Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-05-19

Congress has at last done something. The
House, on Thursday, the 10th inst, passed
Tariff bill, and the Senate, the same day,
passed Homestead bill.
The Tariff bill is the one known as Mr..
Morrills bill, and 1t passed, with few slight
notifications, by q vote Of l05 yeas to GA
pays. The value Of wool allowed to be i'm.
ported free Of duty was reduced from 20 20
ls cents o pound. 1t provides for specific
duties on iron, to wit: On bar iron, Sl5 per
ton, plate s2O, rail $l2, scrap Sc, and pig
S6--against the present duty Of "a per cent
cd valorem. The following was the vote on
the final passage Of the bill:
YEAs.-Messrs. Adams, (Msss.,) Adams,
(Ky.,) Adrain, Aldrch, Alley, Anderson,
(Ky.,j Ashley. Babbtt Beale. Bingham,
Blair, Blake, Rrayton, Briggs, Bristow, Bui.
fnzton, Burnham, Butter6eld, Campbell,
Carey. Case, Colfax. Conklng, Covode. Da.
Wis, (Md,) Dawes. Delano, Duell, Edgertop,
Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Etberdge, FarDsworth,
Fenton, Ferry, Florence, Foster, Frank,
French, Gooch, Grow, Gurley, Hale, Hell
mick, Hickman, II GARD, Humphrey, Hutchins,
Irvine, Junkiu Kellogg, (Mch.l Kellogg,
! Ull.,) Kenyon. Killinger, Leach, (Mich.,) Lee,
Longnecker, Loomis, Lovejoy, Marston, Nc
Montgomery, Moore, (Ky.,l Moorhesd, Nor.
ril, Morris. (Pa..) NJ orse, Nixon, Olin, Pot.
ter, Reynolds, Rice, Riggs, Robinson, (R. l.,)
Royce Schwartz, Scranton, Sedgwick, Sher.
man, Somes, Stewart, (Pa.,) Stratton, Tap.
pan, Thayer, Tompkins, Train, Trimble
Vandever, Verree, Wade, Waldron, Walton
Wasbburne, (Wis.) Wushburue, (Illinois,)
Washburne, (Me.,) Webster, Wells, White
ley, Window, Wood. Woodruf-105.
NAYs.-M Messrs Allen, Anderson, (Mo.,
Ashmore, Avery, Barksdale, Bocock, Bon
BAN, Branch, Burch, Burnett Clark. (Mo.,,
Clapton, Cobb. John Cocbrane, Cox, Craw
ford, Curry, Davis, (Ind.,) De Jarnette, Ed
mundson, Garnett, Gartrell. Hardeman, Har
ris, tVa.,) Holman, Houston, Harvard
Hughes, Jackson, jenkins, Kunkel, Lunar
Landrum, Leach, IN. C,) Leake, Logan
Love, Martin, TO-, Mcqueen, Miles, Millson
Moore, (Ala.,) Nblack, Petit, Peyton
Phelps, Pugh, Reagan, Robinson, (Ill.,
Rufin, Simms, Singleton, Smith, IVA,
Smith, IN. Co. Spinner, Stalworth, Stanton
Stevenson, Taylor, Thomas, Underwood, Val
landigham, Woodson, Wright-64.
The House. on Thursday, also passed
bill repeating oil laws in New Mexico estab
fishing either Peonage or African slavery
and also repeating section prohibiting tn
Courts from taking coguzsnce of any correc
ton that masters may give their servants
The vote on this bill stood-yeas 81, Gays &c
The Homestead bill passed by the Senat
was not the House bill of similar purport, bu
ON independent measure. Instead of givn
TO every actual settler upon the public land
fre, homestead of l60 acres, as the Hous
. bill provides, it reduces the price Of land t
% cents an acre to the actual settler, afte
I two Yeas residence. The bill passed fiuall
by vote of IA yeas to uuys,'as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Anthony, Bgler, Bingham
, Bright, Brown, Cameron, Chandler, Chesnu
Clark, Clay, Collamer, Davis, Dixon, Doc
little, Douglas, Durkee, Fitzpatrick, Foste
Green, Grimes, Gwin. Hale, Hammond, ha
: Ian, Hemphl, johnson, (Ark.,) johnson
| (Teun.,) King, Lane, Latham, Nicholson
Polk, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian. Seward, Slidel
Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wi
son and Yulee-li.
t Nays-Messrs. Bragg, Clingman, Haml
Hunter, NJ ason, Pearce, Powell and Toomt
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