taken
and stood, yeas 80, nays "a, so the House
refused TO postpone the subject. The
question then occurred to reconsider the
vote 10 lay The bill on the table. 1t was
decided in the affirmative, yeas 81, nays
80. 1t was then re-considered, and the
bill placed back again 10 where it was
yesterday.
Another motion to lay the bill on the
table, was Their made, which was decided
in The negative, yeas 80, nays 81.
MONDAY July Is.
In the Senate, the bill for the relief of
the wdowAlexander Hamilton was pass,
ed.
The Tariff bill was taken up.
Mr. Lewis explained the provisions of
the bill, and made long speech in favor
of the Gd Valorem over specific duties, &
said the bill would yield $29, 100000 up>
on an importation of $Il9, 100000 of du-
liable goods.
Mr. Evans moved that the bill be post
poned until TO morrow at IL o'clock. A
greed TO-.
The Warshousing bill was taken up
and so amended as to require periodical
statements OF goods remaining in the
10 be published, and then or
1ered to be engrossed.
The bill for improvements in the navi-
cation Of the Mississippi, Ohio and Ar
kansas rivers, was amended, and then
passed.
In the House of Representatives, Mr.
Owen, on leave submitted the land grad
laiion bill.
The amendment of the Senate to the
resolution for the payment of volunteers.
Jailed Out by Gen. Gaines, was agreed to
~ the House.
The remainder of the day was devoted
o the discussion of the Graduation Lind |
Bill, which was still progressing when
he House adjourned.
WASHINGTON, July ID, 1876.
In the Senate, communication from
he Treasury Department transmitting 4
atement of the receipts from duties for
he past fiscal year was presented.
Mr. Webster presented petition, signed
" every importer of dry goods in Boston
gansl the proposed notifications Of the
arif, and took occasion TO express his i'm
ention. al proper time, to go into thor.
ugh examination of all the details Of
ill so novel and dangerous in principle,
md so rash, so Incorporate in many Of it's
PROVISIONS, the passage of which by the
House had taken the country by surprise,
nd filled it with alarm.
Mr. Calhoun presented petition from
he manufacturers Of glass al Philadelphia