Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-03-11
GRe @a5ette,
Delaware, March II, 1859.

Oa0AESS--ACT PASSED, OS.--4 He
New York Herald gives a lengthy detail of
the doings of Congress during the recent
session, showing what was done as well as
what was left undone. All the uppropria-
ton bills were finally passed except that
making appropriations for the Post Office
| Department, which failed in the Senate
The Pacific Railroad bill, which passed the
Senate after being cut down to a mere skel-
eton, was not reached in the House. The
bill granting a pension to The soldiers of the
war of 1912 was, according to the Herald,
vetoed by the President-but we think this
must be a mistake, as we have seen no nc-
count of its being taken up in the Senate.
The French SpoiIation bill, which passed
the Senate, was not reached in the House.
The Senate passed a bill raising the rates
of postage and abolishing The ranking priv
iIege, but the House did not concur. The
Cuba bill was put TO sleep by its author in
the Senate. The Homestead bill, which
had passed the House. was not acted upon
in the Senate. The bill which passed both
Houses, granting the States large tracts of
land to establish Agricultural Colleges, was
vetoed by the President. The Secretary
of the Treasury was authorized to reissue
dor two years $40 900 900 of Treasury
notes, heretofore issued and redeemed
After all the talk about retrenchment, roth
ing of importance was effected calculated
to reduce materially the annual expenditures.
The following list embraces the titles of
the acts and joint resolutions passed:
ACTS.
l.. An act to detach Selma, in the State
of Alabama, from the collection district OF
New Orleans, and make it a port CT delivery
within the collection district of Mobile.
4. To repeal an act entitled "An act
authorizing the Secretary OF the Treasury
to change the names of vessels in certain
cases. approved March S, 1856.
3. Fer the enforcement of mechanics
liens ON buildings, &C., in the District of
Columbia.
4. For the admission of Oregon into the
Union.
s.. Granting the right of way over. and
depot grounds on the military reserve at Fort
Gratioi, in the State of Michigan, for rail
road purposes.
s. To provide for the payment of claims
OF the State of Maine for expenses incur
red by that State in organizing a regiment
of volunteers for the Mexican war.
Z. To provide Tor holding the courts of
the United Safes in the State of Alabama.
8. To Incorporate the Washington Nu-
tiunnl Monument Society.
9. To authorize the Attorney General to
represent the United States in the proceed
ings in equity now pending in the Supreme
Court between the commonwealth OF Mass
achu<etIs and the State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations.
10. To authorize the enrolment, registry
and license OF certain steamboats, or vessels
owned ty The Buffalo and Lake Huron Rail
road Company.
IL. To continue the office of register Of
the Land Office at Vtncennes, Indiana.
10. Giving the assent of Congress to a
law OF the Missouri Legislature, for the ap-
plicaiion OF the reserve two per cent. land
fund of that S;ate.
49,. To provide for the Lighting by gas
certain streets across the canal. +a.
IA. To protect The land fund for school
purposes in .Sarky county, Nebraska. Terri
tory.
10. Providing for keeping and distributing
ali public documents. ~
l6. Making appropriations for the sup
port of the Military Academy Tor the year
ending 3Oth OF June, 1860.
II. Making appropriations for the cur
rent and contingent expenses of the Indian
Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipuia-
uiuns with various Indian tribes, for the year
ending June 80, 1860.
Is. To fix and regulate the compensation
of Receivers and Registers of the Land Of
fce, under the PROVISIONS of the set .Ppro-
we'd April 20, 1878.
10. To amend an act entitled "An act
authorizing Repayment for land enormously
sold by the United Siates."
20. To authorize settlers upon 10th and
36th sections, who settled before the SUR
veys of the public lands, TO pre-empt their
settlements.
81. Providing for the payment Of the cx-
penses of investigating committees of the
House of Representatives.
%. For the punishment of the crime of
forgery, or counterfeiting military bounty
land warrants, military bounty land certifi-
Gates of location. certificates of purchase,
and receivers receipts.
%. An act muking appropriations for the
legislative, executive and judicial expenses
OF the government for the year ending June
80, 1860.
"a ,c11aoRcI - &c A. 80 e.. Al.
admission of the State of Minnesota in the
Union"
IS. Acts granting public lands to the sew
eral States which may provide colleges for
the benefit of agricultural and mechanic
arts. Vetoed by the President.)
26. Extending the laws and the judicial
system of the United States to the State of
Oregon, and for other purposes.
At. An act to carry into effect the con-
~vention between the United States and
China, concluded November g., 1858.
%. An act making appropriation for the
support of the army for the year ending
June 80, 1860.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
/. For the payment of an unexpended
balance to the State of Georgia on account
of military services.
2. For changing the plan of the Custom
House at Galveston, in the State of Texas.
3, Authorizing The Secretary of the
Treasury to convey a portion of the govern
ment lot on which the United States CUE
tom House stands, in Rutland, Vermont, in
exchange for other land adjoining said lot.
l. For the appointment of two Regents
of the Smithsonian Institution
5. In relation TO removal of Instructions
to navigation.in the mouth of the Mississ-
ippi river.
6. In relation to the tobacco trade of the